Responses for Show #877 - Tuesday, May 31, 1988

Contestants

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Jack Koenig, an actor and househusband from New York City, New York

Ted Killory, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.

Jim Berkowitz, a teacher originally from Cranston, Rhode Island (whose 3-day cash winnings total $32,901)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN RIVERS
THE '60s
SELF-DEFENSE
MOVIE TRIVIA
SPORTS
HOMOPHONES
    $100 1
Sacramento River

Ted
    $100 10
poverty

Jim
    $100 21
mace

Ted
    $100 15
Greenwich Village

Jack
    $100 2
Gary Player

Jim
    $100 22
bail/bale

Ted
    $200 7
Colorado

Triple Stumper
    $200 11
March on Washington

Ted
    $200 24
fire

Jack
    $200 16
Wuthering Heights

Jack
    $200 3
(Washington) Bullets

Ted
    $200 23
wail/whale

Ted
    $300 8
Idaho

Jim
    $300 12
Dag Hammarskjöld

Ted
    $300 28
(Jim: What is Hinduism?)
(Ted: What is Zoroastrian?)

Buddhism

JimTedJack
    $300 17
Mary Poppins

Jim
    $300 4
John L. Sullivan

Triple Stumper
    $300 25
wait/weight

Ted
    $400 9
New Mexico

Ted
    $400 13
Gary Powers

Ted
    $400 29
elbow

Ted
    $400 18
the Planet of the Apes

Jim
    $400 5
...
(Alex: The horse quarantine laws in Australia made that necessary.)

Melbourne

Ted
    $400 26
roam/Rome

Jim
    $200 20
Kentucky

Jim
    $500 14
Brazil

Jack
    $500 30
Theodore Roosevelt

Jim
    $500 19
Lou Diamond Phillips

Jim
    $500 6
Don Mattingly

Jim
    $500 27
hoard/horde

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Jim Ted Jack
$1,000 $2,000 $500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Ted Jack
$3,000 $2,800 $1,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FEATHERED FRIENDS
DANCE
WRITERS
THE BIBLE
WORLD POLITICS
STARTS WITH "FL"
    $200 24
(Ted: What is a rooster?)

secretary bird

Ted
Triple Stumper
    $200 12
Poland

Jim
    $200 1
Princess Grace Kelly

Jim
    $200 6
King James

Jack
    $200 19
General Nasser

Jim
    $200 7
flake

Jack
    $400 15
dance marathon

Jack
    $400 2
(Ted: Who is Byron?)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

JimTed
    $400 13
River Jordan

Jim
    $400 20
fascism

Jim
    $400 8
floe

Jack
    $1,400 27
[The Arthur Lyman instrumental version was played.]
(Ted: What is red?)
[Alex gave the title as "[*] Birds", incorrectly pluralizing it.]

yellow

Ted
    $600 16
4/4

Triple Stumper
    $600 3
George Washington

Jim
    $600 14
Nebuchadnezzar

Jack
    $600 21
(Ted: What is Central America?)
(Alex: Nope. Be a little more specific.)
(Ted: And [*]?)
[Alex then gave the anticipated response.]

Latin America (Central America & South America accepted)

Ted
    $600 9
fleur-de-lis

Jack
    $800 17
France

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
William Faulkner

Jim
    $800 25
shall fall into it

Triple Stumper
    $800 22
(Jim: Who is Moshe Dayan?)

Abba Eban

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $800 10
flugelhorn

Ted
    $1000 28
(Jim: What is the rudder?)

propeller

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
Massachusetts

Ted
    $1000 5
(Jack: Who is Ogden Nash?)

Edward Lear

Jack
Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
St. Paul

Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
(Ted: Who is Konrad Adenauer?)
...
(Alex: The economic recovery was associated with the man who succeeded Konrad Adenauer, [*].)

Ludwig Erhard

Ted
Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
flotilla

Jack

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Ted Jack
$4,400 $2,200 $3,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
(Alex: [Looking at Ted's response] That the whole thing? You didn't phrase it in the form of a question. Oh, darn.)
TedWashington
$750
JackWhat is Washington?
$2,300
JimWhat is North Carolina
$3,001
Washington

Final scores:

Jim Ted Jack
$1,399 $1,450 $6,000
3rd place: Jules Jurgensen his & her watches + Jeopardy! box game 2nd place: Avant Collection dining furniture & Galaxy carpet + Jeopardy! box game New champion: $6,000 + Jeopardy! box game

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jim Ted Jack
$4,700 $3,600 $3,700
18 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 15 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $12,000

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Game tape date: 1988-03-07
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