Responses for Show #672 - Tuesday, July 7, 1987

Eric Berman game 4.

Contestants

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Craig Miller, a pastor from San Bernardino, California

Mary Frechette, a registered nurse from Smithfield, Rhode Island

Eric Berman, a journalist from Crown Point, Indiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $34,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FIRSTS
ISLANDS
TV SISTERS
FOLK DANCES
VOCABULARY
FURRY CREATURES
    $100 5
Great Britain

Eric
    $100 18
Gilligan's Island

Eric
    $100 1
The Flying Nun

Eric
    $100 24
(Alex: ...and we've got less than a minute to go.)

Israel (or Romania)

Eric
    $100 7
binnacle

Eric
    $100 16
a sheep (or lamb)

Eric
    $200 10
coffee break

Eric
    $200 19
the mutiny on the Bounty

Eric
    $200 2
Vicki Lawrence

Eric
    $200 25
[The song was not reprised going in the break.]

"La Cucaracha"

Eric
    $200 8
(Mary: What is an egress?)
(Craig: What is a waterfowl?)
...
(Alex: Sorry, Mary. You're not supposed to give me part of the clue as your response. It doesn't work that way.)

way out

EricMaryCraig
    $200 17
Speedy Gonzales

Craig
    $300 13
[NOTE: Eric supplied the correct response to this clue and was ruled correct and appropriately credited. However, $300 was deducted from Eric's score between the end of the Jeopardy! Round and the start of the Double Jeopardy! Round without explanation. Credit for Eric's response is being deducted in the J! Archive to account for his score as shown on the show.]

the Sherman Act

Triple Stumper
    $300 20
Spain

Craig
    $300 3
John-Boy (Walton)

Eric
    $300 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

India

Craig
    $300 9
(Alex: Yes, it's the rib of a ship.)

futtock

Mary
    $300 23
(Mary: What is ermine?)
...
(Alex: What is the famous Russian [*]?)

sable

Mary
Triple Stumper
    $400 14
winning the grand slam

Eric
    $400 21
Iwo Jima

Craig
    $400 4
The Lennon Sisters

Mary
    $400 11
ex libris

Eric
    $500 15
(Alex: Yes. 1620 the date.)

the Pilgrims

Eric
    $500 22
(Mary: What is Cyprus?)
(Craig: What is Crete?)
(Eric: What is Sicily?)
...
(Alex: I would think Sicily would be the largest.)

Sardinia

EricMaryCraig
Triple Stumper
    $500 6
Cheryl Ladd & Farrah Fawcett-Majors

Eric
    $500 12
polydipsic

Triple Stumper

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

Eric Mary Craig
$2,100 $500 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Mary Craig
$3,200 -$300 $500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

GEORGE WASHINGTON
THEATER
GEOGRAPHICAL SINGERS
(Alex: Those are people names that are also place names.)
20TH CENTURY
BUSINESS NEWS
PICK "COTTON"
    $200 19
a Bible

Eric
    $200 8
St. Louis

Triple Stumper
    $200 1
[NOTE: Eric's score was adjusted from $3,500 to $3,200 at the beginning of this round without explanation.]

Alabama

Craig
    $200 6
Leonid Brezhnev

Craig
    $200 22
Sara Lee

Eric
    $200 14
the cottonmouth

Craig
    $400 20
(Craig: What is Monticello?)

Mount Vernon

MaryCraig
    $400 9
Chekhov

Eric
    $400 2
(Mary: What is the Manhattan Transfer?)

The Manhattans

Mary
Triple Stumper
    $400 7
John XXIII

Eric
    $400 23
[Audible chuckle from one member of the audience who apparently knows the response]
...
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)

Stonebusters

Triple Stumper
    $400 15
(Mary: What are those [*]?)

old cotton fields back home

Mary
    $600 21
"Father of His Country"

Eric
    $600 10
Stage Door

Eric
    $600 3
the Kingston Trio

Mary
    $600 13
Nicaragua

Eric
    $600 24
mobile banks

Triple Stumper
    $600 16
Cotton Comes to Harlem

Triple Stumper
    $800 25
the Continental Congress

Eric
    $1,200 11
(Eric: I picked the wrong time not to be cautious. Uh...)
[Laughter]
(Eric: Who is Bip?)
[Laughter]
(Alex: Who is Bip? Marcel Marceau would love you, but, uh, the producers and the writers on Jeopardy! would not think too much of that.)

Colombine

Eric
    $800 4
England Dan

Mary
    $800 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Paris

Craig
    $800 17
Cotton Mather

Eric
    $1000 26
(Craig: What is Washington's farewell to his troops?)

Washington's farewell address

EricCraig
    $1000 12
(Alex: Not fast enough, Eric.)

Desire Under the Elms

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Mike Reno

Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
the Cotton Patch Versions

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Mary Craig
$7,600 $1,500 $500
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

GAMBLING
(Alex: [To Craig] You came up with No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4. Congratulations. You got three of them.)
...
(Alex: [To Eric] You had Illinois.)
(Eric: Oh, no.)
(Alex: That was the other one. That was a correct response--)
(Eric: Figures.)
(Alex: Until you changed it to Illinois. I mean, to Ohio. The people in Ohio will be very happy with you, but not the folks in Illinois.)
CraigWhat are Cal., NY, and PA.?
$490
MaryWhat are Calif. + N.Y.? + N.J.
$499
EricWhat are Calif., NY, and Illinois Ohio?
$4,599
(3 of) California, New York, Illinois & Pennsylvania

Final scores:

Eric Mary Craig
$3,001 $1,001 $990
4-day champion: $37,101 2nd place: Pine Factory solid pine furniture + Zenith DeLights Series fun-sized 9" color TV 3rd place: Action recliners by Lane "Abby" classic Queen Anne recliner chair

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Eric Mary Craig
$8,800 $1,500 $500
26 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)
6 R,
4 W
8 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $10,800

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Game tape date: 1987-03-04
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