Responses for Show #901 - Monday, July 4, 1988

Contestants

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Kevin Frear, a U.S. Army captain from Baumholder, Germany

Rod Graf, a landscaper from Claremont, California

Carol Reeve, a homemaker from Orinda, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,700)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SEA CREATURES
THE CONTINENTS
WESTERN SONGS
GUINNESS FILM FACTS
BLACK AMERICA
FASTENERS
    $100 16
desensitize (demagnetize)

Carol
    $100 1
Australia

Rod
    $100 6
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Kevin
    $100 11
George Washington Carver

Carol
    $100 21
a hinge

Rod
    $200 17
a spat

Carol
    $200 2
(Rod: Uh, what is 3?)
(Carol: What is 6?)

10

CarolRodKevin
    $200 7
The Sound of Music

Kevin
    $200 12
(Kevin: What is Muhammad X?)
(Rod: Uh, who is Muhammad Elijah?)

Elijah Muhammad

RodKevin
Triple Stumper
    $200 22
Velcro

Kevin
    $300 18
a nautilus

Carol
    $300 3
6

Carol
    $300 8
(Kevin: What is Nashville?)
(Carol: What is Carrie?)
...
(Alex: Nashville was an Altman film, not a Kubrick film.)

The Shining

CarolKevin
Triple Stumper
    $300 13
(Carol: What is a representative?)

a (U.S.) senator

CarolKevin
    $300 23
a suction cup

Kevin
    $400 19
because it was thought to be extinct

Carol
    $400 4
Europe

Carol
    $400 9
(Rod: Uh... what is the, uh, first musical?)
...
(Alex: The Jazz Singer was partly talkie & partly silent.)

all talking film

RodKevin
    $400 14
cotton

Kevin
    $400 24
(Alex: Not fast enough, Kevin.)

a screw

Triple Stumper
    $500 20
(Alex: Carol, we've got less than a minute to go, select.)

the octopus

Triple Stumper
    $500 5
(Carol: What is Buddhism?)
...
(Alex: For India.)

Hinduism

CarolKevin
    $500 10
Once Upon a Time in the West

Triple Stumper
    $500 15
(Carol: What is the Socialist Party?)

the NAACP

CarolKevin
    $500 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a skewer

Carol

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 10):

Carol Rod Kevin
-$300 -$500 $1,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Carol Rod Kevin
$500 -$600 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERARY LOCATIONS
SICKNESS & HEALTH
5-LETTER WORDS
MEXICAN HISTORY
TABOOS
CELEBRITY JEOPARDY!
    $200 7
Oz

Carol
    $200 2
a crook

Carol
    $200 12
Mexico City

Carol
    $200 13
Dennis Weaver

Kevin
    $400 8
Gulliver's Travels

Kevin
    $400 3
a bimbo

Carol
    $400 17
Germany

Kevin
    $400 14
ALF

Rod
    $1,000 9
(Kevin: No idea.)

Spoon River

Kevin
    $600 21
(Carol: What is high blood pressure?)

farsightedness

Carol
Triple Stumper
    $600 4
a motel

Carol
    $600 1
Veracruz

Carol
    $600 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a monk

Carol
    $600 18
Milton Berle

Carol
    $800 10
the Hobbits

Rod
    $800 22
(Kevin: What is... rabies?)
...
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)

the black death (bubonic plague)

Kevin
Triple Stumper
    $800 5
Cajun

Kevin
    $1,000 15
(Rod: Oh, uh, who is Grant?)

Zachary Taylor

Rod
    $800 25
eat it

Kevin
    $800 19
Fred Willard

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
[ERRATUM: "Quatermain" was misspelled in the clue as shown.]

King Solomon's Mines

Kevin
    $1000 23
(Alex: We're kind of dying in SICKNESS AND HEALTH... maybe we better try a TABOO.)
[Laughter]

fainting

Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
(Carol: What is Bridie?)

biddy

Carol
Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
(Kevin: Who is Diaz?)

(Benito) Juarez

Kevin
Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
Sigmund Freud

Kevin
    $1000 20
(Carol: Who is George Hamilton?)

Malcolm Forbes

CarolRod

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Carol Rod Kevin
$1,300 $600 $4,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE
RodWhat is the Greenwich Obs?
$600
CarolWhat is Greenwich Observatory?
$1,300
KevinWhat is Greenwich Royal Observatory?
$1,700
the Greenwich Observatory

Final scores:

Carol Rod Kevin
$2,600 $1,200 $6,100
2nd place: Broyhill secretary desk & hutch + Baldwin Oxford lamp 3rd place: Helbros his & hers watches New champion: $6,100

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Carol Rod Kevin
$1,300 $1,600 $5,400
16 R,
8 W		 5 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $8,300

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Game tape date: 1988-03-22
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