Responses for Show #3000 - Friday, September 19, 1997

"3,000th show". Johnny Gilbert on camera for introduction. Included clips from show #1, aired 1984-09-10.

Contestants

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Jerod Klein, a biology teacher originally from Fullerton, California

Tom Nichols, a process engineer originally from Lemont, Illinois

Elizabeth Salinas, a historic interpreter from Silver Spring, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $23,800)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

LAKES & RIVERS
INVENTIONS
ANIMALS
FOREIGN CUISINE
ACTORS & ROLES
(Alex: All of the clues have to do with celebrities who have appeared on our celebrity tournament.)
NUMBER, PLEASE
(Alex: Is it my imagination, or did my voice sound more strident in those days?) [Laughter]
    $100 13
the Dead Sea

Jerod
    $100 11
(Elizabeth: Who was Remington?)

Samuel Colt

ElizabethTom
    $100 6
the porcupine

Elizabeth
    $100 1
seaweed

Elizabeth
    $100 18
Kunta Kinte

Tom
    $100 25
1

Jerod
    $200 14
the Mersey

Jerod
    $200 12
(Tom: Who was Firestone?)
(Jerod: Who was Michelin?)

Charles Goodyear

TomJerod
Triple Stumper
    $200 7
the golden eagle (or the bald eagle)

Tom
    $200 2
the iguana

Elizabeth
    $200 19
Beauty and the Beast

Jerod
    $200 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

6

Elizabeth
    $300 15
Oklahoma

Tom
    $300 23
the Franklin Stove

Tom
    $300 8
frogs

Elizabeth
    $300 3
roughy

Tom
    $300 20
Rosie O'Donnell

Elizabeth
    $400 16
the Caspian Sea

Jerod
    $400 24
(Tom: Who was Singer?)

Elias Howe

TomJerod
    $400 9
(Alex: And we're going to take our first break--and here's how we did it way back then...)
(Alex [1984]: ...and we will return to continue Jeopardy! right after this.)

a gibbon

Jerod
    $400 4
(Elizabeth: What are limes?)

lemons

ElizabethTom
    $400 21
In the Line of Fire

Tom
    $500 17
Africa

Elizabeth
    $500 26
Alexander Graham Bell

Elizabeth
    $500 10
the sperm whale

Tom
    $500 5
Bombay duck

Elizabeth
    $1,100 22
(Tom: I have no idea.)
...
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

The Great Gatsby

Tom

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 9):

Elizabeth Tom Jerod
$800 $900 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Elizabeth Tom Jerod
$2,200 $900 $1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SEPTEMBER 1984
(Alex: When we debuted.)
DEBUTS
MISSED ON SHOW NO. 1
(Alex: These are clues that were missed on that first program.)
3,000
(Alex: A tribute to our record.)
ANNIVERSARIES
LOOK TO THE FUTURE
    $200 1
Murder, She Wrote

Tom
    $200 11
The Blue Lagoon

Tom
    $200 16
San Francisco

Jerod
    $200 6
Walt Disney World

Elizabeth
    $200 21
Prudential

Jerod
    $400 2
"Purple Rain"

Elizabeth
    $400 12
Airplane!

Jerod
    $400 17
(Tom: What is Japanese?)

Chinese

ElizabethTom
    $400 7
"I Am Woman"

Tom
    $400 22
Early Edition

Tom
    $600 3
Pope John Paul II

Elizabeth
    $600 13
Daniel Day-Lewis

Tom
    $600 18
Counties

Triple Stumper
    $600 8
Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip

Elizabeth
    $600 23
Shades

Tom
    $800 4
(Tom: Who was William?)

Prince Harry

ElizabethTom
    $800 14
Kramer vs. Kramer

Tom
    $1,000 27
(Tom: What is a hasp?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a zipper

Tom
    $800 19
Roberto Clemente

Tom
    $800 9
Cannes

Tom
    $3,500 24
(Tom: Who is Christ?)
(Alex: No, sorry. Who is [*]? It's--it all ties in with the Camelot legend. All right, you drop down to zero. We have less than a minute to go.)

King Arthur

Tom
    $1000 5
(Jerod: Who was Shevardnadze?)
(Tom: Who was Brezhnev?)

Andrei Gromyko

TomJerod
Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
The Great White Hope

Jerod
    $1000 26
Chuck Yeager

Tom
    $1000 20
Solomon

Jerod
    $1000 10
Elvis Presley

Elizabeth
    $1000 25
(Tom: What is Culture Shock?)

Future Shock

ElizabethTom

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Elizabeth Tom Jerod
$7,200 -$1,000 $3,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

HOLIDAYS
JerodWhat is Thanks Veterans Day Hi MDKMR
$3,000
ElizabethWhat is Veterans Day? [with apostrophe scribbled out of Veteran's]
$300
Veterans Day

Final scores:

Elizabeth Tom Jerod
$7,500 -$1,000 $6,400
3-day champion: $31,300 3rd place: a Motorola Startac cellular phone 2nd place: a trip to Costa Del Sol, Spain

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Elizabeth Tom Jerod
$7,200 $4,600 $3,400
17 R,
2 W
19 R,
9 W
(including 3 DDs)
12 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $15,200

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