Responses for Show #1656 - Monday, November 11, 1991

1991 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.
Clip of this game shown in the movie Groundhog Day.

Contestants

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Jim Scott, a legal assistant from Columbia, Maryland

Mark Pestronk, a travel attorney from Washington, D.C.

Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE OLD TESTAMENT
MUSICALS
DAN QUAYLE
GOLF
MODERN HISTORY
4-LETTER BIRDS
    $100 21
(Leslie: What is unleavened bread or matza?)

manna

LeslieMark
    $100 1
Little Shop of Horrors

Leslie
    $100 7
Kennedy

Jim
    $100 25
hole-in-one

Jim
    $100 16
Noriega

Jim
    $100 6
lark

Jim
    $200 22
cedar (of Lebanon)

Leslie
    $500 2
(Alex: Robert Goulet sings, yes.)

Camelot

Leslie
    $200 8
Marilyn Quayle

Leslie
    $200 27
dogleg

Mark
    $200 17
de Gaulle

Mark
    $200 9
dove

Leslie
    $300 23
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego

Triple Stumper
    $300 3
The Smell of the Crowd

Leslie
    $300 12
Barry Goldwater

Leslie
    $300 28
Mary Queen of Scots

Jim
    $300 18
Korea

Mark
    $300 10
crow

Leslie
    $400 24
Daniel

Mark
    $400 4
George M. Cohan

Leslie
    $400 14
South Africa

Mark
    $400 29
grips

Leslie
    $400 19
Sukarno

Mark
    $400 11
ibis

Mark
    $500 26
(Mark: Who is Absalom?)

Jonathan

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $500 5
[Applause for Leslie's run of the category; Leslie gives a wide smile and a double fist pump.]
(Alex: You ran the category and picked up $1,800 in doing that.)

Kismet

Leslie
    $500 15
Miles Standish

Leslie
    $500 30
British Open

Triple Stumper
    $500 20
Iran (Persia)

Leslie
    $500 13
tern

Jim

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

Leslie Mark Jim
$3,300 $800 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Leslie Mark Jim
$4,300 $1,900 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

IRELAND
INVENTORS
DESPOTS & DICTATORS
ANATOMY
LAKES & RIVERS
THE ODYSSEY
    $200 17
Limerick

Leslie
    $200 6
Morse

Jim
    $200 9
Argentina

Leslie
    $200 13
pancreas

Jim
    $200 1
Mexico

Leslie
    $200 22
Poseidon

Mark
    $400 25
football

Leslie
    $400 7
(Leslie: Who is Singer?)

(Elias) Howe

LeslieJim
    $400 12
Stalin

Leslie
    $400 18
patella

Mark
    $400 2
Finger Lakes

Jim
    $400 26
Helen

Jim
    $600 27
Trinity

Leslie
    $600 8
(Jim: Who is Benz?)
(Leslie: Who is Daimler?)

(Rudolf) Diesel

LeslieMarkJim
    $600 14
emperor

Jim
    $600 19
(Leslie: What is the aorta?)

vena cava

LeslieMark
    $600 3
Lake Titicaca

Jim
    $600 29
Penelope

Leslie
    $800 30
(Mark: What's Guinness?)
(Alex: The whiskey is [*]. The beer is Guinness.)

(Old) Bushmills

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $800 10
(John) Dunlop

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
Venezuela

Leslie
    $800 21
duodenum

Leslie
    $800 4
Baikal

Jim
    $800 28
Hermes

Mark
    $2,000 23
(Mark: What is the Domesday Book?)
(Alex: Sorry, you're in the wrong country.)

Book of Kells

Mark
    $1000 11
(Alexander Graham) Bell

Mark
    $1000 16
(Jim: Who is Medici?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

Catherine de Medici

Jim
    $1000 20
(Alex: Kind of a funny bone.)

humerus

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Rhone

Jim
    $2,600 24
Scylla and Charybdis

Mark

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Leslie Mark Jim
$6,900 $5,300 $6,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AUTHORS
MarkWho was Hugo? [The "o" in "Who" had a smiley face]
$3,800
JimWho is Flaubert?
$4,450
LeslieWho was Hugo Flaubert?
$5,501
Alexandre Dumas

Final scores:

Leslie Mark Jim
$1,399 $1,500 $1,750
3rd place: $5,000+ Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary home game or computer version 2nd place: $5,000 + Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary home game or computer version Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Leslie Mark Jim
$6,600 $5,700 $6,200
22 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $18,500

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Game tape date: 1991-10-15
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