Responses for Show #7626 - Monday, November 6, 2017

2017 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Pranjal Vachaspati, a Ph.D. student from Urbana, Illinois

Hunter Appler, an attorney from Augusta, Georgia

Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES
BACKING BANDS
"X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS
RECYCLOPEDIA
AMERICANA
(Alex: We're going undercover at...)
THE CIA
    $200 16
Vienna

Hunter
    $200 20
the Melody Makers

Triple Stumper
    $200 28
Excalibur

Buzzy
    $200 29
Nike

Hunter
    $200 30
(Hunter: What is Trenton?)

Philadelphia

HunterPranjal
    $200 27
Langley

Hunter
    $400 22
(Pranjal: What is Moscow?)
Buzzy: What is Kiev?)

Prague

BuzzyPranjal
Triple Stumper
    $400 21
the Banshees

Buzzy
    $400 10
hexagonal

Pranjal
    $400 26
papier-mâché

Hunter
    $400 17
Mammoth Cave

Triple Stumper
    $400 25
(Nathan) Hale

Pranjal
    $1,600 11
Buenos Aires

Pranjal
    $600 1
the Furious Five

Pranjal
    $600 24
juxtapose

Hunter
    $600 6
composting

Buzzy
    $600 2
jazz

Buzzy
    $600 18
U-2

Buzzy
    $800 14
London

Buzzy
    $800 4
the New Bohemians

Hunter
    $800 12
an extremity

Buzzy
    $800 7
methane

Buzzy
    $800 5
Memphis

Pranjal
    $800 9
Argo

Pranjal
    $1000 13
Amsterdam

Buzzy
    $1000 3
the Silver Bullet Band

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
obnoxious

Buzzy
    $1000 8
hazardous household wastes

Pranjal
    $1000 19
(Hunter: What are moose?)

elk

BuzzyHunter
    $1000 23
OSS (Office of Strategic Services)

Buzzy

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

Buzzy Hunter Pranjal
$5,600 $800 $5,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Buzzy Hunter Pranjal
$8,400 $1,200 $5,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

B.C. PLACES
OPHTHALMOLOGY
"FUSION"
STARS' INITIAL SHOWS
(Alex: You have to name the TV show that gave each performer some of their early exposure.)
WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED
NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS
    $400 26
Troy

Buzzy
    $400 29
halos

Buzzy
    $400 27
confusion

Hunter
    $400 28
Freaks and Geeks

Pranjal
    $400 30
The Celestine Prophecy

Triple Stumper
    $400 1
batten

Pranjal
    $800 4
Phoenicia

Pranjal
    $800 25
a cornea

Pranjal
    $800 24
an infusion

Pranjal
    $800 16
Little House on the Prairie

Buzzy
    $800 22
(L. Frank) Baum

Buzzy
    $800 15
deserts

Hunter
    $1200 12
(Pranjal: What is Minos?)

Knossos

Pranjal
Triple Stumper
    $4,000 9
farsightedness

Pranjal
    $1200 8
(Buzzy: What is a Chevy Volt? Oh!)

the Ford Fusion

Buzzy
Triple Stumper
    $1200 14
Bosom Buddies

Hunter
    $7,000 21
(Hunter: Who is Coleridge?)

William Blake

Hunter
    $1200 11
beck

Buzzy
    $1600 10
Nebuchadnezzar

Hunter
    $1600 7
an ophthalmoscope

Pranjal
    $1600 2
a blood transfusion

Buzzy
    $1600 17
Square Pegs

Triple Stumper
    $1600 20
(Virginia) Woolf

Hunter
    $1600 5
kith

Hunter
    $2000 13
(Buzzy: What is the Assyrian Empire?)

the Hittite Empire

Buzzy
Triple Stumper
    $2000 23
LASIK

Buzzy
    $2000 3
diffusion

Buzzy
    $2000 18
Remote Control

Buzzy
    $2000 19
Edgar Allan Poe

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
wend

Pranjal

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Buzzy Hunter Pranjal
$16,400 $1,400 $15,000

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MUSIC & HISTORY
(Alex: [To Hunter] By Tchaikovsky.)
HunterWhat the 1812 Overture?
$0
PranjalWhat is the 1812 Overture
$1,401
BuzzyWhat is the 1812 Overture?
$13,600
the 1812 Overture

Final scores:

Buzzy Hunter Pranjal
$30,000 $1,400 $16,401
Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Buzzy Hunter Pranjal
$16,400 $8,400 $11,200
21 R,
3 W
12 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)
16 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $36,000

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Game tape date: 2017-09-18
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