Responses for Show #2969 - Thursday, June 26, 1997

Contestants

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Jim Cordi, a deputy attorney general from Northridge, California

Kevin McDermott, a businessman originally from Indian Wells, California

Ellen Kolb, a homemaker from Merrimack, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. CITIES
THE MOVIES
FOOD & DRINK
WARS
AIRLINE TRAVEL
"EX" WORDS
    $100 3
Salt Lake City

Jim
    $100 16
Hook

Ellen
    $100 22
pod (or husk or skin)

Kevin
    $100 18
the United States of America

Jim
    $100 1
the ears

Kevin
    $100 2
Exodus

Jim
    $200 4
Philadelphia

Ellen
    $200 17
"Lorenzo's Oil"

Jim
    $200 27
cheese

Kevin
    $200 19
Mecca

Ellen
    $200 5
(Alex: ...and fall down and break your crown!)

because during travel, items may shift

Kevin
    $200 6
Excalibur

Kevin
    $300 13
(Ellen: What is Springfield?)

Lexington

Ellen
Triple Stumper
    $1,300 20
(Ellen: No idea.)
(Alex: Did you see any of the Free Willy movies...?)

Keiko, the killer whale

Ellen
    $300 28
Cap'n Crunch

Ellen
    $300 23
Switzerland

Kevin
    $300 8
the Hare Krishnas

Ellen
    $300 7
exacta

Ellen
    $400 14
Rochester

Ellen
    $400 21
Little Big Man

Kevin
    $400 29
creme de menthe

Ellen
    $400 24
Queen Elizabeth I

Ellen
    $400 9
overbooking

Kevin
    $400 11
exhume

Ellen
    $500 15
Fairbanks

Ellen
    $500 26
Forget Paris

Kevin
    $500 30
Buttermilk

Kevin
    $500 25
Lithuania

Ellen
    $500 10
direct

Ellen
    $500 12
the exponent

Jim

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

Ellen Kevin Jim
$2,300 $900 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ellen Kevin Jim
$2,900 $2,900 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

NOTABLE NAMES
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
FURNITURE
ASTRONOMY
NONFICTION
AMERICAN MUSIC
    $200 21
William Randolph Hearst

Jim
    $200 1
(K: What is Scotland?)

Wales

EllenKevin
    $200 30
Nightstand

Ellen
    $200 3
Mercury

Ellen
    $200 13
Julia Child

Kevin
    $200 11
(Kevin: What is "The Star-Spangled Banner"?)

"America" (or "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee")

Kevin
Triple Stumper
    $400 22
Florence Nightingale

Ellen
    $400 2
Australia

Kevin
    $400 29
Sofa

Ellen
    $400 7
(K: What is Venus?)

Mars

KevinJim
    $400 14
Neil Simon

Kevin
    $400 12
John Philip Sousa

Kevin
    $600 23
Nation of Islam

Kevin
    $1,000 4
(Alex: Took you no time at all - the lady knows her geography!)

Laos

Ellen
    $600 28
Trundle bed

Ellen
    $600 8
Clementine

Ellen
    $600 15
Cindy Crawford

Kevin
    $600 17
George Gershwin

Kevin
    $4,700 24
(Alex: You're right & the lead is yours - that was great, well done!)

John Quincy Adams

Kevin
    $800 5
Nigeria

Ellen
    $800 25
(J: What is a nook?)
(less than a minute....)

Inglenook

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $800 9
Pleiades

Ellen
    $800 16
Scott Adams

Ellen
    $800 18
George M. Cohan

Kevin
    $1000 27
Edvard Munch

Kevin
    $1000 6
Uruguay

Jim
    $1000 26
Escritoire

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
(K: What is a black hole?)

Neutron stars/pulsars

Kevin
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Theodore White

Ellen
    $1000 19
Irving Berlin

Ellen

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ellen Kevin Jim
$10,900 $10,800 $1,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

POETS
JimWho was Wright
$100
KevinWho is Leroi Jones
$8,999
EllenWho is Baldwin?
$7,299
Langston Hughes

Final scores:

Ellen Kevin Jim
$3,601 $1,801 $1,700
2-day champion: $16,402 2nd place: Trip to Melia Cariari, Costa Rica 3rd place: Minolta Vectis S-1 APS Camera

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ellen Kevin Jim
$11,800 $6,900 $1,800
26 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 8 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $20,500

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Game tape date: 1997-02-05
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