Responses for Show #709 - Thursday, October 8, 1987

Richard Perez-Pena game 2.

Contestants

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Gregg Horne, a helicopter pilot originally from Hampton, Virginia

Mary Sinning, a housewife originally from New Jersey

Richard Perez-Pena, a journalist originally from Cuba (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,799)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ROCKS & MINERALS
SENIOR CITIZENS
LATIN LEGAL LINGO
(Alex: We will give you the English expression, you give me the Latin expression.)
HISTORY
ADVERSARIES
BY GEORGE
(Alex: The final category, [*], has to do with works of art, all of them by people named George. So, "George" will appear in all of the correct responses.)
    $100 13
yellow

Gregg
    $100 3
Homecoming Queen

Richard
    $100 1
nolo contendere

Gregg
    $100 5
Africa

Richard
    $100 12
Robin Hood

Gregg
    $100 20
George Harrison

Mary
    $200 14
(Mary: What is a stalagtite?)
(Alex: Say it again, please.)
(Mary: Stalagtite.)
(Alex: Stalagtite. No, can't give it to you.)
...
(Alex: And the reason I couldn't give it to you, Mary, is because of the great similarity to stalagmite.)

stalactite

RichardMary
    $200 2
de facto

Mary
    $200 6
Spain

Richard
    $200 15
Bugs Bunny

Richard
    $200 21
George Burns

Gregg
    $300 17
obsidian

Richard
    $300 4
non compos mentis

Mary
    $300 7
Athens and Sparta

Richard
    $300 16
the auction business

Gregg
    $500 24
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

George Gershwin

Gregg
    $400 22
(Alex: And we have less than a minute to go.)

sedimentary

Gregg
    $400 10
bona fide (bona fides accepted)

Gregg
    $400 8
1953

Richard
    $400 18
(Richard: Who is Sherlock Holmes?)
...
(Mary: [Without having signaled] Who is [*]?)

Dr. Moriarty

RichardGregg
    $500 23
luster

Triple Stumper
    $500 11
corpus delicti

Richard
    $500 9
Samuel de Champlain

Triple Stumper
    $500 19
Abbott and Costello

Mary

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

Richard Mary Gregg
$1,600 $500 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Richard Mary Gregg
$1,900 $900 $2,500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. CITIES
PERSONAL QUOTES
FLAGS
POETS' CORNER
PUBLISHING
ANCIENT TELEVISION
    $200 1
(Mary: What is Madison, Wisconsin?)

Milwaukee

Mary
Triple Stumper
    $200 11
Richard Nixon

Gregg
    $200 5
July 4th

Richard
    $200 18
Westminster Abbey

Richard
    $200 16
elementary school children

Gregg
    $200 24
Meet the Press

Gregg
    $400 2
(Richard: What is Nashville?)

Memphis

Richard
Triple Stumper
    $400 12
W.C. Fields

Gregg
    $400 7
surrender

Richard
    $400 21
Benet

Mary
    $400 17
(Richard: What is New York City?)

London

RichardMary
    $400 27
telethon

Richard
    $600 3
Tampa & Miami

Mary
    $600 13
Benjamin Disraeli

Richard
    $600 8
red & white

Gregg
    $600 22
(Gregg: What is Greece?)

Italy

RichardGregg
    $600 19
Rupert Murdoch

Mary
    $600 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Dave Garroway

Mary
    $800 4
Huntsville

Gregg
    $800 14
Katharine Hepburn

Richard
    $800 9
the fly

Richard
    $800 23
(Mary: Who is Robert Burns?)
(Gregg: Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?)

Sir Walter Scott

MaryGregg
Triple Stumper
    $800 20
(Richard: What is Barron's?)
(Mary: Who is Hope-Reinhart?)
(Gregg: Who are Harper & Row?)
(Alex: No harm, no foul on that one. Each of you lost the same amount of money.)

McGraw-Hill

RichardMaryGregg
Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
(Mary: What is Austin?)

Dallas

RichardMary
    $1000 15
Raymond Chandler

Richard
    $1,000 10
(Richard: What is the death of a monarch?)

when the monarch is in residence

Richard
    $1000 25
Edgar Allan Poe

Gregg
    $1000 26
Time

Richard

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Richard Mary Gregg
$6,300 $700 $3,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AUTOMOBILES
MaryWhat is Toyota
$699
GreggWhat is Toyota?
$3,000
RichardWhat is Renault?
$2,599
Honda

Final scores:

Richard Mary Gregg
$3,701 $1 $700
2-day champion: $16,500 3rd place: Litton microwave oven 2nd place: PTS Turbo 1000 exercycle & Hitachi 19" TV

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Richard Mary Gregg
$7,300 $700 $3,500
20 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R,
5 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $11,500

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Game tape date: 1987-06-23
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