Responses for Show #948 - Wednesday, October 19, 1988

Contestants

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Tim Moore, a student from Wichita, Kansas

Jamie Watson, an employment counselor from Redondo Beach, California

Mark Milett, a hearings and appeals analyst originally from Culver City, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,201)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD GEOGRAPHY
ELECTRICITY
WINES
RELIGION
SOCCER
"DARK"
    $100 2
the Rockies

Mark
    $100 20
static electricity

Tim
    $100 16
smell (aroma, bouquet)

Mark
    $100 11
Jesus

Mark
    $100 17
a toss of a coin

Mark
    $100 10
the dark room

Tim
    $200 5
the Caribbean

Tim
    $200 21
an electron

Tim
    $200 25
rosé

Tim
    $200 12
a mosque

Jamie
    $200 18
the feet

Tim
    $200 9
the Dark Ages

Tim
    $300 6
Wales

Mark
    $300 22
(Jamie: What is attract?)

repel

MarkJamie
    $300 28
New York

Jamie
    $300 13
Buddhism

Mark
    $300 19
(Tim: What is 8?)

11

Tim
Triple Stumper
    $300 1
A Shot in the Dark

Jamie
    $400 7
Asia

Mark
    $400 26
a battery

Tim
    $400 29
claret

Triple Stumper
    $400 14
the Book of Mormon

Jamie
    $400 23
holding

Mark
    $500 3
(Alex: [*] by last year's Academy Award-winning actress, Cher.)
[The song was reprised going into the break.]

"Dark Lady"

Mark
    $500 8
(Jamie: What is Provence?)

Aquitaine

MarkJamie
    $500 27
(Mark: What is 220?)

110 (110-120)

MarkJamie
    $500 30
(Alex: Yes, and it's usually the best [*].)

champagne

Mark
    $500 15
(Tim: Uh, what is, uh, Hare Krishna?)

Sikhism

Tim
Triple Stumper
    $500 24
(Alex: For the first time ever, yes.)

the United States

Mark
    $500 4
[Alex clarified at the beginning of the Double Jeopardy! Round that Tim's response was accepted without "Dark" since the show had the word "dark" already in the clue's wording.]

Michelob

Tim

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

Mark Jamie Tim
$2,200 $0 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Jamie Tim
$3,600 $900 $1,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THEATER
WASHINGTON, D.C.
CATS & DOGS
AUTHORS
THE 17th CENTURY
"LIGHT"
    $200 25
(Mark: What is Caberet?)
...
(Alex: For all that rollerskating.)

Starlight Express

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $200 14
(Alex: One for every five people, correct.)

50 million

Tim
    $200 5
James Joyce

Tim
    $200 2
the Romanov Dynasty

Tim
    $200 20
lightning bugs

Jamie
    $400 24
Scandals

Mark
    $400 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Washington Monument

Tim
    $400 18
spaying

Tim
    $400 6
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mark
    $400 3
England

Tim
    $400 19
"You Light Up My Life"

Tim
    $1,200 21
Hello, Dolly! & Funny Girl

Jamie
    $600 26
(Tim: Who is John XXIII?)

John Paul II

Tim
Triple Stumper
    $600 17
(Jamie: What's a Spaniel?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Jamie: Golden Spaniel?)

a Cocker Spaniel

JamieTim
    $600 7
(Alex: Mark remembered, but a little too late.)

Norman Mailer

Triple Stumper
    $600 1
(Tim: Who is, uh, Brown?)

Roger Williams

Tim
Triple Stumper
    $600 10
the festival (feast) of lights

Mark
    $800 22
Jackie Mason

Mark
    $800 27
(Tim: What is the Jefferson Memorial?)
...
(Alex: Less than a minute to go, Mark.)

the National Archives

Tim
Triple Stumper
    $800 16
a queen

Triple Stumper
    $800 8
J.D. Salinger

Mark
    $800 4
(Tim: What is Romanesque?)
(Mark: What is Rococo?)

Baroque

MarkJamieTim
    $800 11
(Jamie: What's a lighter-than-air craft?)
(Tim: What is a light aircraft?)

an ultralight

JamieTim
Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
Into the Woods (or A Walk in the Woods)

Mark
    $600 28
(Mark: What is his cemetery--his grave?)

the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

Mark
    $1000 15
the Rhodesian Ridgeback

Tim
    $1000 9
Edward Everett Hale

Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
the planets

Jamie
    $1000 12
a light-year

Tim

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Jamie Tim
$6,000 $2,700 $2,500
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

NAMES IN THE NEWS
(Alex: Players, I'll give you the clue, you'll then have two minutes in which to write down--two minutes, that's a long time for Final Jeopardy! You will then have 30 seconds in which to write down the response. I just thought I'd be generous today and give you an extra minute and a half.)
[Laughter]
...
(Alex: [To Tim] The Surgeon General of the United States; the man that wants you to eat right, give up smoking and be very careful with sex.)
...
(Alex: [To Jamie] Well, you might see his picture a lot in a pamphlet, but not from the government, uh, yet.)
TimWho is C. Everett Koop?
$2,500
JamieWho is Dukakis?
$2,500
MarkWho is Koop?
$0
C. Everett Koop

Final scores:

Mark Jamie Tim
$6,000 $200 $5,000
2-day champion: $16,201 3rd place: Revere Ware cookware 2nd place: Pinseeker golf club + Hatteras hammocks

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mark Jamie Tim
$6,500 $2,100 $2,500
19 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)
9 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
19 R,
7 W

Combined Coryat: $11,100

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Game tape date: 1988-08-02
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