Responses for Show #977 - Tuesday, November 29, 1988

Yael Sofaer game 4.

Contestants

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Laurie Russell, a reservation agent from Orlando, Florida

Roy Marcus, a product development manager originally from Bayside, New York

Yael Sofaer, a programmer and analyst originally from Israel (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

STARTS & ENDS WITH "O"
STATE CAPITALS
THE OLYMPICS
COINS
RAGTIME & BLUES
THE KENNEDY WOMEN
    $100 1
Ohio

Yael
    $100 17
Idaho

Yael
    $100 6
USA

Roy
    $100 26
the Gold Rush

Laurie
    $100 12
cake walk

Roy
    $100 7
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Roy
    $200 2
Oreo

Laurie
    $200 18
Tallahassee

Roy
    $200 22
the 100-meter dash

Yael
    $200 27
the Susan B. Anthony dollar

Yael
    $200 13
"Stormy Weather"

Roy
    $200 8
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

Roy
    $300 3
oleo

Yael
    $300 19
Austin

Yael
    $300 23
basketball

Yael
    $300 28
the kiwi

Yael
    $500 14
"Ragtime Cowboy Joe"

Roy
    $300 9
Ethel Kennedy

Laurie
    $400 4
outdo

Triple Stumper
    $400 20
Santa Fe

Yael
    $400 24
Tokyo

Yael
    $400 29
a numismatist

Yael
    $400 15
W.C. Handy

Roy
    $400 10
Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Roy
    $500 5
obbligato

Laurie
    $500 21
Frankfort

Yael
    $500 25
the lighting of the Olympic torch

Yael
    $500 30
the Hunts

Yael
    $500 16
Eubie Blake

Yael
    $500 11
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Roy

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

Yael Roy Laurie
$400 $2,100 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yael Roy Laurie
$5,000 $2,700 $1,100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

IN THE DICTIONARY
OPERA
THE MIDDLE EAST
ASTRONOMY
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
NAME THE POET
(Alex: Sounds like a good title for another game show!)
    $200 17
thesaurus

Yael
    $200 1
Bethlehem

Roy
    $200 8
(Roy: What is 2?)
(Alex: Europe, Asia & Africa.)

3

RoyLaurie
    $200 6
craters

Laurie
    $200 22
Angie Dickinson

Roy
    $200 27
(Roy: Who is Anita Loos?)

Dorothy Parker

RoyLaurie
    $400 18
hammer

Yael
    $400 2
Faust

Yael
    $500 9
(Laurie: What is Iraq?)

Saudi Arabia (the Kaaba)

Laurie
    $400 7
Venus

Yael
    $400 30
Jerry Lewis

Yael
    $400 26
Walt Whitman

Yael
    $600 19
shell

Roy
    $600 3
Verdi

Laurie
    $600 11
Nile & Euphrates (or the Tigris)

Yael
    $600 10
Copernicus

Yael
    $600 14
Victor Mature

Roy
    $600 23
Dylan Thomas

Yael
    $800 20
tray

Yael
    $800 4
The Barber of Seville

Yael
    $800 12
United Arab Emirates

Yael
    $1,500 28
(Alex: Planetoids are the other.)

asteroids

Laurie
    $800 15
(Roy: What is John?)

William

Roy
Triple Stumper
    $800 24
Emily Dickinson

Laurie
    $1000 21
eating them

Yael
    $1000 5
Tristan & Isolde

Laurie
    $1000 13
Israel & Jordan

Roy
    $1000 29
quasi-stellar

Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
(Alex: Owen Moore was the third.)

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. & Buddy Rogers

Yael
    $1000 25
William Butler Yeats

Laurie

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yael Roy Laurie
$13,400 $4,100 $6,100
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN HISTORY
RoyWhat was the Watergate break-in?
$3,998
LaurieWhat was Watergate
$6,000
YaelWhat is Nixon's resignation?
$1,000
the Watergate break-in

Final scores:

Yael Roy Laurie
$12,400 $8,098 $12,100
4-day champion: $47,401 3rd place: a Casio integrated music system 2nd place: a trip to the Miyako Hotel in San Francisco

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Yael Roy Laurie
$13,400 $3,900 $5,900
29 R,
0 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $23,200

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Game tape date: 1988-09-14
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