Responses for Show #487 - Tuesday, October 21, 1986

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

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Ginny Manuel, a radio station salesperson originally from New York City

Doug Smith, a casting assistant from Santa Barbara, California

Janet Stevenson, a housewife originally from Sioux City, Iowa (whose 2-day cash winnings total $9,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

GLADIATORS
ADDRESSES
SCOTLAND
MOVIE TRIVIA
COOKING
"BACK" WORDS
    $100 25
chariots

Doug
    $100 18
Univeral Studios

Doug
    $100 3
tweed

Ginny
    $100 7
a ballerina

Doug
    $100 1
marinara

Janet
    $100 9
background music

Doug
    $200 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a trident

Doug
    $200 19
the Stock Exchange

Doug
    $200 8
Macbeth

Janet
    $200 16
(Ginny: What is The Birds?)
...
(Alex: That would have been too obvious.)

Psycho

Ginny
Triple Stumper
    $200 2
beer

Doug
    $200 10
a back seat

Janet
    $300 20
the USSR

Janet
    $300 14
auld lang syne

Janet
    $300 17
Laurence Olivier

Janet
    $300 4
sauté

Janet
    $300 11
the backstroke

Doug
    $400 21
Wrigley Field

Ginny
    $400 15
(Alex: Peter Pan is the boy.)

James Barrie

Ginny
    $400 22
Mother Superior

Triple Stumper
    $400 5
a can

Ginny
    $400 12
a backwoodsman

Doug
    $500 24
(Alex: The record book.)

Guinness

Janet
    $500 26
bens

Triple Stumper
    $600 23
(Ginny: What is [*]...)
(Alex: Correct.)
(Ginny: ...and I'm drawing a blank on 1965.)
(Alex: Oh, that's too bad. If you had remembered Julie Andrews in [*], you'd have gotten it right.)
...
(Alex: And we're down to a minute to go in the round.)

Gone with the Wind & The Sound of Music

Ginny
    $500 6
(Janet: What is fried rice?)

rice pilaf

JanetGinny
    $500 13
a backhoe

Doug

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

Janet Doug Ginny
$300 $1,600 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Janet Doug Ginny
$1,700 $2,200 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN HISTORY
BOTANY
'60s SONGS
TRACK & FIELD
DRAMA
"FOR" WORDS
(Alex: And since we had "BACK" WORDS in the first round, we have [*] in this one.)
    $200 20
declared war

Triple Stumper
    $200 1
(Janet: What is To Dream [*]?)

"The Impossible Dream"

Janet
    $200 14
a marathon

Doug
    $200 6
Marilyn Monroe

Doug
    $200 9
forward

Janet
    $400 21
(Alex: We've got a minute to go in the round.)

the Spaniards

Triple Stumper
    $400 2
"Honey"

Janet
    $400 15
the broad jump

Ginny
    $400 7
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Doug
    $400 10
formaldehyde

Janet
    $600 22
tariffs

Ginny
    $600 3
McAllister

Ginny
    $600 17
3

Doug
    $600 8
The Balcony

Janet
    $600 11
forge

Janet
    $600 23
(Ginny: Oh, this is embarrasing. My history teachers aren't going to like this.)
(Alex: Hurry.)
(Ginny: What is the Appalachian Trail?)
...
(Ginny: Even worse, because I lived there.)

the Erie Canal

Ginny
    $800 4
(Doug: What is "Different Drummer"?)

"Different Drum"

DougGinny
    $800 18
the 440 (yards / 400 meters)

Janet
    $800 16
Joan of Arc

Janet
    $1,000 12
(Alex: Janet, do you have a response?)
(Janet: No, I'm sorry, I don't.)
(Alex: Did you forget the category for a moment? Would that help you if you concentrated on that? We can't give it to you, of course. God is compared to [*].)

a mighty fortress

Janet
    $1000 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

William Rogers

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
(Ginny: What is "The Sound Of Silence"?)
[ERRATUM: The song had actually been released under both titles, and Ginny should have been given credit.]

"The Sounds Of Silence"

Ginny
Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
16 pounds

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
An Enemy of the People

Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
a formula

Janet

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Janet Doug Ginny
$5,700 $2,800 $1,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MOUNTAINS
GinnyWhat is North America?
$1,000
DougWhat is North America?
$2,800
JanetWhat is North South America?
$0
South America

Final scores:

Janet Doug Ginny
$5,700 $0 $800
3-day champion: $15,100 3rd place 2nd place

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Janet Doug Ginny
$6,700 $2,800 $3,000
17 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)
14 R,
1 W
9 R,
4 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $12,500

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Game tape date: 1986-08-26
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