Responses for Show #2779 - Thursday, October 3, 1996

Contestants

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Steve Giegerich, a foreign service officer originally from Cleveland, Ohio

Frances Yasprica, a publicist from Brooklyn, New York

Bill Cute, a social studies teacher from Rehoboth, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,601)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1986
IDIOMS
FASHION HISTORY
SCIENCE
THEME PARK THRILLERS
HERALDRY
    $100 1
Pope John Paul II

Steve
    $100 13
rain

Bill
    $100 4
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances
    $100 26
hair

Frances
    $100 8
(Steve: What is chocolate?)
[laughter]
(Alex: No, their roller coasters are made out of [*], their chocolates are made out of chocolate.)

wood

Steve
Triple Stumper
    $100 18
the bee

Bill
    $200 2
Chernobyl

Steve
    $200 14
your face

Bill
    $200 5
Marie Antoinette

Steve
    $200 27
delta

Steve
    $200 9
Superman

Steve
    $200 19
the zebra

Frances
    $300 3
(Steve: Who is Brennan?)

(Warren) Burger

FrancesSteve
    $300 15
Riley

Steve
    $300 20
the Aloha shirt

Triple Stumper
    $300 28
the lens

Triple Stumper
    $500 10
Jurassic Park

Steve
    $300 22
Scotland

Triple Stumper
    $400 6
Greg LeMond

Bill
    $400 16
the tables

Bill
    $400 21
shoes

Bill
    $400 29
(Bill: What is DNA?)

Halley's comet

Bill
Triple Stumper
    $400 11
King Tut's tomb

Bill
    $400 23
the fleur-de-lis

Steve
    $500 7
(Alan) Dershowitz

Bill
    $500 17
400

Bill
    $500 25
(Frances: Who is [*]?)
(Alex: No.)
(Voice interjecting from offstage: Yes!)
(Alex: Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, you're right. I was thinking of the Eighth. Thank you, judges.)

Edward VII

Frances
    $500 30
interglacial

Triple Stumper
    $500 12
Ohio

Bill
    $500 24
Japan

Triple Stumper

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

Bill Frances Steve
$2,100 $400 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bill Frances Steve
$3,100 $1,200 $1,700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BLACK FIRSTS
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
13-LETTER WORDS
OPERAS BASED ON PLAYS
U.S. HISTORY
HAROLDRY
(Alex: We had HERALDRY in the first round. We have "Haroldry" in this one.)
    $200 16
Vermont

Bill
    $200 11
Paris

Steve
    $200 23
international

Steve
    $200 1
Victor Hugo

Bill
    $200 2
Lindbergh

Steve
    $200 9
Harold Robbins

Frances
    $400 19
Debi Thomas

Bill
    $400 12
the Persian Gulf

Steve
    $400 24
acupuncturist

Steve
    $400 5
Thomas Hardy

Frances
    $400 3
the Hatfields & the McCoys

Bill
    $400 10
Harold Lloyd

Bill
    $600 20
LBJ, Lyndon Johnson

Bill
    $600 13
New Zealand

Steve
    $600 25
reforestation

Bill
    $600 6
Chekhov

Frances
    $600 4
Cambodia

Frances
    $600 26
(Harold) Stassen

Bill
    $800 21
Harriet Tubman

Steve
    $2,000 14
the Baltic Sea & the North Sea

Steve
    $800 29
perpendicular

Steve
    $800 7
Murder in the Cathedral

Frances
    $800 17
the Trail of Tears

Steve
    $800 27
Harold Ramis

Frances
    $2,000 22
(Carl) Stokes

Steve
    $1000 15
Somalia

Steve
    $1000 30
concertmaster

Frances
    $1000 8
Arthur Miller

Frances
    $1000 18
(Who is Taylor?)

Polk

BillSteve
    $1000 28
Harold Macmillan

Bill

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bill Frances Steve
$8,500 $6,600 $10,100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY AUTHORS
FrancesWho is Washington Irving?
$4,000
BillWho is Melville?
$4,701
SteveWho was Hardy |
$7,000
Washington Irving

Final scores:

Bill Frances Steve
$3,799 $10,600 $3,100
2nd place: trip to the Roseland Ranch in Stanfordwille, NY New champion: $10,600 3rd place: Sanyo desktop 3-in-1 fax

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bill Frances Steve
$8,500 $6,600 $7,700
20 R,
1 W		 13 R,
0 W		 20 R
(including 3 DDs),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $22,800

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Game tape date: 1996-08-20
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