Responses for Show #2054 - Thursday, July 8, 1993

Ed Schiffer game 4.

Contestants

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Michael Lemkin, an investment advisor originally from Lowell, Massachusetts

Merle Lawrence, a newspaper editor from Lawrenceville, Georgia

Ed Schiffer, a college lecturer originally from New York City, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $41,403)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT EGYPT
POP MUSIC
HELPFUL HINTS
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
BORN ON THE 4th OF JULY
COMMON BONDS
    $100 9
mummification

Michael
    $100 1
a bag

Ed
    $100 6
aluminum foil

Ed
    $100 26
Lassie

Ed
    $100 21
Stephen Foster

Michael
    $100 16
(shades of) greens

Merle
    $200 11
(Ed: What is the Nile River Valley?)

the Valley of the Kings

EdMerle
    $200 2
Prince

Ed
    $200 7
nail polish

Ed
    $200 27
Willy Wonka

Merle
    $200 22
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ed
    $200 17
kinds of horses

Ed
    $300 12
linen

Merle
    $300 3
Paula Abdul

Ed
    $300 8
(Ed: What is a drip--automatic drip coffee maker?)

a percolator

EdMerle
    $300 28
Lorna Doone

Michael
    $300 23
Abigail van Buren

Merle
    $300 18
deer

Michael
    $400 13
Julius Caesar

Merle
    $400 4
"Blue Suede Shoes"

Ed
    $400 10
a baster

Merle
    $400 29
Beatrix Potter

Michael
    $400 24
Neil Simon

Ed
    $400 19
galleries

Michael
    $500 14
Isis

Ed
    $500 5
(Alex: Well done in the POP MUSIC category--fast $1,500 for you.)
[Applause]

David Bowie

Ed
    $500 15
(Michael: What is [*]--accidental [*]?)
(Alex: Accidental [*], or sometimes on purpose, depending on who left the tape there.)
[Laughter]

erasure

Michael
    $500 30
his mother

Merle
    $500 25
Calvin Coolidge

Ed
    $500 20
opera singers

Michael

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Ed Merle Michael
$1,800 $1,600 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ed Merle Michael
$3,200 $2,700 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

KINGS & QUEENS
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
PLANTS & TREES
TRADE & COMMERCE
THE BILL OF RIGHTS
SHAKESPEARE
    $200 8
Henry VIII

Merle
    $200 3
(Merle: What is Caracas?)

Rio de Janeiro

EdMerle
    $200 1
a bulb

Michael
    $200 14
repossession

Ed
    $200 29
the Fifth Amendment

Michael
    $200 16
Romeo and Juliet

Ed
    $400 9
Frederick the Great

Merle
    $400 4
Indonesia

Michael
    $400 2
a scallion

Ed
    $400 15
a mom-and-pop stire

Merle
    $400 28
warrants of search & seizure

Ed
    $400 17
Athens

Merle
    $600 10
Isabella

Michael
    $600 5
(Michael: What is Honshu?)

Yokohama

EdMichael
    $600 11
ash

Michael
    $600 21
a bill of lading

Michael
    $600 26
assemble

Michael
    $600 18
Mustardseed

Michael
    $800 24
Philip

Michael
    $800 6
Tierra del Fuego

Ed
    $800 12
(Michael: What is the pistil?)

the anther

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $2,000 22
Dun & Bradstreet

Michael
    $800 27
(Merle: Who is Jefferson?)

James Madison

Merle
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
King Lear

Ed
    $1000 25
Poland

Merle
    $1000 7
St. Vincent

Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
(Merle: What are stamens?)

stomata

Merle
Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
the carriage trade

Ed
    $1,200 30
congressional pay raises

Michael
    $1000 20
Laertes

Ed

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ed Merle Michael
$8,800 $3,100 $9,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

POETS' HOMES
(Alex: [To Merle] You probably remembered that James Whitcomb Riley was known as the "Hoosier Poet".)
MerleWhat is Columbus Indianapolis
$2,550
EdWhat is Providence?
$2,500
MichaelWhat is Columbus, OH?
$8,900
Indianapolis

Final scores:

Ed Merle Michael
$6,300 $5,650 $100
4-day champion: $47,703 2nd place: trip on Delta to Hartford, Connecticut & stay at the Mystic Coast & Country + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version 3rd place: Ducane gas grill + Jeopardy! home game or computerized version

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ed Merle Michael
$8,800 $3,100 $7,600
23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 14 R,
3 W		 19 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $19,500

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Game tape date: 1993-02-09
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