Responses for Show #489 - Thursday, October 23, 1986

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Contestants

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Lucy Sweeney, an apprentice baker from San Bruno, California

Kurt Arthur, a quality specialist from St. Louis, Missouri

Marji Hanson, a salesperson from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,300)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1979
BY THE NUMBERS
PEANUTS
POETIC QUOTES
GOOD & BAD "GUY"s
ROADSIDE AMERICA
    $100 8
Somoza

Kurt
    $100 23
(Marji: What is $7,000,000?)
...
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

$6,000,000

MarjiLucy
    $100 2
Beethoven's birthday

Marji
    $100 5
"try, try again"

Kurt
    $100 13
Guy Lombardo

Marji
    $100 1
Paul Bunyan

Kurt
    $200 9
George Meany

Marji
    $200 24
5

Marji
    $200 3
the little red-haired girl

Kurt
    $200 15
June

Marji
    $200 14
Guy Fawkes

Lucy
    $200 19
(Alex: It's a water tower in the shape of [*].)

a coffee pot

Marji
    $400 10
(Marji: Who is Donna Summer?)
(Alex: Oh, no. Not Donna Summer. [*]. "I Will Survive".)
(Marji: I don't know her.)
(Alex: You didn't know her?)
(Marji: No.)
(Alex: You're going to remember her from now on, though, aren't you?)
[Laughter]
[The song was not reprised going into the break.]

Gloria Gaynor

Marji
    $300 25
the 4077

Marji
    $300 4
Peppermint Patty

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

Helen of Troy

Marji
    $300 16
(Alex: The man who got it, [*].)

Guy Williams

Triple Stumper
    $300 20
ball of string (or twine)

Kurt
    $400 11
SALT II

Kurt
    $400 26
1

Kurt
    $400 6
a Sopwith Camel

Kurt
    $400 17
Guy Smiley

Kurt
    $400 21
a lobster

Marji
    $500 12
(Erma) Bombeck

Kurt
    $500 27
(Marji: What is the 49th?)
(Kurt: What is the 39th parallel?)

the 38th parallel

MarjiKurt
Triple Stumper
    $500 7
(Alex: The character you would expect it to be. [*], not the one on our program, however.)

Lucy

Triple Stumper
    $500 18
Guy Mitchell

Lucy
    $500 22
cheese

Marji

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Marji Kurt Lucy
-$100 $1,300 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Marji Kurt Lucy
$1,500 $2,400 $1,100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

RUSSIA
TIME
ANIMAL RECORDS
FIRST LADIES
COUNTRY MUSIC
FRENCH PHRASES
    $200 26
2-3%

Kurt
    $200 12
60 Minutes

Triple Stumper
    $200 6
Shetlands

Marji
    $200 7
Pat Nixon

Marji
    $200 17
Jimmy Dean

Kurt
    $200 1
a cul-de-sac

Lucy
    $400 27
Samantha Smith

Marji
    $400 13
March

Lucy
    $400 19
(Kurt: What is a boa?)

a python

MarjiKurt
    $400 8
Smith

Lucy
    $400 18
"Sunshine"

Lucy
    $400 2
gauche

Marji
    $600 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

TASS

Lucy
    $600 14
in the morning

Marji
    $600 23
the Galapagos

Marji
    $600 9
2

Triple Stumper
    $600 20
Mickey Gilley

Kurt
    $600 3
esprit de corps

Lucy
    $500 15
(Marji: What is 9 1/2 weeks?)
(Alex: Oh, sorry.
You didn't add them.
9 1/2 weeks for the Kim Basinger film...)
(Marji: Oh.)
(Alex: ...6 weeks more for the Mary Tyler Moore film, giving us a total of [*].)

15 1/2 weeks

Marji
    $800 24
(Marji: What is the mammoth?)
...
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in the round.)

the blue whale

MarjiKurt
    $800 10
Cleveland

Lucy
    $800 21
(Kurt: Who is Tennessee Ernie Ford?)

Eddie Arnold

Kurt
Triple Stumper
    $800 4
laissez-faire

Lucy
    $1000 16
"Stop the clock!"

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Marji: What is an antelope?)

a zebra

MarjiLucy
    $1000 11
Woodrow Wilson

Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
Loretta Lynn

Marji
    $1000 5
Alouette

Lucy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Marji Kurt Lucy
$3,000 $3,000 $7,300
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MAN IN SPACE
[Marji's response was revealed first.]
MarjiWho is Johnson?
$2,700
KurtWho was Eisenhower?
$3,000
LucyWho was JFK?
$300
Dwight Eisenhower

Final scores:

Marji Kurt Lucy
$300 $6,000 $7,000
3rd place 2nd place New champion: $7,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Marji Kurt Lucy
$3,900 $3,000 $7,300
18 R,
6 W
(including 2 DDs)
14 R,
3 W
14 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $14,200

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Game tape date: 1986-08-26
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