Responses for Show #7539 - Thursday, May 25, 2017

Contestants

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Jon Groubert, a former attorney from Denver, Colorado

Melanie Tannenbaum Hepler, a fitness instructor from Newark, California

Mackenzie Vogt, a systems analyst from Point Pleasant, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN 1776
SCI-FI MOVIES
THE MAIN VEGETABLE
(Alex: In the traditional version of the dishes we will give you.)
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
MORTAL MATTERS
ISLE BE SEEING YOU
    $200 7
Mozart

Melanie
    $200 1
Divergent

Melanie
    $200 20
(Jon: What are French fries?)

potato

MelanieJon
    $200 6
a double-header

Jon
    $200 25
(Mackenzie: What is medical examiner?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Mackenzie: What is [*]?)
(Alex: That's it, yes. All right. You corrected yourself in time. And we have less than a minute now.)
[Originally ruled correct. Before the start of the Double Jeopardy! Round, Alex's "Be more specific" was judged to be incorrectly given and Mackenzie lost the $200 for giving a correct answer, though he was not penalized for giving an incorrect one.]

a coroner

Triple Stumper
    $200 16
Hilton Head

Jon
    $400 8
Captain Cook

Mackenzie
    $400 2
Scarlett Johansson

Melanie
    $400 21
chickpeas

Mackenzie
    $400 12
the Joneses

Mackenzie
    $400 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

skull and crossbones

Melanie
    $400 17
(Melanie: What is Wight?)

Man

MelanieJon
    $600 9
The Decline and Fall

Mackenzie
    $600 3
Waterworld

Jon
    $600 22
(Mackenzie: What are green peppers and corn?)

corn and lima beans

Mackenzie
Triple Stumper
    $600 13
libel

Jon
    $600 28
a will

Jon
    $1,200 18
the Canary Islands

Jon
    $800 10
the (British) East India Company

Mackenzie
    $800 4
The Abyss

Mackenzie
    $800 23
eggplant

Jon
    $800 14
(Mackenzie: What is tooth?)
(Jon: What is nail?)

hammer or tongs

MackenzieJon
Triple Stumper
    $800 26
rigor mortis

Mackenzie
    $800 19
Antigua

Melanie
    $1000 11
(Alex: St. John is San Juan, and this mission is [*].)

San Juan Capistrano

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Soylent Green

Mackenzie
    $1000 15
a gimlet

Triple Stumper
    $1000 27
the Last Judgment

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
Cozumel

Jon

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

Mackenzie Melanie Jon
$3,200 $800 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mackenzie Melanie Jon
$3,800 $1,800 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BARBRA STREISAND DUETS
OCEANOGRAPHY
THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL
U.S. SENATORS
COMPLETE THE NONPROFIT
GET YOUR "PHIL"
    $400 3
Billy Joel

Melanie
    $400 13
a barrier reef

Mackenzie
    $400 20
1939

Melanie
    $400 7
Law & Order

Melanie
    $400 15
Civil

Melanie
    $400 1
a Philistine

Mackenzie
    $800 4
Phantom of the Opera

Mackenzie
    $800 14
the Chesapeake Bay

Melanie
    $800 21
Exodus

Jon
    $800 9
Casper

Melanie
    $800 16
Warrior

Mackenzie
    $800 2
philanderer

Jon
    $1200 25
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

Don Johnson

Jon
    $1200 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Cape of Good Hope

Jon
    $1200 22
the United Kingdom

Triple Stumper
    $1200 10
(Melanie: Who is Walton?)

Bill Bradley

MackenzieMelanie
    $1200 17
Sans

Mackenzie
    $2,000 5
(Mackenzie: Can't think of anything.)

a philodendron

Mackenzie
    $1600 26
Barry Gibb

Jon
    $1600 23
(James) Michener

Mackenzie
    $3,000 11
New Hampshire

Mackenzie
    $1600 18
Foreign

Jon
    $1600 6
Philco

Jon
    $2000 27
(Melanie: What is "Edelweiss"?)

"Climb Ev'ry Mountain"

Melanie
Triple Stumper
    $2000 24
(Jon: What are Hebrew and Arabic?)
(Melanie: What are Hebrew and English?)

Hebrew and Yiddish

MelanieJon
Triple Stumper
    $2000 12
Moseley Braun

Jon
    $2000 19
Poverty

Melanie
    $2000 8
(Alex: King Philip of Macedonia, so [*].)

a philippic

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mackenzie Melanie Jon
$11,200 $1,800 $13,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ART & POP CULTURE
(Alex: [To Mackenzie] Michelangelo, Donatello, and... da Vinci.)
MelanieWho are the Power Rangers? teen muta
$1,800
MackenzieWho are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
$11,200
JonWho are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
$9,001
the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Final scores:

Mackenzie Melanie Jon
$22,400 $0 $22,401
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $22,401

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mackenzie Melanie Jon
$11,800 $1,800 $12,800
16 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
4 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $26,400

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Game tape date: 2017-02-21
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