Responses for Show #6836 - Monday, May 12, 2014

Battle of the Decades semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy

Russ Schumacher, a university professor from Fort Collins, Colorado

Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington

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Jeopardy! Round responses

OCEAN COMMOTION
OLYMPIC ATHLETES BEYOND THE GAMES
GARDENING
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS
BROADWAY & POLITICS
ANAGRAMS FOR MILLIONAIRES
    $200 1
the Indian Ocean

Ken
    $200 18
the marathon

Ken
    $200 30
succulents

Ken
    $200 16
Blockbuster

Ken
    $200 15
George W. Bush

Russ
    $200 12
Riviera

Ken
    $400 2
the Bering Strait

Ken
    $400 22
the luge

Russ
    $400 9
(Ken: Let's get away from GARDENING.)

jasmine

Triple Stumper
    $400 26
Circuit City

Ken
    $400 13
John Hinckley, Jr.

Ken
    $400 17
prenuptial

Chuck
    $600 3
submersible

Chuck
    $600 23
(Russ: What is... 3?)

4

KenRuss
    $600 7
Meyer

Ken
    $600 27
John DeLorean

Ken
    $600 10
LBJ

Ken
    $600 19
Dom Pérignon

Ken
    $800 5
Puerto Rico

Russ
    $800 24
(Ken: Holy cow. Uh... what is [*]?)

Jamaica

Ken
    $800 4
the camelia

Triple Stumper
    $800 28
Eastern

Ken
    $800 11
Fiorello!

Chuck
    $800 20
Dartmouth

Ken
    $1000 6
vents

Ken
    $1000 25
(Sergey) Bubka

Chuck
    $1000 8
aeration

Ken
    $1000 29
KB Toys

Triple Stumper
    $4,400 14
(Ken: I'm gonna... wow. I'm gonna bet it all, Alex.)
(Alex: Okay. For $8,800 and a lot of pressure on your opponents, here is the clue.)

Frost/Nixon

Ken
    $1000 21
(Ken: What's a [*]?)
(Alex: Right.)
[Laughter]

trust fund baby

Ken

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

Ken Russ Chuck
$8,800 $1,000 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ken Russ Chuck
$15,000 $800 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

MAKE YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES
4-SYLLABLE WORDS
ART "S"TUFF
1950s EMMYS
WE GET LETTERS
P.S. I LOVE YOU
    $400 18
The Passover Crescendo

Ken
    $400 3
Doppelgänger

Ken
    $400 17
(Russ: Who is... Stuart?)

John Singer Sargent

KenRuss
    $400 12
(Beatrix) Potter

Russ
    $400 22
Paul Simon

Ken
    $800 19
The Gawain Formula

Ken
    $800 6
dissertation

Chuck
    $800 1
salon

Ken
    $800 13
Psycho

Ken
    $800 24
a trillionth

Ken
    $1200 11
(Alex: And the response, what is [*]? Yeah, it's a strange category. Chuck, go again.)
(Chuck: Uh, it might have been better to start at the top of that one.)
[Laughter]

The Harrison Protocol

Triple Stumper
    $1200 21
(Alex: Less than a minute to go now, Chuck.)

the antecedent

Triple Stumper
    $1200 2
still life

Chuck
    $1200 9
(Art) Carney

Russ
    $6,000 14
(Ken: Oh, I wanna do this right. Let's--let's do about $6,000, let's do $6,000. More or less.)
(Alex: Okay.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: Surprise me, Alex!)
(Alex: All right. Here's the clue. I hope this is not too much of a surprise.)
...
(Ken: Who is... Amundsen?)

Robert Falcon Scott

Ken
    $1200 25
(Potter) Stewart

Ken
    $1600 20
(Ken: What is... The Xanadu Edict?)

The Xanadu Encyclical

KenChuck
    $4,800 7
(Alex: I know what you're going to say. I can read your mind.)
(Chuck: I never had a chance to say this before, but let's make it a True Daily Double.)
(Alex: All right, Chuck.)
[Applause]

quintessential

Chuck
    $1600 4
sfumato

Ken
    $1600 8
Donald O'Connor

Ken
    $1600 15
The Purloined Letter

Russ
    $2000 23
The Barker Deduction

Ken
    $2000 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

arbitrary

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
(Russ: What's a diorama?)

a shadow box

Russ
Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
Sid Caesar

Chuck
    $2000 16
(Chuck: [Selecting the next clue] Uh, MAKE... uh, no. ART "S"TUFF for $400.)
[Laughter]

(Alfred) Stieglitz

Chuck

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ken Russ Chuck
$18,600 $1,600 $15,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY POEMS
(Alex: [To Russ] "Take up your arms!" No, it's not going to be any good for you.)
RussWhat is your arms
$1,600
ChuckWhat is "the white mans burden"?
$11,000
KenWhat is the white man's burden?
$11,801
the White Man's burden

Final scores:

Ken Russ Chuck
$30,401 $0 $26,200
Finalist 3rd place: $25,000 2nd place: $25,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ken Russ Chuck
$21,200 $1,600 $12,000
32 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 6 R,
3 W		 10 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $34,800

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Game tape date: 2014-04-17
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