Responses for Show #1420 - Friday, November 2, 1990

Contestants

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Jim Arnold, a law student originally from Kansas City, Missouri

Nancy Byrne, a graduate student from Chattanooga, Tennessee

Stephanie Brush, a writer from Fairfield County, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE SENATE
OLD TESTAMENT
TRADE NAMES
SPORTS
SWEETS
FAMOUS LETTERS
    $100 21
(Jim: What's 13?)
...
(Alex: [*]. Two per state, yes.)

26

StephanieJim
    $100 3
Solomon

Jim
    $100 15
Scotch Tape

Jim
    $100 22
France

Jim
    $100 1
(Jim: What's the Betty Crocker Bake-Off?)

the Pillsbury Bake-Off

StephanieJim
    $100 9
Vanzetti

Jim
    $200 23
six years

Jim
    $200 4
David

Jim
    $200 17
Kleenex

Jim
    $200 27
(Jim: Who's Orr?)
(Nancy: Who is Bobby Hull?)
...
(Alex: Who is the great [*]?)

Gordie Howe

NancyJim
Triple Stumper
    $200 2
the Girl Scouts

Jim
    $200 11
Napoleon

Stephanie
    $300 24
filibuster

Jim
    $300 5
Moses

Stephanie
    $300 18
(Nancy: What is Karastan?)

linoleum

NancyJim
    $300 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Steffi Graf

Stephanie
    $300 6
(Stephanie: What is fried?)
(Alex: Be a little more specific.)

deep-fried

Stephanie
    $1,000 12
Charles Darwin

Stephanie
    $400 25
(Alex: The Senate is presided over by the vice-president of the United States, [*].)

Dan Quayle

Triple Stumper
    $400 10
Egypt

Stephanie
    $400 19
Velcro

Jim
    $400 7
Peach Melba

Nancy
    $400 13
Abelard

Stephanie
    $500 26
Kansas

Stephanie
    $500 16
Job

Triple Stumper
    $500 20
(Alex: That's it, and we have a minute to go.)

Day-Glo

Jim
    $500 8
(Jim: What's New Brunswick?)

Quebec

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $500 14
Benjamin Franklin

Nancy

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Stephanie Nancy Jim
$2,300 $400 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Stephanie Nancy Jim
$3,600 $400 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FIRSTS
THE CIVIL WAR
BOOKS & AUTHORS
ISLANDS
PEOPLE
FROM THE FRENCH
    $200 8
(Nancy: Who is Disraeli?)

Rothschild

NancyJim
    $200 26
(Jim: [*]. ... Who is [*]?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Sherman

Jim
    $200 1
(Stephanie: Who is Geraldine Ferraro?)
(Jim: Ooh, don't know.)
(Alex: Oh, that's too bad. Nancy wants to ring in. Wait a minute. [Nancy's light comes on.] Nancy?)

Kitty Dukakis

StephanieNancyJim
    $200 6
Key Largo

Nancy
    $200 17
(Jim: What's blowing bubbles?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Jim: Blowing large bubbles.)
(Alex: Be more specific than that.)

blowing the largest bubble of all

Jim
    $200 12
liaison

Jim
    $400 22
the French Foreign Legion

Jim
    $400 2
John Belushi

Nancy
    $400 7
Queen Elizabeth II

Triple Stumper
    $400 18
Raisa Gorbachev

Triple Stumper
    $400 13
petite

Jim
    $600 23
(Nancy: What is elimination?)

the dot (over the "i")

Nancy
Triple Stumper
    $600 3
Slaughterhouse-Five

Stephanie
    $1,600 9
(Jim: What's Staten Island?)
(Alex: Oh no, sorry. You jumped in a little too quickly on that one. What is [*]?)

Long Island

Jim
    $600 19
Hillary

Jim
    $600 14
German

Nancy
    $800 24
Korea

Nancy
    $800 4
Dean Rusk

Triple Stumper
    $800 10
Malta

Jim
    $800 20
(Nancy: Um. Who is, um, Valerie...)

Valentina Tereshkova

StephanieNancy
    $800 15
(Nancy: What is demimondaine?)
(Alex: Hmm.)
(Nancy: [*]?)
(Alex: [*] or demimondaine, all right.)

demimonde

Nancy
    $1,800 25
(Nancy: I'll go for $2,000 please.)
(Alex: No, you can't risk $2,000 because you don't have $2,000.)
(Nancy: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. $1,800.)

the Otis Company

Nancy
    $1000 5
(Gustave) Flaubert

Jim
    $1000 11
(Stephanie: What is, um... sorry.)

Fiji

Stephanie
Triple Stumper
    $1000 21
(Alex: [*] is right. We have a minute to go.)

(Desmond) Tutu

Jim
    $1000 16
ennui

Stephanie

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Stephanie Nancy Jim
$4,800 $3,600 $5,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 50 STATES
(Alex: Oh, this was one of those terrible ones. It's like, either you get it immediately or you're going through the entire list of states.)
...
(Nancy: I was thinking vowel and consonant and "Hawaii".)
NancyWhat is Hawaii
$3,599
StephanieWhat is
$4,650
JimWhat Miss.
$4,700
Massachusetts

Final scores:

Stephanie Nancy Jim
$150 $1 $300
2nd place: trip to The Bahamas + The Jeopardy! Book 3rd place: fax machine and a Nintendo Entertainment System + The Jeopardy! Book New champion: $300

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Stephanie Nancy Jim
$4,100 $2,800 $6,600
13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 9 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 22 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $13,500

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Game tape date: 1990-09-10
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