Responses for Show #1266 - Monday, February 19, 1990

Contestants

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Susan Davis, a teacher from Warrior Run, Pennsylvania

Dennis Shirilla, a shopping mall manager from San Antonio, Texas

Terry Swart, a medical research technician from Norwalk, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,300)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PRESIDENTS
SLANG
FOOD
SINGERS
COMMUNICATION
CUBA
    $100 16
Lyndon B. Johnson

Terry
    $100 9
bug

Susan
    $100 4
Hollandaise sauce

Terry
    $100 1
Paul McCartney

Susan
    $100 10
microphone

Terry
    $100 15
sugarcane

Susan
    $200 26
Abraham Lincoln

Dennis
    $200 11
robbing the cradle

Dennis
    $200 5
tomatoes

Terry
    $200 2
Aretha Franklin

Dennis
    $200 17
(Dennis: [Without ringing in] What is [*]?)
(Alex: Somebody has to ring in. Terry?)
(Terry: What is [*]?)
(Alex: Yes, that's right; you have to be careful about that, Dennis: don't speak until [*]--in this case, me--has recognized you.)

the speaker

Terry
    $200 22
Bay of Pigs

Terry
    $300 27
(Susan: Who is George Bush?)

Ronald Reagan

DennisSusan
    $300 12
putt-putt

Triple Stumper
    $300 6
South America

Terry
    $300 3
Roger Miller ("King of the Road")

Terry
    $300 20
wink

Terry
    $300 23
(Alex: Minute to go in the round.)

Ernest Hemingway

Susan
    $400 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Theodore Roosevelt

Dennis
    $400 13
a flap

Terry
    $400 7
pastrami

Terry
    $1,400 18
(Alex: I just love watching our contestants when that smile of recognition appears!)

The Who ("Christmas" from the rock opera Tommy)

Terry
    $400 21
Voice of America

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
Fulgencio Batista

Dennis
    $500 28
Richard Nixon

Dennis
    $500 14
the 19th hole

Terry
    $500 8
a lobster

Dennis
    $500 19
Carly Simon

Terry
    $500 25
money

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Terry Dennis Susan
$2,300 $900 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Terry Dennis Susan
$5,000 $2,700 $300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

STATE CAPITALS
ANIMALS
LITERATURE
GAMES
OPERA
SCIENTISTS
    $200 15
Dover, Delaware

Susan
    $200 2
(Terry: What are buffalo?)

elephants

TerrySusan
    $200 10
Oliver Twist

Dennis
    $200 1
Oreos

Dennis
    $200 8
Hernando Cortez

Dennis
    $200 14
Robert Bunsen

Dennis
    $400 16
Bismarck, North Dakota

Dennis
    $400 3
(Susan: What is the lion?)

tiger

DennisSusan
    $400 13
Robert Burns

Terry
    $400 4
sink them

Dennis
    $400 27
Henrik Ibsen

Dennis
    $400 20
Jacques Cousteau

Terry
    $600 17
Honolulu, Hawaii

Triple Stumper
    $600 9
swallows

Terry
    $600 24
J.R.R. Tolkien

Dennis
    $600 5
(Dennis: What is Mr. Cootie?)
[Originally accepted as correct]

Cootie

Dennis
Triple Stumper
    $600 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Sir Arthur Sullivan

Triple Stumper
    $600 21
(Alex: Minute to go in the round.)

Guglielmo Marconi

Terry
    $800 18
(Dennis: What is Virginia?)

Montgomery, Alabama

Dennis
Triple Stumper
    $1,500 11
(Alex: [Before giving the clue] Dennis, we have a scoring change to make, and it goes back to your response of "Mr. Cootie", which was incorrect, so we have to deduct $1200 from your score.)
...
(Dennis: What is the wolf... the timberwolf?)
(Alex: No, you see a lot of them in Southern California.)

the coyote

Dennis
    $800 26
purple (Riders of the Purple Sage)

Susan
    $1,300 6
(2 of) candlestick, knife, pipe, revolver, rope, & wrench

Dennis
    $800 22
Louis Pasteur

Terry
    $1000 19
Oklahoma City

Terry
    $1000 12
(Dennis: What are dolphins?)
...
(Alex: You find them in Florida, they're an endangered species.)

manatees

Dennis
Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
"Grow Old With Me"

Terry
    $1000 7
Rook

Terry
    $1000 23
Sir Henry Bessemer

Susan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Terry Dennis Susan
$10,600 $3,100 $2,100
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT HISTORY
(Alex: Remember, we never penalize the contestants for spelling in Final Jeopardy!)
SusanWho is Pompi?
$2,000
DennisWho is Pompeii?
$3,000
TerryWho was Brutus?
$400
Pompey

Final scores:

Terry Dennis Susan
$10,200 $6,100 $4,100
2-day champion: $18,500 2nd place: Trip to Nassau, Bahamas 3rd place: His & Hers tailored clothing

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Terry Dennis Susan
$9,600 $4,100 $2,100
22 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 8 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $15,800

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Game tape date: 1989-10-10
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