Responses for Show #2915 - Friday, April 11, 1997

Contestants

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David Forman, a mathematician originally from Brooklyn, New York

Rachel Berson, a homemaker from Danbury, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,200)

Doug Szafran, a math teacher from Frederick, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NOTABLE NAMES
ROCK MUSIC GEOGRAPHY
AGRICULTURE
LITERATURE
ODDS & ENDS
CROSSWORD CLUES "A"
    $100 12
Charles Darwin

Doug
    $100 22
Australia

David
    $100 1
Brazil

David
    $100 17
Oliver Twist

Doug
    $100 7
Heinz

Rachel
    $100 2
Ark

Rachel
    $200 13
Peter the Great

Doug
    $200 23
Detroit

Doug
    $200 27
(Doug: What is methane?)

Ammonia

DougDavid
    $200 18
Leo Tolstoy

Doug
    $200 8
China

Triple Stumper
    $200 3
Alice

Doug
    $300 14
Richard Nixon & Nikita Khrushchev

Rachel
    $300 24
San Francisco

David
    $300 28
UFW (United Farm Workers)

Triple Stumper
    $300 19
The House of the Spirits

Doug
    $300 9
(David: What is verneer?)

Varnish

DougDavid
    $300 4
Alaska

Doug
    $400 15
Kamehameha

Doug
    $400 25
(a minute to go...)

Athens (home of the Univ. of Georgia)

David
    $400 29
Plow

Doug
    $400 20
George Eliot

David
    $400 10
(Doug: What is the Hopi?)

Cherokee

Doug
Triple Stumper
    $400 5
Alphabet

Rachel
    $500 16
James "Diamond Jim" Brady

Rachel
    $500 26
Minneapolis

Doug
    $500 30
Wheat

Doug
    $500 21
The Executioner's Song

David
    $500 11
Affirm

David
    $500 6
Aruba

Rachel

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

Doug Rachel David
$1,100 $1,400 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Doug Rachel David
$3,100 $1,900 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORY
TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES
NATURE
THE MIDWEST
THE CABINET
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
    $200 1
Switzerland

David
    $200 6
Harry Morgan

Doug
    $200 12
Hibernation

Rachel
    $200 22
Heat wave

Rachel
    $200 9
Postmaster General

Doug
    $200 13
Bon Appetit

Doug
    $400 2
Jacques Chirac

Triple Stumper
    $400 7
Melissa Gilbert

Triple Stumper
    $400 18
Mosses

Doug
    $400 24
Rag/ragtime

Rachel
    $400 15
Veterans

David
    $400 14
Cossacks

David
    $600 3
Pakistan

Doug
    $600 8
Murder One

David
    $600 19
Bobcat

Doug
    $600 26
Flat

Doug
    $1,200 16
Secretary of the Interior

David
    $600 23
Herr und Frau

Doug
    $1,000 4
(Doug: What is Jamaica?)

Nicaragua

Doug
    $800 10
Anthony Edwards

Triple Stumper
    $800 20
Cucumber

Doug
    $800 27
Cincinnati

David
    $800 17
Robert Lincoln

Doug
    $800 25
Arigato

Doug
    $1000 5
Maria Theresa

Rachel
    $1000 11
Barry Bostwick

Doug
    $1000 21
Auk

Doug
    $1000 28
Norway

David
    $1000 29
(David: Who is Taft?)

Charles Evans Hughes

David
Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
Maelstrom

Doug

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Doug Rachel David
$10,900 $3,700 $5,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

PLAYWRIGHTS
RachelWho is Neil Simon
$1,300
DavidWho is Becket?
$5,101
DougWho is my fourth period class?
$0
Samuel Beckett

Final scores:

Doug Rachel David
$10,900 $2,400 $10,901
2nd place: Bassett Legends dining room set & Enesco Intl. Collections earthenware 3rd place: Whirlpool dishwasher & trash compactor New champion: $10,901

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Doug Rachel David
$11,900 $3,700 $5,200
27 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $20,800

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Game tape date: 1996-12-17
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