Responses for Show #1233 - Wednesday, January 3, 1990

Missing introductions.

Contestants

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Mark Kassabian, from Pasadena, California

Donna Riley, from WMAR in Baltimore contestant search

Bruce Daitz, originally from Plattsburgh, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,300)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
ANIMAL NAMES
MOVIE TRIVIA
OLD TESTAMENT
4-LETTER WORDS
SINGIN' SAMS
    $100 16
P.T. Barnum

Mark
    $100 21
an armadillo

Donna
    $100 8
(Bruce: What is Ghostbusters?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

Ghostbusters II

Bruce
    $100 1
the ark

Bruce
    $100 6
(Donna: What is so beaut--what is so beautiful?)

rare

Donna
Triple Stumper
    $100 26
Sammy Davis Jr.

Triple Stumper
    $200 17
the Fuller Brush Company

Mark
    $200 22
rhinoceros

Mark
    $200 9
Caligula

Donna
    $200 2
David

Mark
    $200 7
to tear

Donna
    $400 28
(Alex: Donna, do you have a response for me?)
(Donna: No, I don't know it.)
(Alex: That's too bad, the song is called "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" and the singer, the performer, is [*].)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds and the song was not reprised going into the break.]

Samantha Fox

Donna
    $300 18
Motel 6

Mark
    $300 23
bats

Bruce
    $300 10
(Alex: In Dead Poets Society, yes.)

Robin Williams

Mark
    $300 3
(Mark: What are cedars?)

oaks

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $300 13
fair weather

Bruce
    $400 19
(Mark: What is Libya?)

South Africa

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $400 24
sloths

Mark
    $400 11
[ERRATUM: "Ambruster" was misspelled in the clue as shown.]

Fred Astaire

Triple Stumper
    $400 4
Solomon

Mark
    $400 14
the Baer family

Bruce
    $500 20
Texas

Bruce
    $500 25
(Bruce: What is a porc--what is porkie?)
...
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

porpoise

Bruce
Triple Stumper
    $500 12
Jack Lemmon

Donna
    $500 5
water

Bruce
    $500 15
Kerr

Mark
    $500 27
Sam the Sham

Donna

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

Bruce Donna Mark
$1,400 $800 $1,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bruce Donna Mark
$1,700 $1,000 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FICTION
TECHNOLOGY
EUROPEAN HISTORY
ARTISTS
STATE SEALS
TV NEWSCASTERS
    $200 12
World War II

Donna
    $200 14
atomic bomb tests

Mark
    $200 1
the Warsaw Pact

Donna
    $200 8
Audubon

Mark
    $200 19
Washington

Bruce
    $200 6
Walter Cronkite

Mark
    $400 13
Quasimodo

Bruce
    $400 2
Marco Polo

Mark
    $400 18
Rembrandt

Bruce
    $400 20
California

Mark
    $400 7
(1 of) Barbara Walters (or Howard K. Smith)

Donna
    $600 15
The Sea-Wolf

Triple Stumper
    $2,300 3
the Colosseum

Mark
    $600 21
[NOTE: This was the 485,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, on 2023-06-25.]

Camille

Bruce
    $600 22
Utah

Bruce
    $600 9
(Donna: Who is Tom Brokaw?)
(Bruce: Who is David Brinkley?)

John Chancellor

BruceDonna
Triple Stumper
    $800 16
Nero

Mark
    $800 25
genetic fingerprinting

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
(Clement) Attlee

Donna
    $2,300 23
(Alex: [Prior to the wager] We have about a minute left in this round.)

New Hampshire

Bruce
    $800 10
Dan Rather

Mark
    $1000 17
a faun

Donna
    $1000 5
the Ottoman Empire

Bruce
    $1000 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Goya

Donna
    $1000 24
Oregon

Bruce
    $1000 11
(Alex: Obviously, you do not stay up that late.)

Charlie Rose

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bruce Donna Mark
$7,600 $4,000 $7,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WOMEN IN SPORTS
[Mark's handwriting was very difficult to read and it's a guess for how he spelled the surnames.]
DonnaWho is Fleming & Summers
$4,000
MarkWho are Peggy Flemming & Dorothy Hamell
$7,200
BruceWho is Linda Fratianne & Dorothy Hamill
$6,950
Peggy Fleming & Dorothy Hamill

Final scores:

Bruce Donna Mark
$650 $0 $14,400
2nd place: trip on Hawaiian Air to Hawaii & stay at Kauai-Hilton 3rd place: ProForm cycle & air walker + Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Junior editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune New champion: $14,400

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bruce Donna Mark
$6,100 $4,400 $5,500
15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
11 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)
17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $16,000

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Game tape date: 1989-09-12
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