Responses for Show #2780 - Friday, October 4, 1996

Contestants

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Ellen Goodman, a math teacher from East Meadow, New York

Cy Gardner, a videographer originally from Riverdale, Maryland

Frances Yasprica, a publicist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS SHIPS
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
TV ACTORS & ROLES
FOOD
THE 1820s
"BI"WORDS
    $100 20
the Maine

Ellen
    $100 7
Pikes Peak

Ellen
    $100 3
Beverly Hills 90210

Ellen
    $100 26
the pit

Ellen
    $100 1
Albany

Ellen
    $100 14
bide

Frances
    $200 22
Exxon Valdez

Cy
    $200 8
St. Louis

Ellen
    $200 10
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Cy
    $200 27
Schnitzel

Frances
    $200 2
Russia

Cy
    $200 15
bisect

Ellen
    $300 23
the Arizona

Triple Stumper
    $300 9
(Cy: What is Salt Lake?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Cy: What is [*]?)

the Great Salt Lake

Cy
    $300 11
Tom Bosley

Frances
    $300 28
crayfish

Ellen
    $300 4
David Douglas

Frances
    $300 18
bilingual

Ellen
    $400 24
the Bounty

Ellen
    $400 16
the Black Hills

Triple Stumper
    $400 12
Law & Order

Cy
    $400 29
gravy

Cy
    $400 5
the Rhine

Frances
    $400 19
bicoastal

Cy
    $500 25
the Savannah

Triple Stumper
    $500 17
the Cascades

Ellen
    $500 13
Montel Williams

Frances
    $500 30
Moussaka

Cy
    $500 6
McGill

Ellen
    $500 21
bicuspids

Cy

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

Frances Cy Ellen
$1,500 $1,100 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Frances Cy Ellen
$1,800 $3,100 $2,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WOMEN'S FIRSTS
BILL CLINTON
POETS & POETRY
FOREIGN CURRENCY
BIOLOGY
THE CONGO RIVER
    $200 2
(Cy: What is the ACLU?)

the American Bar Association

FrancesCy
    $200 1
Yale

Ellen
    $200 16
Paul Revere

Frances
    $200 22
(Alex: Yes, the Deutsche [*].)

the Mark

Cy
    $200 13
the shell

Frances
    $200 8
the Nile

Cy
    $400 3
Barbara Walters

Cy
    $400 4
Wyoming

Cy
    $400 17
(Alex: "'Twas [*]", or "A Visit from St. Nicholas", yes.)

"The Night Before Christmas"

Frances
    $400 27
the drachma

Frances
    $400 14
the skin

Ellen
    $400 9
Stanley

Ellen
    $600 10
(Benazir) Bhutto

Ellen
    $600 5
Dukakis

Ellen
    $600 18
The Tyger

Cy
    $600 28
the shekel

Ellen
    $600 24
the nerve cells

Ellen
    $600 15
(Joseph) Conrad

Cy
    $1,000 11
(Ellen: Who is Queen Elizabeth I?)
...
(Alex: Golf comes from Scotland, so [*].)

Mary, Queen of Scots

Ellen
    $800 6
attorney general

Cy
    $800 19
(Thomas) Gray

Ellen
    $800 29
Ethiopia

Ellen
    $800 25
(Alex: Very important organs called [*].)

the kidneys

Triple Stumper
    $800 21
Livingstone

Frances
    $1000 12
Jeannette Rankin

Frances
    $1000 7
(Alex: [*], the "Man from [*].)

Hope

Cy
    $1000 20
(Alexander) Pope

Ellen
    $1,000 30
(Ellen: All I can think of is "Who is Bolivar?")

Antonio José de Sucre

Ellen
    $1000 26
(Cy: What are sweat glands?)

sebaceous (glands)

FrancesCy
    $1000 23
the Zaire

Ellen

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Frances Cy Ellen
$6,000 $6,100 $7,900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

15th CENTURY MEN
(Alex: [Revealing the category] 15th century men? There were only 3 of them.)
...
(Alex: [After "Think!" music has ended] If you don't get it, when you hear the name you'll say, "Of course.")
...
(Alex: [Revealing Cy's response] He came up with many marvelous inventions, thinking way ahead of his time.)
...
(Alex: [Revealing Ellen's response] We were prepared to accept "Who is Leonardo?" or "Who is Leonardo da Vinci?" so you are correct.)
FrancesWho was Machiavelli?
$4,000
CyWho is Leonardo Da Vinci?
$6,000
EllenWho is Leonardo da V
$4,301
Leonardo da Vinci

Final scores:

Frances Cy Ellen
$2,000 $12,100 $12,201
3rd place: Michael C. Fina flatware 2nd place: RCA television and satellite system New champion: $12,201

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Frances Cy Ellen
$6,000 $6,100 $9,900
14 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 17 R,
2 W		 23 R,
2 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $22,000

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Game tape date: 1996-08-20
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