1998 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.
Sahir Islam — a Teen Tournament winner from Somers, New York
Pam Mifflin — a computer trainer from Brookfield, Wisconsin
Arthur Phillips — a speechwriter from Cambridge, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur | $300 | $700 | $6,100 |
$2,201
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$6,100
15 R, 2 W |
| Pam | $500 | $300 | $1,100 |
$100
3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$2,100
8 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sahir | $2,200 | $4,900 | $7,800 |
$7,787
Automatic semifinalist |
$8,000
28 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| THE ART OF WAR | MOVIE VICTIMS | THE BOOK BIZ | THE BODY HUMAN | UNDRESSED FOR SUCCESS | NEXT LINE, PLEASE |
|
$100
[2]
It's a trademarked chemical tear gas, or a heavy club with a spiked metal knob
Mace
Sahir
|
$100
[15]
To avoid joining the victims of this hockey-masked killer, stay away from Camp Crystal Lake
Jason
Sahir
|
$100
[13]
Unless we receive other instructions, we'll tell you the Literary Guild was among the first of these
book clubs
Pam
|
$100
[8]
A person suffering from dysphagia has trouble doing this... gulp!
swallowing
Sahir
|
$100
[21]
An exotic dancer & WWI secret agent, her name is a synonym for a seductive female spy
Mata Hari
Sahir
|
$100
[26]
"I've come to help you.""We'll, it's about time somebody did!""The Witch Doctor is a bad man.""You can say that again!"
"The Witch Doctor is a bad man."
Arthur
|
|
$200
[3]
It's a nuclear power's capability of a preemptive attack, or one-third of an out in baseball
First strike
Sahir
|
$200
[16]
Neve Campbell is threatened by a killer a year after her mother's murder in this 1996 film
Scream
Sahir
|
$200
[14]
This trade magazine has been listing the nation's bestselling books since 1912
Publisher's Weekly
Arthur
|
$200
[9]
Dedentition is just the loss of these; an odontectomy removes them
teeth
Sahir
|
$200
[22]
Demi Moore bares more than her soul in this 1996 film about a woman short on funds & clothes
Striptease
Pam
|
$200
[27]
"Like sands through the hourglass, so are..."
"The days of our lives"
Arthur
|
|
$300
[4]
The B-29s that dropped atomic bombs on Japan were made by this Seattle-based company
Boeing
Arthur
|
$300
[5]
In 1996 he co-starred as the customer victimized by "Cable Guy" Jim Carrey
Matthew Broderick
Sahir
|
$300
[1]
Last name of Richard, who co-founded a publishing house in 1924 & fathered a singer named Carly in 1945
Simon
Sahir
|
$300
[10]
Several disorders that affect this organ are grouped under the term strabismus
the eye
|
$300
[23]
She was Playmate Of The Year before becoming playmate of the last years of oil tycoon Howard J. Marshall
Anna Nicole Smith
Sahir
|
$300
[28]
"With a name like Smucker's..."
"It has to be good"
Sahir
|
|
$400
[6]
In the 1930s, France built this elaborate barrier as a permanent defense against German attack
the Maginot Line
Pam
|
$400
[17]
In "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", Dreyfus plots revenge against this inspector, his tormentor
Inspector Clouseau
Sahir
|
$400
[19]
In 1997 Harper Collins canceled 100 new titles but let the authors keep these up-front payments
advances
Sahir
|
DD
$500
[11]
The stapedius in the middle ear is one of these that moves the stapes
a muscle
Sahir
|
$400
[24]
Otto Preminger only admitted after her death that he'd had a child with this burlesque queen
Gypsy Rose Lee
Arthur
|
$400
[29]
From Chapter 10 of "Animal Farm" comes "All animals are equal, but some animals..."
"are more equal than others"
Pam
Sahir
|
|
$500
[7]
Made by Raytheon, these antimissile missiles intercepted scuds in the Gulf War
Patriot missiles
Sahir
|
$500
[18]
In "Fatal Attraction", one of these small creatures succumbs to the culinary skills of Glenn Close
a rabbit
Pam
|
$500
[20]
An unsold book left in the publisher's inventory, or a number left over in division
a remainder
Sahir
|
$500
[12]
Tom Brokaw's Broca's area is in this organ; so is yours
the brain (helps covering speech)
|
$500
[25]
A rocky relationship with exotic dancer Fanne Foxe ended this powerful congressman's career in 1974
Wilbur Mills
|
$500
[30]
"We gotta get out while we're young 'cause tramps like us, baby..."
