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
a spider

Melissa
    $100 8
cardiology

Irv
    $100 21
John Tesh

Melissa
    $100 6
the 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
the 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
L-I-T-R-E

Melissa
    $400 19
Clifford Irving

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

a bat

Irv
Triple Stumper
    $400 11
(Irv: What is German measles?)
(Melissa: What is rubella?)
...
(Alex: Rubella is another word for German measles; we were just going for [*] on this one.)

measles

MelissaIrv
Triple Stumper
    $400 24
Murder, She Wrote

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

the 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
(Alex: There is a theme, at least, in our categories.)
    $200 1
William Shakespeare

Melissa
    $200 20
a zebra

Lucy
    $200 11
the Mayflower

Irv
    $200 17
Margaret Mitchell

Lucy
    $200 12
the willow

Irv
    $200 6
a marriage carriage

Melissa
    $400 2
(Melissa: Who is James?)

Oliver Cromwell

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

Christmas

IrvLucy
    $400 25
Captain Bligh

Lucy
    $400 18
Phyllis George

Irv
    $400 13
pencils

Lucy
    $400 7
a 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
a 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
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Holly Hunter

Melissa
    $800 15
the ponderosa pine

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

a sinister minister

Irv
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
William Butler Yeats

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

a caravel

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
George Bernard Shaw

Melissa
    $1000 27
Mary Todd Lincoln

Melissa
    $1000 16
mahogany

Triple Stumper
    $1,500 10
(Melissa: [No response])

a 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 + a 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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