1998 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 3.
Craig Barker — a College Tournament winner from Livonia, Michigan
Peter Scott — an advertising manager from Washington, D.C.
Dan Melia — a professor from San Francisco, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $-100 | $1,500 | $9,100 |
$8,100
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$8,300
23 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Peter | $700 | $1,200 | $5,300 |
$10,599
Automatic semifinalist |
$4,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Craig | $1,600 | $4,200 | $5,800 |
$2,300
3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$5,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| WORLD CAPITALS | '60s NO. 1 HITS | 19th CENTURY AMERICA | FILM NOIR LINGO | SEX CHANGES | BEFORE & AFTER |
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$100
[1]
Among this capital's 32 boroughs are Tower Hamlets, Hackney & Westminster
London
Craig
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$100
[5]
Sittin' on the top of the charts in 1968 was this hit by the late Otis Redding
"Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay"
Dan
Peter
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$100
[11]
It wasn't incorporated as a city until 1836; perhaps witchcraft was to blame...
Salem, Massachusetts
Peter
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$100
[14]
When Dana Andrews used this term for women in "Laura", he didn't mean they'd been knighted
dame
Dan
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$100
[21]
After 1979 some of these powerful Atlantic storms were given male names too
hurricanes
Dan
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$100
[26]
Much-married CNN talk show host who took a shine to Fay Wray
Larry King Kong
Craig
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$200
[2]
The Szechenyi Chain Bridge is the oldest one linking the Danube's banks in this capital
Budapest
Dan
Craig
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$200
[6]
This group's last No. 1 hit in the '60s was "Honky Tonk Women"
The Rolling Stones
Craig
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$200
[12]
He compiled an 1850 volume of his photographic portraits called "A Gallery of Illustrious Americans"
Mathew Brady
Craig
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$200
[15]
Change one letter in "champ" to get this word for a fool or patsy
a chump
Craig
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$200
[22]
Not far from Roanoke, this military school broke a 158 year tradition & admitted women in 1997
VMI (Virginia Military Institute)
Dan
Craig
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$200
[27]
Breakfast dish with Hollandaise prepared by a traitor
Eggs Benedict Arnold
Dan
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$300
[3]
A square museum & office building in this capital are named for Simon Bolivar, who was born there in 1783
Caracas (Venezuela)
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$300
[7]
A line after this Doors title is "Won't you tell me your name?"
"Hello, I Love You"
Craig
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$300
[13]
This great French actress made her triumphant New York debut in 1880 in "Adrienne Lecouvreur"
Sarah Bernhardt
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$300
[16]
Slang name of Philip Marlowe's job in "Murder, My Sweet", or first name of actor Powell, who played him
dick
Craig
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$300
[23]
In the 1950s she was the outcome of the world's first publicized sex change
Christine Jorgensen
Dan
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$300
[28]
The Sultan of Swat makes it to the Supreme Court
Babe Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dan
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$400
[4]
In late winter northwesterly winds from the Gobi Desert shroud this city in yellow dust storms
Beijing
Dan
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$500
[9]
1965 had 3 songs with exclamation points: "Stop! In the Name of Love", "Turn! Turn! Turn!" & this Beatles hit
"Help!"
Peter
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$400
[19]
This general's 1868 presidential campaign slogan was "Let Us Have Peace"
Ulysses S. Grant
Craig
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$400
[17]
You might "case" one of these to see if it's the "clip" type
joint
Dan
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$400
[24]
Don't let the pearls fool you, these lady bivalves can change into males when it suits them
oysters
Peter
Craig
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$400
[29]
A hardbound copy of Margaret Mitchell's book is thrown through the front window of your car
Gone With the Windshield
Peter
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$500
[10]
The Muslim section of this north African capital is dominated by the Casbah, a 16th century Turkish fortress
Algiers
Dan
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DD
$600
[8]
The No. 1 "word" in September 1966 was this hit's title:"...how many times I've wished that I had told you..."
