Responses for Show #1248 - Wednesday, January 24, 1990

Contestants

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Oded Ben-Ami, a salesman from New York City, New York

Cecilia Huber, a critical care nurse and law student from Cleveland, Ohio

Dan Bowman, a letter carrier from Dixon, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $23,802)

Jeopardy! Round responses

COLONIAL AMERICA
COUNTRY SINGERS
ANTONYMS
BUSINESS BIGGIES
LITERARY RELATIVES
THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
    $100 16
Mayflower

Dan
    $100 13
Barbara Mandrell

Dan
    $100 8
The Morning After

Cecilia
    $100 22
(Oded: Who is Samson?...[*]?)

Samsonite

Oded
    $100 1
Brontë Sisters (The Brontës)

Dan
    $100 3
Richard

Dan
    $200 17
Hudson River

Oded
    $200 27
Bobbie Gentry

Cecilia
    $200 9
brevity

Oded
    $200 23
Borden's

Oded
    $200 2
Samuel Coleridge

Oded
    $200 4
dentist

Dan
    $300 18
French & Indian War

Dan
    $300 28
2

Cecilia
    $300 10
senior & junior

Dan
    $300 24
Clairol

Oded
    $300 14
Mary Shelley

Dan
    $300 5
Mel Cooley

Oded
    $400 19
Roanoke

Oded
    $400 29
Carters

Triple Stumper
    $400 11
hard

Cecilia
    $400 25
AstroTurf

Oded
    $400 15
Lord Byron

Triple Stumper
    $400 6
(Dan: What is stuck in the bathtub?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Dan: When she had [*] or something?)

her toe stuck in the drain (her toe stuck in the water spout)

Dan
    $500 20
House of Burgesses

Oded
    $1,500 30
[The song was not played again leading into the break.]

Slim Whitman

Cecilia
    $500 12
(Alex: Marry in [*], repent at [**].)

haste & leisure

Triple Stumper
    $500 26
Searle

Dan
    $500 21
Fielding

Oded
    $500 7
Liberty Bell

Cecilia

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

Dan Cecilia Oded
$1,500 $1,000 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Cecilia Oded
$2,400 $3,000 $3,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

RULERS
JEWELRY
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
FAMOUS PHYSICIANS
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
BY THE NUMBERS
    $200 11
William the Good

Cecilia
    $200 5
Hawaii

Dan
    $200 1
(Dan: Who is Jonas Salk?)

Benjamin Spock

DanOded
    $200 18
Colorado

Dan
    $200 13
six-shooter

Dan
    $400 12
King Hassan II

Triple Stumper
    $400 7
Labor Day

Oded
    $400 2
Dr. Schweitzer

Dan
    $400 19
Casper

Cecilia
    $400 14
20 questions

Oded
    $600 23
Peter the Great

Oded
    $600 8
Maoris

Dan
    $600 3
Dr. Samuel Mudd

Triple Stumper
    $600 20
(Oded: What are mountain goats or [*]?)
[Oded's response was accepted at first and the decision was reversed at the next Daily Double.]

sheep

Oded
Triple Stumper
    $600 15
The Three Faces of Eve

Cecilia
    $800 24
Nebuchadnezzar

Dan
    $800 27
(Dan: What is a, um, cabochon?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

marquise

Dan
Triple Stumper
    $600 9
(Dan: What is Veterans Day?)

Memorial Day

Dan
    $800 4
(Oded: Who is Edward Jenner?)

Walter Reed

CeciliaOded
    $800 21
(Dan: What is Montana?)

Alaska

Dan
Triple Stumper
    $800 16
54-40 or fight!

Cecilia
    $1,200 25
(Dan: What is, um, Jersusalem?)

Athens

Dan
    $1000 26
lost-wax

Dan
    $1000 10
(Cecilia: What is Whittier, California?)

Yorba Linda

Cecilia
Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
(Oded: Who is Wasserman?)
(Cecilia: Who is Fleming?)

Paul Ehrlich

CeciliaOded
Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
(Alexander) Mackenzie

Oded
    $1000 17
3rd degree

Oded

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Cecilia Oded
$2,200 $3,800 $4,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

DIRECTORS
DanWho is Ron Howard?
$2,200
CeciliaWho is Ron Howard?
$3,800
OdedWho is Ron Howard
$3,101
Ron Howard

Final scores:

Dan Cecilia Oded
$4,400 $7,600 $7,601
3rd place: Fredrick Ramond New Romantic lamp + complete Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Jr. editions of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune 2nd place: trip to Boston on Delta and stay at Guest Quarters Suite Hotel New champion: $7,601

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dan Cecilia Oded
$4,000 $2,800 $4,500
17 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 17 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $11,300

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Game tape date: 1989-09-25
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