Responses for Show #902 - Tuesday, July 5, 1988

Kevin Frear sets a new single-day cash winnings record of $27,800.

Contestants

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Andrea Michaels, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California

John Tranquill, a laboratory manager from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Kevin Frear, a U.S. Army captain from Baumholder, Germany (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD HISTORY
VOCABULARY
TELEVISION ODDITIES
MUSIC ON THE MAP
FOOD
(Alex: And, because people are a little intimidated by visits to the dentist, this is only the second time we will have this category this year...)
DENTISTRY
    $100 1
Russia (or the Soviet Union)

Andrea
    $100 2
westerly

John
    $100 14
Dan Rather

Kevin
    $100 8
West Virginia

Andrea
    $100 3
stew

Kevin
    $100 22
fluoride

Kevin
    $200 4
Yugoslavia

Kevin
    $200 9
flying

Kevin
    $200 15
Charles Bronson

Kevin
    $200 10
Tijuana

John
    $200 25
(Kevin: Who is the Quaker?)

Cap'n Crunch

KevinAndrea
    $200 23
(Alex: Right, we've got a minute to go.)

impacted

Kevin
    $300 5
Canada

Kevin
    $300 18
the Greek letter "U"

Andrea
    $300 16
Philadelphia brand cream cheese

Kevin
    $300 11
(Andrea: What is the Mississippi?)
...
(Alex: [*], yes, they forget to put the "U" and one of the "N"s in there.)

the Suwannee

KevinAndrea
    $300 26
bread

Kevin
    $300 24
George Washington

Andrea
    $400 6
Huguenots

John
    $400 19
(Kevin: What is Haiti?)
...
(Alex: They are--the language is spoken primarily on those islands off South Carolina and Georgia.)

the United States

Kevin
Triple Stumper
    $400 17
Tom Hanks

Andrea
    $400 12
St. Louis

Kevin
    $400 27
(Andrea: What is a sponge?)

a luffa

Andrea
Triple Stumper
    $600 28
[Alex specifies "ADA" as "American Dental Association" when reading the clue.]
(Kevin: What is artificial sweetener?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

smokeless tobacco products (or chewing tobacco)

Kevin
    $500 7
the Boers

Kevin
    $500 20
(Andrea: What is death?)
(Kevin: What are funerals?)

his health

KevinAndrea
Triple Stumper
    $500 21
Laverne & Shirley

Kevin
    $500 13
"Philadelphia Freedom"

John

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

Kevin John Andrea
$2,300 $1,200 -$100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kevin John Andrea
$2,000 $1,200 $200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD LITERATURE
PEOPLE
ASTRONOMY
MOUNTAINS
PRESIDENTS
(Alex: And finally, for the first time this year...)
KNITTING
    $200 1
a diary

Andrea
    $200 17
5

Andrea
    $200 9
components

John
    $200 12
Mount Everest

Kevin
    $200 4
Teddy Roosevelt

Andrea
    $400 2
Dante

Kevin
    $400 18
Amanda Plummer

Andrea
    $400 10
(John: What is 100?)

1 inch

KevinJohn
    $400 13
the Sahara

Kevin
    $800 6
(Alex: The song was "Abraham, Martin and John".)

(Abraham) Lincoln & (John) Kennedy

Kevin
    $600 3
Romanticism

Kevin
    $600 19
Barbara Tuchman

Kevin
    $600 22
(Kevin: What is the Hale Observatory?)
[Initially ruled incorrect; reversed before Final Jeopardy! when research discovered that "Hale Observatories" "applied to Mount Palomar and [*] until a few years ago".]

the Mount Wilson Observatory

Kevin
    $600 14
Scotland

Kevin
    $600 7
the Navy

Kevin
    $800 5
Ambrose Bierce

Kevin
    $800 20
Lincoln Center

Andrea
    $800 24
hydrogen

Kevin
    $800 15
(John: What are the Rockies?)
(Andrea: What are the Alps?)

the Andes

JohnAndrea
Triple Stumper
    $800 8
Eisenhower

John
    $1000 23
(John: Who was... Dostoyevsky?)

(Leo) Tolstoy

KevinJohn
    $1000 21
(Kevin: Who is Duvalier?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier

Kevin
    $5,000 25
(Alex: You can smile, yes, indeed. Here's a chan--You know something? If you made this a True Daily Double and responded correctly, by golly, you'd have $23,200 going into Final Jeopardy!)
(Kevin: Nah.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Venus & the Earth

Kevin
    $1000 16
(John: What are the Urals?)

the Caucas (or Caucasus)

KevinJohn
    $1000 11
(Kevin: Who was... Ro--[*].)
(Alex: [*], Roe [*]. I remember him well, yes. He was one of our most popular presidents, Roe [*].)

Johnson

Kevin

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kevin John Andrea
$17,800 -$1,000 $1,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CIVIL WAR
(Alex: [Cutting off the "Think!" music prematurely] Both players have completed their responses, so we're going to begin right now with you, Andrea...)
...
(Alex: Captain, you have $17,800 showing at the moment, and that is because we decided that your response of "Hale Observatory"--the Hale Observatory--Observatories applied to Mount Palomar and Mount Wilson until a few years ago. So we accepted your response, we credited you with the $1,200, and that's the basis of your wager.)
...
(Alex: You have set a record of $27,800 for a one-day performance on Jeopardy! Way to go!)
(Kevin: Thank you.)
(Alex: You beat the Major, too!)
(Kevin: Yes!)
AndreaWhat is N. Carolina?
$1,200
KevinWhat is Kentucky?
$10,000
(1 of) Missouri & Kentucky

Final scores:

Kevin John Andrea
$27,800 -$1,000 $0
2-day champion: $33,900 3rd place: Landes fine silver coffee & tea set 2nd place: Gibson's Keytek professional keyboard + a Krayco cordless telephone + a Krayco beeperless remote answering machine including telephone

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Kevin John Andrea
$14,000 -$1,000 $1,200
31 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W
(including 1 DD)
6 R,
4 W
11 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $14,200

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Game tape date: 1988-03-22
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