Show #2119 1993-11-18 (taped 1993-10-11) Tournament of Champions

1993 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Fraser Woodford — a Teen Tournament winner from Lexington, Kentucky

Debby Arnold — a registered nurse from Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Nosek — an aerospace engineer from Torrance, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $1,200 $2,000 $13,100 $13,100
Automatic semifinalist
$10,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Debby $700 $2,500 $2,700 $0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$2,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Fraser $700 $1,300 $9,500 $7,500
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$8,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 1990s TOUGH TV TRIVIA AMERICAN MUSEUMS THE BIBLE FRUITS & VEGETABLES ANAGRAMS
$100 [9]
In 1991, just 5 days after he resigned as party leader, Communist rule in the Soviet Union ended
Mikhail Gorbachev
Tom
$100 [6]
Beverly Owen & Pat Priest both played Marilyn, the most normal-looking member of this bizarre family
The Munsters
Tom Fraser
$100 [1]
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in this capital city has an exceptional collection of Himalayan art
Richmond
Debby
$100 [15]
In Exodus, this miracle occured after a strong east wind blew all night
Parting of the Red Sea
Debby
$100 [5]
The seedless navel is a sweet variety of this
Orange
Tom
$100 [13]
She lazed around with F. Scott
Zelda (lazed)
Tom
$200 [10]
He hinted he'd run for president in March of 1992, withdrew in July, then re-entered in October
H. Ross Perot
Fraser
$200 [7]
This 1919 silent film classic inspired director Peter Sellers' PBS special "The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez"
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
$200 [2]
Lemont, Illinois has a museum of these jars that never stay full when there are children around
Cookie jars
Fraser
$200 [24]
Type of event in Cana at which Jesus turned water into wine
Wedding
Fraser
$200 [16]
Alligator pear is another term for this
Avocado
Debby
$200 [20]
We felt sorry for Megan when her dog had this skin disease
Mange (Megan)
Debby
$300 [11]
Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III resigned in the wake of this scandal
Tailhook
Tom
$300 [8]
The real name of this member of Alan Brady's writing staff on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was Maurice
Buddy Sorrell
Debby
$300 [3]
Except for the entrance area, the National Museum of African Art in this city is completely underground
Washington, D.C.
Debby
$300 [25]
Of the four authors of the gospels, the one who was a tax collector
Matthew
Tom
$300 [17]
The plantain member of this fruit family, Musaceae, is also called Adam's fig
banana
Tom
$300 [21]
Ann never wears any gem paler than this one
Pearl (paler)
Tom
$400 [12]
This governor who was wounded in the gunfire that killed President Kennedy died in 1993
John Connally
Fraser
$400 [29]
It was the last name of Aunt Bea, played by Frances Bavier, on "The Andy Griffith Show"
Taylor
DD $500 [4]
The Winterthur Museum in this state displays Henry Francis DuPont's collection of American antiques
Delaware
Debby
$400 [26]
Luke 8:2 talks of Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went this many devils
7
$400 [18]
A wedge of this fruit is the traditional accompaniment for a shot of tequila
Lime
Fraser
$400 [22]
Cilla redecorated her entire house in this shade of purple
Lilac (Cilla)
Debby
$500 [14]
After serving 2 years of a 10-year sentence, this junk bond king was released from prison
Michael Milken
Tom
$500 [30]
This famous woman came up with the title "Evening Shade" for a TV series produced by two of her friends
Hillary Clinton
$500 [28]
The Lila Acheson Wallace wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is named for the co-founder of this magazine
Reader's Digest
$500 [27]
In the Book of Esther, he was hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai
Haman
Debby
$500 [19]
Called a nut when dried, this is the fruit of the soapberry tree, native to China
the lychee nut
Debby
$500 [23]
Rose loves to read about this Greek god--how romantic!
Eros (Rose)
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS SCIENTISTS ISLANDS CLASSICAL COMPOSERS LANGUAGES BRITISH POETS RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
$200 [6]
Sadly, both she & her daughter Irene, also a scientist, died of leukemia caused by radiation
Marie Curie
Debby
$200 [11]
Due to its icecap, no one is sure whether this world's largest island is one island or many
Greenland
Fraser
$200 [16]
His father, a Salzburg teacher, wrote a treatise on the fundamental principles of violin playing
W.A. Mozart
Tom
$200 [21]
Encyclopedia Americana calls the Homeric form of this "an artificial literary language"
Greek
Fraser
$200 [26]
His "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was published in 1786 with about half the 600 copies pre-sold
Robert Burns
Fraser
$200 [1]
Hayes' number as president, or the century in which he served
19
Tom
$400 [7]
Much of our knowledge of ancient science comes from a 37-book work by this naturalist, The Elder
Pliny
Tom
$400 [12]
Japan's highest mountain range, the Japanese Alps, rises in the central part of this island
Honshu
Tom Fraser
$400 [17]
In 1859 this "Swan Lake" composer graduated from the St. Petersburg School of Jurisprudence
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Tom
$400 [22]
The word Mexico comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Toltecs & these other ancient people
Aztecs
Tom
$400 [27]
Before this poet died on October 25, 1400, he was living in a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey
Geoffrey Chaucer
Tom
$400 [2]
When William Wheeler was first suggested for this post, Hayes asked "Who is Wheeler?"
Vice president
Tom
$600 [8]
This botanist, known for his classification system, was also the first to use the symbols for male & female
Carl Linnaeus
Fraser
$600 [13]
A 15 1/2-mile-long causeway connects this Persian Gulf nation with the Saudi Arabian mainland
Bahrain
Fraser
$600 [18]
His "Water Music" was performed during an aquatic fete held by King George I on the Thames July 17, 1717
G.F. Handel
Tom
$600 [23]
Abruzzese is a dialect of this language
Italian
Fraser
$600 [28]
The first line of this poet's "Endymion" is "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"
John Keats
Tom
$600 [3]
Hayes' wife, she was the 1st first lady to earn a college degree
"Lemonade Lucy" Hayes
Tom
$800 [9]
In 1918 this orignator of the quantum theory won the Nobel Prize for Physics
Max Planck
Fraser
$800 [14]
The largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, it's been called the "Pearl of the Mediterranean"
Majorca
Tom
$800 [19]
His "Fingal's Cave" is also known as the "Hebrides Overture"
Felix Mendelssohn
$800 [24]
Rif is a Berber language spoken mainly in the northern part of this continent
Africa
Fraser
$1,000 [30]
In 1714, two years after "The Rape of the Lock" was first published, he expanded it from 2 cantos to 5
Alexander Pope
Tom
$800 [4]
His last executive order was to ban the sale of this at army camps & forts
Alcohol
Fraser
$1,000 [10]
In 1913 this Danish physicist proposed the first modern model of the atom
Niels Bohr
Fraser
$1,000 [15]
In 1616 Jacob Lemaire became the first European to see what is now this Pacific island kingdom
Tonga
$1,000 [20]
In 1855 this "Orpheus in the Underworld" composer opened his own theater, the Bouffes Parisiens
Jacques Offenbach
Tom
DD $2,000 [25]
The fables known as the Panchatantra were originally written in this classical language
Sanskrit
Fraser
DD $3,500 [29]
In 1883 Queen Victoria gave this poet laureate the title "Baron of Aldworth & Freshwater"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tom
$1,000 [5]
Hayes served two terms as governor of this state
Ohio
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC NAMES

On June 27, 1525 he married former nun Katherine von Bora

Martin Luther

Debby "Who is Venerable Bede" — wagered $2,700
Fraser "Who was Frederick the Great?" — wagered $2,000
Tom "Who is Luther?" — wagered $0

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