Responses for Show #931 - Monday, September 26, 1988

Chris Shea game 4.

Contestants

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Marcia Johnson, from Michigan

Mark Nelson, an Army officer from Hameln, West Germany

Chris Shea, a radio operator from Los Angeles, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $23,401)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE '50s
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
AUTHORS
ANIMALS
SPORTSCASTERS
(Alex: And finally, we have an all-music category called...)
MOVIE THEMES
    $100 22
Brylcreem

Chris
    $100 20
(Alex: One minute to go in the round.)

waterproof

Mark
    $100 1
Daniel Defoe

Chris
    $100 4
honey

Mark
    $100 16
the Celtics

Mark
    $100 11
[The clue screen came up blank. A full-screen-size video picture of the players slid in from the left side of the screen and popped into place in what appeared to be a video glitch.]

(the theme from) Star Wars

Mark
    $200 23
uranium

Chris
    $200 15
a long-playing record

Marcia
    $200 2
(Alex: Mark Twain did not like that man's work.)

(James Fenimore) Cooper

Chris
    $200 5
(Mark: What is bullfinch?)
...
(Alex: Mark misunderstood the question. We were going for the man, not the bird.)

Darwin

ChrisMark
    $200 12
[This time, a video picture of the players zoomed from the clue screen on the game board.]

Arthur

Mark
    $600 24
(Chris: What is a passenger jet?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a helicopter

Chris
    $300 14
Nobel

Chris
    $300 3
(Mark: Who was Mann?)

Thomas Wolfe

MarkMarcia
    $300 8
poison

Mark
    $300 13
[Again, a video picture of the players zoomed from the clue screen on the game board.]
(Alex: [*] with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford--what a marvelous film that was.)

The Way We Were

Chris
    $400 18
orange

Triple Stumper
    $400 6
(Frank) Baum

Mark
    $400 9
green

Mark
    $400 17
[Again, a video picture of the players zoomed from the clue screen on the game board.]

(theme from) Chariots of Fire

Chris
    $500 19
(Mark: What is Wilkinson?)

Sheffield

ChrisMark
    $500 7
(Marcia: Who is Mark Twain?)

(William) Faulkner

MarkMarcia
    $500 10
(Marcia: What is a web?)

a cocoon

Marcia
Triple Stumper
    $500 21
(Mark What is Born Free?)

Lawrence of Arabia

MarkMarcia

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 10):

Chris Mark Marcia
$500 $1,200 -$700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Chris Mark Marcia
$1,700 $700 $0

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

1ST FAMILY TRIVIA
ART
CHEMISTRY
QUOTES
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
(Alex: And finally, a very specialized category...)
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
    $200 1
Reagan

Mark
    $200 25
Spain

Mark
    $200 29
Teflon

Marcia
    $200 7
the lamb

Marcia
    $200 2
the Badlands

Marcia
    $200 20
lay it over a mud puddle

Chris
    $400 3
Luci Johnson

Marcia
    $400 22
(Auguste) Rodin

Mark
    $400 30
rust (ferric oxide)

Mark
    $400 8
the unicorn

Chris
    $400 10
North Carolina

Mark
    $400 17
France

Mark
    $600 4
Alice Roosevelt

Marcia
    $600 21
Toulouse-Lautrec

Mark
    $600 26
(Mark: What is electrons?)
(Marcia: What are protons?)
[Alex waits several seconds before ruling Marcia wrong, apparently giving her an opportunity to amend her response that she did not take advantage of.]
...
(Alex: Mark and Marcia were all over that atom, but they didn't get the right response. We've got less than a minute to go, Chris.)

protons & neutrons

ChrisMarkMarcia
    $600 9
[Alex gave the parenthetical part of the response.]

"(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear"

Mark
    $1,000 11
the Piedmont

Mark
    $600 16
the Tower of London

Mark
    $800 5
(Alex: Yeah, but you wouldn't want to drink it, I--)
(Marcia: Don't think so!)

Billy Beer

Marcia
    $800 23
(Hans) Holbein (the Younger)

Chris
    $800 27
(Marcia: What's sulfuric acid?)
(Mark: What is "sodium hypochlorate"?)

sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)

MarkMarcia
Triple Stumper
    $800 13
the den

Mark
    $800 12
the Continental Divide

Marcia
    $800 18
Roanoke Island

Chris
    $1,000 6
Robert Lincoln

Marcia
    $1000 24
[Mark signals in just before the time's-up signal sounds, and Alex acknowledges him.]

sculptures

Mark
    $1000 28
carbon dioxide

Chris
    $1000 15
Samson

Chris
    $1000 14
Oklahoma

Marcia
    $1000 19
(Alex: Who is Errol Flynn? We know him better as Lord--[*].)
[The contestants laugh.]

Lord Essex

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Chris Mark Marcia
$6,500 $5,900 $3,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICANA
(Alex: [To Mark] Remember, the Olympics were in '84, not '86. That should've been an important clue for you.)
MarciaWhat is the Olympic Ring Symbol?
$3,800
MarkWhat is this Olympic Symbol?
$5,800
ChrisWhat is the Statue of liberty
$5,301
the Statue of Liberty

Final scores:

Chris Mark Marcia
$11,801 $100 $0
4-day champion: $35,202 2nd place: Krementz 14-karat gold signet rings for him & her engraved with your initials + Meade Model 310 telescope 3rd place: Helbros sports watches, hers with 14 genuine diamonds & his with 22

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Chris Mark Marcia
$7,100 $5,500 $3,800
16 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)
21 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
12 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $16,400

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Game tape date: 1988-07-25
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