Responses for Show #999 - Thursday, December 29, 1988

Jeff Richmond game 5.

Contestants

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Joe Myers, an advertising writer from Wichita, Kansas

Perry Barber, a baseball umpire from New York City, New York

Jeff Richmond, a city planner from West Hollywood, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $43,103)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ROARING '20s
BASEBALL
MYTHOLOGY
MIDDLE NAMES
FINE DINING
RODENTS
    $100 1
Ku Klux Klan

Jeff
    $100 6
Dodgers

Jeff
    $100 8
goddess of wisdom

Perry
    $100 7
Willard

Perry
    $100 13
(Perry: What is a dog rat?)
...
(Alex: [Leading into the break] Dog rat. You know I own one of those. It sleeps right next to my bed.)

prairie dog

PerryJoe
    $200 2
prohibition

Perry
    $200 18
(Perry: What is a [*]?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

relief pitcher

Perry
    $200 9
Mexico

Perry
    $200 17
William Henry Harrison

Perry
    $200 14
Mouse

Joe
    $300 3
golf

Joe
    $300 19
Bo Jackson

Joe
    $300 10
3 Fates

Perry
    $600 23
Spencer

Jeff
    $300 15
squirrel

Triple Stumper
    $400 4
Josephine Baker

Perry
    $400 20
1st All Star Game played indoors

Joe
    $400 11
Odin or Woden

Perry
    $400 24
Kay

Perry
    $400 16
gopher

Jeff
    $500 5
ethyl

Joe
    $500 21
(Joe: What is Texas?)
(Perry: What is California?)
(Jeff: What is New York?)

Florida

JeffPerryJoe
Triple Stumper
    $500 12
(Perry: Who is... I can't remember.)
(Joe: Who is Hercules?)

Psyche

PerryJoe
Triple Stumper
    $500 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Lee

Jeff
    $500 22
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Jeff

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Jeff Perry Joe
$200 $1,100 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jeff Perry Joe
$1,700 $1,400 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN LITERATURE
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
AUSTRALIA
HOLLYWOOD HISTORY
NONPOTENT POTABLES
"R.D."
    $200 13
For Whom the Bell Tolls

Joe
    $200 1
Polaroid

Jeff
    $200 2
(Perry: What is a sweater?)
(Jeff: What is a wool hat?)

sheep

JeffPerry
Triple Stumper
    $200 14
Shirley Temple

Jeff
    $200 12
(Jeff: What is carbon dioxide?)
(Alex: No.)
(Jeff: What are the bubbles?)
(Alex: Nope.)

carbonated water

JeffJoe
    $200 7
"Rag Doll"

Jeff
    $400 15
Stephen Crane

Jeff
    $400 16
Nestle

Jeff
    $400 3
Waltzing Matilda

Perry
    $400 19
Ingrid Bergman

Perry
    $400 21
milk

Perry
    $400 8
run down

Joe
    $600 18
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Triple Stumper
    $600 17
(computer) chips (semiconductors)

Perry
    $600 4
Great Barrier Reef

Jeff
    $600 23
(Perry: Who is...)

(Greta) Garbo

PerryJoe
    $600 22
(Thomas B.) Welch

Jeff
    $600 9
rinky-dink

Jeff
    $800 27
Rockefeller

Joe
    $800 5
Labor

Jeff
    $800 24
(Perry: Who is Griffith?)

Cecil B. DeMille

Perry
Triple Stumper
    $800 10
repeating decimal

Jeff
    $1000 26
Frank Norris

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Joe: What is Tom McAn?)
(Perry: What is Fava?)

Kinney

PerryJoe
Triple Stumper
    $500 6
Victoria & Queensland

Jeff
    $1000 20
(Will) Hays

Jeff
    $1000 28
(Joe: What's the sassafras tree?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

yucca tree

Joe
Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
running dog

Jeff

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jeff Perry Joe
$8,600 $600 $1,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LANDMARKS
[Alex specified "James Hoban" when reading the clue.]
PerryWhat is Blarney Castle?
$600
JoeWhat is the US Capitol White Ho
$998
JeffWhat is the White House?
$6,599
White House

Final scores:

Jeff Perry Joe
$15,199 $0 $1,998
5-day champion: $58,302 3rd place: Tappan electric range 2nd place: a trip to Roseland Ranch in Stanfordville, New York

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jeff Perry Joe
$8,800 $600 $1,000
19 R
(including 3 DDs),
3 W		 14 R,
7 W		 11 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $10,400

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Game tape date: 1988-10-03
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