Responses for Show #281 - Monday, October 7, 1985

Contestants

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Chris Golden, a policy service representative originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Dwain Elliott, a community information officer from Diamond Bar, California

Priscilla Devlin, a former teacher and a mother from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FOREIGN PHRASES
PEOPLE
IOWA
(Alex: And by the way, folks, we have another in our continuing series of categories featuring one of the 50 states. Today, of course, it is Iowa. Before the season is complete, we will have done all 50 of them.)
MEDICAL FOLKLORE
THE '60S
"G.M."s
    $100 11
(Priscilla: Stop smoking?)
(Alex: Remember to phrase it properly.)
(Priscilla: What is stop smoking?)

[ERRATUM: At the end of the Jeopardy! round, Priscilla's score was adjusted from $400 to $500 without explanation from Alex, presumably refunding her incorrect response to this clue.]

no smoking

Dwain
    $100 9
(Chris: Who is the Reverend Ike?)
(Dwain: Who is Adam Clayton Powell?)
(Priscilla: What the heck, I'll say Billy, who is Billy Graham?)

Jesse Jackson

PriscillaDwainChris
Triple Stumper
    $100 15
tractors

Dwain
    $100 19
the stomach

Dwain
    $100 6
the Frisbee

Dwain
    $100 1
Gavin MacLeod

Priscilla
    $200 12
(Chris: What is I don't know?)
(Alex: I don't know, or [*]? We won't stretch it? No, and I gave it to you, so we can not deal with the rest of it.)

"Who knows?"

Chris
Triple Stumper
    $200 10
(Chris: What is the United States?)

Sweden

Chris
Triple Stumper
    $200 23
(Alex: And he left when he heard his daughter was about to elope with a young boy from Spillville, Iowa.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Antonin Dvorak

Triple Stumper
    $200 7
(Priscilla: Who is Nikita Khrushchev?)
...
(Alex: [*], that famous photo of him in the Yangtze.)

Mao Tse-tung

PriscillaChris
    $200 2
Garrett Morris

Dwain
    $300 18
(Alex: We've got about a minute to go in the round.)

peace

Triple Stumper
    $300 16
Ed Koch

Dwain
    $300 8
Heidi

Priscilla
    $300 3
Groucho Marx

Dwain
    $400 21
"It's a pleasure to meet you" ("Pleased to meet you")

Dwain
    $400 17
Hugh Hefner

Priscilla
    $400 13
The Pawnbroker

Dwain
    $400 4
Garry Marshall

Dwain
    $500 22
art for art's sake

Chris
    $500 20
Magda

Dwain
    $500 14
Is God Dead?

Chris
    $500 5
Good Morning

Chris

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 9):

Priscilla Dwain Chris
$100 $900 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Priscilla Dwain Chris
$500 $2,800 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

20TH CENTURY
SHAKESPEARE
THE FUNNIES
AGRICULTURE
HISTORIANS
TOUGH TV TRIVIA
    $200 17
Alan Shepard

Dwain
    $200 1
Macbeth

Priscilla
    $200 6
the Katzenjammer Kids

Chris
    $200 25
corn

Dwain
    $200 12
Homer

Chris
    $200 7
Arthur

Chris
    $400 18
an automobile

Priscilla
    $400 2
Francis Bacon

Chris
    $400 14
The Hulk

Dwain
    $400 13
(Chris: Who is Sir Kenneth Clark?)

Alistair Cooke

PriscillaChris
    $400 8
[The clue screen did not contain the word "who", but Alex said it.]

Richard Dawson

Chris
    $600 22
(Alex: We've got about a minute to go in the round.)

Paris

Dwain
    $600 3
Marlon Brando

Priscilla
    $600 19
(Priscilla: Who is Li'l Abner?)

a shmoo

Priscilla
Triple Stumper
    $600 15
Voltaire

Chris
    $600 9
Margaret Houlihan ("Hot Lips")

Chris
    $800 23
the Marshall Plan

Chris
    $800 4
Shylock

Priscilla
    $800 20
Prince Valiant

Triple Stumper
    $1,200 16
Will Durant

Chris
    $800 10
(Dwain: Where is in his boot?)

in his hat

DwainChris
    $1000 24
(Dwain: Strikes by government employees. What is strikes by government employees?)

sit-down strikes

Dwain
Triple Stumper
    $600 5
[NOTE: The Archive text matches what was on the clue screen as broadcast.]
(Priscilla: I dare not say that, so I'll say what is stealing?)
(Alex: No, you have to be more specific, I'm afraid, and I don't think you're in the right area. What is [*]?)

poaching a deer

Priscilla
    $1000 21
Jules Feiffer

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Venerable Bede

Priscilla
    $1000 11
Scarecrow

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Priscilla Dwain Chris
$2,700 $2,400 $6,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

EARLY AMERICA
DwainWhat is Independence Hall?
$2,399
PriscillaWhat is Pittsburgh
$2,699
ChrisWhat is Independence Hall?
$700
Independence Hall

Final scores:

Priscilla Dwain Chris
$1 $4,799 $6,900
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer 2nd place: a trip to Orlando New champion: $6,900

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Priscilla Dwain Chris
$3,300 $2,400 $5,800
9 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
3 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $11,500

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Game tape date: 1985-07-29
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