Show #964 1988-11-10 (taped 1988-10-24) Tournament of Champions

1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Michael Block — a student and winner of the 1988 Teen Tournament from Staten Island, New York

Sandra Gore — a researcher originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Bruce Seymour — a writer from Piedmont, California

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Bruce	$1,000	$1,700	$7,700	$6,500 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$9,700 20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Sandra	$400	$2,900	$9,300	$8,600 Automatic semifinalist	$9,100 28 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Michael	$1,300	$1,700	$2,900	$1 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$2,900 8 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FIRST NAMES	U.S. STATES	POETS	THE BODY HUMAN	1979	CELEBRITY RELATIVES
$100 [27] You don't have to know it was Pulitzer's first name to win a Pulitzer prize Joseph Sandra	$100 [28] The largest U.S. naval base is at Norfolk in this state Virginia Bruce	$100 [6] Georgia poet Sidney Lanier spent several months in a Maryland prison during this war the Civil War Sandra	$100 [25] These smallest blood-carrying tubes in the body link arteries to veins capillaries Sandra	$100 [30] Acronym used to refer to the treaty signed by Brezhnev & Carter in Vienna in June SALT II Bruce	$100 [3] Larry Hagman's famous mom who's famous for playing a boy Mary Martin Bruce
$200 [15] The dynamite first name of the founder of the Nobel prizes Alfred Michael	$200 [1] The two U.S. states that begin with "N" that are neither "North" nor "New" Nebraska & Nevada	$200 [2] In one of his cute couplets he quipped, "A bit of talcum is always walcum" Ogden Nash Sandra	$200 [4] To prevent rejection of transplanted organs, doctors suppress these blood cells lymphocytes (or white blood cells) Bruce	$200 [29] This Boston outfielder became the first American League player to get both 3,000 hits & 400 home runs Carl Yastrzemski Sandra Michael	$200 [17] "Dr. Zhivago" wasn't this actress' first film; as a child she appeared in her father's film "Limelight" Geraldine Chaplin Sandra
$300 [23] Were he alive, you would call him by this first name to thank him for a Rhodes scholarship Cecil Sandra	$300 [5] Among its 77 counties are Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole & Osage Oklahoma Sandra	$300 [7] Ralph Waldo Emerson spent much of his life in this New England state where he was born Massachusetts Sandra	$300 [8] Though associated with ill temper, this organ actually produces antibodies the spleen Bruce	$400 [13] Amity Island was the setting for this 1975 film that topped 1979's TV ratings Jaws Michael	$300 [18] Mariska Hargitay of "Falcon Crest" is the daughter of this late sex symbol Jayne Mansfield Sandra
$400 [16] Colonel Sanders of "finger lickin'" fame Harland Sandra	$400 [10] Its state song is "Home On The Range", not "Over The Rainbow" Kansas Bruce	$400 [21] This nineteenth-century poet laureate was the most famous poet born in the Lake District of England William Wordsworth Sandra	$400 [9] The integumentary system is another term for this, the body's largest organ the skin Michael	DD $500 [26] Group heardheresinging the first No. 1 hit of the year:"Nobody gets too much heaven no more, it's as high..." The Bee Gees Sandra	$400 [19] This former brother-in-law of Angela Lansbury co-starred with her in "Death on the Nile" as Hercule Poirot Peter Ustinov Sandra
$500 [24] According to Hoyle, it was his first name Edmond Bruce	$500 [11] Named for John Jacob Astor, Astoria, first American settlement west of the Rockies, is in this state Oregon Michael	$500 [22] This Maine poetess sometimes wrote under the shorter pen name Nancy Boyd Edna St. Vincent Millay Bruce	$500 [12] The scientific name for the shinbone the tibia Sandra	$500 [14] This general resigned as Supreme Commander of NATO & also retired from the U.S. Army Alexander Haig Bruce Sandra	$500 [20] Singer whose ex-son-in-law, Sidney Lumet, directed her in "The Wiz", in the role of a witch Lena Horne Sandra

