Responses for Show #2654 - Thursday, February 29, 1996

Contestants

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Matt Mulford, a law student originally from Escondido, California

Jane Guzman, a Ph.D. candidate from Dallas, Texas

Richard Drapkin, a restaurant consultant and law student from Santa Monica, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

RELIGION
CALL ME MR.
JAPAN
LESSER KNOWN NAMES
SCIENCE
PUNS
(Alex: And I must caution you that some of these are bad puns.)
    $100 2
a veil

Jane
    $100 11
Mr. T

Richard
    $100 17
the emperor

Richard
    $100 7
photography

Richard
    $100 26
A lever

Matt
    $100 1
(Jane: What is a Santa Clouse?)
(Matt: What is a Santa Clothes?)
...
(Alex: I said they were bad.)

Santa Claustrophobia

JaneMatt
Triple Stumper
    $200 3
baptism

Richard
    $200 12
Mr. Clean

Matt
    $200 18
Sumo

Richard
    $200 8
billiards

Matt
    $200 27
a circuit

Jane
    $200 19
60 Minutemen

Richard
    $300 4
Jehovah's Witness

Richard
    $300 13
Mr. Blackwell

Jane
    $300 23
the Ginza

Richard
    $500 9
(Matt: What is the New Deal?)

the Good Neighbor Policy

Matt
    $300 28
oxygen

Richard
    $300 20
The Merchant of Venison

Triple Stumper
    $400 5
sand paintings

Jane
    $400 14
Mr. Speaker

Richard
    $400 24
Go

Matt
    $400 10
1001 Nights

Jane
    $400 29
larval

Richard
    $400 21
The road to Rouen

Triple Stumper
    $500 6
India

Richard
    $500 15
(Jane: What is Mr. World?)

Mr. Universe

JaneMatt
    $500 25
the Diet

Jane
    $500 16
Herpetologist

Triple Stumper
    $500 30
(James) Van Allen

Richard
    $500 22
(Alex: [*]. Deflate the mouse. Ladies and gentlemen, we will probably not be seeing PUNS as a category on this show for a while. Give it to Wheel of Fortune.)

Die Fledermaus

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Richard Jane Matt
$1,600 $600 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Richard Jane Matt
$3,600 $1,300 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

NOTABLE WOMEN
WARS
CLASSICAL MUSIC
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
HEADS
TALES
    $200 3
California

Matt
    $200 1
the Korean War

Richard
    $200 24
William Tell

Richard
    $200 20
Vancouver

Richard
    $200 11
Magic Johnson

Richard
    $200 16
(James) Michener

Matt
    $400 5
Sally Ride

Matt
    $400 2
World War I

Jane
    $400 25
(Alex: And we have less than a minute to go.)

Schubert

Jane
    $400 21
(Richard: What is Tierra del Fuego?)
(Jane: What is the Cape of Good Hope?)

Cape Horn

RichardJaneMatt
    $400 12
Alexandria

Richard
    $400 17
The Wind in the Willows

Matt
    $600 8
(Roald) Amundsen

Matt
    $600 4
North America

Richard
    $600 26
Placido Domingo

Jane
    $600 23
the Arabian Peninsula

Jane
    $600 13
Lyndon Baines Johnson

Jane
    $600 18
Stephen King

Matt
    $1,000 9
(Matt: [No response])

Fannie Farmer

Matt
    $1,400 6
Greece

Matt
    $800 27
Handel

Matt
    $800 29
(Matt: What is Madagascar?)
[ERRATUM: Although Zanzibar has fringing coral reefs, the island itself was not formed by coral.]

Tanzania

Matt
Triple Stumper
    $800 14
The CIA

Matt
    $800 19
Isak Dinesen

Richard
    $1000 10
Jacqueline Cochran

Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
the Great Northern Trek

Matt
    $1000 28
Bela Bartok

Triple Stumper
    $1000 30
(Alex: With the little in quotation marks, we were hoping that you would think of micro, hence [*].)

Micronesia

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Bauhaus

Richard
    $1000 22
Norman Mailer

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Richard Jane Matt
$6,800 $3,500 $5,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AUTHORS
(Alex: A new film released this year would probably been--have been of some help to you in coming up with a correct response.)
JaneWho is Ian Fleming?
$3,400
MattWho is Ian Fleming?
$1,500
RichardWho is Flemming
$4,800
Ian Fleming

Final scores:

Richard Jane Matt
$11,600 $6,900 $7,300
New champion: $11,600 3rd place: Service Merchandise gift certificate 2nd place: Counterpoint compact disc player + Klipsch speakers

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Richard Jane Matt
$6,800 $3,500 $6,700
21 R,
1 W
11 R,
3 W
16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $17,000

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