1992 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.
Billy Baxter — a grad student and 1992 College Tournament champion from Richmond, Virginia
Frank Epstein — a police officer from Los Angeles, California
Leszek Pawlowicz — a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leszek | $1,700 | $5,400 | $15,900 |
$16,800
Automatic semifinalist |
$15,100
33 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Frank | $600 | $1,100 | $2,700 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated + Jeopardy! / Wheel of Fortune video games for Super NES/Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! Challenge book |
$2,700
9 R, 1 W |
| Billy | $900 | $1,600 | $7,000 |
$3,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated + Jeopardy! / Wheel of Fortune video games for Super NES/Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! Challenge book |
$6,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| FAMOUS NAMES | WINE | MUSEUMS | FISH | GOLDEN GUYS | ELVIS SONGS |
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$100
[1]
H.R. Haldeman served 18 months in federal prison as a result of his part in this scandal
Watergate
Billy
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$100
[8]
Her picture adorns the label of a red wine called "Marilyn Merlot"
Marilyn Monroe
Leszek
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$100
[6]
An Ulverston, England museum is devoted to the film careers of this comedy pair who starred in "The Flying Deuces"
Laurel & Hardy
Leszek
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$100
[12]
The Pacific type of this fish dies after swimming up rivers to spawn; the Atlantic does not
salmon
Leszek
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$100
[14]
In the 1920s, the company he founded merged with Metro Pictures Corporation
Samuel Goldwyn
Leszek
Billy
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$100
[26]
"Ev'rybody in the whole cell block was a-dancin' to" this
The "Jailhouse Rock"
Frank
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$200
[2]
Fred Noonan was navigator on the 1937 around-the-world flight on which she disappeared
Amelia Earhart
Billy
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$200
[22]
This term for a wine's bouquet is also a synonym for "snoot"
nose
Leszek
Billy
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$200
[7]
A collection of the art of this 20th century Spanish painter is housed at the Hotel Sale in Paris
Pablo Picasso
Frank
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$200
[13]
Some Amazon Indians use the teeth of this fish, also called the caribe, as razor blades
piranha
Billy
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$200
[18]
After losing to Lyndon Johnson in 1964, he was re-elected to the Senate in 1968
Barry Goldwater
Leszek
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$200
[27]
The flip side of "Hound Dog"; it insists "I don't want no other love, baby. It's just you I'm thinking of."
"Don't Be Cruel"
Leszek
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$300
[3]
He became a prince of the U.K. in 1957, some 10 years after he married Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Billy
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$300
[23]
This word, Italian for "sparkling", is found in the name of a sparkling wine from Asti, Italy
spumante
Leszek
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$300
[9]
This city's Field Museum of Natural History has a 250,000 volume reference library
Chicago
Leszek
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$300
[15]
Hippocampus is the scientific name of this odd fish with a prehensile tail
seahorse
Leszek
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$300
[19]
In 1948 Peter Goldmark and his team at CBS introduced this type of record
LP
Leszek
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$300
[28]
"Well, a' bless my soul", this song stayed on the charts for 30 weeks, the longest of any Elvis single
"All Shook Up"
Leszek
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$400
[4]
Ira Allen, a brother of Ethan Allen, was a founder of this state's university
Vermont
Frank
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$400
[24]
Manzanilla is a dry and somewhat salty type of this fortified Spanish wine
sherry
Frank
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$400
[10]
Austin, TX has a museum devoted to this short-story author of "Cabbages And Kings"
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)
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DD
$500
[16]
This primitive eel-like fish almost caused the extermination of the Great Lakes trout
lamprey
Leszek
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$400
[20]
This comic strip artist was known for creating intricate mechanical devices
Rube Goldberg
Leszek
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$400
[29]
This "keeps pouring down and up ahead's another town that I'll go walkin' through"
"Kentucky Rain"
Leszek
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$500
[5]
Douglas MacArthur was a member of the court martial that convicted this advocate of air power in 1925
Billy Mitchell
Leszek
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$500
[25]
Websters' says this word for a wine steward is derived from old Provencal for "pack animal driver"
Sommelier
Leszek
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$500
[11]
The Drake Well Museum in Titusville in this state commemorates the first oil well in the U.S.
