Responses for Show #650 - Friday, June 5, 1987

Eugene Finerman game 5.

Contestants

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Keith Lindloff, an attorney from Houston, Texas

Nancy Kool, a managing editor from Phoenix, Arizona

Eugene Finerman, a writer from Chicago, Illinois (whose 4-day cash winnings total $44,902)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

EASY OPERA
FIRSTS
AMY VANDERBILT SAYS
FAMOUS CATTLE
THE KING
"BLACK"
(Alex: And that means that that word will appear in all of the correct responses in the category.)
    $100 1
(Alex: Yes, the opera was Fidelio.)

Beethoven

Eugene
    $100 11
an incubator

Nancy
    $100 23
(Alex: ...and we've got a minute to go in the round.)

older

Nancy
    $100 14
Elmer

Keith
    $100 21
Arthur Godfrey

Eugene
    $100 6
a blacksmith

Keith
    $200 2
gold

Nancy
    $200 12
Medicare

Keith
    $200 15
(Keith: What is jumping over the Moon?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

the cow jumping over the Moon

Keith
    $200 22
(Eugene: What is corporal?)
(Keith: What is private first class?)
...
(Alex: [To Nancy] That was the only one left, I believe.)
(Nancy: I believe so, too.)

sergeant

EugeneNancyKeith
    $200 7
(Eugene: What is a black sabbath?)

a black mass

EugeneNancy
    $300 3
the United States

Eugene
    $300 13
(Nancy: What are dark glasses?)
...
(Alex: Yes, indeed, he, uh, was playing a fiddle, and he smashed that to bits, and severely injured himself, by the way.)

roller skates

NancyKeith
    $300 16
Mrs. O'Leary

Nancy
    $300 8
the Black Panthers

Keith
    $400 4
Faust

Eugene
    $400 19
(Nancy: What is a labor strike?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Nancy: [Whispers] ...I can't.)

a sit-down strike

Nancy
Triple Stumper
    $400 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Honorable

Keith
    $400 17
(Alex: Ferdinand the Bull, just sitting there, smelling flowers, until [*].)

stung by a bee

Triple Stumper
    $400 9
the Blackfeet

Nancy
    $500 5
Giuseppe Verdi

Eugene
    $500 20
(Nancy: Who is Hercule Poirot?)

Miss Marple

NancyKeith
    $500 24
being gravely ill

Nancy
    $500 18
Aaron

Keith
    $500 25
(Nancy: Who is Elvis Presley?)

Elvis's dead twin brother

Nancy
    $500 10
[Alex reads "70s" in the clue as "1970s".]

black lung disease

Nancy

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Eugene Nancy Keith
$1,100 $1,100 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Eugene Nancy Keith
$1,000 $800 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BOTANY
REFORMERS
WORLD CITIES
POTTERY
NOVEL PLOTS
"WHITE"
    $200 1
saltwater

Keith
    $200 21
(Isaac Kaufmann) Funk

Keith
    $200 11
West Berlin

Eugene
    $200 26
firing

Nancy
    $200 15
Kidnapped

Keith
    $200 6
a white blood cell

Nancy
    $400 2
algae

Nancy
    $400 22
Carrie Nation

Keith
    $400 12
[Eugene gives the correct response in an Australian accent; Alex replies "Correct" in an Australian accent.]

Sydney

Eugene
    $400 30
air bubbles

Nancy
    $400 17
Les Misérables

Eugene
    $500 7
(Nancy: What is "Nights Of White Satin"?)
[Two lone claps of applause briefly begin for Nancy.]
(Alex: No, I'm sorry, I can't accept that. Our judges signaling no.)

"Nights In White Satin"

Nancy
    $600 3
corn

Nancy
    $600 23
Thoreau

Eugene
    $600 13
Philadelphia

Keith
    $600 29
blue

Eugene
    $600 18
Show Boat

Eugene
    $600 8
White Heat

Eugene
    $800 4
a saguaro

Nancy
    $800 24
Rachel Carson

Eugene
    $800 14
Kyoto

Nancy
    $800 27
(Keith: Who is Wedgwood?)

Royal Doulton

NancyKeith
    $1,500 19
Brave New World

Eugene
    $800 9
(Keith: What is Whitechapel?)
(Nancy: What is Whiteside?)

Whitehall

EugeneNancyKeith
    $1000 5
[Applause for Nancy taking the lead from Keith, although she did not run the category]

leaves

Nancy
    $1000 25
(Alex: ...and we've got a minute to go.)

Thomas Nast

Eugene
    $1000 16
Mexico City

Eugene
    $1000 28
(Nancy: What is clay?)

porcelain

Nancy
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Rebecca

Eugene
    $1000 10
(the Battle of) White Plains

Keith

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Eugene Nancy Keith
$10,500 $3,700 $3,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY ELECTIONS
(Nancy: I was gonna write 1920.)
...
(Alex: The year in which Wilson defeated Taft and Teddy Roosevelt.)
(Eugene: [Simultaneously with Alex] Taft and Teddy Roosevelt.)
KeithWhat is 1916?
$3,390
NancyWhat is 192 1916?
$3,700
EugeneWhat was 1912?
$2,500
1912

Final scores:

Eugene Nancy Keith
$13,000 $0 $10
5-day champion: $57,902 3rd place: Maytag JetClean dishwasher 2nd place: Marcy Fitness Products home exercise module + Tultex sweats

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Eugene Nancy Keith
$9,800 $4,700 $3,400
18 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 18 R,
7 W
(including 2 DDs)		 15 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $17,900

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