1989 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 2.
Ouida Rellstab — a teacher and Seniors Tournament winner from Metairie, Louisiana
Bruce Cox — a computer operations analyst from Lakeside, California
Cigus Vanni — a psychologist originally from South Amboy, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cigus | $0 | $800 | $3,600 |
$7,000
Automatic semifinalist |
$4,100
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Bruce | $500 | $2,100 | $4,700 |
$2,400
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$4,700
13 R, 1 W |
| Ouida | $1,200 | $1,900 | $5,400 |
$1,399
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$6,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| ISLANDS | MEDICINE | PBS | MUSEUMS | MIDDLE NAMES | STARTS WITH "B" |
|
$100
[9]
The island of Luzon contains more than 1/3 of this country's area & almost 1/2 of its population
The Philippines
Cigus
|
$100
[7]
Girls between 12-15 are the people most likely to develop scoliosis, a curvature of this body part
Spine
Ouida
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$100
[18]
At the end of this show's 20th season, a baby named Gabriela was born to Luis & Maria
"Sesame Street"
Cigus
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$100
[23]
Mamma Mia! This country has a spaghetti historical museum in Pontedassio
Italy
Cigus
|
$100
[1]
Architect I.M. Pei's middle name; we don't know if he descends from the famous dynasty
Ming
Ouida
|
$100
[2]
A white sturgeon or a white whale
Beluga
Ouida
|
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$200
[10]
These Ecuadorian islands are known officially as the Columbus Archipelago
Galapagos Islands
Bruce
|
$200
[8]
Hemodialysis removes waste material from the blood, a job usually done by these organs
Kidneys
Cigus
|
$200
[19]
PBS is taking "A Second Look" at some of the best programs made by this former LBJ press secretary
Bill Moyers
Bruce
|
$200
[24]
You can visit an Asian art museum, a carousel museum & a cable car museum in this city
San Francisco
Cigus
|
$200
[11]
It was novelist Henry Miller's middle name, though he wasn't born on Feb. 14 & he was certainly no saint
Valentine
Cigus
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$200
[3]
The title of a Burton & Taylor film based on a Tennessee Williams play, or the noise a cannon makes
"Boom!"
|
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$400
[13]
In 1972 this nation extended its territorial waters to 50 mi., causing a "cod war" with Britain & others
Iceland
Cigus
Bruce
|
$300
[28]
Parasitic worms in undercooked pork can cause this disease in humans
trichinosis
Ouida
|
$300
[20]
He was doing his stand-up political satire at D.C.'s Shoreham Hotel 14 years before his PBS specials
Mark Russell
Bruce
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$300
[25]
You don't have to be nuts to visit The Nut Museum in this Nutmeg State
Connecticut
Bruce
|
$300
[15]
Middle name shared by Sen. Thos. Benton & the artist Thomas Benton, who was his grandnephew
Hart
Bruce
|
$300
[4]
It's the land of giants in "Gulliver's Travels"
Brobdingnag
Bruce
|
|
DD
$500
[12]
1/2 of this 2nd largest island in the world is an independent country; the other 1/2 belongs to Indonesia
New Guinea
Cigus
|
— |
$400
[21]
Jacob Bronowski is best known in the U.S. for this 1974 BBC series & the book of the same title
"The Ascent of Man"
Cigus
Bruce
|
$400
[26]
The American Museum of Natural History has an annual film festival named for this anthropologist
Margaret Mead
Cigus
|
$400
[16]
Cereal heiress Marjorie Post's middle name
Meriwether
Ouida
|
$400
[5]
Oscar Wilde said, "Every great man has his disciples, & it is always Judas who writes" this
Biography
Ouida
|
|
$500
[14]
The oldest black marble quarries in the U.S. are on Isle La Motte in this northeastern lake
Lake Champlain
|
— |
$500
[22]
"Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow" & "Maurice Sendak: Mon Cher Papa" are segments of this PBS series
"American Masters"
|
$500
