Responses for Show #1511 - Monday, March 11, 1991

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Contestants

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Adrianna Donaldson, a researcher originally from Vancouver, British Columbia

Mike Dolber, an American history teacher from Medford, New York

David Epstein, a lawyer from Irvine, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE
ARCHITECTURE
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
SPORTS NICKNAMES
HERBS & SPICES
“SEX” EDUCATION
    $100 1
Bangkok

Adrianna
    $100 9
Crystal

David
    $100 22
4th of July

Mike
    $100 15
Julius Erving

Adrianna
    $100 2
saffron

Adrianna
    $100 8
unisex

David
    $200 4
China

David
    $200 10
Frank Lloyd Wright

Adrianna
    $200 24
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)

New Orleans

David
    $200 23
Pelé

Adrianna
    $200 3
horseradish

David
    $200 18
(Mike: What is, uh, sextrillion?)
(Alex: No.)
(Mike: [*].)
(David: What is a googolplex?)
...
(Alex: Mike, I ruled against you because you mispronounced it the first time; you said sextrillion and then you corrected yourself after I ruled against you.)

sextillion

DavidMike
Triple Stumper
    $300 5
Wales

Triple Stumper
    $300 11
the keystone

David
    $300 25
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Mike
    $300 26
Willie Mays

Mike
    $300 14
cinnamon

Mike
    $300 19
a sextant

Adrianna
    $400 6
Addis Ababa

David
    $400 12
a column

David
    $400 28
[Mike does not include "The" in his response.]

The Glass Menagerie

Mike
    $400 27
John McEnroe

Adrianna
    $400 16
cloves

Adrianna
    $400 20
(Mike: Uh, what is sexton?)

(the Earl of) Essex

MikeAdrianna
    $500 7
Madagascar

Adrianna
    $1,000 13
St. Peter's in Rome

David
    $500 30
Camino Real

Triple Stumper
    $500 29
Ted Williams

Mike
    $500 17
nutmeg

Adrianna
    $500 21
Anne Sexton

Triple Stumper

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

David Mike Adrianna
$2,700 $0 $900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

David Mike Adrianna
$2,700 $1,300 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LATIN AMERICA
MIDDLE NAMES
LITERARY QUOTES
MATH
THE 1920s
FAMOUS VIRGOS
    $200 3
El Salvador

Mike
    $200 15
Valentine

Adrianna
    $200 9
George Bernard Shaw

David
    $200 18
a quotient

Mike
    $200 1
the Model T

Mike
    $200 21
Ingrid Bergman

Mike
    $400 5
Asunción (Paraguay)

Adrianna
    $400 16
Ross

David
    $2,000 10
(David: What are flowers?)
(Alex: Oh, sorry. If you thought of Leaves of [*] that might have given it to you; he was referring, of course, to [*].)

grass

David
    $400 24
a bisector

David
    $400 2
the Book of the Month Club

David
    $400 22
(Adrianna: Who is... uh, Jack Paar?)

Sid Caesar

MikeAdrianna
    $600 6
the Alliance for Progress

David
    $750 17
(David: I'm sure I'll know it when you tell me, but I haven't a clue.)

Booker Taliaferro Washington

David
    $600 11
"The Pit and the Pendulum"

Mike
    $600 25
(Mike: What is 19?)
(David: Uh... 17.)
...
(Alex: It's a Fibonacci progression, apparently; you add the last two numbers together.)
[David's signaling device malfunctioned making it look he had rung in when he had not intended to reply to the clue. Alex later awarded David's $600 back, and still later explained that Mike's signaling device had become internally unscrewed through mechanical wear.]

21

Mike
Triple Stumper
    $600 4
(2 of) Harding, Coolidge (Wilson or Hoover)

David
    $600 23
D.H. Lawrence

David
    $800 7
mate

David
    $800 19
Francis

Mike
    $800 13
Rip Van Winkle

Triple Stumper
    $800 26
coordinates

Mike
    $800 12
a flapper

David
    $800 27
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

(Lauren) Bacall

Adrianna
    $1000 8
the Atacama

David
    $1000 20
Carlos

Mike
    $1000 29
smile

Mike
    $1000 30
(Adrianna: What is isosceles?)

scalene

MikeAdrianna
    $1000 14
Antwerp

Mike
    $1000 28
H.L. Mencken

Mike

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

David Mike Adrianna
$5,750 $9,100 $3,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MUSEUMS
AdriannaWho is Mellon
$3,000
DavidWho is John Ringling?
$2,750
MikeWho was Getty?
$2,401
John Ringling

Final scores:

David Mike Adrianna
$8,500 $6,699 $200
2-day champion: $15,501 2nd place 3rd place

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

David Mike Adrianna
$8,000 $9,100 $3,200
19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 2 DDs)
19 R,
3 W
14 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $20,300

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Game tape date: 1991-01-28
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