Show #1193 1989-11-08 (taped 1989-10-16) Tournament of Champions

1989 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Eric Newhouse — a student and winner of last year's Teen Tournament from Sioux City, Iowa

Joel Sacks — an administrator from Columbia, Maryland

Jeff Richmond — a law student from West Hollywood, California

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jeff	$1,000	$3,500	$8,900	$1,000 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$8,400 20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Joel	$600	$1,100	$1,900	$0 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$1,900 11 R, 3 W
Eric	$2,000	$3,600	$8,400	$10,000 Automatic semifinalist	$7,600 22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

1973	“A” IN SCIENCE	OLD TESTAMENT	POTENT POTABLES	JEWELRY	LETTER PERFECT
$100 [1] On Jan. 1, 1973 Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark formally joined this Common Market Eric	$100 [20] Vesta is the only one of these minor planets between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter visible to the naked eye asteroid Joel	$100 [24] God's sending him up Sinai & Nebo made quite a mountain climber out of this sheepherder Moses Eric	$100 [22] Caramel is added to make the darker varieties of this liquor made from molasses rum Eric	$100 [30] After gold, this is the most common metal used in jewelry silver Jeff	$100 [19] In Spanish, it's the letter over which you may see a tilde N Jeff
$200 [7] L. Patrick Gray resigned this post after it became known that he had destroyed Watergate evidence (Head of) The F.B.I. Joel	$200 [21] Term for an earthquake that follows a larger one, originating at or near the same focus aftershock Jeff	$200 [8] He said, “Divide the living child in two & give half to the one (mother) & half to the other” Solomon Jeff	$200 [23] Type of white wine that comes in Alsatian & Johannisberg varieties Riesling Jeff	$200 [29] The Kashmir variety of this gemstone is a cornflower blue; the Burmese a deeper blue sapphires Eric	$200 [18] On a report card it can mean outstanding work habits; on a baseball scorecard, a mistake E Joel
$300 [9] On March 1, she became the 1st woman jockey to win a major stakes race & later married Fred Astaire Robyn Smith	$300 [14] The bacillus of this cattle disease was the 1st germ known to cause infectious disease anthrax Joel	$300 [10] Joel calls for them to be made into swords & Isaiah calls for swords to be made into them plowshares Eric	$300 [6] Named for a Portuguese island, this fortified wine traveled well & was popular in colonial America Madeira Jeff	$300 [25] This most popular cut for diamonds uses a total of 58 facets brilliant Eric	$300 [13] This letter is formed by drawing the letter before it twice W Eric
$400 [3] This John Godey tale of the hijacking of a New York City subway train was published in 1973 The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three Eric	$400 [15] Air consists of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen & about 1% this noble gas argon Joel	$400 [12] Boaz gave this daughter-in-law of Naomi 6 measures of barley after she slept at his feet Ruth Joel	$400 [5] Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide says don't use bottled lime juice unless you're making this drink gimlet Eric	$400 [26] Ancient Egyptian jewelry made frequent use of the scarab which is this beetle Eric	$400 [17] In the new British currency system p stands for pence; in the old system, this stood for penny d Jeff
$500 [2] PBS offered an inside look at American life in this documentary series about the Loud family An American Family	$500 [16] Used in cooking, this gelatinous product is prepared from algae agar Joel Eric	DD $1,000 [28] According to Exodus 20:17, 3 of the 6 specific things of your neighbor's you're not supposed to covet wife, house, ass (or man servant, maid servant, ox) Jeff	$500 [4] In 1915 the French outlawed this wormwood-flavored liqueur 1st made commercially by Pernod in 1797 absinthe Eric	$500 [27] When her emerald ring was auctioned in 1987, it brought a record price of $2,126,646 Duchess of Windsor Jeff	$500 [11] These 3 letters when said in sequence mean “perfect” A O K Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY	DANCE	POLITICAL QUOTES	NOVELS	ANATOMY	CANADIAN HISTORY
$200 [24] This city that straddles the Bosporus Strait is located in Europe & Asia Istanbul Eric	$200 [30] Teenagers were already doing this dance on “American Bandstand” when Chubby Checker recorded his hit The Twist Joel	$200 [29] Douglas MacArthur told Congress “In war there is no substitute” for this victory Eric	$200 [7] Jonathan Harker goes to the British Museum to do research on Transylvania at the beginning of this novel Dracula Joel	$200 [23] The places where bones meet, including the thin hairlines on the skull, are called this joints Joel	$200 [9] In 1670 Hudson's Bay Co. was chartered in this country & given rights to land draining into the bay England Jeff
$400 [19] Entoto, the old capital, was very cold so the Ethiopian emperor created this capital in 1887 Addis Ababa Eric	$400 [28] The Morisca, a popular dance of the 15th century, originated with this group in Spain Moors Joel	$400 [1] Of the RAF he said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” Churchill Joel	$400 [3] An 1895 novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, or Latin for “where are you going” Quo Vadis Eric	$400 [8] A membrane called the conjunctiva covers parts of these organs eyes Jeff	$400 [10] French Canadians didn't like the Union Jack on the old flag, so in 1965 this new design was unfurled maple leaf Jeff
$600 [18] This region that covers 1/3 of the Asian continent has only about 11 people per square mile Siberia Jeff Eric	$600 [27] This jitterbug dance that began in Harlem was probably named for a famous aviator Lindy Hop Eric	$600 [2] “J'Accuse” was the title of the open letter Emile Zola sent the French president about this man Dreyfus Eric	$800 [5] He parodied Samuel Richardson's novel “Pamela” in his satirical book “Joseph Andrews” Henry Fielding Eric	$600 [14] If your ears block when you change altitudes, swallowing may open this tube to equalize pressure Eustachian Jeff	$600 [11] This newest province didn't become part of Canada unti 1949 Newfoundland Jeff
$800 [17] Only Antarctica has a larger ice sheet than this island Greenland Joel	$800 [26] In a 1951 film Rhonda Fleming portrayed this famous belly dancer of the 1890s Little Egypt Eric	$800 [21] In his 1944 campaign he used the phrase “It's time for a change” (Thomas) Dewey Jeff Eric	$1,000 [6] At the beginning of this 1900 novel, the title character, Caroline Meeber, has left home Sister Carrie	$800 [15] Special channels carry the bile produced by the liver in this storage facility gallbladder Eric	$800 [12] The last spike of this transcontinental railroad was driven on November 7, 1885 Canadian Pacific Jeff
$1,000 [16] This geographical feature is defined as a bend or curve of a shoreline, like the Great Australian one Bight Jeff	$1,000 [25] This court dance in triple time, not the polka, is the national dance of Poland Polonaise Jeff Joel	$1,000 [20] This financier & advisor to presidents coined the expression “cold war” in 1947 Bernard Baruch	DD $1,400 [4] Massachusetts author whose last completed novel, “The Marble Faun”, is set in Italy (Nathaniel) Hawthorne Eric	$1,000 [22] The 2 large bones that meet just behind your kneecap femur & tibia	DD $1,000 [13] A provincial capital was named for George Monteau Dunk, 2nd Earl of this Halifax Jeff

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

Only Pulitzer Prize-winning novels to become Oscar-winning “Best Pictures” are “All The King's Men” & this one

Gone with the Wind

Joel "What is The Good Earth?" — wagered $1,900

Eric "What isGone w/the Wind?" — wagered $1,600

Jeff "What is A [something crossed out] A Lion in winter" — wagered $7,900

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