Responses for Show #927 - Tuesday, September 20, 1988

Contestants

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Gary Smith, a lawyer from Toronto, Ontario

Ross Barker, a cassette book producer from Pasadena, California

Sara Winter, an academic dean and psychologist from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,199)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PEOPLE
BIRDS
FASHION
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
POETRY
TITLES
    $100 14
Paul Hogan

Sara
    $100 19
(Sara: What's a raven?)

the parrot family

SaraGary
    $100 1
Saks Fifth Avenue

Gary
    $100 6
the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic

Gary
    $100 24
summer

Sara
    $100 11
padre

Gary
    $200 15
Lee Iacocca

Gary
    $200 20
the myna bird

Gary
    $200 2
a hatter

Sara
    $200 7
Barcelona

Sara
    $200 25
Victor Hugo

Sara
    $200 12
Khan

Gary
    $300 16
an encyclopedia (the World Book Encyclopedia)

Triple Stumper
    $300 21
eyes

Ross
    $300 3
Guess?

Sara
    $300 8
the Big Island of Hawaii

Ross
    $300 26
(Gary: What are ravens?)

bells

RossGary
    $300 13
captain

Ross
    $400 17
(Alex: They filled up 3 pick-up trucks by the way.)

pennies

Sara
    $400 22
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)

lead poisoning

Ross
    $400 4
(Sara: What is [*] West?)

9

Sara
    $500 9
(Ross: What are "sin-a-LOE-uh" and Chihuahua?)
(Alex: Would you say the first one again?)
(Ross: "sin-a-LOE-uh".)
...
(Alex: I hope I pronounced most of them correctly; I'm not sure I did.)

(2 of) Chihuahua, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Baja California Norte, Sonora & Nuevo León

Ross
    $400 27
Evangeline

Ross
    $500 18
Tim Reid

Ross
    $500 23
(Gary: What is the hummingbird family?)

the woodpecker family

Gary
Triple Stumper
    $500 5
(Emilio) Pucci

Triple Stumper
    $500 10
(Ross: What are the Balkans?)

the Carpathians

RossGary
    $500 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a raisin in the sun

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Sara Ross Gary
$1,100 -$400 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sara Ross Gary
$1,800 $1,500 $700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

OPERA
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
HISTORIC PLACES
ARTISTS
RELIGION
"Y" NOT
    $200 4
Porgy and Bess

Gary
    $200 3
(Sara: What is Spanish?)

Mandarin (Chinese)

SaraGary
    $200 16
Rome

Sara
    $200 22
Michelangelo

Gary
    $200 2
(the Reverend) Moon

Ross
    $200 17
yardage

Sara
    $400 1
Banquo

Sara
    $400 12
(Ross: What are articles?)
(Sara: What are conjunctions?)

the most frequently used words in the English language in written form

SaraRoss
Triple Stumper
    $400 27
Maryland

Ross
    $400 23
Andy Warhol

Ross
    $400 7
Lourdes

Sara
    $400 18
a yak

Ross
    $600 5
(Gary: What is Finland?)
...
(Gary: I've been there.)

Greece

Gary
Triple Stumper
    $600 13
Asia

Ross
    $600 28
(Ross: Okinawa? What is Okinawa?)

Iwo Jima

RossGary
    $600 24
(Alex: We've got a minute left in the round.)

Grandma Moses

Sara
    $600 8
Hinduism

Ross
    $600 19
y'all

Sara
    $800 6
Siegfried

Sara
    $1,500 14
Norman French

Ross
    $800 30
Tierra del Fuego

Ross
    $800 25
Picasso

Ross
    $800 9
Satan

Sara
    $200 20
(Sara: What is "Yesterday"?)

"Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"

Sara
    $1000 11
recitative

Gary
    $1000 15
Belize

Ross
    $1000 29
the Khyber Pass

Sara
    $1000 26
El Greco

Ross
    $1000 10
(Ross: What is 3?)

4

RossGary
    $1000 21
the Yahoos

Sara

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sara Ross Gary
$7,000 $7,200 $3,300

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

1978
GaryWho was Sadat?
$300
SaraWho is Anwar Nassar?
$7,000
RossWho is Menachem Begin?
$7,200
(Anwar) Sadat

Final scores:

Sara Ross Gary
$0 $0 $3,600
3rd place: Uncontrollable Season serigraph by Leo Posillico from Martin Lawrence Galleries + Jeopardy! box game of Jeopardy! Challenger 2nd place: Dresher brass bed & Stiffel table lamp + Jeopardy! box game of Jeopardy! Challenger New champion: $3,600

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Sara Ross Gary
$7,200 $7,000 $3,300
18 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $17,500

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Game tape date: 1988-07-20
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