Responses for Show #1250 - Friday, January 26, 1990

Contestants

Debbie Howe, an education administrator from Rochester, New York

Rob Lasker, a humanities student from Detroit, Michigan

Ray Baxter, a lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

"G" WHIZ
CITY NICKNAMES
PEOPLE
SONGS OF THE '60S
POLITICAL TERMS & SLOGANS
AMUSEMENT PARKS
    $100 16
the graveyard shift

Ray
    $100 21
San Francisco

Ray
    $100 7
Elvis Presley

Ray
    $100 6
Papa

Ray
    $100 1
Barry Goldwater

Ray
    $100 26
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in the round.)

they get wet

Debbie
    $200 17
(Rob: What is a grandmother knot?)
...
(Alex: No...we don't usually call it that.)

a granny knot

RayRob
    $200 22
Dallas

Debbie
    $200 8
Charo

Ray
    $200 12
love

Rob
    $200 2
"The Silent Majority"

Ray
    $200 27
The Magic Kingdom

Rob
    $300 18
"Grog"

Triple Stumper
    $300 23
Denver

Rob
    $300 9
Spike Lee

Ray
    $500 13
Jan & Dean ("Surf City")

Rob
    $300 3
detente

Ray
    $300 28
the first one

Ray
    $400 19
gird

Ray
    $400 24
Rome

Debbie
    $400 10
Pierre Salinger

Triple Stumper
    $400 14
Dionne Warwick

Debbie
    $400 4
The New Deal

Debbie
    $400 29
Six Flags

Debbie
    $500 20
grouse

Ray
    $500 25
Paris

Debbie
    $500 11
Joseph Papp

Rob
    $500 15
(Rob: What is "Another Love"?)

Another You

Rob
Triple Stumper
    $500 5
(Rob: What is the Monroe Doctrine?)

The Embargo ("O Grab Me") Act

Rob
Triple Stumper
    $500 30
Hersheypark

Rob

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

Ray Rob Debbie
$1,300 $700 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ray Rob Debbie
$2,900 $1,000 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

1987
MYTHOLOGY
WORD ORIGINS
MEDICAL HISTORY
THEATER
MUSHROOMS
(Alex: What can you do with mushrooms? We'll find out.)
    $200 8
Liberace

Ray
    $200 1
Zeus

Rob
    $200 16
(Rob: What is eccentric?)

ornery

Rob
Triple Stumper
    $200 21
soap

Rob
    $200 6
Christopher Reeve

Rob
    $200 26
spores

Debbie
    $400 9
Deng Xiaoping

Rob
    $400 2
himself

Debbie
    $400 17
fascism

Rob
    $400 22
thermometer

Rob
    $400 7
Oh! Calcutta!

Ray
    $400 27
a Jack-O'-Lantern

Rob
    $600 10
Douglas Ginsberg

Ray
    $600 3
Ra

Triple Stumper
    $1,500 18
philosopher

Rob
    $600 23
blood

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 13
(Rob: Who is Moss Hart?)

Thornton Wilder

Rob
    $600 28
whether poisonous or edible

Ray
    $800 11
Baby "M"

Debbie
    $800 4
swans

Rob
    $800 19
nifty

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
(Alex: A minute to go in the round.)

smallpox

Debbie
    $800 14
dog

Ray
    $800 29
mine

Debbie
    $1000 12
U.S.S. Stark

Rob
    $1000 5
(Debbie: Who is Juno?)
...
(Alex: Juno is the Roman goddess; we were going for the Greek.)

Hera

Debbie
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
(Ray: What is perturb?)

petulant

RayDebbie
    $1000 25
Andreas Vesalius

Rob
    $1000 15
"Becky Sharp"

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
fairy ring

Ray

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ray Rob Debbie
$5,500 $6,300 $5,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN AUTHORS
DebbieWho was Steven Crane?
$5,300
RayWho was Crane?
$5,400
RobWho was CRANE?
$4,700
Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage)

Final scores:

Ray Rob Debbie
$10,900 $11,000 $10,700
2nd place: Trip to Puerto Rico & St. Kitts New champion: $11,000 3rd place: Pinseeker Golf Clubs

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ray Rob Debbie
$5,500 $6,200 $5,400
19 R,
1 W		 17 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $17,100

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Game tape date: 1989-09-25
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