Responses for Show #744 - Thursday, November 26, 1987

"Signature game" with all clues prepared by Jeopardy! research writer Steven Dorfman.

Contestants

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Paul Rabwin, a restaurateur from Encinitas, California

Adella Ravitch, a teacher from Anaheim Hills, California

Ira Kirschner, a broker and CPA from Westlake Village, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1990s
TV TRIVIA
THE CONTINENTS
FOREIGN PHRASES
PLANTS
IN THE KITCHEN
    $100 19
Hong Kong

Adella
    $100 10
a schoolteacher

Paul
    $100 1
(Alex: And for the first this season, I believe, we have what we call a signature game. All of the material on this program was prepared by one of our research writers. He is Steven Dorfman. He is going to be proud if you do well when you make your first selection, Ira. Off you go.)

Europe

Adella
    $100 7
No Parking

Paul
    $100 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the leaf

Adella
    $100 3
a toaster

Ira
    $200 20
1992

Ira
    $200 11
Barney Miller

Adella
    $200 2
(Paul: What is North America?)
...
(Alex: [*], yes. From this continent.)

Asia

AdellaPaul
    $200 8
Merry Christmas

Adella
    $200 17
(Alex: She looks a lot different today. In fact, she looks younger today.)

Betty Crocker

Adella
    $300 21
(Adella: What is the stock market?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

the Dow Jones Industrial Average

Adella
    $300 12
(Adella: What is Hill Street Blues?)
...
(Alex: It's a line from the song, as a matter of fact, from [*].)

Fame

Adella
Triple Stumper
    $300 4
Africa

Ira
    $300 9
All roads lead to Rome

Paul
    $300 18
General Motors

Ira
    $400 22
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)

1999

Adella
    $400 13
Bette Davis

Adella
    $400 5
(Alex: I can see the fingers going.)
...
(Adella: What is 6?)
...
(Alex: All of them do.)

7

IraAdella
    $400 15
[Alex emphasizes "you" when reading the clue.]
(Alex: That's absolutely right. "My name is...")

Adella

Adella
    $400 24
Formica

Adella
    $500 23
Madison Square Garden

Triple Stumper
    $500 14
(Adella: Who is Fallon Colby?)
...
(Alex: They play Fallon Colby, but they have replaced [*]. We were going for the actress's name.)
...
(Alex: [During Adella's interview] I want to clear up a bit of information I imparted a few moments ago. Janet Johnson replaced, uh, [*], but not as Fallon. She replaced her as Nancy Drew. Emma Samms replaced her as Fallon.)

Pamela Sue Martin

Adella
Triple Stumper
    $500 6
Antarctica

Paul
    $500 16
memsaab

Triple Stumper
    $500 25
Pepperidge Farm

Adella

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

Ira Adella Paul
$800 -$100 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ira Adella Paul
$1,300 $2,300 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1890s
AWARDS
QUOTES
RELIGION
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
FEATHERED FRIENDS
    $200 2
a boxing match

Paul
    $200 17
the most valuable player

Ira
    $200 3
Boston

Ira
    $200 1
the heart

Ira
    $200 8
The Mikado

Paul
    $200 22
yellow

Paul
    $400 4
(Alex: Yeah, poor planning on his part, I would say.)

Henry Ford

Paul
    $2,900 18
physics

Ira
    $400 5
[Alex reads the quotation in a parrot voice.]

Treasure Island

Ira
    $400 13
Michael Jackson

Adella
    $400 9
Olympus

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
the wishbone

Adella
    $600 26
Field & Stream

Ira
    $600 19
(Ira: What is Mad magazine?)
(Adella: What is The Harvard Lampoon?)

TV Guide

IraAdella
Triple Stumper
    $600 6
wonders

Ira
    $600 14
the Koran

Paul
    $600 10
the H.M.S. Pinafore

Adella
    $600 25
the gizzard

Ira
    $800 28
[Alex reads "H." as "Henryk".]
(Adella: What is Latin?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Polish

Adella
Triple Stumper
    $800 20
Sakharov

Paul
    $800 7
Mario Puzo

Adella
    $1,500 15
(Paul: What are the... three Baptist movements?)
...
(Paul: [Muttering] "Synagogue Council". Wasn't reading.)

Orthodox, Conservative & Reform branches of Judaism

Paul
    $800 11
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Adella
    $1000 27
Rupert Holmes

Adella
    $1000 21
(Ira: What is love?)

music

IraAdella
    $1000 16
the Shakers

Adella
    $1000 12
(Alex: You've taken enough time. The correct response--Paul just got it, I believe--is [*].)

Patience

Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

melanin

Adella

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ira Adella Paul
$5,400 $7,900 $1,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

IN THE NEWS
(Alex: [To Paul] Yes, indeed. You remember that that was the lady who swam up there off the coast of Alaska. Gosh, felt so--[vocally shivers]--I felt cold just lookin' at her go.)
PaulWhat is swimming?
$1,500
IraWhat is rowing?
$5,400
AdellaWhat is swimming?
$3,000
swimming

Final scores:

Ira Adella Paul
$0 $10,900 $3,200
3rd place: Pinseeker custom-made golf clubs including stainless steel woods with matching radius-sole irons & a deluxe staff bag + computerized version of Jeopardy! or Jeopardy! box game New champion: $10,900 2nd place: a trip to the Caribbean on Easter Airlines & a week's stay for 2 at Bluebeard's Castle Hotel + computerized version of Jeopardy! or Jeopardy! box game

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ira Adella Paul
$2,900 $7,900 $3,200
13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
22 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
10 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $14,000

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Game tape date: 1987-08-26
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