Responses for Show #738 - Wednesday, November 18, 1987

1987 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Eric Berman, a journalist originally from Crown Point, Indiana

Bob Verini, a playwright/actor from New York, New York

John Ryan, an economist from Santa Barbara, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICA
STAMPS & COINS
MOVIE TITLE ROLES
BRITISH ARCHITECTS
GENERALS
GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING
    $100 8
Second

Bob
    $100 3
Steve McQueen

Eric
    $100 18
Prince Albert

Bob
    $100 13
D-Day

Eric
    $100 4
S-R-I L-A-N-K-A

Eric
    $200 7
Zaire

John
    $200 9
Jane Fonda

Bob
    $200 19
the Houses of Parliament

John
    $200 16
Confederate

John
    $200 5
(Bob: What is V-E-N-E-Z-U-E-L-A?)

C-O-L-O-M-B-I-A

JohnBob
    $500 1
(Alex: Well, that takes care of that!)

(1 of) Nigeria, Libya, Algeria, or Gabon

John
    $300 10
Willie Nelson

Bob
    $300 20
The British Museum

Bob
    $300 17
World War II, Korea, and Vietnam

Bob
    $300 14
(Bob: What is P-A-G-O-P-A-G-O?)

P-A-P-E-E-T-E

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $400 2
Sudan

Bob
    $400 11
Ava Gardner

Bob
    $400 21
(Eric: Who was Mark Phillips?)

Antony Armstrong-Jones (aka Lord Snowdon)

BobEric
    $400 23
(Eric: What is Bethesda?)
(John: Sir Walter Reed Hospital...)
(Alex: You're promoting him; you gave him a knighthood!)

Walter Reed Hospital

JohnEric
    $400 15
(Eric: What is M-A-C-C-H-U P-I-C-C-H-U?)
(John: What is M-A-C-H-U P-I-C-C-U?)

M-A-C-H-U P-I-C-C-H-U

JohnBobEric
    $500 6
(Eric: What is Niger?)
(Bob: What is Mozambique?)
...
(Alex: There are some others, of course, that I won't bother you with.)

Algiers, Tunis....

BobEric
Triple Stumper
    $500 26
(Eric: What is the Star of David?)
...
(Alex: Oh, we won't get a chance for those last few clues up there--that GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING category slowed us down a little bit.)

Candleholder

Eric
Triple Stumper
    $500 12
(Bob: Who is Shelley Winters?)
...
(Bob: Would have been a better boxcar!)
(Alex: That takes us to our first commercial break, on that wonderful note of humor by Bob Verini!)

Barbara Hershey

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $500 22
(Alex: The original was destroyed in a bomb blast in World War II.)

Coventry Cathedral

Triple Stumper
    $500 24
(Bob: Who is Douglas MacArthur?)

George Patton

BobEric
    $500 25
R-E-Y-K-J-A-V-I-K

Eric

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

John Bob Eric
$900 $200 -$300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

John Bob Eric
$1,300 $900 -$900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. HISTORY
ART
ANATOMY
WORLD LEADERS
THEATRE
JOURNALISM
    $200 24
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in the round.)

Indians

Eric
    $200 13
the Sistine Chapel

Bob
    $200 29
(Alex: Last clue, we will not get to.)

go faster

Bob
    $200 1
Nikita Khrushchev

Bob
    $3,700 14
(Bob: Now it's a choice of two... What is [*]?)

Three-Penny Opera

Bob
    $200 15
the Chicago Tribune

Eric
    $400 23
(Eric: Who was Rogers?)

John Mitchell

BobEric
    $400 28
Hans Holbein

Bob
    $400 7
Australia

Eric
    $400 6
Kabuki

John
    $400 27
Nellie Bly

Bob
    $1,000 21
(Alex:You've got -$100; you can risk $1,000.)
...
(John: What was the election of 1900?)

the Scopes Trial

John
    $600 22
Jesus

Bob
    $600 26
synapses

Eric
    $600 8
Oscar Arias Sanchez

Bob
    $600 5
Sam Shepard

Bob
    $600 10
(Bob: What is the Washington Star?)

the Washington Times

BobEric
    $800 19
Northwest Ordinance

John
    $800 20
(John: What is practice law?)
(Bob: What is practice medicine?)
(Eric: What is write?)

worked in an art gallery (or sold art)

JohnBobEric
Triple Stumper
    $800 25
the liver

John
    $800 12
Helmut Kohl (of Germany)

John
    $800 4
(John: Who is Ibsen?)

August Strindberg

JohnBob
    $800 9
(Eric: What is the Chicago Tribune?)
(John: What is the New York Times?)

the Wall Street Journal

JohnEric
Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
(Eric: What is Chicago?)
(John: What is Cicero?)

Nauvoo

JohnEric
Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
Claude Monet

Eric
    $1000 17
the duodenum

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
Olof Palme

Eric
    $1000 2
Eugene O'Neill

Eric
    $1000 3
John Peter Zenger

Bob

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

John Bob Eric
-$300 $8,600 $1,100
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ISLANDS
(Bob: It's one of Lawrence Welk's islands. A-one, and Attu. Never mind, never mind.)
(Alex: The final is going to be a comedy classic, believe me.)
EricWhat is Guam?
$1,066
BobWhat is Attu?
$100
Big Island of Hawaii

Final scores:

John Bob Eric
-$300 $8,500 $34
3rd place: $5,000 Finalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

John Bob Eric
$500 $5,100 $1,100
10 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)
22 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W
13 R,
9 W

Combined Coryat: $6,700

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Game tape date: 1987-10-27
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