Responses for Show #2597 - Tuesday, December 12, 1995

Brad Plovan game 2.
Show begins with presentation about Jeopardy!'s USO tours.

Contestants

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George Seymour, an Army officer from Tokyo, Japan

Claudia Grimes, a pharmacy technician and substitute teacher from Akron, Ohio

Brad Plovan, a lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY AMERICANS
SPORTS
GEOGRAPHY
SWEETS
MEN NAMED JOSEPH
COTTON
    $100 26
Stephen Foster

Claudia
    $100 19
Michael Jordan

George
    $100 1
the Gulf Stream

George
    $100 3
buns

Brad
    $100 7
(Joe) Stalin

George
    $100 11
a cotton gin

Claudia
    $200 27
(Noah) Webster

Claudia
    $200 20
the Indianapolis 500

Brad
    $200 2
the Elbe

George
    $200 17
Ali Baba

George
    $200 8
(Brad: Who is Napoleon?)
...
(Alex: [*], Napoleon's brother, yes.)

Joseph Bonaparte

BradGeorge
    $200 12
(George: What is the stem?)

the boll

ClaudiaGeorge
    $300 28
(U.S.) Grant

Claudia
    $300 21
Brazil

Brad
    $300 4
India

George
    $300 18
(Claudia: What is Easter?)

Christmas

BradClaudia
    $300 9
Joseph Wapner

George
    $300 13
California

Claudia
    $400 29
Astor

Brad
    $400 22
Roger Maris

Claudia
    $400 5
the Jutland Peninsula

Brad
    $400 24
chocolate

Claudia
    $800 10
(George: [No response])
...
(Alex: His son was John Fitzgerald Kennedy.)

Joseph Kennedy

George
    $400 14
a bale

Claudia
    $500 30
Lew Wallace

George
    $500 23
Tom Landry

Brad
    $500 6
the Atlas Mountains

George
    $500 25
almonds

Claudia
    $500 16
Priestley

Claudia
    $500 15
corduroy

George

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 10):

Brad Claudia George
$300 $0 $900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brad Claudia George
$2,000 $3,100 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CAPITALS
12-LETTER WORDS
BRITISH AUTHORS
POTPOURRI
1980s TELEVISION
THE HAPSBURGS
    $200 6
Brussels

Claudia
    $200 11
the resurrection

George
    $200 12
Dickens

Brad
    $200 18
papyrus

Claudia
    $200 1
Doogie Howser

Claudia
    $200 21
a castle

Triple Stumper
    $400 7
Stockholm

George
    $1,500 14
(Claudia: [Thinks for a bit, then responds] What are Thoroughbreds?)
(Alex: Oooh. Darn. You made the mistake I was hoping you would not make. [*] is a 12-letter word. [*]s is a 13-letter word, and so it will cost you. I'm sorry about that. Please select again.)

Thoroughbred

Claudia
    $400 13
(Salman) Rushdie

Claudia
    $400 19
Hamilton

Brad
    $400 2
Loretta Swit (or Meg Foster or Sharon Gless)

Brad
    $600 8
Manila

Brad
    $600 15
(Brad: What is malnourishment?)

malnutrition

BradClaudia
    $600 24
(Alex: You are right, and about a minute to go.)

C.S. Lewis

Brad
    $600 20
New Jersey

George
    $600 3
The Equalizer

George
    $600 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Rothschilds

George
    $800 9
Pretoria

Brad
    $800 16
a delicatessen

Claudia
    $800 25
Bunyan

Claudia
    $800 22
(Walter) Reed

Claudia
    $800 4
a helicopter

George
    $800 28
Maria Theresa

George
    $1000 10
Monrovia

Brad
    $1000 17
(Claudia: What is colosseum?)

an amphitheater

Claudia
Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
(Somerset) Maugham

Brad
    $1000 23
William Hogarth

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Skippy

Brad
    $1,000 27
the Bourbons

Brad

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brad Claudia George
$8,400 $4,600 $6,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORIC QUOTES
(Alex: A distinguished career in World War I, but not so in World War II.)
...
(Alex: [To Claudia] No, Vichy was the name of a place, the Vichy government, of course.)
...
(Alex: [To George] Maréchal Pétain. Yes.)
ClaudiaWho was Vichy?
$200
GeorgeWho was Petain
$5,999
BradWho was Petain
$3,601
Philippe Pétain

Final scores:

Brad Claudia George
$12,001 $4,400 $11,999
2-day champion: $19,201 3rd place: Asko dishwasher 2nd place: Broyhill living room set + Sansui stereo

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Brad Claudia George
$8,400 $6,100 $6,800
17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 19 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $21,300

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