Responses for Show #23 - Wednesday, October 10, 1984

Contestants

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Sandy Boyden, an assistant sales manager from Anaheim, California

Jon Scott, a kindergarten teacher from Los Osos, California

Diane McCain, a student from Van Nuys, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $11,900)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

EXPLORERS
TOYS & GAMES
HOLLAND
MOVIE TRIVIA
FISH
BEGINS WITH ā€œZā€
    $100 1
post office

Diane
    $100 19
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round. Diane.)
(Diane: What are clogs?)
(Alex: Clogs? Be a little more specific. Or a little less specific, I would think.)
(Diane: What are... [*]?)

wooden shoes

Diane
    $100 6
(Jon: Who was the insidious [*]?)

Fu Manchu

Jon
    $100 11
schools

Jon
    $100 13
Zorro

Sandy
    $200 2
checkers

Jon
    $200 20
cheese

Diane
    $200 7
The Jazz Singer

Jon
    $200 12
[Jon, and the audience, applaud for Sandy.]
(Alex: That may be a good luck--er, omen for the lady.)

Jonah

Sandy
    $200 14
Florenz Ziegfeld

Jon
    $300 3
billiards

Jon
    $300 21
the Netherlands

Diane
    $1,500 8
Theda Bara

Jon
    $300 18
bass

Diane
    $300 15
Zanzibar

Sandy
    $400 4
tic-tac-toe

Jon
    $400 22
the boy who stuck his finger in the dike

Jon
    $400 9
Napoleon Bonaparte

Jon
    $400 16
Efrem Zimbalist

Jon
    $500 5
(Jon: Who's Mr. [*]?)
...
[Applause for Jon]
(Alex: You got it! Nice going! You did very well in that category. You picked up $1,400. Diane got the very first one, but that's all.)

Pac-Man

Jon
    $500 23
(Jon: Lufthansa.)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines)

Jon
Triple Stumper
    $500 10
the paper it's written on

Triple Stumper
    $500 17
(Alex: We've wrapped up that one! Nice going. $4,800 for you, $600 for Sandy, and Diane, our returning champion, is stalled at $100. Come on, Diane!)

Zeus

Jon

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 8):

Diane Jon Sandy
$100 $3,200 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Diane Jon Sandy
$1,000 $4,700 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE
AWARDS
1960
WOMEN LEADERS
TRANSPORTATION
LITERARY QUOTES
    $200 23
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Bunsen burner

Jon
    $200 1
Walt Disney

Diane
    $200 10
(Alex: Yeah, and you love sports, I know.)

basketball

Diane
    $200 15
Margaret Thatcher

Sandy
    $200 20
(Jon: What were [*]?)
...
(Jon: And still are, of course.)

horses

Jon
    $200 6
(Jon: I shouldn't know this, but [*] is quicker.)
(Alex: Yes. Kinder--kindergarten teachers are not supposed to drink the hard stuff.)
(Jon: No, no.)
(Alex: Get sauced on wine, don't you?)
(Jon: Yes.)
(Alex: Sorry, I didn't mean that. Don't want to offend any kindergarten teachers. Go, Jon.)
(Jon: Only a little Chablis.)
(Alex: Little Chablis? Ha ha ha ha! All right!)

liquor

Jon
    $400 2
the United States

Diane
    $400 11
(Diane: What is Brigadoon?)

Camelot

DianeSandy
    $400 16
Golda Meir

Diane
    $400 21
a barrel

Sandy
    $400 7
(Jon: Where was Purgatorio?)
(Alex: Purgatorio, or [**]. You got it.)
(Jon: Heck, yes.)
(Alex: No? Is that incorrect? That is wrong.)
[Diane rings in.]
(Alex: Well, let's see. Diane?)
(Diane: What is his [*]?)
(Alex: [*]. That's what we were looking for. Okay.)

Inferno (or hell)

DianeJon
    $600 3
the Cy Young Award

Diane
    $600 12
Jack Lemmon

Sandy
    $600 17
Sister Teresa

Jon
    $3,000 22
(Alex: Audio Daily Double, and we've got less than a minute to go in the round.)
...
(Alex: "[*] Ride" is the song.)

a sleigh

Sandy
    $600 8
Jacqueline Susann

Diane
    $800 4
(Jon: What is the Edgar, named after [*]?)

Edgar Allan Poe

Jon
    $800 13
a sit-in

Diane
    $800 18
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Diane
    $800 9
(Diane: What is a nickel?)
...
(Alex: And you've just put $800 in your pocket, Sandy.)

a falling star

DianeSandy
    $1000 5
the Iron Cross

Jon
    $1000 14
(Jon: Uh, what is the square root of ignorance?)
(Alex: Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha! Sorry about that, Jon, you're gonna lose $1,000. I don't know why I'm laughing. You're very entertaining.)
(Jon: I don't know why I'm laughing!)
[Alex gave the correct response's first name as "Anthony".]

Antony Armstrong-Jones

Jon
Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
(Alex: [Explaining why he accepted Diane's response giving surname only] There's only one leader who leads that country, and her name is Indira.)

(Indira) Gandhi

Diane

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Diane Jon Sandy
$5,200 $6,300 $6,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

DANCE
DianeWhat is Waltz?
$5,199
SandyWhat is the waltz?
$5,900
JonWhat is the Waltz?
$3,000
the minuet

Final scores:

Diane Jon Sandy
$1 $3,300 $100
3rd place: Teletec Systems, Inc. Touch Two 2-line telephone New champion: $3,300 2nd place: Westnofa USA Inc. Balans Tripos reclining chair + Landes Silver 4-piece Lighthouse coffee & tea set with matching serving tray

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Diane Jon Sandy
$5,200 $5,100 $3,600
15 R,
2 W
19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
9 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $13,900

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Game tape date: 1984-08-21
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