Responses for Show #779 - Thursday, January 14, 1988

Leah Greenwald game 4.

Contestants

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Eytan Mirsky, an assistant film editor from Flushing, New York

Debbie May, a teacher from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania

Leah Greenwald, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts (whose 3-day cash winnings total $31,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SAINTLY FIRSTS
REPUBLICANS
WARTHOGS
(Alex: ...probably the first and only time we will ever see it on Jeopardy!... And I promise you that everything you could possibly want to know about a warthog is contained in that category!)
GEOGRAPHIC COCKTAILS
PALINDROMES
(Alex: Of course, all of the responses are spelled the same frontwards and backwards.)
MAIDEN NAMES
    $100 12
Ireland

Leah
    $100 13
Phoenix

Leah
    $100 22
(Leah: What do warthogs [*]?)

eat

Leah
    $100 8
an orange

Leah
    $100 1
a pup

Eytan
    $100 3
Eydie Gormé

Eytan
    $200 15
the Archbishop of Canterbury

Leah
    $200 18
Dwight Eisenhower

Eytan
    $200 25
(Leah: Who [*] warthogs?)

eats

Leah
    $200 14
Tipperary

Debbie
    $200 2
pep

Leah
    $200 4
Amy Irving

Leah
    $300 24
St. Matthew

Leah
    $300 19
Howard Baker

Eytan
    $300 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds, and the audience chuckles and awws discontentedly.]
(Alex: Awww. Gosh, we had two WARTHOG clues left over. We may see that resurface here on Jeopardy!)
[Laughter]

their tails

Leah
    $300 16
(a Long Island) iced tea

Leah
    $300 5
pop

Debbie
    $300 9
Anne Bancroft

Eytan
    $400 20
(John) Lindsay

Eytan
    $300 17
(Alex: "On the bonnie, bonnie banks of," [*], you're absolutely right.)

Loch Lomond

Leah
    $400 6
pap

Debbie
    $400 10
(Alex: That's the name of my chiropractor. It's also the name of [*]'s husband.)
[NOTE: Dr. Oppenheim is known as "Chiropractor to the Stars".]

Cybill Shepherd

Triple Stumper
    $500 21
(Debbie: Who's Dirksen?)

(Charles) Percy

LeahDebbie
    $500 23
a Saratoga

Eytan
    $500 7
(Alex: [After reviewing the list of correct responses in the category] Creative writing, it's called!)

a pip

Leah
    $500 11
Ann-Margret

Debbie

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Leah Debbie Eytan
$1,200 $1,200 $500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Leah Debbie Eytan
$3,400 $900 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

COLONIAL AMERICA
BRITISH LITERATURE
DEPARTMENT STORES
MOVIE CLASSICS
ARTISTS
FAMOUS ALICES
    $200 1
the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Eytan
    $200 2
(Eytan: What is Dr.?)
...
(Alex: We know him better, of course, as Lewis Carroll.)

Reverend

LeahEytan
    $200 26
tap dance (in unison)

Leah
    $200 8
Gone with the Wind

Eytan
    $200 16
Caracas

Leah
    $200 20
Dennis the Menace

Eytan
    $400 4
(Eytan: What is lodging for soldiers?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

lodging for British soldiers

Eytan
    $400 3
Lilliput

Debbie
    $400 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Neiman-Marcus

Eytan
    $400 9
red shoes

Leah
    $400 17
the 18th

Eytan
    $400 25
Alice Springs

Leah
    $600 13
[ERRATUM: A comma was missing after "King William's" in the clue as displayed.]

France

Eytan
    $800 5
(Eytan: What is Noble Laureate?)

Poet Laureate

Eytan
    $600 10
the Golden Gate Bridge

Eytan
    $600 18
Rodin

Eytan
    $700 14
(Eytan: Uh, what is Brooklyn?)

Philadelphia

Eytan
    $800 6
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Leah
    $800 24
[Something prompts the audience to laugh after the clue is finished, as Debbie selects the next clue.]

Kmart

Debbie
    $800 11
Grand Hotel

Debbie
    $800 19
Degas

Leah
    $800 23
Alice B. Toklas

Eytan
    $1000 7
(Robert) Browning

Leah
    $1000 22
Harrods

Eytan
    $1000 12
[Alex read the names in the clue as "Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder".]

James Cain

Debbie
    $1000 15
Marisol

Leah
    $1000 21
Lord Greystoke (Tarzan)

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Leah Debbie Eytan
$8,400 $3,900 $5,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. RIVERS
DebbieWhat are the Snake + Skunk
$3,900
EytanWhat are Snake and Snail?
$201
LeahWhat are Snake & Salmon?
$2,801
the Snake River & the Salmon River

Final scores:

Leah Debbie Eytan
$11,201 $0 $5,399
4-day champion: $42,801 3rd place: Armstrong Anything Goes carpeting 2nd place: Admiral "Refrigerator à la mode" with "party ice" + Multi-Pure drinking water system with solid carbon block filter

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Leah Debbie Eytan
$8,500 $3,900 $7,100
23 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 8 R,
1 W		 18 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $19,500

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Game tape date: 1987-09-28
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