Pennsylvania
Leszek
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$500
[17]
Clarias Batrachus, the walking type of this fish, can travel overland from pond-to-pond
catfish
Leszek
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$500
[21]
His "The Vicar Of Wakefield" might have been published to save himself from going to jail for debt
Oliver Goldsmith
Billy
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$500
[30]
This No. 1 hit from 1960 contains a spoken passage based on Jaques' speech in "As You Like It"
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
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| AMERICAN HISTORY | PHILOSOPHY | WEIGHTS & MEASURES | MONEY & FINANCE | PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES | ADJECTIVES |
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$200
[1]
On October 24, 1952 Eisenhower vowed to go to this country & 5 weeks later, he did
Korea
Leszek
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$200
[6]
Transcendentalist philosopher Bronson Alcott was the father of this famous authoress
Louisa May Alcott
Frank
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$200
[8]
This 1215 document included standards for measuring wine & grain
Magna Carta
Billy
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$200
[7]
In most cases, these payments made to a former spouse stop when the spouse remarries
alimony
Leszek
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$200
[26]
He claimed he was in love with Mrs. Patrick Campbell and wrote the role of Eliza Doolittle for her
George Bernard Shaw
Billy
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$200
[25]
It precedes "mammoth" when referring to an animal, & follows "wild and" when talking about a cowboy
woolly
Leszek
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$400
[2]
In 1732, Vincennes, in this future state, was founded by the French on the Wabash River
Indiana
Leszek
Billy
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$400
[10]
He got his doctorate in philosophy in 1841 and published "The Communist Manifesto" in 1848
Karl Marx
Frank
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$400
[12]
-273.16 degrees Centigrade
absolute zero
Billy
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$400
[20]
Fixed or liquid, it's anything of value you own
asset
Billy
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$400
[14]
Olga Knipper played Masha in his play "The Three Sisters" in 1901 and married him the same year
Anton Chekhov
Billy
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$400
[27]
This adjective that means "extremely tiny" comes from the name of the teensy people Gulliver met
Lilliputian
Billy
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$600
[3]
This 1941 act enabled the U.S. to become the "Arsenal of Democracy"
The Lend-Lease Act
Leszek
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$600
[9]
His most famous work, "The Prince", wasn't published until 5 years after his death
Niccolò Machiavelli
Frank
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$600
[16]
4 of these units, abbreviated gi. are equivalent to 1 pint
gills
Billy
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$600
[21]
Like interest paid on bank savings, they're the earnings paid on stocks & mutual funds
dividends
Frank
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$600
[15]
The 1st actress to play the role of Elmire in "Tartuffe" was his wife, Armande Bejart
Moliere
Leszek
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$600
[28]
This adjective could mean "world-weary" or "covered with green gemstones"
jaded
Leszek
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$800
[4]
On May 13, 1846, President James K. Polk signed a declaration of war against this country
Mexico
Leszek
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$800
[11]
In "The Ethics", Spinoza wrote that nature abhors one of these
a vacuum
Leszek
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$1,000
[19]
The name of this measure, equal to .9144 meters, comes from the Old English for "twig"
yard
Billy
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$800
[22]
It's inadvisable to buy a jumbo CD for over this amount, the maximum covered by deposit insurance
$100,000
Frank
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$800
[17]
In 1937 he wrote the play "Golden Boy" & married that year's Oscar winner, Luise Rainer
Clifford Odets
Leszek
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$800
[29]
It describes a person with strict moral principles, or a piano whose strings run vertically
upright
Leszek
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$1,000
[5]
On Dec. 26, 1799 this general eulogized George Washington in Congress
"Light-Horse Harry" Lee
Billy
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DD
$1,200
[13]
Immanuel Kant is a big name in this field of philosophy, concerned with the ultimate nature of things
metaphysics
Billy
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DD
$1,500
[18]
In typography, it's 1/72 of an inch
point
Leszek
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$1,000
[23]
Similar to Fannie Mae, it's the nickname of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
"Freddie Mac"
Leszek
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$1,000
[24]
Mary Eure, this playwright's 2nd wife, was in the original cast of his play "Look Back In Anger"
John Osborne
Leszek
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$1,000
[30]
It means "capable of being placed opposite something else" and often refers to a monkey's thumbs
opposable
Leszek
Frank
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This automaker's trademark symbolizes the 3 places where its engines were used: land, air & water
Mercedes-Benz