Responses for Show #1454 - Thursday, December 20, 1990

Contestants

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David Hewitt, a minister from Mount Pulaski, Illinois

Elaine Smith, a registered nurse from Ocala, Florida

Mitch Gerber, an editor originally from Buffalo, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE BIBLE
SPORTS LINGO
FAMOUS PAULs
MAMMALS
GRIMM FAIRY TALES
MAKING BEDS
    $100 10
the Jordan

Elaine
    $100 1
pigskin

Elaine
    $100 24
Paul Hogan

Elaine
    $100 17
a bat

Elaine
    $100 4
goats

Elaine
    $100 2
a waterbed

Mitch
    $200 12
tablets

Mitch
    $200 3
flyweight

Elaine
    $200 25
Paul Revere

Mitch
    $200 18
the sloth

David
    $200 5
Gretel

Mitch
    $200 20
a sham

Elaine
    $300 14
Judges

David
    $300 6
(Elaine: What is trot?)

canter

MitchElaine
    $300 26
(Mitch: Who is Paul Gallo?)
...
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)

Paul Mason

MitchElaine
    $300 19
(Elaine: What is a rodent?)

a monkey

MitchElaine
    $200 8
Rumpelstiltskin

Elaine
    $300 21
a canopy

Elaine
    $400 15
Lebanon

David
    $400 7
(Mitch: What is a dunk?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Mitch: What is a dunk shot?)

a slam dunk

MitchElaine
    $400 27
Paul Whiteman

Mitch
    $400 29
a kangaroo

Elaine
    $400 9
Rapunzel

David
    $400 22
a Murphy bed

Elaine
    $500 16
Paul

Elaine
    $500 13
a dogleg

David
    $500 28
Paul Hindenburg

Mitch
    $500 30
(David: What's a coatimundi?)
(Elaine: What's a coati?)

a kinkajou

ElaineDavid
Triple Stumper
    $500 11
the frog

Elaine
    $500 23
(Mitch: What's a surrey?)

the sleigh bed

Mitch
Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Mitch Elaine David
$400 $1,300 $900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mitch Elaine David
$1,000 $2,800 $1,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

EXPLORERS
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS
MODERN LITERATURE
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
THE WIND
POTENT QUOTABLES
    $200 8
Japan

David
    $200 7
Evita

David
    $200 16
Hemingway

Mitch
    $200 12
(Mitch: What is Korea?)

China

MitchElaine
    $200 23
a squall

Elaine
    $200 1
touch mine

Mitch
    $400 9
Cortés

David
    $400 6
Camelot

Mitch
    $400 18
The Name of the Rose

Elaine
    $400 17
Macau

Elaine
    $400 24
a wind shear

Mitch
    $400 2
Days of Wine and Roses

David
    $600 10
(Elaine: What is the Nile?)
(David: What is the Congo?)

the Zambezi

ElaineDavid
Triple Stumper
    $600 5
The King and I

David
    $600 19
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Elaine
    $600 25
(Alex: [After the next clue selection] With a minute to go.)

San Marino

Mitch
    $600 28
California

David
    $800 13
(Elaine: [**]... and a song.)
(Alex: No.)
(Elaine: Oh. [Chuckles] [*].)
(Alex: You forgot to phrase it in the form of a question.)

a loaf of bread & thou (a book of verse)

Elaine
    $800 11
Brazil

Mitch
    $800 4
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Elaine
    $800 20
From Here to Eternity

David
    $800 26
(Elaine: What is a Columbus?)
(Mitch: What is a Columbo?)

the Colon

MitchElaine
Triple Stumper
    $800 29
the Leeward Islands

David
    $800 14
(Elaine: [*]. What is [*]?)

drunkenness reveals

Elaine
    $1000 22
La Salle

David
    $1000 3
West Side Story

David
    $1000 21
Native Son

David
    $1000 27
North & South Korea

Mitch
    $1000 30
Zephyr

David
    $1000 15
(David: What is Voltaire?)

George Bernard Shaw

David
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mitch Elaine David
$3,600 $4,000 $7,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN HISTORY
MitchWho are B. Franklin and J. Adams
$3,600
ElaineWho are T. Jefferson & B Franklin
$3,000
DavidWho are B. Franklin & J. Adams?
$400
(2 of) Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, or Henry Laurens

Final scores:

Mitch Elaine David
$7,200 $1,000 $8,100
2nd place: trip on America West to New York City & stay at Halloran House + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version 3rd place: Jean d'Eve watch + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version New champion: $8,100

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mitch Elaine David
$3,600 $4,900 $7,700
15 R,
5 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $16,200

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Game tape date: 1990-09-24
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