Responses for Show #989 - Thursday, December 15, 1988

Contestants

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Joe Kenyon, a student from Stone Mountain, Georgia

Lee Vinson, a legal secretary originally from Detroit, Michigan

Nancy Feinstein, an emergency room nurse and travel agent from Petaluma, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ARTISTS
TECHNOLOGY
SPORTS
LANGUAGES
FAT MUSIC
SKIN
    $100 6
Mexico

Lee
    $100 23
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)

robots

Lee
    $100 20
Lions

Joe
    $100 2
Arabic

Joe
    $100 1
The Fat Boys

Joe
    $100 4
dermatologist

Joe
    $200 7
Mount Rushmore

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

England

Lee
    $200 21
NBA (National Basketball Association)

Joe
    $200 3
India

Lee
    $800 17
Fats Domino

Lee
    $200 11
sun

Lee
    $300 8
American Gothic

Lee
    $300 22
(Joe: What was he was in jail?)

he refused induction into the United States Army

Joe
Triple Stumper
    $300 5
German

Lee
    $300 18
Mama Cass

Nancy
    $300 12
to close the pores

Nancy
    $400 9
Paris

Lee
    $400 25
soccer

Triple Stumper
    $400 15
United Nations

Triple Stumper
    $400 19
"Weird Al" Yankovic

Joe
    $400 13
color

Nancy
    $500 10
N.C. Wyeth

Triple Stumper
    $500 26
(Lee: Who are the Phillies?)
(Joe: Who are the Pittsburgh Pirates?)
...
(Alex: I don't know why both of you wound up in Pennsylvania when you should have been in New York. Referring to the [*].)

Yankees

LeeJoe
Triple Stumper
    $500 16
(Nancy: What is thank you?)

grazie

NancyLee
    $500 24
she's too fat for me

Joe
    $500 14
retina

Joe

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Nancy Lee Joe
$700 $1,700 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Nancy Lee Joe
$500 $2,800 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FICTIONAL DETECTIVES
COLORS
BRITISH HISTORY
GRAMMAR
ACTRESSES
BONES
    $200 24
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)

(Sam) Spade

Lee
    $200 4
white

Lee
    $200 5
(Captain) Cook

Lee
    $200 1
is full

Lee
    $200 2
Jane Seymour

Joe
    $200 8
cranium

Lee
    $400 25
Hercule Poirot

Joe
    $400 7
brown

Nancy
    $400 6
Lusitania

Joe
    $400 16
around him & me

Nancy
    $400 3
Twiggy

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
tongue

Nancy
    $600 26
Nero Wolfe

Nancy
    $600 11
chartreuse

Lee
    $600 9
Oliver Cromwell

Triple Stumper
    $600 21
adjective

Joe
    $600 13
(Joe: Who is Amy Irving?)

Kathleen Turner

LeeJoe
    $600 18
(Joe: What is the diaphragm?)

rib cage

NancyJoe
    $800 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Philip Marlowe

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 23
(Alex: [*] Storm Rising, The Search for [*] October.)
[Alex got the name of the second novel wrong.]

Red

Joe
    $800 10
(first) cousins

Joe
    $1,000 22
mood

Joe
    $800 14
Jessica Walter

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
(Lee: What is cirrhosis?)
(Nancy: What is stone?)

ossified (ossification)

NancyLee
Triple Stumper
    $1000 27
(Nancy: What is "Lavender"?... [*]?)

"Lavender Blue"

Nancy
    $1000 12
William Pitt

Lee
    $1000 28
little

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Linda Hunt

Lee
    $1000 20
sternum

Nancy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Nancy Lee Joe
$4,100 $6,200 $4,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICANA
(Alex: [To Nancy] Who is [*]? Absolutely right. You don't need the "S" at the end of his name. [*].)
NancyWho is Francis Scott Keys?
$1,700
JoeWho is JFK
$4,400
LeeWho is Washington?
$2,600
Francis Scott Key

Final scores:

Nancy Lee Joe
$5,800 $3,600 $0
2-day champion: $9,400 2nd place: a trip on Eastern to Tampa, Florida & stay at Safety Harbor Spa & Fitness + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version 3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Nancy Lee Joe
$4,100 $5,600 $4,000
10 R,
2 W
20 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
15 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $13,700

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Game tape date: 1988-09-27
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