Responses for Show #2985 - Friday, July 18, 1997

Dan Melia game 1.
Last game of Season 13.

Contestants

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Brian Keliher, a museum educator from San Diego, California

Dan Melia, a professor from San Francisco, California

Patrick Friel, a teaching assistant originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $30,021)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE
THE MOVIES
AMERICANA
THE 20th CENTURY
IN THE BACKYARD
ENDS IN "OUGH"
    $100 2
amber

Dan
    $100 14
the ruby slippers

Patrick
    $100 7
(Dan: Uh, what is Maryland?)

Virginia

DanBrian
    $100 1
a hunger strike

Dan
    $100 26
a birdfeeder

Dan
    $100 19
the bough

Patrick
    $200 3
Greenland

Dan
    $200 15
Space Jam

Patrick
    $200 8
(Brian: What is South Dakota?)

North Dakota

Brian
Triple Stumper
    $200 10
Josef Stalin

Dan
    $200 27
a swimming pool

Dan
    $200 20
(Brian: What is a... [shakes head])

a tough

DanBrian
    $300 4
the Moon

Dan
    $300 16
Oliver Stone

Brian
    $300 9
New Jersey

Patrick
    $300 11
the War of the Falklands

Patrick
    $300 28
a dandelion

Patrick
    $300 21
dough

Dan
    $400 5
pollination

Patrick
    $400 17
(Andy) Warhol

Patrick
    $400 23
Oklahoma

Dan
    $500 12
(Alex: You have $500, Patrick. On yesterday's program in Double Jeopardy!, you risked $20.)
(Patrick: Well, let's go for the whole $500 right now.)
(Alex: Okay, a True Daily Double, doubling your score to $1,000 if if you are right, here is the clue...)

Japan

Patrick
    $400 29
fallout shelters

Dan
    $400 22
a trough

Brian
    $500 6
(Dan: Uh, what is the speed of light?)
(Patrick: What is velocity?)

time

PatrickDan
Triple Stumper
    $500 18
Mel Gibson

Dan
    $500 24
Louisiana

Dan
    $500 13
the Uffizi

Patrick
    $500 30
badminton

Dan
    $500 25
(Alex: That's right, and we have a minute to deal with IN THE BACKYARD.)
(Patrick: Okay, let's start with $100.)

a borough

Patrick

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

Patrick Dan Brian
$1,500 $300 -$100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Patrick Dan Brian
$3,100 $3,400 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CITIES
RELIGION
VOCABULARY
THEATRE
U.S. PRESIDENTS
THE BLUES
    $200 3
Bonn

Patrick
    $200 1
a Hail Mary (Ave Maria)

Patrick
    $200 17
a magnate

Patrick
    $200 11
Boston

Patrick
    $200 12
Theodore Roosevelt

Dan
    $200 24
(Brian: What is, uh, [*] blues?)

Delta

Brian
    $400 7
Kraków

Patrick
    $400 2
the Ganges

Dan
    $400 20
4

Dan
    $400 13
Wig

Dan
    $400 18
U.S. Grant (Ulysses Grant)

Triple Stumper
    $400 30
the St. Louis Blues

Patrick
    $600 8
Seoul (or Tokyo)

Brian
    $600 4
Lama

Patrick
    $1,000 21
(Alex: Might expect a professor of languages to, uh, know something about VOCABULARY.)

sinister

Dan
    $600 14
Of Mice and Men

Dan
    $600 19
George Washington

Dan
    $600 27
The Rolling Stones

Brian
    $800 9
Zimbabwe

Patrick
    $800 5
Shinto

Patrick
    $800 22
a blurb

Dan
    $800 15
Funny Girl

Brian
    $1,000 25
(Brian: I think I'll be cautious and bet $1,000.)
(Alex: $1,000? All right, let's see if your caution pays off on this clue in the category U.S. PRESIDENTS...)
...
(Brian: Who is...)
(Alex: Hurry.)
(Brian: Who is, um, Monroe?)

Andrew Jackson

Brian
    $800 28
(Patrick: Who is Hooker?)

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Patrick
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
Padua

Brian
    $1000 6
(John) Wesley

Brian
    $1000 23
a euphemism

Patrick
    $1000 16
Eugene O'Neill

Dan
    $1000 26
Franklin Pierce

Patrick
    $1000 29
(Bessie) Smith

Patrick

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Patrick Dan Brian
$9,100 $8,800 $3,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

DETECTIVE STORIES
(Alex: I'd feel fairly certain that if you were asked to come up with the author of these works, you'd have no difficulty whatsoever. Edgar Allen Poe wrote three stories featuring the detective C. Auguste Dupin; this was the third and last of those stories. Let's see if you able to come up with that bit of information, which was much more difficult.)
...
(Alex: [To Brian] Sorry; wrong author, wrong title.)
...
(Alex: As we come to Patrick Friel, whose dad won a game. Patrick has won two games. Will he make it three in a row?)
BrianWhat is The Hound of Baskervilles
$3,592
DanWhat is The Purloined Letter?
$4,000
PatrickWhat is "The Pit and the Pendulum"?
$8,501
"The Purloined Letter"

Final scores:

Patrick Dan Brian
$599 $12,800 $8
2nd place: Vacation to Tahiti New champion: $12,800 3rd place: Motorola Star Tac Cellular Phone

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Patrick Dan Brian
$9,000 $8,400 $4,600
23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 9 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $22,000

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Game tape date: 1997-02-24
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