1992 Tournament of Champions final game 2.
Bruce Simmons — a graduate student from Minneapolis, Minnesota (subtotal of $0)
Leszek Pawlowicz — a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona (subtotal of $4,000)
Jerome Vered — a writer from Studio City, California (subtotal of $700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerome | $0 | $2,300 | $4,000 | $0 |
$6,500
22 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Leszek | $200 | $600 | $6,200 | $11,400 |
$7,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Bruce | $1,300 | $2,600 | $7,600 | $4,701 |
$7,600
19 R, 2 W |
| THE FAR EAST | THE OLD WEST | NORTH & SOUTH | SIGNS & SIGNALS | MUSICAL THEATRE | CROSSWORD CLUES "V" |
|
$100
[1]
The Hollywood Rd. area in this Crown colony is the place to go for antiques and art
Hong Kong
Bruce
|
$100
[12]
Slang for food, it preceded box, house, and wagon
chuck
Leszek
|
$100
[21]
On April 14, 1865 General Robert Anderson raised the same flag he'd lowered over this fort four years before
Fort Sumter
Jerome
|
$100
[25]
It's waved to indicate a truce or surrender
a white flag
Jerome
|
$100
[10]
Yul Brynner played the monarch in this musical 4,625 times
The King and I
Jerome
|
$100
[2]
Spike sport(10)
volleyball
Jerome
|
|
$200
[3]
Called Wei-Ch'i in China and this in Japan, it's a strategy game of lining up black & white pieces
go
Bruce
|
$200
[13]
Joseph Glidden wasn't the first to make this fencing material, but by 1885, his design was the top seller
barbed wire
Bruce
|
$200
[30]
On April 9, 1865, he told his troops, "I have done my best for you; my heart is too full to say more"
(Robert E.) Lee
Jerome
|
$200
[26]
In this game, a tug on the ear means "sounds like" & a touch on the nose, "you're right"
charades
Leszek
|
$200
[14]
The working title of this musical was "Welcome to Berlin"
Cabaret
Jerome
|
$200
[4]
A Mature actor(6)
Victor
Bruce
|
|
$300
[8]
Tourists visiting Ulantoke in this Chinese "inner" region can rent a yurt with attached bath for the night
Inner Mongolia
Jerome
|
$300
[18]
In Old West slang, someone "in" these with another was in partnership with him
cahoots
Jerome
|
$300
[22]
On November 7, 1862 Ambrose Burnside replaced him as commander of the Army of the Potomac
McClellan
Bruce
|
$300
[27]
These noisy insects are a sign of good luck in China
cicadas (crickets)
Jerome
|
$300
[15]
This musical opens with the song "There Is a Sucker Born Every Minute"
Barnum
Leszek
|
$300
[5]
The Lord said it was his(9)
vengeance
Bruce
|
|
$400
[9]
In this Buddhist country April 6 is Chakri Day, a holiday honoring the ruling family
Thailand
Jerome
Leszek
Bruce
|
$400
[19]
This dentist was one of Virgil Earp's deputies in Tombstone, Arizona
Doc Holliday
Bruce
|
$400
[23]
In December 1864 the rank of Vice Admiral was created for this hero of Mobile Bay
(David) Farragut
Leszek
|
$400
[28]
The two types of these home-signaling devices are photoelectric & ionization
smoke detectors
Leszek
|
$400
[16]
This musical about married life is an adaptation of "The Fourposter"
I Do! I Do!
