Responses for Show #1615 - Friday, September 13, 1991

Contestants

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Randy Kaplan, a commodities broker from Los Angeles, California

David Lasiter, a systems analyst from Thousand Oaks, California

Ellen Jaffe McClain, a teacher from West Hollywood, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,300)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FILE UNDER "T"
WORLD CITIES
FURNITURE
NO. 1 HITS
TRANSPORTATION
(Alex: My favorite author...)
MARK TWAIN
    $100 13
a tepee

Randy
    $100 8
Ho Chi Minh City

Ellen
    $100 22
cedar

Randy
    $100 4
(Alex: "[*]: Do You Know Where You're Going", that's one of five.)

Theme from Mahogany

Ellen
    $100 3
Air Force One

Randy
    $100 1
man

Randy
    $200 14
Thanksgiving

Randy
    $200 9
Tokyo

Randy
    $200 23
the foot

Randy
    $200 27
(1 of) "My Girl", "I Can't Get Next to You", "Just My Imagination" or "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"

Triple Stumper
    $200 18
a carriage

Randy
    $200 2
Huck Finn

David
    $300 15
a twi-night doubleheader

Randy
    $300 10
Pamplona

David
    $300 24
(Alex: Correct, and we have a minute to go.)

a table

Randy
    $300 28
(Ellen: What is "We've Only Just Begun"?)
(Alex: No, that was not a number-one hit.)

(1 of) "Please Mr. Postman", "Close to You" or "Top of the World"

Ellen
Triple Stumper
    $300 19
helicopters

Randy
    $300 5
the Mason-Dixon line

Randy
    $400 16
a tambourine

Randy
    $400 11
Chihuahua

Ellen
    $400 25
(Randy: What is a slat?)
[Randy's response was initially ruled incorrect. This was reversed after the first clue of the Double Jeopardy! Round.]

a splat

EllenRandy
    $400 29
(David: What is "Galveston"?)
(Randy: What is "Wichita Lineman"?)
...
(Alex: Pop chart hits, not country charts.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

"Rhinestone Cowboy" or "Southern Nights"

DavidRandy
Triple Stumper
    $400 20
(Randy: What are circus wagons?)

unicycles

EllenRandy
    $400 6
Aunt Polly

Ellen
    $500 17
tempering

David
    $500 12
(David: What is Haifa?)

Tel Aviv

DavidRandy
    $500 26
a candle

Ellen
    $700 21
Tom Thumb

Ellen
    $500 7
(Rudyard) Kipling

David

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Ellen David Randy
$1,000 $500 $1,300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ellen David Randy
$2,700 $600 $2,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CIVIL WAR
LITERARY TERMS
NEWFOUNDLAND
NATURE
GRAB BAG
SEASONAL QUOTES
    $200 1
(David: CIVIL WAR for $400.)
[A buzzer is heard]
(Alex: Before we get to that clue, David, I've just been signaled that, uh, we have a ruling on a response given a little earlier by Randy. It has to do with the FURNITURE category, and it seems that we have found a book that says "slat" is a synonym for "horizontal splat". And so Randy, you are going to be credited with the $400 and the $400 we took away, so your score right now is at $2900, which puts you in the lead without having to do anything.)

West Virginia

David
    $200 10
(David: What is a sonnet?)

an ode

DavidRandy
    $200 6
wasps

Ellen
    $200 8
Peter Rabbit

David
    $400 2
Andersonville

Ellen
    $400 14
onomatopoeia

Ellen
    $400 7
eels

Randy
    $400 9
the primrose path

Ellen
    $600 3
Baltimore

David
    $600 15
ellipsis

Ellen
    $1,100 18
(Randy: What is a boar?)

warthog

Randy
    $600 11
George Herbert

Randy
    $600 21
Thomas Paine

Ellen
    $800 4
Johnston

David
    $800 16
a rhyme scheme

David
    $800 19
(Alex: With a minute to go.)

a narwhale

David
    $800 12
the sunspot cycle

Randy
    $1,500 22
(Alex: "Now is the winter of our discontent" is absolutely right.)

Richard III

Ellen
    $1000 5
Beauregard

David
    $1000 17
manners

Randy
    $1000 20
a platypus

Ellen
    $1000 13
(Ellen: Who was, um, Thomas Edison?)

A.B. Dick

Ellen
Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Robert Browning

Ellen

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ellen David Randy
$7,800 $4,800 $4,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 20th CENTURY
(Alex: [As music finishes] Will we have a new champion? Ellen suddenly grabbed her head and said, "Oh, no.")
...
(Ellen: I'll never hear the end of this.)
...
(Ellen: And I realized, just too late, who I should have written down.)
DavidWho was Trotsky?
$4,799
RandyWho was Leon Trotsky?
$4,800
EllenWho was Tolstoy?
$1,900
Leon Trotsky

Final scores:

Ellen David Randy
$5,900 $9,599 $9,600
3rd place: camping gear and a Nintendo Entertainment System 2nd place: trip to CancĂșn New champion: $9,600

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ellen David Randy
$6,900 $4,800 $5,900
17 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
11 R,
3 W
20 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,600

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Game tape date: 1991-08-06
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