Responses for Show #4922 - Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Bob Mesko game 2.

Contestants

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Nick Klaiber, a grad student from Holbrook, New York

Wendy Kautz, a stay-at-home mom and online college professor from Helena, Alabama

Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,799)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE EUROPEAN PAST
MOTHER GOOSE
AIRLINES CODES
(Alex: ...according to the International Air Transport Association.)
MEDIUMS AT LARGE
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
THE OLD COLLEGE "TRI"
    $200 1
the compass

Bob
    $200 17
Little Bo Peep

Bob
    $200 16
American Airlines

Wendy
    $200 14
Pierre & Marie Curie

Wendy
    $200 27
the Declaration of Independence

Triple Stumper
    $200 9
Trinidad

Wendy
    $400 2
Nero

Nick
    $400 22
(Alex: ...some say.)

marries

Triple Stumper
    $400 18
Delta

Nick
    $400 15
the Psychic Friends Network

Nick
    $400 24
Bob Dole

Bob
    $400 10
Tristan

Bob
    $600 3
English, French & Russian

Nick
    $600 28
Ladybug (or Ladybird)

Wendy
    $600 19
Continental

Bob
    $600 23
Jeane Dixon

Triple Stumper
    $600 8
"Stonewall"

Wendy
    $600 11
tricorders

Bob
    $800 4
Holland

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
(Nick: Who is the Pied Piper?)

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

Nick
Triple Stumper
    $800 20
Qantas

Nick
    $800 25
Edgar Cayce

Triple Stumper
    $800 7
Thomas Jefferson & Abraham Lincoln

Nick
    $800 12
Triton

Wendy
    $1,000 5
(Nick: What is Versailles?)
(Alex: No, sorry. July 14 is celebrated in France as [*] Day. He was the governor of that infamous prison. You have no money. You're tied with Wendy.)

the Bastille

Nick
    $1000 30
Cock Robin

Triple Stumper
    $1000 21
Lufthansa

Nick
    $1000 26
(Nick: Who is Edwards?)

John Edward

WendyNick
    $1000 6
(Wendy: What is fluorescent?)

a halogen light

Wendy
Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
Triumph

Nick

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

Bob Wendy Nick
$1,200 $800 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Wendy Nick
$2,400 $2,600 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ROME
THE SOPRANOS
6 FEET, UNDER
DEADWOOD
DEAF POETRY
IT'S NOT T.V.
(Alex: ...it's HBO. In that last category, by the way, IT'S NOT T.V., each response will be just two letters.)
    $400 1
the Olympics

Nick
    $400 26
Wagner

Bob
    $400 11
Napoleon

Nick
    $400 6
a driver

Nick
    $400 21
William Blake

Bob
    $400 16
T.B.

Bob
    $800 2
the Tiber

Bob
    $800 27
Dorothy Dandridge

Triple Stumper
    $800 12
Tom Thumb

Nick
    $800 7
termites

Bob
    $800 22
(Jonathan) Swift

Wendy
    $800 17
T.O. (Terrell Owens)

Nick
    $1200 3
Mussolini

Bob
    $100 28
Maria Callas

Bob
    $1200 13
James Madison

Triple Stumper
    $1200 8
cedar

Nick
    $1200 23
(Bob: What is South Africa?)
(Wendy: What is New Zealand?)

Australia

BobWendyNick
    $1200 18
NV

Bob
    $1600 4
John the Baptist

Wendy
    $1600 29
a coloratura

Bob
    $1600 14
Pope

Wendy
    $1600 9
bamboo

Nick
    $1600 24
spring

Wendy
    $1600 19
.tz (for Tanzania)

Bob
    $2000 5
the seven hills of Rome

Nick
    $2000 30
Jenny Lind

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
Pepin the Short

Bob
    $2000 10
almond

Wendy
    $2,000 25
Petrarch

Wendy
    $2000 20
P.G. (Wodehouse)

Bob

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Wendy Nick
$13,700 $11,000 $11,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD HISTORY
(Alex: It would, of course, be an enormous help to you if you knew when the national anthem was written.)
...
(Alex: [To Wendy] No, he came much, much later.)
...
(Alex: [To Nick] No, she came later also. Cost you $10,601--big wagers!)
...
(Alex: [To Bob] You're absolutely right, he had a very long reign--the Battle of Fort McHenry.)
WendyWho is George V?
$10,000
NickWho is Queen Victoria
$10,601
BobWho is George III
$9,101
George III

Final scores:

Bob Wendy Nick
$22,801 $1,000 $799
2-day champion: $31,600 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bob Wendy Nick
$14,800 $11,000 $12,400
18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 17 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $38,200

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