Responses for Show #1915 - Friday, December 25, 1992

Jack Mahoney game 1.

Contestants

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Jack Mahoney, an actor originally from Newport, Rhode Island

Tom Regan, a businessman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Joe Santora, Jr., a teacher from Newton, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,398)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CHRISTMAS
TREES
A.K.A.
OATHS & PLEDGES
DANCE
HODGEPODGE
    $100 6
Happy New Year

Tom
    $100 1
the willow

Joe
    $100 18
Joe Papp

Jack
    $100 30
the Hippocratic Oath

Tom
    $100 22
Fred Astaire

Joe
    $100 28
a spur

Joe
    $200 7
(Jack: What is, uh, Jordan?)

Israel

JoeJack
    $200 2
Australia

Tom
    $200 23
Nicolas Cage

Jack
    $200 29
the Boy Scout Oath

Joe
    $200 24
the Soviet Union

Jack
    $200 12
(Joe: What is very?)

yours

JoeJack
    $300 8
(Tom: What is St. Nicholas?)

Pere Noel

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $300 3
(Joe: What are palm trees?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

a coconut palm

Joe
    $300 17
Andrew Dice Clay

Tom
    $300 11
(Joe: What is health, heart, and home?)
(Alex: Ooh, sorry. You gave us three instead of two, and one of them is wrong.)
[NOTE: Alex did not give the other two correct responses on air.]

(2 of) health, heart, head, hands

JoeJack
    $300 25
put on the hat

Tom
    $300 21
a Belle

Tom
    $400 9
wassail

Triple Stumper
    $400 4
oak trees

Jack
    $400 13
Ann-Margret

Joe
    $400 14
(Joe: What is the truth, [*]?)

the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

Joe
    $400 26
Gower Champion

Jack
    $400 19
a moonstone

Triple Stumper
    $500 10
(Tom: What is December 26?)
(Joe: What is January 12?)

January 6

JoeTomJack
    $500 5
the (bald) cypress

Joe
    $500 16
(Jack: Who is Cybill Shepherd?)
(Joe: What is Ghostly?)

Beasley

JoeJack
Triple Stumper
    $500 15
a republic

Jack
    $600 27
(Jack: What is the American Ballet Theatre?)

the Royal Ballet

Jack
    $500 20
(Joe: What's a white fox?)

the Arctic fox

Joe
Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Joe Tom Jack
$500 -$500 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Joe Tom Jack
$300 $500 $1,500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CAIRO
VICE PRESIDENTS
CHINA & POTTERY
ANCIENT HISTORY
WORD ORIGINS
NOVEL OPERAS
    $200 16
a subway

Tom
    $200 1
Aaron Burr

Jack
    $200 20
Casablanca

Jack
    $200 11
Marc Antony

Joe
    $200 23
North Carolina

Tom
    $200 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Tolstoy

Jack
    $400 12
King Tut

Jack
    $400 18
Spiro Agnew

Joe
    $400 7
Spartacus

Joe
    $400 24
mumbo jumbo

Jack
    $400 25
Wuthering Heights

Tom
    $600 4
(Joe: What is Gaza?)
...
(Alex: You were so close. What is [*]? Not Gaza. Gaza's another place.)

Giza

Joe
Triple Stumper
    $600 19
Rockefeller

Tom
    $600 8
the Punic War

Tom
    $600 6
(Joe: What is svelte?)

sultry

Joe
Triple Stumper
    $600 13
Ivanhoe

Tom
    $800 5
(Joe: What is Alexandria?)

Memphis

Joe
Triple Stumper
    $800 2
(Joe: Who is Wallace?)
(Tom: Who is Gardner?)

Hubert Humphrey

JoeTom
Triple Stumper
    $800 9
Babylon

Tom
    $800 21
Connecticut

Tom
    $800 14
(Thomas) Hardy

Tom
    $1000 17
Saladin

Tom
    $1,000 3
John Calhoun

Jack
    $1000 10
Ovid

Tom
    $1000 22
(Joe: What is campaneli?)
...
(Alex: With less than a monite to go.)

campanile

Joe
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 15
(Tom: Who is Beaumarchio?)
(Alex: No, you're probably thinking of Beaumarchis. Esmerelda, of course, was in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the author is [*].)

Victor Hugo

Tom

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Joe Tom Jack
-$2,500 $5,700 $3,900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD LEADERS
JackWho was Churchill?
$200
TomWho is Churchill
$2,200
Benito Mussolini

Final scores:

Joe Tom Jack
-$2,500 $3,500 $3,700
3rd place: Konica iBorg 35mm camera + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis 2nd place: trip to New Orleans, Louisiana New champion: $3,700

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Joe Tom Jack
-$2,500 $6,700 $4,500
12 R,
10 W
17 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)
15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $8,700

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Game tape date: 1992-09-14
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