Responses for Show #558 - Wednesday, January 28, 1987

Contestants

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Mary Frances Smith, a homemaker from Memphis, Tennessee

Rex Schultz, a trial lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland

Jim Crawford, a letter carrier from Seal Beach, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1951
B.B.
SOUTH AMERICA
BOWLING
COUNTRY MUSIC
STUPID ANSWERS
    $100 4
(Rex: What is the phone company?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
...
(Alex: That is the phone company in question.)

AT&T

Rex
    $100 12
Brigitte Bardot

Mary Frances
    $100 11
cocaine

Mary Frances
    $100 1
(Rex: What is a bowling ball?)

bowling pin

JimRex
    $100 26
(Mary Frances: Who is her husband?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

her father

Mary Frances
Triple Stumper
    $100 21
Hans Holbein the Elder

Mary Frances
    $200 5
(Alex: Our state of war with [*]; Sorry Mary Frances, you didn’t ring in fast enough.)

Germany

Triple Stumper
    $200 13
Boris Becker

Rex
    $600 14
(3 of) Chile, Peru, Ecuador (Colombia)

Rex
    $200 2
3

Jim
    $200 22
(Alex: We've got a minute to go in the round.)

Joan Lunden

Rex
    $300 6
Sears

Jim
    $300 16
Bill Bradley

Jim
    $300 15
Paraguay

Jim
    $300 3
thumb

Rex
    $300 23
birds

Rex
    $400 8
(Ethel and Julius) Rosenbergs

Rex
    $400 17
Bill Blass

Rex
    $400 18
(Alex: [*] are the tropical rain forests.)

Selvas

Triple Stumper
    $400 7
60 feet

Rex
    $400 24
the Whitney Museum

Rex
    $500 9
communism

Jim
    $500 20
Benjamin Britten

Mary Frances
    $500 19
Venezuela

Triple Stumper
    $500 10
(Jim: What is 2?)

4

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $500 25
[Laughter & applause]
(Alex: They love it when you're stupid.)
[Laughter]
(Alex: I mean when you get the right response.)

New Zealand

Rex

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

Jim Rex Mary Frances
$600 $1,100 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Rex Mary Frances
$1,200 $3,700 $700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PEN NAMES
FOOD & DRINK
TV NOSTALGIA
AUTOMOBILES
ART
COWBOY TALK
    $200 3
Sholom Aleichem

Jim
    $200 1
7 Up

Mary Frances
    $200 4
Amos 'n' Andy

Rex
    $200 17
a seat belt law

Jim
    $200 16
(Mary Frances: What is Rome?)

Venice

RexMary Frances
    $200 18
chaps

Jim
    $400 5
Booth

Mary Frances
    $400 2
water

Rex
    $400 10
logging (lumberjacks)

Mary Frances
    $400 21
600 miles per hour

Mary Frances
    $400 25
George Washington cutting down the cherry tree

Triple Stumper
    $400 19
(Rex: Uh, what are his jeans?)

his hat (Stetson)

JimRex
    $600 6
Stephen Crane

Jim
    $600 9
ham

Rex
    $600 13
(Alex: Anything that has to do with food, you're cleaning up on, way to go.)
[Laughter]

Elsie the Cow

Mary Frances
    $600 22
(Alex: We would have accepted a whole slew of responses in this; we called it, [*].)
[Laughter]

making out

Triple Stumper
    $600 26
(Mary Frances: What is the South Seas?)

outdoors

Mary Frances
Triple Stumper
    $600 20
[NOTE: Rex gave both responses.]

a six shooter (a gun)

Rex
    $800 7
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rex
    $800 11
cheddar

Mary Frances
    $800 14
The Real McCoys

Mary Frances
    $1,000 23
(Mary Frances: What are [*] and... no idea.)
(Alex: Oh, there was a TV, there was a movie starring Laurence Olivier, it was called, [**].)

Wheels & The Betsy

Mary Frances
    $1,000 27
[Alex holds up a shirt.]
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

(Piet) Mondrian

Mary Frances
    $1000 8
John Dickson Carr

Mary Frances
    $1000 12
(Rex: What is saffron?)

turmeric

Rex
Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go, Mary Frances.)

a 4-wheel drive automobile

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Rex Mary Frances
$2,800 $5,100 $4,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS WOMEN
(Mary Frances: Absolute blank.)
(Alex: Well, you did so well in the art category a while ago I guess you figured you'd continue it.)
JimWho is Queen Victoria?
$2,800
Mary FrancesWho was Grandma Moses
$4,000
RexWho was Queen Victoria
$4,000
Queen Victoria

Final scores:

Jim Rex Mary Frances
$5,600 $9,100 $500
2nd place: trip to Palm Springs & stay at Ingleside Inn + Pinseeker golf clubs with bag New champion: $9,100 3rd place: Emerson 20" TV

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jim Rex Mary Frances
$2,800 $4,700 $5,300
11 R,
1 W
17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
13 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $12,800

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Game tape date: 1986-11-04
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