Responses for show #2884 - Thursday, February 27, 1997

Contestants

Martha O'Malley, a downsize accountant from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Laurent Ruseckas, a part-time consultant from New York City, New York

Jim Fahner, a pediatric oncologist from Grand Rapids, Michigan (whose 3-day cash winnings total $30,801)

Jeopardy! Round responses

BIBLICAL PEOPLE
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
PROVERBS
BODIES OF WATER
AUTO FIRSTS
NAME DROPPERS
    $100 18
Eve

Jim
    $100 23
Cherries

Laurent
    $100 13
Horse

Martha
    $100 5
Mediterranean

Laurent
    $100 3
Compact Discs

Laurent
    $100 1
Prince

Jim
    $200 19
Joseph

Jim
    $200 25
Potato

Martha
    $200 14
Work

Jim
    $200 6
Chesapeake Bay

Laurent
    $200 4
(J: What is income tax?)
(M: What are licenses?)

Gasoline

JimMartha
Triple Stumper
    $200 2
Wynonna Judd

Laurent
    $300 20
Paul

Jim
    $300 26
Pear

Jim
    $300 15
Sheep

Jim
    $300 7
Strait of Hormuz

Jim
    $300 24
Detroit

Martha
    $300 10
Dice

Jim
    $400 21
Naomi

Jim
    $400 27
Tangerine (for Tangier)

Triple Stumper
    $400 16
Mouth

Martha
    $500 8
Switzerland

Jim
    $400 29
Bucket seats

Martha
    $400 11
Selena

Jim
    $500 22
Elizabeth

Martha
    $500 28
Strawberry

Jim
    $500 17
(M: What is a shoe?)
(Alex: Although I like that thought!)

Fool

Martha
Triple Stumper
    $500 9
Po

Jim
    $500 30
Toyota

Martha
    $500 12
Fabian

Martha

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

Jim Laurent Martha
$2,400 $600 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Laurent Martha
$4,200 $700 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WISCONSIN CITIES
AMERICAN HISTORY
NOTABLE WOMEN
GENERAL SCIENCE
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
AUTHORS' CHARACTERS
    $200 18
Milwaukee

Jim
    $200 2
Jamestown

Jim
    $200 6
Amelia Earhart

Laurent
    $200 26
Orion

Laurent
    $200 11
Peter I. Tchaikovsky

Jim
    $200 13
A.A. Milne

Martha
    $400 19
Green Bay

Laurent
    $400 1
John Jay

Jim
    $400 7
Mother Teresa

Jim
    $400 27
Pressure

Jim
    $400 12
George Frideric Handel

Martha
    $400 14
(M: Who is Longfellow?)
(J: Who is Kipling?)

James Fenimore Cooper

JimMartha
Triple Stumper
    $600 20
Eau Claire

Laurent
    $600 3
French & Indian War

Jim
    $600 8
Ella Fitzgerald

Jim
    $600 28
Nitrogen

Laurent
    $600 23
Antonin Dvorak

Jim
    $600 15
J.D. Salinger

Laurent
    $800 21
Madison

Laurent
    $800 4
(L: Who is Millard Fillmore?)

Grover Cleveland

Laurent
Triple Stumper
    $800 9
Dian Fossey

Jim
    $800 29
Hydrometer

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
(J: Who is Mozart?)

Franz Schubert

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $800 16
Philip Roth

Laurent
    $1000 22
Oshkosh

Jim
    $1000 5
Monmouth

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 10
Mary Cassatt

Jim
    $1000 30
Albert Einstein

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
Bela Bartok

Laurent
    $1,300 17
Saul Bellow

Laurent

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Laurent Martha
$9,400 $6,400 $2,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. PRESIDENTS
(The only bachelor president.)
MarthaWho was
$2,300
LaurentWho was Lincoln?
$5
JimWho was W.H. Taft?
$3,401
James Buchanan

Final scores:

Jim Laurent Martha
$5,999 $6,395 $100
2nd place: Trip to Antigua New champion: $6,395 3rd place: Peoploungers Chaise Lounger

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jim Laurent Martha
$9,300 $6,100 $2,400
26 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $17,800

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