1998 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 2.
Josh Den Hartog — a Teen Tournament winner from Otley, Iowa
Claudia Perry — a pop music critic from Jersey City, New Jersey
Paul Gutowski — a counselor from Rockford, Illinois
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul | $700 | $800 | $1,800 |
$2
3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$1,800
11 R, 7 W |
| Claudia | $300 | $1,800 | $8,000 |
$7,500
Automatic semifinalist |
$7,400
19 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Josh | $100 | $1,600 | $6,400 |
$14
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$7,200
24 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| AT HOME ON THE STAGE | BIERCE'S DEVIL'S DICTIONARY | CHAMPIONS OF TOURNAMENTS | THE 3 Bs | DOUBLE "B"s | THE BEE |
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$100
[6]
The title of this Ibsen play describes the home of Torvald & Nora Helmer
"A Doll's House"
Paul
|
$100
[30]
Ambrose Bierce was known for his short stories & defined this longer form as "a short story padded"
Novel
Claudia
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$100
[1]
Howard Staunton organized this board game's 1st international tournament in 1851 & Adolf Anderssen won
Chess
Josh
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$100
[20]
Beethoven tried all the latest scientific methods including sulphur vapors to cure this
Deafness
Josh
|
$100
[14]
Talk "turkey", or wolf down a lot of turkey
Gobble
Paul
|
$100
[21]
Bees gather this flower secretion to make honey
Nectar
Paul
Josh
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$200
[18]
"Important" Oscar Wilde play that begins in a London flat & ends in a country manor house
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Claudia
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$200
[12]
Wife Mollie may have agreed with Bierce that this emotion is "a temporary insanity curable by marriage"
love
Josh
|
$200
[2]
In 1989 Arantxa Sanchez won the French Open & began using this, her mother's name
Vicario
Josh
|
$200
[5]
Of the three B's, he's the one who composed the following:
Brahms
Paul
Claudia
Josh
|
$200
[17]
Don't wolf down your turkey, but take these small quick bites
Nibbles
Claudia
|
$200
[22]
Bees are found on every continent but this one
Antarctica
Josh
|
|
$300
[19]
Part of this Thornton Wilder play is set at the Gibbs' house, but it takes imagination to see it
"Our Town"
Josh
|
$300
[16]
Bierce defined this event as "The first and direst of all disasters"; his occured on June 24, 1842
Birth
Paul
Claudia
Josh
|
$300
[3]
In 1996 the Cornhuskers of this school, better known as a football power, won basketball's NIT
Nebraska
Josh
|
$300
[7]
Bach's 1721 "Concerts a Plusieurs Instruments" are popularly known as these "Concertos"
"The Brandenburg Concertos"
Paul
|
$300
[8]
A crusty old bootmaker, or a crusty old fruit dessert
Cobbler
Josh
|
$300
[11]
Young bees are fed beebread, made from honey & this plant product
Pollen
Paul
|
|
$400
[25]
Y'all can find Jeeter Lester's shack on this street in the play based on an Erskine Caldwell novel
"Tobacco Road"
Claudia
|
$400
[28]
Bierce saw this, "An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment" in Mexico while following Villa's army
Revolution
Claudia
|
$400
[4]
In 1996, Sri Lanka, a 66-1 underdog, batted down Australia in the World Cup of this sport
Cricket
Paul
|
$400
[15]
The 2 who called Vienna home
Beethoven & Brahms
Paul
Josh
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$400
[10]
A "rouser" may rouse this low class of people
Rabble
Paul
Claudia
|
$400
[23]
On their heads bees have 5 of these--2 compound & 3 simple
Eyes
Josh
|
|
$500
[26]
The Youngers move out of their cramped apartment as this Lorraine Hansberry play ends
"A Raisin in the Sun"
Claudia
|
$500
[29]
Some Greek philosophers, or men like Bierce "Whose faulty vision sees things as they are"
Cynics
|
$500
[9]
A Polish team's victory over 4 Americans in a 1987 tournament in this game was "trump"eted as historic
Bridge
Claudia
|
$500
[27]
Beethoven's only opera, based on J.N. Bouilly's "Leonore", it premiered in 1805
"Fidelio"
|
DD
$800
[13]
How ya gonna keep 'em down on this farm after they've seen Tel Aviv
Kibbutz
Josh
|
$500
[24]
Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for deciphering the circling & wagging types of this form of bee communication
Dancing
Josh
|
| HIGH PLACES | EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES | DEATH IN POP | DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS | HE ASKED GOD | DEPT. OF REDUNDANCY DEPT. |
|
$200
[10]
The snows of this African peak cover it year-round, although it's just 3 degrees south of the equator
Mount Kilimanjaro
Josh
|
$200
[27]
It's the value of the playing card just below a knave
10
Josh
|
$200
[1]
In 1997 Elton John reworked this Marilyn Monroe tribute as a farewell to Princess Diana
"Candle In The Wind"
Josh
|
$200
[29]
8 members of this team threw the 1919 World Series
the Chicago White Sox
Claudia
|
$200
[2]
"Am I my brother's keeper?"
