Responses for Show #1690 - Friday, December 27, 1991

Contestants

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Eric Van Young, a college professor from San Diego, California

Jim Alverson, a legal assistant from Tustin, California

Margaret Epstein, an attorney from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HEALTH & MEDICINE
SIGNS & SYMBOLS
'50s TELEVISION
THE SOUTH
INTERNATIONAL CLOTHING
NOSES
    $100 26
penicillin

Eric
    $100 6
a dots

Jim
    $100 16
Dragnet

Margaret
    $100 7
Hilton Head Island

Jim
    $100 1
Bermudas

Margaret
    $100 19
Bob Hope

Eric
    $200 27
bypass surgery

Eric
    $200 12
a parking facility

Jim
    $200 17
The Phil Silvers Show

Margaret
    $200 8
tobacco

Eric
    $200 2
a tam-o'-shanter (a tam accepted)

Margaret
    $200 20
(Jim: What is Zelig?)

Sleeper

MargaretJim
    $300 28
[Alex tripped reading "sphygmomanometer".]

hypertension (or blood pressure)

Eric
    $300 13
Procter & Gamble

Jim
    $300 18
Jack Paar

Jim
    $300 9
New Orleans

Eric
    $300 3
(Margaret: What is a [*]?)
(Alex: [*]? [*] Street, yes. [*] shift is the name of the dress.)

Carnaby (Street)

Margaret
    $300 21
a pug

Margaret
    $400 29
migraines

Jim
    $400 14
brackets

Jim
    $400 24
Paladin

Margaret
    $400 10
Mississippi

Jim
    $400 4
traje de luces (suit of lights)

Triple Stumper
    $400 22
Cyrano de Bergerac

Margaret
    $500 30
(Alex: We're gonna take a break, we'll come back to play the Double Jeoaprdy! Round. "Sphygmomanometer". I can say it! "Sphygmomanometer"!)

fat (tissue)

Eric
    $500 15
(Alex: You are correct. The new year begins January 1st, the new century, 2001. Select again.)
(Jim: Well, it's a little before my time, but how about '50s TELEVISION for $100, please?)
(Alex: All right. You had to throw that in, didn't you?)

MMI

Jim
    $500 25
(Alex: ...and we have less than a minute to go.)

Ed Murrow

Eric
    $500 11
(Margaret: What is Athens?)
(Eric: What is Atlanta?)

Rome

MargaretEric
Triple Stumper
    $500 5
(Jim: What is her back?)
(Eric: What is a sash?)
(Margaret: What are her shoes?)

her feet

MargaretJimEric
Triple Stumper
    $500 23
(Alex: Not fast enough, Margaret.)

a ring

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Margaret Jim Eric
-$400 $300 -$500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Margaret Jim Eric
$1,200 $2,000 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BOTANY
COLONIAL AMERICA
"ISM"s
THE ILIAD
"R"IVERS
(Alex: And all of them will begin with the letter R.)
BANKS & BANKING
    $200 18
mushrooms

Margaret
    $200 2
Sweden

Eric
    $200 1
[Margaret selected the first clue.]

alcoholism

Jim
    $200 24
Odysseus

Jim
    $200 13
(Alex: Not fast enough, Margaret.)

the Rubicon

Triple Stumper
    $200 11
New York

Margaret
    $400 21
fronds

Margaret
    $400 3
(Eric: What is New York?)

Philadelphia

JimEric
    $400 5
McCarthyism

Jim
    $400 25
Aeneas

Eric
    $400 14
the Russian River

Jim
    $400 12
collateral

Jim
    $600 23
(Jim: What are roots?)
(Margaret: What are flowers?)

branches

MargaretJim
Triple Stumper
    $600 4
(Jim: What are proverbs?)

psalms

JimEric
    $600 8
botulism

Margaret
    $600 26
(Eric: Who is Hector?)
...
(Alex: Yes, Hector was his brother.)

Paris

Eric
Triple Stumper
    $600 15
the Rhine River

Jim
    $600 19
the Rothschilds

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
[Eric gave both listed responses.]

maize (or corn)

Eric
    $800 6
John Peter Zenger

Triple Stumper
    $800 9
pointillism

Margaret
    $800 27
(Eric: Who is Achilles?)
(Margaret: Who is Hector?)
(Alex: No. You're on the right side, at least.)

Cassandra

Eric
Triple Stumper
    $800 16
Roanoke

Jim
    $800 20
a checking account

Jim
    $1000 30
the stigma

Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
(Jim: What is the Dutch East India Company?)
(Margaret: What is the East India Company?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

the British East India Company

MargaretJim
    $1000 10
a syllogism

Eric
    $1000 28
King Agamemnon

Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
the Rappahannock

Jim
    $1,000 22
Texas

Margaret

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Margaret Jim Eric
$4,800 $5,000 $2,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY NOVELS
EricWhat is "Little Women"?
$2,400
MargaretWhat is Little Women
$4,599
JimWhat is Little Women
$4,500
Little Women

Final scores:

Margaret Jim Eric
$9,399 $9,500 $4,800
2nd place: a trip to Cancun, Mexico on Aerocancun with stay at Hotel Oasis Cancun New champion: $9,500 3rd place: Pro-Form Fitness products Flex CTS exercise machine with stepper + a Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeoaprdy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Nintendo Game Boy

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Margaret Jim Eric
$4,800 $5,000 $2,400
16 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 13 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $12,200

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Game tape date: 1991-10-01
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