1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.
Ron Trigueiro — a student from Caruthers, California
Mark Lowenthal — a State Department employee from Reston, Virginia
Leah Greenwald — an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leah | $1,000 | $4,000 | $4,000 |
$8,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$4,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Mark | $600 | $1,600 | $6,400 |
$8,800
Automatic semifinalist |
$6,400
17 R, 3 W |
| Ron | $1,100 | $2,100 | $9,500 |
$7,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$9,300
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| THE 19th CENTURY | CHOREOGRAPHERS | FAMILIAR PHRASES | SEWING | ALABAMIANS | SILLY SONGS |
|
$100
[2]
In 1845 & again in 1846 this crop failed in Ireland
the potato crop
Ron
|
$100
[18]
When Balanchine staged "Orpheus and Eurydice" at this U.S. opera house, he kept the singers in the pit
the Met(ropolitan Opera House)
Leah
|
$100
[24]
Trying to find similarities between New York & L.A. is like comparing these
apples & oranges
Leah
|
$100
[1]
A bodkin is a large blunt one of these used to draw cord or elastic through a string
a needle
Mark
|
$100
[5]
William Wyatt Bibb, Thomas Bibb, Bibb Graves & George Wallace all held this office
governor
Ron
|
$100
[14]
Song that says, "Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun," is named for this type of barrel
a beer barrel
Ron
|
|
$200
[3]
Besides farm machines he invented the first practical rapid-fire machine gun in the U.S.
Richard Gatling
Mark
Ron
|
$200
[20]
This modern dancer created over 170 works; her career spanned the century
Martha Graham
Leah
|
$200
[25]
The biblical phrase "give up the ghost" means this
die
Ron
|
$200
[10]
Finishing this, which should be invisible, is usually the last step in making a dress
the hem (or the seam)
Leah
|
$200
[6]
He was born Nathaniel Adams Coles but was best known under this "unforgettable" nickname
Nat "King" Cole
|
$200
[15]
Two of the animals you're urged not to be like in "Swinging On A Star"
(2 of) mule, pig, fish, monkey
Ron
|
|
$300
[4]
In 1880 this state became the first whose population exceeded 5 million
New York
Ron
|
$300
[21]
In a single year he choreographed "42nd Street", "Footlight Parade" & "Gold Diggers of 1933"
Busby Berkeley
Leah
|
$300
[27]
"He has more money than you can" do this "at"
shake a stick (or poke a stick)
Mark
|
$300
[11]
A twill fabric with a zigzag pattern, or what can stick in your throat when you eat a certain fish
herringbone
Leah
|
$300
[7]
Though he was born near Lafayette, Alabama, the arena named after this boxer is in Detroit
Joe Louis
Mark
|
$300
[16]
"It's the only thing that I could do half right, and it's turnin' out all wrong, Ma"
"(What Have They Done To) My Song (Ma)"
Mark
|
|
$400
[8]
Austrian archduke who became emperor of Mexico in 1863
Maximillian
Ron
|
DD
$400
[22]
He conceived, directed & choreographed the musical which included thefollowing:"Tonight, tonight / The world is wild and bright..."
Jerome Robbins
Leah
|
$400
[29]
From the tradition of men fighting topless came this saying urging calm
keep your shirt on
Mark
|
$400
[12]
These are folds of fabric pressed to resemble the bellows of a squeezebox
accordion pleats (or folds)
Mark
|
$400
[13]
Gawl-ee! This man, born in Sylacauga, has had two Top 40 albums
Jim Nabors
Ron
|
$400
[26]
1950s hit that begins, "Life could be a dream, if I could take you up to paradise up above"
"Sh-Boom"
Leah
|
|
$500
[9]
In the early 19th century they collected tales from the people around Kassel, Germany
the Brothers Grimm
Leah
|
$500
[23]
In the original 1942 production of "Rodeo", she danced the role of the cowgirl
Agnes de Mille
Leah
|
$500
[30]
Originally a caption in silent Westerns, it returned your attention to the main house
meanwhile, back at the ranch
Mark
|
$500
[19]
It's fabric that gives body & shape to a collar, not two computers talking
interfacing
Leah
|
$500
[17]
In his last major opinion, this "colorful" justice upheld The New York Times' right to publish the Pentagon Papers
Hugo Black
Ron
|
$500
[28]
Song whose chorus goes, "Valderi, valdera, valderi, valdera ha ha ha ha ha ha..."
