Responses for Show #2988 - Wednesday, September 3, 1997

Dan Melia game 4.

Contestants

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Wayne Weil, a management consultant from New York, New York

Beth Reardon, a school librarian from Chattanooga, Tennessee

Dan Melia, a professor from San Francisco, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $44,500)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE '97 WORLD ALMANAC
POP ALBUMS
AROUND THE DUNGEON
THE MOON
CRITTERS
"BOTTOM"S UP
    $100 25
Computers

Beth
    $100 13
David Bowie

Wayne
    $100 1
The Rack

Wayne
    $100 7
waxing

Dan
    $100 5
Cobra

Dan
    $100 12
Glass-Bottomed

Beth
    $200 26
Mars

Beth
    $200 14
Peter Frampton

Dan
    $200 2
Thumbscrew

Wayne
    $200 8
the dark side of the Moon

Wayne
    $200 22
Joeys

Dan
    $200 15
Bottom Line

Dan
    $300 27
Chelsea Clinton

Wayne
    $500 19
(Wayne: Who is Toni Braxton?)

Whitney Houston

Wayne
    $300 3
Cat O' Nine Tails

Dan
    $300 9
(Beth: What is Lunar 12?)

Apollo 12

Beth
Triple Stumper
    $300 23
Hummingbird

Dan
    $300 16
(Wayne: What is Sea Hunt?)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

BethWayne
    $400 28
U.S. Dollars

Dan
    $400 20
Tragic Kingdom

Triple Stumper
    $400 4
(Wayne: What is the iron lady?)

an iron maiden

BethWayne
    $400 10
Harvest Moon

Beth
    $400 24
Giraffe

Beth
    $400 17
(Beth: What is the bottom 40?)

rock bottom

BethWayne
    $500 30
Jerusalem

Dan
    $500 21
Tuesday Night Music Club

Wayne
    $500 6
manacles

Dan
    $500 11
Seas

Dan
    $500 29
Weasel

Dan
    $500 18
(Dan: What is the Bottomless Lake?)

the Bottomless Pit

Dan
Triple Stumper

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

Dan Beth Wayne
$1,900 $600 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Beth Wayne
$3,300 $1,200 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BIBLICAL FASHION
TELEVISION
FILE UNDER "L"
WORLD CITIES
OLD MONEY MEN
THEY'RE UNREAL! (WE THINK)
    $200 26
Fig Leaves

Wayne
    $200 1
Frasier

Wayne
    $200 6
Loom

Beth
    $200 8
Casablanca

Wayne
    $200 14
John D. Rockefeller

Dan
    $200 19
Yeti/Abominable Snowman

Wayne
    $400 27
Coat (of many colors)

Beth
    $400 2
Jimmy Olsen

Beth
    $400 7
Lobster

Dan
    $400 10
Belfast

Dan
    $400 15
(Dan: Who is Jay Gould?)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Dan
Triple Stumper
    $400 20
Gremlins

Wayne
    $600 30
Jericho

Dan
    $600 3
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

Wayne
    $600 9
Longitude

Dan
    $600 11
Ottawa

Dan
    $600 16
Andrew Carnegie

Dan
    $600 21
Cyclops/Polyphemus

Wayne
    $800 29
Sackcloth

Dan
    $800 4
Pine Valley

Triple Stumper
    $800 24
Larceny

Wayne
    $800 13
(Wayne: What is Phnom Penh?)

Da Nang

Wayne
Triple Stumper
    $800 17
J.P. Morgan

Triple Stumper
    $800 22
Banshees

Dan
    $1000 28
Aaron

Wayne
    $1000 5
McGillicuddy

Wayne
    $1,500 25
(Alex: Less than a minute to go in the round.)

a lute

Wayne
    $1000 12
Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Dan
    $1,200 18
Charles Merrill

Dan
    $1000 23
Werewolves

Beth

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Beth Wayne
$10,100 $3,200 $6,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMILIAR PHRASES
BethWho was Ginsburg?
$3,000
WayneWho is McLuhan?
$6,498
DanWho is Rod Maccuen
$3,000
Allen Ginsberg

Final scores:

Dan Beth Wayne
$7,100 $6,200 $2
4-day champion: $51,600 2nd place: Trip to Mexico City/Ixtapa 3rd place: Motorola StarTac Cellular Phone

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dan Beth Wayne
$9,900 $3,200 $6,500
23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 11 R,
2 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $19,600

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