Responses for Show #1091 - Monday, May 8, 1989

1989 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.
Inaugural College Championship game of the Trebek era.

Contestants

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Dave Piatt, a senior from Johns Hopkins University

Betty Hsu, a freshman from UCLA

Tom Cubbage, a senior from Southern Methodist University

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE MIDDLE AGES
SCARY MOVIES
ANIMALS
DICTIONARY ABBREVIATIONS
SOUTH AMERICA
THE SWIMSUIT EDITION
(Alex: And we assume you know what that is all about.)
    $100 1
a tithe

Tom
    $100 21
[Betty omitted the leading article from her response.]

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Betty
    $100 26
(Betty: What is a kangaroo?)

an elephant

TomBetty
    $100 16
(Betty: What is f.l.?)

fig.

BettyDave
    $100 11
the Atlantic Ocean

Tom
    $100 6
(Alex: That's right. They issued a separates [*] issue that month.)

sports

Dave
    $200 2
the Holy Roman Empire

Tom
    $200 22
Jaws 2

Dave
    $200 27
(Betty: What is white?)

blue

BettyDave
    $200 17
misc.

Dave
    $200 12
(Betty: What is Chile?)

Argentina

TomBetty
    $200 7
February

Tom
    $300 3
the Hanseatic League

Tom
    $300 23
[Alex reads "L." as "Leonard".]

Friday the 13th

Betty
    $300 28
teeth

Tom
    $300 18
botany

Tom
    $300 13
Uruguay

Tom
    $300 8
(Betty: Who is Paulina Porizkova?)
...
(Alex: Paulina, I believe, has appeared on the cover only twice.)

Cheryl Tiegs (or Christie Brinkley or Elle Macpherson)

TomBetty
    $400 4
(Tom: Who are [*]s?)
(Alex: Templar, correct.)

the Knights Templar

Tom
    $400 24
(Tom: [Shakes head])
[Betty gave the name of the TV series, with the definite article, at first. Alex began to accept her response by way of giving the complete and correct response, at which point she jumped in to overlap with him in giving the movie's subtitle.]

Twilight Zone: The Movie

TomBetty
    $400 29
a mongrel

Tom
    $400 19
intransitive

Tom
    $1,000 14
(Tom: What is Peru?)
(Alex: No, sorry. Country was named, in fact, for the fact that it is on the equator--"What is [*]?")

Ecuador

Tom
    $400 9
a quarter

Betty
    $500 5
Gothic

Betty
    $500 25
(Betty: What is Creature from the Deep?)
...
(Alex: You were thinking of the right kind of creature, Betty. It's [*].)

the Swamp Thing

Betty
Triple Stumper
    $500 30
a cobra

Tom
    $500 20
Indo-European

Tom
    $500 15
Brazil

Tom
    $500 10
[Alex reads S.I. as "Sports Illustrated", the first time the name of the magazine is mentioned.]

cancelled subscriptions

Tom

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Tom Betty Dave
$2,600 $400 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Betty Dave
$4,200 $300 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. HISTORY
RELIGION
NOVELS
FABRICS
FAMOUS QUOTES
FRATERNITIES & SORORITIES
    $200 17
Texas

Tom
    $200 16
a mosque

Tom
    $200 1
[Note: Tom's response was given without the final "a".]

Anna Karenin

Tom
    $200 26
(Alex: Yes, and we've got a minute left.)

linen

Betty
    $200 11
(Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall") Jackson

Tom
    $200 4
Phi Beta Kappa

Betty
    $400 22
Franklin Roosevelt

Dave
    $400 18
(Tom: What is Scientology?)
(Betty: What is Christian... Life Science?)
...
(Alex: You added an unnecessary and, uh, dubious word there, "Life", Betty; it's [*], not Christian Life Science.)

Christian Science

TomBetty
Triple Stumper
    $400 2
(Betty: Who is Uncle Tom?)
[Accepted without remark]

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Betty
    $400 27
canvas

Betty
    $400 12
Julius Caesar

Betty
    $400 7
(National Lampoon's) Animal House

Tom
    $600 23
Custer

Tom
    $600 19
(Betty: What is 10?)
(Dave: What is 12?)

8

BettyDave
Triple Stumper
    $600 3
(James) Joyce

Tom
    $600 28
cotton

Triple Stumper
    $600 13
Cyrano de Bergerac

Tom
    $600 8
rush

Tom
    $800 24
Dred Scott

Tom
    $800 20
(Alex: That's one of them, yes.)

excommunication

Tom
    $800 5
(Betty: [*]? Who is [*]?)

Mr. Rochester

Betty
    $800 29
rubber

Betty
    $800 14
(Joseph) Heller

Tom
    $800 9
sister

Tom
    $1000 25
Virginia Dare

Betty
    $1000 21
Epiphany

Tom
    $700 6
(Betty: [Shakes head] Who is the Addams Family?)
(Alex: No, sorry. If you had watched a lot--watched a lot of Masterpiece Theatre some years ago on PBS, you'd have remembered [*].)

the Forsytes (The Forsyte Saga)

Betty
    $1000 30
gossamer

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
a fall

Tom
    $2,800 10
[Alex reads "F.G." as "Frank G."]

Delta Sigma Phi

Tom

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Betty Dave
$15,400 $2,800 $600
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MOUNTAINS
[Dave's response appears to read "What is Mt. Fuj" without the "I", although Alex reads it as "Fuji". Possibly the "I" was cut off on the right side of the screen.]
...
(Alex: Is there some significance to that amount, Betty?)
(Betty: It's my lucky number.)
...
(Alex: [To Tom] Wrong part of the world. You had to go to Africa for this mountain.)
DaveWhat is Mt. Fuji
$599
BettyWhat is Kilimanjaro?
$206
TomWhat is Mauna Loa?
$0
Kilimanjaro

Final scores:

Tom Betty Dave
$15,400 $3,006 $1
Automatic semifinalist 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Tom Betty Dave
$14,600 $3,500 $600
34 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
9 W
(including 1 DD)		 6 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $18,700

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Game tape date: 1989-04-08
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