Responses for Show #649 - Thursday, June 4, 1987

Eugene Finerman game 4.

Contestants

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Claudia Courtney, a systems analyst from San Diego, California

John Bear, a college president from Nashville, Tennessee

Eugene Finerman, a writer from Chicago, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $28,301)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 50 STATES
HOLLYWOOD QUOTES
1971
KIDDIE LIT
WORD ORIGINS
SLEEP
    $100 19
New Mexico

Eugene
    $100 1
Lassie

Claudia
    $100 6
18

John
    $100 7
the Grimm brothers

Eugene
    $100 10
duffel bags

Claudia
    $100 17
the head

Claudia
    $200 21
Rhode Island & Delaware

Triple Stumper
    $200 2
Fred Astaire

Claudia
    $400 8
[Eugene begins lip-synching to the song as soon as the lyrics start.]
...
(Alex: I love the way you were mouthing that, though, you were doing a great job, Eugene.)

Carole King

Eugene
    $200 20
Ian Fleming

John
    $200 11
stripped to the buff

Triple Stumper
    $200 18
Serta

John
    $300 22
(John: What is Hawaii?)
...
(Alex: Yes, there's a little tip of Alaska that extends further west than Hawaii. We've got a minute to go.)

Alaska

JohnClaudia
    $300 3
Marlene Dietrich

Eugene
    $300 9
Charles Manson

Claudia
    $300 24
The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Eugene
    $300 12
stories

Claudia
    $300 23
"To be or not to be, that is the question"

Eugene
    $400 26
New Hampshire

John
    $400 4
Cybill Shepherd

Eugene
    $400 15
(Claudia: What are wages? raises? What are raises? pay raises? What are salaries?)
(Alex: You keep going. No, sorry, we can't accept that. That's not enough.)
(John: What are wages?)
...
(Alex: He froze both of them.)

wages & prices

EugeneJohnClaudia
    $400 25
Alice

John
    $400 13
Pima

Claudia
    $400 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

dreaming

Eugene
    $500 27
Virginia

John
    $500 5
(Alex: For On Golden Pond.)

the Oscar for her father Henry Fonda

Eugene
    $500 16
Lt. (William) Calley

Eugene
    $500 14
demagogue

Eugene

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

Eugene John Claudia
$1,700 $100 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Eugene John Claudia
$4,200 $1,100 $1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICA
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
CLIMBING
MUSIC, "OVER" & "UNDER"
(Alex: One or the other, or perhaps both, will appear in the correct response, not necessarily both.)
NOTORIOUS
WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP
    $200 14
the Ivory Coast

Claudia
    $200 7
Kellogg

John
    $200 25
Everest

John
    $200 3
the William Tell Overture

John
    $200 13
not guilty

John
    $200 1
(Ulysses) Grant

John
    $400 18
bwana

Eugene
    $400 8
(René) Lacoste

John
    $400 29
down

John
    $400 10
"I've Got You Under My Skin"

John
    $400 16
Marie Antoinette

Eugene
    $400 2
Margaret Thatcher

Claudia
    $600 22
(John: What is Mozambique?)

Angola

EugeneJohn
    $600 9
Pizza Hut

Claudia
    $600 26
avalanches

John
    $600 15
"The Party's Over"

Eugene
    $600 17
(Tomás de) Torquemada

John
    $600 4
Mary Lincoln

Eugene
    $800 23
Liberia

John
    $800 11
Cincinnati

John
    $800 27
rappelling

Claudia
    $800 21
"Love Hangover"

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 19
(Eugene: What is that they had the picture of Jack the Ripper on them?)
(Alex: That's good, [*].)

the murderer's reflection was to be found in the eyes

Eugene
    $800 5
Harding

John
    $1000 24
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)

Shaka

Triple Stumper
    $1000 12
Bechtel

Eugene
    $3,000 30
the United States Geological Survey

John
    $1000 28
"Don't Make Me Over"

Claudia
    $1000 20
Agamemnon

Eugene
    $1000 6
(Eugene: Who was Grover Cleveland?)
(John: Who was Wilson?)

Benjamin Harrison

EugeneJohn
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Eugene John Claudia
$9,800 $8,300 $4,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS AMERICANS
[John also drew a "reasonable resemblance" to Franklin.]
ClaudiaWho is Jefferson?
$4,400
JohnWho is Ben Franklin
$501
EugeneWho is Ben Franklin?
$6,801
Ben Franklin

Final scores:

Eugene John Claudia
$16,601 $8,801 $0
4-day champion: $44,902 2nd place: a trip to Tampa, Florida 3rd place: Emerson audio rack system

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Eugene John Claudia
$8,400 $6,300 $4,400
20 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 13 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $19,100

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