Responses for Show #2986 - Monday, September 1, 1997

Dan Melia game 2.
First game of Season 14 (1997-1998).
First season to offer a car as a bonus prize to all 5-time undefeated champs.
New theme and "Think!" music. Microphones on contestants' podiums removed.

Contestants

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Janet vanGrasstek, an international trade reporter from Washington, D.C.

Atish Choudhury, an undergraduate student from Silver Spring, Maryland

Dan Melia, a professor from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,800)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FILMS OF THE '90s
UNINTELLIGIBLE
SALUTE TO LABOR
MOUNTAINS
SUMMIT MEETINGS
THINGS I WISH I'D SAID
    $100 12
Romeo & Juliet

Janet
    $100 8
Greek

Atish
    $100 10
the AFL-CIO

Dan
    $100 6
Volcano

Atish
    $100 18
NATO

Dan
    $100 1
Lee Iacocca

Janet
    $200 20
Howard Stern

Dan
    $200 14
tongues

Dan
    $200 11
railroads

Atish
    $200 7
Rhodes

Dan
    $200 19
George H.W. Bush

Atish
    $200 2
a psychiatrist

Dan
    $300 24
The Piano

Atish
    $300 15
Gobbledygook

Dan
    $300 13
Nuclear/Atomic Workers

Dan
    $300 9
Death Valley

Dan
    $300 21
Camp David

Dan
    $300 3
(Atish: Who is Wells?)

Ray Bradbury

DanAtish
    $700 25
(Alex: And we have less than a minute to go, Atish. You can, of course, take the lead on this clue.)
(Atish: I'll just bet $700.)
...
(Atish: What is MIB?)
(Alex: No, sorry. The, uh--the film, of course, is Men in Black, but their names are [*] and [**].)

J & K

Atish
    $400 16
"Louie Louie"

Dan
    $400 27
Steward

Janet
    $400 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

"white mountain"

Atish
    $400 22
Laos

Janet
    $400 4
(Dan: What is an agnostic?)

an atheist

Dan
Triple Stumper
    $500 26
Soapdish

Janet
    $500 17
jargon

Dan
    $500 28
Boeing

Atish
    $500 23
Potsdam

Atish
    $500 5
(Janet: What is love?)

the guillotine

AtishJanet

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Dan Atish Janet
$700 $600 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Atish Janet
$3,000 $1,800 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

O MINNESOTA!
PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONSTANTS
A.K.A.
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
ART & ARTISTS
OUR "WORLD" (& WELCOME TO IT)
    $200 9
Minnesota Twins

Atish
    $200 2
Earth & Sun

Atish
    $200 17
Culkin

Atish
    $200 1
"The Great Gatsby"

Atish
    $200 12
Michelangelo

Janet
    $200 25
"All the world's a stage"

Dan
    $400 18
Gophers

Atish
    $400 3
212 Degrees

Atish
    $400 21
(Janet: Who is Panthurst?)

Tea Leoni

AtishJanet
    $400 5
(Atish: Who is Miss Marple?)

Nancy Drew

DanAtish
    $400 13
Henri

Janet
    $400 26
World War I

Janet
    $600 19
Lake Superior

Atish
    $600 4
c

Dan
    $600 22
(Dan: Whew!)

Michelle Phillips

Dan
    $600 6
Martin Cruz Smith

Janet
    $600 14
Diego Rivera

Janet
    $600 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

The Underworld

Atish
    $800 20
Leif Erickson

Dan
    $800 10
Gravity

Atish
    $2,000 23
(Alex: Boy, what a game to start off this year!)

Larry King

Dan
    $800 7
Clive Cussler

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
John Constable

Dan
    $2,000 11
Michael Faraday

Atish
    $1000 24
Iggy Pop

Triple Stumper
    $1000 8
Miss Havisham

Janet
    $1000 16
Willem de Kooning

Atish

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Atish Janet
$8,400 $8,400 $3,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS NAMES
JanetWho is J Cousteaut
$0
AtishWho is Cousteau
$8,400
DanWho was Jacques Cousteau
$8,400
Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Final scores:

Dan Atish Janet
$16,800 $16,800 $3,800
2-day co-champion: $29,600 New co-champion: $16,800 2nd place: a trip to Majorca, Spain

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dan Atish Janet
$7,200 $8,100 $3,800
20 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $19,100

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