Responses for Show #4996 - Monday, May 8, 2006

2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York

Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky

Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PICK THE MAMMAL
THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS
PAINT JOB
PROPER NAMES
LET US WORSHIP
LATIN LEXICON
    $200 2
a fawn

Maria
    $200 1
boxing

Maria
    $200 21
acrylic

Maria
    $200 7
Pat

Kermin
    $200 16
themselves

Kermin
    $200 26
et cetera

Doug
    $400 3
a civet

Doug
    $400 8
(Doug: What is football?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

professional football

Doug
    $400 22
enamel

Maria
    $400 12
Carol

Kermin
    $400 17
the saints

Maria
    $400 27
per diem

Kermin
    $600 4
(Alex: Yes. Dog.)

a borzoi

Doug
    $600 9
(Phil) Mickelson

Kermin
    $600 23
eggshell

Maria
    $600 13
Wade

Maria
    $600 18
(Maria: What is, uh, names, name origins?)

words

Maria
Triple Stumper
    $600 28
a priori

Kermin
    $800 5
an echidna

Maria
    $800 10
(Doug: What is ice hockey?)
(Kermin: What is soccer?)
(Maria: What is boxing?)
...
(Alex: What is [*]? It's not supposed to be a contact sport, but it so very often is.)

basketball

DougKerminMaria
Triple Stumper
    $800 24
(Maria: What is sable?)
...
(Alex: What are [*]? [*]. Stiff bristles.)

hogs

Maria
Triple Stumper
    $800 14
Grace

Maria
    $3,000 19
(Alex: [*]--Selene.)

the Moon

Maria
    $800 29
imprimatur

Maria
    $1000 6
a nutria

Maria
    $1000 11
(Alex: Bicycle racing, yes.)

the Tour de France

Maria
    $1000 25
impasto

Doug
    $1000 15
Earl

Maria
    $1000 20
fire

Maria
    $1000 30
(Alex: Yes, and that takes you to $10,800. My gosh. You came prepared, Maria!)

in medias res

Maria

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

Doug Kermin Maria
$600 $400 $4,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Doug Kermin Maria
$1,800 $1,600 $10,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
NO. 1 ALBUMS
FIRST LADIES
A WORLD OF FACTS
THEY SAID IT IN 2005
"C" FOOD
    $400 10
Blood Wedding

Maria
    $400 23
Led Zeppelin

Doug
    $400 6
(Alex: Not quickly enough, Maria. Ronald Reagan was the host of that show, and his wife [*] appeared in that series.)

Nancy Reagan

Triple Stumper
    $400 16
Napoleon

Maria
    $400 21
George Bush

Doug
    $400 1
cranberries

Kermin
    $800 12
Ibsen

Maria
    $800 24
Hammer

Doug
    $800 7
Mrs. (Grace) Coolidge

Maria
    $800 17
Argentina

Maria
    $2,000 22
(Alex: Sign-off as CBS News anchor.)

Dan Rather

Doug
    $800 2
(Maria: What is velvet cake?)
(Doug: What is cotton?)

chiffon cake

DougMaria
Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
Colonus

Maria
    $1200 25
High School Musical

Triple Stumper
    $1200 8
Mrs. (Betty) Ford

Maria
    $1200 18
Bhopal

Kermin
    $1200 28
Tom Cruise

Doug
    $1200 3
(Maria: What is cabbage?)

cauliflower

Maria
Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
(Maria: What is Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?--Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

A Delicate Balance

Maria
Triple Stumper
    $1600 26
Frampton

Doug
    $1600 9
(Maria: Who is Laura Bush?)
(Kermin: Who is Barbara Bush?)

Lady Bird Johnson

DougKerminMaria
    $1600 19
the Yangtze

Kermin
    $1600 29
Judith Miller

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 4
corn

Kermin
    $2000 15
(Kermin: What are "Good night sweet prince"?)
...
(Alex: We're going for the last words spoken by Hamlet: [*].)

The rest is silence

Kermin
Triple Stumper
    $2000 27
Van Cliburn

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
Eleanor Roosevelt

Kermin
    $2000 20
Bechuanaland

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
(Alex: And how quickly you have forgotten the name [*].)

Mark Felt

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
chestnuts

Maria

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Doug Kermin Maria
$9,000 $4,200 $13,200

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE
(Alex: No. The correct response is [*], and [*]'s original Germanic name was Wolfram. Wolfram. So the W is the symbol for that.)
(Maria: Oh.)
KerminWhat Cobalt
$4,101
DougWhat is Deuderium Iron
$3,001
MariaWhat is Nitrogen
$6,800
tungsten

Final scores:

Doug Kermin Maria
$5,999 $99 $6,400
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Doug Kermin Maria
$7,800 $4,800 $11,000
12 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
11 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
24 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W

Combined Coryat: $23,600

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Game tape date: 2006-04-10
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