Responses for Show #2938 - Wednesday, May 14, 1997

1997 College Championship quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

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Eric Slack, a freshman from Purdue University

Andrea Riquier, a junior from Boston University

Steven Bevier, a senior from Michigan State University

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CIVIL WAR
5-LETTER WORDS
MONEY
THE DAKOTAS
OUT OF THE MICROWAVE
SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
    $100 1
the Merrimack

Eric
    $100 6
Penny

Andrea
    $100 17
Venice

Steven
    $100 11
Wind chill factor

Andrea
    $100 13
Hot dog

Andrea
    $100 24
(Eric: What is 1?)

3

Eric
Triple Stumper
    $200 2
Surrender

Eric
    $200 7
Cable

Steven
    $200 18
Balboa

Eric
    $200 12
(Steven: What are mastodons?)

mammoths

StevenEric
    $200 22
Microwave popcorn

Eric
    $200 27
"Conjunction Junction"

Eric
    $300 3
Ulysses S. Grant

Steven
    $300 8
Graph

Eric
    $300 19
Franc

Andrea
    $300 14
Missouri

Eric
    $300 23
Potatoes

Andrea
    $300 28
"I'm Just A Bill"

Steven
    $400 4
(Alex: He was referring to his horse.)

Robert E. Lee

Eric
    $400 9
Molly

Triple Stumper
    $400 20
Sweden

Andrea
    $400 15
Sioux

Andrea
    $400 25
(Steven: What is tinfoil?)
(Alex: Tinfoil, [*]; yeah, we'll accept that.)

metal

Steven
    $600 29
(Steven: What is punctuation?)
(Alex: You had to be very specific on this one.)

interjections

Steven
    $500 5
(Alex: Alexander Stephens was the vice-president of the Confederacy.)

Jefferson Davis

Steven
    $500 10
press

Andrea
    $500 21
Peseta

Steven
    $500 16
Grand Forks

Triple Stumper
    $500 26
Stouffer's

Andrea
    $500 30
Electricity, electricity

Triple Stumper

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

Steven Andrea Eric
$800 $1,200 $1,500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Andrea Eric
$1,500 $2,700 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CLINTON'S FIRST TERM
WORLD CAPITALS
COMEDY FILMS
ANATOMY
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS
    $200 16
Al Gore

Andrea
    $200 6
Edinburgh

Steven
    $200 1
Beavis & Butt-Head

Steven
    $200 26
Kidneys

Eric
    $200 21
The Washington Post

Steven
    $200 8
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Andrea
    $400 17
Welfare

Andrea
    $400 7
(E: What is Freetown?)
(S: What is Johannesburg?)
(A: What is Pretoria?)
(Alex: Freetown is not in South Africa)

Cape Town

StevenAndreaEric
Triple Stumper
    $400 2
Clueless

Steven
    $400 27
Vertebrae

Steven
    $400 22
Observer

Steven
    $400 10
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Eric
    $600 18
Haiti

Steven
    $600 9
Santiago

Eric
    $600 3
Chris Farley

Andrea
    $600 28
Sciatic nerve

Eric
    $600 23
Detroit

Steven
    $600 11
L. Frank Baum

Eric
    $1,500 19
AmeriCorps

Steven
    $800 14
Budapest

Andrea
    $800 4
A Fish Called Wanda

Steven
    $800 29
(S: What are red blood cells?)

Platelets

StevenEric
    $800 24
Entertainment Weekly

Steven
    $800 12
Teapot Dome

Steven
    $1000 20
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)

Andrea
    $1000 15
Tbilisi

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Weekend At Bernie's

Eric
    $1000 30
Exocrine glands

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
Psychology Today

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 13
Emma

Steven

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steven Andrea Eric
$8,200 $5,500 $5,800

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE ELEMENTS
(Alex: Think science!)
(Alex: We would have accepted carbon because of all the organic compounds.)
[NOTE: "Due to a production error, a portion of the Final Jeopardy! Round was retaped without affecting the final outcome of the game"--in the closing credits, the readouts are shown with the scores that would have been if all three players missed FJ!]
AndreaWhat is hydrogen?
$1,500
EricWhat is Hydrogen
$3,500
StevenWhat is Hydrogen
$3,500
hydrogen (or carbon)

Final scores:

Steven Andrea Eric
$11,700 $7,000 $9,300
Automatic semifinalist 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steven Andrea Eric
$8,100 $5,500 $5,800
20 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
1 W		 16 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $19,400

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Game tape date: 1997-02-25
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