Responses for Show #1673 - Wednesday, December 4, 1991

Contestants

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Ruth Goldstein, a management and investment consultant from Atlanta, Georgia

Dan Deacon, a senior marketing and business analyst from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Steve Firkser, an attorney from Rahway, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CAPITALS
BIBLICAL FILMS
VOCABULARY
FAMOUS PAIRS
LIFE SCIENCE
ANNUAL EVENTS
    $100 16
Ottawa

Steve
    $100 8
Ben-Hur

Steve
    $100 13
a stick-in-the-mud

Dan
    $100 3
Gilbert & Sullivan

Steve
    $100 22
(Steve: What are corpuscles?)

(bone) marrow

SteveDan
    $100 1
Idaho

Dan
    $200 17
Wellington

Ruth
    $200 9
(Dan: Who's Fess Parker?)
(Ruth: Um...)
(Alex: Hurry. Oh, you can't come up with it?)
(Ruth: [Overlapping] I'm sorry.)

John Wayne

DanRuth
Triple Stumper
    $200 14
doggie paddle (or dog paddle)

Dan
    $200 4
Chet Huntley & David Brinkley

Dan
    $200 23
(Ruth: What is fraternal?)

identical

SteveRuth
    $200 2
Indiana

Ruth
    $300 18
Rabat

Dan
    $300 10
Herb Alpert

Dan
    $300 15
cheapskates

Steve
    $300 5
Hanna & Barbera

Dan
    $300 28
the brain

Ruth
    $300 25
(Dan: What is Mississippi?)
...
(Alex: Dan, you were in the right part of the country...)

Alabama

Dan
Triple Stumper
    $600 19
(Dan: I don't know the answer.)
(Alex: The island is Hispaniola. The capital is [*].)

Santo Domingo

Dan
    $400 11
John Huston

Ruth
    $400 20
mince

Dan
    $400 6
Rodgers & Hammerstein

Ruth
    $400 29
ecology

Dan
    $400 26
the crayfish

Steve
    $500 24
San Jose

Triple Stumper
    $500 12
David & Bathsheba

Ruth
    $500 21
nocturnal

Dan
    $500 7
Sacco & Vanzetti

Ruth
    $500 30
species

Dan
    $500 27
Sinclair Lewis

Ruth

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

Steve Dan Ruth
$500 $1,000 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Dan Ruth
$1,100 $2,300 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ASTRONOMY
U.S.A.
THE PULITZER PRIZE
HISTORY
OPERA SINGERS
LINES FROM LONGFELLOW
    $200 22
Mars

Ruth
    $200 13
Arizona

Steve
    $200 1
the Pentagon Papers

Dan
    $200 2
Ivan the Terrible

Ruth
    $200 3
The Girl of the Golden West

Ruth
    $200 21
rain

Steve
    $400 23
(Alex: I won't say the name again, but it's in the constellation [*].)

Libra

Triple Stumper
    $400 14
Stonehenge

Dan
    $400 6
(Dan: What is the first atomic bombing?)
(Steve: What are a man and woman kissing in Times Square?)

the Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima

SteveDan
Triple Stumper
    $400 5
(Dan: Who are Marxists?)

Marx & Engels

SteveDan
    $400 4
Lily Pons

Dan
    $400 24
the midnight ride of Paul Revere

Steve
    $600 25
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go, Steve.)

meteor showers

Triple Stumper
    $600 15
(Ruth: What is Erie?)

Reading

SteveRuth
    $600 7
Roger Ebert

Steve
    $600 18
Huguenots

Dan
    $600 10
Maria Callas

Ruth
    $600 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Hiawatha

Dan
    $800 26
the corona

Triple Stumper
    $800 16
(Steve: Who is Michael...)
(Alex: Ohh! How unfortunate.)

Michael Crawford

SteveDan
    $1,200 8
The Old Man and the Sea

Steve
    $900 19
(Alex: You're right. You picked the right one. I know it was a toss-up for you, but you selected the right.)

Europe, North America & Asia

Dan
    $800 11
Melchior

Ruth
    $1000 27
the Trojans

Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
the Challenger disaster

Dan
    $1000 9
James Agee

Ruth
    $1000 20
(Ruth: What are black shirts?)
...
(Alex: Ruth, Mussolini had the black shirts, Garabaldi had the [*].)
(Ruth: [Overlapping] That's right... The [*].)

red shirts

Ruth
Triple Stumper
    $1000 12
Feodor Chaliapin

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Dan Ruth
$3,500 $6,400 $4,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ORGANIZATIONS
[Dan's "Bus" is barely legible and looks like it could be a "The".]
(Alex: Let's see, I can make out "Bureau" under the "Better", but do we have enough to make out "Business" in the middle? "B-U-S", it looks like. We'll get a ruling on that, and we're getting a nod in agreement, and that means that it's a yes.)
SteveWhat is the Better Business Bureau?
$3,400
RuthWhat is the Bureau of Stnds + Practices?
$4,000
DanWhat is the Federal Trade Commission Better Bus Bur.eau
$1,601
the Better Business Bureau

Final scores:

Steve Dan Ruth
$6,900 $8,001 $0
2nd place: a trip on Delta Airlines to Boston, Massachusetts with 5 days & nights Smugglers' Notch ski village, Vermont New champion: $8,001 3rd place: Robert H. Peterson Co. real-fire gas logs & hallmark brass accessories + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Nintendo Game Boy

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steve Dan Ruth
$3,100 $6,900 $4,000
13 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $14,000

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Game tape date: 1991-09-23
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