"we were born to run"
Arthur
Pam
|
| THE ART OF PEACE | WAY UP NORTH | BETH J. SPRUCZAK--ACCOUNTANT! | SOUNDS LIKE YIDDISH | MEN IN TIGHTS | YUMMY! |
|
$200
[1]
Goya protested this emperor's invasion of Spain with "Third of May, 1808"
Napoleon Bonaparte
Sahir
|
$200
[16]
The name of this vast region of northern Russia means "sleeping land"
Siberia
Sahir
|
$200
[6]
Beth finds it apt that this taxing process' name comes from Latin for "to hear"--she's heard some whoppers
an audit
Sahir
|
$200
[30]
This word derived from "nose" means the projecting spout of a hose
Nozzle
Arthur
|
$200
[12]
This actor wore tights on the big screen in 1991 as the "Prince Of Thieves"
Kevin Costner
Arthur
|
$200
[19]
Fannie Farmer recommends spicing this traditional Thanksgiving jelly with cinnamon, cloves & allspice
cranberry jelly
Sahir
|
|
$400
[2]
In September 1981, 44 years after it was painted, this anti-war mural was returned to Spain
Guernica
Sahir
|
$400
[17]
The location of this moving point en"compass"es an area around latitude 76 deg, N., longitude 101 deg. W.
Magnetic North Pole
Sahir
|
$400
[7]
Beth opposed this publisher & GOP candidate's flat tax as bad policy, not because it would hurt CPAs
Steve Forbes
Sahir
|
$400
[29]
Ground dry dog food, or what you do to prepare it
kibble
Sahir
|
$400
[13]
Nicknamed Misha, he defected to the West in 1974 while on tour in Canada
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Pam
|
$400
[20]
Ancient Romans prized the shaggy mane, an ink cap type of this fungus
a mushroom
Arthur
|
|
DD
$500
[4]
Marcel Duchamp's painting, seen here, was part of this movement, a reaction against WWI:
Dadaism
Sahir
|
$600
[18]
A line called the 50 deg. summer isotherm closely follows this northern limit of forest growth
the treeline
Arthur
|
$600
[8]
When Beth sees pluses & minuses, she calls them these, the 2 columns of a double-entry ledger
debits & credits
Pam
|
$600
[23]
FM radio broadcasts at 88 to 108 of these units, each one equal to 1 million cycles per second
megahertz
Arthur
|
$600
[11]
In a TV ad, Joe Namath wore this brand of pantyhose to show they'd even improve his legs
Hanes
Arthur
|
$600
[28]
This pliable mixture of almond paste, sugar & egg whites is often molded into fanciful shapes
marzipan
Sahir
|
|
$600
[3]
He took the famous photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Sahir
|
$800
[21]
In this country 200,000 people live in Bergen & fewer than 5,000 live way up north on the island of Spitsbergen
Norway
Sahir
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
A rise in an asset's value, or what Beth feels she doesn't get for staying late calculating it
appreciation
Pam
|
$800
[26]
2-word term for a woven container capable of holding a 4-peck measure
bushel basket
Pam
|
$800
[14]
His autobiography is appropriately titled "Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights"
Burt Ward
Arthur
Sahir
|
$800
[27]
Black pepper & cinnamon flavor these spicy cookies whose name is German for "peppernuts"
Pfeffernüsse
|
|
$1,000
[5]
His 1896 illustrations of Aristophanes' anti-war classic "Lysistrata" were considered licentious
Aubrey Beardsley
|
$1,000
[22]
This explorer gave his name to a bay & an island south of Greenland, but died in the Persian Gulf
William Baffin
Arthur
|
$1,000
[10]
In 1989 Beth kept her name after marriage, while this firm where she worked joined its name to Ernst's
Young
Arthur
Pam
|
$1,000
[24]
It means improbable, remotely linked or perhaps brought from a great distance by Rover
farfetched
Arthur
|
$1,000
[15]
A leading actor of Shakespeare's time, he probably wore tights as the very first Hamlet
Richard Burbage
Pam
|
$1,000
[25]
Oysters Bienville is named for the founder of this Louisiana city
New Orleans
Arthur
|
A capital in the West Indies is named for this family name of William of Orange, King of England
Nassau