Show #1890 1992-11-20 (taped 1992-10-19) Tournament of Champions

1992 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

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)

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

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

Double Jeopardy! Round

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

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTS' HOMES

The exterior of the governor's mansion in Florida is modeled after the home of this president

Andrew Jackson

Jerome "Who is Washington?" — wagered $4,000
Leszek "Who is Jackson?" — wagered $5,200
Bruce "Who is Jefferson?" — wagered $2,899

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