Responses for Show #985 - Friday, December 9, 1988

Mark McDermott game 3.

Contestants

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Keith Herrell, a copy editor from Cincinnati, Ohio

Mary Zeiss Stange, a rancher and college professor from Ekalaka, Montana

Mark McDermott, an editorial writer originally from Iowa (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,402)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SICKNESS & HEALTH
SPORTS
SINGERS
FLORIDA
FURNITURE
FOOD PHRASES
    $100 20
their hair

Mary
    $100 11
the Indianapolis 500

Keith
    $100 1
Michael Jackson

Mary
    $100 7
2

Mark
    $100 25
ebony

Mary
    $100 15
clam up

Mary
    $200 21
triage (or MASH) units

Mary
    $200 12
(Mark: What is a handball?)

volleyball

MarkKeith
    $200 3
Cher

Mark
    $200 8
Superboy

Mark
    $200 26
screen

Mark
    $200 2
my little cabbage

Mark
    $300 22
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)

fluoridated water

Mark
    $300 13
surfing

Mark
    $300 4
Peter Gabriel

Triple Stumper
    $300 9
(Juan) Ponce de Leon

Mark
    $300 27
(Mark: What is sit on one leg?)

fold

MarkMary
    $500 16
(Mary: What is "Milk And Honey"?)

"A Taste Of Honey"

Mary
    $400 23
fever

Mary
    $400 14
Cooperstown

Mark
    $400 5
USA for Africa

Mark
    $400 10
alligators

Keith
    $400 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

tubular

Keith
    $400 17
your oats

Mary
    $500 24
(2 of) diphtheria, tetanus & pertussis (whooping cough)

Mark
    $500 6
Joni Mitchell

Mark
    $500 19
Lake Okeechobee

Mary
    $500 18
salad days

Mark

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

Mark Mary Keith
$2,400 $200 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Mary Keith
$3,600 $1,700 $1,100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CIVIL WAR
BOOKS
NEWSCASTERS
ARCHAEOLOGY
STARTS WITH "K"
PRESIDENTIAL COLLEGES
    $200 16
(Alex: Words of Abraham Lincoln.)

charity for all

Triple Stumper
    $200 15
Austin

Mark
    $200 1
(Alex: Good-day!)

Paul Harvey

Mary
    $200 11
Jericho

Keith
    $200 9
kosher

Mark
    $200 6
Grant (or Eisenhower)

Keith
    $1,000 17
George Armstrong Custer

Mark
    $400 26
(Alex: Minute to go.)

Stalin

Keith
    $400 2
(Alex: The doctor was Samuel Mudd, who worked on John Wilkes Booth.)

Roger Mudd

Mark
    $400 21
Aztec

Keith
    $400 10
kilter

Mary
    $400 7
Jimmy Carter

Keith
    $600 18
Mary Todd Lincoln

Keith
    $600 27
the Boston Celtics

Keith
    $600 3
Morley Safer

Keith
    $600 24
carbon-14 dating

Mark
    $600 12
kimonos

Mary
    $600 8
William Howard Taft

Mark
    $800 19
(George) Pickett

Mark
    $800 29
Dominick Dunne

Keith
    $800 4
Connie Chung

Keith
    $800 25
(Mary: What is the Babylonian Empire?)

Assyrian Empire

Mary
Triple Stumper
    $800 13
kitsch

Keith
    $1,300 22
(Keith: What is the University of Virginia?)

William & Mary

Keith
    $1000 20
(Mark: Who was Stewart?)

Seward

MarkMary
    $1000 30
Carson McCullers

Mary
    $1000 5
Ted Koppel

Keith
    $1000 28
Iraq

Mark
    $1000 14
Khartoum

Mary
    $1000 23
Stanford

Keith

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Mary Keith
$7,400 $5,100 $7,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CENSUS
MaryWhat is the 1970's?
$5,050
MarkWhat is the 1920's?
$2,300
KeithWhat are the 1940's
$7,201
the 1930s

Final scores:

Mark Mary Keith
$5,100 $50 $399
3-day champion: $29,502 3rd place: clothing from the Greif Companies 2nd place: a trip to Cocoa Beach Hilton and Towers in Melbourne, Forida

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mark Mary Keith
$6,800 $5,600 $8,900
21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
15 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)
17 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $21,300

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Game tape date: 1988-09-26
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