Responses for Show #1073 - Wednesday, April 12, 1989

Contestants

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Gary Grant, a computer consultant from Los Angeles, California

Carol Tomeo, a librarian originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania

Jim Breed, a mechanical engineer from Kansas City, Missouri (whose 2-day cash winnings total $30,498)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

1950
NATIONAL FLAGS
TIME
COMPOSERS
FINE CHINA
TV ACT IT OUT
(Alex: All of the clues have to do with TV shows in which your response will be "What is..." or "Who is..." For example, if it was "The sound made by Lawrence Welk on his show", you'd have to do "What is [pops mouth with finger]?" Okay, a little bit of acting here. [Wipes off wet finger] I'm messing my finger.)
    $100 6
the minimum wage

Carol
    $100 21
green

Gary
    $100 16
the Soviet Union

Carol
    $100 7
Elvis Presley

Jim
    $100 1
[sticking both thumbs up and saying "Hey!"]

Jim
    $200 8
(Gary: Uh, [*]?)
(Alex: Remember your phr--)
(Gary: What is [*]?)

Puerto Rico

Gary
    $200 22
Lebanon

Jim
    $200 17
(Jim: What is "after death"?)

in the year of Our Lord

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $200 12
(Gary: What is China?)

Asia

CarolGary
    $500 2
[smiling and waving]

Jim
    $300 9
Senator McCarthy

Jim
    $300 18
kings (or sovereigns)

Carol
    $300 13
(Royal) Copenhagen

Carol
    $300 3
[Jim used just his right hand to act out the correct response.]
(Alex: All right, we can accept that. We were going to do it with two hands, but you did it with one, so congratulations.)

[one thumb up, one thumb down]

Jim
    $400 10
South Pacific

Jim
    $400 19
(Jim: [No response])
...
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

donkey's years

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $400 14
white

Carol
    $400 4
(Jim: What is hold the speaker to his ear?)
(Carol: What is hold the headset?)
...
(Alex: Remember, this is TV ACT IT OUT. He had the copy in one hand and in the manner of all the old radio announcers, he would [*] so that he could hear himself much better. It sounds so much better, but it's tough to do a show this way.)

[one hand cupped over his ear]

JimCarol
Triple Stumper
    $500 11
Dick Button

Jim
    $500 23
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Cyprus

Triple Stumper
    $500 20
(Jim: What is Great Britain?)

Germany

JimGary
    $500 15
Beatrix Potter

Jim
    $500 5
(Gary: She put her hand over her head and snapped her fingers.)

[put one arm over the other in front of her, elbows at right angles, and nodded]

Gary
Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 7):

Jim Carol Gary
$600 -$300 -$500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Carol Gary
$1,400 $1,000 $100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE EARTH
LITERARY CHARACTERS
MOVIE DIRECTORS
MAINE
MIDDLE NAMES
THE VIKINGS
    $200 2
(Carol: What is the Mideast?)

the Far East

CarolGary
    $200 25
Julius Caesar

Carol
    $200 12
World War II

Jim
    $200 7
L.L. Bean

Jim
    $200 14
(Alex: Samuel [*] Clemens.)

Langhorne

Jim
    $200 26
(Alex: Minute to go.)

Vinland

Gary
    $400 3
[Alex failed to give the other correct responses on air.]

(1 of) France, Argentina, Australia, Chile, New Zealand, Norway & the UK

Carol
    $400 1
they are dead

Carol
    $400 13
Candice Bergen

Carol
    $400 8
lobster

Carol
    $400 18
Dean

Triple Stumper
    $400 30
a ship

Carol
    $600 4
(Jim: What is the Tropic of Capricorn?)

the Tropic of Cancer

JimCarol
    $600 24
Evangeline

Carol
    $600 15
Diane Keaton

Jim
    $1,600 9
Canada

Carol
    $600 19
Frideric

Jim
    $600 29
horns

Carol
    $1,000 5
(Alex: On the old Mercator projection, it looks so big, way out of whack.)

Greenland

Carol
    $800 21
Billy Budd

Jim
    $800 16
(Gary: [*]. Who was [*]?)
(Alex: Yes, you have to remember to phrase it in the form of a question; be careful in this round because I can't remind you.)

Costa-Gavras

Gary
    $800 10
vice president

Jim
    $800 23
William Gladstone

Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Iceland

Gary
    $1000 6
the Sahara Desert

Carol
    $1000 20
(Gary: What is Sherlock Holmes?)

Perry Mason

Gary
Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
William Desmond Taylor

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
Kennebunkport

Jim
    $1000 22
(Gary: What is Eustace?)

Edward

Gary
Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
Alfred the Great

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Carol Gary
$5,200 $8,400 $100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

BOOKS & AUTHORS
GaryWhat is Torch Song Trilogy
$3
JimWhat is Cocoon?
$5,199
CarolWhat is Caterpillar?
$2,001
Cocoon

Final scores:

Jim Carol Gary
$10,399 $6,399 $97
3-day champion: $40,897 2nd place: Easy-Rest sofa & love seat + Capri track lighting 3rd place: Gibson electric range

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jim Carol Gary
$4,900 $7,200 $100
17 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 18 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 7 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $12,200

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Game tape date: 1988-12-13
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