Responses for Show #4139 - Thursday, September 5, 2002

Myron Meyer sets a new single-day cash winnings record of $50,000.

Contestants

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Myron Meyer, a scheduling coordinator from Owatonna, Minnesota

Mary Sue Hoban, a marketing and strategy consultant from Belmont, Massachusetts

Alba Caraceni, a newswriter and editor from Queens, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ROCKS & MINERALS
ROLLING STONES HITS IN OTHER WORDS
INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
CHILDREN'S LIT
SUBURBIA
SPORTS BEATING TERMS
    $200 21
clay

Alba
    $200 1
"Wild Horses"

Alba
    $200 16
Monaco

Mary Sue
    $200 6
Oompa Loompas

Myron
    $200 26
Cleveland

Myron
    $200 11
buried

Alba
    $400 22
schist

Triple Stumper
    $400 2
(Alex: You know them better as [*].)

"Honky Tonk Women"

Triple Stumper
    $400 17
Mahatma Gandhi

Myron
    $400 7
Maurice Sendak

Myron
    $400 27
(Myron: What is Georgetown?)
(Mary Sue: What is Alexandria?)

Arlington

Mary SueMyron
Triple Stumper
    $400 12
hammered

Alba
    $600 23
muscovite

Myron
    $600 3
"Get Off Of My Cloud"

Alba
    $600 18
Spain

Myron
    $600 8
"Sleeping Beauty"

Myron
    $600 28
(Alba: What is Green Bay?)

Milwaukee

Alba
Triple Stumper
    $600 13
(Myron: What is steamrolled?)
(Mary Sue: What is paved?)
(Alba: What is flattened?)
(Alex: No, "flat"'s in the clue. What is [*]?)

levelled

AlbaMary SueMyron
Triple Stumper
    $5,000 24
(Alex: Aren't you glad you knew "muscovite"?)
[Applause]
(Alex: This is not CHILDREN'S LIT now.)
(Myron: Let's make it a True Daily Double anyway.)
(Alex: Whoa! Hello Myron! Good for you, gutsy move.)

red

Myron
    $800 4
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"

Myron
    $800 19
Bastille Day

Alba
    $800 9
Gertrude Stein

Myron
    $800 29
Compton

Myron
    $800 14
(Myron: What is finished?)
(Alex: Finished? Be more specific.)
(Myron: What is... finished off?)

shellacked

Mary SueMyron
    $1000 25
emery

Myron
    $1000 5
(Mary Sue: What is... oh no.)
(Alex: No?)
(Mary Sue: I'm blanking.)

"Beast Of Burden"

Mary SueMyron
    $1000 20
the Shah

Alba
    $1000 10
(Alex: Well done! You ran the category. I'll assume it's because you have children?)
(Myron: Not yet.)
(Alex: Not yet? Okay!)

(Beverly) Cleary

Myron
    $1000 30
Brooklyn Heights

Mary Sue
    $1000 15
pulverized

Alba

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

Alba Mary Sue Myron
$1,800 -$800 $3,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alba Mary Sue Myron
$3,200 $0 $11,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

STARTS WITH "R"
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
WOULD YOU BELIEVE?
KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS
HUMPHREY BOGART MOVIES
[Alex reads the category title--and all the clues--in a Bogart voice]
ALL I WANT FOR ISTHMUS
    $400 1
the Riviera

Myron
    $400 17
Massachusetts

Mary Sue
    $400 12
optimist

Myron
    $400 3
J.C. Penney

Mary Sue
    $400 8
Casablanca

Alba
    $400 26
Mexico

Myron
    $800 2
(Mary Sue: What is a repeater?)

the rifling

Mary Sue
Triple Stumper
    $800 18
the Delaware

Alba
    $800 22
God

Myron
    $800 4
J.P. Morgan

Alba
    $800 13
(Myron: What is The African Queen?)

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Myron
Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Isthmus of Panama

Alba
    $1200 9
the Ross Sea

Myron
    $1200 19
(Myron: What is "two if by sea"?... or "they were coming by sea"?)
(Alex: All right, [*], that was an important part of the response.)

the British were coming

Myron
    $1200 23
hedonism

Alba
    $1200 5
B.F. Skinner

Alba
    $13,000 14
(Alex: You have so much money at this stage that you have an opportunity to do a lot of wonderful things! Don't you feel like you want to say it?)
[Audience laughter]
(Myron: $13,000.)
(Alex: Okay, you have an opportunity to set a new one-day record on our program.)
...
(Alex: That's the way. Yes! Bogie and Rosie.)

The African Queen

Myron
    $11,600 28
(Alex: There are two clues after this one.)
(Alba: Oh, why not... well, yeah, why not just risk it all?)
...
(Alba: What is Gibraltar?)

Suez

Alba
    $1600 10
the Rubicon

Myron
    $1600 20
Lafayette

Myron
    $1600 24
(Alex: We would have accepted "[**]", also.)

the mind (the soul)

Alba
    $1600 6
S.J. Perelman

Myron
    $1600 15
The Caine Mutiny

Alba
    $1600 29
the Malay Peninsula

Triple Stumper
    $2000 11
a rose window

Mary Sue
    $2000 21
Yorktown

Myron
    $2000 25
experience

Myron
    $2000 7
M.C. Escher

Myron
    $2000 16
(Alex: Rocco was Edward G. Robinson, and it was [*].)

Key Largo

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
(Alba: What is Russia?)
...
(Alex: And so Alba, a good try on your part, you wind up at -$2,000; and even though you won over $20,000 yesterday, you'll not be allowed to play Final Jeopardy! today. You're happy with what you got?)

Ukraine

Alba
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alba Mary Sue Myron
-$2,000 $2,000 $39,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

TECHNOLOGY
(Alex: [To Mary Sue] No, the telephone was much earlier than the 1920s, of course, so it cost you everything but a dollar.)
...
(Alex: Oh, President Hoover was on [*] from Washington to New York, which means you're absolutely right. I hope you bet a bundle... $11,000. $50,000 as you become our champion and a new one-day record. Way to go. You can relax now, Myron.)
[Myron laughs.]
(Alex: Four days in a row the champ has come from the third lectern. Will it happen again tomorrow as we wrap up the week? Join us and find out. So long.)
Mary SueWhat is the telephone?
$1,999
MyronWhat is television?
$11,000
television

Final scores:

Alba Mary Sue Myron
-$2,000 $1 $50,000
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $50,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Alba Mary Sue Myron
$9,600 $2,000 $23,000
16 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)
6 R,
4 W
27 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $34,600

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Game tape date: 2002-06-10
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