Responses for Show #117 - Tuesday, February 19, 1985

Contestants

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Christine Hall, a government and literature teacher from Phoenix, Arizona

Lew Lobenfeld, a letter carrier from Los Angeles, California

Jim Lewis, a student body president from Syracuse, New York

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ANIMALS
FIRST AID
"E" BEFORE "I"
BRITISH ISLES
COUNTRY MUSIC
HAIR
    $100 1
an electric eel

Jim
    $100 16
(Alex: [Before reading the clue] New category--first time on our show.)

frostbite

Jim
    $100 3
E-I-E-I-O

Jim
    $100 18
a rose

Christine
    $100 26
Kenny Rogers

Lewis
    $100 11
10

Christine
    $200 2
the Razorbacks

Lewis
    $200 17
a stretcher

Jim
    $200 6
Einstein

Christine
    $200 21
(Jim: What are the Peel Islands?)

Bobbies

JimChristine
    $200 27
(Jim: I have no idea.)

"Jambalaya"

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $200 12
a toupee

Lewis
    $300 4
(Christine: What are goats?)

reindeer

JimChristine
    $300 19
(Jim: What is a balm?)

calamine

JimChristine
    $300 7
(Lewis: Who is Williams?)

Eiffel

LewisChristine
    $300 23
(Alex: An interesting fact about that is that although you are mentally ill, you cannot vote for [*], but if you are mentally ill, you may run for [*].)

the House of Commons

Jim
    $300 28
drums

Triple Stumper
    $300 13
bangs

Christine
    $400 5
because the snake is deaf

Christine
    $400 20
mouth-to-mouth

Jim
    $400 8
(Jim: What are wild cards?)
...
(Alex: E before I. Remember the category, players. Christine remembers.)

eights

JimChristine
    $400 24
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

a brogue

Jim
    $400 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the Carters

Christine
    $400 14
Vidal Sassoon

Christine
    $500 10
a drone

Lewis
    $500 22
(Lewis: What is blood clotting?)

gangrene

JimLewis
    $500 9
(Alex: And there were 64 plants by the end of the war.)

Eisenhower

Lewis
    $500 25
the Presbyterian Church

Triple Stumper
    $500 15
(Jim: [no response])

Arthur

Jim
Triple Stumper

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

Jim Lewis Christine
$100 $900 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Lewis Christine
$800 $700 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LITERATURE
COMPUTERS
ASSASSINS
BOTANY
STARTS WITH "O"
ASTROLOGY
    $200 11
"yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum"

Jim
    $200 22
hardware

Jim
    $200 5
Robert Kennedy

Jim
    $200 16
dandelion

Christine
    $200 1
an order

Christine
    $200 18
(Lewis: What's a zodiac?)

a horoscope

JimLewis
    $400 12
Jane Eyre

Christine
    $400 23
a modem

Jim
    $400 6
Martin Luther King

Jim
    $400 17
[An audience member allegedly shouted out the correct response after Jim had signaled, and Jim's score was deducted even though he was not given an opportunity to respond.]

the pansy

Jim
Triple Stumper
    $400 2
"Ode To Billie Joe"

Christine
    $400 19
12

Jim
    $600 13
(Lewis: Who is Moriarty?)

Sherlock Holmes

JimLewis
    $600 24
FORTRAN

Christine
    $600 7
Julius Caesar

Lewis
    $1,400 21
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)

the tumbleweed

Jim
    $600 3
(Christine: What is...?)

The Oxbow Incident

LewisChristine
    $600 20
(Jim: What is Gemini?)
(Lewis: What is Leo?)
...
(Alex: What's our birthday? July 4th. The sign for July 4th is [*].)

Cancer

JimLewis
Triple Stumper
    $800 14
(Christine: I'm blank.)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Christine
Triple Stumper
    $800 8
John Lennon

Christine
    $800 4
[ERRATUM: In a filmed interview, Oppenheimer translated the Sanskrit word kālo as "Death", not "Shiva". Other scholars have translated the word as "Time", "the Destroyer", or "Doom".]

Oppenheimer

Jim
    $800 25
fire

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Beethoven

Triple Stumper
    $1000 9
Archduke Ferdinand

Jim
    $1000 10
(Lewis: What is onomatopoeia?)

oxymoron

Lewis
Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

Earth

Lewis

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jim Lewis Christine
$5,600 $500 $4,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CONSTITUTION
LewisWhat is Vermont?
$499
ChristineWhat was New Hampshire?
$3,000
JimWhat is Mass.?
$2,401
Rhode Island

Final scores:

Jim Lewis Christine
$3,199 $1 $1,000
New champion: $3,199 3rd place: Yamaha electronic keyboard 2nd place: Broyhill sofa + Regency scanner & alarm clock

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jim Lewis Christine
$4,800 $500 $4,000
20 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W		 8 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W		 17 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $9,300

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Game tape date: 1984-10-31
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