Responses for Show #3125 - Friday, March 13, 1998

Contestants

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Paul Showalter, a customer service representative originally from Irongate, Virginia

Merle Milder, a housewife from Edison, New Jersey

Bob Ryffel, a computer expert from Fairfield, Connecticut (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,601)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. GEOGRAPHY
ON- & OFF-SCREEN ROMANCES
THE PREZ SEZ
LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX
HORSING AROUND
NOW YOU'RE COOKIN'!
    $100 8
the Rocky Mountains

Paul
    $100 26
(Alex: With a minute to go.)

Julia Roberts

Paul
    $100 13
John F. Kennedy

Paul
    $100 1
too much

Paul
    $100 21
a horseshoe

BobCat
    $100 2
bread crumbs

Paul
    $200 9
Oklahoma

BobCat
    $200 27
Jeff Goldblum

Merle
    $200 14
Richard Nixon

BobCat
    $200 4
Brigitte Bardot

BobCat
    $200 22
Mr. Ed

BobCat
    $200 3
clarify

BobCat
    $300 10
Mount St. Helens

Paul
    $300 28
Meg Ryan

BobCat
    $300 15
Harry S. Truman

BobCat
    $300 5
educated

Merle
    $300 23
chaps

BobCat
    $300 18
cream

Merle
    $400 11
Minnesota

BobCat
    $400 29
Gwyneth Paltrow

Merle
    $400 16
Lyndon Johnson

BobCat
    $400 6
(Alex: [After reading clue] What?!)

Andy Warhol

BobCat
    $400 24
Arabian

Paul
    $400 19
horseradish

BobCat
    $500 12
(BobCat: What is Washington?)

Maine

BobCat
Triple Stumper
    $500 30
Marilyn Monroe

Merle
    $1,800 17
Dwight D. Eisenhower

BobCat
    $500 7
(Alex: Don't even ask me to explain it--[*] said it and I'll let him explain it, if you can, Clifford!)

Clifford Odets

Triple Stumper
    $500 25
3

Paul
    $500 20
(Merle: What is picante?)

mole sauce

Merle
Triple Stumper

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

BobCat Merle Paul
$1,400 $300 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

BobCat Merle Paul
$4,900 $1,200 $1,700

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS
ENDANGERED SPECIES
FIRST-NAME BASIS
HIT PARADE
EUROPEAN HISTORY
"CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE?
    $200 1
Laura Ingalls Wilder

BobCat
    $200 27
the hyena

BobCat
    $200 21
Merle

Paul
    $200 16
Grey

BobCat
    $200 7
the mafia

Paul
    $200 2
catchy

BobCat
    $400 8
Thomas Hardy

Merle
    $400 26
whooping cranes

BobCat
    $400 22
(BobCat: What is Jane?)

Agnes

BobCat
Triple Stumper
    $400 17
Elvis Presley

Merle
    $400 12
George Marshall

Paul
    $400 3
catatonia

Paul
    $600 9
Joel Chandler Harris

Merle
    $600 28
the falcon

Merle
    $600 23
(Paul: What is Peter?)
(BobCat: What is Vincent?)
(Merle: What is Stephen?)

Quentin

BobCatMerlePaul
Triple Stumper
    $600 18
Carly Simon & James Taylor

BobCat
    $600 13
Reformation

Merle
    $600 4
categorical (or categorically)

Merle
    $800 10
Roald Dahl

Merle
    $1,500 29
the manatee

Merle
    $800 24
Sherlock

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
Celine Dion

Merle
    $800 14
a regime

Paul
    $800 5
catechism

BobCat
    $1000 11
C.S. Lewis

Paul
    $1000 30
orangutan

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Alex: And we have a minute to go.)

Thomas

Paul
    $1,500 20
(Merie: Who is Ella Fitzgerald?)

Sarah Vaughan

Merle
    $1000 15
Pope Innocent IV

Triple Stumper
    $1000 6
catawba

BobCat

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

BobCat Merle Paul
$7,500 $5,400 $5,100

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

HOLY DAYS
(Alex: It's what the priest says when he anoints ashes on the forehead in the shape of a cross.)
PaulWhat is Yom Kippur
$5,099
MerleWhat is Ash Wednesday?
$5,200
BobCatWhat is All Saint's Day
$3,301
Ash Wednesday

Final scores:

BobCat Merle Paul
$4,199 $10,600 $1
2nd place: Gateway 2000 Family Desktop PC & O'Sullivan Computer Workstation New champion: $10,600 3rd place: Coleman/DuPont Camping Equipment

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

BobCat Merle Paul
$6,200 $6,200 $5,100
22 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $17,500

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