Cain
Claudia
Josh
|
$200
[14]
Superfluous 3 words sometimes heard after the phrase "10 A.M."
in the morning
Josh
|
|
$400
[22]
Also known as Mount Tacoma, this peak in Washington state last erupted about 150 years ago
Mount Rainier
Claudia
|
$400
[16]
Term for the time between the laying of an egg & its hatching, or for an infection & the showing of symptoms
incubation
Claudia
|
$600
[5]
Mark Dinning sang about a "Teen" one; Peter Stampfel, about a "Surfer" one
Angel
Josh
|
$400
[30]
In 1997 Autumn Jackson was convicted of shaking down this comedian she claims is her father
Bill Cosby
Josh
|
$400
[3]
"Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh?"
Moses
Claudia
|
$400
[15]
Putting this word before "handed" isn't redundant; putting it before "naked" is
bare
Paul
|
|
$600
[23]
This European mountain chain is populated by Catalans, Bearnais & Andorrans
the Pyrenees
Claudia
|
$600
[28]
Of a haiku, a sonnet, or an ode, the one without a set length
an ode
Josh
|
DD
$800
[4]
Title of the 1964 hit heard here:"Whether he heard, I'll never know... Look out! Look out! Look out! Look out!"
"Leader Of The Pack"
Claudia
|
$600
[12]
With Michael Caine, he played the other con man in 1988's "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
Steve Martin
Paul
|
$600
[6]
"Shall I go and smite these Philistines?"
David
Claudia
|
$600
[18]
People talk about this type of "proximity"; it's not very different from regular proximity
close proximity
Josh
|
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
This mountain system forms a 750-mile arc from the Gulf of Genoa to the Danube River
the Alps
Claudia
|
$800
[20]
O gauge is a term in the hobby dealing with these
model trains
Josh
|
$800
[7]
In 1976 Blue Oyster Cult advised us, "Don't Fear" him
the reaper
Claudia
|
$800
[13]
Not only did he kill Washington's treasury secretary, he plotted to start his own country in the west
Aaron Burr
Josh
|
$800
[9]
"What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?"
Abraham
Paul
Claudia
|
$800
[19]
Redundant 2-word phrase for a present offered to entice customers to a product or service
free gift
Paul
|
|
$1,000
[26]
Mount Vesuvius belongs to this chain that runs the length of Italy
the Apennines
Paul
Josh
|
$1,000
[25]
A quindecagon is a polygon with this many sides
15
Paul
Josh
|
$1,000
[8]
"Hang the D.J." is the refrain of "Panic" by this defunct English band led by Morrissey
The Smiths
Claudia
|
$1,000
[17]
In 1837 Gen. Jesup promised this Seminole leader a truce, then locked him up when he came to negotiate
Osceola
Claudia
|
$1,000
[11]
"Who is able to judge... thy so great a people?"
Solomon
Paul
|
$1,000
[21]
From Latin for "to turn back", this word meaning to regress needn't be followed by "back"
revert
Paul
|
In population, it's the largest country that's not a member of the United Nations
Taiwan (Republic of China)