Responses for Show #1234 - Thursday, January 4, 1990

Missing introductions.

Contestants

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Joe Haggerty, a distributor originally from Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Mary Heffron, originally from New Orleans, Louisiana

Mark Kassabian, from Pasadena, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

STARTS WITH "D"
SONGS
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
SHOW BIZ BUSINESS
WHITE
WATER
    $100 6
a dam

Joe
    $100 11
"Bill Bailey, Won't You Please... Come Home?"

Triple Stumper
    $100 1
Army, West Point

Mark
    $100 13
MTV

Mary
    $100 19
a white Russian

Joe
    $100 17
toilets

Mark
    $200 8
duke

Mark
    $200 12
(Alex: [Singing the first line of the song] That's all I'm singing.)
[Laughter]

Portugal

Triple Stumper
    $200 2
the University of Pennsylvania

Mark
    $200 24
(Joe: What is HBO?)

NBC

Joe
Triple Stumper
    $200 20
white wine

Joe
    $200 18
(Mary: What is relay swimming?)

water polo

MaryJoe
    $300 7
to debug

Mark
    $300 14
Mr. Sandman

Mark
    $300 3
Johns Hopkins

Mark
    $300 25
Eastman Kodak

Mark
    $300 23
alabaster

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

hit an iceberg

Triple Stumper
    $400 9
a do-si-do

Mary
    $2,000 15
[The song was reprised going into the break.]

"Blue Moon"

Mark
    $400 4
Rutgers

Mark
    $400 26
(Mary: What is MGM?)
(Mark: What is Walt Disney?)
...
(Alex: We have very little time left in this round.)

Universal

MarkMary
Triple Stumper
    $400 22
albinos

Mary
    $500 10
decal

Mark
    $500 16
[Joe said "Skies".]

"Ghost Riders In The Sky"

Joe
    $500 5
(Alex: You did well on that category; you ran it...)
[Applause]

William & Mary

Mark
    $500 27
Apple

Mark
    $500 21
the Great White Fleet

Mark

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

Mark Mary Joe
$4,800 $500 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Mary Joe
$5,800 $300 $900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

NOVELS
ART
HISTORIC NAMES
VOCABULARY
JAPAN
MAGIC & THE OCCULT
    $200 25
(Alex: We have a minute to go in this round.)

Holland

Mark
    $200 6
Prince Henry the Navigator

Mark
    $200 1
nicotine

Mary
    $200 9
the emperor of the setting sun

Mary
    $200 8
a crystal ball

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
The Scarlet Letter

Mark
    $400 7
Sacagawea

Joe
    $400 2
a nosh

Mary
    $400 12
kabuki

Mark
    $400 20
a magic wand

Joe
    $600 23
governess

Mary
    $600 10
Butch Cassidy & Sundance

Mary
    $600 3
[That is how the clue was rendered.]

carpetbaggers

Mary
    $600 13
the Soviet Union

Mark
    $600 19
abracadabra

Joe
    $800 21
Dracula

Joe
    $800 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

landscapes

Mary
    $800 11
Carlota

Joe
    $1,000 4
(Mary: What is president?)

senator

Mary
    $800 14
a haiku

Mary
    $800 18
a pentagram

Joe
    $1000 22
Charles Dickens

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 26
(Mark: Who was Salvador Dali?)

René Magritte

Mark
    $1000 15
Oliver Cromwell

Joe
    $1000 5
simony

Mark
    $1000 16
Kyushu

Joe
    $1000 17
the mandrake root

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Mary Joe
$6,600 $3,500 $6,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE NOBEL PRIZE
MaryWho is Linus Pauling?
$500
MarkWho is Linus Pauling
$6,599
JoeWho is Linus Pauling?
$6,601
Linus Pauling

Final scores:

Mark Mary Joe
$13,199 $4,000 $13,301
2nd place: Profile vertical blinds + Code-A-Phone 2670 answering system + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version 3rd place: La-Z-Boy sleep sofa + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version New champion: $13,301

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mark Mary Joe
$7,000 $4,500 $6,700
20 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)
11 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)
13 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $18,200

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Game tape date: 1989-09-12
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