1986 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.
Gary Palmer — a physician from Palm Springs, California
Guy Tonti — a telecommunications manager from Vallejo, California
Chuck Forrest — a law student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck | $2,000 | $2,400 | $11,000 |
$10,000
Automatic semifinalist |
$12,000
30 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Guy | $1,400 | $2,200 | $2,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$2,600
9 R, 0 W |
| Gary | $0 | $-100 | $3,000 |
$6,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$3,900
10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| NUCLEAR PHYSICS | DISNEYLAND | MOVIE PAIRS | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | DAYS IN SONG | READ THE LABEL! |
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$100
[1]
The largest fusion reactor within 100 million miles of earth
sun
Guy
|
$100
[20]
Appropriately named sternwheeler that circles Tom Sawyer Island
Mark Twain
Chuck
|
$100
[15]
These "Buck Privates" once had insurance in case any audience member died of laughter
Abbott and Costello
Chuck
|
$100
[3]
If you go to a "chemist's" in London, you've gone to this kind of shop
pharmacist
Chuck
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$100
[13]
According to the Mamas & The Papas, you "can't trust that day"
Monday
Chuck
|
$100
[9]
If roaches could read, they'd know this is where they "check in...but they don't check out"
Roach Motel
Chuck
|
|
$200
[2]
FDR was alerted to the military significance of nuclear fission by a letter from this scientist
Einstein
Chuck
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— |
$200
[19]
Tom Berenger & William Katt played this outlaw pair in their "Early Days"
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Gary
|
$200
[5]
A "serviette"
napkin
Chuck
|
$300
[17]
Opening line of theme song written for TV's "Happy Days"
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days
Guy
|
$200
[11]
The "Q" on your pantyhose package means they're this
queen size
Guy
|
|
$300
[4]
This protective material used to surround the fuel rod tubes at Chernobyl is also found in your pencil
graphite
Chuck
Guy
|
— |
$300
[22]
They were "tapped" to star in 1985's "White Nights"
Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov
Chuck
Gary
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$300
[7]
How a London theatrical producer would probably react to learn his play is a "bomb"
happily
Chuck
|
$400
[18]
This 1967 song was the 4th #1 hit in the U.S. for The Rolling Stones
“Ruby Tuesday”
Chuck
|
$300
[12]
Label on this drink says it was "Authorized by decree, Emperor Napoleon III, 23 June 1863"
Perrier
Guy
|
|
$400
[6]
Only material occuring in nature that is readily fissionable is an isotope of this
uranium
Chuck
|
— |
$400
[23]
Howard & Shearer, or Whiting & Hussey, who were closer to the correct ages
Romeo and Juliet
Chuck
|
$400
[10]
Someone who wants to be a "sister", but not a nun, would be interested in this profession
nursing
Chuck
|
$500
[21]
Song in which K. Kristofferson stumbled to the closet to find his cleanest dirty shirt
“Sunday Morning Coming Down”
Chuck
|
— |
|
$500
[8]
These negatively charged particles are found orbiting in a "cloud" around the nucleus of a stable atom
electrons
Guy
|
— |
$500
[24]
They played the primary pair of priests in "Going My Way"
Bing Crosby & Fitzgerald
Guy
|
$500
[14]
The British use the Eskimo word "anorak" for this
parka
Chuck
|
DD
$1,000
[16]
Title of the followingheadbreaking, not heartbreaking, song:"It's getting late have you seen my mates /Ma tell me when the boys get here /It's seven o'clock and I want to rock /Want to get a belly full of beer..."
"Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"
Chuck
|
— |
| WORLD HISTORY | ELECTIONS | NOVELS | SPORTS GREATS | U.S. CITIES | "MOORE" OR "LES" |
|
$200
[2]
Effendi, bey, & pasha were titles of nobility in this country's Ottoman empire
Turkey
Chuck
|
$200
[3]
The only 2 individuals to run for president unopposed were James Monroe & this man
George Washington
Guy
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$200
[22]
A Nora Ephron bestseller about marital pain, or a painful digestive condition
heartburn
Chuck
|
$200
[1]
Baseball star whose nickname & recent autobiography are both "The Mick"
Mickey Mantle
Chuck
|
$200
[8]
The 1985 Live-Aid concert for African relief was held simultaneously in London & this U.S. city
Philadelphia
Gary
|
$200
[9]
While James Bond may not have been a "saint", he was
Roger Moore
Guy
|
|
$400
[11]
About 1000 times as many people attended this man's 1970 Cairo funeral as attended his successor's
Nasser
Gary
|
$400
[14]
It's been said Martin van Buren's son John was 1st to advise, "Vote early & ..." this
often
Gary
|
$400
[27]
Published in 1902 & dedicated to Teddy Roosevelt, this Owen Wister novel is a western classic
The Virginian
Chuck
|
$400
[4]
Though clumsy & fat as a child, Dick Button rose to stardom doing this
ice skating
Gary
|
$400
[10]
This Montana city is called "a mile high & a mile deep" for its elevation & its mine shafts
Butte
Chuck
|
$400
[12]
A model of Gibson guitar bears his name, as well it should
Les Paul
Chuck
|
|
$600
[13]
In 1934-35, nationalist military pressure forced Mao to lead his "Red Army" on this 6000 mile trek
the long march
Chuck
|
$600
[19]
"As Maine goes, so goes Vermont" refers to only 2 states won by him in 1936 election
Alf Landon
Chuck
|
$600
[28]
Pulitzer-winning Robert Penn Warren novel, its movie adaptation won Best Picture Oscar
All The King's Men
Chuck
|
$600
[5]
In 1938, Don Budge became 1st player ever to win this sport's 4 major championships in 1 year
tennis
Gary
|
DD
$700
[17]
Once the westernmost outpost of the Pony Express, it became a state capital in 1854
Sacramento
Gary
|
$800
[16]
In 1975, she became only mother in U.S. history to try to shoot a president
Sara Moore
Gary
|
|
$800
[20]
In 1657, the English parliament suggested he become king, but he turned down the offer
Oliver Cromwell
Gary
|
$800
[24]
Besides the Democrats & Republicans, this state also has 2 parties named Liberal & Conservative
New York
Chuck
|
$800
[29]
R. L. Stevenson describes this novel as "Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751"
Kidnapped
|
$800
[6]
Junior Johnson, whom Tom Wolfe called "the last great American hero" starred in this sport
stock car racing
Chuck
|
$800
[18]
Standing 55' high, the statue of Vulcan in this southern city is largest cast-iron statue in world
Birmingham (Alabama)
Gary
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
Completes famous epitaph: "Here lies Lester Moore, four slugs from a fourty-four..."
No Les No more.
Gary
|
|
$1,000
[23]
His 1808 ousting of the king of Spain gave Latin American states the pretext to declare independence
Napoleon
Chuck
|
$1,000
[25]
Though Samuel J. Tilden got more popular votes, this man became president in 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes
Chuck
Gary
|
$1,000
[30]
Turgenev novel that dealt with confrontation between 2 generations & popularized the word "nihilist"
Fathers And Sons
Chuck
|
$1,000
[7]
It's said she lost 12 lbs. during her record-setting 1926 swim of the English Channel
(Gertrude) Ederle
Chuck
|
$1,000
[26]
Wright-Patterson AFB, largest air force research field in U.S. is near this 6th-largest Ohio city
Dayton
Chuck
|
$1,000
[21]
Though some of her verse is difficult, this Brooklyn poetess also wrote odes to the Dodgers
Marianne Moore
|
Iceland shares the longest average life expectancy of 77 years with this other island country
Japan