Show #2353 1994-11-23 (taped 1994-10-12) Tournament of Champions

1994 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Jeff Stewart — a College Tournament winner originally from The Dalles, Oregon

John Cuthbertson — a physicist from San Diego, California

Steve Chernicoff — a technical writer from Berkeley, California

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Steve	$2,200	$3,200	$9,000	$8,399 2nd place: $5,000	$8,800 22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
John	$-100	$1,900	$4,700	$1,000 3rd place: $5,000	$6,200 17 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs)
Jeff	$1,500	$2,200	$4,800	$9,550 Finalist	$4,800 16 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AMERICA	1950s SONG LYRICS	MUSEUMS	PHILOSOPHY	HODGEPODGE	FILE UNDER "S"
$100 [20] In 1908 he had the misfortune of piloting the first plane in which there was a fatality Orville Wright John	$100 [8] It begins "Fee Fee Fi Fi Fo Fo Fum, I smell smoke in the au-di-tori-um!" "Charlie Brown" Steve	$100 [1] This museum is headquartered on Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury section of London The British Museum Steve	$100 [14] Cartesianism is named for this 17th century French philosopher René Descartes John	$100 [28] This calm center of the hurricane may be 20 miles in diameter The Eye John	$100 [26] Head & Shoulders, Agree, & Pert Plus are leading types of these Shampoos Jeff
$200 [21] With the passage of this act in 1935, seniors began looking forward to a pension Social Security Act Steve	$200 [9] This Paul Anka tune contains the lines "Put your lips next to mine, dear; won't you kiss me once, baby?" "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" Steve	$200 [2] The William F. Harrah Foundation National Automobile Museum is in this Nevada city, not Las Vegas Reno Jeff	$200 [6] In 1597 in his "Religious Meditations", Francis Bacon wrote that this "is power" Knowledge Jeff	$200 [30] New Zealand's 2 official languages are English & this native one Maori Jeff	$200 [24] It's a heavy, single-edged cavalry sword with a blade less curved than a scimitar Saber John Jeff
$300 [22] In 1948 the results of his studies of sexual behavior in the human male were published Alfred Kinsey Jeff	$300 [10] Fats Domino sang, "The moon stood still on" this, "and lingered until my dreams came true" "Blueberry Hill" Jeff	$300 [16] The Museum of the Confederacy is on the grounds of the Confederate White House in this city Richmond, Virginia John	$300 [5] "Beauty is a matter of size and order", he wrote in his "Poetics" Aristotle John	$300 [23] For a while, this statesman who established an Oxford scholarship also had a country named for him Cecil Rhodes Jeff	$300 [25] This disease caused by the lack of ascorbic acid is called Barlow's Disease in infants Scurvy Steve
$400 [4] In 1982 this retired dentist became the 1st person to receive an artificial heart Barney Clark Jeff	$400 [12] "When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, what will I be?", and got this answer "Que Sera, Sera" Steve	$400 [17] The Delaware site of this family's 1st gunpowder mill is now an industrial museum DuPont John	$400 [11] The French title of this Sartre work is "L'Etre Et Neant" "Being And Nothingness" Steve	$400 [29] This founder of the Unification Church was originally a Presbyterian Sun Myung Moon John	$400 [3] This Middle Eastern dog is also called a gazelle hound because it was once trained to hunt gazelles saluki Jeff
$500 [19] It was America's "Man In Space" program immediately after Project Mercury Project Gemini Steve	$500 [13] "All day, all night", this woman, "down by the seashore, sifting sand" "Mary Ann" Steve	$500 [18] The Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum has this Missouri artist's last mural Thomas Hart Benton John	DD $500 [15] This Dane published his concluding unscientific postscript under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus Soren Kierkegaard John	$500 [27] Yeoman, as in Yeoman of the Guard, is probably a contraction of forms of these two words Young Man	$500 [7] Known as "Old Fuss N' Feathers", he wrote the Army's first complete manual of drill regulations Winfield Scott Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN IN HISTORY	THE OLD TESTAMENT	ISLANDS	BALLET	SCIENCE	ENGLISH LITERATURE
