Responses for Show #889 - Thursday, June 16, 1988

Stephen Lebowitz game 5.

Contestants

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Steve Herron, a letter carrier from Shawnee, Oklahoma

Jimmie Bucci, a temporary service manager originally from North Tarrytown, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $100)

Stephen Lebowitz, a physician from Los Angeles, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $50,900)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS AMERICANS
AUTOMOBILES
IN THE NEWS
FOOD
GAMES
BROWNS
    $100 6
Boston

Steve
    $100 1
Gorbachev

Stephen
    $100 13
(Steve: What is milk?)
(Jimmie: What is sugar?)

fat

JimmieSteve
Triple Stumper
    $100 11
letters

Steve
    $100 7
James Brown

Steve
    $200 23
Benjamin Franklin

Stephen
    $200 2
school

Triple Stumper
    $200 14
boiling point

Steve
    $200 19
eights

Steve
    $200 8
Jerry Brown

Steve
    $300 24
(Stephen: Who is John Mitchell?)

Robert Kennedy

StephenJimmie
    $300 3
(Alex: Yes, thank you Mr. cardiologist.)
[Laughter]

heart attacks

Stephen
    $300 15
truffles

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 20
(Steve: What is taking a banana & a bicycle?)
(Alex: No, it would have to be a word that starts with C, apple, book, C.)

apple, book & C word

Steve
    $300 9
John Brown

Steve
    $400 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Noah Webster

Stephen
    $400 18
Honda

Steve
    $400 4
Texaco

Steve
    $400 16
chocolate mousse

Steve
    $400 21
darts

Steve
    $400 10
Helen Gurley Brown

Stephen
    $500 26
slavery

Stephen
    $500 25
(Jimmie: What is Rambler?)

Jeep-Eagle

Jimmie
Triple Stumper
    $500 5
(Jimmie: What is Mauna Kea?)

Kilauea

StephenJimmie
    $500 17
(Stephen: What are strawberries?)
...
(Alex: strawberries are des fraises.)

raspberries

StephenJimmie
    $500 22
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)

lag

Steve
    $500 12
Charlie Brown

Steve

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

Stephen Jimmie Steve
$1,300 -$500 $1,700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Stephen Jimmie Steve
$1,600 -$300 $2,700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

GERMANY
BIOLOGY
CLASSICAL LITERATURE
WESTERNS
OPERA
"G.L."
    $200 12
coal

Steve
    $200 15
bacteria

Stephen
    $200 23
Latin

Steve
    $200 2
[ERRATUM: "reads" has an unnecessary apostrophe.]

New York Times

Steve
    $200 24
Cleopatra

Steve
    $200 7
guest list

Steve
    $400 13
Cologne

Steve
    $400 16
nucleus

Stephen
    $400 22
Psalms

Steve
    $400 3
O.K. Corral

Steve
    $400 25
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)

Don Juan

Stephen
    $400 8
grand larceny

Steve
    $600 14
19th

Stephen
    $600 17
mother-of-pearl

Steve
    $600 21
(Steve: Who is Homer?)

Virgil

JimmieSteve
    $600 4
Lewis & Clark

Steve
    $600 26
Armistice

Stephen
    $600 1
gold leaf

Steve
    $800 18
University of Heidelberg

Jimmie
    $800 20
host

Jimmie
    $800 11
Plato

Steve
    $800 5
The Wild Bunch

Steve
    $900 9
Gary Lewis

Steve
    $4,800 27
(Stephen: What is taxonomy?)
(Alex: I'll give you more specific. Keep in mind the clue.)
(Stephen: What is uh, anatomy?)
...
(Stephen: Ohhh.)
(Alex: You misread it. Sorry about that.)

kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Stephen
    $1000 19
The Meditations

Stephen
    $1000 6
(Jimmie: What is red?)

blue

Jimmie
Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Salome

Stephen
    $1000 10
G. Gordon Liddy

Jimmie

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Stephen Jimmie Steve
$1,000 $1,900 $9,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MILITARY MEN
StephenWhat is the Mexican War?
$898
JimmieWhat is the War of 1812?
$200
SteveWhat is the Mexican War?
$1,000
Mexican War

Final scores:

Stephen Jimmie Steve
$1,898 $1,700 $10,000
2nd place: a trip on Eastern to Washington, D.C. & stay at the Madison Hotel + Jeopardy! box game 3rd place: Gibson refrigerator/freezer + Jeopardy! box game New champion: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Stephen Jimmie Steve
$5,800 $1,900 $9,900
14 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 6 R,
4 W		 28 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,600

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Game tape date: 1988-03-14
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