Responses for Show #623 - Wednesday, April 29, 1987

Contestants

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Linda Shewey, a housewife from Richmond, Virginia

Richard Heft, a screenwriter from North Hollywood, California

Bruce Adelstein, a research consultant from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,700)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WHALES
BEACHES
"RED"
NUMBERS IN SONG
HATS
IF ANYONE ASKS
    $100 3
breathing

Bruce
    $100 16
sand

Linda
    $100 1
Little Red Riding Hood

Richard
    $100 21
16

Bruce
    $100 25
cap

Bruce
    $100 2
(Linda: Who is Tommy Dorsey?)

Jimmy Dorsey

BruceLinda
    $200 4
Sea World

Linda
    $200 17
Daytona Beach

Linda
    $200 5
red rover, red rover

Richard
    $200 9
sweet 16

Richard
    $200 27
doff

Bruce
    $200 10
ampersand

Richard
    $300 6
66,000

Richard
    $300 18
Rio

Linda
    $300 13
red-blooded

Linda
    $300 26
"Sixteen Tons"

Linda
    $300 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Michael Nesmith

Richard
    $300 11
sound

Richard
    $400 7
(Bruce: What is mating?)

coming out of the ocean (jump out of the water)

BruceRichard
    $400 19
lake has risen so much

Linda
    $200 14
Red Buttons

Linda
    $400 22
16th Avenue

Triple Stumper
    $400 12
pope

Linda
    $500 8
(Richard: What are sperm whales?)

baleen (or toothed)

BruceRichard
    $500 20
Lido

Linda
    $500 15
(Richard: What is red snapper?)

blackened redfish

RichardLinda
    $500 23
(Bruce: What is 16 miles?)

15 miles

Bruce
Triple Stumper
    $500 24
Ivory Soap

Linda

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Bruce Richard Linda
$300 $1,200 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bruce Richard Linda
$200 $1,000 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BEETHOVEN
CANADA
SICKNESS & HEALTH
POLITICAL QUOTES
TOUGH TV TRIVIA
JAPANESE WORDS
    $200 12
9

Bruce
    $200 8
beaver

Richard
    $200 7
female

Bruce
    $200 1
Vietnam

Linda
    $200 23
(Bruce: Uh, what is... I'm not sure.)

The Nashville Network

Bruce
Triple Stumper
    $400 13
(Bruce: What is once?)

Beethoven never married

Bruce
Triple Stumper
    $400 18
(Richard: What is Silver?)

Whitehorse

Richard
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 16
(Bruce: Uh, what is backwards?)

lean forward

Bruce
    $400 2
(Richard: Uh, what is [*]?)
(Bruce: Who is P.T. Barnum?)
(Alex: Nope.)
(Alex: Richard, you didn't phrase it in the form of a question. He did phrase it in the form of a question?)
(Richard: Very fast, but I did actually.)
(Alex: Okay, I will bow, I will defer to our judges.)
[Bruce's $400 deduction was not changed.]

you can't fool all of the people all of the time

BruceRichard
    $400 24
Fernwood 2 Night

Richard
    $600 14
Moose Jaw

Bruce
    $600 21
hayfever

Linda
    $500 4
Remember the Maine

Linda
    $600 11
John Daly

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
Gander, Newfoundland

Triple Stumper
    $800 22
eyes

Triple Stumper
    $800 5
(Bruce: Who is Eisenhower?)
(Richard: Who is Adlai Stevenson?)
...
(Alex: Adlai Stevenson was, of course, a Democrat.)

General Douglas MacArthur

BruceRichard
Triple Stumper
    $800 10
Ann Romano

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
his funeral

Linda
    $1000 17
(Bruce: What is the Great Slave Lake?)

Great Bear Lake

Bruce
Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
T cell

Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
Barry Goldwater

Linda
    $1000 9
John Ross

Richard
    $1000 3
[Linda took two tries at the pronunciation and Alex accepted her response.]

netsuke

Linda

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bruce Richard Linda
-$2,600 $1,800 $8,100
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MOUNTAINS
[Linda's wager is unknown, but $100 was assigned as a guess.]
RichardWhat is Egypt?
$1,700
LindaWhat is Syria?
$100
Egypt

Final scores:

Bruce Richard Linda
-$2,600 $3,500 $8,000
3rd place: Colortyme TV 2nd place: vacation in Palm Springs & Ventura luggage New champion: $8,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bruce Richard Linda
-$1,600 $1,800 $8,400
9 R,
8 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
4 W		 18 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $8,600

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Game tape date: 1987-01-07
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