Responses for Show #4948 - Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Contestants

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Amit Bose, an attorney from Tucker, Georgia

Melanie Perreault, a college history professor from Salisbury, Maryland

Jimmy Orsag, a journalist from Rochester, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,602)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 16th CENTURY
EIGHTH NOTES
DOUBLE G WHIZ
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'
IT'S A MYSTERY!
HUGH DONE IT
    $200 22
German

Melanie
    $200 17
Babe Ruth

Amit
    $200 12
reggae

Amit
    $200 7
the Gold Rush

Melanie
    $600 6
(Alex: We have not had a Daily Double in that first box in a long, long time.)
...
(Amit: What is Murder?)

The Big Sleep

Amit
    $200 1
Hugh Hefner

Amit
    $400 23
Mary (Stuart)

Melanie
    $400 18
Neptune

Melanie
    $400 13
aggravated

Melanie
    $400 8
Fresno

Amit
    $400 25
Nick & Nora Charles

Jimmy
    $400 2
Hugh Laurie

Melanie
    $600 24
Ivan the Terrible

Jimmy
    $600 19
locusts

Melanie
    $600 14
a maggot

Jimmy
    $600 9
El Camino Real

Triple Stumper
    $600 26
V.I. Warshawski

Jimmy
    $600 3
(Amit: Who is Hugh... [*].)
(Alex: Sorry, you ran out of time.)

Hugh Grant

MelanieAmit
    $800 29
(Alex: And that was the infamous [*].)

the Index of Forbidden Books

Triple Stumper
    $800 20
Vishnu

Amit
    $800 15
flogged

Jimmy
    $800 10
El Toro

Melanie
    $800 27
(Amit: What is A Tale of Two Cities?)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

JimmyAmit
    $800 4
(Amit: Who is Hugh Jacob?)

Hugh Jackman

MelanieAmit
    $1000 30
Poland

Triple Stumper
    $1000 21
Princess Diana

Melanie
    $1000 16
(Jimmy: What is aggravate--aggravation?)

boggle

JimmyAmit
    $1000 11
George Deukmejian

Amit
    $1000 28
Marie Roget

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Hugh Downs

Amit

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

Jimmy Melanie Amit
$1,400 $3,200 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jimmy Melanie Amit
$2,800 $5,800 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE KENNEDY YEARS
SPORTS FRANCHISES ON FILM
(Alex: You have to name the pro sports team for us.)
PHILOSOPHY
RUNNING IN CIRCLES
THE BODY HUMAN
THE "I"s HAVE IT
    $400 24
the Cuban Missile Crisis

Melanie
    $400 1
(Alex: Yes, Pride of the Yankees was the film.)

the New York Yankees

Amit
    $400 12
Socratic

Amit
    $400 20
Chad

Triple Stumper
    $400 11
the ear

Jimmy
    $400 6
the Incas

Melanie
    $800 25
Defense

Melanie
    $800 2
(Alex: Yes, Brian's Song.)

the Chicago Bears

Jimmy
    $800 13
(Alex: Yes, and you're smiling broadly as you say that.)
(Jimmy: Yes, absolutely.)
(Alex: You're in favor of it.)

hedonism

Jimmy
    $500 21
(Melanie: Well, $500 worked the last time, so let's go with $500 this time.)
(Alex: But it's in a different place and a different category.)
(Melanie: I know, I know. I'm superstitious.)

the Arctic Circle

Melanie
    $800 16
(Jimmy: What is the larynx?)

the pharynx

Jimmy
Triple Stumper
    $800 7
the intelligentsia

Jimmy
    $1200 26
Robert Kennedy

Melanie
    $1200 3
(Alex: Heaven Can Wait was the film, yes.)

the Los Angeles Rams

Amit
    $1200 14
Reason

Amit
    $1200 22
pi

Amit
    $500 17
(Melanie: That's just ugly.)
(Alex: You're in the lead.)
(Melanie: I'm going to be a wimp and say $500, Alex.)
(Alex: A wimp.)
(Melanie: Yes, I'm afraid so.)

the spleen

Melanie
    $1200 8
(Melanie: What is Illinois?)

Iowa

MelanieAmit
    $1600 27
Eleanor Roosevelt

Jimmy
    $1600 4
the Chicago White Sox

Amit
    $1600 15
John Locke

Melanie
    $1600 23
The Inferno

Amit
    $1600 18
(Amit: What is the pancreas?)

the gallbladder

Amit
Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
an ironclad

Melanie
    $2000 30
Indira Gandhi

Amit
    $2000 5
(Alex: Yes, Jerry Maguire was the film.)

the Arizona Cardinals

Jimmy
    $2000 28
Thus Spake Zarathustra

Triple Stumper
    $2000 29
Circle in the Square

Triple Stumper
    $2000 19
the pituitary

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
the Ituri Forest

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jimmy Melanie Amit
$8,400 $11,600 $11,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORD ORIGINS
(Alex: The bird is the cuckoo, and that's how we get [*].)
...
(Alex: [To Amit] You started slowly, you finished slowly, but you're the champ! And you get to come back and play again.)
JimmyWhat is philandering?
$3,202
AmitWhat is nighting
$5,600
MelanieWhat is Adultery?
$11,201
cuckold

Final scores:

Jimmy Melanie Amit
$5,198 $399 $5,600
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $5,600

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jimmy Melanie Amit
$8,400 $12,600 $11,800
12 R,
2 W		 19 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 17 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $32,800

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