Responses for Show #152 - Tuesday, April 9, 1985

Mike Day game 1.

Contestants

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Suzan Hier, a criminal attorney from Buena Park, California

Mike Day, a finance and marketing MBA student from Columbus, Ohio

Louis Goldstein, a casting director originally from The Bronx, New York

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. BEACHES
ALL NUMBERS
COOKING
INSECTS
SPORTS TRIVIA
"BEN"
    $100 7
Long Beach

Mike
    $100 13
90

Louis
    $100 18
yeast

Mike
    $100 26
bedbugs

Mike
    $100 2
[ERRATUM: At time of taping, Jack Nicklaus had 17 major championships, 10 more than Snead's 7.]

Snead

Mike
    $100 1
Benny

Mike
    $200 8
Brighton (Beach)

Suzan
    $200 14
(Louis: What is 37?)
...
(Alex: Yes, you missed it by one, Louis.)

36

LouisMike
    $200 22
(Mike: What is lamb?)

deer

MikeSuzan
    $200 27
termites

Mike
    $200 3
(Alex: Since 1897.)

the Boston Marathon

Mike
    $200 9
a Bengal tiger

Suzan
    $300 19
(Mike: What is at the beach?)

Ft. Lauderdale

LouisMike
    $300 15
(Suzan: What is 1500?)
...
(Alex: Mike is benefitting from your mistakes, players.)

1600

MikeSuzan
    $300 23
wok

Suzan
    $300 28
(Louis: Oh, God.)
(Alex: I don't think he's going to help you on a game show.)
(Mike: What is a scarab beetle?)
...
(Alex: Suzan, would you like to try it?)
(Suzan: That was my guess.)
(Alex: Oh, really? Aren't you glad you didn't ring in and give it?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Spanish fly

LouisMike
Triple Stumper
    $300 4
Rockne

Mike
    $300 10
Benson & Hedges

Suzan
    $400 20
(Suzan: I'm sorry.)

Virginia Beach

MikeSuzan
    $400 16
(Mike: What is a centimeter?)
(Louis: What is a decameter?)
(Alex: Let me give it to you. What is [*]?)
[contestants groan]
(Alex: Boo? You say boo to me?)
(Mike: Yes.)

an inch

LouisMike
Triple Stumper
    $400 24
(Louis: Um, um, it becomes--)
(Alex: --Question, question--)
(Louis: --Um, what is, um, I'm drawing a blank.)
...
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

it thickens

LouisSuzan
    $400 5
Stengel

Mike
    $400 11
your beneficiary

Mike
    $500 21
the Virgin Islands

Louis
    $500 17
(Mike: What is 43,560?)
(Alex: Interesting figure, but wrong.)
...
(Mike [To Louis]: Good job.)

640

LouisMike
    $500 25
bouillabaisse

Suzan
    $500 6
(Alex: Absolutely right, you ran the category, nice going!)
[Mike pumps fist in celebration]

Baer and Schmeling

Mike
    $500 12
benign

Suzan

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

Louis Mike Suzan
$0 $2,100 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Louis Mike Suzan
$100 $1,700 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AUTHORS
COLLEGES
WWI FILMS
THE FAR EAST
STARTS WITH "V"
NOBEL PRIZE
    $200 18
(Alex: Authoress of Gone with the Wind.)

Margaret Mitchell

Suzan
    $200 9
(Mike: What is motivation?)

money

MikeSuzan
    $200 20
Glory

Mike
    $200 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Japan

Mike
    $200 10
(Mike: What is giddy up?)

vamoose

MikeSuzan
    $200 3
Madame Curie

Mike
    $400 21
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

Thomas

Mike
    $400 14
Boston College

Mike
    $400 7
U

Mike
    $400 11
(Mike: What is I don't know.)

va va voom!

MikeSuzan
    $400 4
Pavlov

Mike
    $600 22
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mike
    $600 15
hazing

Mike
    $600 1
(Louis: What is the Neanderthal Man?)

the Peking Man

Louis
Triple Stumper
    $600 12
vixen

Louis
    $600 5
economics

Mike
    $800 23
Emily Dickinson

Mike
    $800 16
(Alex: That's what they used to do in the '20s. Boy, did they have fun.)

knees

Mike
    $800 2
North Korea

Mike
    $800 13
Viscount

Mike
    $800 6
(Mike: What is the chance to give an oration?)

a diploma

LouisMike
    $1000 24
(Bernard) Malamud

Mike
    $1000 17
(Suzan: What is UCLA?)
...
(Alex: Let me give it to you. [*]. What is [*]? UCLA is in second place.)
(Suzan: I went with my heart.)

USC

Suzan
Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
(Suzan: Who is... [*]?)
(Alex: Yep! Surprise, surprise surprise! You pulled that one out of a hat.)

Veronica

Suzan
    $500 8
[Alex failed to read the other individuals' names.]

Kissinger & Bunche

Mike

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Louis Mike Suzan
$900 $8,800 $2,900
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(Alex [After Louis' response is revealed]: Mike Day is carrying on in the middle, but we'll find out why in just a few moments.)
...
(Alex: Boy, the youth, they cannot disguise anything.)
(Mike: Sorry about that.)
(Alex: That's all right.)
LouisWhat is S
$899
SuzanWhat is S E
$2,850
MikeWhat is 'S'?
$2,900
S

Final scores:

Louis Mike Suzan
$1,799 $11,700 $5,750
3rd place: Frigidaire refrigerator/freezer New champion: $11,700 2nd place: vacation to Palm Springs + luggage set

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Louis Mike Suzan
$900 $9,300 $2,900
6 R,
5 W
30 R
(including 1 DD),
9 W
13 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $13,100

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Game tape date: 1984-12-18
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