"The Happy Wanderer"
Leah
Mark
|
| SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES | OLD MOVIES | ARTISTS | THE 50 STATES | TRANSPORTATION | PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS |
|
$200
[15]
This fairy king's first line is "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania"
Oberon
Ron
|
$200
[11]
This classic 1939 John Wayne Western was partly based on the short story "Stage to Lordsburg"
"Stagecoach"
Leah
|
$200
[21]
This "Maja" artist said he recognized only three masters: Velazquez, Rembrandt & nature
(Francisco) Goya
Mark
|
$200
[2]
All of the present District of Columbia is on land originally donated by this state
Maryland
Mark
|
$200
[28]
Ironically, this Chicago airport was named for a naval hero
O' Hare International
Ron
|
$200
[1]
His last words, spoken in Warm Springs, Georgia, were "I have a terrific headache"
FDR
Ron
|
|
$400
[16]
Famous "tamer" who enters saying, "Verona for a while I take my leave"
Petruchio
Mark
|
$400
[12]
Marlene Dietrich played Shanghai Lily in this 1932 film named for a Chinese train
"Shanghai Express"
Leah
|
$400
[22]
In 1922 Marc Chagall left this country, his native land
Russia
Mark
|
$400
[3]
As the insurance company commercials remind us, Wausau isn't in Poland but in this state
Wisconsin
Ron
|
$400
[29]
On July 21, 1959, the first cargo ship powered by this was launched at Camden, New Jersey
Nuclear Power
Ron
|
$400
[7]
"I've always loved my wife, my children and grandchildren, and I've always loved my country", he said in 1969
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ron
|
|
$600
[18]
Warrior who says, "Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again; why should I war without the walls of Troy..."
Troilus
Mark
|
$600
[13]
Jimmy Stewart killed a Mountie in this 1936 musical, so singing Mountie Nelson Eddy chased him
"Rose Marie"
Leah
|
$600
[23]
He painted one of his most famous pictures, "Christina's World", 40 years ago
Andrew Wyeth
Mark
|
DD
$800
[4]
A city is named for the great falls of the Missouri River in this state
Montana
Ron
|
$600
[26]
In 1957 an Air Force doctor stayed a record 32 hours in the stratosphere in one of these
Balloon
Mark
|
$600
[8]
"Thomas Jefferson survives"
John Adams
Ron
|
|
$800
[19]
His first line consists of just one word, "Calphurnia!"
Julius Caesar
Ron
|
$800
[14]
In the last scene of "Casablanca", Claude Rains tells one of his officers to "Round up" these
"The Usual Suspects"
Ron
|
$800
[24]
This Iowan was a leader of regionalism, a movement that dominated U.S. art in the 1930s
Grant Wood
Leah
|
$800
[5]
This state's capital lies on Cook Inlet, west of the Chugach Mountains
Alaska
Ron
|
$800
[27]
In the Old West, this railroad, named for three cities, was said to have "started no where and went no where"
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Ron
|
$800
[9]
Though noted for his drinking, the last thing he said was "Water"
Ulysses S. Grant
Mark
|
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
King of Denmark who begins, "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green..."
(King) Claudius
Ron
|
$1,000
[17]
Bob Hope sang this Oscar-winning song with Jane Russell in "The Paleface"
"Buttons and Bows"
Leah
Mark
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1485 this Italian painted "Madonna of the Rocks", his earliest major work that survives in complete form
Leonardo Da Vinci
Mark
|
$1,000
[6]
Elizabeth Garrett, the blind daughter of sheriff Pat Garrett, wrote the state song of this 47th state
New Mexico
Ron
|
$1,000
[30]
With over 200,000 miles of railroad tracks, this country has more than any other
United States
Leah
Ron
|
$1,000
[10]
"I know that I'm going where Lucy is," Lemonade Lucy that is
Rutherford B. Hayes
Mark
|
Only member of the current Court who has been elected to a public office
Sandra Day O'Connor (state senator from Arizona)