Responses for Show #872 - Tuesday, May 24, 1988

Mark Lowenthal game 5.

Contestants

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Bill Pawlak, an auditor from Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Joshua Kosman, a music critic originally from Haverford, Pennsylvania

Mark Lowenthal, a State Department employee from Reston, Virginia (whose 4-day cash winnings total $45,501)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WESTERN SONGS
INDIANS
HAITI
PROVERBS
FOOD & DRINK
1987
    $100 24
little dogies

Mark
    $100 21
Cherokees

Mark
    $100 1
French

Mark
    $100 6
saves nine

Joshua
    $100 16
clam chowder

Mark
    $100 9
(Mark: Who is Arthur Kennedy?)
...
(Alex: [*] is the jurist, Arthur Kennedy is the actor.)

Anthony Kennedy

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

on the lone prairie

Joshua
    $200 22
(Alex: One minute to go in the round.)

smallpox germs (diseases)

Mark
    $200 2
Columbus

Mark
    $200 7
but the flesh is weak

Joshua
    $200 17
red

Mark
    $200 12
toy guns that look like real ones

Mark
    $300 23
Mojave

Joshua
    $300 3
(Bill: What is rum?)

salt

Bill
Triple Stumper
    $300 8
a woman's work is never done

Mark
    $300 18
Perrier

Joshua
    $300 13
dissect a frog

Triple Stumper
    $400 25
a state

Triple Stumper
    $400 4
slaves

Mark
    $500 10
(Joshua: Can't get it, sorry.)
(Alex: [*] by The Essex.)
[The song was not played going into the break.]

"Easier Said Than Done"

Joshua
    $400 19
(Bill: Uh, what is mackerel?)
(Mark: What is salmon?)

sardines

MarkBill
Triple Stumper
    $400 14
(José Napoleón) Duarte

Mark
    $500 26
(Mark: Who are the Iroquois?)

Navajo

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $500 5
Port-au-Prince

Bill
    $500 11
spread

Mark
    $500 20
(Bill: Uh, what is oatmeal?)
(Mark: What is cereal?)

flour

MarkBill
Triple Stumper
    $500 15
saluting

Mark

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

Mark Joshua Bill
$900 -$100 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Joshua Bill
$1,800 $700 -$700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE
WORLD RELIGION
UTILITIES
MOVIE AUTHORS
THE 1890s
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
    $200 21
penguins

Mark
    $200 12
Tibet

Mark
    $200 6
the Shelleys

Joshua
    $200 10
zipper

Joshua
    $200 1
[Bill was the trailing player, but Joshua was given first selection to make up for Alex inadvertently giving control to Bill during the Jeopardy! Round.]

possessive

Bill
    $400 22
duct

Mark
    $400 14
Ganges

Joshua
    $400 7
Dashiell Hammett

Joshua
    $400 13
Abraham Lincoln

Joshua
    $400 2
connoisseur

Joshua
    $1,000 23
(Mark: What is atmospheric pressure?)
...
(Mark: I will get a lot of grief for that.)
(Alex: I'm sure you will.)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

atomic number

Mark
    $600 15
(Bill: What are penances?)

indulgences

Bill
Triple Stumper
    $600 8
Agatha Christie

Joshua
    $600 18
Carnegie Hall

Mark
    $600 3
(Joshua: What is Crackerjack?)

fiddle-faddle

Joshua
Triple Stumper
    $800 16
(Mark: What are the elders of the church?)

bishops

MarkJoshua
    $800 9
(Mark: What is Zola?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Mark: What is Emile Zola?)
(Alex: Be even more specific.)
(Mark: What is [*]?)
[Laughter]
(Mark: It took a lot of life out of me.)

The Life of Emile Zola

Mark
    $800 19
Cuba

Mark
    $800 4
(Mark: What is pork barrel?)
(Joshua: What is a pork barrel bill?)

boondoggle

MarkJoshua
Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
elders

Joshua
    $1000 11
(Mark: What is The Yearling?)

Crosscreek

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
(Scott) Joplin

Mark
    $1,000 5
(Joshua: Who is... Woodrow Wilson?)

William Henry Harrison or Millard Fillmore

Joshua

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Joshua Bill
$2,200 $2,700 -$1,100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE U.S. SENATE
(Alex: [To Mark] Thinking of Senator Edward Brooke?)
MarkWhat is Massachusetts?
$2,200
JoshuaWhat is LA.?
$1,001
Massachusetts

Final scores:

Mark Joshua Bill
$4,400 $1,699 -$1,100
5-day champion: $49,901 + Jeopardy! box game 2nd place: Silent Thunder limited edition serigraph by Eyvind Earle from Robert Bane Editions & Smart Start lighting + Jeopardy! box game 3rd place: Emerson VHS recorder + Jeopardy! box game

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mark Joshua Bill
$3,200 $4,200 -$1,100
20 R,
8 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
4 W
(including 2 DDs)		 2 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $6,300

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Game tape date: 1988-01-26
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