Responses for Show #689 - Thursday, September 10, 1987

Contestants

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Stephanie Chastain, a homemaker from Phoenix, Arizona

Ted Cooperstein, a lawyer originally from Potomac, Maryland

Brenda Berstler, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $14,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORD ORIGINS
WOMEN IN SPORTS
THE POST OFFICE
PETS
SUBURBS
SUDDEN DEATH
    $100 8
the spider

Brenda
    $100 1
golf

Brenda
    $100 15
first class

Ted
    $100 6
(Ted: What is the bulldog?)

the German Shepherd

Ted
Triple Stumper
    $100 14
Cambridge

Stephanie
    $100 9
biting itself

Ted
    $200 10
an epaulet

Stephanie
    $200 2
Sonja Henie

Brenda
    $200 21
a rifle

Stephanie
    $200 7
white

Stephanie
    $200 27
Newark

Ted
    $200 16
daisies

Ted
    $300 11
a carafe

Ted
    $300 3
bodybuilding

Brenda
    $300 22
stamps

Brenda
    $300 20
(Brenda: What is a basenji?)
(Alex: Oh, no. It's not a basenji. It is [*].)
(Brenda: I like big dogs.)
(Alex: That's little Bagels, who's very nervous. Thank you, Julianne. All right, it cost Brenda our champion a little bit of money, but it got some on-camera time for Bagels, and he's very happy about that.)

a Yorkshire terrier

Brenda
    $300 28
Dearborn

Ted
    $300 17
arrows

Ted
    $400 12
coloratura

Stephanie
    $400 4
Mary Lou Retton

Brenda
    $400 23
(Brenda: What is a telegram?)

mailgram

BrendaStephanie
    $400 25
(Ted: What is Africa?)
(Brenda: What is Asia?)

South America

BrendaTed
Triple Stumper
    $400 29
Pasadena

Triple Stumper
    $400 18
James Dean

Brenda
    $500 13
psychic

Stephanie
    $500 5
(Alex: That's absolutely right; you ran the category.)
[Applause]

Wilma Rudolph

Brenda
    $500 24
(Alex: And we've got about a minute to go.)

Zone Improvement Plan

Brenda
    $500 26
beak (or bill)

Ted
    $500 30
Cicero

Triple Stumper
    $500 19
Socrates

Brenda

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

Brenda Ted Stephanie
$1,600 $300 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brenda Ted Stephanie
$2,200 $1,500 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE OLD WEST
"EE"
ASTRONOMY
SHAKESPEARE
PEOPLE
HOLIDAYS
    $200 1
the railroad

Stephanie
    $200 3
a reef

Ted
    $200 23
(Ted: What is summer?)
(Brenda: What is winter?)
...
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)

spring

BrendaTed
Triple Stumper
    $200 9
The Merry Wives of Windsor

Ted
    $200 2
People Magazine

Brenda
    $200 10
the Bastille Day

Ted
    $400 4
sheep

Stephanie
    $400 15
the referee

Stephanie
    $400 24
(Stephanie: What is Pluto?)

Neptune

TedStephanie
    $400 13
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Stephanie
    $400 5
Francis Scott Key

Stephanie
    $400 11
Louisiana

Ted
    $600 19
(Ted: What is Smith & Wesson?)
(Stephanie: Who was Remington?)

Colt

BrendaTedStephanie
    $800 20
Tallahassee

Brenda
    $600 27
galaxy

Ted
    $600 14
the Globe

Brenda
    $600 6
Fawn Hall

Ted
    $600 12
(Brenda: What is Good Friday?)
(Ted: What is Palm Friday?)

Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)

BrendaTedStephanie
    $800 26
the Conestoga

Ted
    $800 21
Greece

Ted
    $800 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

supernova

Ted
    $800 16
"I knew him, Horatio"

Ted
    $800 7
(Stephanie: Who is Amanda Bloomer?)

Amelia Bloomer

TedStephanie
    $800 17
(Ted: What is the second Sunday in June?)

the third Sunday in June

TedStephanie
    $1000 25
Texas

Brenda
    $1000 22
(Stephanie: What is [**]? [*]?)

peerless (without peer)

Stephanie
    $1000 8
(Alex: He played one of the characters on the program, and he resided in New Rochelle.)

New Rochelle

Stephanie
    $1000 18
(Brenda: Who is Sewell?)

(William) Seward

BrendaTed

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brenda Ted Stephanie
$3,600 $6,900 $5,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CENSUS
(Alex: I should point out, before we begin getting your responses, that this is a bit of a tradition on Jeopardy!, a question that relates to the beginning or the end of a century.)
...
(Alex: [To Brenda] You remember that centuries begin with Year 1 and they end with 100.)
BrendaWhat is 1900?
$3,400
StephanieWhat is 1896?
$5,400
TedWhat is 1900?
$3,901
1900

Final scores:

Brenda Ted Stephanie
$7,000 $10,801 $0
2nd place: Trip to St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands New champion: $10,801 3rd place: Ensoniq digital electric piano

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Brenda Ted Stephanie
$3,700 $6,900 $5,400
15 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 21 R,
6 W		 16 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $16,000

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Game tape date: 1987-06-15
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