Responses for Show #2488 - Wednesday, May 31, 1995

Contestants

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Ed Edelman, a pawnbroker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Brooks Sanders, a college professor from Castle Creek, New York

Mike Creed, an antique and collectibles dealer from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,500)

Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPEAN CAPITALS
TELEVISION
MYTHOLOGY
THE 20th CENTURY
STEWS
FILE UNDER "H"
    $100 16
Vienna

Brooks
    $100 7
the BBC

Mike
    $100 12
Romulus & Remus

Mike
    $100 26
the Titanic

Mike
    $100 21
squirrels

Mike
    $100 1
heads

Mike
    $200 17
Stockholm

Mike
    $200 8
(Brooks: What is the American Movie Channel?)

the American Movie Classics

BrooksEd
    $200 13
Ursa Major

Mike
    $200 27
the Gateway Arch

Ed
    $200 22
goulash

Brooks
    $200 2
(Brooks: [*]. What is [*]?)

hatch

Brooks
    $300 18
Oslo

Brooks
    $300 6
UHF

Mike
    $300 11
the Golden Fleece

Mike
    $300 28
Pancho Villa

Mike
    $300 23
gumbo

Ed
    $300 3
hangman

Brooks
    $400 19
Warsaw

Mike
    $400 9
Gene Roddenberry

Brooks
    $400 14
war

Triple Stumper
    $400 29
(William Randolph) Hearst

Ed
    $400 24
beans

Brooks
    $400 4
a hippopotamus

Brooks
    $1,000 20
Madrid

Mike
    $500 10
Fulton Sheen

Ed
    $500 15
[Mike said both options.]

a turtle (tortoise)

Mike
    $500 30
(Mike: What is Bikini?)

Eniwetok

MikeBrooks
    $500 25
couscous

Triple Stumper
    $500 5
Hare Krishna

Ed

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

Mike Brooks Ed
$1,600 $1,100 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mike Brooks Ed
$3,200 $2,600 $2,100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORIC MASSACRES
19th CENTURY OPERA
INVENTIONS
U.S.A.
POETS
ODDS & ENDS
    $200 2
King Herod

Brooks
    $200 30
Otello

Mike
    $200 1
electrocardiograms

Brooks
    $200 7
Indianapolis

Brooks
    $200 19
Robert Frost

Brooks
    $200 20
National Geographic

Mike
    $400 3
the Alamo

Mike
    $400 29
Verdi

Mike
    $400 8
fold them

Brooks
    $400 10
Kansas

Mike
    $400 18
Tennyson

Brooks
    $400 21
Peru

Ed
    $600 4
the Boston Massacre

Brooks
    $600 23
(Richard) Wagner

Mike
    $600 9
the electron microscope

Mike
    $600 11
Oregon

Brooks
    $600 16
Emma Lazarus

Mike
    $600 24
(I.M.) Pei

Ed
    $800 5
St. Bartholomew's Massacre

Ed
    $1,000 25
(Alex: [Prior to the wager] We have a minute left in the round.)

Hansel and Gretel

Ed
    $800 12
(Mike: What is the microscope?)

a printing press

MikeEd
    $800 14
Sarasota, Florida

Ed
    $800 17
Shelley

Mike
    $800 27
Siam (Thailand)

Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
Khartoum

Mike
    $1000 26
Dvořák

Brooks
    $1000 13
(Mike: Who is Parker?)

(Lewis) Waterman

MikeBrooks
    $1,500 15
(Ed: What is Urbana?)

Evanston

Ed
    $1000 22
Walt Whitman

Ed
    $1000 28
Pago Pago

Mike

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mike Brooks Ed
$7,600 $7,400 $6,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS NAMES
EdWho is Michael Crichton?
$5,600
BrooksWho is Michael Ch Creighton
$7,300
MikeWho is Bradbury
$7,500
Michael Crichton

Final scores:

Mike Brooks Ed
$100 $14,700 $11,600
3rd place: Sanyo laundry system + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo Entertainment System + Jeopardy box game New champion: $14,700 2nd place: Mastervoice home automation system butler + Jules Jurgensen ladies watch + Jeopardy! Sports Edition for home computer or Super Nintendo Entertainment System + Jeopardy box game

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mike Brooks Ed
$7,100 $7,400 $7,300
24 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 19 R,
1 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $21,800

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Game tape date: 1995-01-31
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