Responses for Show #3123 - Wednesday, March 11, 1998

Contestants

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Bob Ryffel, a computer expert from Fairfield, Connecticut

Jennifer Abbots, a salesperson from Albuquerque, New Mexico

Eric Prosser, an attorney from Oceanside, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,500)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 5 "W"s
WHO
WHAT
WHERE
WHEN
WHY
    $100 1
Wares

BobCat
    $100 6
Yoko Ono

Eric
    $100 10
(E: What is a face mask?)

Oxygen mask

EricJennifer
    $100 16
(BobCat: What is China?)
(Jennifer: What is the Soviet Union?)
...
(Alex: Still No. 1 even after the breakup of the Soviet Union.)

Russia

EricJenniferBobCat
    $100 21
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jennifer
    $100 26
(B: Why do you climb?)

Why do you climb Mount Everest?

JenniferBobCat
    $200 2
Watt

Eric
    $200 7
Kenneth Starr

Jennifer
    $200 12
Stiletto

BobCat
    $200 17
Jamaica

Eric
    $200 22
Ronald Reagan

Eric
    $200 27
Why did the dodo go extinct?

Jennifer
    $500 3
wye

Eric
    $300 8
Harry Belafonte

Eric
    $300 13
(E: What is a bob?)
(Alex: (during break) Eric, "bob" is acceptable as a response based on the way we phrased the clue)

Sinker

EricJennifer
    $300 18
(E: What are the Alps?)

Pyrenees

EricBobCat
    $300 23
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Eric
    $300 28
(B: Who is Samson?)

Why did Samson have his strength?

JenniferBobCat
    $400 4
WHO (World Health Organization)

BobCat
    $400 9
Farrah Fawcett

Jennifer
    $400 14
Typewriter

BobCat
    $400 19
Tagus

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
(and we have about a minute to go...)

Los Angeles

BobCat
    $400 29
Why doesn't it hurt when you clip your fingernails?

Eric
    $500 5
WENN

Eric
    $500 11
(J: Who is Elie Wiesel?)
(B: Who is Elie Wiesel?)

Simon Wiesenthal

JenniferBobCat
Triple Stumper
    $500 15
Distributor cap

Eric
    $500 20
Guam

BobCat
    $500 25
Women

BobCat
    $500 30
Why is the sky blue?

Eric

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Eric Jennifer BobCat
$1,800 $500 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Jennifer BobCat
$3,700 $1,100 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PEOPLES
GEOGRAPHIC VOCABULARY
KIDDY LIT
GOLD
"D"
HAWN
    $200 11
(E: What is Cyrillic?)
(J: What is Caucasian?)

Slavic/Slavonic

EricJennifer
Triple Stumper
    $200 16
Chihuahua

Eric
    $200 1
Gretel

BobCat
    $200 6
Acupuncture

Jennifer
    $200 21
D-Day

Jennifer
    $200 26
Private Benjamin

Eric
    $400 12
Jutes

BobCat
    $400 17
Mayonnaise

Eric
    $400 2
Dr. Seuss

Jennifer
    $400 7
The Alamo

Jennifer
    $400 22
Ph.D

Eric
    $400 27
The First Wives Club

BobCat
    $600 13
Sabines

BobCat
    $600 18
Vaudeville

BobCat
    $600 3
(B: Who is....(time)?)

Madeline

JenniferBobCat
    $600 8
Gold key

Eric
    $600 23
Vitamin D

BobCat
    $600 28
Dollars or Shampoo

Eric
    $800 14
(B: What are Albanians?)

Armenians

JenniferBobCat
    $800 19
Serendipity

Jennifer
    $2,000 4
Dinotopia

Jennifer
    $800 9
Alchemists

Eric
    $800 24
(J: Who is Cecil B. DeMille?)

D.W. Griffith

JenniferBobCat
    $1,200 29
(E: What is "The Odd Couple?")

Cactus Flower

Eric
    $1000 15
Hottentots

Jennifer
    $1000 20
(E: What is Ghent?)

Duffel

Eric
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
(Eric: What is "E?")

B

EricBobCat
    $1000 10
El Dorado

Eric
    $1000 25
Heavy D

Eric
    $1000 30
(B: What is "Dead Again?")

Death Becomes Her

EricBobCat

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Jennifer BobCat
$6,500 $6,500 $4,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

TRANSPORTATION HISTORY
BobCatWho is Fulton?
$2,600
JenniferWho is Fuller?
$3,200
EricWho is Clinton?
$6,500
Robert Fulton (of the steamship Clermont)

Final scores:

Eric Jennifer BobCat
$0 $3,300 $6,600
3rd place: Pair of Daniel Mink Elegance Watches 2nd place: Trip to Couples Resort, Jamaica New champion: $6,600

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Eric Jennifer BobCat
$7,500 $5,300 $4,000
23 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 16 R,
7 W

Combined Coryat: $16,800

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