Responses for Show #4896 - Monday, December 19, 2005

Contestants

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Laura McElfresh, a librarian from Atlanta, Georgia

Brendan O'Connor, a teacher from Cody, Wyoming

Kathy Reiff, a homemaker from Groton, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE
THE QUOTABLE BEN STILLER
Rx MARKS THE SPOT
IT WAS THE '60s
BEATLE WANNABES?
WE WANNA KNOW "Y"
    $200 21
(Brendan: What's... the horse?)
(Kathy: What is a pony?)
...
(Alex: It's known as the laughing [*].)

jackass

KathyBrendan
Triple Stumper
    $200 12
There's Something About Mary

Kathy
    $200 26
Ritalin

Brendan
    $200 1
the Moon

Laura
    $200 10
(Kenneth) Starr

Brendan
    $200 5
youth

Kathy
    $400 22
(Brendan: What is rugby?)
...
(Alex: The [*] Ground.)

cricket

Brendan
Triple Stumper
    $400 13
Madagascar

Kathy
    $400 27
Oxycontin

Laura
    $400 2
Che Guevara

Kathy
    $400 11
(Brendan: Who is Reagan?)

Benjamin Harrison

Brendan
Triple Stumper
    $400 6
(Linus) Yale

Laura
    $1,000 23
Queensland

Kathy
    $600 14
Starsky & Hutch

Laura
    $600 28
Xanax

Laura
    $600 3
De Gaulle

Kathy
    $600 17
Colorado

Laura
    $600 7
Yugoslavia

Laura
    $800 24
Tasmania

Brendan
    $800 15
the Royal Tenenbaums

Kathy
    $800 29
lithium

Laura
    $800 4
Betty Friedan

Laura
    $800 18
Reno 911!

Laura
    $800 8
Yorktown

Brendan
    $1000 25
Darwin

Brendan
    $1000 16
(Brendan: What is Zoolanger?)
...
(Alex: Lander, not langer, yes.)

Zoolander

BrendanLaura
    $1000 30
Halcion

Kathy
    $1000 20
(Alex: A picture from the past--[*].)

James Meredith

Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
Greece

Kathy
    $1000 9
(Brendan: Who is Zudov?)
...
(Alex: We're talking about American astronauts, so it's [*].)

John Young

Brendan
Triple Stumper

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

Kathy Brendan Laura
$2,600 -$400 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kathy Brendan Laura
$5,400 $0 $6,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

OPERA
BASS LINES
THE JEOPARDY! TIME MACHINE
WOMEN AUTHORS
A 5-COURSE MEAL
"THIN" IS IN
    $400 2
Madame Butterfly

Laura
    $400 1
"Another One Bites The Dust"

Kathy
    $400 26
(Kathy: What is a flood?)

an earthquake

Kathy
Triple Stumper
    $400 21
J.K. Rowling

Laura
    $400 16
lettuce

Kathy
    $400 11
scathing

Laura
    $3,000 3
Salome

Laura
    $800 7
"Ghostbusters"

Brendan
    $800 27
Masada

Brendan
    $800 22
(Laura: Who... is... Jane...)

Jane Austen

KathyLaura
    $800 17
gumbo

Kathy
    $800 12
loathing

Laura
    $1200 4
Rigoletto

Laura
    $1200 8
"Money"

Laura
    $1200 28
Chief Joseph

Brendan
    $2,000 23
Zora Neale Hurston

Kathy
    $1200 19
calamari

Brendan
    $1200 13
farthing

Kathy
    $1600 5
Rodolfo

Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
"My Sharona"

Laura
    $1600 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Venice

Triple Stumper
    $1600 24
Muriel Spark

Triple Stumper
    $1600 20
scrod

Kathy
    $1600 14
Much Ado about Nothing

Laura
    $2000 6
Ariadne

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
"Enter Sandman"

Brendan
    $2000 25
the lark

Kathy
    $2000 18
Bananas Foster

Laura
    $2000 15
the Althing

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kathy Brendan Laura
$14,200 $6,000 $18,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

TRADEMARKS
(Alex: If you could get to oil, this was an easy Final.)
BrendanWhat is ExxonMobil
$5,000
KathyWhat is Exxon-Mobil?
$4,500
LauraWhat is Exxon-Mobil?
$9,801
Exxon Mobil

Final scores:

Kathy Brendan Laura
$18,700 $11,000 $28,401
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $28,401

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Kathy Brendan Laura
$13,000 $6,000 $16,400
17 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 10 R,
5 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $35,400

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Game tape date: 2005-10-17
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