Show #1321 1990-05-07 (taped 1990-04-21) College Championship

1990 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Michael Thayer — a junior from Rutgers College

Gavin Russell — a senior from the University of California-Berkeley

Elena Broder — a senior from Duke University

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Elena	$800	$2,900	$2,500	$5,000 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$2,500 16 R, 5 W
Gavin	$1,400	$3,700	$5,500	$11,000 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$5,300 22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Michael	$200	$1,800	$9,600	$11,001 Automatic semifinalist	$7,800 16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

CURRENT EVENTS	SUNDAY SCHOOL	WEAPONS	RECENT MOVIES	DESSERTS	-OLOGIES
$100 [23] After 27 1/2 years of imprisonment, this South African politcal activist was freed on February 11, 1990 Nelson Mandela Gavin	$100 [5] The New Testament was originally written in the Koine dialect of this language Greek Gavin Michael	$100 [6] This light spear was once used to hunt wild boar, now it's thrown in the Olympics javelin Gavin	$100 [2] The 1989 film in which Michael Douglas found that marriage is no bed of roses (The) War of the Roses Gavin	$100 [1] Coconut drop cookies whose name comes from the same root as "macaroni" macaroon Gavin	$100 [10] If you know what house your moon is in, you're into this study astrology Gavin Michael
$200 [20] On Feb. 15, 1990 President Bush attended an anti-drug summit in Cartagena in this country Colombia Gavin	$200 [18] Of house cat, leopard or lion, the one never mentioned in the King James Bible house cat Gavin Michael	$200 [4] The name of this firearm can be used as a verb meaning to ransack or plunder rifle	$200 [3] This 1989 Steven Spielberg film starring Richard Dreyfuss is a remake of the 1943 film "A Guy Named Joe" Always Elena	$200 [9] This symbol of all that's American was first popular in Europe, especially England apple pie Elena Michael	$200 [11] From the Greek "oikos", "house", comes this science of how organisms relate to their environments ecology Michael
$300 [19] This N.Y. Senator proposed eliminating the Social Security surplus by reducing the payroll tax Moynihan Gavin	$300 [30] Mandatory for Catholics who commit mortal sins, doing it before a priest is optional for Episcopalians confession Gavin	$300 [16] These machines work like giant slingshots; medieval men used them to hurl stones at & over walls catapults Gavin	$300 [7] This actor starred as lovestruck cop Frank Keller in 1989's "Sea of Love" Al Pacino Gavin	$300 [24] Legend has it that Queen Elizabeth I invented this cookie with a human shape gingerbread cookie Michael	$300 [12] Not the study of Star Trek characters, vulcanology is the study of these volcanoes Gavin
$400 [21] The New England Journal of Medicine recently said this food's ability to lower cholesterol may be overhyped oat bran Elena	$400 [28] A Jewish student will learn the meanings of the objects on the seder plate used during this holiday Passover Elena	$400 [17] Some of these American Indian weapons had a bowl opposite the blade so they could double as pipes tomahawk Elena	$400 [8] She played a lawyer defending her own father in the Costa-Gavras film "Music Box" Jessica Lange Elena	$400 [27] Cheesecake was the first dessert sold by this company named for the owner's daughter Sara Lee Elena	$400 [14] This -ology doesn't just get to the heart of the matter, the heart is what matters cardiology Gavin
$500 [22] Baku, the capital of this Soviet republic, was the site of ethnic unrest in January 1990 Azerbaijan Gavin Michael	$500 [29] Mormons are taught this covenant lasts "for tme and eternity", not just until "death" marriage Michael	$500 [25] The arbalest, which often had a steel bow, was one of these medieval weapons crossbow Gavin	DD $700 [13] Laurence Olivier adapted, directed & starred in this in 1944; in 1989 Kenneth Branagh did the same Henry V Gavin	$500 [26] The name of this tiny frosted cake is French for "small oven" petit four Elena	$500 [15] New finds of old fossils are studied by experts in this field archaeology or paleontology Gavin Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

