Responses for Show #1979 - Thursday, March 25, 1993

Contestants

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Roger Beebe, a student originally from Columbia, South Carolina

Steve Ahern, a bartender from East Haven, Connecticut

Abraham Aig, a banker from Jamaica, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,500)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WEEDS
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
AWARDS
RAINING
CATS & DOGS
    $100 26
a dandelion

Abraham
    $100 1
Magnum, P.I.

Abraham
    $100 6
(Albert) Schweitzer

Roger
    $100 11
a pipe

Steve
    $100 16
an umbrella

Steve
    $100 21
a Manx

Steve
    $200 27
crabgrass

Steve
    $200 2
Ingrid Bergman

Steve
    $200 7
the University of Michigan

Roger
    $200 12
Exxon

Steve
    $200 17
a rain check

Roger
    $200 22
(Roger: What are calico?)

tortoiseshell

SteveRoger
    $300 28
ragweed

Steve
    $300 3
Katharine Hepburn

Abraham
    $300 8
Boulder

Steve
    $300 13
Coca-Cola

Roger
    $300 18
a rainbow

Roger
    $300 23
(Roger: What is Scotland?)

Wales

AbrahamRoger
    $400 29
locoweed

Roger
    $400 4
Leslie Howard

Abraham
    $400 9
(Abraham: What is the [*] Institute?)
(Alex: No, but it's the [*] Institution of Oceanography, but [*] is all we needed.)
[Abraham was given credit despite Alex saying "No."]

Scripps

Abraham
    $400 14
UNICEF

Abraham
    $400 19
India

Steve
    $400 24
(Abraham: What is the setter?)
(Steve: What is retriever?)

the spaniel

AbrahamSteve
Triple Stumper
    $500 30
tumbleweed

Abraham
    $500 5
Paulette Goddard

Abraham
    $800 10
(Abraham: What is Wheaton College?)

Eureka College

Abraham
    $500 15
(Alex: The First Lady of Mystery, [*].)

Agatha Christie

Triple Stumper
    $500 20
"The Rain In Spain"

Steve
    $500 25
(Abraham: What is the Weimerar?)
(Alex: Correct. Wait, say it again?)
(Abraham: The Weimarerer.)
(Alex: Nope, we can't give it to you.)
(Steve: What is the Weimarand?)
(Alex: No. Since we're going to be exacting, we're going to be exacting with both of you. And Roger, wise enough, is staying out of this.)

the Weimeraner

AbrahamSteve
Triple Stumper

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

Abraham Steve Roger
$900 $800 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Abraham Steve Roger
$1,300 $1,700 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. PRESIDENTS
WORLD'S FAIRS
COMPOSERS
LAKES & RIVERS
EMILY DICKINSON
FRUIT
    $200 10
Teddy Roosevelt

Abraham
    $200 5
a monorail

Roger
    $200 7
Mozart

Abraham
    $200 19
the Columbia

Abraham
    $200 1
poems

Steve
    $200 28
a kiwi fruit

Steve
    $400 11
Ohio

Roger
    $400 8
New York

Abraham
    $400 16
Puccini

Roger
    $400 20
(Abraham: What is the Po?)
(Roger: What is the Arno?)

the Tiber

AbrahamRoger
Triple Stumper
    $400 2
Congress

Roger
    $400 29
a Bing cherry

Steve
    $600 12
(Roger: Who is FDR?)

Hoover

AbrahamRoger
    $400 9
Paris

Abraham
    $600 17
James I

Steve
    $600 21
Lake Victoria

Abraham
    $600 3
Amherst

Steve
    $600 30
the pomegranate

Abraham
    $800 13
(Andrew) Johnson

Steve
    $800 15
Knoxville

Abraham
    $800 18
Charles Ives

Abraham
    $800 22
the Loire

Abraham
    $800 4
(Steve: Who was Lillie Langtry?)

Jenny Lind

AbrahamSteve
    $3,400 26
(Roger: What is apple?)
(Alex: No, sorry. Obviously you're not a big peach Melba fan. [*] is the correct response.)

raspberries

Roger
    $1000 14
Buchanan

Steve
    $1000 27
Osaka

Abraham
    $1000 24
Englebert Humperdinck

Roger
    $1000 23
the Orinoco

Abraham
    $1000 6
(Steve: What is fail?)

succeed

Steve
Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
apricot

Roger

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Abraham Steve Roger
$9,300 $3,700 $0
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ISLANDS
(Alex: Not many people know that its ruler was in fact its ruler.)
...
(Alex: A lot of people figured he was exiled there, sent there, he was not the ruler, but he was in fact the ruler.)
SteveWhat is Elba
$69
AbrahamWhat is Sici St Helena
$500
Elba

Final scores:

Abraham Steve Roger
$8,800 $3,769 $0
2-day champion: $20,300 2nd place: Bose music system + Lloyd/Flanders wicker furniture 3rd place: Action Recliner by Lane

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Abraham Steve Roger
$10,300 $3,700 $3,400
23 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R,
4 W		 12 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,400

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Game tape date: 1992-12-01
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