Responses for Show #1851 - Monday, September 28, 1992

Contestants

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Frances Moore, a customer service representative originally from Elko, Nevada

Sharon Kirkes, a librarian from Decatur, Georgia

Marty Brophy, a physicist from Urbana, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $34,202)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NATURE
THE OLYMPICS
FASHION HISTORY
THE BIBLE
SIBLINGS
RHYME TIME
    $100 4
the giraffe

Frances
    $100 3
an archer

Marty
    $100 5
Queen Victoria

Frances
    $100 20
Moses

Marty
    $100 2
Ernest Hemingway

Marty
    $100 1
one ton

Marty
    $200 13
a minnow

Frances
    $200 28
the pole vault

Frances
    $200 6
skiing

Sharon
    $200 21
Michael

Sharon
    $200 7
Wyatt Earp

Frances
    $200 25
a low blow

Marty
    $300 14
a fly

Frances
    $300 29
Jim Thorpe

Sharon
    $300 8
white

Marty
    $300 22
Joseph

Frances
    $300 10
Clyde Barrow

Sharon
    $300 26
a horse course

Sharon
    $400 15
a bear

Frances
    $400 30
Sonja Henie

Frances
    $400 17
a mu'umu'u

Frances
    $400 23
John

Marty
    $400 11
Michelin

Sharon
    $400 27
a cookbook

Frances
    $500 16
Guinea

Frances
    $500 19
Squaw Valley

Frances
    $500 18
the Gibson Girl

Marty
    $1,100 24
Paul

Marty
    $500 12
(Marty: Who is Verlaine?)

Claudel

Marty
Triple Stumper
    $500 9
Fay Wray

Sharon

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Marty Sharon Frances
$100 $1,400 $1,300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Marty Sharon Frances
$2,400 $2,200 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE
LANGUAGES
1953
FAMOUS NAMES
MOUNTAINS
THURBER
    $200 2
the Milky Way

Frances
    $200 10
English

Marty
    $200 7
Stalin

Marty
    $200 8
[NOTE: Clue correct as shown, though Kasparov's first name is usually spelled "Garry".]

chess

Frances
    $200 15
the Andes

Frances
    $200 1
Walter Mitty

Marty
    $400 12
sodium

Marty
    $400 11
German

Marty
    $400 9
Fort Knox

Marty
    $400 30
the bottlenose dolphin

Triple Stumper
    $400 16
the Alps

Marty
    $400 3
(Marty: What is wise?)

dead

MartyFrances
    $600 13
an electron microscope

Marty
    $600 24
Madagascar

Frances
    $600 26
(Frances: Who is Havel?)
...
(Alex: [*], yes. We're referring to 1953.)

Tito

SharonFrances
    $600 29
France

Frances
    $600 17
[NOTE: Clue correct as shown, though the typical spelling is "Macgillycuddy's Reeks".]

Ireland

Frances
    $600 4
E.B. White

Marty
    $800 5
lactose

Frances
    $800 25
Italian

Frances
    $800 27
Alben Barkley

Marty
    $800 22
Henry Luce

Frances
    $1,200 18
the Cascades

Frances
    $2,500 20
The New Yorker

Frances
    $1000 14
(Frances: What is sapphire?)

quartz

Frances
Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
Bantu

Marty
    $1000 28
(Sharon: Who is Sir Edmund Hillary?)
...
(Marty: Who is the...Tenzing, the Sherpa?)
(Alex: Tenzing the Sherpa. [Looking to judges] Will we accept that? We need more from you.)
(Marty: Tenzing... Norway?)
(Alex: Gosh, you're so close but I can't give it to you. Correct response is [*]. Sir Edmund Hillary, of course, was from New Zealand, so he did get many opportunities to see the sea, Sharon.)
[Alex did not give Frances a chance to ring in before giving the correct response, but the time expiry signal had already sounded on the clue, just after Marty rang in.]
[NOTE: Before the Final Jeopardy! clue was read, Alex announced that the judges had reconsidered Marty's response and credited him with a correct response.]

Tenzing Norgay (Tenzing the Sherpa accepted)

MartySharon
    $1000 21
Walt Kelly

Frances
    $1000 19
Yukon

Frances
    $1000 6
Carnival

Frances

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Marty Sharon Frances
$8,200 $1,800 $14,300

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ENTERTAINERS OF THE PAST
SharonWho was Josephine Baker?
$1,800
MartyWho was Josephine Baker?
$6,200
FrancesWho was Josephine Baker?
$2,000
Josephine Baker

Final scores:

Marty Sharon Frances
$14,400 $3,600 $16,300
2nd place: a trip to Washington, D.C. aboard Delta airlines 3rd place: a Sanyo VHS HiFi VCR + a Nintendo Entertainment System & games (including Super Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune w/Vanna White) New champion: $16,300

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Marty Sharon Frances
$7,600 $1,800 $12,200
21 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 8 R,
1 W		 28 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $21,600

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Game tape date: 1992-07-28
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