Responses for Show #5678 - Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Contestants

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Wright Polak, a tea salesman from Yonkers, New York

Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan

Stefanie Tomko, a software project manager from Bellevue, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

RELIGIONS
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR BY FILM
FUN WITH EPONYMS
THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMES MACHINE
QUASI-STUPID ANSWERS
(Alex: American Heritage Dictionary...)
AHD NEGATIVE PREFIXES
    $200 9
Scientology

Wright
    $200 1
Cher

Wright
    $200 6
(Wright: Who is Watt?)

André Ampere

Wright
Triple Stumper
    $200 26
(Wright: Uh, what is 1929?)
(Stefanie: What is 1963?)
...
(Alex: It was the Warren Commission report. That was [*]. It came out the year after the assassination.)

1964

StefanieWright
Triple Stumper
    $200 21
Noxzema

Melanie
    $200 16
anti-

Stefanie
    $400 10
Shia

Triple Stumper
    $400 2
Jane Fonda

Wright
    $400 7
(Melanie: What is decibel?)
(Stefanie: Who is de Cibe?)

(Alexander Graham) Bell

StefanieMelanie
Triple Stumper
    $400 27
1938

Melanie
    $400 22
art deco

Stefanie
    $400 17
in-

Wright
    $600 11
Buddhism

Wright
    $600 3
(Stefanie: Who is, um... uh...)

Gwyneth Paltrow

StefanieWright
    $600 8
Mae West

Melanie
    $2,000 28
(Melanie: What is 1917?)
(Alex: Oh, no. You had to go after the First World War to [*].)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

1919

Melanie
    $600 23
(Stefanie: Who is Descartes?)

David Hume

Stefanie
Triple Stumper
    $600 18
de-

Melanie
    $800 12
Wiccan

Melanie
    $800 4
Susan Sarandon

Stefanie
    $800 14
Chippendales

Melanie
    $800 24
a superconductor

Wright
    $800 19
a-

Wright
    $1000 13
(Melanie: What is Zoroastrianism?)

Baha'i

StefanieMelanie
    $1000 5
(Reese) Witherspoon

Wright
    $1000 15
(Wright: Uh, what is censor?)

bowdlerize

StefanieWright
    $1000 25
SITCOM

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
un-

Melanie

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

Stefanie Melanie Wright
$1,800 $800 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Stefanie Melanie Wright
$1,600 $1,000 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

I WROTE THAT!
WHAT A CAST OF TV CHARACTERS!
400 YEARS OF THE TELESCOPE
NAME THE PARENT COMPANY
"IQ" TEST
IN BRUGES
(Sarah: ...the life & lore of one of Belgium's most picturesque cities.)
    $400 6
Jane Austen

Stefanie
    $400 1
The Sopranos

Wright
    $400 26
Galileo

Stefanie
    $400 16
General Mills

Wright
    $400 11
antiques

Melanie
    $400 21
(Melanie: What is a carrilon?)

the belfry

Melanie
Triple Stumper
    $800 7
Tom Clancy

Stefanie
    $800 2
ER

Stefanie
    $800 27
(Wright: What is Saturn?)

Uranus

MelanieWright
    $800 17
Kraft

Wright
    $800 12
a tourniquet

Melanie
    $800 22
swans

Stefanie
    $1200 8
L. Frank Baum

Melanie
    $1200 3
CSI: Miami

Triple Stumper
    $1200 28
(Alex: It's in Hawaii on [*].)

Mauna Kea

Triple Stumper
    $1200 18
3M

Wright
    $1200 13
mystique

Melanie
    $1200 23
Flemish

Melanie
    $1600 9
Pat Conroy

Melanie
    $1600 4
30 Rock

Wright
    $1600 29
Pyrex

Melanie
    $1600 19
Sherwin-Williams

Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
sobriquet

Melanie
    $1600 24
bicycles

Stefanie
    $2000 10
Ivan Turgenev

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
Gilligan's Island

Melanie
    $3,000 30
a radiotelescope

Melanie
    $2000 20
Coca-Cola

Stefanie
    $2000 15
(Alex: You know your "Q"s. I bet you know your "P"s, too.)
[Applause for Melanie's run of the category]

Mozambique

Melanie
    $5,000 25
guilds

Stefanie

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Stefanie Melanie Wright
$13,400 $18,000 $7,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. PRESIDENTS
(Alex: Both of these presidents lived into their 90s.)
WrightWho is Harry S. Truman
$2,800
StefanieWho is Ford?
$4,200
MelanieWho is Gerald Ford?
$8,900
(1 of) Gerald Ford & Herbert Hoover

Final scores:

Stefanie Melanie Wright
$17,600 $26,900 $4,400
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $26,900 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Stefanie Melanie Wright
$10,400 $19,000 $7,200
13 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $36,600

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Game tape date: 2009-02-17
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