Show #309 1985-11-14 (taped 1985-10-28) Tournament of Champions

1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Steve Rogitz — a letter carrier from Gardena, California

Paula Tupper — a law student originally from Westfield, New Jersey

Bruce Fauman — a university administrator and professor from Vancouver, British Columbia

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Bruce	$800	$1,900	$9,100	$10,100 Automatic semifinalist	$9,600 23 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Paula	$300	$700	$3,100	$2,100 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$3,100 10 R, 3 W
Steve	$1,200	$2,200	$4,000	$7,000 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$4,000 17 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

INSECTS	AMERICAN REVOLUTION	LAS VEGAS	ACTORS & ROLES	POTENT POTABLES	"STREETS"
$100 [19] What's done to a pesky mosquito or an acronym for a police special weapons team swat Steve	$100 [2] “The regulars are out!” he warned Hancock & Adams on April 18, 1775 Paul Revere Steve	$100 [3] The Sands, Frontier, Desert Inn, & Landmark Hotels were once owned by this mysterious billionaire Howard Hughes Bruce	$100 [14] Since the face wasn't shown, a stand-in stood in for John Travolta in famous opening shot of this film Saturday Night Fever Bruce	$100 [1] For wines, it never means the opposite of wet dry Steve	$100 [25] Financiers literally made a big impact on this street in October 1929 Wall Street Bruce
$200 [20] Completes a Ben Franklin phrase, “Here skugg lies snug...” as a bug in a rug Steve	$200 [12] General Howe faced him in Brandywine, Germantown, & Long Island battles George Washington Bruce	$200 [5] Appropriately, you'll find “The Appian Way” at this hotel casino on The Strip Caesar's Palace Steve	$200 [16] In his 1st feature film, he played The Scarecrow in “The Wiz” Michael Jackson Paula	$200 [4] Bacardi, America's single best-selling brand of liquor, is this type rum Steve	$200 [26] London street where in the '60s, you'd find the mods & the miniskirts Carnaby Street Bruce
$300 [21] It's the shortest route taken back to the hive beeline Steve	$300 [13] Now site of a military academy, Benedict Arnold plotted to turn over its fort to the British West Point Paula	$300 [6] The smallest denomination of coin that can be played in Las Vegas slots penny Steve	$300 [17] The queen Glenda Jackson played in “Mary Queen of Scots” & PBS mini-series Queen Elizabeth I Paula	$300 [9] This series built around wine currently makes your TV a potent portable Falcon Crest Steve	$400 [28] 1973 Martin Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro about hoodlums in NYC's Little Italy Mean Streets Bruce
$400 [22] The actual title of “Jimmy Crack Corn” The Blue Tail Fly Bruce	$400 [15] Helping us fight bankrupted this country & sent it into internal revolution France Paula	$400 [7] “Sparkling” nickname for Fremont St. in downtown Las Vegas Glitter Gulch Bruce	$400 [18] Both Susan Blakely & Jessica Lange played this tragic Hollywood actress in 1980s films Frances Farmer Steve	$400 [10] Brooklynite Jennie Churchill, Winston's mother, created this whiskey & vermouth cocktail Manhattan Bruce	DD $500 [27] In 1978, Gerry Rafferty found his way down this street:[Instrumental music plays] Baker Street Bruce
$500 [23] Of its varieties, the atlas is 1 of the largest & the death's head hawk chirps by blowing its nose moths Steve	$500 [24] This building marked by a grasshopper weather vane, gained nickname “The cradle of liberty” Faneuil Hall Bruce Paula	$500 [8] Pastoral meaning of “Las Vegas” in English inappropriate to its desert locale the meadows	—	$500 [11] Slivovitz is a brandy made from this fruit plum	$500 [29] The band that made Asbury Park, N.J. & Bruce Springsteen famous the E Street Band Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

STATE MOTTOS	HIGHER EDUCATION	FAIRY TALES	10-LETTER WORDS	MAN IN SPACE	NUTS
$200 [18] According to Ohio's, “All things are possible” with him God Steve	$200 [7] They say “You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him” this much Bruce	$200 [1] “The Ugly Duckling” was autobiographical for this shy author Hans Christian Andersen Paula	$200 [23] Wrinkled or furrowed, as cardboard or iron corrugated Bruce	$200 [10] Country which had the 1st woman to walk in space Soviet Union Steve	$200 [6] A triangular-shaped nut grown in North America & Europe, or a brand of baby food Beech Nut Bruce
$400 [19] In 1956, Congress adopted this 4-word Florida motto to be our national motto In God We Trust Bruce	$400 [8] Pentecostal revivalist turned Methodist, in 1965 he founded a Tulsa, Oklahoma university Oral Roberts Bruce	$400 [2] When Rapunzel did this, it wasn't her way of being informal let down her hair Paula	$400 [27] Mercy killing euthanasia Bruce	$400 [11] On Sept. 29, 1985 this film director activated “META”, a radio to contact extra-terrestrials Steven Spielberg Bruce	$400 [16] America's leading pecan-growing state Georgia Steve
$600 [24] Virginia's state motto, which John Wilkes Booth yelled as he shot Lincoln Sic Semper Tyrannis Bruce Paula	$600 [9] This D.C. university is America's oldest Roman Catholic-sponsored college Georgetown Steve	$600 [3] “Not I” said the duck & the cat & the dog when she asked them, “Who will thresh the wheat?” The Little Red Hen Paula	$600 [28] At record companies, it's what the “R” in “A & R” stands for repertoire Bruce	$600 [13] Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Collins & Aldrin each also flew in this program Gemini Steve	$600 [20] This variety of nut is grown only in the country it's named for & adjacent lands Brazil nut Bruce
DD $800 [25] “If you seek a pleasant peninsula look around you”, which is apt since this state consists of 2 Michigan Bruce	$800 [12] South Carolina military college whose name sound like a fortress The Citadel Steve	$800 [4] To become the “Sleeping Beauty”, the princess pricked her hand on this part of the spinning wheel spindle Paula	$800 [29] In Latin, rosa, rosae, rosam, for example declension Bruce Paula	$800 [14] Called “Drogues”, they open during a capsule's descent parachutes Bruce	$800 [21] In order to produce this green-kerneled nut, male & female trees must be near each other pistachio Paula
$1,000 [26] His words became North Dakota motto, “Liberty & Union, Now & Forever, One & Inseparable” Daniel Webster	$1,000 [15] In 1804, this merchant got Rhode Island College to rename itself after him by donating $5000 (Nicholas) Brown Bruce	$1,000 [5] It lay in the house that Jack built malt	DD $1,000 [30] From German for “rear”, it's the region behind a coast or remote from other cities hinterland Bruce	$1,000 [17] In February, 1984, the Soviets reactivated this space station Salyut 7 Steve	$1,000 [22] In the musical “South Pacific”, Bloody Mary was said to chew these nuts which blacken the teeth betel nuts Paula

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. GOVERNMENT

Individual receiving 2nd-highest U.S. gov't salary--$104,700 per year excluding expenses

chief justice

Paula "Who is the vice president?" — wagered $1,000

Steve "Who is the chief justice?" — wagered $3,000

Bruce "Who is the chief justice of the supreme court?" — wagered $1,000

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