Show #740 1987-11-20 (taped 1987-10-27) Tournament of Champions

1987 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

Bob Verini — a playwright/actor from New York, New York (subtotal of $3,800)

Eugene Finerman — a writer from Chicago, Illinois (subtotal of $6,800)

Dave Traini — a teacher from Medford Lakes, New Jersey (subtotal of $7,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $1,000 $2,200 $4,200 $8,400 $4,200
15 R, 2 W
Eugene $-100 $1,200 $2,400 $4,800 $2,400
9 R, 2 W
Bob $900 $1,900 $11,000 $12,201 $8,500
23 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICANA RELIGION MAPS 1988 NUCLEAR PHYSICS "PAR" FOR THE COURSE
$100 [16]
They advise "Be all you can be"
the Army
Dave Eugene
$100 [4]
In October of 1986, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church denounced this
apartheid
Dave
$100 [18]
On most general reference maps, blue indicates this
water
Bob
$100 [30]
This calendar oddity will occur on a Monday in 1988
February 29th (Leap Year Day accepted)
Bob
$100 [1]
In September of 1986, the first of the three remaining reactors at this Soviet plant was restarted
Chernobyl
Dave
$100 [3]
They can be Tupperware, bachelor, or Republican
parties
Eugene
$200 [17]
The U.S. flag code says red, white, and blue bunting should always feature this color on top
blue
Eugene
$200 [15]
The president of this Arab country must be a Maronite Christian
Lebanon
Bob
$200 [21]
Distinction that makes a collection of maps an atlas
they are bound
Bob
$200 [29]
Number of House seats up for election in 1988
all of them (435)
Dave
$200 [2]
Nuclear energy is released when you split up nucleons in the nucleus: groups of protons, and these
neutrons
Eugene Bob
$200 [8]
Geometrically patterned flooring
parquet
Bob
$300 [19]
When Connecticut's Lieutenant Governor presides over the state senate, he sits in a chair made of wood of this tree
Charter Oak
$300 [14]
English spellings of the names of all seven archangels of Judeo-Christian tradition end with these two letters
E-L
Bob
$300 [22]
in 1884, astronomers and geographers set this line as the starting point for east-west measurements
Prime Meridian (Greenwich)
Dave Bob
$300 [28]
Number of Senate seats up for election in 1988
33
$300 [5]
A metal used in making control rods for nuclear reactors; its chemical symbol is Cd
cadmium
Dave
$400 [10]
The name of this herb comes from the Greek for "rock celery"; petrocelinon
parsley
Bob
$400 [20]
Signs urging tourists to stay in North Dakota say "Custer was healthy" when he left there bound for this state
Montana
Dave
$400 [13]
At first, Jim Bakker claimed that this Louisiana-based Pentecostal preacher wanted to take over the PTL
Jimmy Swaggart
Bob
$400 [23]
Found on maps, it's technically called a representative fraction and more commonly this
scale
Dave
$400 [27]
In mid-March, Midway Island will be midway along the path of one of these
a solar eclipse
$400 [6]
This sub-atomic particle is the anti-particle of the electron
the positron
DD $500 [9]
Despite the title of the followingearly hit, this artist is smart enough to be a star 20 years later:"Just because I'm blonde /Don't think I'm dumb /'Cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool!"
Dolly Parton
Bob
$500 [26]
John Scott Harrison, an Indiana farmer, was the only man in U.S. history who was this
a son and a father of a U.S. President
Eugene Bob
$500 [12]
On May 9, 1969, it was declared that 200 Catholic saints would lose these
Feast Days
Dave
$500 [24]
On a topographic map, these lines indicate changes in elevation
contour lines
Dave
$500 [25]
Both Sunday, January 31st and Tuesday, March 8th have been dubbed with this five-letter adjective
super
Bob
$500 [7]
Among particles in this family are the up, down, strange, and charmed
quarks
Dave
$500 [11]
Descended from Iranian exiles, these Zoroastrians now live in India
Parsis
Eugene

