Responses for Show #1457 - Tuesday, December 25, 1990

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Contestants

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Mike O'Brien, a travel agent originally from Chicago, Illinois

Debra Barnes, a claims representative from Lodi, California

Gordon Nash, a teacher originally from New York City, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CHRISTMAS
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
AVIATION
STATE PARKS
MOVIE STARS
NEW YORK CITY
    $100 10
church bells

Mike
    $100 21
squash

Gordon
    $100 6
fighter

Gordon
    $100 14
Lincoln

Debra
    $100 16
Sunset Boulevard

Mike
    $100 1
the New York Stock Exchange

Gordon
    $200 11
Hershey Kisses

Mike
    $200 23
grapes

Gordon
    $200 7
Boeing

Mike
    $200 24
"My Old Kentucky Home"

Triple Stumper
    $200 17
Marilyn Monroe

Gordon
    $200 2
the World's Fair

Gordon
    $300 12
the Puritans

Gordon
    $300 28
eggplant

Debra
    $300 8
the MiGs

Gordon
    $300 25
the Delaware

Mike
    $300 18
Leslie Howard

Gordon
    $300 3
New York Public Library

Gordon
    $800 13
(Gordon: I don't...I don't know.)
(Alex: As soon as I tell you, you'll be able to picture it beautifully. It shook [*]. Is that a beautiful picture?)

like a bowl full of jelly

Gordon
    $400 29
breadfruit

Mike
    $400 9
helicopters

Debra
    $400 26
Texas

Gordon
    $400 19
(Debra: Who is O'Neill?)
(Alex: Patricia. No. I'm sorry. You are wrong, and I gave it to you. [*] is her name, not O'Neill. Sorry about that.)

Patricia Neal

Debra
Triple Stumper
    $400 4
(Mike: What is "All Around the Town?")

"The Sidewalks of New York"

GordonMike
    $500 15
Boots Randolph

Mike
    $500 30
(Mike: What is a turnip?)

sweet potato

Mike
Triple Stumper
    $500 22
(Debra: What is Lockheed?)

McDonnell Douglas

DebraMike
    $500 27
(Gordon: Who is Daniel Boone?)

Davy Crockett

GordonMike
    $500 20
Spencer Tracy

Mike
    $500 5
(Alex: That category fell right into your lap, as it were. And you profited handsomely. $1,500.)

The New York Times

Gordon

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

Gordon Debra Mike
$1,400 $500 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Gordon Debra Mike
$2,100 -$100 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BESTSELLERS
ART
20th CENTURY AMERICA
WORLD CITIES
ROCKS & GEMS
IT'S GREEK TO ME
    $200 21
Bob Hope

Mike
    $200 19
the Mona Lisa

Gordon
    $200 16
the Air Force

Mike
    $200 11
Lisbon

Mike
    $200 5
the moon

Debra
    $200 1
the cosmos

Debra
    $400 27
Louis L'Amour

Debra
    $400 20
Rembrandt

Mike
    $400 17
the Tonkin Gulf

Debra
    $400 12
London

Mike
    $400 7
pyrite

Gordon
    $400 2
draconian

Debra
    $600 28
(Alex: Tells us how to [*] without being eaten alive.)

swim with the sharks

Triple Stumper
    $600 23
the collage

Debra
    $600 18
Linus Pauling

Gordon
    $600 13
Munich

Gordon
    $600 8
(Mike: What is quartz?)

granite

GordonMike
    $1,000 3
apocrypha

Debra
    $800 30
(Robert) Ludlum

Debra
    $800 25
(Gordon: Who is Gainsborough?)
...
(Alex: Yes, he also painted a number of portraits of Henry VIII, he should have showed those around.)

(Hans) Holbein (the Younger)

GordonDebra
    $800 22
Eleanor Roosevelt

Gordon
    $1,700 14
Montreal

Gordon
    $800 9
pumice

Gordon
    $800 4
animal

Gordon
    $1000 29
Jeff Smith

Debra
    $1000 26
Goya

Gordon
    $1000 24
Averell Harriman

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Timbuktu

Debra
    $1000 10
topaz

Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
hoi polloi

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Gordon Debra Mike
$8,800 $6,700 $3,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

OPERA
(Alex: No, we'll accept that? All right, you put the "H" in there, Shakespeare's "H", and I don't think it's present in Verdi's title of the opera, but that's all right.)
MikeWhat is Otello?
$3,200
DebraWhat is Otello?
$3,000
GordonWhat is Othello?
$4,600
Otello

Final scores:

Gordon Debra Mike
$13,400 $9,700 $6,400
3-day champion: $41,000 2nd place 3rd place

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Gordon Debra Mike
$8,700 $6,300 $3,200
23 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 15 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $18,200

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Game tape date: 1990-09-25
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