"Cherish"
Craig
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$500
[20]
This "golden" era following the Civil War took its name from a novel by Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner
"The Gilded Age"
Craig
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$500
[18]
Meaning small time con men, it's the title of a neo-noir film with Anjelica Huston & John Cusack
Grifters
Craig
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$500
[25]
She continued the tennis career begun by Richard Raskind
Renee Richards
Peter
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$500
[30]
Hemorrhoid remedy for an old Baltimore Sun essayist
Preparation H.L. Mencken
Dan
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| MORE MYTHOLOGICAL MISTAKES | CHAMBERS | PRO FOOTBALL | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS | DUELING | BANJOS |
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$200
[11]
These half-horse creatures were thrown out of Thessally after acting like horses' derrieres at a wedding
Centaurs
Dan
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$200
[13]
In 1948 Whittaker Chambers testified that this State Department official was a Communist
Alger Hiss
Dan
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$200
[3]
On Aug. 31, 1997 the Oilers played their first home game in this city's Liberty Bowl, defeating the Raiders, 24-21
Memphis
Craig
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$200
[6]
Jonathan Swift called this Crusoe creator "So...dogmatical a rogue, that there is no enduring him"
Daniel Defoe
Dan
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$200
[22]
Stephen Decatur helped an inexperienced friend win a duel by shortening the distance to 4 of these, about 12'
Paces
Dan
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$200
[27]
The 4-stringed banjolele is a "Hawaii"brid of the banjo & this musical instrument
Ukulele
Dan
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$400
[12]
If he hadn't stolen fire from heaven, he wouldn't have been chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus
Prometheus
Craig
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$400
[17]
This performing complex' Alice Tully Hall is home to its chamber music society
Lincoln Center
Peter
Craig
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$400
[4]
This Chicago Bear finished his career in 1987 with an NFL record 16,726 rushing yards
Walter Payton
Dan
Peter
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$400
[7]
When she died, Edward Fitzgerald sniped, "No more Aurora Leighs, Thank God!", not counting the ways to love her
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dan
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$400
[23]
London duelists would "seek" each other in this park, the home of Speakers' Corner
Hyde Park
Craig
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$600
[29]
Banjoist Uncle Dave Macon was the 1st big star on this radio show that debuted in 1925
"Grand Ole Opry"
Peter
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$600
[14]
Ixion must have been an airhead: he made love to a magic cloud, believing it was this wife of Zeus
Hera
Dan
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$600
[18]
The rhyme about this bird includes the line "Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber"
Goosey Goosey Gander
Craig
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$800
[2]
On Jan. 3, 1983 Tony Dorsett set the record for longest run from scrimmage, running this many yards
99
Craig
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$600
[8]
Amy Lowell wrote that this "Prufrock" poet "lives like a snail in his shell, pen protruding"
T.S. Eliot
Dan
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$600
[24]
A duelist hoped these assistants weren't sloppy in aiding & preparing him
Seconds
Peter
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$800
[26]
In its original form the banjo was a hollowed-out fruit of this type that includes the bottle variety
Gourd
Dan
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$800
[15]
Oops! He looked back at Eurydice as he led her out of the underworld & lost her forever
Orpheus
Dan
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$800
[19]
In this device used to track particles, liquid hydrogen is superheated to just above its boiling point
Bubble Chamber
Dan
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$1,000
[5]
On July 29, 1986 this league won $3 in an antitrust suit against the NFL & folded 6 days later
USFL (United States Football League)
Peter
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$800
[9]
D.H. Lawrence said this writer of "The Bells" "sounded the horror and the warning of his own doom"
Edgar Allan Poe
Dan
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$800
[21]
One "de grace" is a final blow; one "de Jarnac" is a stab in the back, after a sneaky duelist
a coup
Craig
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$1,000
[30]
Fancy name from ancient Greek for the device used to pick a banjo's strings
Plectrum
Dan
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$1,000
[16]
This god of music loved Hyacinthus but accidentally killed him with a discus
Apollo
Dan
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$1,000
[20]
Creature whose shell is seen here:
Chambered Nautilus
Peter
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DD
$1,100
[1]
(Hi, I'm Al Michaels.) Super Bowl MVPs from the 49ers include J. Rice, S. Young & this quarterback who won a record 3 MVP awards
Joe Montana
Peter
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$1,000
[10]
Ironically, it was Gertrude Stein who observed of this Irishman, "People like him because he is incomprehensible"
James Joyce
Dan
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$1,000
[25]
General Lachlan McIntosh mortally wounded this Georgia signer of the Declaration of Independence
Button Gwinnett
Peter
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DD
$1,200
[28]
The banjo player heard here, he's the second half of a famous duo:
Earl Scruggs
Dan
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In a September 18, 1978 speech, he said, "Blessed are the peacemakers"
President Jimmy Carter