Responses for Show #892 - Tuesday, June 21, 1988

Contestants

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Tom Schmidt, a computer salesman originally from Wood Haven, New York

Linda Mossman, a substitute teacher from Elizaville, New York

Steve Herron, a letter carrier from Shawnee, Oklahoma (whose 3-day cash winnings total $18,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NEW YORKERS
(Alex: This applies to people from the state, not the city.)
NURSERY RHYMES
WORLD WAR II
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
INVENTORS
STARTS WITH "VI"
    $100 7
Arthur Miller

Tom
    $100 1
(Linda: Who are the Three Little Pigs?)

little pigs

Linda
    $100 2
[Alex acknowledged that Linda's response for clue 1 should not have been accepted, but decided to let it pass since it was his error.]

Hong Kong

Steve
    $100 9
Mary Pickford

Steve
    $100 20
pistol

Steve
    $200 8
Henry Miller

Steve
    $200 3
Three Little Kittens

Steve
    $200 14
Einstein

Tom
    $200 10
(Steve: Who is Robert Goulet?)

(Richard) Burton

SteveTom
    $500 11
(Tom: I'm detecting a pattern here. Who is [*]?)

Mitch Miller

Tom
    $300 4
Little Miss Muffet

Steve
    $300 15
(Tom: What is patrol?)

patrol torpedo

SteveTom
    $300 16
Garbo

Tom
    $400 12
(Steve: Who is Nelson Rockefeller?)
(Tom: Who is Miller?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
[Laughter]
(Tom: Who is um, James Miller?)
(Alex: See, I might have let you get away with it, Tom, if you had not said that you detected the pattern.)

William E. Miller

SteveTom
Triple Stumper
    $400 5
Little Jack Horner

Steve
    $400 17
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)

Churchill

Linda
    $400 18
(Linda: Who is Grace Kelly?)

Kim Novak

Linda
Triple Stumper
    $400 24
(Steve: What is a tractor?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

bicycle

SteveTom
    $400 22
viceroy

Steve
    $500 13
Marvin Miller

Triple Stumper
    $500 6
Little Bo Peep

Tom
    $500 19
Vivien Leigh

Triple Stumper
    $500 23
(Edwin) Land

Tom
    $500 21
vital statistics

Linda

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 10):

Steve Linda Tom
$1,100 $100 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Linda Tom
$1,100 $600 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE SOLAR SYSTEM
PLACE NAMES
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS
THE ROMAN EMPIRE
FLAGS
HETERONYMS
(Alex: Words which are spelled the same, but pronounced differently & they have different meanings. We want you to give us both pronunciations.)
    $200 14
craters

Steve
    $200 6
Nova Scotia

Tom
    $200 7
Macbeth

Steve
    $200 5
(Linda: What is the ide? I'm sorry, what is the 13th?)

15th

SteveLinda
    $200 24
(Steve: What is a rising sun?)

circle

Steve
    $200 8
[Alex announces it is a new category for the show.]

lead [leed] & lead [led]

Steve
    $400 21
Earth

Steve
    $400 13
Rio de la Plata

Linda
    $400 22
Rossini

Tom
    $1,400 4
house

Linda
    $400 25
Jamaica

Tom
    $400 9
Job [jobe] & job [jawb]

Triple Stumper
    $600 23
(Alex: Yes, and we've got about a minute to go.)

Uranus

Steve
    $600 15
Atlas Mountains

Steve
    $600 18
Falstaff

Linda
    $600 1
Mount Vesuvius

Tom
    $600 10
pate [pāt] & pate [pah-tay]

Steve
    $800 26
Venus

Linda
    $800 16
Istanbul

Tom
    $800 19
Timon of Athens

Linda
    $800 2
Carthage

Linda
    $800 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Andorra

Tom
    $800 11
row [rō] & row [rau]

Linda
    $1000 27
Sun

Linda
    $1000 17
Society Islands

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Wagner

Steve
    $1000 3
Hadrian

Linda
    $1000 12
reserve [REE-serv] & reserve [ri-ZERV]

Steve

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Linda Tom
$6,300 $8,000 $5,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE U.S. CONGRESS
[Alex had to confer with the judges whether to accept Linda's response, as [*] was currently in the House. He was formerly a Senator, so the response was fine.]
TomWho is [something illegible crossed out] Pepper?
$5,200
SteveWho is Sen. Strom Thurmond
$6,300
LindaWho is Senator Claude Pepper?
$4,601
Claude Pepper

Final scores:

Steve Linda Tom
$0 $12,601 $10,400
3rd place: Maytag dishwasher + Jeopardy! box game New champion: $12,601 2nd place: La-Z-Boy reliner & al/sy lamps + Jeopardy! box game

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steve Linda Tom
$6,300 $7,000 $5,000
20 R,
3 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $18,300

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Game tape date: 1988-03-15
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