Responses for Show #2987 - Tuesday, September 2, 1997

Dan Melia game 3.

Contestants

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Karen Rhodes, a history teacher from Dalton, Georgia

Atish Choudhury, an undergraduate student from Silver Spring, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,800)

Dan Melia, a professor from San Francisco, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

18th CENTURY AMERICA
EGGS-ACTLY!
THE NFL
RESORT CITIES
NAME THAT TOON
ODD PLURALS
    $100 9
Ben Franklin

Dan
    $100 24
(Atish: What is poached?)
(Karen: What is fried?)

over easy

DanAtishKaren
    $100 2
Steelers

Atish
    $100 21
Carmel

Dan
    $100 16
Donald Duck

Atish
    $100 1
lice

Atish
    $200 10
the Boston Tea Party

Dan
    $200 27
Hard-Boiled

Dan
    $200 3
(Alex: And our helper there, Reggie White, of the world champion Green Bay Packers.)
[Applause]

Tennessee

Atish
    $200 22
Aspen

Atish
    $200 17
Elmer Fudd

Atish
    $200 5
oxen

Karen
    $300 11
(Atish: Who was Jefferson?)

James Madison

AtishKaren
    $300 28
(Dan: What is to open up?)

break out of one's shell

DanKaren
    $300 4
Don Shula

Dan
    $300 23
Atlantic City

Atish
    $300 18
Popeye (the Sailor Man)

Dan
    $300 6
alumni

Atish
    $400 12
(Dan: [No response])

Alexander Hamilton

DanKaren
    $400 29
a prairie oyster

Dan
    $400 7
Frank Gifford

Karen
    $700 25
(Alex: A minute to go in the round.)

Vichy

Dan
    $400 19
Boo-Boo

Atish
    $400 14
(Dan: What is squids?)

squid

DanAtish
    $500 13
John Wesley

Atish
    $500 30
darning egg

Dan
    $500 8
the Carolina Panthers

Atish
    $500 26
Yalta

Dan
    $500 20
Heckle & Jeckle

Dan
    $500 15
(Dan: [*]? What is [*]?)

errata

Dan

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

Dan Atish Karen
$300 $1,800 $1,300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Atish Karen
$3,300 $2,900 $1,500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY AMERICA
THAT'S RANK!
NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE
BIG BOOKS
INVENTORS
ANAGRAMS
    $200 1
Spanish-American War

Atish
    $200 5
Five

Karen
    $200 2
Peggy Sue Got Married

Karen
    $200 12
Dictionary

Dan
    $200 16
Alexander Graham Bell

Atish
    $200 22
dues (from sued)

Dan
    $400 3
Brigham Young

Atish
    $400 8
Duke

Dan
    $400 27
The Rock

Atish
    $400 13
The Roman Empire

Dan
    $400 17
Guglielmo Marconi

Karen
    $400 23
organ (from groan)

Atish
    $600 4
Susan B. Anthony

Dan
    $1,000 9
Seraphim

Dan
    $600 29
Arizona

Dan
    $600 14
Codes

Karen
    $600 19
Cyrus McCormick

Atish
    $600 24
barley (from barely)

Atish
    $800 6
John Jacob Astor

Atish
    $800 10
Madeleine Albright

Dan
    $800 30
Cotton Club

Dan
    $800 15
Charles Dickens

Atish
    $800 20
(Dan: Who is Sarnoff?)

Vladimir Zworykin

Dan
Triple Stumper
    $800 25
Flemish (from himself)

Atish
    $1000 7
(Dan: Who is John Paul Jones?)
(Atish: Who is Farragut?)
...
(Alex: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours!")

Oliver Hazard Perry

DanAtish
Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
Webelos

Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 18
Remembrance of Things Past

Karen
    $1000 21
The Lumiere Brothers

Dan
    $1000 26
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)

Taoism (from Maoist)

Atish

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Atish Karen
$7,500 $8,100 $4,900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

RELIGION
(Alex: Written by Martin Luther, nailed on the door...)
KarenWhat are the 95 Theses?
$2,003
DanWhat are Luther's 95 Theses?
$7,400
AtishWhat are the ninety-three theses?
$6,901
the 95 Theses

Final scores:

Dan Atish Karen
$14,900 $1,199 $6,903
3-day champion: $44,500 3rd place: Pair of Wittnauer Watches 2nd place: Trip to Tahiti

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dan Atish Karen
$6,800 $8,100 $3,900
23 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W		 23 R,
3 W		 10 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $18,800

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