Responses for Show #2834 - Thursday, December 19, 1996

Contestants

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Lucy Shigemitsu, a writer originally from Tokyo, Japan

Irv Kaplan, a physician from Newton, Massachusetts

Melissa Littman, a textbook editor from Worthington, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,193)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 20TH CENTURY
INCREDIBLE EDIBLES
MEDICINE
TELEVISION
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
THIS 'N' THAT
    $100 16
Pete Rose

Lucy
    $100 26
Spider

Melissa
    $100 8
Cardiology

Irv
    $100 21
John Tesh

Melissa
    $100 6
Caribbean Sea

Melissa
    $100 1
Hannibal

Lucy
    $200 17
DDT

Irv
    $200 27
Adder

Melissa
    $200 9
Hemophilia

Melissa
    $200 22
Teri Hatcher

Melissa
    $200 7
Gulf of Tonkin

Irv
    $200 2
Cinnamon

Lucy
    $300 18
Quebec

Melissa
    $300 28
Silkworms

Irv
    $300 10
Polio

Irv
    $300 23
"Home Improvement"

Melissa
    $300 13
New Zealand

Lucy
    $300 3
Litre

Melissa
    $400 19
Clifford Irving

Irv
    $400 29
(I: What is a squirrel?)

Bat

Irv
Triple Stumper
    $400 11
(I: What is German measles?)
(M: What is rubella?)
(A: Rubella is another word for German measles; we were just going for measles on this one..)

Measles

MelissaIrv
Triple Stumper
    $400 24
"Murder, She Wrote"

Irv
    $400 14
(L: What is the Bering Sea?)

Black Sea

IrvLucy
    $400 4
Denmark

Melissa
    $600 20
Helsinki

Irv
    $500 30
Cat Tails

Irv
    $500 12
The Menninger Clinic

Irv
    $500 25
James Earl Jones

Melissa
    $500 15
Indus

Triple Stumper
    $500 5
Reader's Digest

Lucy

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

Melissa Irv Lucy
$600 $1,100 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Irv Lucy
$2,300 $3,100 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SONNETS
FROM THE PORTUGUESE
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
THE BELLES
TREES
RHYME TIME
(there is a theme, at least, in our categories)
    $200 1
William Shakespeare

Melissa
    $200 20
Zebra

Lucy
    $200 11
Mayflower

Irv
    $200 17
Margaret Mitchell

Lucy
    $200 12
Willow

Irv
    $200 6
Marriage Carriage

Melissa
    $400 2
(M: Who is James?)

Oliver Cromwell

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $400 21
(I: What is Easter?)

Christmas

IrvLucy
    $400 25
Captain Bligh

Lucy
    $400 18
Phyllis George

Irv
    $400 13
Pencils

Lucy
    $400 7
Dapper Flapper

Melissa
    $600 3
John Donne

Lucy
    $600 22
Albino

Melissa
    $600 26
Joseph Conrad

Irv
    $300 19
Lurleen B. Wallace

Irv
    $600 14
Cacao

Irv
    $600 8
Sleeker Sneaker

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Edmund Spenser

Lucy
    $800 23
(Alex: And we have a minute to go in the round.)

Bossa Nova

Lucy
    $800 29
(buzzer sounds)

Holly Hunter

Melissa
    $800 15
Ponderosa Pine

Melissa
    $800 9
(I: What is a demon deacon?)

Sinister Minister

Irv
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
William Butler Yeats

Lucy
    $1000 24
(M: What is a galleon?)

Caravel

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
George Bernard Shaw

Melissa
    $1000 27
Mary Todd Lincoln

Melissa
    $1000 16
Mahogany

Triple Stumper
    $1,500 10
(M: no response)

Roman Bowman

Melissa

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Irv Lucy
$4,400 $4,200 $5,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

POLITICAL PHRASES
IrvWhat is on the table?
$4,000
MelissaWhat is the center?
$4,001
LucyWhat is a bowling alley?
$3,201
Middle-of-the-road

Final scores:

Melissa Irv Lucy
$399 $200 $2,399
2nd place: Dining furniture & refrigerator 3rd place: Pierre Cardin Watches New champion: $2,399

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Melissa Irv Lucy
$5,900 $4,400 $5,600
19 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 14 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $15,900

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Game tape date: 1996-10-22
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