Responses for Show #2420 - Friday, February 24, 1995

Contestants

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Dave Jordan, an engineer from Niles, Michigan

Bill Fairchild, a computer software specialist from Herndon, Virginia

Scott Stechman, an attorney from Woodmere, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
THE MOVIES
POTENT POTABLES
ANIMALS
LOST & FOUND
"A" IN GEOGRAPHY
(Alex: ...each correct response will begin with that letter of the alphabet.)
    $100 9
the Smithsonian

Scott
    $100 1
Boris Karloff

Scott
    $100 21
beer

Scott
    $100 14
anchovies

Dave
    $100 26
a meteorite

Bill
    $100 4
Algeria

Scott
    $200 10
"In God we trust"

Dave
    $200 2
Hannibal Lecter

Scott
    $200 22
whiskey

Bill
    $200 15
the hyena

Bill
    $200 27
the Pony Express

Scott
    $200 5
Austria

Bill
    $300 11
Fort McHenry

Dave
    $300 3
City Slickers

Bill
    $300 23
sake

Scott
    $300 16
a walrus

Bill
    $300 28
(Scott: Who is Michelangelo?)

da Vinci

ScottDave
    $300 6
the Appalachians

Bill
    $1,000 12
(Dave: Who is Franklin Roosevelt?)
(Alex: Ooh, no, sorry. It was the man who preceded him.)

Herbert Hoover

Dave
    $400 19
On the Waterfront

Scott
    $400 24
(Alex: Powerful stuff. Hence we have the name [*]. Carthusian Fathers.)

Chartreuse

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
(Bill: What is the turtle?)
(Scott: What is the Komodo lizard?)

the iguana

ScottBill
Triple Stumper
    $400 29
(Bill: What is the Venus de Milo statue?)

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Bill
Triple Stumper
    $400 7
Alberta

Bill
    $500 13
in heaven

Bill
    $500 20
Love Me Tender

Scott
    $500 25
aquavit

Triple Stumper
    $500 18
(Dave: What's the trumpeter swan?)
...
(Alex: "Rare bird" because it was endangered, still is.)

the whooping crane

Dave
Triple Stumper
    $500 30
the lost tribes of Israel

Bill
    $500 8
Amman (Jordan)

Dave

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

Scott Bill Dave
$500 $1,900 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Bill Dave
$1,300 $2,200 -$100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

1885
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
GUARDS
DESERTS
FINANCE
AMERICAN LITERATURE
    $200 1
the Statue of Liberty

Scott
    $200 24
(Scott: What is Yiddish?)

Hebrew

ScottBill
    $200 15
the Secret Service

Bill
    $200 6
oases

Dave
    $200 12
interest

Scott
    $200 11
(Dashiell) Hammett

Dave
    $400 2
electricity

Dave
    $400 25
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

Cosmopolitan

Scott
    $400 16
the pope

Dave
    $400 7
the Gobi

Scott
    $400 20
a down payment

Scott
    $1,000 13
(Alex: Pick a name.)
(Scott: Who is Theodore Dreiser?)

Ernest Hemingway

Scott
    $600 3
(Dave: What is Massachusetts?)

Pennsylvania

ScottDave
    $600 26
San Francisco

Bill
    $600 17
Beefeaters

Scott
    $600 8
(Bill: What is China?)
(Dave: What is Russia?)

India

ScottBillDave
    $600 21
the consumer price index

Dave
    $600 14
Faulkner

Dave
    $800 4
(Ulysses) Grant

Scott
    $800 30
science fiction

Bill
    $1,200 18
(Scott: Who were the Centurions?)

the Praetorian guards

Scott
    $800 9
the Negev

Scott
    $800 22
a mutual fund

Dave
    $800 28
[Bill rang in just as the time expiry signal sounded.]

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Bill
    $1000 5
Van Gogh

Scott
    $1000 27
(Rupert) Murdoch

Scott
    $1000 19
(Alex: Yes, the three-headed dog. And you're out of the hole! Good going!)

Cerberus

Dave
    $1000 10
(Dave: What's the Chaco?)

the Atacama

Dave
Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
exchange rate

Dave
    $1000 29
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Dave

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Bill Dave
$5,900 $4,200 $3,900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

KINGS & QUEENS
(Alex: [To Scott] No, it was one of the wives of Henry VIII, and it was [*], his fourth wife. That one, he did not have beheaded. Uh, there was an annulment.)
DaveWho was Mary I
$499
BillWho was Mary of Scots
$4,050
ScottWho was Jane Grey
$5,000
Anne of Cleves

Final scores:

Scott Bill Dave
$900 $150 $3,401
2nd place: Bose Lifestyle 12 home theater system + Bush Industries home theater ready-to-assemble furniture ensemble + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for PC or Super Nintendo Entertainment System 3rd place: Givenchy Paris his & hers Swiss watches + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for PC or Super Nintendo Entertainment System New champion: $3,401

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Scott Bill Dave
$8,100 $4,200 $4,900
21 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 15 R,
3 W		 15 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,200

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Game tape date: 1994-11-15
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