Show #2349 1994-11-17 (taped 1994-10-11) Tournament of Champions

1994 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Rachael Schwartz — an attorney from Bedminster, New Jersey

David Hillinck — a high school principal from Sacramento, California

John Cuthbertson — a physicist from San Diego, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $1,200 $2,900 $5,300 $10,401
Automatic semifinalist
$5,300
14 R, 3 W
David $1,400 $800 $5,200 $10,400
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$4,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Rachael $0 $1,400 $6,200 $9,300
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$6,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

NATURE MUSICAL THEATRE 1988 FOOD HEALTH & MEDICINE CROSSWORD CLUES "E"
$100 [1]
Safes, a type of these desert formations, are often many miles long & several hundred feet high
sand dunes
David
$100 [26]
When Marie Osmond toured in this play in 1994, her eldest son, Steven, played Kurt Von Trapp
The Sound of Music
David
$100 [7]
At the July 1988 Democratic National Convention this Massachusetts governor was nominated for president
Michael Dukakis
David
$100 [4]
While these small bread cubes often top salads, larger versions can be used to catch drippings
croutons
David
$100 [12]
These blood-sucking worms are used in medicine today to drain hematomas
leeches
Rachael
$100 [21]
Zealous, like a beaver(5)
eager
Rachael
$200 [2]
Sausage trees, found in Africa, are pollinated by these flying mammals
bats
David
$300 [28]
Scott Bakula played Joe DiMaggio in a 1983 musical about this sex symbol
Marilyn Monroe
David
$200 [8]
The Thatcher government imposed a broadcast ban on this political wing of the IRA
Sinn Fein
David
$200 [13]
A raw egg yolk usually accompanies this raw meat dish
Steak Tartare
David
$200 [14]
Light flashes in the field of vision may mean this optic tissue has become detached
the retina
David
$200 [22]
Mistaken(9)
erroneous
Rachael
$300 [3]
This largest U.S. cactus can weigh as much as 10 tons
saguaro
Rachael
$400 [29]
Elaine Stritch plays Capt. Andy's wife Parthy in the current revival of this Jerome Kern musical
Show Boat
Rachael
$300 [9]
After 32 years in power, Janos Kadar was ousted as first secretary of this country's Communist Party
Hungary
David
$300 [18]
Butternut refers to both an actual nut & this type of gourd
squash
Rachael
$300 [15]
This artificial sweetener has been associated with bladder cancer in animal experiments
saccharin
John
$300 [23]
On-screen, they're "special"(7)
effects
John
$400 [5]
Often found clinging to rocks, limpets are a type of this mollusk
snails
Rachael
$500 [30]
"Kismet"'s music is adapted from the works of this "Prince Igor" composer
Alexander Borodin
John
$400 [10]
A 1988 plebiscite said that this Chilean dictator had to be out of office by March of 1990
Augusto Pinochet
John
$400 [19]
It's an Italian version of an omelet, served pancake-style
a frittata
$400 [16]
Apnea is the temporary cessation of this
breathing
John
$400 [24]
Count off one-by-one(9)
enumerate
Rachael
$500 [6]
In the South, buildings have been engulfed & trees have been smothered by this Oriental vine gone wild
kudzu
John
DD $1,000 [27]
This 1946 musical that featuredthe followingwas Irving Berlin's biggest Broadway hit:"I'm quick on the trigger /With targets not much bigger /Than a pinpoint, a number 1..."
Annie Get Your Gun
David
$500 [11]
Along with the Marcoses, this Saudi arms merchant was indicted in October on charges of racketeering
Adnan Khashoggi
$500 [20]
They're the two common vegetables in the English dish bubble & squeak
potato & cabbage
$500 [17]
In vitiligo, a common disorder, patches of skin lose this
pigment (or color)
John
$500 [25]
The "bigger picture"(11)
enlargement

