Show #1888 1992-11-18 (taped 1992-10-19) Tournament of Champions

1992 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.

Contestants

India Cooper — an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado

Kirk Ditzler — a doctoral student from Houston, Texas

Bruce Simmons — a graduate student from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Bruce	$1,600	$4,100	$10,800	$10,800 Finalist	$10,300 30 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Kirk	$1,300	$2,300	$3,900	$7,000 3rd place: $5,000 + Jeopardy! / Wheel of Fortune video games for Super NES/Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! Challenge book	$3,900 11 R, 2 W
India	$400	$400	$4,800	$9,599 2nd place: $5,000 + Jeopardy! / Wheel of Fortune video games for Super NES/Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! Challenge book	$5,300 13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE CENSUS	NAPOLEONS	JAPAN	NATURE	1960s SITCOMS	BIBLICAL QUOTES
$100 [24] The Census Bureau bought its first electronic one of these in 1951, the UNIVAC Computer India	$100 [14] This nephew of Napoleon was nicknamed "Napoleon the Little" Louis Napoleon India	$100 [17] The last eruption of this mountain covered Tokyo with a layer of ash in 1707 Mt. Fuji Bruce	$100 [8] Small, harmless & varying in color from green to black, it's the most common North American snake Garter Snake Bruce	$100 [1] Its theme song tells us it's "the place to be, farm livin' is the life for me" Green Acres India	$100 [2] "Beware of false prophets which come to you in" this garment Sheep's Clothing Bruce
$200 [25] This large, untaxed group was counted for the first time in the 1860 census Indians Bruce	$200 [18] This third U.S. vice-president was nicknamed "The Napoleon of the West" Aaron Burr India	$200 [19] Shrines of this religion have two main parts: the haiden, open to visitors, & the honden, closed to laymen Shinto India	$200 [9] Like some armadillos, the pangolin does this when attacked Roll up into a ball Bruce	$200 [3] Paul Lynde played Samantha's Uncle Arthur for 7 seasons on this ABC sitcom Bewitched India	$200 [4] "And they took" his "coat and killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood" Joseph Bruce
$300 [26] The cost of the last major U.S. census held in this year was $10.40 a head 1990 Bruce	$300 [21] John C. Calhoun was so pro-this he was called "The Napoleon of" it Slavery Bruce	$300 [20] The Sentoraru Riigu is one of two associations of teams in this sport Baseball Bruce	$300 [10] These largest cacti don't develop their first branches until about age 75 Saguaro Kirk	$300 [5] In "Get Smart" the spies at CONTROL were dedicated to defeating this evil organization KAOS Bruce	$300 [12] "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose" this His own soul Bruce
$400 [27] The Bureau of the Census is part of this cabinet department that also includes the Patent Office Commerce Bruce	$400 [22] The memory of his being "The Napoleon of Luzon" hasn't faded Douglas MacArthur Bruce	$400 [29] These rice straw floor mats measure 71" X 35" Tatami	$400 [11] These plants, especially Sphagnum, are the main vegetation of boggy regions mosses India	$400 [6] On "The Beverly Hillbillies", her real name was Daisy Moses Granny Bruce	$400 [15] To this disciple, Jesus said, "Get thee behind me, Satan" Peter India
$500 [28] 200 years ago it was near Chestertown, Md.; today it's 9.7 miles SE of Steelville, Mo. the population center of the U.S. Bruce	$500 [23] This king was "The Napoleon of the Pacific" King Kamehameha Kirk	$500 [30] Naha is the capital of this island, returned to Japan by the U.S. in 1972 Okinawa Kirk	$500 [13] Lichens, plants that grow on rocks, are made up of two types of organisms: a fungus & this Algae Kirk	$500 [7] It was the occupation of Jerry Helper, Rob & Laura Petrie's next door neighbor Dentist Kirk	DD $500 [16] Samson took hold of two pillars and said "Let me die with" these people Philistines India

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE SENSES	JAZZ	AMERICAN LITERATURE	THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE	BODIES OF WATER	A"R"TISTS
$200 [23] Taste & this sense are the 2 that use chemoreceptors Smell Bruce	$200 [26] A Kansas City radio announcer dubbed him "Count" Count Basie Bruce	$200 [1] The same year his "The Last of the Mohicans" was published, he was named U.S. Consul at Lyon, France James Fenimore Cooper Kirk	$200 [11] For safekeeping during World War II, the Declaration was stored at this Kentucky military base Fort Knox Kirk	$200 [18] This African river enters the Mediterranean through two main branches: the Damietta & the Rosetta The Nile Bruce	$200 [6] A trip to Italy in 1875 inspired his sculpture "The Age of Bronze" Auguste Rodin Bruce
$400 [24] Impulses from some receptors of this sense have the longest path to the brain Touch Bruce	$400 [27] Duke Ellington was a regular attraction at this famous Harlem nightclub from 1927-1932 Cotton Club Bruce India	$400 [2] This Thoreau work is sub-titled "Life in the Woods" "Walden" Bruce	$400 [12] When the Declaration was read in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776, the Liberty Bell rang from this building Independence Hall (or the Old State House) Bruce	$400 [19] Entrances to this sea include the Yucatan Channel & the Panama Canal Caribbean Sea Bruce	$400 [9] In 1956 he deleted the words "Dios No Existe" from one of his murals after declaring he was a Catholic Diego Rivera India
$600 [25] The thalamus acts as a relay device between the senses & this cortex Cerebral Cortex Bruce	$600 [28] This trumpeter's posthumous 1992 album "Doo-Bop" includes a rap number Miles Davis	$600 [3] His first novel, "Typee", in 1846, was based on his experiences when he deserted a whaler in the south Pacific Herman Melville Kirk	$600 [14] He is the man the Declaration says "has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts" George III Bruce	$600 [20] Venice is one of the chief ports on this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Adriatic Sea Kirk	$600 [10] Before his death at 37, this Renaissance master painted over 300 pictures on the Madonna theme Raphael Bruce Kirk
$800 [16] This sense is found only among two major groups of animals: the arthropods & vertebrates hearing Bruce Kirk	$800 [29] Lester Young gave Billie Holiday this two-word title "Lady Day" India	$800 [4] He wrote "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" & "A History of New York" Washington Irving India	$800 [13] Brothers Richard Henry Lee & Francis Lightfoot Lee signed the Declaration as representatives from this state Virginia India	$800 [21] A major source of hydroelectric power, it forms most of the border between Oregon & Washington the Columbia River Bruce Kirk	$800 [7] This Flemish artist's Whitehall ceiling panels honoring James I were completed in 1634 Peter Paul Rubens Bruce
DD $1,000 [17] The body's ability to do this is called the vestibular sense balance itself Bruce	$1,000 [30] With Dizzy Gillespie, this "Bird" originated the bebop style of jazz Charlie Parker Kirk	$1,000 [5] In this 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work, the former residents of a Midwestern town speak from their graves "Spoon River Anthology" India	DD $2,500 [15] Jefferson's draft was influenced by "Two Treatises of Government", a 1690 book by this English philosopher John Locke Bruce	$1,000 [22] An inlet of the Beaufort Sea, this bay is the starting point of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Prudhoe Bay Bruce	$1,000 [8] In 1768 this portrait painter became the first president of London's Royal Academy Joshua Reynolds India

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD DRAMA

Sophocles, Euripides & Eugene O'Neill all wrote plays with this woman's name in their titles

Electra

Kirk "Who is Elektra?" — wagered $3,100

India "Who is Electra?" — wagered $4,799

Bruce "Who is Electra?" — wagered $0

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