Responses for Show #6285 - Friday, January 6, 2012

Dave Leach game 7.
Dan McShane game 1.

Contestants

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Dan McShane, a baseball game logger from West Islip, New York

Molly Dahlberg, a tutor and opera singer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Dave Leach, a software analyst from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 6-day cash winnings total $98,054)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NEW MEXICO
(Alex: In honor of New Mexico celebrating its 100 years of statehood.)
SNAKES... WHY'D IT HAVE TO BE SNAKES?
DIRECTED & STARRED IN
FORM LETTERS
I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK
RIBS
    $200 16
Albuquerque

Dan
    $200 11
the Sahara

Molly
    $200 2
Barbra Streisand

Dan
    $200 14
E-Z

Molly
    $200 1
a baby grand

Molly
    $200 21
(Alex: That's a good exchange.)

Adam

Dan
    $400 17
Smokey the Bear

Molly
    $400 12
snails

Dan
    $400 3
Dennis Hopper

Molly
    $400 26
the FBI

Dave
    $400 7
a test tube baby

Dave
    $400 22
(Alex: Yeah, we'll accept that. A "vault". It's called a "vault".)

vaulted

Dan
    $600 18
(Molly: What is Los Cruces?)

Los Alamos

DaveMolly
    $600 13
a cobra

Dave
    $600 4
Ben Affleck

Dan
    $600 27
Veterans Affairs

Dan
    $600 8
a Baby Boomer

Dan
    $600 23
corduroy

Molly
    $800 28
"Land of Enchantment"

Dave
    $800 19
a tiger

Molly
    $800 5
Robert Redford

Dan
    $800 15
the FCC

Dan
    $800 9
babyproofing

Molly
    $800 24
floating

Dave
    $2,300 29
(Dave: What is the Gadsden Treaty?)

the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Dave
    $1000 20
a rhinoceros

Molly
    $1000 6
(Danny) DeVito

Dave
    $1000 30
H.U.D.

Dan
    $1000 10
(Dave: Who is Nelson?)
(Alex: Baby F--no. You had to have "baby" in the correct response, so the correct response is [*], but you didn't give me the "Baby" part.)

Baby Face Nelson

Dave
Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
timbers

Dave

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

Dave Molly Dan
$1,000 $1,800 $3,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Molly Dan
$2,300 $4,000 $5,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WRITE NOW!
GAME DESCRIPTIONS
(Alex: We'll give you the description--you identify the game.)
MUSIC APPRECIATION
ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
ANAGRAMMAR
    $400 15
"'Twas the Night Before Christmas" ("A Visit From St. Nicholas")

Molly
    $400 1
baseball

Dave
    $400 11
basso

Molly
    $400 6
Shawn

Dave
    $400 23
(Alex: Assad--[*].)

Syria

Triple Stumper
    $400 18
a pronoun

Dave
    $800 17
Mines

Dave
    $800 2
Ms. Pac-man

Dave
    $800 12
(Dave: What is 3/3?)
...
(Alex: [*]--yes--it's a waltz.)

3/4

DaveMolly
    $800 7
Leslie

Dan
    $800 24
editor

Dave
    $800 19
a contraction

Molly
    $1200 29
(Dave: Who is Capote?)
(Molly: Who is Kesey?)

Tom Wolfe

DaveMolly
Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
hockey

Dan
    $1200 13
Tchaikovsky

Molly
    $1200 8
Aristotle

Dan
    $1200 25
an ombudsman

Triple Stumper
    $1200 20
(Dan: What is an adjective?)

context

DaveDan
    $2,500 30
(Dave: Who is McMurtry?)

Louis L'Amour

Dave
    $1600 4
(Molly: What is Sorry!?)

backgammon

DaveMolly
    $1600 14
glockenspiel

Dan
    $1600 9
Carlos

Dan
    $1600 26
Venezuela

Dave
    $1600 21
a modifier

Dave
    $2000 28
the Hesperus

Dave
    $2000 5
Halo

Dan
    $2000 16
"Semper Fidelis"

Dan
    $2,600 10
(Dan: What is Andrew?)

James

Dan
    $2000 27
blood diamonds

Molly
    $2000 22
a superlative

Dan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Molly Dan
$9,400 $6,800 $14,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT WEIGHTS & MEASURES
(Alex: Where do we have measurements in the Bible? You have to think of Noah, perhaps.)
...
(Alex: [To Dave] [*]--yes--man--the distance from the elbow to the finger.)
MollyWhat is
$6,000
DaveWhat is a cubit?
$5,001
DanWhat is cubit?
$4,401
a cubit

Final scores:

Dave Molly Dan
$14,401 $800 $18,801
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $18,801

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dave Molly Dan
$14,200 $6,800 $17,000
19 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 15 R,
3 W		 19 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $38,000

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Game tape date: 2011-11-02
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