[27]
This Nevada ghost town boasts the Mark Twain Museum of Memories & the Bucket of Blood Saloon
Virginia City
|
$500
[17]
3 of the Johns in this famed family have had the same middle name, Davison
Rockefeller
Bruce
|
$500
[6]
The only one of South Africa's 3 capitals that fits the category
Bloemfontein
Ouida
|
| ANCIENT HISTORY | MAGAZINES | COMPOSERS | FAMOUS AMERICANS | ARGENTINA | PLAY SETTINGS |
|
$200
[14]
The Aqua Claudia, completed in 52 A.D., brought this to Rome from over 60 km away
Water
Bruce
|
$200
[10]
Walter Annenberg founded this teenage girls' magazine in the '40s
Seventeen
Cigus
|
$200
[12]
Of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, or Irving Goldberg, the composer of "The Goldberg Variations"
J.S. Bach
Cigus
|
$200
[1]
He was known as "The Great White Chief" & "The Hero of San Juan Hill"
Theodore Roosevelt
Cigus
|
$200
[21]
Like Washington, D.C., this city is a federal district
Buenos Aires
Ouida
|
$200
[4]
"The Plough & the Stars" set in this capital, depicts the 1916 Easter rising against the British
Dublin
Ouida
|
|
$400
[16]
Thor Heyerdahl said Polynesians may have come from South America on rafts made of this wood
Balsa
Ouida
|
$400
[11]
Every January this magazine runs "Dubious Achievement Awards"
Esquire
Cigus
|
$400
[13]
His biblical oratorios include "Saul", "Jephtha", "Esther" & "Belshazzar"
G.F. Handel
Ouida
|
$400
[2]
Daughter of a prominent politician, she gave her 1st public concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1947
Margaret Truman
Bruce
|
$400
[22]
The Argentine version of this dance developed from the milonga & the habanera in the 1800s
Tango
Cigus
|
$400
[5]
It's set in the 1880s in Tuscumbia, Ala. & at the Perkins Institution for the Blind
"The Miracle Worker"
Bruce
|
|
DD
$500
[18]
2 famous cities, one in Greece, the other a capital of ancient Egypt, were both named this
Thebes
Ouida
|
$600
[15]
When H. Ross founded this magazine, he said it "will not be edited for the old lady from Dubuque"
The New Yorker
Ouida
|
$600
[23]
In 1840 this German romantic married Clara Wieck, an outstanding pianist & a composer, too
Robert Schumann
Cigus
Ouida
|
$600
[3]
Before he was appointed in 1937, the U.S. Supreme Court had only had 1 Brown, 2 Whites, & a Gray
Hugo Black
Ouida
|
$600
[27]
Largest bird of the Pampas, it can be tamed & kept as a farmyard pet
Rhea
Ouida
|
DD
$600
[8]
This Gore Vidal play takes place in Philadelphia in 1960 at a political convention
"The Best Man"
Ouida
|
|
$600
[17]
In 625 B.C. the Chaldeans came to power & revived this ancient empire
Babylonian
Ouida
|
$800
[26]
This former Secretary of Defense has been appointed publisher of Forbes Magazine
Caspar Weinberger
|
$800
[24]
Cesar Franck said this composer of "Symphonie Fantastique" wrote nothing but masterpieces
Hector Berlioz
Cigus
|
$800
[6]
When given command of a Union army, this general, famed for his whiskers, said he was incompetent
Ambrose Burnside
Bruce
|
$800
[28]
Jesuits were the 1st to cultivate this species of holly that's made into a tea-like drink
Mate
Ouida
|
$800
[9]
The setting of this William Inge play is "a street-corner restaurant in a small Kansas town"
"Bus Stop"
Bruce
|
|
$1,000
[19]
Abraham bought a burial site from these 1st-known people of Asia Minor, whom the Bible calls "Children of Heth"
Hittites
|
$1,000
[30]
This new magazine for women advertises it's "For the woman who wasn't born yesterday"
Lear's
|
$1,000
[25]
His family added Bartholdy to its name when they inherited property from a relative
Felix Mendelssohn
|
$1,000
[7]
In 1741 this famed revivalist gave his best-known sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Jonathan Edwards
Ouida
|
$1,000
[29]
He has been called the "George Washington of Argentina"
Jose de San Martin
|
$1,000
[20]
The alternate title of this mystery is "Angel Street", which is also the play's setting
"Gaslight"
|
He served as Sec'y of H.E.W., Sec'y of Defense & Att'y General, all in the same year--1973
Elliot Richardson