Responses for Show #500 - Friday, November 7, 1986

Contestants

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Michael Todaro, a real estate broker originally from Los Angeles, California

Todd Russell, a buyer from Santa Ana, California

Linda Williams, an engineering reports clerk from Pasadena, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ZOOLOGY
RITUALS
MUSIC ON THE MAP
THE ONLY WOMAN
(Alex: All of the clues will be the names of women and you have to respond with, "Who is the only woman who is this or does this?")
GAME SHOWS
"ECK" CETERA
(Alex: "E-C-K" in quotation marks, and that means that those three letters, in that order, will figure in all the correct responses.)
    $100 11
female

Todd
    $100 17
frame it and hang it on the wall

Todd
    $100 2
Scotland

Michael
    $100 14
the only woman prime minister of England

Todd
    $100 1
dice

Michael
    $100 26
a deck

Michael
    $200 12
an octopus

Michael
    $200 18
sheep

Michael
    $200 3
Carolina

Todd
    $200 19
the only female member of "60 Minutes"

Todd
    $200 5
Ed McMahon

Linda
    $200 27
a peck

Linda
    $300 13
monkeys

Linda
    $300 23
baptism

Linda
    $300 4
Dublin

Linda
    $300 20
the only lead singer for Blondie

Michael
    $300 6
Wheel of Fortune

Linda
    $300 28
neck

Michael
    $400 15
a pig

Michael
    $700 24
(Alex: [*] is from his 9th Symphony; could you imagine all the Japanese singing that? That would be fun.)

(Beethoven's) the "Ode To Joy"

Linda
    $400 9
Massachusetts

Todd
    $400 21
the only woman in the president's Cabinet

Linda
    $400 7
Bingo

Linda
    $400 29
check

Michael
    $500 16
a manatee

Michael
    $500 25
[Laughter]
(Alex: We've got a minute to go in the round, by the way.)

falling asleep

Linda
    $500 10
Naples

Michael
    $500 22
the only woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters

Linda
    $500 8
Bob Barker

Todd
    $500 30
Bill Veeck

Todd

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Linda Todd Michael
$1,200 $1,200 $900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Linda Todd Michael
$4,100 $2,100 $3,100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT HISTORY
CITIZEN KANE
SHAKESPEAREAN PROVERBS
PRESIDENTS
TECHNOLOGY
CELEBRITY JEOPARDY!
(Alex: All of the correct responses are well-known people and all of the clues are quotes from these individuals.)
    $200 11
Hieroglyphics

Michael
    $200 1
Rosebud

Linda
    $200 16
die

Michael
    $200 17
Eisenhower

Todd
    $200 25
(Alex: Yes, and we've got less than a minute.)

a washing machine

Michael
    $200 2
(Todd: [Shakes head])

Robert Blake

Todd
Triple Stumper
    $400 12
Mount Sinai

Michael
    $400 10
Xanadu

Michael
    $400 19
Gerald Ford

Michael
    $400 27
COBOL

Michael
    $1,000 3
(Alex: Owen Marshall, Big Valley, Six Million Dollar Man, and Fall Guy were the series.)

Lee Majors

Linda
    $600 13
Plato

Michael
    $600 7
(Alex: In collaboration with Herman Mankiewicz, right.)

writing

Todd
    $600 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a thankless child

Todd
    $600 20
Woodrow Wilson

Todd
    $600 26
film

Linda
    $600 4
Heather Locklear

Linda
    $800 14
(Todd: What is Athens?)

Sparta

ToddMichael
    $800 9
Agnes Moorehead

Linda
    $800 28
discretion

Michael
    $800 18
(Michael: Who is Kennedy?)

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

LindaMichael
    $800 24
a hologram

Linda
    $800 5
James Farentino

Todd
    $1000 15
(Todd: Who are the Hittites?)
(Michael: Uh, who are the Persians?)

the Assyrians

ToddMichael
Triple Stumper
    $1000 8
Bernard Herrmann

Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
thrust upon them

Todd
    $500 21
(Todd: Who is Jackson?)

James Monroe

Todd
    $1000 23
a thresher

Michael
    $1000 6
(Alex: The film was Marty and the man's name was [*].)

Ernest Borgnine

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Linda Todd Michael
$8,900 $3,400 $6,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ASIA
(Alex: [*]--land of the free; that's one of the reasons they changed it from Siam, which had kind of a negative connotation.)
ToddWhat is Malaysia
$3,400
MichaelWhat is Nationalist China
$6,698
LindaWhat is Pakistan?
$900
Thailand

Final scores:

Linda Todd Michael
$8,000 $0 $2
2-day champion: $14,100 3rd place: Technics portable compact disc player 2nd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Radio Flyer wagons

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Linda Todd Michael
$8,000 $3,900 $6,700
18 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W
14 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)
22 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $18,600

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Game tape date: 1986-09-09
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