Responses for Show #1693 - Wednesday, January 1, 1992

Contestants

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Val Martinez, a foreign service officer from Burke, Virginia

Todd Lefkowitz, a physician from Scottsdale, Arizona

Jim Alverson, a legal assistant from Tustin, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $28,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NEW YEAR'S DAY
MYSTERIES
FRUIT
LIGHTS
CAMERAS
ACTION COMICS
    $100 3
Ellis Island

Jim
    $100 12
Sherlock Holmes

Jim
    $100 26
(Alex: That's it, and we've got less than a minute to complete the round.)

grapefruit

Val
    $100 13
candles

Val
    $100 10
the shutter

Jim
    $100 1
Superman

Jim
    $200 7
China

Jim
    $200 19
Erle Stanley Gardner

Todd
    $200 27
(Jim: What are raspberries?)
...
(Alex: Raspberries and strawberries got all those little bumps on them.)

cranberries

JimTodd
    $200 14
the Sun

Jim
    $200 15
a fisheye lens

Jim
    $200 2
The Daily Planet

Val
    $300 8
Xavier Cugat

Jim
    $300 20
Dick Francis

Todd
    $300 28
Bartlett

Val
    $300 16
(Jim: What is glitter?)

glimmer

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $300 23
8 millimeters

Todd
    $300 4
10 cents

Jim
    $400 9
John Mitchell

Todd
    $400 21
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Triple Stumper
    $400 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

papayas

Jim
    $400 17
a flare

Jim
    $400 24
press the button

Triple Stumper
    $400 5
Jimmy Olsen

Jim
    $500 11
(Alex: The name that Jim put down as his response to Final Jeopardy! on our last show.)

Aimee (Semple) McPherson

Todd
    $700 22
(Alex: Todd?)
(Todd: I don't know.)
(Alex: One of my favorite novels as a young boy. What is [*]? [*] by Wilkie Collins. Great book.)

The Moonstone

Todd
    $500 18
halogen

Todd
    $500 25
Nikon

Todd
    $500 6
Supergirl

Jim

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

Jim Todd Val
$2,500 $900 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Todd Val
$2,800 $2,200 $700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1890s
JACQUES COUSTEAU
THE WHITE HOUSE
SOUTH CAROLINA
THE UNIVERSE
NOTORIOUS
    $200 1
Rockefeller

Jim
    $200 2
Yves

Jim
    $200 11
Roosevelt

Val
    $200 16
Strom Thurmond

Jim
    $200 17
Halley's Comet

Jim
    $200 26
John Wilkes Booth

Todd
    $400 5
Sitting Bull

Jim
    $400 3
the Cannes Film Festival

Jim
    $400 12
the Lincoln Bedroom

Todd
    $400 25
[ERRATUM: The name is spelled Dock Street Theatre.]

Charleston

Todd
    $400 18
a planet

Jim
    $400 27
[NOTE: Schrank's middle name is most commonly given as Flammang.]

Teddy Roosevelt

Jim
    $600 8
Gauguin

Todd
    $600 4
the Resistance

Todd
    $600 13
the East Room

Todd
    $2,500 24
(Alex: And we have less than a minute to go in the round.)

indigo

Val
    $600 19
quasars

Jim
    $800 9
Dreyfus

Todd
    $800 6
Monaco

Todd
    $1,500 14
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson

Todd
    $800 23
Francis Marion

Val
    $800 20
Edwin Hubble

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Fatty Arbuckle

Val
    $1000 10
(Giuseppe) Verdi

Todd
    $1000 7
Louis Malle

Val
    $1000 15
Duncan Phyfe

Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
a palmetto

Jim
    $1000 21
[Alex read the first abbreviation as "one Y". It appears that the clue was intended to show "ly" and Alex should have read it as "L-Y".]
(Todd: What is the light-year?)
[Alex does not rule. The time expiry signal sounds without Jim or Val being prompted to rebound.]
(Alex: The other unit: [**].)

light-years & parsecs

Todd
Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
Black Dahlia

Jim

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Todd Val
$7,800 $8,100 $6,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

INSECTS
(Alex: [To Todd] He was about to write down the boll weevil. No, the insect in question here is [*]. They thought they might be able to get some silk from that sucker and it didn't work.)
ValWhat is the boll weevil?
$5,990
JimWhat is a boll weevil
$7,800
ToddWhat is the boll we
$7,501
the gypsy moth

Final scores:

Jim Todd Val
$0 $599 $10
3rd place: Konica Z-Up 80RC camera with film + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Game Boy New champion: $599 2nd place: a trip on Delta to Denver, Colorado & a week for 2 at Colony Hotels & Resorts Mountainside at Silver Creek

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jim Todd Val
$7,800 $8,100 $4,100
24 R,
2 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $20,000

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Game tape date: 1991-10-21
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