Responses for Show #284 - Thursday, October 10, 1985

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Contestants

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Lynn Stark, a lawyer from Los Angeles, California

Kim Nasser Jones, a training consultant from Glendora, California

Michael Marks, an attorney from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE OLYMPICS
FAMOUS SHIPS
WESTERN SLANG
ARTS & CRAFTS
POETRY
OUTFOXED
    $100 1
100 kilograms

Michael
    $100 6
the Titanic

Kim
    $100 22
put your hands up

Triple Stumper
    $100 7
silk screening

Kim
    $100 13
an island

Lynn
    $100 18
family ties

Kim
    $200 2
weightlifting

Michael
    $200 27
the Bounty

Michael
    $200 23
whiskey

Kim
    $200 8
papier-mâché

Triple Stumper
    $200 14
poison

Lynn
    $200 19
Dan Aykroyd & Steve Martin

Kim
    $300 3
(Michael: Let's try 100 yards, what is 100 yards?)

100 meters

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 28
(Michael: What is The Good Ship Lollipop?)
(Alex: Oh, no, this is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most famous, [*].)
[The end-of-round signal sounds and the song was not reprised going into the break.]

H.M.S. Pinafore

Michael
    $300 24
a preacher

Lynn
    $300 9
silhouettes

Kim
    $300 15
Mudville

Michael
    $300 12
Chicken Little

Kim
    $400 4
sailing (yachting)

Michael
    $400 25
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

be quiet (stop talking)

Lynn
    $400 10
shadow box

Lynn
    $400 16
[Alex read the clue with a thick Scottish accent.]

the deer

Triple Stumper
    $400 20
The Grey Fox

Lynn
    $500 5
(Lynn: What is equestrian?)

(the modern) pentathlon

MichaelLynn
    $500 26
a dust storm

Lynn
    $500 11
a lanyard

Lynn
    $500 17
(Lynn: Who is Virgil?)
...
(Alex: [*], from The Inferno.)

Dante (Alighieri)

KimLynn
    $500 21
(Kim: Ooh, what are foxtails?)

foxglove

MichaelKim

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

Michael Kim Lynn
$900 $500 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Kim Lynn
$900 $1,300 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN AUTHORS
SCIENCE
"LINE"s
MUSICALS
KINGS & QUEENS
POTPOURRI
    $200 6
Zane Grey

Lynn
    $200 1
(Alex: Yes, and he was having the men flash the lanterns.)
[Laughter]

light

Michael
    $200 26
I walk the line

Michael
    $200 9
Fiddler on the Roof

Lynn
    $200 15
(Alex: Yes, 63 years.)

Queen Victoria

Lynn
    $200 19
flying (by wires)

Michael
    $400 7
Ogden Nash

Lynn
    $400 2
a vacuum

Michael
    $400 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Short Line

Lynn
    $400 12
Cabaret

Lynn
    $400 17
Italy (the Apennine Peninsula)

Lynn
    $400 20
Fidel Castro

Triple Stumper
    $600 8
Ken Kesey

Kim
    $600 3
(Lynn: What is ether?)

chloroform

MichaelLynn
    $600 13
(Michael: Who is Harry Truman?)
(Kim: Who is Al Smith?)

FDR

MichaelKim
Triple Stumper
    $600 18
Napoleon

Michael
    $600 21
the organ

Michael
    $800 10
Lillian Hellman

Lynn
    $800 4
molecules

Triple Stumper
    $800 14
South Pacific

Michael
    $800 24
Charlemagne

Lynn
    $800 22
lacrosse (La Crosse)

Michael
    $1000 11
An American Tragedy

Lynn
    $900 5
carbon, hydrogen & oxygen

Michael
    $1000 16
(Alex: [To Lynn] Nice going, you did well in the AUTHORS and you did well also with the MUSICALS.)

Pal Joey

Lynn
    $1000 25
(Kim: Who is Peter--Alexander the Great?)

Peter the Great

KimLynn
    $1000 23
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

a 12 & a 2

Lynn

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Kim Lynn
$5,600 $300 $9,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AGRICULTURE
KimWhat is the United States?
$299
MichaelWhat is the USSR?
$5,599
LynnWhat is the USSR?
$3,000
the USSR

Final scores:

Michael Kim Lynn
$11,199 $1 $12,000
2nd place 3rd place New champion: $12,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Michael Kim Lynn
$6,700 $300 $9,000
17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)
9 R,
3 W
21 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $16,000

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Game tape date: 1985-07-29
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