Responses for Show #2751 - Monday, July 15, 1996

1996 Olympic Games Tournament semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Jan Mertens, a computer programmer from Antwerp, Belgium

Steinar Madsen, a senior medical officer from Valstad, Norway

Elena Kislenkova, an assistant lecturer from St. Petersburg, Russia

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR
FOOD
THE OSCARS
COMPANY SYMBOLS
HISTORIC NAMES
THE BEATLES
    $100 21
(Jan: What is bacon?)

beef

Jan
Triple Stumper
    $100 1
Mel Gibson

Elena
    $100 11
(Jan: What is a pelican?)

a penguin

SteinarJan
    $100 16
Marco Polo

Steinar
    $100 6
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)

Steinar
    $200 22
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
(Alex: We're out of time for the Jeopardy! Round.)

bread

Steinar
    $200 2
Emma Thompson

Steinar
    $200 12
(Steinar: What are M's?)
(Jan: What are arrows?)
...
(Alex: Different languages, different cultures present us with unique problems and situations: we're about to rectify one right now--in the category COMPANY SYMBOLS, "McDonald's are Golden", we were going for arches, but Steinar said "M's" - they are M's, in fact, so we will give him $400 for a correct response and Jan, your incorrect response came after his, so you will get back your $200.)

the Arches

Steinar
    $200 17
Mahatma Gandhi

Elena
    $200 7
"She Loves You"

Triple Stumper
    $300 3
Nicolas Cage

Steinar
    $300 13
Levi's

Steinar
    $300 18
Heloise

Jan
    $300 8
"I Just Saw Her Standing There"

Jan
    $400 4
Kirk Douglas

Steinar
    $400 14
4 (interlocking) rings

Jan
    $400 19
(Steinar: Who is Catherine of Siena?)

Catherine Parr

Steinar
Triple Stumper
    $400 9
(Jan: What is Help!?)
(Steinar: What is Yellow Submarine?)
...
(Alex: And Elena probably didn't see this film.)

A Hard Day's Night

SteinarJan
Triple Stumper
    $500 5
Susan Sarandon

Jan
    $500 15
Swatch

Elena
    $500 20
(Elena: Who was Loyola?)

Tomas de Torquemada

Elena
Triple Stumper
    $500 10
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Jan

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Elena Steinar Jan
$100 $900 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Elena Steinar Jan
$300 $1,100 $1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIES-GENERAL
THE OLYMPICS
ART & ARTISTS
RELIGION
WORLD LITERATURE
MOUNTAINS
    $200 21
Kurt Waldheim

Jan
    $200 11
Doves

Elena
    $200 25
Michelangelo

Elena
    $200 12
Rome

Jan
    $200 1
Don Quixote

Elena
    $200 6
The Andes

Jan
    $400 22
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Steinar
    $400 17
Decathlon

Jan
    $400 26
Paul Gauguin

Elena
    $400 13
Dalai Lama

Jan
    $400 2
"Arabian Nights"

Elena
    $400 7
Mt. Fuji

Steinar
    $600 23
Javier Perez de Cuellar

Jan
    $600 18
Stronger

Elena
    $600 27
(Steinar: Who is Edward Degas?)
(Alex: Close, but no cigar on that one.)

Edgar Degas

Steinar
Triple Stumper
    $600 14
Allah

Elena
    $600 3
Les Misérables

Jan
    $600 8
Mt. Kilimanjaro

Elena
    $2,600 24
U Thant

Jan
    $800 19
Mexico City

Steinar
    $800 28
(Jan: Who is Goya?)

Diego Velázquez

Jan
Triple Stumper
    $800 15
Buddha

Jan
    $800 4
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Jan
    $800 9
K2 (Mt. Godwin-Austen)

Jan
    $1000 30
(Alex: Good thing you got that one!)

Trygve Lie

Steinar
    $1000 20
Berlin

Steinar
    $2,000 29
(Elena: [No response])

Rembrandt

Elena
    $1000 16
Passover

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
"The Decameron"

Jan
    $1000 10
Carpathian Mountains

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Elena Steinar Jan
$1,500 $4,100 $9,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

RULERS
ElenaWhat is pool...?
$500
SteinarWhat is King Bhumibol?
$4,099
JanWhat is Yi?
$999
(Shah Reza) Pahlavi (of Iran)

Final scores:

Elena Steinar Jan
$1,000 $1 $8,201
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Elena Steinar Jan
$3,500 $4,100 $7,400
11 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
3 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $15,000

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Game tape date: 1996-04-10
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