Based on original ShortShots written by Jason Huhn, Gordon Pepper, and Chico Alexander.
MONDAY:
Jeopardy! categories: Astronomy & Space,
Recent Cinema, Anagrammed Countries, Daisy
Crazy, The World Environment, Ends in 2 Vowels.
Daily Double: $800 Ends
in 2 Vowels. Grant
($5600) wagers $1000. Clue:
This type of warrior wore 2 swords and lived by
the code of Bushido.
Grant's guess: "What is a samurai?" Correct for $6600. End of
Round:
Ellen - $5400
Alex - $2200
Grant - $6600 Double Jeopardy! categories:
Yalies -- They're So Dramatic!, Exploration, The
US Congress, First, Middle, & Last Name's the
Same, Where the Heck is That?, Change a Letter. Daily Double #1: $1200
Where the Heck is That?. Alex ($3000) wagers $2000. Clue:
When you're talkin' about Memphis, be clear if
it's the one on the
Mississippi or the one on this longer river.
Alex's guess: "What is the Amazon?" Correct
question: What is the Nile? Alex drops to $1000. Daily Double #2:
$1200 The US Congress. Ellen ($8600) wagers
$3400. Clue: Begun in 1873, this publication is
a printed account of what is done & said in the
House and Senate each day.
Ellen's
guess: "What are the Minutes?" Correct response: What
is the Congressional Record? Ellen moves down to $5200. End of
Round:
Ellen - $6800
Alex - -$200
Grant - $21,400 Final
Jeopardy! Category: Olympic Sports. Answer:
Officially added as a medal event in 1996, it's
one of the few team events where shoes are not
worn. Correct response: "What is beach
volleyball?" Ellen's
question: What is rhythmic gymnastics? (WRONG) Wager: $1200.
Final score: $5600.
Grant's question: What is ? (WRONG) Wager:
$0. Final score: $21,400.
TUESDAY:
Jeopardy! categories: Barber College, Give Me
One Good Raisin, American History, Move
Taglines, I'll Be Bach, "T"3.
Daily Double: $600
"T"3. Ken
($3000) wagers everything. Clue: While not an MD,
this person can still diagnose eye problems &
prescribe glasses. Ken's guess: "What is an
optometrist?" Correct for $6000. End of
Round:
Keith - $6000
Jim - $3400
Ken - $7600 Double Jeopardy! categories:
Berber Collage, Female Athletes, Asia, American
Postal Abbreviations, Cliffs Notes,
Starts with "R". Daily Double #1: $1600
Cliffs Notes. Keith ($17,200) wagers $1200.
Clue: Hardy novel in which the
drunken Henchard sells his wife & baby, with
truly ghastly results... then he wanders off,
dies. Keith's guess: "What is Far
From the Maddening Crowd?" Correct
question: What is The Mayor of Casterbridge?
Keith drops to $16,000. Daily Double #2:
$1200 Berber Collage. Keith ($14,800) wagers
$1600. Clue: The north African area that was
home to pirates was called
this after the Berbers. Keith's guess: "What is
Barbaria?" Correct response: What is the Barbary
coast? Keith moves down to $13,200. (Note: Prior
to Final Jeopardy!, this call was later
reversed, giving Keith $16,400). End of
Round:
Keith - $16,400
Jim - $9000
Ken - $11,200 Final
Jeopardy! Category: Reference Books. Answer: The
name of this reference book comes from the Greek
for "circle of instruction". Correct response:
"What is encyclopedia?" Jim's
question: What is curriculum (written on a
scratch sheet of paper)? (WRONG) Wager: $9000.
Final score: $0.
Ken's
question: What is thesaurus? (WRONG) Wager: $6801.
Final score: $4399.
Keith's question: What is encyclopedia? (RIGHT) Wager:
$6001. Final score: $22,401.
WEDNESDAY:
Jeopardy! categories: Speech!; Lords of the
Ring; Jefferson, Lincoln or Clinton; Eat Your
Foreign Vegetables; Sloganeering; "Fat" Chance.
Daily Double: $600
Speech!. Robby
($5400) wagers $2600. Clue: She's
the speaker heard here in the 1930s:
(transcribed) "Among all the marvels of modern
invention, that with which I am most concerned
is, of course, air transportation. Flying is
perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific
attainments." Robby's guess: "Who is Eleanor
Roosevelt?" Correct question: Who is Amelia
Earhart? Robby drops to $2800. End of
Round:
Heather - $1400
Robby - $7800
Josh - $2800 Double Jeopardy! categories:
Biology, The Seth Green Scene, Art & Artists,
Archipelagos, It Opened in New Haven, A Buckley
Lexicon Daily Double #1: $800 Biology. Josh ($3200) wagers $2000.
Clue:
It's what the "M" stands for in mRNA, a
single-stranded type of RNA. Josh's guess: "What is
messenger?" Correct for $5200. Daily Double #2:
$1600 Archipelagos. Robby ($9000) wagers
$2500. Clue: Cape Kumukahi is the easternmost
point in this Pacific archipelago.
Robby's guess: "What are the Hawaiian Islands?"
Correct for $11,500. End of
Round:
Heather - $1800
Robby - $19,900
Josh - $15,600 Final
Jeopardy! Category: Voyagers. Answer: in 1497
this 4 ships under his command included the
Berrio & the Sao Rafael. Correct response:
"Who is Vasco da Gama?"
Heather's question: Who is Columbus? (WRONG) Wager: $1700.
Final score: $100.
Josh's
question: Who is Vasco da Gama? (RIGHT) Wager: $15,600.
Final score: $31,200.
Robby's question: Who is Magellan? (WRONG) Wager:
$11,301. Final score: $8599. |