Responses for Show #952 - Tuesday, October 25, 1988

Contestants

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Tony Amato, an operations manager from North Arlington, New Jersey

Maureen Rubin, a professor from Chatsworth, California

Bob Chauls, a composer and professor from Westlake Village, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,500)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

GERMANY
BOOKS
MAIDEN NAMES
SPORTS
TIME
ANTONYMS
    $100 10
Soviet Union

Bob
    $100 3
James Clavell

Tony
    $100 13
Anne Meara

Tony
    $100 1
Big Daddy

Triple Stumper
    $100 21
ante meridiem

Bob
    $100 25
reap

Tony
    $200 11
(Tony: Who was the Kaiser?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Tony: Who was [*]?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
[Tony laughs and shakes head no.]
(Alex: It's [*] II. No, we'll take it? Okay.)

Kaiser Wilhelm (II)

Tony
    $200 7
Rock Star

Tony
    $200 14
Geraldine Ferraro

Tony
    $200 2
football

Maureen
    $200 22
(Bob: What is the Second World War?)

World War I

BobTony
    $200 26
public school

Bob
    $300 17
University of Heidelberg

Bob
    $300 8
Eleanor Roosevelt

Triple Stumper
    $300 15
Gena Rowlands

Maureen
    $300 4
lures

Bob
    $300 23
(Bob: What is an hour?)

day

BobMaureen
    $300 27
concave & convex

Bob
    $400 18
Hamburg

Bob
    $400 9
Robert E. Lee

Bob
    $400 16
Joan Didion

Bob
    $400 5
New York Mets

Tony
    $400 24
(Bob: What is 11:11?)

12:34

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $400 28
cacophonic (cacophony)

Maureen
    $500 19
passion play

Bob
    $300 12
(2 of) Alaska & Texas (Hawaii)

Tony
    $500 20
Ruby Dee

Tony
    $500 6
Bering Strait

Triple Stumper
    $500 30
Greenwich Mean Time

Bob
    $500 29
(Bob: What is enter and inter?)

entrance & entrance

Bob
Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Bob Maureen Tony
$800 $200 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Maureen Tony
$2,100 $1,200 $2,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AVIATION FIRSTS
BROADWAY MUSICALS
19TH C. AMERICANS
[The "TH" was uppercase and half the size of the 19.]
PUBLICATIONS
FRENCH FOOD TERMS
AQUATIC LIFE
    $200 17
(Maureen: What is the Concorde?)

747

BobMaureen
    $200 3
Fiddler on the Roof

Bob
    $200 2
Thoreau

Bob
    $200 1
National Geographic

Tony
    $200 25
croutons

Maureen
    $200 16
(Maureen: What is a shark?)

swordfish

Maureen
Triple Stumper
    $400 18
zeppelins

Triple Stumper
    $400 4
The Madwoman of Chaillot

Bob
    $400 9
Phineas T. Barnum

Bob
    $400 7
Reader's Digest

Tony
    $400 22
(Alex: Bob, we have a minute to go.)

moray eels

Triple Stumper
    $600 19
(Maureen: What is the sun?)

human power (man)

BobMaureen
    $500 5
[Patti LuPone sings.]
(Bob: [Smiling and shaking his head] ...I know it, but it's not there.)
...
(Bob: [Too late] [*]!)
(Alex: Yeah, you didn't phrase it properly.)
[Alex says something else that cannot be heard clearly.]

Anything Goes

Bob
    $600 10
Dred Scott

Bob
    $600 8
(Maureen: What is China?)

Japan

BobMaureen
    $600 23
jellyfish

Triple Stumper
    $800 20
(Maureen: Who is Peary?)
(Tony: Who is Charles Lindbergh?)

Admiral Byrd

MaureenTony
Triple Stumper
    $800 6
Promises, Promises

Maureen
    $800 11
Henry Clay

Tony
    $800 12
The (Old) Farmer's Almanac

Maureen
    $500 24
(Bob: Uh, what is a seahorse?)
(Alex: Seahorses are tiny creatures?)

manatee or sea cow

Bob
    $1000 21
Voyager

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Sunday in the Park with George

Tony
    $1000 14
(Maureen: Who is Teddy Roosevelt?)

James Knox Polk

BobMaureen
    $1000 13
The New Yorker

Tony
    $1000 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
[Maureen's score incorrectly shows $200 instead of -$400. Alex recognized that was wrong and that Maureen would not play in Final Jeopardy!]
(Alex: [After the announcement of the prizes] It isn't obvious to the people at home, but we have adopted a new scoring device for our program. We started using it yesterday and it has been giving us a little bit of trouble.)
[Maureen's total is correctly displayed as -$400.]

blancmange

Bob

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Maureen Tony
$6,300 -$400 $4,900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE NOBEL PRIZE
TonyWho is __?
$2,000
BobWho was W. Churchill
$3,600
Winston Churchill

Final scores:

Bob Maureen Tony
$9,900 -$400 $2,900
2-day champion: $23,400 3rd place: Regal cookware + Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! Challenger 2nd place: trip to Palm Springs & stay at Mission Hills Resort Hotel & Hatteras hammocks + Jeopardy! box game or Jeopardy! Challenger

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bob Maureen Tony
$7,300 -$400 $5,100
21 R,
6 W
(including 2 DDs)		 7 R,
6 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $12,000

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Game tape date: 1988-09-06
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