Responses for Show #2861 - Monday, January 27, 1997

Contestants

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Bob Combs, an investigator from Athens, Ohio

Mauricio Rivero, a tax auditor from Hialeah, Florida

Laura Glassman, a freelance editor and proofreader from Arlington, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,199)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BIRDS
SAINTS
WORLD CAPITALS
U.S. MUSEUMS
GOOD THINKING
TV THEME SONGS
    $100 15
hummingbirds

Mauricio
    $100 9
Prague

Mauricio
    $100 4
Bern

Bob
    $100 1
Smithsonian Institution

Bob
    $100 23
Geodesic Domes

Triple Stumper
    $100 11
The Beverly Hillbillies

Mauricio
    $200 16
(Laura: What is an ostrich?)

an emu

LauraMauricio
    $200 10
Gabriel

Bob
    $200 5
Sarajevo

Bob
    $200 2
the Johnstown Flood

Laura
    $200 24
a dispenser

Mauricio
    $200 22
Cheers

Bob
    $300 17
an albatross

Laura
    $300 12
Greek

Laura
    $300 6
Amsterdam

Laura
    $300 3
(Mauricio: What is the Museum of National History?)
[Originally accepted as correct; reversed before Daily Double at clue 14]

the Field Museum of Natural History

Mauricio
Triple Stumper
    $300 28
(Bob: Who is Polaroid?)
(Mauricio: Who is Eastman?)

Edwin Land

MauricioBob
Triple Stumper
    $300 25
(Alex: A minute to go.)

Gilligan's Island

Mauricio
    $400 18
grouse

Mauricio
    $400 20
Constantine

Mauricio
    $400 7
Amman

Bob
    $400 13
Kentucky

Laura
    $400 29
wheat

Laura
    $400 26
All in the Family

Bob
    $500 19
crow

Triple Stumper
    $500 21
Mother Cabrini

Triple Stumper
    $500 8
Monrovia

Mauricio
    $800 14
(Alex: We have a change in scoring. The game is not as close as it appears to be. Mauricio, our keen-eared listeners over there at the judges' bench tell me that your first response for the Field Museum of Natural History, you said "National History", and so we have to rule you incorrect on that.)

the Guggenheim

Laura
    $500 30
Frank Zamboni

Bob
    $500 27
The Patty Duke Show

Bob

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

Laura Mauricio Bob
$2,000 $400 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Mauricio Bob
$2,500 $1,700 $2,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WEST VIRGINIANS
MOVIE DEBUTS
19th CENTURY AMERICA
ASTRONOMY
FOOD & DRINK
BRITISH AUTHORS
    $200 2
governor

Bob
    $200 18
Anthony Perkins

Bob
    $200 24
Ellis Island

Bob
    $200 8
Mars

Bob
    $200 12
(Bob: What is a clam?)

a oyster

LauraBob
    $200 1
Agatha Christie

Bob
    $400 3
Chuck Yeager

Bob
    $400 19
Jason Alexander

Bob
    $400 25
Republican

Laura
    $400 9
asteroids

Laura
    $400 13
onions

Bob
    $400 6
William Golding

Laura
    $600 4
the Los Angeles Lakers

Mauricio
    $600 20
Fame

Laura
    $600 28
John Deere

Laura
    $1,700 14
(Bob: Who is Copernicus?)

Galileo

Bob
    $600 21
Salisbury Steak

Bob
    $600 7
Salman Rushdie

Bob
    $800 5
the UAW (United Auto Workers)

Triple Stumper
    $800 22
Catherine Deneuve

Bob
    $800 29
Sauk

Triple Stumper
    $800 16
Tycho Brahe

Bob
    $800 26
ceviche

Laura
    $800 10
E.M. Forster

Laura
    $1000 15
Cyrus Vance

Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
Ryan O'Neal

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
the Bahá'í Faith

Laura
    $1000 17
meteor showers

Triple Stumper
    $1000 27
cinnamon

Triple Stumper
    $1,500 11
Dorothy Sayers

Laura

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Mauricio Bob
$9,200 $2,300 $5,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

POLITICIANS
MauricioWho is Ted Kennedy
$2,299
BobWho is Joseph McCarthy
$5,300
LauraWho is Robert Taft
$1,601
Joseph McCarthy

Final scores:

Laura Mauricio Bob
$7,599 $1 $10,700
2nd place: Trip to Costa Del Sol, Spain 3rd place: Daniel Mink Watches New champion: $10,700

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Laura Mauricio Bob
$8,400 $2,300 $7,100
17 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 10 R,
2 W		 21 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,800

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Game tape date: 1996-11-13
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