Show #965 1988-11-11 (taped 1988-10-24) Tournament of Champions

1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Ron Trigueiro — a student from Caruthers, California

Mark Lowenthal — a State Department employee from Reston, Virginia

Leah Greenwald — an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

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

Double Jeopardy! Round

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

Final Jeopardy!

THE SUPREME COURT

Only member of the current Court who has been elected to a public office

Sandra Day O'Connor (state senator from Arizona)

Leah "Who is O'Connor?" — wagered $4,000
Mark "Who is Sandra O'Connor?" — wagered $2,400
Ron "Who is Brennan?" — wagered $2,500

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