Responses for Show #1166 - Monday, October 2, 1989

Contestants

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Mike Varn, an economist and forecaster originally from Anniston, Alabama

Bugs Twocock, a civil servant from Victoria, British Columbia

Dale Ragus, a real estate broker from New York City, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,801)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. CITIES
THE POST OFFICE
SONGS OF THE '70s
ANIMALS
SPANISH 101
FINAL RESTING PLACES
    $100 7
Boston

Dale
    $100 9
mailbox

Dale
    $100 13
the rain

Dale
    $100 3
a purr

Dale
    $100 1
conquistador

Dale
    $100 14
Salt Lake City

Bugs
    $200 8
Chicago

Mike
    $200 27
22 cents

Dale
    $200 15
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"

Dale
    $200 19
the lion

Dale
    $200 2
matador

Bugs
    $200 16
Bela Lugosi

Dale
    $300 10
(Mike: What is New York City?)

Las Vegas

DaleMike
    $300 28
the automatic stamp machine (postage meter)

Mike
    $300 22
"An Old Fashioned Love Song"

Dale
    $300 21
ducks

Bugs
    $300 4
vamoose

Dale
    $300 17
Daniel Boone

Dale
    $400 11
Honolulu

Dale
    $400 29
bulk rate (or third class)

Dale
    $400 23
[ERRATUM: The Association's version of song was released in 1966, not the 1970s.]

cherish

Dale
    $400 25
sponges

Mike
    $400 5
health and money

Dale
    $400 18
(Edgar Rice) Burroughs

Mike
    $500 12
Los Angeles and New York

Bugs
    $1,100 30
(Alex: [*], Zone Improvement Plan, yes indeed.)

the ZIP code

Dale
    $500 24
the ceiling

Bugs
    $500 26
Gibraltar

Dale
    $500 6
buckaroo

Triple Stumper
    $500 20
(Mike : What is England?)

Switzerland

DaleMike

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

Dale Bugs Mike
$2,100 $800 -$100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dale Bugs Mike
$6,200 $1,600 $500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ASTRONOMY
WOMEN
AMERICAN AUTHORS
FOOD & DRINK
WORLD HISTORY
MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS
    $200 1
the rings of Saturn

Dale
    $200 15
Barbara Bush

Mike
    $200 16
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Triple Stumper
    $200 9
a camel

Dale
    $200 4
Peter

Mike
    $200 2
"'42"

Mike
    $400 3
seas

Bugs
    $400 19
the St. Patrick's Day parade

Mike
    $400 17
Thoreau

Mike
    $400 12
(Mike: What is Russia?)

(Dale: What is Australia?)

New Zealand

DaleBugsMike
    $400 13
opium

Dale
    $400 6
The Four Seasons

Mike
    $600 5
(Mike: What is an asteroid?)

a comet

DaleMike
    $600 23
Diane Sawyer

Dale
    $600 18
Jay McInerney

Dale
    $600 20
(Dale: What is Finland?)

Denmark

DaleBugs
    $600 10
BUtterfield 8

Mike
    $800 7
Neptune and Pluto

Mike
    $3,800 24
the Kirov Ballet

Dale
    $3,800 21
the Hapsburgs

Bugs
    $800 11
(Mike: What was "8 1/2 Weeks"?)

9 1/2 Weeks

BugsMike
    $1000 8
(Mike: Who was Lovell?)

George Hale

Mike
Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Patricia Neal

Dale
    $1000 22
(Alex: Good. And we have less than a minute to go in the round.)

the Battle of Yorktown

Dale
    $1000 14
Act One

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dale Bugs Mike
$13,600 $7,600 $900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

VOCABULARY
MikeWhat is simultaneous?
$100
BugsWhat is contemperaneous
$7,600
DaleWhat is simultaneous?
$1,601
simultaneous

Final scores:

Dale Bugs Mike
$15,201 $0 $1,000
2-day champion: $28,002 3rd place: his & her rings + Nintendo Entertainment System 2nd place: a trip to Portugal

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dale Bugs Mike
$10,000 $4,600 $900
29 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
10 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W
12 R,
6 W

Combined Coryat: $15,500

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Game tape date: 1989-06-20
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