Responses for Show #525 - Friday, December 12, 1986

Contestants

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Adrienne Bell, a teacher from San Diego, California

Steve Baker, a professor of international politics from Pacific Grove, California

Debbie Sherry, a nurse from Yuba City, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT RUMORS
SPORTS
U.S.A.
FILM GEOGRAPHY
FEMALE SINGERS
NUMBER PLEASE
    $100 4
(Debbie: What is Before Christ?)
---
(Alex: Who is [*]. We were going for the person.)

Jesus Christ

DebbieSteve
    $100 26
skiing

Adrienne
    $100 3
zero

Steve
    $100 12
Washington

Adrienne
    $100 1
The Pointer Sisters

Debbie
    $100 17
3

Steve
    $200 5
Nero

Adrienne
    $200 27
(Debbie: What is...Gentleman...Jim...Johnson?)

"Gentleman Jim" Corbett

DebbieAdrienne
    $200 18
(Steve: What's the Coast Guard?)
(Debbie: What's the, um, Coast Guard?)
(Adrienne: What's the L.A. Dodgers?)

J.C. Penney

DebbieSteveAdrienne
Triple Stumper
    $200 13
Elvis Presley

Debbie
    $200 2
Ella Fitzgerald

Steve
    $200 22
21

Steve
    $300 6
prostitution

Adrienne
    $300 28
(Adrienne: What is the Kentucky Derby?)
(Debbie: What is the Preakness?)

the Belmont

DebbieSteveAdrienne
    $300 19
your seat belt

Steve
    $300 14
Cherbourg

Debbie
    $300 9
(Debbie: Who are Stevie Nicks and, oh, I can't remember her name.)

Stevie Nicks & Christine McVie

Debbie
Triple Stumper
    $300 23
7

Debbie
    $400 7
poison

Steve
    $400 29
(Alex: Yes, batting practice.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

baseball

Debbie
    $400 20
the Statue of Liberty

Steve
    $400 15
Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Debbie
    $400 10
The Motels

Debbie
    $400 24
12

Triple Stumper
    $500 8
Julius Caesar

Debbie
    $500 21
(Steve: What is Texas?)

Arkansas

Steve
Triple Stumper
    $500 16
California

Debbie
    $500 11
Jessi Colter

Triple Stumper
    $500 25
(Alex: 16 and 17 adds up to [*].)

33

Debbie

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

Debbie Steve Adrienne
$1,100 $800 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Debbie Steve Adrienne
$2,500 $1,400 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE SOVIET UNION
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
GAME SHOWS
HAIL TO THE CHIEF
PREACHERS
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
    $200 1
Red

Steve
    $200 11
The Cat in the Hat

Debbie
    $200 25
Name that tune.

Adrienne
    $200 6
[Alex read the quote in his best(?) LBJ voice.]

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Adrienne
    $200 12
Elmer Gantry

Steve
    $200 21
(Adrienne: What are bells?)

doorbells

Adrienne
Triple Stumper
    $400 2
(Steve: What is 156?)
(Debbie: What is 14,000?)

none (at all, publicly functioning)

DebbieSteveAdrienne
    $400 17
J.R. Tolkein

Debbie
    $400 26
(Alex: I'm glad you watch our show instead of that one. The lady's name is [*].)

Summer Bartholomew

Triple Stumper
    $400 7
Abraham Lincoln

Adrienne
    $400 13
Little Richard

Steve
    $400 22
[Note: The clue as displayed on screen was missing a set of quotation marks.]

addresses

Debbie
    $600 3
World War II

Steve
    $600 18
Walter Mitty

Debbie
    $600 27
(Alex: Hosted by my friend Jim McKrell, [*].)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Celebrity Sweepstakes

Triple Stumper
    $600 8
(Adrienne: Who is Dwight Da...Who is [*]?)

President Dwight Eisenhower

Adrienne
    $1,000 14
Jesse Jackson & Pat Robertson

Steve
    $600 23
Chattanooga

Debbie
    $800 4
(Debbie: What are physicians?)
(Adrienne: What are telephone books, uh, telephones?)

automobiles

DebbieAdrienne
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
thief

Triple Stumper
    $800 9
(Adrienne: Who is Hoobert Hoover?)
(Alex: No, not Herbert Hoover.)
(Steve: Who is Calvin Coolidge?)

Warren Harding

DebbieSteveAdrienne
    $800 15
(Alex: 60 Minutes did a report on her last year, [*].)

Mother Angelica

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)

oddballs

Steve
    $1000 5
a kopek

Steve
    $1000 20
(Steve: Mister Micawber.)
(Alex: No, sorry.)
---
(Alex: The correct response is, Who is [*]? Steve, I should caution you about phrasing.)
(Steve: Sorry.)
(Alex: You were wrong anyway, but you do have to remember to phrase it in the form of a question.)

Uriah Heep

Steve
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
(Alex: He didn't say much, but when he said something it was really good.)

Calvin Coolidge

Adrienne
    $1000 16
Norman Vincent Peale

Adrienne

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Debbie Steve Adrienne
$4,300 $3,400 $2,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MEDICINE
(Alex: [After the category is revealed, before the commercial break.] Just remember, our champion is a nurse. That might influence your wagering.)
AdrienneWhat is hydro
$2,399
SteveWhat is glaucoma?
$3,400
DebbieWhat is a cataract?
$2,600
a cataract

Final scores:

Debbie Steve Adrienne
$6,900 $0 $1
2-day champion: $16,500 3rd place: Carrington House Carpets from Horizon 2nd place: La-Z-Boy sofa and chair + Krups kitchen products

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Debbie Steve Adrienne
$4,300 $3,000 $2,400
16 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 12 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $9,700

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Game tape date: 1986-09-17
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