Responses for Show #1588 - Wednesday, June 26, 1991

Mark Born game 5.
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Contestants

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Beverly Mailey, a biologist from Lansdale, Pennsylvania

Mike Sabin, an insurance examiner originally from New York City, New York

Mark Born, an investment analyst from Los Angeles, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $68,399)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

STARTS WITH "O"
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
WORLD WAR I
SONGS OF THE '80s
BOTANY
FAMOUS NAMES
    $100 26
Oxford

Beverly
    $100 21
Sinbad

Mark
    $100 1
his wife

Mark
    $100 3
Dionne Warwick

Mike
    $100 8
celery

Mike
    $100 16
(Mark: What is 1865?)
...
(Alex: [To Mark] By the way, you were correct with the date.)
[Laughter]

Lewis Carroll

MarkMike
    $200 27
Othello

Beverly
    $200 22
Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Mark
    $200 2
Alsace & Lorraine

Beverly
    $200 4
Miami Vice

Beverly
    $200 9
rice

Beverly
    $200 17
Columbus

Mark
    $300 28
Oklahoma

Beverly
    $300 23
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Mark
    $300 13
Alvin York

Mark
    $300 5
Love

Beverly
    $300 10
rubber

Mike
    $300 18
(Mike: Who is Captain Cook?)
...
(Alex: Mutiny on the Bounty, yes.)

Captain Bligh

MarkMike
    $400 29
Octavia

Mark
    $400 24
(Alex: Yes, with less than a minute to go.)

1984

Mike
    $400 14
Jutland

Mark
    $500 6
(Beverly: Who is Juice Newton?)
...
(Alex: Who is [*], with "Bette Davis Eyes".)
[The song was not reprised going into the break.]

Kim Carnes

Beverly
    $400 11
nitrogen

Beverly
    $400 19
Brahms

Mark
    $500 30
the Ottoman Empire

Mark
    $500 25
David Balfour

Mark
    $500 15
David Lloyd George

Mark
    $500 7
U2

Beverly
    $500 12
(Mark: What is the rubber plant?)

Ficus

MarkMike
    $500 20
Galileo & Shakespeare

Mark

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

Mark Mike Beverly
-$400 $1,000 $1,300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Mike Beverly
$4,100 $1,200 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

RULERS
LITERARY TERMS
MEDICAL MATTERS
GEOGRAPHY
RELIGION
ANTONYMS
    $200 6
Louis XIV

Mark
    $200 11
a soliloquy

Mike
    $200 13
Legionnaires disease

Beverly
    $200 1
the Yangtze

Mike
    $200 21
(Mike: What is prophet?)

angels

MarkMike
    $200 26
crude

Beverly
    $400 7
(Beverly: Who is Cromwell?)

Macbeth

MarkBeverly
    $400 12
(Beverly: What are epistles?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

letters

Beverly
    $400 14
(Beverly: What are anti[*]?)

histamines

Beverly
    $400 2
B-U-R-G-H

Mark
    $400 22
the Sabbath

Mark
    $400 27
(Mike: What is here?)
[Beverly gave both pronunciations.]

present

MikeBeverly
    $600 8
Ivan the Terrible

Mike
    $600 18
a spoonerism

Mark
    $600 15
hypothermia

Mark
    $600 3
(Mark: What is Antarctica?)
...
(Alex: Mount Kosciuszko is in the Snow Mountains.)

Australia

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $600 23
wash their feet

Mark
    $600 28
fast

Mark
    $800 9
Constantine (II)

Mark
    $800 19
O. Henrys

Beverly
    $1,500 16
nearsightedness

Mark
    $800 4
Kuala Lumpur

Beverly
    $800 24
(Beverly: What is transcendental [*]?)
(Alex: [*], right.)

meditation

Beverly
    $800 29
Grant

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 10
(2 of) Denmark, England (or Norway)

Mark
    $1000 20
incunabula

Mark
    $1000 17
sweat

Mark
    $1000 5
Brazil

Mike
    $1000 25
(Mark: Who is Bertrand Russell?)
...
(Alex: We have a minute to go, Beverly, and one category.)

Jehovah's Witnesses

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Alex: Man was cool; he had a sign, "To the [*]"--a lot of people, "I wanna see that [*]"--all of a sudden that door opened and they were outside.)
[Laughter]

egress

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Mike Beverly
$12,800 $2,600 $5,500
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. GOVERNMENT
(Alex: And a 5-day total, the second-highest ever in regulation play on Jeopardy! of $82,899 and Mark Born, I would think you are the man to beat going into this Tournament of Champions this year.)
MikeWhat is the Postal Service?
$2,600
BeverlyWhat is the Department of Defense?
$299
MarkWhat is the Postal Service?
$1,700
the Postal Service (the Post Office)

Final scores:

Mark Mike Beverly
$14,500 $5,200 $5,201
5-day champion: $82,899 3rd place: Konica Z-UP 80RC camera & Nintendo Entertainment System with Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! & Fisher Price preschool + Wheel of Fortune for Game Boy 2nd place: Whirlpool refrigerator + Sanyo coffee maker

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mark Mike Beverly
$11,100 $2,600 $6,000
28 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 10 R,
3 W		 17 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $19,700

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Game tape date: 1991-03-18
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