Responses for Show #518 - Wednesday, December 3, 1986

Contestants

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Tom Bestor, a writer originally from Eureka, California

Rick Vernier, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California

Brenda Clark, a sales manager from Phenix City, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

STARTS WITH "U"
FAMOUS WOMEN
NON-FICTION
AMERICAN RIVERS
ENGLISH HISTORY
PREDICTING THE FUTURE
    $100 22
ugly

Rick
    $100 23
Shirley Temple

Tom
    $100 3
Priscilla Presley

Rick
    $100 1
the Connecticut River

Rick
    $100 2
Thomas

Tom
    $100 15
(Alex: The 17-year variety.)

locusts

Rick
    $200 24
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

unidentified flying objects (UFOs)

Tom
    $200 8
Maria Shriver

Brenda
    $200 16
(Tom: Who is Eugene O'Neill?)
...
(Alex: One of the lines from A Streetcar Named Desire.)

Tennessee Williams

BrendaTom
    $200 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Mississippi

Brenda
    $200 4
World War II

Rick
    $200 12
Jesus

Tom
    $300 25
an umbrella

Triple Stumper
    $300 9
(Brenda: I know her name.)

Susan St. James

Brenda
Triple Stumper
    $300 17
David Stockman

Rick
    $700 20
the Red River

Rick
    $300 5
Henry

Brenda
    $300 13
Jeane Dixon

Brenda
    $400 10
Anne Morrow

Brenda
    $400 18
the South Pole

Tom
    $400 21
the Indian River

Triple Stumper
    $400 6
Parliament

Rick
    $400 14
compact discs

Tom
    $500 26
Underwood

Tom
    $500 11
Imelda Marcos

Rick
    $500 19
the Holocaust

Rick
    $500 7
Tories

Rick
    $500 27
(Brenda: Who is Truffaut?)
(Rick: Who is Hitchcock?)

Orson Welles

BrendaRick
Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Brenda Rick Tom
$900 $1,800 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brenda Rick Tom
$800 $3,000 $1,700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ANIMALS
AVIATION
TELEVISION
20TH CENTURY AMERICA
MATHEMATICS
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
(Alex: In each response there, we will have two words meaning different things but pronounced the same.)
    $200 18
milking cows

Rick
    $200 5
New York City

Tom
    $200 1
(Tom: What is a policewoman?)
...
(Alex: They are not all policewomen.)

police officers

BrendaTom
    $200 25
(Tom: What is airplane?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

an automobile

BrendaTom
    $200 12
Dear deer

Tom
    $400 19
gorillas

Rick
    $400 6
Boeing

Tom
    $400 2
Magnum

Brenda
    $400 4
the Bay of Pigs

Tom
    $400 13
write right

Brenda
    $600 20
(Rick: What are shrews or insectivores?)

amphibians

Rick
Triple Stumper
    $600 7
the English Channel

Brenda
    $600 3
The Persuaders

Rick
    $600 10
ballet

Tom
    $600 14
patients' patience

Tom
    $1,000 21
(Rick: What is an egg stage...)
(Alex: Right.)
(Rick: ...a larval stage, and a juvenile stage?)
(Alex: Sorry, I can't accept that. The third stage is the [*] stage.)

egg, larval, and pupa

Rick
    $800 8
(Tom: What are stewardesses? Uh, flight attendants?)
(Brenda: What's a meal in flight?)

an in-flight movie

BrendaTom
Triple Stumper
    $800 17
lumberjacks

Rick
    $800 11
Texas

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
our hour

Tom
    $1000 22
(Tom: What is the whooping crane?)
(Brenda: What's the carrier pigeon?)

(1 of) passenger pigeon, heath hen, great auk, Labrador duck, or Carolina parakeet

BrendaRickTom
    $1000 9
Douglas Commercial

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
Lumpy

Triple Stumper
    $500 23
(Alex: [Before Rick's wager] We've got less than a minute to go.)
...
(Rick: [No response])
[ERRATUM: The exact quote was "A chicken in every pot. And a car in every backyard, to boot".]

"A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage"

Rick
    $1000 16
cash cache

Tom

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brenda Rick Tom
$800 $3,900 $3,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SPORTS
BrendaWhat is Atlanta?
$800
TomWhat is Minneapo
$3,699
RickWhat is Buffalo Atlanta?
$2,000
(1 of) Atlanta, Indianapolis & Denver

Final scores:

Brenda Rick Tom
$1,600 $5,900 $1
2nd place: Ensoniq digital electric piano + Zenith 9" color TV New champion: $5,900 3rd place: Carrington House carpets

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Brenda Rick Tom
$800 $5,000 $3,700
11 R,
4 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 2 DDs)		 15 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $9,500

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Game tape date: 1986-09-16
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