Responses for Show #5516 - Monday, September 8, 2008

First game of Season 25.
New title graphics.
New theme music and new "Think!" music.
Jeopardy! Round dollar values no longer "pop in".

Contestants

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Kurt Davies, a waiter from Carrboro, North Carolina

Greg Lindsay, a freelance journalist from Brooklyn, New York

Emily Thorsley, an administrative assistant from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,800)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ZOOLOGY
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
RHYME TRAP
(Alex: Each correct response will rhyme with "trap".)
25
YEARS
A LOOK BACK WITH JEOPARDY!
    $200 6
a bat

Kurt
    $200 11
(Joe) Torre

Emily
    $200 1
a cap

Kurt
    $200 21
Lindbergh

Emily
    $200 16
1959

Greg
    $200 26
Prince Harry

Greg
    $400 7
daddy longlegs

Emily
    $400 12
(Willie) Mays

Greg
    $400 2
sap

Emily
    $400 22
(Joe) Louis

Greg
    $400 17
1977

Kurt
    $400 27
Czechoslovakia

Emily
    $600 8
(Greg: What is a rock?)
(Emily: What is the sea floor?)
...
(Alex: You've heard of the Sargasso Sea, because it's covered with [*], kelp, things like that.)

seaweed

EmilyGreg
Triple Stumper
    $600 13
Randy Johnson

Greg
    $600 3
a lap

Kurt
    $600 23
Genesis

Emily
    $600 18
1912

Emily
    $600 28
(Bud) Selig

Emily
    $800 9
a musk ox

Emily
    $800 14
Ichiro Suzuki

Greg
    $800 4
tap

Emily
    $800 24
Coca-Cola

Greg
    $800 19
1914

Greg
    $800 29
the Millennium Dome

Kurt
    $1,000 10
a lemming

Emily
    $1000 15
(Rich "Goose") Gossage

Greg
    $1000 5
a map

Kurt
    $1000 25
the Great Wall of China

Emily
    $1000 20
(Kurt: What is 1980?)

1984

GregKurt
    $1000 30
(Paul) Bremer

Greg

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

Emily Greg Kurt
$3,000 $2,200 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Emily Greg Kurt
$6,400 $6,600 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG
REEL LIFE
(Alex: I'll give you the clue, you have to identify the character we're referring to, or the person.)
ONGOING MILITARY CONFLICTS
EXPRESS YOURSELF
AT THE DRUGSTORE
PEEKABOO, "ICU"!
(Alex: Those 3 letters will come up in that order.)
    $400 26
FDR

Kurt
    $400 7
Ray Charles

Kurt
    $400 1
Russia

Kurt
    $400 6
(Emily: What is the beat of a different drum?)
(Kurt: What is a different drum?)
(Greg: What's a different [*]?)

drummer

EmilyGregKurt
    $400 16
Dove

Emily
    $400 21
difficulty

Emily
    $800 27
(Greg: What are petticoats?)

hoops

Greg
Triple Stumper
    $800 8
Dian Fossey

Emily
    $800 2
Sudan

Emily
    $800 12
Cerberus

Emily
    $800 17
fiber

Kurt
    $800 22
bicuspid

Emily
    $1200 28
(Alex: Yeah, and it happened in a bar!)

Phi Beta Kappa

Emily
    $1200 9
Frida Kahlo

Kurt
    $1200 3
(Greg: What is... India?)

Sri Lanka

GregKurt
    $1200 13
Great American Novel

Emily
    $1200 18
Burt's Bees

Kurt
    $1200 23
Ficus

Emily
    $1600 29
stocks

Greg
    $1600 10
Zapata

Emily
    $1,700 4
Colombia

Kurt
    $1600 14
the center

Greg
    $1600 19
(Kurt: What is Allegra?)

Zyrtec

EmilyKurt
    $1600 24
(Emily: What is Justice?)

Agriculture

Emily
Triple Stumper
    $6,000 30
(Greg: I think we need to make this sporting, so let's wager $6,000.)

the House of Burgesses

Greg
    $2000 11
(Dorothy) Parker

Emily
    $2000 5
(Greg: What is Pakistan?)

India

GregKurt
    $2000 15
an invisible hand

Emily
    $2000 20
(Greg: What is chitin?)

glucosamine

Greg
Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
conspicuous

Greg

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Emily Greg Kurt
$19,200 $12,200 $9,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE VATICAN
(Alex: Broad subject, but small place.)
(Alex: [After reading the clue] Obviously a change of attitude. 30 seconds, players. Good luck!)
[New "Think!" music plays]
...
(Alex: Rehabilitated now, of course, but the Church gave him a lot of static way back then.)
KurtWho is Galileo?
$4,501
GregWho is Galileo?
$8,000
EmilyWho is Loyola? Richelieu?
$5,500
Galileo

Final scores:

Emily Greg Kurt
$13,700 $20,200 $14,001
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $20,200 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Emily Greg Kurt
$19,200 $8,200 $9,400
25 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $36,800

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Game tape date: 2008-07-15
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