Show #1194 1989-11-09 (taped 1989-10-16) Tournament of Champions

1989 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Tom Cubbage — a law student and winner of last year's College Tournament from Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Yael Sofaer — a programmer and analyst originally from Israel

Brian Wangsgard — a senior marketing representative originally from Ogden, Utah

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Brian	$3,400	$3,700	$4,900	$9,800 Automatic semifinalist	$6,900 19 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Yael	$-600	$695	$5,395	$989 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$4,700 16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Tom	$200	$900	$4,100	$8,199 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$4,100 8 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SPORTS	AMERICAN LITERATURE	COOKING	MEXICO	GLANDS	NAME'S THE SAME
$100 [6] According to USGA rules, 1 of 2 types of golf course hazards Bunker & Water Brian	$100 [18] Philip Nolan, who died on board the U.S. Corvette Levant, was called this by Edward Everett Hale "The Man Without a Country" Brian	$100 [11] Colcannon, a dish of potatoes, leeks, cabbage & cream, is associated with this country's cuisine Ireland Tom	$100 [24] In 1924 Mexican anthropologists found the bones of Cuauhtemoc, the last ruler of this Indian tribe the Aztecs Brian	$100 [1] This organ, which is also a gland, secretes a hormone called gastrin the stomach Brian	DD $5 [29] John Dos Passos work, or the group heard here:"Ooh wah ooh wah cool cool kitty /Asks about the boy from New York City..." Manhattan Transfer Yael
$200 [7] In 1987 Jim Abbott became the 1st in this sport to win the Sullivan Award for amateur athletes baseball Brian	$200 [20] In 1981 John Kennedy Toole was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for this novel A Confederacy of Dunces Tom	$200 [12] The 3 ingredients needed to make this sweet treat are concord grape juice, sugar & pectin grape jelly Brian	$200 [25] This city on the Pacific coast is Mexico's No. 1 resort for foreigners & Mexicans too Acapulco Yael	$200 [2] These glands secrete an oily substance which lubricates your hair & keeps it soft the sebaceous glands Yael	$100 [16] A design made from tiny pieces of colored material, or anything pertaining to the prophet Moses a mosaic Brian
$300 [8] In women's Olympic fencing, only this weapon is used the foil Tom	$300 [21] "Other Voices, Other Rooms" was this author's 1st published novel Truman Capote Tom	$300 [13] Craig Claiborne says you can substitute this type of cheese for the ricotta when making lasagna cottage cheese Brian	$300 [26] These people of mixed Spanish & Indian ancestry comprise the majority of Mexico's population Mestizos Yael	$300 [3] This gland which regulates growth is also called the hypophysis the pituitary gland Brian Yael	$200 [17] Harvard professor who's hosted "Ethics in America" on PBS, or the author of "A View From the Bridge" Arthur Miller Tom
$400 [9] 1 of 2 National Hockey League teams to retire Gordie Howe's uniform number Detroit Red Wings & Hartford Whalers Brian	$400 [22] She based Little Lord Fauntleroy's costume on one Oscar Wilde wore when he visited her Frances Hodgson Burnett Yael	$400 [14] If you order Coquilles St. Jacques in a restaurant, this is what you will be served scallops Brian	$400 [27] Established in 1929, this political party has won every presidential election since PRI (or IRP) Yael	$400 [4] Your pineal gland is inside this organ the brain Brian	$300 [19] The CEO of General Motors, or the actor who costarred with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. on "77 Sunset Strip" Roger Smith Yael
$500 [10] The 3 cities that the National Football League Cardinals have represented Chicago, St. Louis & Phoenix Brian Yael	$500 [23] Best known for "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight", he published at least a dozen volumes of poems Vachel Lindsay	$500 [15] The method you would use to cook shirred eggs baked	$500 [28] This general was elected president in 1877 & ruled as a dictator for 30 of the next 34 years Porfirio Diaz Yael	$500 [5] This gland that controls cell metabolism has 2 lobes, 1 on each side of your trachea the thyroid gland Brian	—

Double Jeopardy! Round

CONQUERORS	MUSIC	DRAMA	LANGUAGES	BORN & DIED	PHYSICS
$200 [6] Contrary to their name, they didn't wreck Rome's art treasures while taking the city in 455 Vandals Yael	$200 [18] In 1891 this Russian composer conducted his own "Marche Solennelle" opening week at Carnegie Hall Tchaikovsky	$200 [7] Completes the title of the Eugene O'Neill play "A Moon for the..." Misbegotten Tom	$200 [1] This language was originally based on a form of Dutch called Hollands, but has words from Khoi & Zulu Afrikaans Yael	$200 [13] Harper's Bible Dictionary says he was born in 5 or 6 B.C. in Judea & died in 28 or 29 A.D.in Jerusalem Jesus Yael	$800 [27] The apparent change in the pitch of the whistle from a moving train is due to this effect the Doppler effect Brian
$400 [12] China's wall wasn't so great; by 1208 this conqueror had a foothold inside it Genghis Khan Brian	$400 [19] Maria Theresa kissed him when he played for her court, but in France, Mme. de Pompadour refused to do so W.A. Mozart Yael	$400 [8] Schiller's play about this man has the line "By Heavens! The apple's cleft right through the core" William Tell Yael	$400 [2] This modern language has its roots in the vernacular of Tuscany Italian Yael	$400 [14] She was born at 280 Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830 & died there in 1886 Emily Dickinson Brian	$1,000 [26] Carnot's theory that heat is interchangeable with work formed the basis for this branch of physics thermodynamics Brian
$600 [25] After conquering this African country around 1650 B.C. the Hyksos introduced horses & chariots Egypt Yael	$600 [20] In 1802 he wrote his famous "Heiligenstadt Testament" to his brothers L.V. Beethoven	$600 [9] Produced by John Rich, this John Gay musical play was said to have "made Gay rich & Rich gay" "The Beggar's Opera"	$600 [3] This is the only European language where adjectives don't change to agree with the nouns they modify English Yael	$600 [15] He was born in U.S. Indian Territory in 1879 & died near Point Barrow, Alaska in 1935 Will Rogers Brian	—
$800 [24] Known as the liberator of this country, Bernardo O' Higgins lived his last years exiled from it Chile	$800 [21] The process of changing from one key or tonality to another is called this Transposition/Modulation Yael	$800 [10] The title of Karel Capek's play "R.U.R." stands for this "Rossum's Universal Robots"	$1,000 [5] The official languages of the east African country of Djibouti are Arabic & this French Tom	$1,000 [17] Artist who was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834 & died in London in 1903 James MacNeil Whistler Yael	—
$1,000 [23] The last stronghold of the Moors in Spain, it was conquered by Ferdinand & Isabella in 1492 Granada	$1,000 [22] This Viennese emigre created a new method of atonal composition & later taught at UCLA & USC Arnold Schoenberg Tom	$1,000 [11] Hamm sees the world decaying while his parents live in trash cans in this S. Beckett play "Endgame" Tom	DD $1,500 [4] 2 of 3 independent South American countries where Spanish is not an official language Brazil, Guyana, Suriname Yael	DD $2,000 [16] Author who was born in Edinburgh in 1850 & died in Samoa in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson Brian	—

Final Jeopardy!

COMMUNICATIONS

The "T" in TASS, an agency founded in the Soviet Union in 1925, stands for this

Telegraph

Tom "What is Telegraph?" — wagered $4,099

Brian "Is it Telegraph?" — wagered $4,900

Yael "What is [something scribbled out] truth?" — wagered $4,406

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