Responses for Show #724 - Thursday, October 29, 1987

Contestants

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Mark Holmes, a lawyer from Hamburg, New York

Chris Morris, a homemaker from California, Maryland

Richard Miller, a psychiatrist from North Hollywood, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $23,399)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ACTORS & ACTRESSES
WEAPONS
EXPLORERS
HOMOPHONES
FRENCH COOKING
MUSICAL WONDERS
    $100 5
(Richard: Who is Felix Unger?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Richard: Who is [*]?)

Tony Randall

Richard
    $100 14
to dye (die)

Richard
    $200 19
(Alex: Yes, we've got a minute to go.)

Sidney Poitier

Mark
    $200 17
an ax

Richard
    $200 2
China

Mark
    $200 11
a creek creak

Mark
    $200 22
oil

Chris
    $200 21
2

Richard
    $300 23
(Richard: [no response])

Timothy Hutton

RichardMark
    $1,300 8
slings & arrows

Richard
    $300 3
(Hernando) Cortez

Richard
    $300 10
a vise vice

Mark
    $300 1
leeks (onion accepted)

Mark
    $300 9
(Chris: What is a wonderful day?)
(Alex: [Pauses] You have to be a little more specific, a little more--)
(Chris: My wonderful day?)

on a wonderful day like today

Chris
Triple Stumper
    $400 24
[End-of-round signal sounds]

Ryan O'Neal

Richard
    $400 6
a lance corporal

Richard
    $400 16
(Richard: What is North America?)
(Mark: What is Africa?)

Australia

RichardMark
Triple Stumper
    $400 12
the passed past

Mark
    $400 4
washing it

Chris
    $500 20
Goldie Hawn

Richard
    $500 7
a bombshell (bomb accepted)

Richard
    $500 18
(Mark: Who is Leif Erikson?)

Vitus Bering

Mark
Triple Stumper
    $500 13
prays praise

Mark
    $500 15
steaming them

Richard

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 9):

Richard Chris Mark
$2,600 $100 $500

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Richard Chris Mark
$3,800 $300 $1,500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BIOLOGY
AUTHORS
LONDON
CATHOLICISM
IOWANS
SPELLING
    $200 26
[End-of-round signal sounds]

gravity

Richard
    $200 16
Dickens

Mark
    $200 15
(Richard: What is the Tower Bridge?)

London Bridge

Richard
Triple Stumper
    $200 1
the cardinals

Chris
    $200 10
N-E-A-P-O-L-I-T-A-N

Richard
    $400 11
burrows

Richard
    $400 21
Truman Capote

Mark
    $2,000 4
Big Ben

Richard
    $400 2
South America

Mark
    $400 25
the P-A-N-C-R-E-A-S

Richard
    $600 12
(Mark: What is the sea?)

the blood

RichardMark
    $800 24
Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning

Richard
    $600 5
Trafalgar Square

Mark
    $600 3
the Jesuits (the Society of Jesus)

Richard
    $600 19
(Richard: What is P-A-R-A-G-U-A-Y?)

U-R-U-G-U-A-Y

RichardMark
    $800 13
amoebas

Richard
    $800 17
(Art) Buchwald

Mark
    $800 8
King John

Mark
    $800 6
Castel Gandolfo

Mark
    $800 23
(Chris: Who is Valerie Harper?)

Cloris Leachman

RichardChris
    $800 20
L-E-P-R-E-C-H-A-U-N

Richard
    $1000 14
(Chris: What is the ecosphere?)

biosphere

RichardChris
    $1000 18
Hemingway

Mark
    $1000 9
Sir Christopher Wren

Richard
    $1000 7
Constantine the Great

Mark
    $1000 22
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)

A-E-R-I-E

Mark

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Richard Chris Mark
$12,600 -$1,300 $8,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

100 YEARS AGO
MarkWho is Cleveland?
$8,500
RichardWho was McKinley?
$10,000
Grover Cleveland

Final scores:

Richard Chris Mark
$2,600 -$1,300 $17,000
2nd place: a trip for 2 to the Bahamas + Jeopardy! computer or box game 3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Jeopardy! computer or box game New champion: $17,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Richard Chris Mark
$9,800 -$1,300 $8,500
24 R
(including 3 DDs),
4 W		 3 R,
3 W		 19 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $17,000

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Game tape date: 1987-08-24
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