Responses for Show #7170 - Friday, November 13, 2015

2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Michael Bilow, a Ph.D. student in computer science from Los Angeles, California

Scott Lord, a construction attorney from Santa Monica, California

Alex Jacob, a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NAMING THE FIRST PRESIDENT
COUNTING TO 2
(Alex Trebek: Oh, boy, that's going to be tough, isn't it?)
WRITING YOUR OWN NAME
PLAYING THEMSELVES
FALLING OFF A LOG
THIS SHOULD BE "EZ"!
    $200 25
Simón Bolívar

Michael
    $200 26
catcher

Scott
    $200 27
Hebrew

Michael
    $200 28
(Scott: Who is [*]?)
(Alex Trebek: [Chuckles] Good.)

LeBron James

Scott
    $200 29
bask

Triple Stumper
    $200 30
squeeze

Alex
    $400 15
Yeltsin

Alex
    $400 24
a double take

Alex
    $400 23
(Alex Jacob: What is writer's cramp?)

Parkinson's

AlexScott
    $400 22
(Bruce) Campbell

Alex
    $400 21
a millipede

Alex
    $400 20
a rendezvous

Michael
    $600 14
de Gaulle

Alex
    $600 16
a binary star

Alex
    $600 10
(Alex Jacob: Who is Pelé?)

(Diego) Maradona

AlexScott
    $600 13
(Michael: What is Halloween?)
(Alex Jacob: What is... Nightmare on Elm Street?)
...
(Alex Trebek: It's not Nightmare on Elm Street, but just [*].)

Nightmare

AlexMichael
Triple Stumper
    $600 17
grub

Alex
    $600 19
(Scott: What's [*]?)
(Alex Trebek: That's it.)
[Scott chuckles.]

a geezer

Scott
    $800 1
Sun Yat-sen

Alex
    $800 3
Romulus & Remus

Scott
    $800 6
narcissism

Alex
    $800 5
Zoolander

Alex
    $800 7
cockroach

Michael
    $800 9
(Scott: What are wire-rim glasses?)

pince-nez

AlexScott
    $1000 2
(Alex Jacob: Who is David Ben-Gurion?)

(Chaim) Weizmann

AlexMichael
    $1000 4
(Wernher) von Braun

Alex
    $1,000 11
procrastinate

Scott
    $1000 12
DeMille

Alex
    $1000 8
(Michael: What is a leaf ant?)
(Alex Trebek: Mmmmm, no.)
(Michael: A [*]!)
(Alex Trebek: Yeah, okay, you got it in.)

leafcutter ant

Michael
    $1000 18
intermezzo

Alex

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

Alex Scott Michael
$4,000 $1,600 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Scott Michael
$7,200 $3,000 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR
'80s FICTION
DESERTS
POP CULTURE
HETERONYMS
A LA DESCARTES
    $400 8
Bernanke

Alex
    $400 9
Prizzi's Honor

Scott
    $400 16
the Sahara

Alex
    $400 13
Drew Barrymore

Michael
    $400 24
alternate ["ALL-tur-nut"/"ALL-tur-nate"]

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
geometry

Michael
    $800 19
Mark Zuckerberg

Scott
    $800 10
[Scott did not include the leading article in his response.]

The Silence of the Lambs

Scott
    $800 25
Spain

Scott
    $800 30
country

Alex
    $800 12
dove ["DOHV"/"DUV"]

Alex
    $800 28
Galileo

Michael
    $1200 5
Stalin

Michael
    $1200 1
[Scott selected the first clue.]

(Mario) Puzo

Alex
    $1200 26
the Mojave

Scott
    $1200 27
True Detective

Scott
    $1200 29
bow ["BOH"/"BOW"]

Michael
    $1200 11
dualism

Alex
    $4,200 6
(Michael: Who is Larry Flynt?)

Ted Turner

Michael
    $1600 3
le Carré

Scott
    $5,600 2
the Negev

Alex
    $1600 22
(Scott: What is A Peanuts Christmas?)

A Charlie Brown Christmas

ScottMichael
    $1600 23
resume ["ree-ZOOM"/"REHZ-oo-may"]

Alex
    $1600 18
Christina

Alex
    $2000 7
(Wallis) Simpson

Alex
    $2000 4
(Philip) Dick

Alex
    $2000 20
the Atacama

Michael
    $2000 21
(Frank) Zappa

Scott
    $2000 14
pasty ["PACE-tee"/"PASS-tee"]

Michael
    $2000 15
the pineal

Alex

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Scott Michael
$26,800 $10,200 $8,400
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

GREEK MYTHOLOGY
(Alex Trebek: Ah, this was a tough one. She was the first woman created to punish man.)
...
(Alex Trebek: [To Alex Jacob] You're coming back next week to play for a quarter-million dollars against these other semifinalists...)
(Catherine: Catherine Hardee, Kinston, North Carolina.)
(Brennan: Brennan Bushee, Malden, Massachusetts.)
(Matt: Matt Jackson, Washington, D.C.)
(Kerry: Kerry Greene, Manchester, New Hampshire.)
(Alex Trebek: And, of course, added to all of those people, we have these four high scorers among the non-winners...)
(Andrew: Andrew Haringer, Squamish, British Columbia.)
(Vaughn: Vaughn Winchell, Columbia, Maryland.)
(John: John Schultz, Ann Arbor, Michigan.)
(Dan: Dan Feitel, Gillette, New Jersey.)
MichaelWho is Thisbe
$8,400
ScottWho is Demeter
$4,000
AlexWho is Gaea
$143
Pandora

Final scores:

Alex Scott Michael
$26,657 $6,200 $0
Automatic semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Alex Scott Michael
$22,800 $10,200 $12,600
27 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 14 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $45,600

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Game tape date: 2015-10-13
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