Kevin Frear sets a new single-day cash winnings record of $27,800.
Jeopardy! Round responses
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Russia (or the Soviet Union)
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(Kevin: Who is the Quaker?)
Cap'n Crunch
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(Alex: Right, we've got a minute to go.)
impacted
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Philadelphia brand cream cheese
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(Andrea: What is the Mississippi?) ... (Alex: [*], yes, they forget to put the "U" and one of the "N"s in there.)
the Suwannee
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(Kevin: What is Haiti?) ... (Alex: They are--the language is spoken primarily on those islands off South Carolina and Georgia.)
the United States
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(Andrea: What is a sponge?)
a luffa
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[Alex specifies "ADA" as "American Dental Association" when reading the clue.] (Kevin: What is artificial sweetener?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
smokeless tobacco products (or chewing tobacco)
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(Andrea: What is death?) (Kevin: What are funerals?)
his health
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):
Kevin |
John |
Andrea |
$2,300 |
$1,200 |
-$100 |
Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
Kevin |
John |
Andrea |
$2,000 |
$1,200 |
$200 |
Double Jeopardy! Round responses
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(John: What is 100?)
1 inch
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(Alex: The song was "Abraham, Martin and John".)
(Abraham) Lincoln & (John) Kennedy
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(Kevin: What is the Hale Observatory?) [Initially ruled incorrect; reversed before Final Jeopardy! when research discovered that "Hale Observatories" "applied to Mount Palomar and [*] until a few years ago".]
the Mount Wilson Observatory
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(John: What are the Rockies?) (Andrea: What are the Alps?)
the Andes
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(John: Who was... Dostoyevsky?)
(Leo) Tolstoy
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(Kevin: Who is Duvalier?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier
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(Alex: You can smile, yes, indeed. Here's a chan--You know something? If you made this a True Daily Double and responded correctly, by golly, you'd have $23,200 going into Final Jeopardy!) (Kevin: Nah.) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Venus & the Earth
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(John: What are the Urals?)
the Caucas (or Caucasus)
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(Kevin: Who was... Ro--[*].) (Alex: [*], Roe [*]. I remember him well, yes. He was one of our most popular presidents, Roe [*].)
Johnson
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
Kevin |
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Andrea |
$17,800 |
-$1,000 |
$1,200 |
[wagering suggestions for these scores]
Final Jeopardy! Round responses
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(Alex: [Cutting off the "Think!" music prematurely] Both players have completed their responses, so we're going to begin right now with you, Andrea...) ... (Alex: Captain, you have $17,800 showing at the moment, and that is because we decided that your response of "Hale Observatory"--the Hale Observatory--Observatories applied to Mount Palomar and Mount Wilson until a few years ago. So we accepted your response, we credited you with the $1,200, and that's the basis of your wager.) ... (Alex: You have set a record of $27,800 for a one-day performance on Jeopardy! Way to go!) (Kevin: Thank you.) (Alex: You beat the Major, too!) (Kevin: Yes!)Andrea | What is N. Carolina? | $1,200 | Kevin | What is Kentucky? | $10,000 | (1 of) Missouri & Kentucky |
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Final scores:
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Andrea |
$27,800 |
-$1,000 |
$0 |
Game dynamics:
Kevin |
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Andrea |
$14,000 |
-$1,000 |
$1,200 |
Game tape date: 1988-03-22
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