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY POETRY FOOTBALL OPERA LABOR UNIONS MIDDLE NAMES
$200 [7]
The African nation Zimbabwe was formerly named for this Englishman
Cecil Rhodes
Dave
$200 [20]
"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" is the first line of this Thomas Gray poem
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Bob
$200 [28]
This team's first jerseys were provided by the Indian Packing Co.
Green Bay Packers
Dave
$200 [15]
In Wagner's "Gotterdammerung", she dies by riding her horse onto Siegfried's funeral pyre
Brunhilde
Dave
$200 [21]
First labor union leader who went on to become U.S. president
Ronald Reagan
Eugene
$200 [11]
J.C. Penney's middle name, or what you'd use to buy stuff in his store
Cash
Dave Bob
$400 [8]
Because of these law enforcement officers there, the Yukon gold rush was one of the most orderly in history
Mounties
Eugene
$400 [19]
18th century playwright who penned the poem "When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly"
Oliver Goldsmith
Bob
DD $600 [30]
The highest scorers in pro football history all played this position
kickers
Bob
$400 [5]
Naval rank of Pinkerton in "Madame Butterfly"
lieutenant
Bob
$400 [23]
"Shaky" nickname of the Industrial Workers of the World
Wobblies
Bob
$400 [13]
Remarkably, it's the name shared by Erich Remarque and Klaus Brandauer
Maria
Bob
$600 [9]
Sir Thomas Raffles founded this city on its island of the same name
Singapore
Dave
$600 [18]
Historically, and in Robert Browning's poem, it was the profession of Andrea Del Sarte
painter
$600 [29]
This coach has led teams to the Super Bowl the most times--7--the Colts twice & the Dolphins 5 times
Don Shula
Bob
$600 [3]
Of "Benvenuto Cellini", "Boris Godunov", and "Eugene Onegin", the two who were historic figures
Cellini and Godunov
Bob
$600 [24]
"New York Magazine" says one of the few things that's still free is a ruler from this union's Union Label department
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
Bob
$600 [4]
This educator's famous middle initial stood for Taliaferro
Booker T. Washington
Dave
$800 [10]
In 1667, in exchange for New York, Britain gave this colony to the Dutch, which they kept until 1975
Suriname
Bob
$800 [17]
The poem in which Walt Whitman modestly mused, "I celebrate myself and sing myself"
"Song of Myself"
Eugene
$800 [27]
73-0, the Redskins lost the most lopsided NFL championship game ever to this team
Chicago Bears (1940)
$800 [2]
In Germany, this opera is sometimes called "Margarethe" to separate it from the Goethe drama
Faust
Bob
$800 [25]
Aerospace workers are also members of this union headed by Owen Bieber
United Auto Workers
Eugene
$1,000 [14]
The S. in Pearl S. Buck was for her maiden name; her middle name was this; the same as Louis Tiffany's
Comfort
$1,000 [12]
This late 18th- early 19th-century French diplomat served at least seven different regimes
Talleyrand
Bob
$1,000 [16]
Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" was an answer to this Marlowe poem
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
$1,000 [26]
This great star of football's early era became the first commissioner of what was to become the NFL
Jim Thorpe
Bob
$1,000 [1]
In this operetta, Prince Orlovsky calls champagne "the king of all wines"
Die Fledermaus
Eugene
$1,000 [22]
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 is usually called this, after the New York senator who authored it
Robert Wagner
Bob
DD $3,700 [6]
He was the first U.S. president to have a middle name
John Quincy Adams
Bob

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY DEMOCRATS

He said, "I am the last president of the United States"

James Buchanan

Eugene "Who was Buchanan?" — wagered $2,400
Dave "Who was Buchanan?" — wagered $4,200
Bob "Who wasFranklin PierceJames Buchanan?" — wagered $1,201

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