Responses for Show #2978 - Wednesday, July 9, 1997

Contestants

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Dan Dean, a public affairs director originally from Hackettstown, New Jersey

Diane Tabbott, a communications manager from Jacksonville, Florida

David Smith, an attorney originally from Norwich, England (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORY BOOKS
FAMOUS FIRSTS
ACTORS & ROLES
U.S.A.
FOOD BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
4-LETTER WORDS
    $100 11
Chocolate

Triple Stumper
    $100 16
Miss America

Diane
    $100 21
Whoopi Goldberg

Diane
    $100 1
Green Bay

David
    $100 26
Kellogg's

Dan
    $100 6
King

Dan
    $200 12
The Atomic Bomb

David
    $200 17
Thanksgiving

David
    $200 22
Elisabeth Shue

David
    $200 2
Nevada

Diane
    $200 27
Campbell's

David
    $200 7
Ring

David
    $300 13
The Gunpowder Plot

Dan
    $300 18
The Gideons

David
    $300 23
Robert Redford

Diane
    $300 3
Alabama

David
    $300 28
Hellmann's

Dan
    $300 8
Wing

Diane
    $400 14
Oral history

Dan
    $400 19
Maureen Connolly

David
    $400 24
Anthony Hopkins

David
    $400 4
Arkansas

Dan
    $400 29
(Diane: What is Swanson?)

Louis Rich

Diane
Triple Stumper
    $400 9
Ming

Dan
    $500 15
The Spanish Inquisition

Dan
    $500 20
North Dakota & South Dakota

Dan
    $600 25
(David: Who is Joanne Woodward?)
(Alex: Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond and Rose Sayer in The African Queen.)

Katharine Hepburn

David
    $500 5
Massachusetts

David
    $500 30
Reba McEntire

David
    $500 10
(Alex: A lot of "ings" in that category!)

Zing

David

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

David Diane Dan
$1,800 $500 $2,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

David Diane Dan
$3,400 $600 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BOTANY
FOLKSY PHILOSOPHY
GEOGRAPHY
WOMEN IN THE ARTS
RULERS
LEFTOVERS
    $200 15
Peanuts

Diane
    $200 24
Pogo

Diane
    $200 2
Japan

Diane
    $200 1
Angela Lansbury

Dan
    $200 9
Egypt

David
    $200 14
Pisces

Dan
    $400 16
(Diane: What is carbon dioxide?)

Oxygen

DavidDiane
    $400 27
Woody Guthrie

David
    $400 4
Andorra

Dan
    $400 3
Twyla Tharp

David
    $400 10
Queen Victoria

Dan
    $400 17
Mary

Dan
    $600 19
Poppies

Diane
    $600 28
Investment club

David
    $1,000 5
Kenya

Dan
    $600 8
Lauren Bacall

David
    $600 11
King Hussein

Diane
    $600 18
Veterans Affairs

Dan
    $800 20
Stamen

Dan
    $800 29
Puddinhead Wilson

Triple Stumper
    $800 6
Gulf of Bothnia

David
    $800 25
Gertrude Stein

Diane
    $1,400 12
Maria Theresa

Diane
    $800 22
32

Dan
    $1000 21
Pliny the Elder

David
    $1000 30
(Alex: Diane, you knew that - you should have rung in!)

Lewis Grizzard

Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
Mount Suribachi

Diane
    $1000 26
Wendy Wasserstein

Dan
    $1000 13
Sweden

David
    $1000 23
Milan

David

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

David Diane Dan
$9,800 $5,200 $8,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN AUTHORS
(Dan: He wrote a lot of books!)
(Alex: Yes, Anonymous did write a lot of books!)
DianeWho is Joseph Conrad?
$5,199
DanWho is?
$6,000
DavidWho is Henry James?
$7,801
Henry James

Final scores:

David Diane Dan
$17,601 $1 $2,800
2-day champion: $27,602 3rd place: Panasonic IQ Series Palmcorder 2nd place: Bassett Eden House Bedroom Suite & Waverly Place "Rosewood" bedsheets

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

David Diane Dan
$10,400 $4,600 $8,400
23 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $23,400

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Game tape date: 1997-02-12
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