Responses for Show #261 - Monday, September 9, 1985

First game of Season 2.
First episode where set background changes from blue to red in Double Jeopardy!
Returning champions were placed at the far right lectern.
The new "buzz-in" (after Alex finishes reading the clue) rule was introduced.

Contestants

Alan Lefkowitz, an advertising consultant from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,900)

Susan Blum, an attorney from Fairfield, Connecticut

Steve Bowie, an engineer from Lancaster, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
DOGS IN LITERATURE
FOREIGN CUISINE
PROVERBS
CARTOONS
ALPHABETICALLY FIRST
    $100 1
Dwight Eisenhower

Susan
    $100 15
(Steve: What is The Hounds of the Baskervilles?)
[Accepted without remark]

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Steve
    $100 7
(Steve: What is... ah, drew a blank.)
(Susan: What is ham?)

bread

SteveSusan
Triple Stumper
    $100 6
a skunk

Susan
    $100 19
Friday

Alan
    $200 2
the Easter Egg Roll

Susan
    $200 16
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in this round.)

Toto

Susan
    $200 8
minestrone

Triple Stumper
    $200 10
(Susan: Who is Mickey Mouse?)

Mighty Mouse

SteveSusan
    $300 3
George Washington

Steve
    $300 20
The Thin Man

Alan
    $300 9
[NOTE: Alan's response was accepted without remark. Although the cookie is usually called a macaron, "French [*]" is another name for it.]

a macaroon

Alan
    $300 11
Ape

Triple Stumper
    $500 4
(Alex: The song was the "Missouri Waltz", which he did not like, by the way.)

Harry S. Truman

Steve
    $400 21
[ERRATUM: "Cyclops" was shown as "Cylops" on the game board. Alex read the word correctly, but then stumbled over the next word "episode", pronouncing it as "eckp--episode".]

Ulysses

Susan
    $400 14
[Alex begins reading, "The ingredie--" before starting his reading over.]

noodles

Alan
    $400 12
(Alan: What is 3?)
...
(Alex: Poopeye, Pupeye, Pipeye, and Peepeye.)

4

SteveAlan
    $400 22
[The end-of-round signal sounds. Alan laughs at the correct response.]

Earth

Alan
    $500 5
Woodrow Wilson

Steve
    $500 17
mango

Triple Stumper
    $500 13
[Applause for Susan]

Betty Boop

Susan
    $500 18
John Adams

Alan

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 8):

Steve Susan Alan
$1,200 $300 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Susan Alan
$1,900 $1,200 $1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

FASHION DESIGNERS
THE RENAISSANCE
4-LETTER WORDS
LAW
NEW ENGLAND
GHOSTS
    $200 19
[Applause for Susan's run of the category]

Yves Saint Laurent

Susan
    $200 26
rebirth

Steve
    $200 23
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

boot

Susan
    $200 13
self-defense

Susan
    $200 5
(Susan: What is... [*], please? [Grimaces])
(Alex: Right. Yes. You got it in. You were going to say something else, I thought.)

Maine

Susan
    $200 9
Halloween

Susan
    $400 18
Bob Mackie

Susan
    $400 27
prostitutes

Susan
    $400 22
sink

Susan
    $400 10
Lincoln

Alan
    $400 4
Rhode Island

Susan
    $400 11
John Wilkes Booth

Alan
    $600 15
(Alan: Who is Maria von Furstenberg?)

Diane von Furstenburg

SusanAlan
    $600 28
Machiavelli

Alan
    $1,600 14
(Alex: You got it in just the nick of time, also.)

name

Susan
    $600 6
an arraignment

Susan
    $600 1
(Alex: [*] Adams and [*] Kennedy, right, for $600.)

John

Susan
    $600 12
Elizabeth I

Susan
    $800 16
Williwear

Susan
    $800 20
iota

Susan
    $1,200 7
(Susan: What is, or isn't, [*]?)

cruel & unusual punishment

Susan
    $800 2
(Susan: What is Massachusetts?)

New Hampshire

Susan
Triple Stumper
    $800 24
Richard III

Alan
    $1000 17
Diana Vreeland

Susan
    $1000 29
(Alan: Who is Gutenberg?)
...
(Alex: He translate it--translated it, Gutenberg printed it.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Martin Luther

Alan
Triple Stumper
    $1000 21
(Susan: What is [*] or doom?)

mood

Susan
    $1000 8
for the furnishment of the militia (or maintaining a militia)

Steve
    $1000 3
(Steve: What is New Jersey?)
...
(Alex: Big swing there.)
[Applause for Susan's getting her home state as the correct response.]

Connecticut

SteveSusan
    $1000 25
a ghoul

Steve

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Steve Susan Alan
$3,100 $12,800 $2,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WOMEN IN SPORTS
(Alex: [To Susan] She may have seen the film, Pumping Iron II.)
[Alex inaccurately referred to Susan's total as "our biggest one-day total ever... on Jeopardy!" The current record at that time was held by Elise Beraru, with $23,800, in show #18, aired 1984-10-03.]
AlanWhat is Skiing
$2,199
SteveWhat is Bowling?
$2,200
SusanWhat is Bodybuilding?
$5,200
bodybuilding

Final scores:

Steve Susan Alan
$900 $18,000 $1
2nd place: Panasonic compact disc player + Action Spoiler recliner by Lane New champion: $18,000 3rd place: Jules Jurgensen his & her watches

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Steve Susan Alan
$3,000 $11,400 $2,200
9 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
26 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $16,600

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Game tape date: 1985-07-01
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