Responses for Show #2754 - Thursday, July 18, 1996

1996 Olympic Games Tournament final game.

Contestants

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Jan Mertens, a computer programmer from Antwerp, Belgium

Mandi Hale, a pharmaceutical dispenser from Ruddingham, Nottingham England

Ulf Jensen, a university teacher from Uppsala, Sweden

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1990s
ANIMALS
ACTION STARS
BIBLICAL PEOPLE
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE
HISTORY
    $100 8
O.J. Simpson

Ulf
    $100 23
Snakes

Jan
    $100 24
Harrison Ford

Mandi
    $100 25
Tennessee Williams

Mandi
    $100 26
The Bastille

Ulf
    $200 7
(Alex: You can go home now!)

Margaret Thatcher

Mandi
    $200 20
Giraffe

Mandi
    $200 18
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Mandi
    $200 11
Henrik Ibsen

Ulf
    $200 13
(Ulf: What is Istanbul?)

Ankara

UlfJan
    $300 5
Lithuania

Ulf
    $300 19
Kangaroo

Mandi
    $300 14
Sylvester Stallone

Mandi
    $300 10
Anton Chekhov

Mandi
    $300 3
Idi Amin

Ulf
    $400 4
Rudolf Nureyev

Mandi
    $400 21
Beluga

Mandi
    $400 15
(Mandi: Who is [mind blanks out]?)

Sigourney Weaver

UlfMandi
    $400 16
Saul

Jan
    $400 9
Dublin

Mandi
    $500 2
(Ulf: What is Nepal?)

India

Ulf
    $500 6
Vaclav Havel

Mandi
    $500 22
Lipizzaner Stallions

Mandi
    $500 17
(Alex: I'm surprised Jan wasn't first on that one!)
(Mandi: Sorry, Jan!)
(Jan: I like the muscles, I think!)

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Mandi
    $500 27
(Alex: Ulf, pick again please.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Joseph of Arimathea

Triple Stumper
    $500 12
Bertolt Brecht

Ulf
    $500 1
Greece

Ulf

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

Ulf Mandi Jan
$1,400 $1,800 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ulf Mandi Jan
$1,700 $4,000 $700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ROYALTY
HEALTH & MEDICINE
ANCIENT EGYPT
AUTHORS
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
COMPOSERS
    $200 22
Spain

Jan
    $200 11
(A: Well done in Health & Medicine...you've regained the lead!)

Heartbeat

Mandi
    $200 29
The Rosetta Stone

Ulf
    $200 27
Charles Dickens

Mandi
    $200 28
the Harz Mountains

Triple Stumper
    $200 25
Frederic Chopin

Ulf
    $400 13
King Hussein

Ulf
    $400 10
Hemophilia

Mandi
    $400 30
Pyramid

Mandi
    $400 26
Leo Tolstoy

Jan
    $400 6
New Zealand

Mandi
    $400 24
J.S. Bach

Jan
    $600 12
Emperor Akihito

Mandi
    $600 7
Malaria

Mandi
    $600 21
Papyrus

Mandi
    $600 18
Niccolò Machiavelli

Ulf
    $600 5
Dead Sea

Ulf
    $1,000 23
(Alex: Now Jan, I assume you have the same rules in your country--although you have $700, you can risk up to the maximum value of a clue and that is $1,000.)
(Jan: That's what I will do.)

Felix Mendelssohn

Jan
    $800 20
Queen Margrethe

Ulf
    $800 8
Testosterone

Mandi
    $800 17
Isis

Jan
    $800 14
Franz Kafka

Ulf
    $800 3
Peloponnesus

Ulf
    $800 2
(Mandi: Who is Chopin?)

Claude Debussy

UlfMandi
    $1000 19
Juliana

Ulf
    $1000 9
(Alex: You picked the right one... way to go!)

the ulna

Mandi
    $1000 16
(Jan: What is Luxor?)
(Ulf: What is Karnak?)

Thebes

UlfJan
Triple Stumper
    $2,000 15
(Alex: Rememberance of Things Past.)

Marcel Proust

Ulf
    $1000 4
(Jan: What is Spain?)

Andorra

UlfJan
    $1000 1
Modest Mussorgsky

Jan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ulf Mandi Jan
$9,900 $8,400 $2,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ARTISTS
(Alex: And he is the champion--it doesn't matter what he wagered--$6,901; $16,801. Ulf, congratulations! You are a $25,000 winner and a great match, thanks to Mandi & Jan. Let's bring our "Mini United Nations" out here to congratulate Ulf--the very talented competitors in this first-ever Jeopardy! Olympic Tournament. Thank you for tuning us in--we're back with our regular games tomorrow. See you then! So long!)
JanWho is Van Gogh?
$2,500
MandiWho is Edgar Degas?
$3,300
UlfWho is Van Gogh?
$6,901
Vincent Van Gogh

Final scores:

Ulf Mandi Jan
$16,801 $5,100 $5,000
Tournament champion: $25,000 1st runner-up: $10,000 2nd runner-up: $7,500

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ulf Mandi Jan
$9,400 $8,400 $2,100
20 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)
24 R,
2 W
9 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $19,900

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Game tape date: 1996-04-10
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