Responses for Show #982 - Tuesday, December 6, 1988

Contestants

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Joe Ornstein, a proofreader from Brooklyn, New York

Debby Mittelman, a law student from Scottsdale, Arizona

Jack Lechner, a freelance writer originally from Arlington, Virginia (whose 4-day cash winnings total $33,300)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORD ORIGINS
SCIENCE
GAMES
INTERNATIONAL SHOPPING
PEOPLE
POTPOURRI
    $100 7
g-string

Joe
    $100 13
A

Jack
    $100 1
dominoes

Triple Stumper
    $100 6
Red China

Jack
    $100 10
Oliver North

Joe
    $100 18
baptism

Debby
    $200 8
shucks

Jack
    $200 27
pendulum

Debby
    $200 2
shuffleboard

Joe
    $800 15
[During the break, a 15-piece matryoshka doll is lined up on Alex's lectern.]
(Alex: We have a bigger one, but it wouldn't fit on the podium.)

they fit within each other

Joe
    $200 14
Anne Frank

Joe
    $200 19
roller coaster

Jack
    $300 9
excruciating

Debby
    $300 28
fusion

Jack
    $300 3
syllables

Joe
    $300 16
La Paz

Jack
    $300 17
Sir Edmund Hillary

Joe
    $300 22
town crier

Jack
    $400 11
bedlam

Debby
    $400 29
neurons (and glia)

Jack
    $400 4
I Doubt It

Joe
    $400 25
Shannon Airport

Debby
    $400 20
Michael Reagan

Jack
    $400 23
cotton

Debby
    $500 12
towhead

Joe
    $500 30
milk

Joe
    $500 5
Three-card Monte

Joe
    $500 26
lace

Joe
    $500 21
Nelson Mandela

Jack
    $500 24
(Alex: And we've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

Poor Richard's Almanack

Triple Stumper

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

Jack Debby Joe
$400 $700 $3,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jack Debby Joe
$2,800 $1,800 $4,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORY
TRANSPORTATION
FINE CHINA
U.S. CITIES
ACTORS & ROLES
MASKS
    $200 12
Henry Kissinger

Jack
    $200 23
(Alex: We have a minute to go.)

wind tunnel

Joe
    $200 8
bone china

Jack
    $200 15
Atlanta

Debby
    $200 2
Tarzan

Jack
    $200 1
hockey mask

Jack
    $400 13
(Jack: What is Labour?)
(Debby: What is the Liberal Party?)

Conservative Party

JackDebbyJoe
    $400 24
bicycles

Joe
    $400 14
blue & white

Debby
    $400 16
New Orleans

Jack
    $400 3
Horse

Debby
    $400 7
"Who is that masked man?"

Joe
    $600 17
(Jack: What is Pakistan?)

China

Jack
Triple Stumper
    $600 25
sleds

Joe
    $600 28
[end-of-round signal sounds]

Limoges

Joe
    $600 20
Lincoln

Jack
    $600 4
Mr. Belvedere

Jack
    $600 9
World War I

Debby
    $800 18
John F. Kennedy

Triple Stumper
    $800 26
St. Louis

Jack
    $800 21
Buffalo

Debby
    $800 5
Interiors

Jack
    $1,000 10
(Debby: Who is the Greek goddess of acting?)

Antoinette Perry

Debby
    $800 19
Willy Brandt

Jack
    $1000 27
(Joe: What is the Hindenburg?)
(Jack: What is the Graf Spee?)
(Alex: The Graf Spee was a battleship.)

Graf Zeppelin

JackJoe
Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
(Jack: What is California?)
(Alex: Looking for the city, not the state.)

San Francisco

JackJoe
    $1000 6
Carlotta

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
"The Masque of the Red Death"

Jack

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jack Debby Joe
$5,600 $2,800 $7,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CIVIL WAR
(Alex: He was shot by mistake.)
DebbyWho is Sherman
$2,800
JackWho is McClellan?
$1
JoeWho is Stonewall Jackson?
$5,000
Stonewall Jackson

Final scores:

Jack Debby Joe
$5,599 $0 $12,000
2nd place: Lehigh bedroom furniture & Kingsdown Ultimate sleep set 3rd place: Jules Jurgensen his & her watches New champion: $12,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jack Debby Joe
$5,800 $3,800 $6,400
21 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 11 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $16,000

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Game tape date: 1988-09-26
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