Responses for Show #2832 - Tuesday, December 17, 1996

Contestants

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Melissa Littman, a textbook editor from Worthington, Ohio

Peter Nielsen, a teacher from Austin, Texas

Gene Ballesty, a railroad conductor from Selden, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,500)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

OKLAHOMANS
WORLD HISTORY
GUINNESS RECORDS
MUSEUMS
BIRDS
"BEA"S
    $100 26
Mickey Mantle

Peter
    $100 1
France

Gene
    $100 20
(Alex: And we don't say the two are related!)

the U.S.A.

Melissa
    $100 3
Victrola

Melissa
    $100 16
Carrier Pigeons

Melissa
    $100 7
The Beatles

Melissa
    $200 27
Brad Pitt

Melissa
    $200 2
Canterbury

Melissa
    $200 22
Mona Lisa

Peter
    $200 4
American Museum of Natural History

Gene
    $200 17
Sapsuckers

Melissa
    $200 8
Beacon

Melissa
    $500 28
Garth Brooks (played on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing)

Melissa
    $300 5
Genghis Khan

Melissa
    $300 23
Steven Spielberg

Melissa
    $300 6
Albuquerque

Melissa
    $300 18
Hummingbird

Gene
    $300 9
The Beaten Path

Peter
    $400 29
(Peter: Who is Alfonse D'Amato?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

GenePeter
    $400 14
(Melissa: Who is Nero?)

Caligula

GeneMelissa
    $400 24
Flamenco

Gene
    $400 10
Amsterdam

Melissa
    $400 19
Warbler

Gene
    $400 12
the Beagle

Melissa
    $500 15
Oman

Peter
    $500 25
(Alex: And we have one minute to deal with OKLAHOMANS.)

Bill Gates

Gene
    $500 11
Duluth

Triple Stumper
    $500 21
Whooping Crane

Triple Stumper
    $500 13
Beaker

Melissa

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

Gene Peter Melissa
$700 $800 $2,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Gene Peter Melissa
$2,700 $700 $3,500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LIFE
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
NOTABLE NAMES
BOXING MOVIES
INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK
19TH CENTURY AUTHORS
    $200 8
Protoplasm

Triple Stumper
    $200 26
Atlanta

Melissa
    $200 21
Harry Houdini

Melissa
    $200 16
Barbra Streisand

Melissa
    $200 1
Milk

Peter
    $200 3
Bram Stoker

Gene
    $400 9
Bone Marrow

Melissa
    $400 22
Cuba

Gene
    $400 17
(Melissa: Who is Graziano?)

Rocky Marciano

PeterMelissa
    $400 2
Whiskey

Melissa
    $400 4
Honore De Balzac

Peter
    $600 10
Peking Man

Melissa
    $2,000 23
(Gene: Who is Dean Acheson?)
...
(Alex: Less than a minute to go--pick again!)

Dean Rusk

Gene
    $600 18
(Melissa: Who is Barbeau?)

Talia Shire

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $600 13
spinach

Gene
    $600 5
Anthony Trollope

Melissa
    $800 11
Lichens

Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Clingman's Dome

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
King Kamehameha

Gene
    $800 19
Raging Bull

Melissa
    $800 14
Eggplant

Melissa
    $800 6
Joel Chandler Harris

Melissa
    $1000 12
(Melissa: What is mitosis?)

meiosis

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $1,500 28
(Melissa: What are the Rockies?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Cascades

Melissa
    $1000 25
Burma/Myanmar

Peter
    $1000 20
Danny Kaye

Melissa
    $1000 15
Menudo

Peter
    $1000 7
Bret Harte

Melissa

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Gene Peter Melissa
$2,700 $3,700 $7,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ASIA
GeneWhat is Mongolia?
$500
PeterWhat is Kazakhstan?
$3,700
MelissaWhat is China?
$402
Mongolia

Final scores:

Gene Peter Melissa
$3,200 $0 $6,598
2nd place: Aroma Spa 3rd place: Integra Life-Shaper Plus Fitness Machine New champion: $6,598

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Gene Peter Melissa
$4,700 $3,700 $8,300
12 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R,
1 W		 27 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $16,700

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Game tape date: 1996-10-22
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