Responses for Show #920 - Friday, September 9, 1988

Contestants

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Cheryl Strong, an accountant from Mentor, Ohio

Jim Healow, an attorney from Billings, Montana

Erik Knutzen, a venture capitalist originally from Minnetonka, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
ANIMALS
COOKING
WORLD CITIES
GOLF
IN OTHER WORDS...
    $100 5
the Alps

Erik
    $100 20
bats

Jim
    $100 11
silkworms

Jim
    $100 6
Rome, Naples and Turin

Erik
    $100 12
(Jim: What is shoot his age?)

get a hole-in-one

JimCheryl
    $100 27
(Erik: Uh, [*]?)
(Alex: Remember your phrasing.)
[ERRATUM: "Occurrences" is spelled with two "R"s.]

let bygones be bygones

Erik
    $200 7
Robin Hood

Cheryl
    $200 23
eucalyptus

Jim
    $200 13
sugar

Erik
    $200 1
Canterbury

Erik
    $200 14
the green

Erik
    $200 30
happy as a clam

Jim
    $300 8
(Erik: What is Deerslayer?)

Leatherstocking

ErikCheryl
    $300 19
Alaska

Cheryl
    $300 16
sticking to the pin

Jim
    $300 2
Chicago

Cheryl
    $300 15
the British Open

Cheryl
    $300 29
(Jim: Uh, [*]? What is [*]?)

to coin a phrase

Jim
    $400 9
Gargantua

Triple Stumper
    $400 21
birds of paradise

Cheryl
    $400 25
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)

truffles

Cheryl
    $300 3
São Paulo

Cheryl
    $400 17
a sand trap

Cheryl
    $400 28
killing two birds with one stone

Jim
    $500 10
Scheherazade

Cheryl
    $500 22
(Erik: What is a rattlesnake?)
(Jim: What is a cobra?)

a python

ErikJimCheryl
    $500 26
whole wheat flour

Triple Stumper
    $500 4
Marseille

Erik
    $500 18
the Crosby

Jim
    $500 24
clean as a hound's tooth

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Erik Jim Cheryl
$1,000 $0 $1,700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Erik Jim Cheryl
$600 $1,500 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

RECENT HISTORY
FLAGS
WOMEN'S COLLEGES
THEATER
FOREIGN-BORN AMERICANS
GOING FOR BAROQUE
    $200 2
nuclear weapons

Jim
    $200 26
(2 of) the Mississippi & the Missouri (or the Illinois)

Cheryl
    $200 15
Radcliffe

Erik
    $200 24
Cleopatra

Cheryl
    $200 11
Edward G. Robinson

Cheryl
    $200 28
Lutheran

Jim
    $400 1
prayer

Cheryl
    $400 6
the fleur de lys

Erik
    $400 7
Barnard

Erik
    $400 25
(Alex: [*], her husband, yes; we've got a minute to go.)

(Alfred) Lunt

Jim
    $400 12
Henny Youngman

Jim
    $400 21
(Cheryl: What is the piano?)

the violin

ErikCheryl
    $600 3
South Africa

Jim
    $1,500 13
East & West Germany

Jim
    $600 8
Massachusetts

Erik
    $600 27
Harvey

Jim
    $600 17
Prague

Jim
    $600 20
the Hallelujah chorus

Erik
    $800 4
John Connally

Jim
    $800 14
Panama

Erik
    $800 9
Bryn Mawr

Erik
    $800 29
[Alex reads the clue with a female Scottish accent.]

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Cheryl
    $800 18
Pinkerton

Erik
    $800 22
[Eric says both names.]

Jesu or Jesus

Erik
    $1000 5
(Jim: What is Spain?)
(Cheryl: What is New Zealand?)
(Erik: What is Turkey?)
(Alex: No, but you're the closest. [Laughter] What is [*]? So, no harm, no foul on that one...)

Greece

ErikJimCheryl
Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
swallowtail

Jim
    $1000 10
the Seven Sisters

Jim
    $1000 30
(Cheryl: What is Summer and Smoke?)

Suddenly Last Summer

Cheryl
Triple Stumper
    $1,500 19
(Erik: Who is Segovia?)
(Alex: I don't believe Andrés Segovia ever became an American citizen--[*] was the one we were featuring in this piece of music.)

Carlos Montoya

Erik
    $1000 23
(Antonio) Vivaldi

Cheryl

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Erik Jim Cheryl
$3,900 $7,800 $4,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS NAMES
(Alex: [To Erik] His father's name was Junius [*] Booth.)
ErikWho was Brutus?
$3,700
CherylWho was M Brutus?
$4,398
JimWho was Brutus?
$1,001
Brutus

Final scores:

Erik Jim Cheryl
$7,600 $8,801 $8,798
3rd place: Speed Queen washer & dryer New champion: $8,801 2nd place: trip on Eastern to Florida & stay at the Safety Harbor in Tampa Bay

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Erik Jim Cheryl
$5,400 $6,900 $4,500
17 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $16,800

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Game tape date: 1988-07-18
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