Responses for Show #1917 - Tuesday, December 29, 1992

Jack Mahoney game 3.

Contestants

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Jon Stordahl, a high school teacher from Laguna Niguel, California

Ken Hurwitz, a marketing manager from Canoga Park, California

Jack Mahoney, an actor originally from Newport, Rhode Island (whose 2-day cash winnings total $11,099)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S.A.
TELEVISION
GO FISH
WINE
WOMEN
"SONG"
    $100 1
scuba diving

Triple Stumper
    $100 9
Jackie Gleason

Jack
    $100 3
a seahorse

Jack
    $100 24
(Jack: What is the Ruhr?)

the Rhine

JackJon
    $100 19
Imelda Marcos

Jack
    $100 11
Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon)

Jack
    $200 2
the crookedest street in the world

Ken
    $200 10
Golden Girls

Jack
    $200 5
sword

Ken
    $200 26
oak

Jon
    $200 20
Sacajawea

Jack
    $200 12
"Silly Love Songs"

Jon
    $300 4
(Jack: What is Fairbank?)
(Alex: Right.)
(Jack: U.S.A.--)
(Alex: No. Sorry. Wrong.)

Fairbanks

JackKen
    $300 13
Twin Peaks

Jon
    $300 6
a nest

Jack
    $300 28
(Jon: So that the sediment forms... along the bottom?)

to keep the cork moist

JackJon
    $300 21
Marie Curie

Jack
    $300 15
a song & dance

Jack
    $400 7
Boston

Jack
    $400 14
(Jon: What is Beverly Hills 90251?)
...
(Alex: There but for a, uh, an incorrect, uh, area code, or--or ZIP code, uh, Jon, you cost--it cost you some money.)

Beverly Hills 90210

KenJon
    $400 25
angelfish

Jack
    $400 29
(Ken: What is port?)

sherry

JackKen
    $400 22
(Jon: What is Miss... Universe?)

Playmate of the Year

Jon
Triple Stumper
    $1,200 16
Sing a song of sixpence (a pocket full of rye)

Jack
    $500 8
Virginia

Jon
    $500 18
(Alex: It was his friend [*].)

Billy Crystal

Triple Stumper
    $500 27
(Ken: What is bonito?)
...
(Alex: Not fast enough, Jon.)

the bluefin

Ken
Triple Stumper
    $500 30
the body

Jack
    $500 23
(Jon: Who is Mori?)

Midori Ito

Jon
Triple Stumper
    $500 17
The Song of Hiawatha

Jon

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

Jack Ken Jon
$900 $1,100 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jack Ken Jon
$4,500 $200 $200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

JERUSALEM
BENEDICT ARNOLD
EPICS
WEATHER
DANCE
GUINNESS RECORDS 1492
    $200 6
(Jack: What is Abraham?)

David

JackKen
    $200 1
[Jon selected the first clue, with no explanation given.]

the Green Mountain Boys

Jack
    $200 11
Italian

Ken
    $200 22
Florida

Jack
    $200 21
Salt Lake City

Jack
    $200 16
Marco Polo

Jon
    $400 7
the Dead Sea Scrolls

Ken
    $400 2
West Point

Jon
    $400 12
Homer

Jack
    $400 23
(Jon: What is a hurricane?)

a tornado

KenJon
    $400 27
Spain

Jack
    $400 17
Europe

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 8
Jordan

Ken
    $600 3
Thomas Jefferson

Triple Stumper
    $600 13
Beowulf

Jack
    $600 24
the jet stream

Ken
    $600 28
(Jon: What is Spain?)

Argentina

Jon
Triple Stumper
    $600 18
Leonardo da Vinci

Jack
    $800 9
(Ken: Who is Solomon?)

King Herod

Ken
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 4
London

Jon
    $800 14
Alexander Pope

Triple Stumper
    $800 25
a storm warning

Jon
    $800 29
polonaise

Jon
    $800 19
Denmark

Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
Suleiman

Jack
    $1000 5
Quebec

Jack
    $1000 15
(Jack: [Sighs and looks down])

Roland

JackJon
    $1000 26
Galveston

Jon
    $1000 30
the minuet

Jack
    $1000 20
Angkor Wat

Jack

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jack Ken Jon
$9,900 $2,200 $4,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

QUOTES
(Alex: Hemingway had a comment about the quote. He says, "Yeah, they're different. They have more money.")
...
(Alex: [To Jon] That's right.)
(Jon: It's a surprise.)
(Alex: Surprise, that's all right, surprises count. As long as you come up with the correct response, it doesn't matter how you got there, unless you cheated, which you didn't.)
KenWho is
$2,200
JonWho was Fitzgerald
$0
JackWho was Fitzgerald?
$105
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Final scores:

Jack Ken Jon
$10,005 $0 $4,400
3-day champion: $21,104 3rd place: Maytag washer/dryer (side-by-side or stacked upright) + Jeopardy! home edition 2nd place: a trip to New York on Trans World Airlines + a week at Roseland Ranch resort in Stanfordville, New York + Jeopardy! home edition

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jack Ken Jon
$9,100 $1,800 $4,200
26 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 10 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W

Combined Coryat: $15,100

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Game tape date: 1992-09-15
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