Responses for Show #990 - Friday, December 16, 1988

Contestants

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Jay Malarcher, a teacher from New Orleans, Louisiana

Amy Winograd Friedman, a business librarian originally from Lexington, Massachusetts

Nancy Feinstein, an emergency room nurse and travel agent from Petaluma, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $9,400)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. HISTORY
SHOW MUSIC
DAYS OF THE WEEK
DANCE
FAMOUS COUSINS
ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS
(Alex: And of course, those are words whose sound they denote.)
    $100 12
the Lindbergh kidnapping case

Amy
    $100 6
blue skies

Nancy
    $100 11
Monday

Jay
    $100 17
belly dancing

Jay
    $100 26
(Jay: Who is Abigail Adams?)

Martha Washington

Jay
Triple Stumper
    $100 1
buzz

Nancy
    $200 13
J. Edgar Hoover

Amy
    $200 7
Ol' Man River

Jay
    $200 21
Friday

Jay
    $200 18
a reel

Jay
    $200 27
Elizabeth

Jay
    $200 2
a hiss

Nancy
    $300 14
Jimmy Hoffa

Jay
    $300 8
Come Rain or Come shine

Nancy
    $300 22
Wednesday

Jay
    $300 19
(Jay: Who is Jerome Robbins?)
(Amy: Who is Baryshnikov?)
...
(Alex: "Who is the late [*]?" Jay, we go back to you for the next selection, please.)

George Balanchine

AmyJay
Triple Stumper
    $300 28
Sydney Biddle Barrows

Amy
    $300 3
a cough

Jay
    $400 15
U.S. mint

Triple Stumper
    $400 9
Come Back to Me

Triple Stumper
    $400 23
(Jay: What is [*] morning?)

Sunday

Jay
    $400 20
the shimmy

Nancy
    $400 29
Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt

Nancy
    $400 4
fizz and sizzle

Amy
    $500 16
(James) Oglethorpe

Jay
    $500 10
here I come

Nancy
    $500 24
(Amy: What is a [*]?)

Tuesday

Amy
    $500 25
tap

Jay
    $800 30
(Nancy: Who is Prince Albert?)
(Alex: No, sorry. You had to go to the other part of Europe; the other end of Europe. "Who was [*]?" All right, that cost you $800. You're now tied with Amy at $1,200, and we're out of the Jeopardy! Round. Jay's still in the lead, but we'll see what happens in Double Jeopardy!, and that should be very interesting. We'll get to it right after this.)

Czar Nicholas II

Nancy
    $500 5
a blip

Jay

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 16):

Nancy Amy Jay
$1,200 $700 $1,900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Nancy Amy Jay
$1,200 $1,200 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

NAMES IN THE NEWS
SHAKESPEARE
FLAGS
COUNTRIES
WESTERNS
"EX" MARKS THE SPOT
    $200 7
(Alex: From Wheel of Fortune, correct.)

Vanna White

Amy
    $200 2
(Julius) Caesar

Amy
    $200 21
[ERRATUM: Alex misreads "July" as "June" before correcting himself.]

the moon

Amy
    $200 12
(Alex: Not fast enough, Amy. You select again, however.)

200th

Triple Stumper
    $200 25
Judge Roy Bean

Jay
    $200 1
the exit ramp

Amy
    $400 8
(Alex: Yes, her sister is Natalie.)

Louise Brown

Amy
    $400 3
Venus

Jay
    $1,000 22
(Amy: What is Tebet?)
(Alex: No, sorry. You saw it a great deal during the Olympic Games. "What is [*]?" You have an even $5,000, we've got a minute to go, and you select again, please.)

South Korea

Amy
    $400 13
(Jay: [sighs] What is England?)

Mexico

AmyJay
    $400 26
the gunfight at the OK corral

Nancy
    $400 16
Texarkana

Nancy
    $600 9
(Jay: Who is Yassir Arafat?)

King Hussein of Jordan

AmyJay
    $600 4
Goneril

Jay
    $600 23
green & yellow

Nancy
    $600 14
(Jay: What is Denmark?)
...
[Amy rings in after the signal, but Alex does not recognize.]
(Alex: Copernicus, the famous Polish astronomer. Amy, select again.)

Poland

Jay
Triple Stumper
    $600 17
(Alex: Yes, and the lady from New Hampshire gets it. Well done.)

Phillips Exeter

Amy
    $800 10
(Alex: You're gonna remember it, or remember how to pronounce [*]. [Laughter] Amy, select.)

Nikos Kazantzakis

Triple Stumper
    $800 5
King John

Amy
    $800 24
(Alex: Not fast enough, Jay. [*] short, 6 long. Nancy, go.)

7

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
El Salvador & Costa Rica

Jay
    $800 19
(Alex: [*]; that's your birthplace, isn't it? [laughter] You're lucking on these.)

Lexington

Amy
    $1000 11
(Amy: Who was Kean?)
...
(Alex: I believe Kean spoke at the Republican convention, but Governor [*] of Arkansas is the one who took his time. Amy, select again, please.)

Bill Clinton

Amy
Triple Stumper
    $1,400 6
(Amy: Who are Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VIII?)

(3 of) Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI and Henry VIII)

Amy
    $1000 27
(Jay: What is Environment?)
(Amy: What is the Environmental Protection Agency?)
[Nancy shakes her head]
(Alex: Nancy doesn't want to try it? What is [*]?")
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Department of Education

AmyJay
Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
(Amy: What is Brazil?)
...
(Alex: [*] is right, yes. They may be performed in Brazil as well, because it's a Portuguese speaking country; but the origination of them is in [*]. Nancy, you select.)

Portugal

NancyAmy
    $1000 20
Wessex

Amy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Nancy Amy Jay
$3,600 $4,000 $2,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ADVERTISING
(Alex: [To Jay] General Motors, Anheuser-Busch, Phillip-Morris, then the United States Armed Forces--the [*], and finally, the Chrysler Corporation. "Be All That You Can Be".)
JayWhat is the Dept. of Defense?
$2,800
NancyWhat is the Dept. of Interior?
$2,400
AmyWhat is Dept. of Defense?
$3,201
the Department of Defense

Final scores:

Nancy Amy Jay
$1,200 $7,201 $5,600
3rd place: Videowriter typewriter New champion: $7,201 2nd place: Glassfyre fireplace

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Nancy Amy Jay
$4,400 $4,600 $2,800
11 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
6 W

Combined Coryat: $11,800

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Game tape date: 1988-09-27
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