Show #966 1988-11-14 (taped 1988-10-25) Tournament of Champions

1988 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.

Contestants

Mark Lowenthal — a State Department employee from Reston, Virginia

Kate Waits — a law professor from Albany, New York

Michael Rankins — a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Michael	$-300	$-800	$3,000	$1,599 2nd place: $5,000	$3,000 10 R, 6 W
Kate	$700	$1,700	$1,200	$1,200 3rd place: $5,000	$5,300 21 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Mark	$2,900	$4,800	$2,200	$4,400 Finalist	$3,700 16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MOVIES	BRITISH ROYALTY	TECHNOLOGY	WYOMINGITES	THE PIANO	IN OTHER WORDS...
$100 [16] This "Road Warrior" became a "Lethal Weapon" in 1987 Mel Gibson Kate	$100 [4] One historian claimed this queen secretly married one of her servants after Albert died Queen Victoria Mark	$100 [28] Term for a moving stairway, it was originally a trademark of the Otis Elevator Co. Escalator Kate	$100 [10] Nickname of frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannary, who was born in Missouri, lived in Wyoming, and died in South Dakota "Calamity Jane" Michael	$100 [29] The keys at both ends of the standard piano keyboard are this color White/Ivory Kate	$200 [25] Entirely well attired without any destination "All dressed up and no place (nowhere) to go" Michael
$200 [21] In "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", James Mason played this slightly screwy sub skipper Captain Nemo Mark	$200 [5] She wore a Norman Hartnell gown inspired by a Botticelli painting when she married a lieutenant in 1947 Elizabeth II Michael Kate Mark	$200 [2] At the touch of a button on July 1, 1939, this Clay Puett invention made its horse-racing debut Electric Starting Gate Kate	$200 [11] In 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to hold this office in the U.S. governor Michael Mark	$200 [19] Two different TV movies about this pianist and piano collector played on consecutive Sundays in October Liberace Kate	$300 [20] Rein in one's palominos "Hold your horses" Michael Mark
$300 [22] Richard Burton had a devil of a time directing himself in the film version of this Marlowe tragedy "Dr. Faustus" Kate	$300 [7] The estate outside Paris where he lived with his duchess is now a private museum Edward VIII/Duke of Windsor Mark	$300 [1] A 1947 book trumpeted the fact that this new invention could be used to locate thunderstorms Radar	$300 [12] He spent time in Wyoming, though his most famous novel is "The Virginian" Owen Wister Kate	$300 [18] This 135-year-old company keeps a constant bank of about 600 concert grands around the world Steinway & Sons Kate	$400 [23] Toss one's loaves onto aquatic environments "Cast your bread upon the waters" Michael
$400 [6] As TV reporter Kimberly Wells, she gave glowing reports in "The China Syndrome" Jane Fonda Mark	$500 [9] Henry VIII was her third husband, and she married again after he died Catherine Parr Mark	$400 [27] Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber, and this Charles used rubber to waterproof cloth Macintosh Michael	$400 [14] This Wyoming-born abstract expressionist painted with his canvas on the floor Jackson Pollock Mark	$400 [17] The three main kinds of upright pianos are the studio, the console & this spinet Michael Kate	$500 [24] Buffoon's Utopia "A Fool's Paradise" Mark
$500 [3] In "Father Goose" he played a beachcomber who secretly spotted enemy planes during WWII Cary Grant Mark	DD $1,100 [8] Argentinian polo player Hector Barrantes is her stepfather Sarah Ferguson/Duchess of York Mark	$500 [26] The reason the transistor was invented was to make this piece of equipment work better the telephone (switcher) Kate Mark	$500 [15] A Wyoming national forest is named for this mountain man who helped map the Oregon Trail Jim Bridger Mark	$500 [13] The Oscar-winning short "The Music Box" featured this pair moving a piano up a steep hill Laurel and Hardy Mark	—

Double Jeopardy! Round

19TH CENTURY WOMEN	COOKING	WORLD CITIES	"A" IN LITERATURE	SIGNS & SYMBOLS	ANIMALS
$200 [17] Catherine Booth designed the bonnet worn by women in this semi-military group founded by her husband the Salvation Army Kate	$200 [27] If a recipe calls for blanching tomatoes, it's so that you can remove this more easily skin Kate	$200 [3] If you receive a Rhodes scholarship, you'll have to hit the road to this city Oxford, England Michael	$200 [28] He's a weak-willed king in the Old Testament or a whaler captain in "Moby Dick" Ahab Kate	$200 [29] The two pieces of silverware on the traditional sign for a restaurant fork & knife Michael	$400 [25] The World Wildlife Fund is working with the Chinese on a detailed survey of pandas & this, their only food bamboo Kate
$400 [16] British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War called her the "Lady with the Lamp" Florence Nightingale Mark	$400 [26] Be alert when you heat oil for frying, because once it reaches the point when it does this, it decomposes smokes Mark	$400 [4] It's the most famous industry of the Netherlands town of Edam cheesemaking Kate	$400 [23] Poe poem about a maiden who "lived with no other thought than to love and to be loved by me" "Annabel Lee" Kate	$400 [24] A road sign showing the back of a car with two wavy lines trailing from it stands for this slippery when wet Mark	$600 [22] Some of these birds have bald heads and necks, which prevents feather damage when eating from carcasses vultures Kate
$600 [2] This famous nineteenth-century beauty had four husbands including a bigamist, but she never married Jim Brady Lillian Russell Mark	$600 [12] To make pumpernickel, use the dark flour of this grain rye Michael	$600 [7] Though Amman used to be named this, it wasn't home to a "Jordanian Bandstand" TV show Philadelphia Kate	$800 [9] Robin Hood's hyphenated henchman Allan-a-Dale Michael	$600 [1] In "The Talk Book", Dr. Gerald Goodman figures 25% of all we say is followed by this punctuation mark a question mark Michael Kate	$800 [20] In Canada, the population of these tufted-eared wildcats depends on the population of snowshoe rabbits lynxes Michael
$800 [5] In 1893 this Sunday school teacher was the most notorious woman in Fall River, Massachusetts Lizzie Borden Kate	$800 [13] It's the difference between a boiled potato and a parboiled one the parboiled one is not fully cooked Kate Mark	$1,000 [15] If you take a case to the Swiss supreme court, you have to go to this French-speaking city near Geneva Lausanne Kate	$1,000 [10] Booth Tarkington book that ends as the title character enters the stairway to Frincke's business college Alice Adams Kate	$800 [18] The symbol for this appeared twice on May, 1988 sky charts, and that won't happen again in one month until 1990 a full moon Michael	$1,000 [19] Caimans are most closely related to these animals alligators Mark
$1,000 [6] This abolitionist was born into slavery in New York, and the first language she spoke was Dutch Sojourner Truth Michael	$1,000 [21] An Italian dish of veal shanks cooked with white wine, olive oil, spices, tomatoes & a few anchovies osso buco	DD $2,200 [14] Considered the home of Japanese drama, especially puppet theater, it's Japan's third largest city Osaka Mark	DD $4,100 [8] Set in the forest of Arden, this comedy has more songs than any other Shakespeare play As You Like It Kate	$1,000 [11] In a chemical equation this symbol denotes a substance has escaped as a gas an arrow pointing up	—

Final Jeopardy!

THE CIVIL WAR

The bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War took place in this state

Maryland

Kate "What is Pennsylvania?" — wagered $0

Mark "What is Maryland?" — wagered $2,200

Michael "What is Pennsylvania?" — wagered $1,401

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