1992 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 3.
April McManus — a bookstore clerk and 1992 Teen Tournament champion originally from Woodbury, Minnesota
Kirk Ditzler — a doctoral student from Houston, Texas
Phil Yellman — a word processor from Albuquerque, New Mexico
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phil | $1,000 | $3,600 | $7,600 |
$4,799
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated + Jeopardy! / Wheel of Fortune video games for Super NES/Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! Challenge book |
$7,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Kirk | $1,600 | $2,000 | $5,200 |
$10,200
Automatic semifinalist |
$5,200
15 R, 1 W |
| April | $800 | $1,700 | $5,000 |
$9,997
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated + Jeopardy! / Wheel of Fortune video games for Super NES/Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! Challenge book |
$6,700
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| MATH | OWLS | SCIENCE FICTION | AFRICAN HISTORY | HODGEPODGE | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES |
|
$100
[18]
2 angles are complementary if they add up to 90 degrees & are supplementary if they add up to this
180 Degrees
Kirk
|
$100
[11]
An owl stood for the phonogram "M" in this ancient Egyptian writing system
Hieroglyphics
April
|
$100
[2]
"The Human Zero" is a collection of this author's sci-fi stories, as Della Street could tell you
Erle Stanley Gardner
Kirk
|
$100
[22]
The ANC suspended talks with this country's government after the 1992 Boipatong Massacre
South Africa
Phil
|
$100
[16]
Gordon Carruth reports that in 1811 a Mrs. Andrews in New York City gave instructions on painting on this plush fabric
Velvet
Kirk
|
$100
[1]
Ann Sheridan & Hedy Lamarr were considered for the role of Ilsa in this 1942 classic
"Casablanca"
Kirk
|
|
$200
[29]
Take any circle, divide the circumference by the diameter, and you'll get this
Pi
Phil
|
$200
[12]
In 1973 this environmentalist got his own comic book
Woodsy Owl
Phil
|
$200
[3]
Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer called their 1933 novel "When Worlds" do this
Collide
Phil
|
$200
[30]
In the 1970s, as many as 18,000 troops from this Caribbean country fought in Angola's civil war
Cuba
Kirk
|
$200
[17]
In a standard set of dominoes, the tiles range from double blank to this double number
6
April
|
$200
[4]
The ad line for this Greta Garbo & Robert Taylor film could have been "Garbo Coughs"
"Camille"
|
|
$300
[28]
10 to the zero power equals this
1
April
|
$300
[13]
In this TV town (population 51,201), the owls are not what they seem
Twin Peaks
Phil
|
$300
[8]
Appropriately this sci-fi author called his 1984 collection of short stories "Pohlstars"
Frederik Pohl
Phil
|
$300
[25]
The ruins of this city destroyed by Rome in 146 B.C. are a 20-minute drive from Tunis, Tunisia
Carthage
April
|
$300
[19]
On his death in 1976 he left his museum $725 million dollars
J. Paul Getty
Phil
|
$300
[5]
Billy Crystal said he stopped eating veal after performing with a calf in this film about a cattle drive
"City Slickers"
April
|
|
$400
[27]
It's the lowest common denominator for the fractions 1/2, 1/3, & 1/4
12
April
|
$400
[14]
Venezuela's Caligo memnon species of this insect has owl-like eyes on its wings to scare enemies
butterfly
Phil
|
$400
[9]
This priest wrote a sci-fi novel called "The God Game", but he's better known for his "Cardinal Sins"
Andrew Greeley
Kirk
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$400
[23]
Sadiq Al-Mahdi, great-grandson of the Mahdi, led this largest African country from 1986-1989
The Sudan
Phil
|
$400
[20]
Steve Brodie leaped onto the front pages when he leaped from this into the East River, July 23, 1886
The Brooklyn Bridge
Phil
|
$400
[6]
Leonard Maltin called this Daryl Hannah film "the world's first feminist caveman movie"
"Clan of the Cave Bear"
April
|
|
$500
[26]
A diagonal cuts a square into 2 congruent triangles of this type
isosceles (or right triangle)
April
|
$500
[15]
The title of this 1973 novel by Margaret Craven concerns an Indian myth about death
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
|
$500
[10]
"The War With the Newts" is a satirical novel by this Czech dramatist who coined the word "robot"
