Responses for Show #1692 - Tuesday, December 31, 1991

Contestants

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Mike McMahon, an engineer originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Amy Goldstein, a book editor from Princeton, New Jersey

Jim Alverson, a legal assistant from Tustin, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORIC HOMES
DISCO
SAUCES
COUNTRIES' FORMER NAMES
SALVADOR DALI
IN OTHER WORDS...
    $100 15
Jefferson Davis

Jim
    $100 1
a Queen

Jim
    $100 22
soy sauce

Jim
    $100 6
(Alex: First clue is very short:...)

Iran

Amy
    $100 11
an elephant

Amy
    $100 12
Love makes the world go round

Amy
    $200 16
New York

Jim
    $200 2
your booty

Jim
    $200 24
wine

Amy
    $200 7
Sri Lanka

Amy
    $200 23
Surrealism

Amy
    $200 13
Two heads are better than one

Amy
    $300 17
Joel Chandler Harris

Jim
    $300 3
Wild Cherry

Mike
    $300 25
hollandaise sauce

Mike
    $300 8
Ethiopia

Jim
    $300 28
Sigmund Freud

Amy
    $300 14
Two wrongs don't make a right

Jim
    $400 18
the Madisons

Amy
    $400 4
Donna Summer

Jim
    $400 26
brown sauce

Triple Stumper
    $400 9
Belize

Jim
    $400 29
Hitchcock

Amy
    $400 19
Little strokes fell great oaks

Jim
    $500 20
(Mike: Who is--Perry?)

Vanderbilt

AmyMike
    $500 5
Barbra Streisand

Jim
    $500 27
orange

Mike
    $500 10
Suriname

Jim
    $1,500 30
(Amy: What are The Clocks?)
...
(Alex: Now you know, and I bet you're going to remember forever.)

The Persistence of Memory

Amy
    $500 21
(Alex: We kind of got in a twist on that. Not fast enough, Amy. [*].)
(Amy: Indeed.)
(Alex: And that applies to contestants on Jeopardy! as well.)

He who hesitates is lost

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 17):

Jim Amy Mike
$3,300 $700 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Amy Mike
$3,800 $1,200 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD FACTS
COPPER
AMERICAN HISTORY
LITERARY CHARACTERS
COLUMBUS
NEW ENGLAND
    $200 2
(Jim: What is skating?)

skiing

JimAmy
    $200 19
(Mike: What is green?)

blue

AmyMike
    $200 1
Oklahoma

Jim
    $200 3
Becky Thatcher

Jim
    $200 17
logs

Jim
    $200 10
Alan Shepard

Jim
    $400 4
balsa

Mike
    $400 20
Cu

Jim
    $400 13
(Jim: Who is Byrd?)

Lindbergh

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $400 6
Hester Prynne

Amy
    $1,500 18
(Jim: What is Hispaniola?)

San Salvador

Jim
    $400 21
liquor

Jim
    $600 5
camel hair

Amy
    $600 24
Utah

Amy
    $600 14
Alaska

Jim
    $600 7
Holden Caulfield

Amy
    $600 23
the Ming Dynasty

Mike
    $600 22
the Hesperus

Triple Stumper
    $800 11
Germany

Mike
    $800 25
hemoglobin

Jim
    $800 15
(Amy: Who is MacArthur?)
...
(Alex: Who is the soldier's general, [*].)

Omar Bradley

Amy
Triple Stumper
    $800 8
(Jim: Who is Hamlet?)
(Amy: Who is Richard II?)

Macbeth

JimAmy
Triple Stumper
    $800 26
the Niña & the Pinta

Jim
    $800 27
deaf people

Jim
    $1,000 12
(Mike: Uh, what is Stockholm?)
(Alex: No, sorry. You had to go a little further west and a little further north to [*], and the capital is Reykjavik.)

Iceland

Mike
    $1000 30
(Amy: What is brass?)

zinc

Amy
Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
Shays' Rebellion

Jim
    $1000 9
(Mike: Who is White Fang?)
...
(Alex: Mike knows it now...)

Buck

Mike
Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
Prince Henry

Mike
    $1000 29
(Edmund) Muskie

Mike

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Amy Mike
$6,500 $1,200 $2,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE MOVIES
(Alex: He's a three-time champion, and he'll be back to defend again tomorrow, first day of '91. '92!)
AmyWhat was the Sound of Music?
$1,100
MikeWhat is
$200
JimWhat is Fiddler on the Roof?
$1,300
Fiddler on the Roof

Final scores:

Jim Amy Mike
$7,800 $100 $2,000
3-day champion: $28,000 3rd place: Yorx CD stereo system with triple-CD carousel changer, 24-track programmability & 13-function remote control + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger 2nd place: Krementz 14-karat gold & diamond earrings with total diamond weight of 0.59 karats + Jules Jürgensen man's sports slimline sweet watch in a 14-karat gold round case with black leather strap & black 12-diamond dial + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jim Amy Mike
$8,000 $2,700 $3,200
24 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 8 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $13,900

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Game tape date: 1991-10-21
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