Responses for Show #139 - Thursday, March 21, 1985

Contestants

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Julie Stewart, a newspaper society columnist from San Marino, California

Eric House, a technical writer originally from Miami, Florida

Steve Grant, a sales consultant originally from Newton, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,200)

Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN HISTORY
FOOD
"AFTER" WORDS
CARTOONS
AVIATION
HOW TO...
    $100 1
(Julie: What is remember [*]?)

the Maine

Julie
    $100 2
bread

Steve
    $100 9
(Julie: What is post meridian?)

afternoon

EricJulie
    $100 17
Mr. T.

Steve
    $100 22
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in the round.)

a glider

Steve
    $100 16
(Julie: How to make change--what is how to make change?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
...
(Alex: Now we've got some idea of this category, let's go to work on it.)
(Julie: No, let's not, let's try CARTOONS for $100, please.)
[Laughter]

how to make change for a dollar

Julie
    $200 3
the Declaration of Independence

Steve
    $200 6
barbecue

Steve
    $200 10
an afterlife

Julie
    $200 18
(Steve: Who is Tarzan?)

George of the Jungle

SteveEric
    $200 23
vertical takeoff & landing

Julie
    $300 4
the Louisiana Purchase

Steve
    $300 8
the whey

Steve
    $300 12
aftershave lotion

Steve
    $300 19
(Julie: Ohhh...)

Felix the Cat

EricJulie
    $300 24
automatic pilot

Eric
    $400 5
slaves

Eric
    $400 11
aspic

Steve
    $400 13
afterglow

Steve
    $400 20
the Blue Meanies

Eric
    $400 25
(Eric: Who was, uh, cross the Atlantic?)

flying around the world

SteveEric
    $500 7
(Steve: Who is Florence Nightingale?)

Clara Barton

SteveJulie
    $1,000 15
(Eric: What is Austria?)

West or East Germany

Eric
    $500 14
afterburners

Eric
    $500 21
Yosemite Sam

Eric
    $500 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

McDonnell Douglas

Eric

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Steve Eric Julie
$1,000 $500 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Eric Julie
$2,100 $1,800 $700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD POLITICS
BOXING
BIOLOGY
DANCE
THE '60s
12-LETTER WORDS
    $200 21
Argentina

Steve
    $200 2
a cauliflower ear

Julie
    $200 4
zoology

Eric
    $200 9
a hippie

Steve
    $200 1
the resurrection

Steve
    $400 22
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go in this round.)

the IRA

Steve
    $400 10
a standing 8 count

Steve
    $400 5
cloning

Eric
    $400 14
(Alex: Yes, One Million Years B.C. was the film.)

Raquel Welch

Steve
    $400 3
Pennsylvania

Eric
    $600 23
Macau

Steve
    $600 11
(Alex: Yes, I've done that all my life, by the way.)

Roberto Duran

Steve
    $600 6
(Steve: [No response])
(Eric: Who is Drake?)
...
(Alex: The captain, who was Captain Fitzroy, thought the shape and size of a person's nose... denoted some character trait and he didn't like the shape of [*]'s nose.)

Charles Darwin

SteveEric
Triple Stumper
    $600 15
(Steve: What is saccharine?)

cyclamate

SteveEric
    $600 18
(Eric: What is psycho, uh, psychosomatic?)

a hypochondriac (hypochondria)

EricJulie
    $800 24
Cyprus

Eric
    $800 12
Joe Louis

Steve
    $200 7
(Alex: Eric, have you got a question for me.?)
(Eric: What are "The Facts Of Life"?)

"The Birds And The Bees"

Eric
    $400 16
(Eric: What are 3?)
(Alex: Ohhh, I'm sorry, you forgot that Dwight David Eisenhower was president for the first 19 days of 1961.)
[Alex does not give the correct response.]

4

Eric
    $800 19
(Steve: [No response])

onomatopoeia

SteveEric
    $1000 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Hungary

Eric
    $1000 13
(Eric: [Throws hands up])
(Alex: No?)
(Eric: Uh, who is Rocky Marciano?)

Primo Carnera

SteveEric
    $1000 8
osmosis

Eric
    $1000 17
Robert McNamara

Steve
    $1000 20
perspicacity

Steve

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Eric Julie
$6,900 $4,200 $1,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

COLLEGES
(Alex: [Before going to the responses] For the benefit of our viewers I would like to say that the other eight schools in the Big Ten are Iowa State, Ohio State, Indiana, U. of Michigan, Michigan State, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois.)
JulieWhat is Northwestern?
$1,485
EricWhat is Northwestern
$4,100
SteveWhat is Purdue?
$3,800
(1 of) Northwestern or Purdue

Final scores:

Steve Eric Julie
$10,700 $8,300 $2,985
3-day champion: $28,900 2nd place: Hero Jr. personal robot & Vitamaster exerciser 3rd place: Bushnell telescope

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steve Eric Julie
$6,900 $5,800 $1,500
23 R,
5 W
17 R,
7 W
(including 3 DDs)
7 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $14,200

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Game tape date: 1984-12-05
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