Responses for Show #916 - Monday, September 5, 1988

First game of Season 5.

Contestants

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Molly Herrington, a legal secretary and student originally from Iowa

Vernon Jones, a data processor from Jersey City, New Jersey

Dave Prechtl, a warehouse manager from Rosemead, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,001)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1800s
THE MOVIES
THE BIBLE
THE CALENDAR
TRACK & FIELD
COMMON BONDS
    $100 21
the Louisiana Purchase

Dave
    $100 6
Fred Astaire

Dave
    $100 8
sin

Molly
    $100 16
April 1st

Vernon
    $100 1
Roger Bannister

Dave
    $100 24
white

Dave
    $200 22
(Vernon: Who is Napoleon?)
(Molly: Who is Wellington?)

(Lord) Nelson

DaveVernonMolly
    $200 7
Marilyn Monroe

Vernon
    $200 10
his beard

Molly
    $200 17
a fiscal year

Dave
    $200 2
a hurdle

Dave
    $200 25
(Alex: Some nice, some not so nice.)

things you smell

Triple Stumper
    $300 23
(That's right. We've got less than a minute to go.)

Antarctica

Vernon
    $300 9
a nightclub

Vernon
    $300 13
[NOTE: "Revelations", with the "s", was accepted as correct.]

Revelations

Vernon
    $300 18
Thursday & Friday (Tuesday & Wednesday)

Dave
    $300 3
(Alex: The running broad jump, that's right.)

a broad jump

Dave
    $300 27
bears

Vernon
    $400 26
(Alex: The modern games were revived in 1896.)

once

Vernon
    $500 11
[Orchestral music]
(Molly: What is Sophie's Choice?)
(Alex: Oh, no. No, that's the very familiar theme--perhaps not to you. Maybe you didn't see the film. It started when she said, [Alex does a Meryl Streep voice.] "I had a farm in Africa." [*]. Farm in the Ngong Hills.)

Out of Africa

Molly
    $400 14
Jonah

Vernon
    $400 19
Easter

Dave
    $400 4
OJ Simpson

Dave
    $400 28
ladders

Molly
    $500 12
The Producers

Vernon
    $500 15
(Vernon: Daddy would kill me if I missed those.)

Matthew

Vernon
    $500 20
(Alex: For Julius Caesar, that is right.)

July

Dave
    $500 5
Bob Mathias

Dave
    $500 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

glasses

Vernon

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Dave Vernon Molly
$1,600 $500 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Vernon Molly
$3,400 $3,600 $0

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CAPITALS
FICTION
PHYSICS
FAMOUS AMERICANS
ARCHITECTURE
FROM THE FRENCH
    $200 2
(Dave: What is Canberra?)
...
(Alex: Dave misread it. He thought it was Australia, not Austria.)

Vienna

DaveMolly
    $200 1
Gulliver's Travels

Dave
    $200 5
a watt

Vernon
    $200 14
Charles Schulz

Dave
    $200 19
the pyramids

Molly
    $200 7
parfait

Molly
    $400 10
Athena

Molly
    $1,000 3
[Alex read "W. Irving" in the clue as "Washington Irving".]

New York

Molly
    $400 6
(Vernon: What is one quarter?)

one half

Vernon
Triple Stumper
    $400 15
Earl Warren

Dave
    $400 20
(Molly: What are rosettes?)

rose windows

Molly
Triple Stumper
    $400 25
(Dave: What is a mouth, [*] or tooth...)
(Alex: Right. Tooth cleanser.)

a toothpaste

Dave
    $600 11
Nigeria

Dave
    $600 4
Edna Ferber

Vernon
    $600 16
Davy Crockett

Dave
    $600 21
Frank Lloyd Wright

Dave
    $600 26
(Alex: It's strange. I would think this is the easiest one: [*].)

chateau

Triple Stumper
    $800 12
[Alex gives an emphasis to Australia as he reads the clue, and Dave is heard chuckling.]
...
(Dave: I had to get it right somewhere.)

New South Wales

Dave
    $800 8
Paradise Regained

Molly
    $1,000 17
Herbert Hoover

Dave
    $800 22
Constantinople (or Istanbul)

Molly
    $800 24
(Vernon: What is a piece of furniture?)
(Alex: Piece of furniture. Can you be a little more specific?)
(Vernon: I hope. What is a desk?)
(Alex: No.)
(Vernon: Rats!)

a chest of drawers

DaveVernon
    $1000 13
(Alex: The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.)

Oman

Dave
    $1000 9
The Old Curiosity Shop

Dave
    $1000 18
Ross Perot

Dave
    $1000 23
(Molly: I'm not sure if I pronounce it right. Who is I.M. Pei? [which she says "Pee-ah"])
...
(Alex: We've got a minute to go, Molly. You select.)

Eero Saarinen

Molly
Triple Stumper
    $1000 27
a chignon

Molly

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Vernon Molly
$11,800 $3,200 $3,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. GEOGRAPHY
[Vernon's response was revealed first.]
...
(Alex: [To Molly] That's about 600-and-some miles.)
...
(Alex: [After the correct response] 900 miles there.)
...
[Alex misstates Dave's 2-day today as "fourteen thousand, zero-zero one".]
VernonWhat are California & Nevada?
$3,200
MollyWhat is Calif. and Nev.?
$3,198
DaveWhat are New York & Penn
$5,000
Texas & Oklahoma

Final scores:

Dave Vernon Molly
$6,800 $0 $2
2-day champion: $14,801 3rd place: his & her Daniel Mink watches 2nd place: Eastern Airline trip to the Caribbean with a week at the Bahamas Princess Resort and Casino

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dave Vernon Molly
$11,600 $3,200 $3,100
26 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 13 R,
3 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $17,900

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Game tape date: 1988-07-18
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