Responses for Show #1715 - Friday, January 31, 1992

Contestants

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Mark Sappir, a lawyer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Debbie Kessler, a copywriter from San Francisco, California

Bob Murphy, a pediatrician from Oakhurst, New Jersey

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
ANGLO-FILE
SPORTS
INDIAN LIFE
HINTS FROM HELOISE
NOSY PHRASES
    $100 6
(Mark: What is the head?)

the Sun

DebbieMark
    $100 12
tea

Mark
    $100 11
the Green Bay Packers

Debbie
    $100 26
eagle

Mark
    $100 21
fogging up

Mark
    $100 1
[Bob went first as having "won the toss".]

the grindstone

Mark
    $200 7
cathode

Debbie
    $200 13
pancakes

Triple Stumper
    $200 17
(Bob: Uh, what is squash?)
(Debbie: What is volleyball?)

softball

BobDebbie
Triple Stumper
    $200 27
a ladder

Mark
    $200 22
onions

Bob
    $200 2
cutting it off

Mark
    $300 8
igneous

Debbie
    $300 14
the lion

Mark
    $300 18
Jack Nicklaus

Bob
    $300 28
Blackfoot

Mark
    $300 23
talcum

Mark
    $300 3
joint

Debbie
    $400 9
a second

Bob
    $400 15
Punch

Bob
    $400 19
the World Cup

Bob
    $400 29
a sand painting

Debbie
    $400 24
a comb

Debbie
    $400 4
as clear as the nose on your face (or as plain as the nose on your face)

Bob
    $500 10
convection

Bob
    $500 16
(Bob: What is Dalton?)
(Mark: Who is Lennox?)

Josiah Spode

BobMark
Triple Stumper
    $500 20
Pam Shriver

Bob
    $1,000 30
(Debbie: What's a buffalo or a bison?)
...
(Alex: It would've been tough to get a... to get a bison or a buffalo to come along and say, "Hey, pull this.")

the dog

Debbie
    $500 25
instant coffee

Triple Stumper
    $500 5
paying through the nose

Debbie

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 16):

Bob Debbie Mark
$1,200 $1,500 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Debbie Mark
$2,400 $1,100 $1,100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WASHINGTON, D.C.
BESTSELLERS
ANCIENT HISTORY
WINE
WOMEN
SONG
    $200 16
(Bob: What is Virginia?)

Maryland

BobMark
    $200 11
Schwarzkopf

Debbie
    $200 21
Midas

Bob
    $200 26
Champagne

Debbie
    $200 1
[Debbie selected the first clue.]

New York

Debbie
    $200 6
choir

Debbie
    $400 17
the Capitol

Bob
    $400 12
(Peter) Benchley

Mark
    $400 22
Alexandria

Bob
    $400 27
Algeria

Bob
    $400 2
Mrs. Nixon

Mark
    $400 7
to speak

Mark
    $600 18
the Supreme Court Building

Mark
    $600 13
Gone with the Wind

Bob
    $600 23
the Parthenon

Bob
    $600 28
Chianti

Mark
    $600 3
(Mark: Who is Gypsy Rose Lee?)
...
(Alex: A little bit later than Gyps--uh, a little bit before Gypsy Rose Lee--[*].)

Sally Rand

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $600 8
a shanty

Debbie
    $1,000 19
(Mark: What is the Library of Congress?)

the Folger Library

Mark
    $800 14
(Amy) Tan

Bob
    $800 24
Hammurabi

Bob
    $800 29
(Debbie: What is Madeira?)
...
(Alex: [*], the country, yes.)

Portugal

BobDebbie
    $800 4
(Bob: Who is Margaret Mead?)

Mary Leakey

BobDebbie
    $800 9
coloratura

Debbie
    $1000 20
(Mark: What is the FBI building?)
...
(Alex: Mark realizes he made a terrible error: he mistook J. Edgar for Herbert Hoover.)

the Department of Commerce

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Iron John

Triple Stumper
    $700 25
(Bob: What is Japan.)
(Alex: No, sorry. I know it sounds Japanese, but...)

India

Bob
    $1000 30
Hungary

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
(Bob: Who is Mulroney?)
(Alex: No... I believe you were thinking of Maria Muldowney--)
(Bob: Yeah.)
(Alex: --and the correct response is [*].)
[Before Final Jeopardy!, Alex corrects himself, stating that he was thinking of the race car driver Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney.]

Janet Guthrie

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
(Bob: Who is Prokofiev?)

Modest Mussorgsky

Bob
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Debbie Mark
$3,700 $3,300 $1,100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ACTORS OF THE PAST
(Alex: One of those roles occurred in the film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.)
...
(Alex: [To Mark] No. Not by a longshot. ... I'm looking at your response agains--again, "Omar Sharif", and the category was ACTORS OF THE PAST. I hope Mr. Sharif is not looking in today. He might be upset with that.)
...
(Alex: [To Debbie] The other film, Ahmed Ben Hassan, was The Sheik.)
MarkWho is Omar Sharife
$100
DebbieWho was Rudolph Valentino?
$3,298
BobWho was Rudolph Valentino
$3,000
Rudolph Valentino

Final scores:

Bob Debbie Mark
$6,700 $6,598 $1,000
New champion: $6,700 2nd place: a trip to Tampa, Florida on Delta Airlines with stay at Safety Harbor Spa & Fitness Center with total fitness plan 3rd place: Yashica Zoomtec 35 mm auto-focus camera with built-in zoom lens, case, tripod & film + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Nintendo Game Boy

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bob Debbie Mark
$4,400 $4,300 $2,100
17 R,
7 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $10,800

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Game tape date: 1991-11-12
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