Responses for Show #815 - Friday, March 4, 1988

Contestants

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Isaac Braddock, a lawyer from Los Angeles, California

Mary Ellen Driscoll, a sportswriter originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sandy Taylor, a marketing representative from Oakland, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $10,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 50 STATES
PUBLISHING
JADE
MUSICAL MILES
PHILOSOPHY
ROYS & RAYS
    $100 15
South

Sandy
    $100 1
motorcycles

Sandy
    $100 16
the Ming Dynasty

Isaac
    $100 19
(Mary Ellen: Who are the Kingston Trio?)
[Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Daily Double at clue 20 of Double Jeopardy!]

Peter, Paul and Mary

SandyMary Ellen
    $100 9
Roy Scheider

Mary Ellen
    $200 14
Vermont

Isaac
    $200 2
(The Tale of) Peter Rabbit

Sandy
    $200 17
the kidneys

Sandy
    $200 20
99 Miles

Triple Stumper
    $200 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

logic

Sandy
    $200 10
Bob & Ray

Mary Ellen
    $300 4
(Sandy: What is Massachusetts?)

Rhode Island

SandyIsaac
    $300 3
television programs

Isaac
    $300 18
(Isaac: What is blue?)
(Sandy: What is black?)

white

SandyMary EllenIsaac
    $300 21
(Mary Ellen: Who are the Byrds?)

the Who

Mary EllenIsaac
    $300 24
Diogenes

Mary Ellen
    $300 11
Rob Roy

Mary Ellen
    $400 5
(Sandy: What is... oh. Florida?)
(Mary Ellen: What is Delaware?)

Maine

SandyMary EllenIsaac
    $400 7
USA Today

Sandy
    $400 22
(Alex: And we've got less than a minute to go.)

Miles Davis

Sandy
    $400 25
a blank slate

Sandy
    $500 12
[The song was not reprised going into the break.]

Johnnie Ray

Mary Ellen
    $500 6
Utah

Mary Ellen
    $500 8
The National Enquirer

Triple Stumper
    $500 23
"Daddy's Home"

Mary Ellen
    $500 26
metaphysics

Triple Stumper
    $500 13
Dixy Lee Ray

Isaac

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Sandy Mary Ellen Isaac
$0 $1,200 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sandy Mary Ellen Isaac
$1,100 $2,100 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PRESIDENTS
THEATER
9-LETTER WORDS
BIBLICAL QUOTES
ISLANDS
TELEVISION HISTORY
    $200 11
Nixon

Mary Ellen
    $200 5
Napoleon

Mary Ellen
    $200 1
a spectacle

Sandy
    $200 23
sin no more

Sandy
    $200 22
France

Isaac
    $200 29
[ERRATUM: "Convention" was misspelled in the clue as shown.]
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Huntley & Brinkley

Mary Ellen
    $400 12
Teddy Roosevelt

Mary Ellen
    $400 3
Lolita

Mary Ellen
    $400 2
a residence

Mary Ellen
    $400 24
Moses

Sandy
    $400 21
Cuba

Sandy
    $400 28
Bob Hope

Sandy
    $600 13
Gerald Ford

Isaac
    $600 4
Sophocles (or Euripides)

Sandy
    $600 8
(Isaac: Monologue. What is a monologue?)

soliloquy

SandyIsaac
    $500 25
(Alex: [before Sandy's wager] We've got less than a minute to go.)
...
(Sandy: Who was Samson?)
(Alex: Oh, no. Who was [*]? The one person he had killed, of course...)
(Sandy: Goliath.)
(Alex: ...was Goliath.)

David

Sandy
    $600 14
Formosa

Mary Ellen
    $600 17
Barbara Walters

Mary Ellen
    $800 15
Chester Arthur

Mary Ellen
    $800 6
Restoration

Mary Ellen
    $800 9
(Sandy: What's sinecure?)

a reprimand

Sandy
Triple Stumper
    $800 26
Paul

Mary Ellen
    $2,500 20
Tasmania

Isaac
    $800 18
the Marshall Plan

Isaac
    $1000 16
(Mary Ellen: Who was Fillmore?)

Zachary Taylor

Mary Ellen
Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
Sleuth

Sandy
    $1000 10
a ptarmigan

Isaac
    $1000 19
(Alex: Isaac, I don't think I can accept that from you because Jersey is merely one of the four [*] along with Guernsey, Alderney, Sauk, and there are some other minor islands as well.)

Channel Islands

Isaac
Triple Stumper
    $1000 27
Newton Minow

Isaac

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sandy Mary Ellen Isaac
$3,600 $6,500 $6,300

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICA
SandyWhat is Ethiopia
$3,600
IsaacWhat is Somalia?
$6,297
Mary EllenWhat is South Africa
$6,300
Ethiopia, Somalia, or Djibouti

Final scores:

Sandy Mary Ellen Isaac
$7,200 $200 $12,597
2nd place: trip to Palm Springs, California + Yashica 230-AF 35mm camera 3rd place: Lane recliner New champion: $12,597

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Sandy Mary Ellen Isaac
$4,100 $6,400 $4,600
17 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $15,100

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Game tape date: 1987-11-10
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