Responses for Show #1461 - Monday, December 31, 1990

Jonathan Jacobs game 2.
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Contestants

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Robert McIver, an attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina

Meg Monahan, a homemaker from Metuchen, New Jersey

Jonathan Jacobs, an operations research analyst originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,900)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
"CAPTAIN"S
CHURCHES
HODGEPODGE
LANGUAGES
GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
    $100 3
the guillotine

Jonathan
    $100 10
(Meg: Who is Captain Hook?)

Captain Kidd

JonathanMeg
    $100 15
an altar

Meg
    $100 21
Raleigh

Jonathan
    $100 1
German

Jonathan
    $100 7
colorize

Jonathan
    $200 20
(Meg: What is the Marseille?)

"The Marseillaise"

JonathanMeg
    $200 11
(Robert: Who is Captain America?)

Captain Marvel

JonathanRobert
    $200 16
chapels

Robert
    $200 22
(Alex: And we have a minute to go.)

Indiana

Meg
    $200 2
English & Gaelic

Robert
    $200 8
(Meg: Who is Tina Louise?)
...
(Alex: Yes, the character played by, the clue is very specific, character, not the actress's name.)

Ginger

JonathanMeg
    $300 23
storming of the Bastille

Meg
    $300 12
Captain Cook

Jonathan
    $300 17
a steeple

Jonathan
    $300 26
(Jonathan pronounced the last name "Heinie".)
(Alex: We'll accept that. It's [*].)
(Jonathan: Excuse me.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
(Alex: That's all right. It's just that the other one conjures up a different image entirely.)

Sonja Henie

Jonathan
    $300 4
Yiddish

Meg
    $300 9
(Alex: He had received many telegrams requesting the Coast Guard [*].)

rescue the people on Gilligan's Island

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
(Meg: Who is King Louis?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

King Louis XVI

Meg
    $400 13
Captain America

Robert
    $1,700 18
the Old North Church

Jonathan
    $400 5
Sanskrit

Jonathan
    $500 25
Marat

Meg
    $500 14
Captain Queeg

Jonathan
    $500 19
St. Mark

Meg
    $500 6
Cantonese

Jonathan

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

Jonathan Meg Robert
$2,500 $0 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jonathan Meg Robert
$5,100 $1,800 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE PLANETS
FAMOUS WOMEN
HERBS & SPICES
MONARCHS
NAME THE NOVEL
SEVEN WONDERS
    $200 2
Pluto

Meg
    $200 5
(Meg: Who was Raisa Gorbachev? [accepted without comment])

Raisa Gorbacheva

Meg
    $200 20
thyme

Jonathan
    $200 14
Saudi Arabia

Jonathan
    $200 1
Frankenstein

Jonathan
    $200 10
(Meg: What are the pyramids, the pyramid, [*]?)

the Great Pyramid (the Pyramids of Egypt)

Meg
    $400 3
(Jonathan: What is Mars?)

Venus

JonathanRobert
    $400 6
Eva Peron

Jonathan
    $400 21
nutmeg

Meg
    $400 18
Queen Elizabeth I

Robert
    $400 4
Animal Farm

Meg
    $400 15
(Jonathan: What is the Colossus of Rhodes?)
(Meg: What is the lighthouse at Heraklion?)
...
(Alex: Meg suddenly realized that she was in the right area, the lighthouse, but it wasn't at Heraklion. It was at [*].)

the lighthouse at Alexandria

JonathanMeg
Triple Stumper
    $600 7
Mars

Jonathan
    $600 11
Helen Keller

Meg
    $600 25
dill

Jonathan
    $600 19
the Sultan of Brunei

Jonathan
    $600 24
Oliver Twist

Jonathan
    $600 16
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Jonathan
    $800 8
Jupiter

Jonathan
    $2,000 12
(Meg: Who is Mrs. Revlon? No. It's [*].)
...
(Alex: You realized it after you said Revlon, yeah. [*] is the correct response.)

Estée Lauder

Meg
    $800 26
a bay leaf

Robert
    $800 22
Iran

Meg
    $800 27
The Great Gatsby

Jonathan
    $3,000 17
(Alex: It's a most interesting category. We have five clues and there are only seven wonders. And if we don't repeat any, you know that you're going to touch on most of them.)

the Colossus of Rhodes

Jonathan
    $1000 9
Uranus

Jonathan
    $1000 13
Agnes de Mille

Meg
    $1000 28
cinnamon

Robert
    $1000 23
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

Peter the Great

Robert
    $1000 29
Doctor Zhivago

Jonathan
    $1000 30
Diana (or Artemis)

Robert

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jonathan Meg Robert
$14,900 $3,200 $5,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SPORTS
(Alex: [To Jonathan] If you had to say something else, what would you put down now?)
(Jonathan: Mackinac Island.)
(Alex: No.)
(Jonathan: I don't know.)
(Alex: Where is the Football Hall of Fame? [*]. Yes, indeed.)
MegWhat is Chicago?
$3,200
RobertWhat is Chicago?
$1,250
JonathanWhat is Chicago?
$4,499
Canton, Ohio

Final scores:

Jonathan Meg Robert
$10,401 $0 $3,950
2-day champion: $26,301 3rd place 2nd place

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jonathan Meg Robert
$11,400 $5,200 $5,200
29 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
15 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)
9 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $21,800

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Game tape date: 1990-10-08
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