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY U.S. GEOGRAPHY SAINTS FLEETS CLOTHING LITERATURE
$200 [3]
In 213 B.C., Ch'in Shih Huang-ti ordered all of these burned, except the ones in the imperial library
books
Rachael
$200 [21]
Antelope Island in this Utah lake is used as a refuge for bison
the Great Salt Lake
Rachael
$200 [26]
On the second Sunday in May, the French honor her with a holiday
Joan of Arc
Rachael
$200 [1]
When he left for his second voyage in September of 1493, he had a fleet of seventeen ships, fourteen more than his first trip
Christopher Columbus
David
$200 [4]
They can be crew, knee, or bobby
socks
David
$200 [10]
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, Nick Carraway lives next door to this title character
the Great Gatsby
Rachael
$400 [16]
This pupil of Socrates went to Sicily to try to turn Dionysius into a philosopher king
Plato
Rachael
$400 [22]
Albuquerque, New Mexico lies on this 1885-mile long river
the Rio Grande
David
$400 [27]
March 1st is the feast day of this patron saint of Wales
St. David
John
$400 [2]
The Duque de Medina- Sidonia commanded this fleet in 1588
the Spanish Armada
John
$400 [6]
This Channel Island has a close-fitting knitted shirt or sweater named for it, in addition to a cow
Jersey
Rachael
$400 [11]
Part I of this Willa Cather novel is entitled "The Wild Land"
O Pioneers!
David Rachael
$600 [17]
Tikal became an important ceremonial center of this civilization, prior to 300 A.D.
the Mayans
David
$600 [23]
From its incorporation in 1813 until 1901, this New York village was known as Sing-Sing
Ossining
Rachael
$600 [28]
St. Raphael shares his feast day, September 29, with these two archangels
Michael & Gabriel
John
$600 [5]
This company's fleet has included the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, & Queen Elizabeth II
Cunard
Rachael
$600 [7]
A plastron is the quilted pad worn by competitors in this sport to protect their torso & sides
fencing
John Rachael
$600 [12]
His novel "Daisy Miller" opens at the Trois Couronnes hotel in Vevey, Switzerland
Henry James
Rachael
$800 [19]
He was only 16 when he became Roman emperor upon the death of Claudius
Nero
John
$1,000 [25]
This Lake Erie port in Northwest Ohio was once called "the Glass Capital of the World"
Toledo
John Rachael
$800 [29]
This man who added utopia to our vocabulary was made a saint in 1935
St. Thomas More
Rachael
$800 [15]
This empire's fleet was defeated in the 1571 Battle of Lepanto
the Ottoman Empire
John
$800 [8]
This apron for young girls has a ruffled bibbed top & a gathered skirt
a pinafore
Rachael
$800 [13]
He published his third novel, "A Cool Million", in 1934, one year after "Miss Lonelyhearts"
Nathanael West
Rachael
$1,000 [20]
This Old Kingdom capital of Egypt was originally named Hikouptah
Memphis
John
DD $2,600 [24]
South Carolina's highest point, Sassafras Mountain, rises 3,560 feet in this range of the Appalachians
the Blue Ridge Mountains
David
DD $1,000 [30]
This scholarly 13th century saint was often called "The Angelic Doctor"
St. Thomas Aquinas
Rachael
$1,000 [18]
The Black Sea fleet in dispute between Russia & Ukraine is based at this Crimean port
Sevastopol
John David
$1,000 [9]
It's the fur pouch that a Scotsman wears on the front of his kilt
a sporon
John
$1,000 [14]
In English, Ivan Turgenev's novel "Ottsy i Deti" is known by this "familial" title"
Fathers and Sons
David

Final Jeopardy!

NAMES IN THE NEWS

This former U.N. ambassador is a co-chairman of the host city's committee for the 1996 Olympic Games

Andrew Young

David "Who is Andrew Young?" — wagered $5,200
John "Who is Andrew Young?" — wagered $5,101
Rachael "Who is Young?" — wagered $3,100

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