Responses for Show #1168 - Wednesday, October 4, 1989

Contestants

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Kerry Tymchuk, an attorney originally from Reedsport, Oregon

Colette Perry, a data processing manager from Chagrin Falls, Ohio

Tom Neven, an editor from Wayne, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,601)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FRENCH HISTORY
ABBREVIATIONS
FINE CHINA
MYSTERIES
LETTERS IN SONG
JEOPARDY! CATEGORIES
    $100 1
Napoleon

Tom
    $100 4
a hypotenuse

Colette
    $100 26
holly leaves

Kerry
    $100 5
Murder on the Orient Express

Tom
    $100 18
cry

Colette
    $100 8
potpourri

Tom
    $200 2
Charles de Gaulle

Tom
    $200 7
a grade point average

Kerry
    $200 27
a weeping willow

Kerry
    $200 15
Father Brown

Tom
    $200 19
Love Letters in the Sand

Kerry
    $200 10
the Teen Tournament

Tom
    $300 3
Les Miserables

Colette
    $300 14
a wharf

Kerry
    $300 28
(Tom: What is a dagger?)

[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

an axe

TomColette
    $300 20
Dashiell Hammett

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 23
(Kerry: What is "Sincerely"?)
...
(Alex: It cost you a little bit of money. We've got a minute left in the round.)

P.S. I Love You

Kerry
    $300 11
ancient Etruscans

Tom
    $400 6
dauphin

Colette
    $400 16
personal identification number

Tom
    $400 21
Charles Dickens

Kerry
    $400 24
(Tom: What is sent it back? Gave it back?)
...
(Kerry: What is brought it back?)
...
(Alex: We wanted the exact, "What is [*]?".)

brought my letter back

TomKerry
Triple Stumper
    $400 12
world

Tom
    $500 9
World War I

Kerry
    $500 17
(Alex: Yes, it becomes RVSVP. Select again.)

RSVP

Colette
    $500 22
Ellery Queen

Triple Stumper
    $500 25
"the sooner the better"

Kerry
    $500 13
(Colette: What are boats?)
...
(Alex: Yes, words that are spelled the same; coming and going.)

palindromes

TomColette

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

Tom Colette Kerry
$2,100 $300 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Colette Kerry
$1,800 $1,200 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. STATES
NOTORIOUS
ACTORS & ROLES
LANGUAGES
SEASHELLS
MARK TWAIN QUOTES
    $200 6
Alaska & Hawaii

Kerry
    $200 7
(Benito) Mussolini

Kerry
    $200 1
Liberace

Kerry
    $200 16
English

Kerry
    $200 24
(Colette: What is blue?)
(Kerry: What is red?)

purple

TomColetteKerry
    $200 14
familiarity

Kerry
    $400 10
New Jersey

Tom
    $400 8
(John) Dillinger

Kerry
    $400 2
Raymond Burr

Kerry
    $500 18
Russian

Tom
    $400 25
Mother of Pearl

Triple Stumper
    $400 15
a frog

Colette
    $600 11
Virginia

Kerry
    $600 9
The Great Train Robbery

Colette
    $600 3
Betty Grable

Kerry
    $600 19
(Tom: What is Scottish?)

Latin

TomColette
    $600 26
(Kerry: What are oysters?)
(Tom: What are clams?)
...
(Alex: Colette has it narrowed down, but she can't come up with [*]. So we go back to Tom for the next selection.)

mussels

TomKerry
Triple Stumper
    $600 17
"greatly exaggerated"

Tom
    $800 20
Texas

Tom
    $800 12
(Tom: What is Caligula?)

Claudius

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $800 4
Diahann Carroll

Kerry
    $800 22
Creed

Tom
    $800 27
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in the round.)

nautilus

Kerry
    $800 28
"watch that basket"

Kerry
    $1000 21
New Hampshire

Tom
    $1000 13
Willie Sutton

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
"Broadway Danny Rose"

Tom
    $1000 23
Spain

Colette
    $400 30
(Kerry: No idea.)
(Alex: No idea? "What is [*]?" A curved edge. So you wind up with--)
[ERRATUM: $400 is deducted from Colette's score, but is fixed immediately.]
(Alex: --$5,200, and Colette's score is changing even as we speak, so we'll verify the scores during the commercial break.)

a scallop

Kerry
    $1000 29
(Colette: What are conveniences?)
...
(Alex: Colette, you had the right idea, but it was [*]. You had to remember the author here was Mark Twain. Kerry, you get to pick again.)
(Kerry: Well, I guess we'll go with SEASHELLS for $1,000.)
(Alex: And it's the last Daily Double, and the last clue in the round.)

inconveniences

Colette
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Colette Kerry
$5,100 $2,600 $5,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

TELEVISION
(Alex [As the "Think!" music finishes and fades]: Colette, we're gonna begin with you in the middle; all 3 of our contestants uh, wrote down their responses rather quickly on that one. Let's find out if that's a good sign or a bad one.)
ColetteWhat is Peter Pan?
$2,500
TomWHAT IS PETER PAN
$5,099
KerryWHAT IS PETER PAN
$5,001
Peter Pan

Final scores:

Tom Colette Kerry
$10,199 $5,100 $10,201
2nd place: a trip to Honolulu via Continental Airlines 3rd place: a Sherwood stereo system + a complete Nintendo Entertainment system featuring the Family & Junior editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune New champion: $10,201

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Tom Colette Kerry
$5,000 $2,600 $6,600
18 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 10 R,
3 W		 20 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $14,200

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Game tape date: 1989-06-20
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