Responses for Show #179 - Thursday, May 16, 1985

Contestants

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Mary Abbott, a homemaker from Chula Vista, California

Bob Strong, a student from Arlington, Texas

Guy Wynn, a technical instructor from Mentor, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,700)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NOTORIOUS
SPORTS TRIVIA
FRENCH FOOD
ROCK OF THE 80'S
GRAMMAR
RITUALS
    $100 1
Charles Lindbergh

Guy
    $100 6
(Guy: What is a batting tee?)

a golf tee

GuyMary
    $100 7
vinegar

Bob
    $100 21
Men of La Mancha

Guy
    $100 22
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

an adverb

Mary
    $100 11
money

Mary
    $200 2
Mao Tse-tung

Bob
    $200 8
the catcher and the first baseman

Bob
    $200 12
(Bob: What is the vegetable of the day?)

the soup of the day

BobMary
    $200 27
"I Love Rock 'N Roll"

Bob
    $200 23
subject

Mary
    $200 17
to light the Christmas tree

Bob
    $300 3
Garfield

Bob
    $300 9
(Guy: What is lacrosse?)
(Mary: What is bowling?)
(Alex: You didn't pay close enough attention to the clue when we said it could be tracked back. [*].)

horse racing

GuyMary
Triple Stumper
    $300 13
goose liver

Mary
    $300 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Michael Jackson

Bob
    $300 24
a sentence

Mary
    $300 18
(Bob: What is the Sabbath or Saturday?)

Yom Kippur

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $400 4
(Francisco) Pizarro

Guy
    $400 10
(Alex: Teddy Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport, as a matter of fact.)

football

Guy
    $400 14
a salad niçoise

Mary
    $400 25
English

Bob
    $400 19
a war dance

Bob
    $500 5
Cosa Nostra

Bob
    $800 16
(Bob: What is four, Alex?)
(Alex: Oh, I'm sorry. You remembered the four that are at the blue lines, but you forgot the five others. There's one in the center and the corners.)

9

Bob
    $500 15
potato

Bob
    $500 26
context

Mary
    $500 20
(Bob: What is a drum roll?)
(Alex: Drum roll?)
(Bob: Or [*].)
(Alex: Oh, all right. We'll give it to you on a [*]. We were looking for [**], but the [*] or the [**] would have been accepted.)

cymbal clash (rimshot)

Bob

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

Guy Bob Mary
$500 $1,100 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Guy Bob Mary
$600 $2,500 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE
FIRST FAMILIES
POE
(Alex: And that's Edgar Allan.)
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
BOSTON
"FRED"s
    $200 6
(Alex: You're surrounded by it on this show.)

neon

Guy
    $200 7
the Carters

Bob
    $200 12
poetry

Bob
    $200 1
red & white

Guy
    $200 18
Arthur Fiedler

Bob
    $200 24
Fred Mertz

Bob
    $400 8
Thomas Edison

Bob
    $400 13
(Guy: I can't think of it.)

John Kennedy, Jr. (JFK Jr.)

GuyMary
    $400 14
(Bob: Who is Hitchcock?)

Roger Corman

GuyBob
    $400 2
World War I

Guy
    $400 19
(Guy: What are [*]?)
(Alex: Let's say "Who are [*]?" They don't like to be referred to as "what".)

the Irish

Guy
    $400 25
Fred Flintstone

Bob
    $600 9
(Guy: What are the tear ducts?)
...
(Alex: A big difference.)

the fallopian tubes

GuyBob
    $600 20
David & Julie Eisenhower

Guy
    $600 15
the Ushers

Bob
    $600 3
(Alex: They shoved him through a hole in the ice.)

drowning

Guy
    $600 23
Cambridge

Bob
    $600 26
(Alex: And we've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

Frederick's of Hollywood

Mary
    $800 10
1

Mary
    $800 21
(Bob: Who is Truman?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

Margaret Truman

Bob
    $800 16
cousin & wife

Bob
    $800 4
Bolshevik

Bob
    $800 28
(Bob: [No response])
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a Brahmin

GuyBob
    $300 27
(Mary: I have no idea.)

Freddy Cannon

Mary
    $1000 11
the atmosphere

Mary
    $1000 22
(Guy: What is Adams?)

Harrison

GuyMary
    $1,500 17
(Bob: What is "The Cask of Amontillado"?)

"The Masque of the Red Death"

Bob
    $1000 5
Ten Days That Shook the World

Bob

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Guy Bob Mary
$2,200 $6,600 $5,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

TELEVISION
[ERRATUM: M*A*S*H is rendered with asterisks, not interpuncts.]
GuyWho is Harry Morgan
$2,200
MaryWho is Alan Alda?
$1,600
BobWho is Jamie Farr
$4,400
Jamie Farr

Final scores:

Guy Bob Mary
$0 $11,000 $3,800
3rd place: Botany 500 suit & sport coat New champion: $11,000 2nd place: Sunray range + Bernardaud de Limoges dinnerware set

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Guy Bob Mary
$2,200 $8,900 $5,700
12 R,
5 W
25 R,
6 W
(including 2 DDs)
14 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $16,800

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Game tape date: 1985-01-22
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