Responses for Show #8872 - Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Ben Chan game 5.

Contestants

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Lydia-Claire Kerrigan, a web development team lead from Lafayette, Tennessee

Tom Winiarski, a media strategist from Briarcliff Manor, New York

Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin (whose 4-day cash winnings total $129,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CHILLIN' IN THE R.I.P. LOUNGE
POE PLACES
AUTOMOTIVE ALLITERATION
COLLEGE: THE DROP/ADD PERIOD
POP METAL BANDS
(Mayim: You'll name each group from the lyric we quote.)
"B" IS THE FIRST LETTER
    $200 2
(Emily) Dickinson

Ben!
    $200 30
Rome

Lydia-Claire
    $200 7
Rolls-Royce

Ben!
    $200 26
the University of Wisconsin

Ben!
    $200 11
Bon Jovi

Tom
    $200 23
broke

Tom
    $400 5
Marie Antoinette

Ben!
    $400 20
nevermore

Tom
    $400 29
cruise control

Ben!
    $6,400 28
Air Force

Ben!
    $400 9
AC/DC

Tom
    $400 22
(Ben!: What is backfire?)

a beep

Ben!Tom
    $600 4
Betsy Ross

Lydia-Claire
    $600 17
the Styx

Ben!
    $600 27
windshield wipers

Ben!
    $600 14
Lee

Tom
    $600 10
Kiss

Lydia-Claire
    $600 21
(Lydia-Claire: What is a corset?)
(Mayim: No.)
(Lydia-Claire: What are stays?)

a bodice

TomLydia-Claire
    $800 1
Audubon

Lydia-Claire
    $800 8
Annabel Lee

Tom
    $800 24
the Ford Fiesta

Ben!
    $800 15
Claremont

Ben!
    $800 12
Def Leppard

Lydia-Claire
    $800 19
blasé

Lydia-Claire
    $1000 3
Lister

Ben!
    $1000 6
El Dorado

Tom
    $1000 25
the Mazda Miata

Tom
    $1000 16
the New School

Ben!
    $1000 13
Whitesnake

Tom
    $1000 18
(Ben!: What is [**]? [*]?)
(Mayim: Yes, [*].)

bemused (bemusement)

Ben!

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

Ben! Tom Lydia-Claire
$2,600 $4,000 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben! Tom Lydia-Claire
$13,200 $6,600 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HEAVEN ON EARTH
WOMEN WORLD LEADERS
ANIMALS
DON'T GO ANYWHERE
TWISTS
TURNS
    $400 25
Vatican City

Lydia-Claire
    $400 1
Iceland

Ben!
    $400 27
an aardvark

Tom
    $400 28
rest

Lydia-Claire
    $400 29
Planet of the Apes

Lydia-Claire
    $400 30
Bugs Bunny

Ben!
    $800 24
(Mayim: Less than a minute.)

Beijing

Ben!
    $800 6
Nepal

Ben!
    $800 9
(Ben!: What are hippopotamuses?)

a rhinoceros

Ben!Tom
    $800 26
stay-at-home

Triple Stumper
    $800 10
braille

Ben!
    $800 23
skiing

Lydia-Claire
    $2,000 16
the Champs-Élysées

Ben!
    $1200 3
Bangladesh

Tom
    $1200 4
the fainting goat

Lydia-Claire
    $1200 21
Hanging Out

Triple Stumper
    $1200 22
the Prestige

Lydia-Claire
    $1200 20
Turn for the Wurst

Triple Stumper
    $1600 15
the Tower of Babel

Ben!
    $1600 2
Scottish independence

Ben!
    $1600 7
a mole

Tom
    $1600 11
linger

Tom
    $1600 14
(Sharon) Tate

Ben!
    $1600 19
a turncoat

Lydia-Claire
    $2000 17
Constantine

Lydia-Claire
    $2000 5
Ardern

Ben!
    $2000 8
a fossa

Triple Stumper
    $5,000 12
(Tom: I don't have it.)

ensconced

Tom
    $2000 13
(Tom: What is The Year of the Dog?)

The Power of the Dog

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $2000 18
The Turn of the Screw

Ben!

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben! Tom Lydia-Claire
$26,400 $5,200 $11,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AUTHORS
(Mayim: [To Tom] I think maybe going for Jerry Garcia?)
(Tom: I was going for that.)
(Mayim: We appreciate that.)
...
(Mayim: Lydia-Claire Kerrigan, what did you write down?)
(Lydia-Claire: Uh, the first half of Sisyphus.)
...
(Mayim: [To Ben] Sartre's sometime friend, sometime rival, had died in a car wreck at age 46.)
TomWho was Jerry Ga
$5,000
Lydia-ClaireWho is Sisyi?
$8,800
Ben!Who is Camus?
$1,599
(Albert) Camus

Final scores:

Ben! Tom Lydia-Claire
$27,999 $200 $2,400
5-day champion: $157,000 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ben! Tom Lydia-Claire
$19,600 $10,200 $11,200
24 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 16 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $41,000

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Game tape date: 2023-03-22
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