Responses for Show #2887 - Tuesday, March 4, 1997

Contestants

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Lynda Weiner, a housewife and neighborhood geographer from Daly City, California

Paul Cornbleth, an actuary from Las Vegas, Nevada

Jim Diggins, a legal editor from South Euclid, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BRITISH ROYALTY
WINTER OLYMPIC SITES
TRANSPORTATION
MUSICAL TERMS
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
"ZERO"
    $100 26
William

Paul
    $100 1
Calgary

Paul
    $100 11
Charles Lindbergh

Jim
    $100 21
bagpipes

Paul
    $100 13
Halloween

Paul
    $100 6
absolute zero

Paul
    $200 27
Edward

Paul
    $200 2
Japan

Paul
    $200 12
train

Paul
    $200 22
browning

Lynda
    $200 14
Bastille Day

Jim
    $200 7
zero gravity

Paul
    $300 28
(Paul: Who was King Harold?)

Henry VIII

PaulLynda
    $300 3
Lake Placid

Paul
    $300 16
blimp

Jim
    $300 23
(Paul: What is pianissimo?)

adagio

JimPaul
    $300 15
Yom Kippur

Lynda
    $300 8
zero population growth

Paul
    $400 29
Richard III

Lynda
    $600 4
(Alex: Chamonix & Grenoble were the others.)

Albertville

Paul
    $400 17
(Paul: What is the Pony Express?)

Wells Fargo

PaulLynda
    $400 24
octet

Jim
    $400 19
July

Jim
    $400 9
ground zero

Jim
    $500 30
(Lynda: Who was James II?)

James I (or James VI of Scotland)

PaulLynda
    $500 5
(Jim: What is Chamonix?)

St. Moritz

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $500 18
Checker cabs

Lynda
    $500 25
etude

Lynda
    $500 20
Advent

Jim
    $500 10
Zero Mostel

Lynda

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Jim Paul Lynda
$200 $2,100 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Paul Lynda
$2,100 $2,000 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SMALL ISLANDS
SEPTEMBER
SCIENCE
COLORFUL FOOD
ARCHITECTURE
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS
    $200 2
Pacific Ocean

Jim
    $200 6
Tupac Shakur

Jim
    $200 11
electron

Jim
    $200 16
brown

Lynda
    $200 21
lava

Lynda
    $200 26
Hume Cronyn

Jim
    $400 3
Krakatoa

Jim
    $400 7
The Unabomber

Lynda
    $400 12
pea plants

Paul
    $400 17
salmon

Paul
    $400 22
Vienna

Paul
    $400 27
Moliere

Lynda
    $600 1
Lake Erie

Jim
    $600 8
Henry Hudson

Triple Stumper
    $600 13
hormone

Jim
    $600 18
golden delicious

Paul
    $600 23
the United Nations

Paul
    $600 28
Noel Coward

Lynda
    $800 4
(Lynda: What is...[time]?)

French Guiana

JimLynda
    $800 9
rose

Lynda
    $800 14
Rachel Carson

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
(Paul: What is cheese?)
(Alex: Be more specific...)

blue cheeses

Paul
    $800 24
the Bauhaus

Paul
    $800 29
David Mamet

Lynda
    $1,000 5
Macao

Jim
    $1000 10
Jenny Lind

Paul
    $1000 15
Carl Linnaeus

Lynda
    $1000 20
green goddess

Lynda
    $500 25
(Paul: What is the Coliseum?)

the Pantheon

Paul
    $1000 30
Wales

Paul

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Paul Lynda
$6,300 $7,500 $7,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERATURE
JimWhat is The Wizard of Oz?
$1,201
LyndaWhat is The Good Earth?
$7,100
PaulWhat is The Jungle?
$6,901
The Wizard of Oz

Final scores:

Jim Paul Lynda
$7,501 $599 $100
2-day champion: $13,601 2nd place: Lloyd Flanders patio furniture & Ducane 2004SS gas grill 3rd place: Panasonic 5-in-1 office machine

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jim Paul Lynda
$6,300 $7,800 $7,200
17 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $21,300

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Game tape date: 1996-11-20
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