Responses for Show #171 - Monday, May 6, 1985

Ron Black game 5.

Contestants

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Luann Evanson, a research analyst from Phoenix, Arizona

Kevin Allman, a writer from Santa Monica, California

Ron Black, an attorney from Raleigh, North Carolina (whose 4-day cash winnings total $34,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. GEOGRAPHY
COMEDIANS
BREAKFAST
PARAPSYCHOLOGY
FOOTBALL
AUSSIE ENGLISH
    $100 3
New Mexico

Ron
    $100 7
Eddie Murphy

Kevin
    $100 22
eggs

Ron
    $100 14
extrasensory perception

Kevin
    $100 1
a sack

Ron
    $100 18
(Ron: What is a honey?)

a mate

RonKevin
    $200 23
Puget Sound

Ron
    $200 10
Bob Hope

Ron
    $200 25
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

Wheaties

Kevin
    $200 13
(Ron: What is an eight ball?)

a crystal ball

RonKevin
    $200 2
Big Ten & Pac-10

Luann
    $200 19
on the barbie

Kevin
    $300 24
Des Moines

Luann
    $300 11
Jonathan Winters

Kevin
    $300 28
Canadian bacon

Kevin
    $300 12
(Ron: What is premonition?)

a séance

RonKevin
    $300 4
a coin toss

Ron
    $300 15
a kangaroo

Kevin
    $400 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

California

Ron
    $400 20
Red Skelton

Kevin
    $400 27
a continental breakfast

Ron
    $400 9
[Ron gave the response while covering his eyes.]
(Alex: Doing schtick with us again, Ron, I love it.)

clairvoyance

Ron
    $400 5
(Alex: Of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.)

John McKay

Ron
    $900 16
(Kevin: What is the Australian outback?)

a ranch (or station)

Kevin
    $500 21
(Ron: [No response])

Eileen Brennan

RonKevin
    $500 26
half a grapefruit

Kevin
    $500 8
Uri Geller

Kevin
    $500 6
a fair catch

Ron
    $500 17
(Kevin: What is Melbourne?)

Queensland

Kevin
Triple Stumper

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

Ron Kevin Luann
$1,500 $1,500 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ron Kevin Luann
$2,000 $2,600 $500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LAKES & RIVERS
MOVIE TRIVIA
FIRST LADIES
LAW
SCIENCE
ANCIENT WORLDS
    $200 18
the Swanee River

Luann
    $200 1
(Ron: Would you believe [*]?)

Get Smart

Ron
    $200 13
Betty Ford

Ron
    $200 12
the DA

Kevin
    $200 19
(Ron: What is hi-ho [*]?)

silver

Ron
    $200 2
7

Kevin
    $400 20
[Alex said "Iberian" instead of "European".]
(Alex: I gave the answer and that's unfortunate, so I'll have to throw the question out.)

Iberian

Triple Stumper
    $400 9
(Luann: What is...)

This Is Spinal Tap

RonLuann
    $400 27
Eleanor Roosevelt

Kevin
    $1,400 14
Ironside

Ron
    $400 24
nicotine

Ron
    $400 7
a beard

Ron
    $600 21
(Kevin: What is Gstaad?)

Lake Geneva

Kevin
Triple Stumper
    $600 5
(Ron: What is a spy?)
(Luann: What is a lawyer?)

a dentist

RonLuann
Triple Stumper
    $600 15
(Kevin: What is a subpoena?)

an indictment

Kevin
Triple Stumper
    $600 6
a gizzard

Ron
    $600 8
China

Kevin
    $1,400 22
(Ron: What is Lake Superior?)
...
(Alex: We've got less than a minute.)

Lake Huron

Ron
    $800 4
a dead body

Kevin
    $800 16
the U.S. Court of Appeals

Ron
    $800 25
(Luann: What is the 2,000-year-old man?)

Piltdown Man

KevinLuann
    $800 10
(Kevin: What are camels?)

horses

RonKevin
    $1000 23
(Kevin: What is... I'm sorry.)

the Zambezi

Kevin
Triple Stumper
    $1000 3
The Moon is Blue

Kevin
    $1000 28
(Kevin: Who is Grant?)
(Ron: Who is Grover Cleveland?)
(Luann: Who is Thomas Jefferson?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Warren G. Harding

RonKevinLuann
Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
a codicil

Ron
    $1000 26
(Kevin: Who is de Rochefoucauld?)

Lavoisier

RonKevin
    $1000 11
(Kevin: What is Israel?)

Babylon (Babylonia)

RonKevin

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ron Kevin Luann
$7,400 $600 -$2,100
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MEDICINE
[The "Think!" music ended early as both Ron and Kevin had completed their responses.]
KevinWhat is smallpox?
$600
RonWhat is smallpox?
$6,000
smallpox

Final scores:

Ron Kevin Luann
$13,400 $1,200 -$2,100
5-day champion: $47,401 2nd place: Dresher Brass bed + Dakotah bedroom ensemble 3rd place: Berkine recliner

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ron Kevin Luann
$7,800 $1,500 -$2,100
24 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W
(including 1 DD)		 21 R,
9 W
(including 1 DD)		 3 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $7,200

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Game tape date: 1985-01-21
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