Responses for Show #1281 - Monday, March 12, 1990

Contestants

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Sarah Stegall, a writer from Austin, Texas

Ken Mitchell, a naval officer from The Philippines

Jamie Orenstein, an attorney from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,399)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

IT'S "MAGIC"
VOCABULARY
MONEY
THE CONSTITUTION
GAMES
SHOW BIZ BIOGRAPHIES
    $100 14
Magic Marker

Jamie
    $100 12
Casino

Sarah
    $100 9
Sierra Leone

Jamie
    $100 1
Assemble

Jamie
    $100 6
Cross the road

Sarah
    $100 23
Peter Finch

Jamie
    $200 20
Earvin "Magic" Johnson

Jamie
    $200 13
(Ken: What is madam?)
(Jamie: What is senora?)
(Sarah: What is dona?)
(Alex: Sarah, you forgot to ring in.)
(Sarah: What is...)
(Alex: Sorry, that is wrong.)
(Sarah: Rats!)
(Alex: That's a good explanation!)

Madonna

JamieKenSarah
Triple Stumper
    $200 10
U.S. Dollar

Ken
    $200 2
Gouverneur Morris

Jamie
    $200 7
Gotham City

Sarah
    $200 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Billie Holiday

Sarah
    $300 24
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in the round.)

the magic lantern

Ken
    $300 17
(J: What is concede?)
(S: What is submit?)

Capitulate

JamieSarah
Triple Stumper
    $300 11
Poland

Sarah
    $300 3
Sign the Constitution

Jamie
    $300 8
Ladders

Jamie
    $400 25
(Ken: What is "You Can Do Magic"?)
(Jamie: What is "Every Little Thing She Do Is Magic"?)
(Alex: No... I'm going to call time on this one and fault you, Jamie, for your grammar.)

"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"

JamieKen
Triple Stumper
    $400 18
Tontine

Jamie
    $400 15
Calvin Coolidge

Triple Stumper
    $600 4
(Jamie: [No response])

Commander-In-Chief of the Army & the Navy

Jamie
    $400 21
Sorry!

Jamie
    $500 26
(J: What is "Magic Mountain?")
(A: OK.)

"The Magic Mountain"

Jamie
    $500 19
Pharos

Sarah
    $500 16
Scrip

Ken
    $500 5
A Jury

Jamie
    $500 22
(Ken: Who is Peter Rabbit?)

Uncle Wiggily

KenSarah

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

Jamie Ken Sarah
$700 $0 $500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jamie Ken Sarah
$1,700 -$100 $1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

19TH CENTURY AMERICANS
THE BODY HUMAN
RELIGION
PLAYWRIGHTS
POTPOURRI
NEW YORK CITY
    $200 17
Noah Webster

Sarah
    $200 19
Heart

Ken
    $200 8
Orthodox

Jamie
    $200 11
George Bernard Shaw

Sarah
    $200 1
Frog

Ken
    $200 5
Grant's Tomb

Jamie
    $400 18
P.T. Barnum

Jamie
    $400 20
Calcium

Ken
    $400 13
Islam

Sarah
    $400 12
Neil Simon

Ken
    $400 2
Pollen

Sarah
    $400 6
Hudson River

Jamie
    $600 22
Jim Corbett

Triple Stumper
    $600 21
(Ken: What is the leg?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Ken: The hip.)
(Alex: No.)

the thigh

KenSarah
    $600 14
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)

Sarah
    $600 24
Lillian Hellman

Jamie
    $600 3
Houses

Ken
    $600 7
Off-Broadway

Ken
    $800 23
(Sarah: Who is Farragut?)
(Jamie: Who is Perry?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Jamie: Admiral Perry?)
(Alex: No.)
(Ken: Who is Commodore Robert Perry?)

Matthew Perry

JamieKenSarah
Triple Stumper
    $800 25
(S: What is the liver?)
(K: What is the kidney?)
(less than a minute to go in the round...)

Spleen

KenSarah
Triple Stumper
    $2,500 15
Buddhism, Confucianism & Taoism

Sarah
    $800 27
Maxwell Anderson

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Cigar

Jamie
    $800 9
The Avenue of the Americas

Jamie
    $1000 26
Glycogen

Sarah
    $1000 16
(S: What is the Church of Christ?)

Baptists

Sarah
Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
(Ken: Who is Irving Berlin?)
...
(Alex: Sarah, we're running out of time. Go again!)

George Abbott

Ken
Triple Stumper
    $1000 29
(Sarah: What is Texas?)
(Jamie: What is New York?)
(Ken: What is Florida?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Georgia

JamieKenSarah
Triple Stumper
    $2,100 10
the Chrysler Building

Jamie

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jamie Ken Sarah
$5,400 -$1,900 $3,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE NOBEL PRIZE
(Alex: According to the Peace Prize committee, if you have been nominated & then died, your estate or your family can receive the award for you.)
SarahWho was Mahatma Gandhi?
$3,600
JamieWho was FDR?
$2,001
Dag Hammarskjold (the secretary-general of the UN who was killed in the plane crash in Africa)

Final scores:

Jamie Ken Sarah
$3,399 -$1,900 $100
2-day champion: $4,798 3rd place: Retronel Flatware service for 8 2nd place: Zenith Portable Computer & Magnavox Color TV

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jamie Ken Sarah
$4,900 -$1,900 $2,000
20 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R,
8 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W

Combined Coryat: $5,000

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Game tape date: 1989-10-24
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