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT TIMES	COLLEGES	MUSIC	MOUNTAINS	NATIONAL LEADERS	CHARACTERS IN PLAYS
$200 [24] He built Babylon's Ishtar Gate as well as the Hanging Gardens Nebuchadnezzar (II) Bruce	$200 [30] In the 1940s the University of Chicago came to be recognized as the birthplace of this type of energy atomic (or nuclear) Sandra	$200 [11] The written notes for all the instruments & voices of a particular work, or Tigers 5 Yankees 3 score Sandra	$200 [29] Due to the number of climbers, the Park Service may put an outhouse at the 17,000' level of this Alaskan peak Mount McKinley Bruce	$200 [18] President Mitterand is this country's head of state France Sandra	$200 [2] Shaw character who thinks she's descended from a sacred cat & that her blood is made with Nile water Cleopatra Sandra
$400 [1] The place in Egypt where Jacob settled was known to the Hebrews as the Land o' ...this Goshen Sandra	$400 [27] In 1779 this Virginia institution became the first U.S. college to establish a law department William & Mary Michael	$400 [12] A concertino is a short concerto & a concertina is a simple one of these instruments an accordion Sandra	$400 [17] The third highest peak in North America is in this third largest country in North America Mexico Sandra	$400 [28] Prime Minister Mulroney Canada Bruce	$400 [3] The first line of this Strindberg play tells us that the title "miss" is "absolutely wild!" Miss Julie Bruce
$600 [4] Byzantine emperor who built the Hagia Sophia Church & collected Roman laws into one code Justinian (I) Bruce	$600 [6] It ends its cheer, "Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u dv; slipstick, slide rule..." MIT Bruce Michael	$600 [13] Before he composed the "London" Symphony in 1795, he had written the six Paris symphonies Franz Joseph Haydn Sandra	$600 [19] Mountain ranges on this continent include the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Alexandra & Queen Maud Antarctica Bruce	$600 [26] President Mubarak Egypt Michael	$600 [8] In Euripides' tragedy, Jason's new wife is burned alive by a wedding gift from this woman Medea Sandra
$800 [5] With the defeat of this man at Actium in 31 B.C., Octavian had full control of the Roman Empire Mark Antony (or Marcus Antonius) Michael	$800 [7] This Ivy League school is the land grant college of New York State Cornell Sandra	$800 [14] Name shared by the operatic heroines of "Fidelio" & "Il Trovatore" Leonora Sandra	$1,000 [21] Today climbers can make it from the Chamonix city hall to the top of this mountain & back in less than 5 1/2 hours Mont Blanc Bruce Sandra	$800 [23] Queen Margrethe II Denmark Sandra	$800 [9] Violet Venable's son, who never appears in the play "Suddenly Last Summer" because he's been eaten Sebastian (Venable) Sandra
$1,000 [16] The ancient Persian holy book called the "Avesta" contains the writings of this man & his followers Zoroaster Bruce	DD $1,000 [25] The University of Dublin, which has its own representative in the Irish Parliament , is also called this Trinity College Bruce	$1,000 [15] The famous "Sabre Dance" is from this Soviet-Armenian composer's ballet "Gayane" Aram Khachaturian Bruce	DD $2,000 [20] This Englishman was the first to survey K2's peak Henry Godwin-Austen Bruce	$1,000 [22] Prime Minister Mugabe Zimbabwe Bruce	$1,000 [10] At the end of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" he realizes that George & Martha's son is imaginary Nick Sandra

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

Husband & wife who won Oscars almost 30 years apart, she in 1958, he in 1987

Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward

Michael "Who are Caron & Vadim?" — wagered $2,899

Bruce "Who are ?" — wagered $1,200

Sandra "Who were Taylor & Burton?" — wagered $700

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