Responses for Show #696 - Monday, September 21, 1987

Roy Holliday game 1.

Contestants

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Brenda Steere, a life insurance sales representative from New York City, New York

Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Brooklyn, New York

Tom Bendycki, a copy editor originally from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $39,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

POP MUSIC
FISH
BRITISH TRIVIA
CIVIL WAR
ADVERTISING
FAT
    $100 7
Gladys Knight

Tom
    $100 19
salt water

Roy
    $100 6
fashion

Tom
    $100 24
Robert E. Lee

Tom
    $100 1
stays together

Brenda
    $100 9
Minnesota Fats

Tom
    $200 8
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Roy
    $200 20
the gills

Roy
    $200 17
pay (salary)

Brenda
    $200 2
a Hertz rental car counter

Roy
    $200 11
his wife

Roy
    $300 10
American Bandstand

Roy
    $300 21
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)

its eyes

Roy
    $300 18
(Roy: Who is, uh, Princess... just blanked on her name... York.)
(Alex: Be a little more specific.)
(Roy: Uh, who is Princess, who is [**]? Who is...)
(Alex: Okay.)
(Roy: [*].)
(Alex: Okay, that's who we were going for; she's not a princess, she's a Duchess of York. You had your description a little muddled.)
(Roy: BRITISH TRI, no FISH for $100.)
(Alex: I see.)
[Laughter]

Sarah Ferguson (Fergie)

Roy
    $300 3
Noxzema shave cream

Tom
    $1,000 12
[The music was not reprised going into the break.]

Fats Waller

Roy
    $400 15
Bob Dylan

Tom
    $400 22
sepia

Triple Stumper
    $400 26
(Tom: Who is Margaret Tubman?)
...
[The end-of-rounds signal sounds.]

Harriet Tubman

TomRoy
    $400 4
Hanes (pantyhose)

Roy
    $400 13
Wo Fat

Tom
    $500 16
Alan Parsons

Roy
    $500 23
piranhas

Roy
    $500 25
West Point

Triple Stumper
    $500 5
Roto-Rooter

Roy
    $500 14
(Tom: [Imitating Bogart] What is [*]?)
(Alex: [Imitating Bogart] You got it, I'm sending you over, you're taking the fall, you got $1,500, make a selection, do it now.)
[Laughter]

The Maltese Falcon

Tom

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

Tom Roy Brenda
$600 $2,800 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Roy Brenda
$1,600 $5,100 $300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PREDATORS
PEN NAMES
GEOGRAPHICAL GEMS
MEDICAL HISTORY
FAMOUS BROTHERS
THIN
    $200 12
the females

Brenda
    $200 1
(Brenda: What is E?)
(Roy: What is A?)

the W

RoyBrenda
Triple Stumper
    $200 4
Ireland

Brenda
    $200 3
(Tom: [After Alex ruled him correct] Bubonic plague.)

the plague

Tom
    $200 10
the Kennedy brothers

Roy
    $200 18
skating on thin ice

Tom
    $400 23
(Roy: What is fish?)
(Brenda: What are rodents?)

other birds

RoyBrenda
Triple Stumper
    $400 2
(Roy: Uh, who is Baum?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

L. Frank Baum

Roy
    $400 17
the Ivory Coast

Brenda
    $400 7
the kidney

Roy
    $400 13
the Youngers

Tom
    $400 19
a dime

Brenda
    $600 24
(Tom: What is a lynx?)

the puma (the cougar)

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 5
George Orwell

Brenda
    $600 27
(Roy: What is Miami?)

Coral Gables

TomRoy
    $600 8
Louis Pasteur

Roy
    $600 14
(Alex: Who played the Youngers in The Long Riders.)

the Carradine brothers

Roy
    $600 20
macaroni

Tom
    $800 25
a coyote

Roy
    $800 6
Thackeray

Roy
    $800 28
(Roy: What is Idaho?)

Nevada

RoyBrenda
    $800 9
Legionnaires' disease

Tom
    $800 15
the Warner brothers

Tom
    $800 21
Joseph

Tom
    $1000 26
the fox

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
Isaac Asimov

Roy
    $1,300 29
(Brenda: What is [*]?)
(Alex: Right... Oh, Brenda, you're halfway there.)
(Brenda: And the Gold Coast?)
[Tom shook his fists in a way that indicated he would have got it right and wished he had found the Daily Double.]

Diamond Head & Pearl Harbor

Brenda
    $1000 11
smallpox

Roy
    $1000 16
the Clarks

Tom
    $1000 22
Chaucer

Roy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Roy Brenda
$6,400 $9,900 $1,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SUPREME COURT
(Alex: [To Roy] Was it a guess?)
[Roy nods up and down vigorously.]
BrendaWho is Eisenhower
$1,399
TomWho is Dwight Eisenhower?
$6,000
RoyWho is Eisenhower?
$3,100
Dwight Eisenhower

Final scores:

Tom Roy Brenda
$12,400 $13,000 $2,799
2nd place: Marcy Fitness Products home exercise module & Pannill clothes New champion: $13,000 3rd place: Maytag Jetclean dishwasher

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Tom Roy Brenda
$6,400 $9,200 $2,300
17 R,
2 W
24 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
8 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,900

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Game tape date: 1987-06-17
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