Responses for Show #1418 - Wednesday, October 31, 1990

Contestants

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Elaine Hyla, a librarian originally from Cleveland, Ohio

Ray Ivey, a word processing teacher from New York, New York

Mitch Paluszek, an attorney from Queens, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD GEOGRAPHY
THE CIRCUS
20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTS
A.K.A.
SWANS
"BLACK" & "WHITE"
    $100 6
Soviet Union

Ray
    $100 21
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

circus rings

Elaine
    $100 1
Teddy Roosevelt

Ray
    $100 16
Xavier Cugat

Mitch
    $100 26
Swan Lake

Elaine
    $100 11
White Christmas

Mitch
    $200 7
Australia

Mitch
    $200 22
big top

Ray
    $200 2
Camp David

Ray
    $200 17
(Elaine: Who is Anne Baxter?)

Anne Bancroft

MitchElaine
    $200 27
mates

Ray
    $200 12
white blood cells

Mitch
    $300 8
New Zealand

Mitch
    $300 23
Sarasota

Mitch
    $300 3
Jimmy Carter

Mitch
    $300 18
Christine Jorgensen

Mitch
    $300 28
(Ray: What is a white swan?)
[end-of-round signal sounds]

mute swan

Ray
Triple Stumper
    $300 13
white ant

Ray
    $400 9
Pacific Ocean

Elaine
    $400 25
(Ray: What is 3?)
(Elaine: What is a quadruple?)

4

RayElaine
    $500 4
(Mitch: Who was John Kennedy?)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mitch
    $400 19
(Michael) Bennett

Elaine
    $400 14
black mamba

Triple Stumper
    $500 10
(Mitch: What is South America?)
(Elaine: What are the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans?)
...
(Alex: You were on the right track, but misread the clue; we needed the name of the continent.)

Africa

MitchElaine
Triple Stumper
    $500 24
Wallenda

Elaine
    $500 5
(Alex: John Calvin Coolidge.)

Calvin Coolidge

Ray
    $500 20
Peter Finch

Ray
    $500 15
Black Sunday

Mitch

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

Mitch Ray Elaine
$100 $900 -$100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mitch Ray Elaine
$1,500 $1,400 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BIBLICAL QUOTES
FOOD
ARGENTINA
DRAMA
STATE NICKNAMES
DAVY CROCKETT
    $200 6
hallowed be thy name

Mitch
    $200 20
maple

Mitch
    $200 13
Buenos Aires

Ray
    $200 1
Arthur Miller

Elaine
    $200 7
California

Elaine
    $400 10
multiply

Mitch
    $400 21
(Alex: Minute to go.)

Christmas

Mitch
    $400 14
the World Cup

Mitch
    $400 2
Sam Shepard

Ray
    $400 8
Georgia

Mitch
    $2,500 17
Isaac

Ray
    $600 23
(Ray: What is Asia?)
(Elaine: What is the United States?)

North America

MitchRayElaine
    $600 15
silver

Mitch
    $600 3
The Zoo Story

Ray
    $600 9
Nevada

Ray
    $600 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
(Alex: Have you guys ever watched the series? It's Davy Crockett!)

colonel

Triple Stumper
    $800 18
the night

Ray
    $800 25
almonds

Mitch
    $800 16
Peronist Party

Ray
    $800 4
Miss Jean Brodie

Ray
    $800 11
Texas

Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Creek Indians

Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
dust

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
mostaccioli

Elaine
    $1000 22
Chile

Elaine
    $1,500 5
A Streetcar Named Desire

Ray
    $1000 12
Delaware

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
then go ahead

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mitch Ray Elaine
$5,500 $9,000 $3,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LANDMARKS
(Alex: [Singing] "Davy, Davy Crockett, we've forgotten all about you.")
ElaineWhat is Trafalgar Square?
$2,900
MitchWhat is Westminster Abbey
$5,300
RayWhat is Westminster Abbey?
$2,500
Westminster Abbey

Final scores:

Mitch Ray Elaine
$10,800 $11,500 $100
2nd place: Trip to Washington, D.C. + The Jeopardy! Book New champion: $11,500 + The Jeopardy! Book 3rd place: Service Merchandise gift certificate + NES with Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune and Fisher-Price video games + The Jeopardy! Book

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mitch Ray Elaine
$6,000 $6,600 $3,000
19 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $15,600

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Game tape date: 1990-09-10
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