Responses for Show #1878 - Wednesday, November 4, 1992

Tom Nosek game 2.

Contestants

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Bill Newberry, a musician and teacher from Lilburn, Georgia

Georgiana Gates, a computer programmer from Houston, Texas

Tom Nosek, an aerospace engineer originally from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,300)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

TRANSPORTATION
BOOKS & AUTHORS
FAMOUS ANIMALS
STATE SYMBOLS
BROADWAY MUSICALS
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
    $100 1
a unicycle

Bill
    $100 14
Bram Stoker

Tom
    $100 9
(Alex: Yeah, it was a protest vote, obviously.)

Brazil

Bill
    $100 8
(Tom: What is beer?)

milk

Tom
Triple Stumper
    $100 10
Stephen King

Bill
    $100 2
the Koran

Georgiana
    $200 4
school buses

Tom
    $200 23
the Ambersons

Bill
    $200 12
a nickel

Tom
    $200 27
Utah

Tom
    $200 11
(Georgiana: What is Cabaret?)

Grand Hotel

TomGeorgiana
    $200 3
post mortem

Tom
    $300 5
rumble

Tom
    $300 24
Tom Clancy

Tom
    $300 13
Wellington

Georgiana
    $300 28
Arizona

Triple Stumper
    $600 16
(Bill: Who is David Carradine?)
(Alex: Oooh, you confused the famous Carradine brothers. This is [*], not David. And the show, of course, was Will Rogers Follies. You knew that, and you just slipped up a little bit. All right, redeem yourself quickly.)

Keith Carradine

Bill
    $300 15
a lullaby

Bill
    $400 6
the North Atlantic

Triple Stumper
    $400 25
Michener

Tom
    $400 21
Muhammad

Tom
    $400 29
Wyoming

Tom
    $400 17
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Bill
    $400 19
blood & iron

Tom
    $500 7
the Enola Gay

Tom
    $500 26
(Tom: [*]?)
(Alex: No, sorry, the phrasing you have to remember.)
(Tom: What is [*]?)
(Alex: Okay, good. We usually allow you that second try at it in the Jeopardy! Round.)

The Mill on the Floss

Tom
    $500 22
(Tom: What is a chimp?)
(Bill: What is a dog?)
(Georgiana: What is a rhesus monkey?)

a squirrel monkey

TomGeorgianaBill
Triple Stumper
    $500 30
the Nautilus

Tom
    $500 18
Kismet

Tom
    $500 20
the Cote d'Azur

Bill

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Tom Georgiana Bill
$1,600 $200 $300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Georgiana Bill
$4,700 -$300 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

1960
COLOR
WORLD FACTS
CONTEMPORARIES
DISASTERS
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
    $200 16
a satellite

Georgiana
    $200 3
cones

Georgiana
    $200 2
Australia

Bill
    $200 20
Nobel

Tom
    $200 9
China

Bill
    $200 1
Gallo

Bill
    $400 27
Humphrey

Georgiana
    $400 10
Land

Tom
    $400 5
Paris

Tom
    $400 21
Genghis Khan

Bill
    $400 11
Chernobyl

Tom
    $400 4
Fiat

Tom
    $600 28
Powers

Bill
    $600 17
ultraviolet

Tom
    $600 6
(Bill: What is Crete?)

Cyprus

TomBill
    $600 22
Copernicus

Tom
    $600 12
the Hindenburg

Tom
    $600 15
Federal Express

Bill
    $800 29
Eichmann

Tom
    $800 25
(Georgiana: What are emulsions?)
...
(Alex: Those that stay as tiny particles are the [*]. They then wind up as part of an emulsion. But we were going for [*], Georgiana. Sorry.)

pigments

Georgiana
Triple Stumper
    $800 7
Ontario

Tom
    $800 23
Celsius

Georgiana
    $800 13
Union Carbide

Tom
    $800 18
Travelers

Tom
    $4,000 30
Algeria

Tom
    $1000 26
Newton

Tom
    $1,500 8
(Tom: What is the Soviet Union?)

Mexico

Tom
    $1000 24
Aristophanes

Georgiana
    $1000 14
Pelee

Georgiana
    $1000 19
motorhomes (RVs)

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tom Georgiana Bill
$15,600 $2,500 $2,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

INSECTS
BillWhat are moths?
$2,000
GeorgianaWhat are moths?
$2,000
TomWhat are lightning bugs?
$4,400
fireflies (lightning bugs)

Final scores:

Tom Georgiana Bill
$20,000 $500 $200
2-day champion: $31,300 2nd place: trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 3rd place: Enesco "Small World of Music" + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Tom Georgiana Bill
$14,100 $2,500 $2,800
31 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)
8 R,
3 W
13 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $19,400

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Game tape date: 1992-08-18
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