Responses for Show #1689 - Thursday, December 26, 1991

Contestants

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Margaret Epstein, an attorney from Los Angeles, California

Gary Pate, an administrator and teacher from Fullerton, California

Mary Hurley, a senior gardener originally from Stockton, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,601)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PETROLEUM
THE SPORTING LIFE
COLORS
MUSIC
IRISH ACTORS
GIMME 5
    $100 26
a barrel

Triple Stumper
    $100 3
a fisherman

Mary
    $100 7
(Mary: What is white or [*]?)
(Alex: [*], that's the one.)

ivory

Mary
    $100 1
lullaby

Margaret
    $100 8
Only the Lonely

Margaret
    $100 17
touch

Margaret
    $200 27
gasoline

Margaret
    $200 22
snorkeling

Mary
    $200 13
plum

Margaret
    $200 2
a bass

Gary
    $200 9
Pierce Brosnan

Margaret
    $200 18
who, what, when, where & why

Mary
    $300 28
Mexico

Mary
    $300 23
parachuting (or skydiving)

Margaret
    $300 14
(Gary: What is blue?)
...
(Alex: The color of the cross is [*] on a background of blue.)

white

Gary
Triple Stumper
    $300 4
yodeling

Margaret
    $300 10
Richard Harris

Margaret
    $300 19
(Gary: [Shakes head] I don't...)
...
(Alex: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.)

the Great Lakes

Gary
Triple Stumper
    $400 29
shale

Gary
    $400 24
a punt

Gary
    $1,000 15
amber

Margaret
    $400 5
a poem

Mary
    $400 11
Greer Garson

Margaret
    $400 20
(Gary: Who are the Shawnee?)

the Seminole

Gary
Triple Stumper
    $500 30
wildcat wells

Triple Stumper
    $500 25
(Gary: What is rugby?)
(Mary: What is cricket?)

polo

MaryGary
Triple Stumper
    $500 16
pimento

Margaret
    $500 6
Pastoral

Margaret
    $500 12
[Note: Alex adds a "tut tut tut" to the end of his reading of this clue.]

Barry Fitzgerald

Mary
    $500 21
Zeppo & Gummo

Mary

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

Mary Gary Margaret
$1,100 -$100 $3,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mary Gary Margaret
$1,800 -$500 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE RENAISSANCE
ANATOMY
BIBLICAL WOMEN
U.S. STATES
COINS
BOOKS & AUTHORS
    $200 3
Italy

Mary
    $200 28
teeth

Margaret
    $200 1
Delilah

Margaret
    $200 11
(Gary: What is New Mexico?)
(Margaret: What is Oklahoma?)

Alaska

GaryMargaret
Triple Stumper
    $200 21
Australia

Mary
    $200 16
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Margaret
    $1,000 4
(Alex: And they're still a big attraction today.)

Florence

Mary
    $400 27
the feet

Margaret
    $400 2
Sarah

Mary
    $400 12
Virginia

Gary
    $400 22
(Gary: Who is Pope [*]...the [*]rd?)

John XXIII

Gary
    $400 17
Solzhenitsyn

Margaret
    $600 5
Michelangelo

Gary
    $600 26
(Mary: What is the cornea?)
(Gary: What is the iris?)
...
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go, Mary.)

the lens

MaryGary
Triple Stumper
    $600 8
(Alex: Yes, I was afraid that because you're competing against Mary & Margaret, you might have slipped in "Mary & Margaret" on that one. You got it right.)
(Gary: I was watching that.)

Mary & Martha

Gary
    $600 13
New Mexico

Gary
    $600 23
Athens

Gary
    $600 18
Thomas Wolfe

Margaret
    $800 6
Flemish

Margaret
    $800 29
the mandible

Mary
    $800 9
Esther

Margaret
    $800 14
North Carolina

Gary
    $800 24
Christopher Columbus

Margaret
    $800 19
Jack Kerouac

Margaret
    $1000 7
Petrarch

Gary
    $1000 30
the pancreas

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
Miriam

Gary
    $1000 15
Pennsylvania

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Gary: Who is Midas?)

Croesus

MaryGary
    $1,000 20
Kenneth Grahame

Margaret

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mary Gary Margaret
$4,800 $3,700 $10,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS ADDRESSES
(Alex: "Addresses" as in locations, not speeches.)
(Alex: [before revealing the clue] [*], as in, what is it, 79 or 89 Wistful Vista? I can't remember. It's so long ago.)
...
(Alex: [to Margaret] You misspelled Mr. Quayle's name, but that's all right. We don't penalize for misspelled words in Final Jeopardy!)
GaryWho is the Vice President of the U.S? (Dan Quayle)
$3,699
MaryWho is Colin Powell?
$4,700
MargaretWho is Dan Quale
$0
the Vice President of the U.S. (Dan Quayle)

Final scores:

Mary Gary Margaret
$100 $7,399 $10,200
3rd place: Vita-Mixer, 4000 2nd place: Broyhill bedroom set + Whisper Soft Mills bedding New champion: $10,200

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mary Gary Margaret
$4,200 $3,700 $9,600
14 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 12 R,
7 W		 24 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $17,500

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Game tape date: 1991-10-01
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