1993 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.
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
| 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 |
| THE 1990s | TOUGH TV TRIVIA | AMERICAN MUSEUMS | THE BIBLE | FRUITS & VEGETABLES | ANAGRAMS |
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$100
[9]
In 1991, just 5 days after he resigned as party leader, Communist rule in the Soviet Union ended
Mikhail Gorbachev
Tom
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$100
[6]
Beverly Owen & Pat Priest both played Marilyn, the most normal-looking member of this bizarre family
The Munsters
Tom
Fraser
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$100
[1]
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in this capital city has an exceptional collection of Himalayan art
Richmond
Debby
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$100
[15]
In Exodus, this miracle occured after a strong east wind blew all night
Parting of the Red Sea
Debby
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$100
[5]
The seedless navel is a sweet variety of this
Orange
Tom
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$100
[13]
She lazed around with F. Scott
Zelda (lazed)
Tom
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$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
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$200
[7]
This 1919 silent film classic inspired director Peter Sellers' PBS special "The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez"
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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$200
[2]
Lemont, Illinois has a museum of these jars that never stay full when there are children around
Cookie jars
Fraser
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$200
[24]
Type of event in Cana at which Jesus turned water into wine
Wedding
Fraser
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$200
[16]
Alligator pear is another term for this
Avocado
Debby
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$200
[20]
We felt sorry for Megan when her dog had this skin disease
Mange (Megan)
Debby
|
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$300
[11]
Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III resigned in the wake of this scandal
Tailhook
Tom
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$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
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$300
[3]
Except for the entrance area, the National Museum of African Art in this city is completely underground
Washington, D.C.
Debby
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$300
[25]
Of the four authors of the gospels, the one who was a tax collector
Matthew
Tom
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$300
[17]
The plantain member of this fruit family, Musaceae, is also called Adam's fig
banana
Tom
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$300
[21]
Ann never wears any gem paler than this one
Pearl (paler)
Tom
|
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$400
[12]
This governor who was wounded in the gunfire that killed President Kennedy died in 1993
John Connally
Fraser
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$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
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$400
[26]
Luke 8:2 talks of Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went this many devils
7
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$400
[18]
A wedge of this fruit is the traditional accompaniment for a shot of tequila
Lime
Fraser
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$400
[22]
Cilla redecorated her entire house in this shade of purple
Lilac (Cilla)
Debby
|
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$500
[14]
After serving 2 years of a 10-year sentence, this junk bond king was released from prison
Michael Milken
Tom
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$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
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$500
[19]
Called a nut when dried, this is the fruit of the soapberry tree, native to China
the lychee nut
Debby
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$500
[23]
Rose loves to read about this Greek god--how romantic!
Eros (Rose)
Tom
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| FAMOUS SCIENTISTS | ISLANDS | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS | LANGUAGES | BRITISH POETS | RUTHERFORD B. HAYES |
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$200
[6]
Sadly, both she & her daughter Irene, also a scientist, died of leukemia caused by radiation
Marie Curie
Debby
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$200
[11]
Due to its icecap, no one is sure whether this world's largest island is one island or many
Greenland
Fraser
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$200
[16]
His father, a Salzburg teacher, wrote a treatise on the fundamental principles of violin playing
W.A. Mozart
Tom
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$200
[21]
Encyclopedia Americana calls the Homeric form of this "an artificial literary language"
Greek
Fraser
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$200
[26]
His "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was published in 1786 with about half the 600 copies pre-sold
Robert Burns
Fraser
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$200
[1]
Hayes' number as president, or the century in which he served
19
Tom
|
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$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
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$400
[17]
In 1859 this "Swan Lake" composer graduated from the St. Petersburg School of Jurisprudence
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Tom
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$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
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$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
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$600
[23]
Abruzzese is a dialect of this language
Italian
Fraser
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$600
[28]
The first line of this poet's "Endymion" is "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"
John Keats
Tom
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$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
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$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
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$800
[24]
Rif is a Berber language spoken mainly in the northern part of this continent
Africa
Fraser
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$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
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$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
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DD
$2,000
[25]
The fables known as the Panchatantra were originally written in this classical language
Sanskrit
Fraser
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DD
$3,500
[29]
In 1883 Queen Victoria gave this poet laureate the title "Baron of Aldworth & Freshwater"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tom
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$1,000
[5]
Hayes served two terms as governor of this state
Ohio
Tom
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On June 27, 1525 he married former nun Katherine von Bora
Martin Luther