Responses for Show #745 - Friday, November 27, 1987

"Signature game" with all clues prepared by Jeopardy! research writer Barbara Heller.

Contestants

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Michael Miller, a labor relations representative from Mission Hills, California

Sheryl Krieger, an advertising executive from San Diego, California

Adella Ravitch, a teacher from Anaheim Hills, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,900)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE '60s
CACTUS
STAMPS & COINS
MOVIE TRIVIA
TORNADOES
NUMERICAL PHRASES
    $100 2
The Fugitive

Michael
    $100 24
(Michael: What is a fishing needle?)
...
(Alex: We've got a minute to go in the round, Adella.)

a fishhook

AdellaMichael
    $100 19
his face

Sheryl
    $100 1
(Alex: And yesterday, Adella, in becoming champion, you played a game that we called a "signature game": it was by one writer. Today, all of the material has been prepared by Barbara Heller. So, she's sitting in the audience, and she's anxious to see how you guys do. So go ahead, make the first choice.)

chimpanzees

Michael
    $100 11
the Gulf of Mexico

Michael
    $100 14
four-letter word

Adella
    $200 3
[Alex adds "a" before "formula" when reading the clue.]

Gatorade

Adella
    $200 25
water

Sheryl
    $200 20
San Francisco

Michael
    $200 7
Hombre

Michael
    $200 12
a waterspout

Adella
    $200 15
(Michael: What is a three-wheel landing?)
...
(Alex: [*], that's the specific phrase we were going for.)

a three-point landing

AdellaMichael
    $300 4
flower power

Triple Stumper
    $300 26
prickly pear

Adella
    $300 21
(Alex: Yes, that's the only Spanish monarch I can think of who was a woman.)

Queen Isabella

Adella
    $300 8
[Alex reads "UA" as "United Artists".]

Heaven's Gate

Adella
    $300 13
May

Adella
    $300 16
a one-alarm fire

Triple Stumper
    $400 5
(Adella: What is birth control?)

the pill

AdellaSheryl
    $400 27
(Alex: Yes, mostly in Mexico, as a matter of fact.)

North America

Michael
    $400 22
the first postage stamp issued

Triple Stumper
    $400 9
(Michael: What is 9 to 5?)

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

AdellaMichael
    $400 17
an eighteen-wheeler

Adella
    $500 6
Watts (in the City of Los Angeles)

Sheryl
    $400 28
(Michael: What is the Joshua tree?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

saguaro & organ pipe

Michael
    $500 23
(Adella: What is a mill?)

the Indian-head penny

Adella
Triple Stumper
    $500 10
The Illustrated Man

Triple Stumper
    $500 18
twenty-twenty hindsight

Sheryl

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Adella Sheryl Michael
$700 $900 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adella Sheryl Michael
$1,900 $1,700 $0

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BEST SELLERS
THE CARIBBEAN
COUNTRY MUSIC
PHILOSOPHY
WEST VIRGINIANS
"B.H."
(Alex: And finally, a category in which all of the responses will be two words, and they will begin with the letters B and H.)
    $200 9
It

Adella
    $200 1
Christopher Columbus's landing in the New World

Adella
    $200 4
[ERRATUM: The full quote is, "If it weren't for Dottie West, I'd probably be a very bad lawyer in Houston, Texas."]

Larry Gatlin

Adella
    $200 18
effect

Adella
    $200 23
Mother's Day

Adella
    $200 6
Barbara Hershey

Adella
    $400 10
Isak Dinesen

Adella
    $400 2
(Sheryl: What is the dawn?)
...
(Michael: What is midday or [*]?)

noon

SherylMichael
    $400 5
T.G. Sheppard

Sheryl
    $400 19
Confucius

Adella
    $400 24
Don Knotts

Sheryl
    $400 14
Ben Hogan

Sheryl
    $600 11
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sheryl
    $600 3
(Michael: What is Denmark?)

Holland (the Netherlands)

AdellaMichael
    $500 7
(Alex: You got 'em both! Way to go! All right! They really tear it up, don't they?)
(Adella: Yeah, they do.)
(Alex: They're good.)
[The song was not reprised going into the break.]

(1 of) Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn

Adella
    $600 20
a skeptic

Michael
    $600 25
(Alex: Less than a minute to go, Sheryl.)

spying

Triple Stumper
    $600 15
British Honduras

Sheryl
    $800 12
(Adella: What is Clan of the Cave Bear?)
...
(Alex: Clan of the Cave Bear came earlier, I believe, Adella.)

The Mammoth Hunters

AdellaSheryl
    $1,500 28
(Michael: What are [*]...)
(Alex: Correct.)
(Michael: ...and [**]?)
(Alex: That's good. Nice going.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
(Alex: And you did it in the nick of time.)

Cuba & the Dominican Republic

Michael
    $800 8
(Adella: What is eleven?)

10 (4, 4 & 2)

AdellaSheryl
    $800 21
obey laws

Michael
    $800 26
Walter Reuther

Michael
    $800 16
Benjamin Harrison

Adella
    $1000 13
(Alex: Yep. Been on the best seller list, they tell me, since 1981. You're in the lead, now, Sheryl. You've got $4,900.)

Danielle Steel

Sheryl
    $1000 22
(Adella: What is verse?)

dialogues

Adella
Triple Stumper
    $1000 27
Cyrus Vance

Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
(Alex: Good for $1,000. You're out of that negative situation. You've got +$800. Select.)

Breed's Hill

Michael

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adella Sheryl Michael
$3,200 $6,300 $4,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CONSTELLATIONS
(Alex: [To Adella] You gave us two of them. We didn't need two. And in addition, they're both wrong.)
AdellaWhat are Ursa Major and Ursa Minor?
$3,200
MichaelWhat are Castor & Pollux?
$4,500
SherylWhat are Hera & Aphrodite?
$2,701
Cassiopeia & Andromeda

Final scores:

Adella Sheryl Michael
$0 $3,599 $0
3rd place: Brother Compactronic AX-33 daisy-wheel electronic typewriter with 5,000 character memory, Word Spell electronic dictionary, word out & line out New champion: $3,599 2nd place: Berkline Supramotion Wall-Away Sofa + Emerson Deluxe 25" stereo color TV with dual speakers, 139-channel cable TV capability & wireless remote

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Adella Sheryl Michael
$3,300 $6,300 $4,200
22 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 13 R,
1 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $13,800

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Game tape date: 1987-08-26
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