Responses for Show #1146 - Monday, September 4, 1989

First game of Season 6.

Contestants

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Ed Landler, a filmmaker and production consultant from Los Angeles, California

Gordon Taylor, a bus driver from Seattle, Washington

Kevin Glynn, a writer and teacher from Glendale, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN ISLANDS
RECENT TELEVISION
MINING
FOOD FACTS
FASHION DESIGNERS
"C.C."
(Alex: Those letters will begin the correct responses in that category.)
    $100 4
Staten Island

Gordon
    $100 26
Roseanne Barr

Kevin
    $100 1
diamond

Gordon
    $100 17
(Ed: What is a [*] or grain?)

bread

Ed
    $100 9
Adam

Ed
    $100 10
Charlie Chaplin

Kevin
    $200 5
Louisiana

Ed
    $200 27
(Gordon: What is Another World?)
(Alex: You were close, Gordon. You were thinking of the daytime soap. The series is called [*].)

[the end-of-round signal plays]

A Different World

Gordon
Triple Stumper
    $200 2
strip mining

Gordon
    $200 18
a sea turtle

Kevin
    $200 22
(Gordon: Who is Jacqueline Kennedy?)

Nancy Reagan

KevinGordon
    $200 11
a cookie cutter

Gordon
    $300 6
St. Lawrence River

Gordon
    $300 3
Canada

Ed
    $300 19
Bologna

Gordon
    $300 23
the Dominican Republic

Kevin
    $300 12
(Alex: [*], could-could, right.)

the can-can

Gordon
    $400 7
the Potomac

Kevin
    $400 15
United Mine Workers

Kevin
    $400 20
(Gordon: What is flat cakes, unleavened bread?)

potato pancakes

KevinGordon
    $400 24
Bill Blass

Kevin
    $400 13
Chevy Chase

Gordon
    $500 8
(Gordon: What is Jamaica?)
(Kevin: What is [*]?)
(Alex: Yes. American Islands.)

Puerto Rico

KevinGordon
    $500 16
(Gordon: What is the lamp that miners wear on their heads?)
(Alex: [*]. That's good for $500.)

safety lamp

Gordon
    $500 21
(Gordon: What are bananas?)
(Ed: Oh. What is anise?)
(Alex: Kevin doesn't want to try it?)
(Kevin: I'm not gonna touch it.)
(Alex: The ananas are [*].)

(Alex: We've got a minute left in the round.)

pineapples

GordonEd
Triple Stumper
    $500 25
(Alex: What is [*]? [*] Bonheur Chanel.)

Gabrielle

Triple Stumper
    $100 14
(Gordon: I hate Audio Daily Doubles.)
(Alex: Oh, come on now, they're not that bad.)
(Gordon: I'll take $100, please.)
...
(Gordon: My mind is a total blank, Alex. I have no idea.)
(Alex: You don't wanna take a shot?)
(Gordon: No, I don't.)
(Alex: Well, that, of course, was Boy George, and the group was called [*].)

Culture Club

Gordon

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Kevin Gordon Ed
$1,000 $1,000 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kevin Gordon Ed
$3,000 $500 $200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

1982
BIOGRAPHIES
RELIGION
BOTANY
LONDON
NAME THE PLAY
    $200 23
(Alex: We've got a minute left in the round.)

an artificial heart

Kevin
    $200 11
John Wayne

Gordon
    $200 1
gods

Kevin
    $200 15
light

Kevin
    $200 17
hotels

Gordon
    $200 6
Major Barbara

Gordon
    $400 24
USA TODAY

Kevin
    $400 12
Katharine Hepburn

Kevin
    $400 2
the seven deadly sins

Ed
    $400 16
Spanish moss

Ed
    $400 18
Tower of London

Ed
    $400 7
Equus

Gordon
    $600 28
Halley's Comet

Gordon
    $600 13
(Ed: Who is Marilyn Horne?)

Lena Horne

Ed
Triple Stumper
    $600 3
Torah

Ed
    $600 27
a rubber plant

Ed
    $600 20
(Kevin: What is the obelisk?)
(Alex: No. Ed or Gordon? Be more specific on that. Kevin?)
(Kevin: Oh, uh, what is Cleopatra's Needle?)
(Alex: All right.)

Cleopatra's Needle

Kevin
    $1,000 8
Our Town

Gordon
    $800 30
(Kevin: What is a disposable camera?)

disc camera

KevinGordon
    $2,000 14
Roy Cohn

Kevin
    $800 4
Hare Krishna

Ed
    $800 26
stamen and a pistil

Kevin
    $800 21
George Washington

Ed
    $800 9
(Ed: What is Man and Superman?)

Charley's Aunt

Ed
Triple Stumper
    $1000 29
Alexander Haig

Kevin
    $1000 19
Terrence Rattigan

Ed
    $1000 5
40

Ed
    $1000 25
lichens

Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
Waterloo Bridge

Ed
    $1000 10
The Iceman Cometh

Ed

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kevin Gordon Ed
$8,000 $3,900 $6,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SOVIET HISTORY
GordonWho was Khrushchev?
$3,900
EdWho was Alexie Kosygin?
$6,700
KevinWho is Nikita Sergeyevich Khruschev
$7,000
Nikita Khrushchev

Final scores:

Kevin Gordon Ed
$15,000 $7,800 $100
2-day champion: $27,000 2nd place: vacation to Portugal 3rd place: Lucien Piccard his & hers watches

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Kevin Gordon Ed
$6,800 $3,600 $6,800
19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $17,200

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Game tape date: 1989-06-12
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