Responses for Show #6771 - Monday, February 10, 2014

2014 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Whitney Thompson, a junior at the University of Oklahoma from Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sarah Stevens, a sophomore from the University of Delaware from Dover, Delaware

James Fulwiler, a junior from Temple University from Baltimore, Maryland

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NOVELS BY QUOTE
BACKING BANDS
NAMES IN NATURE
CAL TECH
OTHER COLLEGES
"ACA"DEMIA
    $200 6
The Scarlet Letter

James
    $200 1
Wailers

James
    $200 16
fire ants

Whitney
    $200 26
silicon

Whitney
    $200 21
McDonald's

James
    $200 11
macaroni

Whitney
    $400 7
Frankenstein

Whitney
    $400 2
(Whitney: What are the Star Makers?)

Melody

Whitney
Triple Stumper
    $400 17
a skunk

James
    $400 27
Adobe

Whitney
    $400 22
the Electoral College

Whitney
    $400 12
Sacagawea

Sarah
    $600 8
Life of Pi

Triple Stumper
    $600 3
Machine

Whitney
    $600 18
(James: What is a Mannish cat?)
(Sarah: What is a lynx?)

a Manx (cat)

JamesSarahWhitney
    $600 28
skateboards

Whitney
    $600 23
clowns

James
    $600 13
macabre

James
    $800 9
(Whitney: What is Go Tell It on the Mountain?)

The Color Purple

Whitney
Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Tantrums

Whitney
    $600 19
(Whitney: What are amoebas?)

protozoa

Whitney
    $800 29
Netflix

James
    $800 24
arms

Whitney
    $800 14
maracas

Whitney
    $1000 10
East of Eden

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Magnetic Zeros

James
    $1000 20
a shrew

Whitney
    $1000 30
(Sarah: What are golf balls?)

golf clubs

SarahWhitney
    $1000 25
(James: What is the Papal College?)

the College of Cardinals

JamesSarah
    $1000 15
a placard

James

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

James Sarah Whitney
$3,000 $400 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

James Sarah Whitney
$3,400 -$200 $6,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT HISTORY
POP CULTURE
FAMOUS HOMES
CLASSICAL MUSIC
"D" PLUS
THERE'S ALWAYS NEXT TERM
    $400 6
Hammurabi

James
    $400 1
Carrie

Sarah
    $400 11
Salem

James
    $400 21
the 5th

Whitney
    $400 16
(Sarah: What is determination?)

a drive

Sarah
Triple Stumper
    $400 26
(James: [*]. ... What is [*]?)
[Originally ruled correct; reversed before Final Jeopardy! when the judges determined he had not gotten in his response in time]

class

James
Triple Stumper
    $800 7
Spartacus

Triple Stumper
    $800 2
Kris Jenner

Whitney
    $1,000 12
John Adams

James
    $800 22
William Tell

James
    $800 17
dense

Sarah
    $800 27
tau

Sarah
    $1200 8
(Whitney: What is Delphos?)
(Alex: Say it again.)
(Whitney: Delphos?)

(the Oracle of) Delphi

SarahWhitney
    $1200 3
Melissa McCarthy

Sarah
    $1200 13
North Carolina

James
    $1200 23
Handel

Whitney
    $1200 18
a dowry

Sarah
    $1200 28
(James: What is Minority Leader?)

Majority Whip

JamesSarah
    $1600 9
a rebus

Whitney
    $1600 4
the Nerdist

James
    $1600 14
Maximilian

James
    $1600 24
Maurice Ravel

Triple Stumper
    $1600 19
(James: What is a degree?)

a diploma

JamesWhitney
    $1600 29
period

Triple Stumper
    $600 10
(Whitney: What is Cairo?)

Carthage

Whitney
    $2000 5
MGMT

James
    $2000 15
(Alex: And his name is [*], and he's the mayor of New York City.)

Bill de Blasio

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(James: What is "Tarantella"?)

"The Sabre Dance"

James
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
dungarees

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
horse

James

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

James Sarah Whitney
$9,200 $6,200 $10,000

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ISLANDS
(Alex: That shape should've been enough for you, but let's find out if it was.)
...
(Alex: [To Sarah] Sarah, you wrote down a response quickly, and then it looked as if you crossed something out. You took--you had written down [*] and crossed it out and put down Crete instead. It's going to cost you--Crete is incorrect.)
...
(Alex: [To James] Nope, wrong part of the world.)
...
(Alex: No, the correct response is [*]. That was the island at the tip of the boot of Italy.)
SarahWhat is Crete Sicily?
$4,800
JamesWhat is Fiji?
$9,200
WhitneyWhat is Crete?
$0
Sicily

Final scores:

James Sarah Whitney
$0 $1,400 $10,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

James Sarah Whitney
$9,000 $6,200 $11,200
18 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
9 R,
3 W
19 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $26,400

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Game tape date: 2014-01-07
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