Responses for Show #570 - Friday, February 13, 1987

Contestants

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Lew Fox, a retired businessman originally from Floral Park, New York

Sue O'Donnell, a registered nurse from DeWitt, New York

Virginia Sielen, a homemaker from Oakton, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,599)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1927
GAMES
YELLOW SONGS
OLD TESTAMENT
TRANSPORTATION
IN OTHER WORDS...
    $100 1
dominoes

Sue
    $100 13
the Yellow Brick Road

Sue
    $100 7
bread

Sue
    $100 27
bicycle

Virginia
    $100 6
putting one's foot in one's mouth

Lew
    $200 2
bingo

Virginia
    $200 14
"Yellow Submarine"

Lew
    $200 9
scapegoat

Lew
    $200 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

canoes

Virginia
    $200 8
(Lew: What is taking candy from a baby?)
(Alex: Right.)
(Lew: Like.)
[Laughter.]

like taking candy from a baby

Lew
    $300 17
Al Capone

Sue
    $300 3
16

Virginia
    $300 21
Pepsodent

Sue
    $300 20
(Lew: What is the Red Sea?)

Mediterranean

VirginiaLew
    $300 10
[ERRATUM: Istanbul was spelled incorrectly.]

Orient Express

Virginia
    $300 11
Open, sesame!

Virginia
    $400 18
Great Britain

Lew
    $400 4
backgammon

Triple Stumper
    $400 22
"Mellow Yellow"

Virginia
    $400 24
(Alex: Less than a minute to go, Virginia.)

bring them back to life

Triple Stumper
    $400 15
walking

Lew
    $400 12
haste makes waste

Sue
    $500 19
Mississippi

Virginia
    $500 5
mah-jongg

Virginia
    $500 23
Civil War

Virginia
    $500 25
Rebekah

Triple Stumper
    $500 16
(helium) balloon

Lew
    $500 26
There's no use crying over spilt milk

Virginia

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Virginia Sue Lew
$1,600 $600 $500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Virginia Sue Lew
$4,100 $1,300 $1,700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CITIES
ANIMAL TRIVIA
STARTS WITH "H"
POLITICS
ART
SHOW BIZ BUSINESS
    $200 1
Berlin

Virginia
    $200 8
(1 of) camel (or elephant)

Lew
    $200 12
hoop

Lew
    $200 4
Lincoln

Virginia
    $200 22
Latin

Virginia
    $200 21
Disney

Virginia
    $400 2
Switzerland

Lew
    $400 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

giant pandas

Virginia
    $400 3
headstone

Sue
    $400 17
slavery

Lew
    $400 23
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

kissing

Lew
    $400 13
[The movie's title used middle dots and no quotes.]

Robert Altman

Sue
    $600 5
Detroit

Virginia
    $600 24
(Virginia: Uh, what is, uh, throw its quills?)
(Lew: What is go underground?)

roll up into a ball

VirginiaLew
Triple Stumper
    $600 9
hoax

Sue
    $600 20
Dixiecrats

Virginia
    $600 14
colorizing them

Virginia
    $800 6
Perth

Sue
    $800 26
The Deer Hunter

Triple Stumper
    $800 10
(Sue: What are hotels?)

hospitals

VirginiaSue
    $800 18
(Sue: What are the Whigs?)

Federalists

SueLew
    $800 15
Linda Ellerbee

Sue
    $800 7
(Sue: What is Tangiers?)

Algiers

Sue
    $1000 25
(Sue: What is a [*]?)
[Sue was ruled incorrect and after the last clue of the Double Jeopardy! round she had -1100 with Alex saying goodbye to her. After Alex revealed the Final Jeopardy! category he let Sue know her response was acceptable and that she would be playing in the Final Jeopardy! round.]

woodpecker* (sapsucker)

Sue
    $1000 11
(Sue: Uh, what's a half moon?)

humble pie

SueLew
    $1000 19
Strom Thurmond

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 16
(Sue: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks & Harold Lloyd?)
(Alex: You were incorrect and as well you didn't phrase it in the form of a question.)

(3 of) Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin & D.W. Griffith

Sue

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Virginia Sue Lew
$7,300 $900 $4,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS LASTS
[Alex and the judges took a little bit of time to decide that Lew's response was acceptable.]
SueWhat was to walk on the moon?
$100
LewWhat is visiting the moon?
$4,500
VirginiaWhat is walk on the moon?
$1,701
walk on the Moon

Final scores:

Virginia Sue Lew
$9,001 $1,000 $9,000
2-day champion: $17,600 3rd place: Tappan microwave 2nd place: Broyhill 6-piece oak bedroom set + the quality of comfort (bedding) from The Company Store

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Virginia Sue Lew
$7,300 $2,700 $4,500
21 R,
1 W
12 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)
14 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $14,500

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Game tape date: 1986-11-11
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