Responses for Show #2833 - Wednesday, December 18, 1996

Contestants

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Ronny Kaye, a teacher and writer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Myretta Robens, a technology & operations manager from Medford, Massachusetts

Melissa Littman, a textbook editor from Worthington, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,598)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1982
PLANTS & TREES
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
HAITI
POT LUCK
"Z" ABBREVIATIONS
    $100 6
Ted Turner

Myretta
    $100 30
the Andes

Ronny
    $100 1
Marlon Brando

Ronny
    $100 11
Voodoo

Ronny
    $100 14
Philadelphia

Ronny
    $100 19
zero hour

Ronny
    $200 7
EPCOT

Melissa
    $200 29
a cactus

Melissa
    $200 2
Babe

Ronny
    $200 12
Columbus

Melissa
    $200 15
a geodesic dome

Melissa
    $200 20
(Melissa: What is [*] Improvement Plan?)

Zone

Melissa
    $300 8
the English Channel

Melissa
    $300 26
ebony

Myretta
    $300 3
Rasputin

Ronny
    $300 13
Bolívar

Myretta
    $300 16
the La Brea Tar Pits

Ronny
    $300 21
Zechariah

Myretta
    $400 9
Herculaneum

Ronny
    $400 27
a jonquil

Melissa
    $400 4
Courteney Cox

Melissa
    $400 17
(Ronny: Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?)

Frederick Douglass

Ronny
Triple Stumper
    $400 24
(Myretta: Who is Demosthenes?)
...
(Alex: The other "D".
About a minute to go.)

Diogenes

MelissaMyretta
    $400 22
[The abbreviation was rendered as "Zl" in the clue.]

the złoty

Melissa
    $500 10
(Ronny: What is Atlanta?)

Knoxville, Tennessee

Ronny
    $500 28
the pink family

Triple Stumper
    $500 5
Pat Nixon

Melissa
    $500 18
(Melissa: Who is Toussaint Louverture?)

Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jean Jacques I)

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $500 25
Cavalleria rusticana

Triple Stumper
    $500 23
(Ronny: What are Ze and Zr?)

Zn & Zr (zinc & zirconium)

MelissaRonny

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

Melissa Myretta Ronny
$1,800 $400 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Myretta Ronny
$3,400 $600 $300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

MYTHOLOGY
U.S. MUSEUMS
THE MIDDLE AGES
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
THE SUN
TV NEWS NAMES
    $200 6
Atlas

Ronny
    $200 16
St. Louis

Myretta
    $200 11
the Tang

Melissa
    $200 1
Becky Thatcher

Myretta
    $200 26
the Milky Way

Ronny
    $200 21
Connie Chung

Ronny
    $400 7
(Melissa: What is thunder?)

rain

MelissaRonny
    $400 17
Baltimore

Melissa
    $400 12
Charlemagne

Melissa
    $400 2
Heathcliff

Melissa
    $400 27
(Melissa: What is the [*] scale?)
[ERRATUM: [*] is a base unit for measuring temperature, not a scale.)

kelvin

Melissa
    $400 22
Maria Shriver

Melissa
    $600 8
Medusa

Ronny
    $600 18
Valdez

Triple Stumper
    $600 13
Norway

Ronny
    $600 3
(Myretta: Who is Ishmael?)

Billy Budd

MelissaMyretta
    $2,100 28
hydrogen & helium

Melissa
    $600 23
E!

Melissa
    $800 9
(Ronny: Who is Apollo?)

Paris

MelissaRonny
    $2,000 19
(Melissa: Who is Carter?)

Gerald Ford

Melissa
    $800 14
El Cid

Ronny
    $800 4
Anna Karenina

Melissa
    $800 29
the corona

Ronny
    $800 24
Katie Couric

Myretta
    $1000 10
the Sphinx

Melissa
    $1000 20
Harvard

Myretta
    $1000 15
guilds

Melissa
    $1000 5
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Ronny
    $1000 30
a white dwarf

Melissa
    $1000 25
(Myretta: Who is... Wolf Blitzer?)
(Melissa: Who is Kent?)

Peter Arnett

MelissaMyrettaRonny

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Myretta Ronny
$10,100 $1,200 $5,300

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPEAN CAPITALS
(Alex: There are two ways of getting to the correct response. If you're bright, you'll use the incorrect way, but if you're very bright, you'll use the correct way, and you'll both wind up at exactly the same spot.)
...
(Alex: [To Myretta] Did you think of the Santa Sophia or the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul?)
(Myretta: I did.)
(Alex: Good for you. That's the incorrect way, but it got you there.)
[Myretta chuckles.]
MyrettaWhat is Sophia?
$1,200
RonnyWhat is Constantinople?
$5,200
MelissaWhat is Ankara?
$505
Sofia, Bulgaria

Final scores:

Melissa Myretta Ronny
$9,595 $2,400 $100
2-day champion: $16,193 2nd place: a trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a 7-night Caribbean cruise from Costa Cruises, Europe's leading cruise line + the Jeopardy! electronic game by Tiger Electronics 3rd place: Daewoo Electronics TV & VCR + the Jeopardy! electronic game by Tiger Electronics

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Melissa Myretta Ronny
$10,600 $1,200 $5,800
26 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 8 R,
3 W		 19 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,600

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Game tape date: 1996-10-22
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