Responses for Show #840 - Friday, April 8, 1988

Contestants

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Ruta Larson, a financial assistance worker from Racine, Wisconsin

Gordon Brown, a retail executive from Roselle, New Jersey

Bob Beers, an attorney from Fairfax, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ASTRONOMY
FOOTBALL
FASHION HISTORY
TRANSPORTATION
COUNTRY SONGS
THE SCENE IS SET
    $100 18
Galileo

Bob
    $100 3
(Bob: What is plastic?)

rubber

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $100 21
silkworm

Bob
    $100 8
back (rear)

Gordon
    $100 13
Gatlin brothers

Gordon
    $100 1
New Orleans

Bob
    $200 19
(Bob: What are earthquakes?)

moonquakes

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $200 4
misdirection

Gordon
    $200 22
nylon stockings

Gordon
    $200 9
railroad

Gordon
    $200 14
coat of many colors

Bob
    $200 2
hell

Gordon
    $300 20
Pluto

Gordon
    $300 5
Ivy League

Triple Stumper
    $300 23
(Alex: With a minute to go.)

jerkin

Gordon
    $300 10
bicycles

Gordon
    $300 15
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" & "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"

Bob
    $300 27
Neil Simon

Bob
    $400 28
Kohoutek

Bob
    $400 6
(Alex: Now with the Colts.)

Eric Dickerson

Gordon
    $400 24
buttonhole

Bob
    $500 11
(Alex: That takes us to our first commercial break. Maybe we'll get to hear a little more of the song as we go into that break right now. We're not? We'll be back in just a little bit. Darn it.)

Little Nash Rambler (or Cadillac)

Gordon
    $400 16
a family tradition

Triple Stumper
    $400 26
The Cherry Orchard

Bob
    $500 29
(Ruta: What is the [*]?)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Lyre

Ruta
    $500 7
Calgary

Gordon
    $500 12
Aeroflot (or Cubana)

Gordon
    $500 17
Texas

Triple Stumper
    $500 25
Separate Tables

Bob

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Bob Gordon Ruta
$0 $2,400 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Gordon Ruta
$2,500 $3,800 $500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CIVIL WAR
FOOD & DRINK
PALINDROMES
CLASSICAL MUSIC
ACTRESSES
WALES
    $200 14
Kansas

Bob
    $200 11
(Gordon: What is buttermilk?)

cream

BobGordon
    $200 1
deed

Ruta
    $200 19
(Ruta: Who is Mozart?)

Liszt

BobRuta
    $200 6
Marilyn Monroe

Ruta
    $200 23
highest peak in Wales

Gordon
    $400 15
Spanish-American War

Bob
    $400 12
fish

Triple Stumper
    $400 2
gag

Bob
    $400 20
(Alex: Rossini's remains were later moved to Florence, by the way.)

Paris

Bob
    $400 7
Joan Collins

Gordon
    $600 16
Jeb Stuart

Gordon
    $600 18
(Bob: What is seaweed?)

soybeans

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $600 3
ABBA

Bob
    $600 27
Berlin Philharmonic

Triple Stumper
    $600 8
(Gordon: Who is Mae West?)

Marlene Dietrich

GordonRuta
    $600 26
Cardiff

Bob
    $800 21
(Gordon: What is [*]?)
(Alex: No.)
[Judge offstage shouts "Yes."]
(Alex: Well, we'll accept that, yes, all right.)

Manassas

Gordon
    $800 17
sauna

Ruta
    $2,500 4
(Alex: From pippin.)

pip

Bob
    $800 28
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

symphony

Triple Stumper
    $1,500 9
(Ruta: ...)
(Alex: Hurry please.)
(Ruta: Uh, who is...)

Lee Remick or Stefanie Powers

Ruta
    $800 25
Dylan Thomas

Bob
    $1000 22
(Bob: Who is James Garfield?)

Rutherford B. Hayes

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
mushrooms

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Otto

Ruta
    $1000 10
(Alex: My friend Ruta Lee will never forgive you, Ruta, for not getting this. [*]. It's an amazing coincidence.)

Witness for the Prosecution

Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
(Ruta: What is the North Sea?)

Irish Sea

Ruta
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Gordon Ruta
$7,200 $5,000 $600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

NONFICTION
RutaWho is M. Mead? Thor Heyerdahl
$600
GordonWho is Michener?
$4,999
BobWho is Margaret Mead?
$3,000
Margaret Mead

Final scores:

Bob Gordon Ruta
$10,200 $1 $1,200
2-day champion: $33,200 3rd place: Casablanca ceiling fan & light fixture 2nd place: trip on United to Aspen, Colorado & stay at Chestwood Lodge

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bob Gordon Ruta
$5,500 $4,900 $2,100
20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 6 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $12,500

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Game tape date: 1987-12-14
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