Responses for Show #2499 - Thursday, June 15, 1995

Jim Vercolen game 3.

Contestants

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Valerie Meunier, a teacher from Bridgeport, Connecticut

Charles Bayar, a lawyer from Edgemont, New York

Jim Vercolen, a part-time teacher from Rochester, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ANIMALS
FOOD
HEALTH & MEDICINE
FAMOUS FORTS
FAMILIAR PHRASES
"DON'T" SONGS
    $100 16
salmon

Jim
    $100 21
basil

Valerie
    $100 10
the stomach

Jim
    $100 2
Florida

Jim
    $100 26
mind your Ps & Qs

Valerie
    $100 1
"Don't Be Cruel"

Charles
    $200 17
marsupials

Jim
    $200 22
gelato

Charles
    $200 12
hepatitis

Valerie
    $200 3
Fort Sumter

Charles
    $200 27
(Jim: What is he's the very [*] of his father?)

spitting image

Jim
    $200 7
(Charles: What is [*] anymore?)

"You Don't Bring Me Flowers"

Charles
    $300 18
a mule deer

Jim
    $300 23
rum

Valerie
    $300 13
(Charles: What is E. coli?)

Epstein-Barr

Charles
Triple Stumper
    $300 4
the Oregon Trail

Charles
    $300 28
the Rubicon

Charles
    $300 8
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina"

Charles
    $400 19
the tuna

Valerie
    $400 24
truffles

Jim
    $400 14
muscles

Valerie
    $400 5
the Netherlands

Charles
    $400 29
joie de vivre

Jim
    $400 9
"Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree"

Valerie
    $500 20
(Valerie: What is Australia?)
(Charles: What is South America?)

Asia

CharlesValerie
Triple Stumper
    $500 25
capers

Charles
    $500 15
vitreous (humor)

Valerie
    $500 6
Fort Pitt

Charles
    $1,000 30
the primrose path

Jim
    $500 11
"Don't Fence Me In"

Jim

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

Jim Charles Valerie
$700 $1,700 $1,500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Charles Valerie
$3,300 $2,200 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ALEXANDER THE GREAT
RELIGION
ART & ARCHITECTURE STYLES
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
AUTHORS
POTPOURRI
    $200 1
beards

Valerie
    $200 2
Methodist

Valerie
    $200 3
Elizabethan

Charles
    $200 12
Brazil

Charles
    $200 18
Alex Haley

Jim
    $200 26
the caboose

Valerie
    $400 5
Macedon(ia)

Jim
    $400 4
Confucius

Jim
    $400 13
the University of Virginia

Charles
    $400 17
the Euphrates

Jim
    $400 19
Steinbeck

Jim
    $400 27
Au

Jim
    $600 6
Ankara

Valerie
    $600 9
Hindu

Jim
    $600 14
Rococo

Valerie
    $1,500 23
Tierra del Fuego

Jim
    $600 20
(Alexandre) Dumas

Jim
    $600 28
Nabisco

Jim
    $800 7
Egypt

Charles
    $800 10
(Charles: What is Ancient Egyptian religion?)

Shintoism

Charles
Triple Stumper
    $800 15
Bauhaus

Jim
    $800 24
(Valerie: What is Kenya?)

Tanzania

Valerie
Triple Stumper
    $800 21
Flaubert

Jim
    $800 29
English

Valerie
    $1,000 8
(Charles: I don't know.)

Plutarch

Charles
    $1000 11
Zoroaster

Charles
    $1000 16
El Greco

Valerie
    $1000 25
the Faeroes

Valerie
    $1000 22
(Alex: Nice done in that category; way to go.)
[Applause for Jim running the category]

Bret Harte

Jim
    $1000 30
New Hampshire

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Charles Valerie
$11,400 $3,000 $5,700
(lock-tie game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE PRESIDENCY
(Alex: It's $200,000 today, divide that by 2 for 100, divide it by 2 to get you down to 50 and you divide it by 2 a third time to get you to [*].)
CharlesWhat is $35,000
$3,000
ValerieWhat 2 is $20,000?
$5,700
JimWhat is $50,000.
$0
$25,000

Final scores:

Jim Charles Valerie
$11,400 $0 $0
3-day champion: $33,500 3rd place: Krups kitchen products + Jeopardy! home game 2nd place: O'Sullivan home theater + RCA 27" TV + Jeopardy! home game

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jim Charles Valerie
$10,000 $4,000 $5,700
23 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W		 15 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $19,700

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Game tape date: 1995-02-07
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