Responses for Show #1644 - Thursday, October 24, 1991

Contestants

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Mickey Kieckhefer, a management specialist from Burbank, California

Bill Spencer, a public policy analyst originally from Jackson, Mississippi

Jerry Sobul, a film production manager from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BODIES OF WATER
COOKING
RABBITS IN FILM
BOOKS & AUTHORS
COMPUTER TALK
COMMON BONDS
    $100 1
Texas & Oklahoma

Jerry
    $100 24
wheat

Bill
    $100 10
Harvey

Bill
    $100 3
mother

Jerry
    $100 21
the hardware

Bill
    $100 12
derbies

Bill
    $200 2
(Alex: [*], Korea, yes.)

Seoul

Bill
    $200 27
gingerbread

Bill
    $200 17
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Mickey
    $200 6
William Faulkner

Mickey
    $200 22
(Alex: With less than a minute to go.)

user friendly

Bill
    $200 13
bar

Jerry
    $300 4
the Volga

Triple Stumper
    $300 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

grate or grind (chop)

Bill
    $300 18
Fatal Attraction

Jerry
    $300 7
Conan Doyle

Bill
    $300 23
a virus

Jerry
    $300 14
captains of the U.S.S. Enterprise on Star Trek

Mickey
    $400 5
(Mickey: What is the Ionian Sea?)

the Aegean

BillMickey
    $400 19
Watership Down

Triple Stumper
    $400 8
(Mickey: Um...)
(Alex: Oh, sorry.)
(Mickey: Drew a blank, I'm sorry.)
...
[Jerry did not include the leading article in his response.]

The Silence of the Lambs (or Red Dragon)

JerryMickey
    $400 25
desktop publishing

Triple Stumper
    $400 15
Starr

Bill
    $500 9
(Bill: What is the Yangtze?)
(Jerry: What is the Yalu?)

the the Hwang Ho (the Yellow River)

JerryBill
Triple Stumper
    $500 20
Of Mice and Men

Bill
    $500 11
(Bill: Who is Solzhenitsyn?)

Boris Pasternak

BillMickey
    $500 26
artificial intelligence

Bill
    $500 16
doors (things you find on doors)

Mickey

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Jerry Bill Mickey
$100 $0 -$100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jerry Bill Mickey
$900 $2,400 $900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. "C"ITIES
FASHION HISTORY
INVENTORS
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
    $200 1
Chattanooga

Jerry
    $200 24
a V

Bill
    $200 11
Colt

Mickey
    $200 6
(Bill: What is cake?)

bread

BillMickey
    $200 18
a boom

Jerry
    $200 16
The Pirates of Penzance

Mickey
    $400 2
Chicago

Bill
    $400 25
(Jerry: What's the polka?)
(Mickey: What's a mazurka?)

a polonaise

JerryMickey
Triple Stumper
    $400 12
(Johannes) Gutenberg

Bill
    $400 7
(Bill: Who is Louis?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

Louis XVI

Bill
    $400 19
an annuity

Jerry
    $400 17
the fairy who lives underwater

Bill
    $600 3
Charlotte

Jerry
    $600 26
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)

a riding coat

Bill
    $600 13
Edison

Mickey
    $1,500 8
the Declaration of the Rights of Man

Bill
    $600 20
the equity

Jerry
    $600 22
Mount Olympus

Jerry
    $800 4
Carson City

Bill
    $800 27
the Cavaliers

Bill
    $800 14
(Mickey: Who is Wurlitzer?)

Hammond

BillMickey
    $800 9
the Jacobin Club

Triple Stumper
    $800 21
an excise tax

Mickey
    $800 29
The Mikado

Jerry
    $1000 5
(Jerry: Uh, what is uh... Laramie?)

Casper

JerryBill
    $1000 28
(Bill: Who is Caroline?)

Eugénie

Bill
Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Marconi

Mickey
    $1000 10
the Estates General

Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
law of diminishing return

Bill
    $100 30
(Jerry: Just $100; I'm not a Gilbert and Sullivan fan.)
...
(Jerry: What is Madame Butterfly?)

H.M.S. Pinafore (Dear Little Miss Buttercup or The Lass That Loved a Sailor)

Jerry

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jerry Bill Mickey
$2,800 $9,500 $2,700
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE SENATE
(Alex: This is one of those Final Jeopardy!s where our players are usually driven crazy if you don't get it right off the bat because when you hear the names you'll say, "Of course, why didn't I come up with that name?")
...
(Alex: [To Bill] Who were you going to write?)
(Bill: Ferraro.)
(Alex: Oh, Geraldine Ferraro? She was not a senator.)
MickeyWho are Benson and Dole?
$2,000
JerryWho are Dole &
$1,601
BillWho are Bentsen + Ferr
$3,500
Robert Dole & Lloyd Bentsen

Final scores:

Jerry Bill Mickey
$1,199 $6,000 $4,700
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version New champion: $6,000 2nd place: Pacific Sun outdoor furniture + Michael C. Fina tea & coffee service + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jerry Bill Mickey
$2,900 $9,100 $2,700
13 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)
25 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)
11 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $14,700

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Game tape date: 1991-08-27
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