Responses for Show #6241 - Monday, November 7, 2011

2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas

Erin McLean, a junior at Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts

Paul Kursky, an online marketing producer from San Francisco, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ON A U.S. POSTAGE STAMP
SPORTS NUMBERS
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
PLANET OF THE CORGIS
THE CARIBBEAN
SCIENCE "K"LASS
    $200 9
the Indianapolis 500

Buddy
    $200 12
8

Paul
    $200 17
(Paul: What is a cereal... drama?)
...
(Alex: That's it, yes. Two different spellings, same sound.)

a cereal serial

PaulBuddy
    $200 11
Welsh

Paul
    $200 1
(Paul: [Selecting the clue] Uh, let's start the party with THE CARIBBEAN for $200.)

nudist beaches

Buddy
    $200 2
(Paul: What's a... liter?)
(Erin: What's a kilometer?)

a kilogram

PaulErinBuddy
    $400 10
a bighorn sheep

Erin
    $400 13
4

Erin
    $400 18
able Abel

Buddy
    $400 24
(Stephen) King

Paul
    $400 7
1776

Buddy
    $400 3
kelvin

Buddy
    $600 22
(Buddy: What is the Women's Air Corps?)

the Women's Army Corps

Buddy
Triple Stumper
    $600 14
24

Buddy
    $600 19
foul fowl

Buddy
    $600 26
(Paul: Who is... Roosevelt?)

Queen Elizabeth II

PaulErin
    $600 8
San Juan

Paul
    $1,000 4
(Alex: [*], you had to think of Superman, yes.)

krypton

Buddy
    $800 23
Fiestaware

Erin
    $800 15
(Paul: What is... 4?)
(Alex: No.)
(Paul: Nope!)
...
(Alex: [*] on the ice. Paul forgot about the goaltender, I bet.)

5

PaulBuddy
    $800 20
prophet profit

Buddy
    $800 27
a dachshund

Erin
    $800 29
the British Virgin Islands

Buddy
    $800 5
the kindling point

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
sage

Paul
    $1000 16
15

Buddy
    $1000 21
[Applause for Buddy's run of the category]
(Alex: Hey, you did well with HOMOPHONIC PAIRS. And you have a $7,000 lead at the moment.)

pigeon pidgin

Buddy
    $1000 28
herding dogs

Erin
    $1000 30
the Dominican Republic

Erin
    $1000 6
kelp

Paul

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

Paul Erin Buddy
$1,000 $600 $3,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paul Erin Buddy
$1,600 $4,800 $8,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

VERSE CASE SCENARIO
CHARACTERS FROM MOVIES
(Alex: You identify the movie.)
WHAT'D YOU CATCH?
9-LETTER WORDS
NOTABLE WOMEN
TREASURES OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
(Alex: ...whose galleries will reopen this month after extensive renovations.)
    $400 9
if

Erin
    $400 6
The Princess Bride

Buddy
    $400 1
a catfish

Paul
    $400 13
a surfboard

Buddy
    $400 21
Sandra Day O'Connor

Erin
    $400 26
Washington

Paul
    $800 10
Sylvia Plath

Buddy
    $800 7
Tropic Thunder

Erin
    $800 2
Goodyear

Triple Stumper
    $800 14
an herbicide

Buddy
    $800 22
(Dian) Fossey

Paul
    $800 27
a California condor

Paul
    $1200 18
(Pablo) Neruda

Erin
    $1200 8
National Lampoon's Animal House

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
(Erin: What is an angelfish?)

a sunfish

PaulErin
    $1200 15
a gangplank

Paul
    $1200 23
Danish

Erin
    $1200 28
The Federalist Papers

Erin
    $1600 19
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Triple Stumper
    $1600 11
(Paul: What is... Better Off Dead?)

Say Anything...

Paul
Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
(Paul: What's... Minnesota?)

Montana

Paul
Triple Stumper
    $1600 16
shareware

Buddy
    $1600 24
(Maria) Montessori

Buddy
    $1600 29
Nellie Bly

Buddy
    $2,200 20
(Erin: What is "the sun also rises"?)
(Alex: No, that's the Bible.)

"some rain must fall"

Erin
    $2000 12
My Favorite Year

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
a pompano

Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
(Paul: What is--what is... resonance?)

frequency

PaulErin
    $1,600 25
(Valentina) Tereshkova

Buddy
    $2000 30
(Alex: And it makes sense; not the Declaration of Independence, but the "Declaration of [*]".)

Dependence

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paul Erin Buddy
$1,200 $8,600 $16,800

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FROM THE GREEK
(Alex: [To Paul] The word, of course, is "lyric", and you are right.)
PaulWhat is a lyre?
$1,200
ErinWhat is a Lyre?
$7,403
BuddyWhat is a lyre?
$401
a lyre

Final scores:

Paul Erin Buddy
$2,400 $16,003 $17,201
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Paul Erin Buddy
$1,200 $10,800 $16,800
12 R,
7 W		 14 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $28,800

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Game tape date: 2011-09-26
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