Responses for Show #1283 - Wednesday, March 14, 1990

Contestants

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Sharon Schwartz, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York

Michael Abracham, an accountant from Boston, Massachusetts

Phil Leib, a typographer from Westfield, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

GUINNESS RECORDS
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
CELEBRITY AUTHORS
FADS & FASHIONS
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
RHYMES WITH EEK
    $100 11
shear them

Phil
    $100 16
McDonald's

Michael
    $100 25
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in the round.)

Desi Arnaz

Michael
    $100 18
Dorothy Hamill

Sharon
    $100 1
North Carolina

Sharon
    $100 2
week

Michael
    $200 12
eating it

Phil
    $200 17
orange juice

Sharon
    $200 26
(Michael: Who is Harpo?)
(Phil: Who is Chico?)
(Sharon: Who is Zeppo?)

Groucho

PhilMichaelSharon
Triple Stumper
    $200 19
white bucks (shoes)

Phil
    $200 7
Arkansas

Phil
    $200 3
seek

Sharon
    $300 13
cards

Phil
    $300 20
(Alex: As you might expect in photography, yes.)

Kodak

Michael
    $300 27
Joseph Cotten

Phil
    $800 21
skateboarding ("Sidewalk Surfin'" by Jan & Dean)

Michael
    $300 8
Long Island Sound

Michael
    $300 4
leek

Michael
    $400 14
Thomas Jefferson

Phil
    $400 23
(Phil: Who is Ford?)
(Michael: Who is GM?)

Chrysler

PhilMichaelSharon
    $400 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
(Alex: And our last clue will remain hidden.)

Robert Stack

Sharon
    $400 22
(Sharon: What is a sardine?)

goldfish

PhilSharon
    $400 9
Montana

Michael
    $400 5
pique

Triple Stumper
    $500 15
(Michael: Who is Rubenstein?)

Ignace Jan Paderewski

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $500 28
Boeing

Phil
    $500 24
black

Sharon
    $500 10
New Jersey

Phil
    $500 6
(Phil: What is Jimmy the Greek?)
(Alex: Interesting, but incorrect!)

"Deke" (one of our original astronauts)

Phil
Triple Stumper

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

Phil Michael Sharon
$1,200 $600 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Phil Michael Sharon
$2,000 $1,300 $1,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1880S
PLAYS
WORD ORIGINS
WORLD LEADERS
EASTERN EUROPE
FISH
    $200 2
Chicago

Michael
    $200 21
(Michael: What is Love?)

Glory

MichaelSharon
    $200 1
[Michael selected the first clue.]

a Kewpie doll

Phil
    $200 7
United Nations

Michael
    $200 9
China

Phil
    $200 20
cod liver oil

Phil
    $400 3
Queen Victoria

Phil
    $400 22
(Phil: Who is Samuel Beckett?)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Phil
Triple Stumper
    $400 8
marmalade

Phil
    $400 17
Ferdinand Marcos

Michael
    $400 10
Berlin

Sharon
    $400 27
trout

Phil
    $600 4
Auguste Rodin

Phil
    $600 23
e

Sharon
    $600 11
hansom cab

Phil
    $600 18
Golda Meir

Phil
    $600 12
Hungary

Phil
    $600 28
guppy

Phil
    $1,500 5
Macao

Phil
    $800 24
(Michael: What is Madame Butterfly?)

M. Butterfly

MichaelSharon
    $800 15
mohair

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
Pierre Trudeau

Michael
    $2,500 13
Czechoslovakia

Phil
    $800 29
barracuda

Michael
    $1000 6
Bar Natal (or De Beers)

Phil
    $1000 25
(Phil: Who is Sheridan?)
(Alex: Less than a minute to go, Sharon..)

Moliere

Phil
Triple Stumper
    $1000 16
Toby jugs

Phil
    $1000 26
(Michael: Who is Hussein?)
(Alex: King Hussein is in Jordan.)

King Hassan

PhilMichael
    $1000 14
Romania

Michael
    $1000 30
snail darter

Phil

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Phil Michael Sharon
$13,400 $2,700 $3,300
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN POETRY
MichaelWhat is Blades of Grass
$2,500
SharonWhat is The Scarlet Pimpernel
$1,300
PhilWhat is Annabel Lee?
$3,400
"The Raven" (by Edgar Allan Poe)

Final scores:

Phil Michael Sharon
$10,000 $200 $2,000
2-day champion: $19,001 3rd place: Wallace 15-piece punch set 2nd place: Profile vertical blinds + Olympus Infinity Twin camera

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Phil Michael Sharon
$11,000 $2,200 $3,300
27 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W		 11 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $16,500

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Game tape date: 1989-10-24
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