POETS & POETRY	THE 20th CENTURY	ISLAND NICKNAMES	PHYSICAL SCIENCE	RULERS	AMERICANA
$200 [18] Frost wrote, "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in: this, of which Frost is a form ice Elena	$200 [19] Sightseeing flights to this continent were stopped in 1979 after a DC-10 crashed into Mt. Erebus Antarctica Gavin	$200 [11] "The Land of the Shamrock" Ireland Michael	$200 [10] This body accounts for over 99% of the mass of our solar system sun Elena	$200 [26] Catherine the Great married the extremely neurotic grandson of this "Great" czar Peter the Great	$200 [5] This Kentucky trailblazer's exploits inspired D. Beard to start a boys group that merged with the Cub Scouts Daniel Boone Gavin
$400 [15] His "O Captain! My Captain!" is a lamentation on the assassination of Lincoln Walt Whitman Elena	$400 [22] In 1941, after 5 years in exile, he returned to the throne in Ethiopia Haile Selassie Elena	$400 [12] "The Rock", or "America's Devil's Island" Alcatraz Gavin	$400 [6] This part of a stereo speaker that reproduces bass notes really was named after the sound a dog makes woofer Gavin	$400 [27] From 244-249 A.D. this empire had an emperor of Arabian descent known as Philip the Arabian Roman Empire	$400 [1] The first written reference to this big man in lumber was a 1910 story in a Detroit newspaper Paul Bunyan Michael
$600 [14] This Quaker poet's "Snowbound" tells of a Quaker family marooned in their farmhouse during a blizzard John Greenleaf Whittier	$600 [23] At the Chicago 7 trial this Yippie said Judge J. Hoffman was his "illegitimate father" Abbie Hoffman Michael	$600 [13] "Islands of the Tortoises" Galápagos Elena	$600 [7] Named for a Croatian seismologist, the Mohorovicic Discontinuity divides earth's crust from this mantle Michael	$600 [28] Wife of William of Orange, this English queen died of smallpox in 1694 at age 32 Mary Elena	$800 [3] As Romulus & Remus were raised by a wolf, Pecos Bill was raised by one of these prairie wolves coyote Michael
$800 [16] For 2 years he edited The Dial, a magazine published by his transcendental club Emerson Elena	$800 [24] When he resigned as Supreme Allied Commander to run for President, Matthew Ridgway replaced him Eisenhower Gavin	$800 [21] "The Isle of the Tailess Cat" Mann (The Isle of Man) Elena Gavin	$1,000 [9] When an atom undergoes a quantum leap, one of these of comparable energy, is emitted or absorbed photon Elena Michael	$800 [29] Manuel I's son Henry led the inquisition in this country before he became its king Portugal Elena	$1,000 [4] Thinking it was just 1 night, Rip Van Winkle spent 20 years in this mountain range Catskills Elena Gavin
$1,000 [17] Keats poem in which you'd find the line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Elena	$1,000 [25] Teddy Roosevelt mediated the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth which ended this war Russo-Japanese War Gavin Michael	$1,000 [20] Hawaiian island known as "The Island of Lepers" Molokai Gavin	DD $2,000 [8] The tendency of a body at rest to stay at rest, or in motion to stay in motion inertia Michael	$1,000 [30] He was involved in the murder of one of his rivals in 1306, the year he was crowned King of Scotland Robert the Bruce Elena	DD $1,200 [2] It was a storyteller, Parson Mason Weems, who put this tool in Washington's hand hatchet Michael

Final Jeopardy!

COMPOSERS

His most famous work includes "La primavera", "L'estate", "L'autunno" & "L'inverno"

Vivaldi

Elena "Who is Vivaldi?" — wagered $2,500

Gavin "Who is Vivaldi?" — wagered $5,500

Michael "Who is Vivaldi?" — wagered $1,401

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