Responses for Show #5394 - Thursday, February 7, 2008

Contestants

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Ben Chaput, a water service inspector from Lowell, Massachusetts

Alison Kolani, a copy editor from Queens, New York

Srinivas Ayyagari, a law student originally from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE MASTERS
COUPLES
ARNOLD
NORMAN
"CHI" CHI
SING!
(Alex: Not Vijay Singh, a different kind of sing. In this category, we will give you the name of a band. You have to identify the main lead singer of that band.)
    $200 12
Michelangelo

Srinivas
    $200 14
Henry VIII

Srinivas
    $200 22
the Black Sox Scandal

Ben
    $200 11
the Anglo-Saxons

Srinivas
    $200 1
Chief Justices

Ben
    $200 6
George Michael

Srinivas
    $400 13
Rembrandt

Alison
    $400 18
Hilton

Ben
    $400 23
Switzerland

Triple Stumper
    $400 27
Sicily

Srinivas
    $400 2
(Alex: [*] and the Man, remember?)

Chico

Triple Stumper
    $400 7
Mark Knopfler

Triple Stumper
    $600 15
(Srinivas: Who is Van der Meer?)
(Alex: No. Sorry. You've often heard the term, I'm sure, Rubenesque? Who is [*]? He liked his women a little softer.)

Rubens

Srinivas
    $600 19
Aaron Burr

Srinivas
    $600 24
(Ben: What is Hinduism?)

Buddha

SrinivasBen
    $600 28
Rome

Srinivas
    $600 3
Ho Chi Minh

Triple Stumper
    $600 8
[ERRATUM: The name of this band is Talking Heads.]

David Byrne

Ben
    $800 16
El Greco

Srinivas
    $800 20
Charlie Chaplin

Alison
    $800 25
Rugby

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
(Srinivas: Who were the Goths?)

the Vikings

Srinivas
Triple Stumper
    $800 4
chino

Ben
    $800 9
Billy Corgan

Ben
    $1000 17
Vermeer

Alison
    $1000 21
(Alex: Author of The Bell Jar, yes.)

Sylvia Plath

Alison
    $1000 26
Matthew Arnold

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Srinivas: What is the Ottoman Empire?)

the Byzantine Empire

Srinivas
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
(Alison: What is Chihuahua?)

Chiapas

Alison
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
(Srinivas: Uh, who is, uh, Johnny Rotten?)

Joe Strummer

Srinivas
Triple Stumper

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

Srinivas Alison Ben
-$800 -$600 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Srinivas Alison Ben
$400 $2,200 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS
MOVIE QUOTES
(Alex: We'll give you the [*], you name the film.)
"E"OGRAPHY
(Alex: Each correct response will begin with that letter.)
THE LEFTY WAY
GIVING YOU THE BIRD
THE SECRET OF NYM
    $400 6
Harlem

Ben
    $400 1
(Srinivas: Uh, what is...)

A Streetcar Named Desire

SrinivasAlison
    $400 11
Etna

Alison
    $400 13
first base

Srinivas
    $400 21
a cardinal

Ben
    $400 26
a pseudonym

Srinivas
    $800 7
Malcolm X

Alison
    $800 2
All the President's Men

Ben
    $800 12
Edam

Alison
    $800 17
watercolor

Srinivas
    $800 22
a hummingbird

Alison
    $800 27
(Alex: Yes, place.)

Bucharest

Srinivas
    $1200 8
Toni Morrison

Ben
    $1200 3
(Ben: What is Caddyshack?)

Airplane!

AlisonBen
    $1200 14
(Alison: What is Ecuador?)
...
(Alex: Yes, Central America.)

El Salvador

SrinivasAlison
    $1200 18
a menu

Srinivas
    $1200 23
(Ben: What are warblers?)

ducks

Ben
Triple Stumper
    $1200 28
genus & species

Alison
    $1600 9
Ralph Ellison

Alison
    $1600 4
Glengarry Glen Ross

Ben
    $1600 15
Estonia

Srinivas
    $1600 19
the guitar

Triple Stumper
    $1600 24
a heron

Srinivas
    $1600 29
(Srinivas: Um, what is, uh, proper name or not?)

pronunciation

SrinivasAlison
    $2000 10
Alice Walker

Srinivas
    $2000 5
(Alex: You got it! Good for you.)

Escape from New York

Ben
    $2,000 16
Eritrea & Ethiopia

Srinivas
    $2,000 20
(Srinivas: What is Arabic?)
(Alex: No, sorry. What is [*]. ([*]). So you're tied once again with Ben for the lead.)
(Srinivas: All right. Uh, just for that, GIVING YOU THE BIRD for $400.)
[Laughter]
(Alex: Hey, easy.)

Farsi (Persian)

Srinivas
    $2000 25
(Srinavas: Um... what is a penguin? That's not gonna work.)
...
(Alex: What is the [*]. "Come On, Get Happy" was the theme to The [*] Family. A minute to deal with the last category.)
(Srinivas: Before my time.)

the partridge

Srinivas
Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
an exonym

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Srinivas Alison Ben
$6,400 $9,800 $6,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPE
(Alex: [Revealing Ben's response] Yes, indeed. Belgium dropped [*]. They're using the euro over there now.)
SrinivasWhat is Flemish?
$6,400
BenWhat is the franc
$6,400
AlisonWhat is the Franc?
$3,801
the franc

Final scores:

Srinivas Alison Ben
$0 $13,601 $12,800
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $13,601 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Srinivas Alison Ben
$9,000 $9,800 $6,400
19 R
(including 1 DD),
8 W
(including 2 DDs)		 13 R,
2 W		 12 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $25,200

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Game tape date: 2007-10-30
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