Responses for Show #1679 - Thursday, December 12, 1991

Contestants

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Ron Brashear, a curator from Pasadena, California

Jay Marhoefer, a management consultant from Dallas, Texas

Glenn Gillis, a film student from San Antonio, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

"A" IN ASTRONOMY
SHAKESPEARE
FOOD
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
5-LETTER WORDS
CRIME & PUNISHMENT
    $100 1
Neil Armstrong (or Edwin Aldrin)

Jay
    $100 2
Juliet

Ron
    $100 17
a hamburger

Jay
    $100 12
the State of the Union Address

Ron
    $100 7
nanny

Jay
    $100 23
a chain gang

Jay
    $200 3
asteroids

Ron
    $200 8
St. George

Jay
    $200 22
(Jay: What is wheat?)

rice

GlennJay
    $200 13
antitrust acts

Glenn
    $200 18
(Ron: What are crepes?)
[Originally accepted as correct; reversed after clue 19.]

crepe

Ron
Triple Stumper
    $200 24
(Glenn: What is Tokyo Rose?)
(Jay: Who is Berlin Betty?)

Axis Sally

GlennJay
Triple Stumper
    $300 4
Aries

Glenn
    $300 9
Merry Wives of Windsor

Jay
    $300 14
the Secretary of State & the Secretary of Defense

Jay
    $300 19
frame

Jay
    $300 25
(Alex: You are right, and we have less than a minute to go.)
[NOTE: This was the 415,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, on 2021-04-27.]

loan sharking

Ron
    $400 5
the Andromeda Galaxy

Ron
    $400 10
(Alex: His mother, right.)

Gertrude

Jay
    $400 15
the fiscal year of the United States

Jay
    $400 20
a crest

Ron
    $400 26
a dunking chair (or dunking stool)

Glenn
    $500 6
Alpha Centauri

Ron
    $500 11
Henry VIII

Triple Stumper
    $500 16
the U.S. Geological Survey

Ron
    $500 21
blaze

Triple Stumper
    $500 27
(Glenn: What is "Folsom Blues"?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds. The song, sung by Johnny Rivers, is reprised going into the break.]

"The Midnight Special"

Glenn

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 16):

Glenn Jay Ron
$500 $1,800 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Glenn Jay Ron
$400 $1,900 $2,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY AMERICA
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
ACTRESSES
SICKNESS & HEALTH
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
AUSTRALIA
    $200 8
(Alex: By Lincoln, yes.)

the Gettysburg Address

Ron
    $200 13
Harvard

Jay
    $200 1
Hayley Mills

Glenn
    $200 25
pork

Jay
    $200 15
a country

Glenn
    $200 3
gold

Ron
    $400 9
Carrie Nation

Glenn
    $400 18
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Ron
    $400 2
Marlene Dietrich

Ron
    $400 27
a cleft palate

Ron
    $400 21
White Fang

Jay
    $400 4
the Allies

Ron
    $600 11
(Glenn: What is a boxer?)
(Jay: What is a rodeo rider?)

a baseball player

GlennJay
Triple Stumper
    $600 19
Colorado

Glenn
    $600 14
(Jay: Who is Lipton?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Jay: Who is [*]?)

Peggy Lipton

Jay
    $600 28
a cold sore

Jay
    $3,000 22
Jonathan Swift

Jay
    $600 5
Canberra

Jay
    $800 10
Sacajawea

Ron
    $800 20
Columbia

Jay
    $800 16
Kim Novak

Jay
    $800 29
the thyroid

Glenn
    $800 23
Bell, Book and Candle

Triple Stumper
    $800 6
Victoria

Ron
    $1,500 12
the Johnstown flood

Ron
    $1000 26
Marquette

Jay
    $1000 17
Blair Brown

Ron
    $1000 30
diuretics

Glenn
    $1000 24
(Alex: You are right, and we have less than a minute to go in the round.)

The Day of the Locust

Glenn
    $1000 7
Alice Springs

Ron

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Glenn Jay Ron
$4,000 $9,500 $9,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

BRIDGES
GlennWhat is the Idaho
$0
RonWhat is the Niagara River
$9,400
JayWhat is the Aco Niagara
$9,400
the Niagara River

Final scores:

Glenn Jay Ron
$4,000 $18,900 $18,800
3rd place: Cuisinart Espresso machine New champion: $18,900 2nd place: his and her clothing from The Greif Companies + a Panasonic word processor

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Glenn Jay Ron
$4,500 $7,100 $8,900
11 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $20,500

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Game tape date: 1991-09-24
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