Karel Čapek
Kirk
|
DD
$700
[24]
In 1963 Ahmed Ben Bella became the first president of this north African country
Algeria
Phil
|
$500
[21]
The 2 styles most commonly used by high-jumpers are the forward, or straddle, & the backward, called this
the Fosbury Flop
Phil
|
$500
[7]
This comedy-western was Nat King Cole's last film; Jane Fonda, not Nat, played the title role
"Cat Ballou"
Kirk
|
| BIOGRAPHIES | HISTORIC HOMES | HALOGENS | FAMOUS WOMEN | SHAKESPEARE | THE IROQUOIS |
|
$200
[2]
"Equal Justice" is an aptly-titled biography of this first woman to sit on the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor
Kirk
|
DD
$100
[11]
Her home in Rochester, New York is now a museum filled with memorabilia of the fight for equal rights
Susan B. Anthony
April
|
$200
[16]
A tincture of this halogen is used as an antiseptic on cuts & scratches
Iodine
Kirk
|
$200
[17]
In 1989 Barbara Harris became the first woman in the history of the Episcopal Church to be made this
bishop
Phil
Kirk
|
$200
[1]
Brutus tells him, "You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, but speak all good you can devise"
Marc Antony
Kirk
|
$200
[26]
Squash & these 2 succotash ingredients were the "Three Sisters" of Iroquois agriculture
corn & lima beans
Phil
|
|
$400
[3]
He's the subject of Edvard Radzinsky's best seller "The Last Czar"
Nicholas II
Phil
April
|
$200
[8]
His cousin's Old Kentucky Home, Federal Hill, is said to have inspired his famous song
Stephen Foster
Kirk
|
$400
[18]
It's added to swimming pools & is a part of laundry bleaches
chlorine
April
|
$400
[20]
It's the name under which Judith Martin writes her famous etiquette column
"Miss Manners"
Phil
|
$400
[4]
This "Merchant of Venice" heiress has many suitors, including the Duke of Saxony's nephew
Portia
Phil
|
$400
[27]
An Iroquois woman could do this to her husband simply by putting his belongings outdoors
divorce him
Phil
|
|
$600
[5]
"Beauty and the Traitor" suggests that this general's wife ignited the spark of treason in him
Benedict Arnold
Phil
|
$400
[9]
The oldest brick house in the town of Amherst was built by this poet's grandfather in 1813
Emily Dickinson
Phil
|
$600
[21]
Astatine is the only halogen whose isotopes are all this, which is why they have half-lives
radioactive
April
|
$600
[23]
After she was beaten up by the woman owner of a Montana bar, this crusader never used her hatchet again
Carrie Nation
Phil
|
$800
[13]
At the end of "Hamlet", this Norwegian prince arrives to claim the Danish throne
Fortinbras
April
|
$600
[28]
Traditionally, the Iroquois League was founded by Dekanawidah & this chief whose name Longfellow borrowed
Hiawatha
April
|
|
$800
[6]
Kenneth Silverman won a 1985 Pulitzer Prize for his "Life and Times of" this Puritan preacher
Cotton Mather
Phil
|
$600
[10]
This frontier hero's reconstructed log cabin now stands on the grounds of a Tennessee high school
Davy Crockett
Phil
April
|
$800
[24]
As its name suggests, a halogen reacts with metals to make these
Halides/Salts
Kirk
|
$800
[22]
When she became transportation secretary in 1983, she was only the seventh woman to head a cabinet department
Elizabeth Dole
Kirk
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
In Scene I of this play, the title monarch announces, "Know that we have divided in three our kingdom"
King Lear
April
|
$800
[29]
The Tuscarora joined the Iroquois League in 1722, increasing the number of members to this
6
April
|
|
$1,000
[7]
"Bitter Fame", a controversial 1989 biography, deals with this poet, her suffering & breakdown
Sylvia Plath
Phil
|
$1,000
[15]
Chesterwood, a Stockbridge, MA estate, includes the home & studio of this "Minuteman" sculptor
Daniel Chester French
|
$1,000
[25]
It takes about 15,000 tons of seawater to get one ton of this reddish-brown liquid used in sedatives
bromine
|
$1,000
[19]
In 1973 this Impressionist painter was named to the National Women's Hall of Fame
Mary Cassatt
Phil
Kirk
|
$1,000
[14]
Helicanus & Escanes are two lords of this city; Pericles is prince of it
Tyre
Phil
|
$1,000
[30]
The Iroquois' name for themselves, Haudenosaunee, refers to these, their famous dwellings
The Long Houses
|
He served as vice president for the shortest length of time: one month
John Tyler