$200 [23] As a child, she was captured by the Hadatsahs and given the name which means "bird woman" Sacajawea Steve John	$200 [1] In Esther 4:3, there was great mourning among the Jews, and many lay in sackcloth & these Ashes Jeff	$200 [9] Long rivers in this U.S. commonwealth include the La Plata, Anasco & Arecibo Puerto Rico Jeff	$200 [28] As you might expect, "Doo Dah Day" is danced to the music of this composer Stephen Foster Steve	$200 [20] This heavenly body's prominences include dark filaments & clouds of gas The Sun Steve	$200 [15] From 1595-1609, Samuel Daniel published several volumes of epic verse about the history of these "floral" wars The Wars of the Roses John
$400 [24] The Equal Rights Party nominated Belva Lockwood for this high office in 1884 & 1888 President of the United States John	$400 [6] This book is also called Canticles Song of Solomon/Songs Steve	$400 [3] This one-time penal colony, located off French Guiana, is the smallest of the 3 Safety Islands Devil's Island Jeff	$400 [29] It's the popular English title of the dramatic Pavlova solo whose French title is simply "Le Cygne" "The Dying Swan" John	$400 [19] In botany there are 4 flower parts: sepals, petals, stamens & these pistils John Jeff	$400 [21] This Daniel Defoe character was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family Robinson Crusoe John
$600 [17] Lord Darnley was just 19 when he became this 22-year old Scottish queen's second husband in 1565 Mary, Queen of Scots Jeff	$600 [7] He was a son of Lamech & a grandson of Methuselah Noah Steve	$600 [11] Until 1946, automobiles were banned from this British crown colony, 650 miles from North Carolina Bermuda Steve	$600 [27] Choreographer Birgit Kolberg based her 1950 ballet "Miss Julie" on an 1888 play by this fellow Swede August Strindberg Steve	$600 [4] You have many sweatglands, but only this number of lacrimal glands 2 Jeff	$600 [14] His 1954 play "Under Milkwood", was originally written for radio Dylan Thomas Steve
$800 [25] Mata Hari pretended to be Asian, but she was actually born in this European country The Netherlands/Holland	$800 [5] This sister of Aaron led the women in the victory song after the parting of the Red Sea Miriam Steve	DD $1,000 [12] This island nation is the most densely populated country in the Persian Gulf region Bahrain Steve	$800 [18] This ballet about a puppet takes place at the Shrove Tide Fair in old St. Petersburg "Petrushka" John	$800 [10] The highest jet streams occur in this layer of the atmosphere that begins 10 miles above the earth Stratosphere Steve	$800 [2] Tennyson addressed his poem "To E.L. on his Travels" to this "Nonsense" poet Edward Lear Steve
$1,000 [26] Known for her cleverness & beauty, Sarah Churchill, duchess of this, was a confidante of Queen Anne Marlborough John	$1,000 [8] The first of these begins: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly" Psalms Steve Jeff	$1,000 [13] Almost all the inhabitants of this Chilean island live in the village of Hanga Roa on the west coast Easter Island Steve Jeff	DD $1,000 [30] "Barabao" was the 1st of 10 ballets this Russian choreographed for the Ballets Russes before he moved to the United States Georges Balanchine John	$1,000 [16] There are 3 types of RNA: transfer, ribosomal & this messenger Jeff	$1,000 [22] This ode poet wrote about a knight enthralled by a beautiful lady in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" John Keats Steve

Final Jeopardy!

DEMOCRATS

When Grandma Moses was born, this man was president; at her death, JFK was president

James Buchanan

John "Who was Chester Arthur?" — wagered $3,700

Jeff "Who was Buchanan?" — wagered $4,750

Steve "Who was Lincoln?" — wagered $601

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