Jerome
Bruce
|
$400
[6]
One had his hand in McCarthy(13)
ventriloquist
Jerome
|
|
$500
[11]
In Singapore a statue of this Briton marks the spot where it's thought he came ashore in 1819
(Sir Thomas) Raffles
Leszek
|
$500
[20]
In 1858, Sam Houston told the U.S. Senate he didn't want regular troops; 1,000 of these men would do
(Texas) Rangers
Jerome
|
DD
$900
[24]
In 1861 this social reformer was appointed Union Superintendent of Nurses at age 59
Dorothea Dix
Leszek
|
$500
[29]
The ringing of the church bells on this holiday in 1572 was the signal to massacre Huguenots
St. Bartholomew's Day
Jerome
|
$500
[17]
Fairy tales by the Grimms & others were adapted for this Stephen Sondheim musical
Into the Woods
Jerome
|
$500
[7]
Cellar item seller(7)
vintner
Jerome
Bruce
|
| ITALIAN HISTORY | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | NUCLEAR ENERGY | POLITICIANS | GEMS | MAXWELL ANDERSON |
|
$200
[16]
In October 1922 he became the youngest prime minister in Italy's history
Mussolini
Bruce
|
$200
[25]
He's the title character in "Death of a Salesman"
Willy Loman
Leszek
|
$200
[1]
Almost all U.S. nuclear reactors use this liquid as a coolant
water
Bruce
|
$200
[11]
This HUD secretary was president of the AFL Players Association from 1965 to 1970
(Jack) Kemp
Jerome
|
$200
[6]
When they've grown attached to an oyster or mussel shell, these gems are called blisters
pearls
Jerome
|
$200
[27]
This queen was the Anne in Anderson's 1948 "Anne of the Thousand Days"
Anne Boleyn
Bruce
|
|
$400
[18]
In 1949 Italy became a founding member of this Western military alliance
NATO
Leszek
|
$400
[24]
Bromden, a half-Indian who has shut out society by pretending to be deaf & mute, narrates this Ken Kesey novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Leszek
|
$400
[2]
In 1957 the U.N. set up the International Atomic Energy Agency in this Austrian capital
Vienna
Leszek
|
$400
[12]
From 1955 to 1961 this Texan was the Senate majority leader
(Lyndon) Johnson
Jerome
|
$400
[7]
After emerald, this blue-green gem is the most highly prized of the beryls
aquamarine
Jerome
|
$400
[28]
His 1935 play "Winterset" was inspired by these 2 anarchists tried for robbery & murder in the 1920s
Sacco & Vanzetti
Bruce
|
|
$600
[19]
In the early 1850s this military hero worked as a candlemaker on Staten Island
Garibaldi
Bruce
|
$600
[23]
In a novel by Muriel Spark, she devotes her "prime" years to teaching at a girls' school
Miss Jean Brodie
Bruce
|
$600
[3]
The first underwater atomic explosion took place on July 25, 1946 off this Pacific atoll
Bikini
Bruce
|
$600
[13]
In 1984 this Democrat won election to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee, succeeding Howard Baker
(Albert) Gore (Jr.)
Jerome
Bruce
|
$600
[8]
The harlequin type of this gem is characterized by angular patches of fire
an opal
Leszek
|
$600
[29]
It completes the title of his first success, an anti-war drama, "What Price..."
Glory
Leszek
|
|
$800
[21]
In the 1860 Treaty of Turin, this king granted the city of Nice to France
Victor Emmanuel
Jerome
|
$800
[17]
This eccentric old lady in "Great Expectations" dies after her wedding gown catches fire
Miss Havisham
Jerome
|
$800
[4]
This isotope of uranium is the one used as fuel by almost all nuclear reactors
U-235
Jerome
Bruce
|
$800
[14]
This senator from Wisconsin who founded the Progressive movement was nicknamed "Battling Bob"
Bob La Follette
Jerome
|
$800
[9]
A Matura diamond is actually a variety of this mineral that's used as a diamond substitute
a zircon
|
$800
[30]
Anderson dramatized this William March novel about a grotesquely evil little girl
The Bad Seed
Jerome
|
|
$1,000
[22]
In 1720 the Duke of Savoy ceded Sicily to Austria & received this island in exchange
Sardinia
Bruce
|
$1,000
[20]
This 1906 Upton Sinclair novel centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a worker in the Chicago stockyards
The Jungle
Bruce
|
$1,000
[5]
Fusion reactions occur in this superhot gas made up of free electrons & free nuclei
the plasma
Leszek
|
DD
$2,500
[15]
1 of 3 women elected governor in 1990
(1 of) Ann Richards (of Texas), Barbara Roberts (of Oregon) or Joan Finney (of Kansas)
Jerome
|
$1,000
[10]
Resembling topaz, this quartz gem derives it's name from its lemon-yellow color
citrine
Leszek
|
DD
$1,000
[26]
"Lost in the Stars" is a musical version of Alan Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country", set here
South Africa
Leszek
|
The exterior of the governor's mansion in Florida is modeled after the home of this president
Andrew Jackson