Responses for Show #1507 - Tuesday, March 5, 1991

Mark Pestronk game 4.
Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Carol Ruffner, an advertising executive originally from Chicago, Illinois

Scott Neugroschel, a software engineer and graduate student from Chatsworth, California

Mark Pestronk, a travel lawyer from Washington, D.C. (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,999)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1956
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
CELEBRITY BIOGRAPHIES
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH
ODDS & ENDS
CHAD & GERMANY
(Alex: Obviously, we have a music fan on our writing staff.)
    $100 1
the Aswan Dam

Scott
    $100 13
Atlantic City

Mark
    $100 15
Wired

Mark
    $100 2
Yankees

Scott
    $100 7
a magnet

Scott
    $100 22
(Alex: We have a minute to go.)

Africa

Mark
    $500 12
(Mark: What is "Don't You Cry"?)
(Alex: Oh, you're sort of on the right track. It was Elvis Presley, of course, & the song was [*]. [*].)
...
(The music was reprised going into the commercial break.)

"Don't Be Cruel"

Mark
    $200 14
Penn State

Scott
    $200 19
Martin & Lewis

Carol
    $200 3
wine

Scott
    $200 8
a rabbit

Carol
    $200 23
France

Mark
    $300 25
Hungary

Mark
    $300 16
Caltech

Mark
    $300 20
(Scott: Who is John Landis?)

John Ford

Scott
Triple Stumper
    $300 4
braids

Carol
    $300 9
jokers

Scott
    $300 24
newspapers

Mark
    $400 26
(Scott: Who is Sonny Liston?)

Floyd Patterson

Scott
Triple Stumper
    $400 17
(Scott: What is the Wharton School?)

Dartmouth (College)

MarkScott
    $400 21
(Scott: Who is Grace Kelly?)

Elizabeth Taylor

Scott
Triple Stumper
    $400 5
silent partner

Scott
    $400 10
Atlanta

Carol
    $400 28
1:00 p.m.

Mark
    $500 27
the Andrea Doria

Mark
    $500 18
Bulldogs

Carol
    $500 6
G

Carol
    $500 11
a figurehead

Mark
    $500 29
(Scott: What are highways?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

railroads

ScottCarol

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Mark Scott Carol
$0 $1,200 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Scott Carol
$2,700 -$600 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERARY CHARACTERS
EUROPEAN HISTORY
THUNDER & LIGHTNING
ISLANDS
QUOTES
POCAHONTAS
    $200 16
(Carol: Who is Oliver Twist?)
(Scott: Who is David Copperfield?)
...
(Alex: The important word in the clue was Rudge. The character's name is [*].)

Barnaby Rudge

ScottCarol
Triple Stumper
    $200 1
the English Channel

Scott
    $200 19
blitzkrieg

Mark
    $200 6
Massachusetts

Mark
    $200 11
love

Carol
    $200 26
Protestantism (or Anglicanism or Christianity)

Scott
    $400 17
Daniel Defoe

Carol
    $400 2
troubadours

Carol
    $400 20
white lightning

Mark
    $400 7
San Francisco & Oakland

Mark
    $400 12
Hollywood

Scott
    $400 27
John Smith

Mark
    $600 18
Cordelia

Mark
    $600 3
The Hague

Carol
    $600 21
the witches from Macbeth

Carol
    $600 8
Rio de Janeiro

Mark
    $600 13
a dog

Scott
    $600 28
(Scott: Who is Squanto?)

Powhatan

Scott
Triple Stumper
    $2,500 22
governess

Carol
    $800 4
Venice

Mark
    $800 24
Hamilcar

Mark
    $800 9
Marseille

Scott
    $800 14
Clarence Darrow

Scott
    $800 29
playful one

Mark
    $1000 23
Studs

Carol
    $1000 5
Balaclava

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Carol: What is tenpins?)
...
(Alex: We have a minute to go.)

ninepins

ScottCarol
    $1000 10
Pharos

Carol
    $2,000 15
Patriotism

Scott
    $1000 30
(Scott: What is the Potomac?)

the Thames

Scott
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Scott Carol
$7,900 $3,600 $8,100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MOVIE CLASSICS
(Alex: Gary Cooper starred in this film, won an Academy Award.)
ScottWhat is Rock Around The Clock?
$2,078
MarkWhat is High Noon?
$7,799
CarolWhat is The Big Clock?
$7,701
High Noon

Final scores:

Mark Scott Carol
$15,699 $1,522 $399
4-day champion: $51,698 2nd place 3rd place

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mark Scott Carol
$8,400 $2,600 $6,400
21 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)
15 R
(including 1 DD),
8 W
15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $17,400

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Game tape date: 1991-01-09
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