Responses for Show #99 - Thursday, January 24, 1985

Paul Boymel game 5.
Paul Boymel sets a new total cash winnings record of $56,200.

Contestants

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Tink Miller, a controller originally from Sarasota, Florida

Jim Timmermann, a newspaper editor from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,400)

Paul Boymel, an attorney from Potomac, Maryland (whose 4-day cash winnings total $46,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SCOTLAND
THE '30s
KID STUFF
GANGSTER MOVIES
LEAPS & JUMPS
ROCK 'N ROLL
    $100 9
the Highland fling

Paul
    $100 8
(Paul: Who is Jack Dempsey?)

Joe Louis

PaulTink
    $100 15
a bear

Paul
    $100 4
guns

Paul
    $100 19
leap year

Jim
    $100 3
The Rolling Stones

Paul
    $200 12
Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles)

Jim
    $200 7
Reno (Nevada)

Paul
    $200 16
Snoopy

Tink
    $200 2
(Jim: Who is, uh, Ma Parker? [*]?)
[Jim corrected himself before Alex ruled and was credited with a correct response though the decision was reversed after the break.]

Ma Barker

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $200 22
a battery

Tink
    $200 18
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?"

Paul
    $300 13
tam o' shanter

Jim
    $300 10
Busby Berkeley

Paul
    $300 17
Open sesame

Jim
    $300 1
(Paul: I don't remember.)

Marilyn Monroe

PaulTink
    $300 23
lizards

Paul
    $300 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Harry Chapin

Jim
    $400 14
(Jim: Who is, um...)
...
(Alex: The movie was For Your Eyes Only.)

Sheena Easton

PaulJim
    $700 11
Social Security

Paul
    $400 25
Mozart

Paul
    $400 5
White

Paul
    $400 24
the hurdles

Paul
    $500 20
the Scottish flag

Jim
    $500 21
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

the Lindbergh baby

Paul
    $500 6
Humphrey Bogart

Paul

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 9):

Paul Jim Tink
$1,000 -$200 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paul Jim Tink
$4,300 $1,100 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPE
AMERICAN LITERATURE
REPUBLICANS
WARS
SCIENCE
MYTHOLOGY
    $200 13
Spanish & Portuguese

Paul
    $200 3
the village smithy

Tink
    $200 16
Earl Warren

Paul
    $200 8
Six Days

Paul
    $200 5
precipitation

Paul
    $200 22
Heiroglyphics

Jim
    $500 12
(Tink: Who is Michelangelo?)

Leonardo da Vinci

Tink
    $400 1
William

Paul
    $400 15
Governor Deukmejian

Paul
    $400 9
Great Britain

Jim
    $400 6
(Jim: Uh...)

smelling salts

PaulJim
    $400 21
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in the game.)

Valhalla

Paul
    $600 11
(Paul: What is Lapland?)

the Land of the Midnight Sun

PaulTink
    $600 2
Two

Paul
    $600 17
Arkansas

Jim
    $1,100 14
World War III

Paul
    $600 7
(Paul: ... No.)
(Jim: What are kilohertz?)

a hertz

PaulJim
Triple Stumper
    $600 20
(Alex: Alexander the Great sliced it open.)

the Gordian Knot

Paul
    $800 10
(Paul: What is Yugoslavia?)

Poland

PaulJim
    $800 4
Jack Kerouac

Paul
    $800 25
Paul Laxalt

Paul
    $800 19
Russia

Paul
    $800 26
an arboretum

Jim
    $1000 18
Andorra

Jim
    $1000 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Theodore Dreiser

Paul
    $1000 24
Benjamin Harrison

Paul
    $1000 23
declare war on the United States

Jim

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paul Jim Tink
$11,400 $4,900 $1,100
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. GEOGRAPHY
[Alex named all of the "M" states as that was the letter none of the players got.]
TinkWhat is NE?
$1,100
JimWhat are N, O?
$4,800
PaulWhat are N and T?
$1,600
M & N

Final scores:

Paul Jim Tink
$9,800 $100 $0
5-day champion: $56,200 2nd place: Skyway luggage & Dakotah bedroom ensemble 3rd place: Oneida Silversmiths gift certificate

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Paul Jim Tink
$10,600 $4,900 $1,600
31 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W		 13 R,
4 W		 6 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,100

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Game tape date: 1984-10-17
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