Responses for Show #592 - Tuesday, March 17, 1987

John Ryan game 4.

Contestants

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Maggie Baker, a flight attendant from Hermosa Beach, California

Brent Minor, a fundraising consultant originally from Charlotte, North Carolina

John Ryan, a student from Santa Barbara, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $34,500)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

TRAVEL & TOURISM
STATE FISH
1-WORD SONGS
AFRICA
BOGIE
TAKE A GUESS
    $100 23
sauna

John
    $100 21
[Brent gave his response so it sounded like "ha-WAI-ya".]
(Alex: Fine. How are you?)

Hawaii

Brent
    $100 16
"Fame"

Brent
    $100 11
Atlas Mountains

John
    $100 9
The Maltese Falcon

Maggie
    $100 3
epilogue

John
    $200 25
Star Trek

John
    $200 22
king salmon

Maggie
    $200 17
"Sailing"

Triple Stumper
    $200 12
hippos

Maggie
    $200 10
Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John
    $200 4
Ethel Merman

Brent
    $300 24
bullfighting

Maggie
    $300 18
"Lola"

John
    $300 1
(Maggie: What is kill him?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Maggie: What is to assassinate him? Shoot him?)
...
(Alex: Tough constituency.)

eat him

JohnMaggie
    $300 13
Casablanca

Maggie
    $300 5
Beethoven

John
    $400 26
White House

Brent
    $400 19
(Maggie: What is "Me"?)
(Brent: What is "You"?)
(John: What is "Him"?)

"Her"

JohnBrentMaggie
Triple Stumper
    $400 2
(John: What is Libya?)

Ethiopia

JohnBrent
    $400 14
The Caine Mutiny

Maggie
    $500 6
(John: What are [*] and don't know it.)

Xerox and Exxon

John
    $500 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Universal Studios

Maggie
    $500 20
"Because"

Triple Stumper
    $500 7
Arabic

John
    $500 15
The African Queen

Brent
    $500 8
(Brent: What is Francis Scott Fitzgerald?)

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

BrentMaggie

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 9):

John Brent Maggie
$300 $100 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

John Brent Maggie
$800 $800 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD HISTORY
AMERICAN AUTHORS
STARTS WITH "M"
PHILOSOPHY
ROLLER SKATING
ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER
    $200 4
slavery

Maggie
    $200 12
Joel Chandler Harris

Triple Stumper
    $200 9
Midas touch

Brent
    $200 22
I think

John
    $200 6
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts

Brent
    $200 20
(Brent: What is the recliner?)
(Maggie: What is the chairman?)

chair

JohnBrentMaggie
    $400 5
Thomas Paine

Brent
    $400 13
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Triple Stumper
    $400 14
Melbourne

Maggie
    $400 23
Socrates

Maggie
    $400 7
roller derby

Brent
    $400 24
minutes

John
    $500 1
[John selected the first clue.]

Syria & Egypt

John
    $600 17
Gertrude Stein

Maggie
    $600 15
Made in the U.S.A.

Brent
    $600 25
inductive reasoning

John
    $600 8
waiter or waitress (carhop)

Maggie
    $800 2
Spanish

John
    $800 19
Booth Tarkington

Triple Stumper
    $800 16
master of fine arts

John
    $800 26
Reason

Maggie
    $500 10
(Brent: What is I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a [*]?)
(Alex: You got the important words in. [*]. That's it. Hit song by Melanie.)

"Brand New Key"

Brent
    $1000 3
Ho Chi Minh

John
    $1000 21
Dana

John
    $1000 18
McGregor's garden

Brent
    $1000 27
Thomas Aquinas

John
    $1000 11
(Brent: What is to skate backwards?)

skate in a curve

Brent
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

John Brent Maggie
$7,300 $2,900 $4,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS MEN
Maggie's score was $200 and she was correct for $100 on the 9th clue of the J! round just before the break. When play resumed after the interviews her score was $400 instead of $300 and no adjustment was made. In the FJ! round she wagered all of her $4700 to finish with $9400.
BrentWhat is aviation aviation?
$2,890
MaggieWhat is aviation
$4,600
JohnWhat is aviation?
$7,000
aviation

Final scores:

John Brent Maggie
$14,300 $5,790 $9,200
4-day champion: $48,800 3rd place: Swintec typewriter 2nd place: Trip to Florida

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

John Brent Maggie
$7,900 $3,200 $4,600
19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)
13 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
14 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $15,700

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Game tape date: 1986-11-19
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