Responses for Show #984 - Thursday, December 8, 1988

Mark McDermott game 2.

Contestants

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Beverly Feldman, a librarian from Amherst, New York

Keith Lewis, a manager from Allison Park, Pennsylvania

Mark McDermott, an editorial writer originally from Iowa (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PREHISTORIC TIMES
MAGAZINES
POT LUCK
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH
MOVIE PRINCES
MARY ELLEN SAYS
(Alex: But right now, I'm more concerned with what Mark says.)
    $100 9
Tyrannosaurus rex

Mark
    $100 1
Look

Beverly
    $100 16
pajamas

Beverly
    $100 17
knackered

Mark
    $100 4
"Cinderella"

Keith
    $100 26
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in the round.)

hosiery

Mark
    $200 12
the great apes

Mark
    $200 2
Great Britain (England)

Beverly
    $200 22
Mr. Blackwell

Mark
    $200 18
knickers

Mark
    $200 5
Grace Kelly

Keith
    $200 27
tinsel

Keith
    $300 13
(Mark: What is fire?)
(Beverly: What are tools?)

writing

MarkBeverly
Triple Stumper
    $300 3
teenagers

Keith
    $300 23
(Alex: It used to be "Hamelin".)

Hameln

Mark
    $300 19
unlisted

Keith
    $300 6
Purple Rain

Keith
    $300 28
inside out

Keith
    $400 14
bronze

Beverly
    $500 10
Johnny Cash ("I Walk The Line")

Mark
    $400 24
Alexander Hamilton

Mark
    $400 20
(Keith: What is matron?)

sister

MarkKeith
    $400 7
Prince Valiant

Mark
    $400 29
leather

Keith
    $500 15
the Neolithic Age

Mark
    $500 11
Money

Beverly
    $500 25
(Alex: The original [*].)

Ferris wheel

Mark
    $500 21
return

Triple Stumper
    $500 8
The Student Prince

Beverly
    $500 30
wax paper

Keith

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

Mark Keith Beverly
$900 $900 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Keith Beverly
$3,600 $2,200 $1,500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE SOUTHWEST
WORLD POLITICS
INITIALS
LABOR
AMERICAN AUTHORS
FAMOUS DOCTORS
    $200 20
Lyndon Johnson

Keith
    $200 18
(Keith: What is Mongolia?)

Tibet

Keith
Triple Stumper
    $200 6
International Olympic Committee

Keith
    $200 13
the Writers Guild

Keith
    $200 1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Keith
    $200 7
Arthur Conan Doyle

Mark
    $400 26
the saguaro

Mark
    $400 19
(Keith: Who was Gorbachev?)
(Mark: Who was Kosygin?)
...
(Alex: Mikhail Gorbachev is the secretary of the Russian Communist Party.)

Andrei Gromyko

MarkKeith
Triple Stumper
    $400 8
(Alex: For Harry Wayne Casey.)

KC

Keith
    $400 14
migrant farm workers

Keith
    $400 2
Walt Whitman

Keith
    $400 9
Dr. Spock

Keith
    $1,000 27
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

Juarez (or El Paso)

Mark
    $600 21
Cuba

Keith
    $1,000 15
(Alex: The "T" was for Taylor.)

Phineas

Keith
    $600 24
grievance

Mark
    $600 3
France

Keith
    $600 10
(Beverly: Who was Webster?)

(Peter Mark) Roget

KeithBeverly
    $800 28
(Mark: Who was Pizarro?)

(Francisco Vazquez de) Coronado

MarkBeverly
    $800 22
Transylvania

Keith
    $800 16
garbage in, garbage out

Mark
    $800 25
(Beverly: What is not to strike?)

not to form a union

Beverly
Triple Stumper
    $800 4
(Keith: Who was Joseph Conrad?)

Jerzy Kosinski

KeithBeverly
    $800 11
Mayo

Mark
    $1000 30
the Four Corners

Mark
    $1000 23
Burma

Keith
    $1000 17
BMW

Mark
    $1000 29
(Keith: Who was Baker?)

William Brock

Keith
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Carolyn Keene

Mark
    $1000 12
(Walter) Reed

Beverly

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Keith Beverly
$9,200 $6,800 $2,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

INVENTORS
BeverlyWho is Ohm
$2,300
KeithWho was Alex G. Bell?
$6,799
MarkWho is Bell?
$4,401
Alexander Graham Bell

Final scores:

Mark Keith Beverly
$13,601 $13,599 $400
2-day champion: $24,402 2nd place: a La-Z-Boy Electrolounger power recliner + Ambassador vertical blinds 3rd place: an Excel exercise rower & cycle

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mark Keith Beverly
$8,700 $6,400 $2,700
22 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 9 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $17,800

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Game tape date: 1988-09-26
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