Responses for Show #420 - Friday, April 18, 1986

Guy Tonti game 5.

Contestants

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Kurt Weldon, a comedian and a writer from Beverly Hills, California

Shoshana Rona, a librarian from Los Angeles, California

Guy Tonti, a telecommunications manager from San Francisco, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $28,800)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S.A.
CARTOONS
5-LETTER WORDS
POP MUSIC
ZOOLOGY
THE BEST
    $100 14
California

Guy
    $100 1
Wile E. Coyote

Shoshana
    $100 13
break

Guy
    $100 8
middle-of-the-road

Kurt
    $100 26
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

hopping

Triple Stumper
    $100 2
Best Polka

Triple Stumper
    $200 15
(Shoshana: What is the Miami Vice budget?)
[Laughter]
(Alex: Uh, do you mean the TV show or the Miami vice squad?)
(Shoshana: Oh, I'm sorry. [*].)

the TV show

Shoshana
    $200 4
Gerald McBoing-Boing

Triple Stumper
    $200 16
hound

Guy
    $200 9
Linda Ronstadt

Guy
    $200 27
(Alex: Yes, I figured if something had to do with laughter, you'd get it.)
[Laughter]

the hyena

Kurt
    $200 3
Hellman's

Kurt
    $300 17
legal size paper

Guy
    $300 5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Kurt
    $300 20
split

Shoshana
    $300 10
the Everly Brothers

Shoshana
    $300 28
a whale

Guy
    $300 23
The Best Years of Our Lives

Guy
    $400 18
Buffalo

Guy
    $400 6
(Alex: The first one was Snow White. The second one was [*].)

Pinocchio

Triple Stumper
    $400 21
merit

Shoshana
    $400 11
Tom Petty

Kurt
    $400 29
reindeer milk

Kurt
    $400 24
the Chicken Ranch

Shoshana
    $500 19
(Guy: What is I-75?)

I-95

GuyShoshana
    $500 7
an inkwell

Guy
    $500 22
a match

Triple Stumper
    $200 12
[The song was not reprised going into the break.]

Cyndi Lauper

Kurt
    $500 30
the duck-billed platypus

Kurt
    $500 25
briarwood

Triple Stumper

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

Guy Shoshana Kurt
$800 $400 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Guy Shoshana Kurt
$1,900 $2,200 $2,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HALLEY'S COMET
CLOTHING
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
1890's
(Alex: And since we had THE BEST in the Jeopardy! Round, in Double Jeopardy! we have...)
THE WORST
    $200 1
(Guy: What is behind the comet?)

away from the Sun

GuyKurt
    $200 20
a halter

Triple Stumper
    $200 7
Africa

Kurt
    $200 14
Eddie Anderson

Kurt
    $200 19
a Ferris wheel

Shoshana
    $200 6
the Worst-Dressed list

Guy
    $400 2
excommunicated the comet

Triple Stumper
    $400 23
socks

Kurt
    $400 10
Australia

Shoshana
    $400 15
Our Miss Brooks

Kurt
    $400 24
Sitting Bull

Kurt
    $400 8
(Alex: Yes, and if you ask me to repeat that, I will kill you.)

a tongue twister

Shoshana
    $600 3
(Shoshana: What is Arthur?)

Edmond

ShoshanaKurt
    $600 11
(Kurt: What is the Gulf of Baja?)

the Gulf of California (or Sea of Cortez)

ShoshanaKurt
    $600 16
Good Times

Guy
    $900 25
(Kurt: What is literature, science, and mathematics?)
...
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)

(3 of) physics, physiology or medicine, chemistry, literature, & peace

Kurt
    $600 9
(Alex: Temperature hit over 120 degrees each day.)

the worst recorded hot spell

Triple Stumper
    $800 4
because the comet is going to be much further away

Triple Stumper
    $800 12
British Columbia

Guy
    $800 17
Raymond Massey

Shoshana
    $800 26
Toulouse-Lautrec

Shoshana
    $800 21
(Shoshana: Who is Richard Nixon?)

(1 of) Warren Harding or Ulysses Grant

Shoshana
    $1000 5
Isaac Newton

Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
Iceland

Guy
    $1000 18
Blondie & Dagwood (the Bumsteads)

Guy
    $1000 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Ellis Island

Kurt
    $1000 22
Titus Andronicus

Shoshana

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Guy Shoshana Kurt
$5,300 $5,000 $4,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

EXPLORERS
KurtWho was Jefferson?
$4,000
ShoshanaWho is Jefferson?
$1,000
GuyWho was Grant
$4,700
Jefferson

Final scores:

Guy Shoshana Kurt
$600 $6,000 $8,200
3rd place: Jules Jurgensen his & hers watches 2nd place: trip to San Francisco New champion: $8,200

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Guy Shoshana Kurt
$5,300 $5,800 $5,400
14 R,
2 W
14 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)
16 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $16,500

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Game tape date: 1985-11-19
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