Responses for Show #5623 - Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Contestants

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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi

Louis Irizarry, a sales rep from Palmetto Bay, Florida

Chris Norlin, a compliance coordinator originally from Escondido, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,401)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ROTTEN POETRY ABOUT GOOD POETS
THEIR GREATEST HITS ALBUMS
PODGE-POURRI
VETERANS' BENEFITS
FUNERAL OFFICIANTS
FAMILIAR PHRASES
    $200 25
(Edgar Allan) Poe

Gail
    $200 8
Madonna

Gail
    $200 15
an island

Gail
    $200 6
mortgages (home loans)

Gail
    $200 21
Mark Twain

Chris
    $200 1
a teapot

Chris
    $400 27
(Robert) Burns

Gail
    $400 11
The Rolling Stones

Louis
    $400 16
Burning Man

Triple Stumper
    $400 7
World War I

Louis
    $400 22
(Louis: Who is Elizabeth II?)
(Gail: Who is Queen Mary?)
...
(Alex: Who is [*]. Queen Elizabeth II's mother.)

the Queen Mother

LouisGail
Triple Stumper
    $400 2
Absent Without Leave

Chris
    $600 28
Milton

Gail
    $600 12
Paula Abdul

Gail
    $600 17
87

Louis
    $600 9
(Louis: Who is George Bush?)

Ronald Reagan

ChrisLouis
    $600 23
John Paul II

Gail
    $600 3
the ammunition

Gail
    $800 29
Robert Browning

Triple Stumper
    $800 13
The Who

Louis
    $800 18
Wagner

Gail
    $800 10
the Vietnam War

Louis
    $800 24
Barry Goldwater

Louis
    $1,000 4
Mudville

Gail
    $1000 30
Emily Dickinson

Gail
    $1000 14
Jan & Dean

Louis
    $1000 19
(Chris: What is stock?)

power

Chris
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
(Gail: What are soldiers?)

Servicemen

Gail
Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
Ebenezer Baptist Church

Gail
    $1000 5
the die is cast

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Chris Louis Gail
$1,200 $2,800 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Chris Louis Gail
$400 $3,800 $6,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

EUGENE O'NEILL
THE HAIRY APE
BEYOND THE HORIZON
AH, WILDERNESS!
MORE STATELY MANSIONS
THE "ICE" MAN COMETH
    $400 12
Greenwich Village

Gail
    $400 11
Clint Eastwood

Chris
    $400 1
Cuba

Gail
    $400 6
ozone

Louis
    $400 26
Gracie

Gail
    $400 21
spice

Gail
    $800 13
Oona O'Neill

Gail
    $800 17
Magilla Gorilla

Louis
    $800 2
Japan

Gail
    $800 7
a watershed

Louis
    $800 27
(William Randolph) Hearst

Gail
    $800 22
a sacrifice

Louis
    $1200 14
Strange Interlude

Gail
    $1200 18
Planet of the Apes

Chris
    $1,800 3
Portugal

Gail
    $1200 8
erosion

Chris
    $1200 28
Windsor Castle

Louis
    $1200 23
advice

Chris
    $1600 15
John Reed

Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
Greystoke

Louis
    $1600 4
(Chris: What is Kamchakta?)
(Alex: Say it again.)
(Chris: Kamchakta.)
(Louis: Kamchatta?)

Kamchatka

ChrisLouis
Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
(Chris: What is the tropiary?)

the canopy

ChrisLouis
    $1600 29
Versailles

Louis
    $1600 24
entice

Chris
    $1,400 16
Mourning Becomes Electra

Gail
    $2000 20
Rafiki

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
the Bahamas

Chris
    $2000 10
habitat

Louis
    $2000 30
The Breakers

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
a viceroy

Gail

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Chris Louis Gail
$4,800 $13,000 $16,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY FIRSTS
(Alex: [Revealing Louis's response] Yes, breaking the sound barrier--Chuck Yeager did that. That was the other first. That was the first first. Then the [*] followed that.)
ChrisWhat is breaking the sound barrier?
$2,001
LouisWhat is sonic boom?
$12,000
GailWhat was a sonic boom?
$9,601
sonic boom

Final scores:

Chris Louis Gail
$2,799 $25,000 $26,001
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $26,001

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Chris Louis Gail
$4,800 $13,000 $16,200
10 R,
3 W		 16 R,
3 W		 24 R
(including 3 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $34,000

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Game tape date: 2008-11-19
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