Responses for Show #737 - Tuesday, November 17, 1987

1987 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Eugene Finerman, a writer from Chicago, Illinois

Michael Galvin, a student from Shaker Heights, Ohio

Doug Molitor, a writer from Brentwood, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

GEOGRAPHY
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
BASEBALL
WORD ORIGINS
COWBOYS & CATTLEMEN
LEGENDARY SINGERS
    $100 11
Europe

Eugene
    $100 23
McDonald's

Doug
    $100 16
a base on balls

Michael
    $100 1
bully

Doug
    $100 18
Longhorn

Doug
    $100 6
Enrico Caruso

Doug
    $200 12
the Arabian Peninsula

Michael
    $200 30
Swatch

Doug
    $200 17
(Dizzy & Paul) Dean

Eugene
    $200 2
hand

Eugene
    $200 19
branding

Michael
    $200 7
Sons of the Pioneers

Michael
    $300 13
French Guiana

Eugene
    $300 29
(Doug: What is (Angora) wool?)

mohair

Doug
Triple Stumper
    $300 20
(Michael: What is 4?)
...
(Alex: The '40s through the '80s.)

5

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $300 3
chum

Michael
    $300 28
round-up

Triple Stumper
    $300 8
Bessie Smith

Eugene
    $400 14
Macedonia

Doug
    $400 25
Reebok

Triple Stumper
    $400 21
Ty Cobb

Triple Stumper
    $400 4
honcho

Doug
    $400 27
(Doug: Who is the scout?)

the cook

Doug
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 9
(Eugene: Let's get crazy!--$1,000.)
[Eugene responded as soon as the audio clue was played and corrected himself with phrasing before Alex could rule against him.]

Edith Piaf

Eugene
    $500 15
Pitcairn Island

Michael
    $500 24
futures (or commodities) exchange

Eugene
    $500 22
(Alex: The country they're made in.)

Haiti

Triple Stumper
    $500 5
naught

Eugene
    $500 26
(Alex: And we've got a minute to go.)

the Chisholm Trail

Doug
    $500 10
Jenny Lind

Doug

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Doug Michael Eugene
$1,500 $700 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Doug Michael Eugene
$1,700 $1,200 $3,100

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

POLITICS
WARS
LETTER PERFECT
THE 1980s
ASTRONOMY
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES
    $200 26
Communist Party

Michael
    $200 27
the dikes

Michael
    $200 28
F (for Fahrenheit)

Doug
    $200 29
Miss America

Doug
    $200 30
(Alex: That is correct, and unfortunately, Doug, it isn't going to help you because you wind up in that negative situation.)

Galileo

Doug
    $200 14
The Taming of the Shrew

Eugene
    $400 23
November 2

Doug
    $400 24
(Doug: What is the Spanish, the War of Spain, the Spanish Civil War?)
(Alex: Less than a minute.)

Spanish-American War

Doug
Triple Stumper
    $400 25
L (for liter)

Michael
    $2,000 22
(Alex: Michael, you've got $3,200; Eugene has $7,700, how much do...)

the Titanic

Michael
    $400 21
Ursa Major

Michael
    $400 13
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Doug
    $600 19
socialism

Doug
    $600 6
the Crimean War

Doug
    $1,000 20
(Alex: Doug, you've got $100, but you can risk $1,000.)
...
(Doug: What is K?)

N

Doug
    $600 1
Achille Lauro

Michael
    $600 9
Titan

Doug
    $600 12
The Merry Wives of Windsor

Doug
    $800 18
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Eugene
    $800 5
(Doug: What is the Marne?)

Ardennes

DougEugene
    $800 17
(Michael: What is M?)
(Doug: What is GQ?)

W (formerly Women's Wear Daily)

DougMichael
Triple Stumper
    $800 2
Jean-Claude Duvalier

Michael
    $800 8
(Doug: What is Aldevron?)

Betelgeuse

Doug
Triple Stumper
    $800 11
Antony and Cleopatra

Eugene
    $1000 15
the Philippines

Doug
    $1000 4
(Doug: What was England?)

Scotland

DougEugene
    $1000 16
(Doug: What is PG?)

M

Doug
Triple Stumper
    $1000 3
Nicholas Daniloff

Eugene
    $1000 7
(Doug: Who is Laplace?)

Charles Messier

Doug
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
A Comedy of Errors

Michael

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Doug Michael Eugene
-$300 $6,000 $7,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

STATE CAPITALS
MichaelWhat is Jefferson City, MO?
$6,000
EugeneWhat is Madison, Wisconsin?
$4,400
Madison, Wisconsin

Final scores:

Doug Michael Eugene
-$300 $0 $12,100
3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Doug Michael Eugene
$700 $4,400 $7,100
19 R,
10 W
(including 1 DD)
14 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
14 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $12,200

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Game tape date: 1987-10-27
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