Responses for Show #1218 - Wednesday, December 13, 1989

Missing introductions.

Contestants

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Margaret McLoughlin, from

Tony Parkes, a square dance caller from contestant search in the Boston area

Bob Caruso, a political consultant from Scranton, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $4,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ART
TECHNOLOGY
WEATHER
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
TV TRIVIA
BIRDS
    $100 1
St. George

Margaret
    $100 2
Three Mile Island

Margaret
    $100 22
(Margaret: What is snow?)

rain

TonyMargaret
    $100 16
(Bob: What is Lincoln's Birthday?)

New Year's Day

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $100 8
CNN (Cable News)

Tony
    $100 13
ostriches

Bob
    $200 4
(Bob: What is so-called [*]?)
(Alex: Bob, a simple response would be good; editorializing we save for the conversation part of the show later.)
[Laughter]

tax reform

Bob
    $200 3
(Alex: Right, in Alexandria.)

Egypt

Bob
    $200 23
Antarctica

Bob
    $200 17
11/11 (November 11th)

Bob
    $200 9
Roseanne

Margaret
    $200 27
attract a mate

Tony
    $300 5
(Tony: Who is Hephaestus?)

Zeus

Tony
Triple Stumper
    $300 10
go down (crash)

Margaret
    $300 24
a telegraph

Tony
    $300 19
Ash Wednesday

Margaret
    $300 14
Growing Pains

Triple Stumper
    $300 28
kites

Triple Stumper
    $400 6
Hieronymus Bosch

Bob
    $400 11
biodegrade

Margaret
    $400 25
a front

Margaret
    $400 20
lights

Tony
    $400 15
My Mother the Car

Margaret
    $1,000 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds and the song was reprised going into the break.]

"Rockin' Robin"

Tony
    $500 7
Salvador Dalí

Bob
    $500 12
a jukebox

Tony
    $500 26
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go in the round.)

the trade winds

Tony
    $500 21
Lady Godiva

Margaret
    $500 18
Planet of the Apes

Margaret

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

Bob Tony Margaret
$1,400 $300 $1,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Tony Margaret
$1,700 $2,800 $3,100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. GEOGRAPHY
HISTORIC NAMES
PERFUME
PLAYWRIGHTS
5-LETTER WORDS
BEES
    $200 1
New York

Margaret
    $200 2
Custer

Margaret
    $200 18
Joan Collins

Bob
    $200 13
[ERRATUM: "Rockabye" was misspelled in the clue as shown.]

Shakespeare

Margaret
    $200 11
blood

Tony
    $200 20
drones

Margaret
    $400 4
Tucson

Bob
    $400 3
Magellan

Bob
    $400 19
Je Reviens

Triple Stumper
    $400 14
George Bernard Shaw

Triple Stumper
    $400 12
rugby

Bob
    $3,000 27
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in this round.)

6

Tony
    $600 5
Jackson Hole

Tony
    $600 8
Thomas More

Tony
    $600 21
Paloma (Picasso)

Margaret
    $1,500 15
Eugene O'Neill

Margaret
    $600 24
lynch

Tony
    $600 30
the Sun

Margaret
    $800 6
Leavenworth

Tony
    $800 9
Nehru

Bob
    $800 22
Saint-Exupéry

Tony
    $800 16
John Osborne

Margaret
    $800 25
obese

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
an apiary

Margaret
    $1000 7
points

Bob
    $1000 10
Toussaint Louverture

Tony
    $1000 23
Eugenie

Bob
    $1000 17
Clifford Odets

Bob
    $1000 26
a niche

Tony
    $1000 28
bumblebees

Margaret

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Tony Margaret
$6,900 $11,400 $9,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CONGRESS
BobWhat is Massachutess?
$4,501
MargaretWhat is Massachussetts?
$9,100
TonyWhat is Massachusetts?
$7,001
Massachusetts

Final scores:

Bob Tony Margaret
$11,401 $18,401 $18,300
3rd place: KitchenAid washer & dryer & Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Junior editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune New champion: $18,401 2nd place: Keller bedroom furniture & Norman's of Salisbury bed coverings

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bob Tony Margaret
$6,900 $8,200 $8,300
15 R,
1 W		 17 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $23,400

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Game tape date: 1989-08-29
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