Responses for Show #974 - Thursday, November 24, 1988

Yael Sofaer game 1.

Contestants

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Jay Browne, a quality control technician from Baltimore, Maryland

Yael Sofaer, a programmer and analyst originally from Israel

Glenn Stoops, a mathematician from Dayton, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,800)

Jeopardy! Round responses

BOOKS & AUTHORS
TRAVEL & TOURISM
BUSINESS BIGGIES
THE ROYAL FAMILY
SPORT OF KINGS
"TOP"s
    $100 13
Tom Hayden

Jay
    $100 1
the street names

Yael
    $100 2
Kodak

Yael
    $100 21
Prince Charles & Princess Diana

Yael
    $100 10
grass

Jay
    $100 23
(Jay: What is a rag top?)
...
(Alex: A rag top is synonymous with convertible, Jay, as you know.)

a hardtop

YaelJay
    $200 15
Donald Regan

Yael
    $200 6
Washington, D.C.

Yael
    $200 3
(Jay: What is Minute Rice?)
(Glenn: What is Quaker?)

Uncle Ben's

GlennJay
Triple Stumper
    $200 22
Prince Philip

Glenn
    $200 11
win the Triple Crown

Jay
    $200 27
top round

Glenn
    $300 17
Shirley MacLaine

Jay
    $300 7
GUM

Glenn
    $300 4
evening wear (formal wear, tuxedos)

Yael
    $300 24
the Falklands

Yael
    $300 12
a perfect tie (dead heat)

Glenn
    $300 28
(Jay: What is top heavy?)

topple

YaelJay
    $400 19
Pippi Longstocking

Yael
    $400 8
(Alex: Yes, Tibet.)

Lhasa

Glenn
    $400 5
Krupp

Glenn
    $800 25
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

Princess Margaret

Yael
    $400 14
3/4s

Glenn
    $400 29
(Alex: In Uncle Tom's Cabin, right.)

Topsy

Yael
    $500 20
(Glenn: Who is Nabokov?)
(Yael: Who is Barbara Cartland?)

Danielle Steel

GlennYael
Triple Stumper
    $500 9
Australia

Jay
    $500 16
(Yael: What is Corning?)

Pittsburgh Plate Glass

GlennYael
    $500 26
Princess Michael (of Kent)

Jay
    $500 18
Bill Shoemaker

Glenn
    $500 30
a top hat

Yael

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

Glenn Yael Jay
$1,600 $900 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Glenn Yael Jay
$2,500 $2,800 $1,100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE VIETNAM WAR
ARCHAEOLOGY
U.S. STATES
LANGUAGES
SINGERS
BOTTOMS
    $200 19
Johnson

Yael
    $200 20
the Parthenon

Glenn
    $200 1
California

Yael
    $200 2
To be, or not to be

Glenn
    $200 8
Paris

Glenn
    $200 13
the Statue of Liberty

Yael
    $400 21
France

Yael
    $400 22
Pitcairn Island

Yael
    $400 3
New Mexico

Yael
    $400 4
the tongue

Glenn
    $400 9
(Glenn: Who is Dolly Parton?)

Tammy Wynette

Glenn
Triple Stumper
    $400 14
root

Glenn
    $600 27
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

Kissinger

Yael
    $600 23
mummies

Yael
    $600 5
Washington & Oregon

Glenn
    $600 18
German

Glenn
    $600 10
Sammy Davis Jr.

Glenn
    $600 15
the keel

Glenn
    $1,000 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Eugene McCarthy

Yael
    $800 24
a milestone

Yael
    $2,121 6
(Glenn: What's Alabama?)

Kansas

Glenn
    $800 26
Persian

Jay
    $800 11
Jimmy Buffett

Glenn
    $800 16
the bottom of the 9th inning

Yael
    $1000 25
(Alex: What is [*]? The [*] Man.)

Java

Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
(Jay: What is Arkansas?)

Idaho

GlennJay
    $1000 28
cognates

Yael
    $1000 12
Bobby Darin

Glenn
    $1000 17
the dregs

Yael

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Glenn Yael Jay
$6,579 $10,400 $900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ACADEMY AWARDS
(Alex: [To Glenn] [*] is correct, 1982.)
...
(Alex: Well, [***] was one of the others; that was 1986--1984 was [**].)
JayWhat is?
$899
GlennWhat are Gandhi & Grease
$4,017
YaelWhat are Platoon &
$3,000
(2 of) Gandhi, Amadeus or Platoon

Final scores:

Glenn Yael Jay
$2,562 $7,400 $1
2nd place: Ayers Chairmakers entertainment center & Colortyme TV + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version New champion: $7,400 3rd place: La-Z-Boy Reclina-Rocker + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Glenn Yael Jay
$8,700 $9,800 $900
21 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 26 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 7 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $19,400

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Game tape date: 1988-09-13
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