Responses for Show #1459 - Thursday, December 27, 1990

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Contestants

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Jim Weiner, an engineer originally from St. Paul, Minnesota

Sonja Williams, a teacher from Bahama, North Carolina

Richard Healey, a deputy district attorney from Huntington Beach, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

"V"OCABULARY
COUNTIES
HOT CUISINE
MOVIE TRIVIA
MAGAZINES
THE OCCULT
    $100 1
a valentine

Sonja
    $100 6
Massachusetts

Richard
    $100 24
(Alex: And we have a minute to go.)

Tex-Mex

Sonja
    $100 12
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Richard
    $100 17
Alfred E. Neuman

Richard
    $100 11
a seance

Richard
    $200 2
a variable

Richard
    $200 7
Lewis & Clark

Richard
    $200 25
pepper

Jim
    $200 13
Jupiter

Sonja
    $500 18
Harper's Bazaar

Richard
    $200 22
a medium

Sonja
    $300 3
a valance

Jim
    $300 8
King County

Sonja
    $300 28
gumbo

Richard
    $300 14
Cecil DeMille

Richard
    $300 19
(Jim: What's the Farmer's Almanac?)

The Saturday Evening Post

RichardJim
    $300 23
levitation

Sonja
    $400 4
the vanishing point

Jim
    $400 9
Eureka

Richard
    $400 29
Tabasco

Richard
    $400 15
(Richard: Who is Trevor Howard?)
...
(Alex: Trevor Howard, I believe, played Captain Bligh--)
(Richard: Brando version.)
(Alex: --opposite Marlon Brando, yes.)

Anthony Hopkins

Richard
Triple Stumper
    $400 20
Fortune

Richard
    $400 26
phrenology

Jim
    $500 5
vulpine

Sonja
    $500 10
Lake of the Woods

Jim
    $500 30
Buffalo chicken wings

Triple Stumper
    $500 16
Holiday Inn

Triple Stumper
    $500 21
Maclean's

Jim
    $500 27
a familiar

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 16):

Richard Sonja Jim
$1,000 $1,100 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Richard Sonja Jim
$3,000 $1,700 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY LITERATURE
U.S. GOVERNMENT
NATURE
CRIME & PUNISHMENT
BALTIMORE
ROYALTY SPEAKS
    $200 18
Melville

Jim
    $200 5
John Adams

Jim
    $200 1
the blue whales

Richard
    $200 2
(Jim: Who's Jean of... [*]?)
(Alex: Jean would be nice, too, but [*] is correct.)

Joan of Arc

Jim
    $200 13
John Wilkes Booth

Sonja
    $200 24
Edward VIII

Richard
    $400 19
Charlotte Bronte

Richard
    $400 6
the General Services Administration

Sonja
    $400 3
a woodchuck

Sonja
    $400 11
(Richard: What is 40?)
(Jim: What's 80?)
...
(Alex: Listen to the song. She did her mother 40 whacks and then gave her father 41. So it adds up to [*]. I'm not sure of the sequence if she did Mom first and then Dad.)

81

RichardJim
Triple Stumper
    $400 14
Washington

Richard
    $400 25
(Alex: With less than a minute to go.)

the state

Richard
    $2,000 20
(Edgar Allan) Poe

Richard
    $600 9
Sargent Shriver

Sonja
    $600 4
lovebirds

Jim
    $600 12
(Richard: Who is Vesco?)

Jimmy Hoffa

RichardSonja
    $600 15
the Baltimore & Ohio

Richard
    $600 26
Nero

Richard
    $800 22
Russian

Jim
    $800 10
Warren Burger

Richard
    $800 7
the sense of smell

Sonja
    $800 16
Socrates

Jim
    $800 29
the Calverts

Richard
    $800 27
Queen Elizabeth I

Richard
    $1000 23
Jane Austen

Richard
    $1,000 17
U.S. representative to the United Nations (ambassador to the U.N.)

Jim
    $1000 8
tannin

Sonja
    $1000 21
the Red Brigade

Richard
    $1000 30
the Baltimore Sun

Sonja
    $1000 28
Alexander II

Richard

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Richard Sonja Jim
$12,200 $6,700 $5,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT HISTORY
JimWho was Alexander the Great?
$2,000
SonjaWho was Julius Caesar?
$6,000
RichardWho was Alexander the Great?
$1,201
Alexander the Great

Final scores:

Richard Sonja Jim
$13,401 $700 $7,400
2-day champion: $27,401 3rd place 2nd place

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Richard Sonja Jim
$10,500 $6,700 $5,400
27 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 15 R,
0 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $22,600

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Game tape date: 1990-09-25
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