1989 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.
Chris Shea — a radio operator from Los Angeles, California
Rich Lerner — a lawyer from Pago Pago, American Samoa
Cathy Boggs — a freelance writer originally from Appleton, Wisconsin
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cathy | $-900 | $1,600 | $3,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$6,000
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rich | $1,300 | $3,300 | $8,700 |
$10,500
Automatic semifinalist |
$8,500
23 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Chris | $700 | $1,800 | $3,400 |
$0
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$3,400
14 R, 4 W |
| QUOTES | CINEMA | LIBRARIES | SCIENCE | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 2-LETTER WORDS |
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$100
[6]
In the "Aeneid", Virgil wrote, "I fear" them "even when they bring gifts"
Greeks
Rich
|
$100
[1]
A clause in Orson Welles' RKO contract prevents Ted Turner from colorizing this 1941 film
"Citizen Kane"
Rich
|
$100
[2]
According to ancient rumor, Mark Antony donated 200,000 books to this city's library
Alexandria
Chris
|
$100
[14]
The mother of a mule
Horse (Mare)
Rich
Chris
|
$100
[23]
These 7 characters received their names from the Disney studios, not from the Brothers Grimm
The Seven Dwarfs
Rich
|
$100
[10]
It's a prefix meaning "former" but it's also used alone to describe a former spouse
Ex
Rich
|
|
$200
[3]
England's James I called it "Hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs"
Tobacco
Chris
|
$200
[18]
It was the 2nd film in the "Star Wars" trilogy
"The Empire Strikes Back"
Chris
|
$200
[5]
When the Library of Congress bought this president's private library, it doubled its collection
Thomas Jefferson
Chris
|
$200
[19]
It's another name for your coccyx
Tailbone
Rich
|
$200
[27]
The Pied Piper was hired by Hamelin to rid the town of these pests
Rats
Chris
|
$200
[11]
It is I, royally speaking
We
Chris
|
|
$300
[4]
19th C. German chancellor who spoke of "Blut und Eisen", meaning "blood & iron"
Otto von Bismarck
Rich
|
$300
[20]
Vangelis' theme from this 1981 British film took a record 21 weeks on the charts to reach No. 1
"Chariots of Fire"
Rich
|
$300
[7]
In 1757 King George II gave his royal library to this London museum's library
The British Museum
Rich
|
$300
[24]
Union Carbide makes this common car additive that contains ethylene glycol
Antifreeze
Chris
|
$300
[28]
This author was born in a slum in Odense, Denmark on April 2, 1805
Hans Christian Andersen
Cathy
|
$300
[15]
Freudian component of personality that seeks immediate gratification
Id
Cathy
|
|
$400
[12]
Longfellow called it "The Universal Language of Mankind"
Music
Cathy
|
$400
[21]
Herbert Marshall played this author in "The Moon & Sixpence" & "The Razor's Edge"
Somerset Maugham
Cathy
|
DD
$400
[8]
This D.C. Shakespeare library is named for the oil executive who founded it
Folger Library
Rich
|
$400
[26]
This unit of measure in weather is abbreviated mb
Millibar
|
$400
[29]
In this tale, the heroine is named for the rampion her father stole from the witch's garden
Rapunzel
Rich
|
$400
[16]
Originating in China c. 2300 B.C., it's still the most popular board game in Japan
Go
Rich
|
|
$500
[13]
Pascal said if her "nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed"
Cleopatra (of Egypt)
Chris
|
$500
[22]
It completes the title of the 1973 film "No Sex Please,..."
"We're British"
Cathy
|
$500
[9]
Pope Clement VII commissioned him to design the Medicean-Laurentian Library in 1523
Michelangelo
Cathy
|
$500
[25]
Frenchman who discovered the Piezoelectric Effect, that certain crystals when stressed make electricity
Pierre Curie
Rich
|
$500
[30]
She wrote 6 sequels to "Anne of Green Gables", but her adult fiction never sold well
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Cathy
|
$500
[17]
A girlfriend of Zeus, or a moon of Jupiter
Io
Cathy
|
| 20TH CENTURY AMERICA | ART | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | THEATER | THE SOVIET UNION | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES |
|
$200
[1]
A work week of this many days was not generally accepted until the 1930s
5
Cathy
|
$200
[23]
The Mona Lisa was painted in oil on this, not canvas
Wood Panel
Chris
|
$200
[3]
U.S. pioneers in this industry include Little, Brown & Co., 1837 & Houghton Mifflin Co., 1832
Publishing
Rich
|
$200
[27]
This Ibsen play usually ends with Nora leaving home because she's tired of being treated like a toy
"A Doll's House"
Cathy
Rich
|
$200
[14]
A Soviet writer says he found the lost graveyard of this czar & his family
Nicholas II
Chris
|
$200
[20]
Anne Lindbergh's maiden name
Morrow
Rich
|
|
$400
[2]
Gerald Ford, Hale Boggs & Allen Dulles were among those appointed to this commission 11/29/63
The Warren Commission
Rich
|
$400
[16]
Winslow Homer's "Prisoners from the Front" is a scene from this war
the Civil War
Cathy
Rich
|
$400
[4]
Nestle became "contented" when it acquired this company in 1985
Carnation
Chris
|
$400
[30]
The original cast of this Agatha Christie play featured Richard Attenborough as a detective, not a rodent
The Mousetrap
Rich
|
$400
[9]
Gorbachev cut short his trip to NYC in 1988 to visit this republic devastated by a 6.9 earthquake
Armenia
Cathy
|
$400
[21]
Julia Howe's
Ward
Rich
|
|
$600
[8]
In 1904, Ida Tarbell published the muckraking history of this oil company
Standard Oil
Chris
|
$600
[15]
On May 9, 1989 a self-portrait by this artist went for a whopping $47.85 million
Pablo Picasso
Chris
|
$600
[5]
These new Nabisco animal cookies were almost called "Grrrrahams"
Teddy Grahams
|
$600
[25]
In "West Side Story", these gangs represent the Capulets & the Montagues
Jets & Sharks
Rich
|
$600
[10]
The party chief who lost the election in this city, the cradle of the revolution, was running unopposed
Leningrad
Cathy
|
$600
[22]
Adela St. Johns'
Rogers
Chris
|
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
Between '46-51 this organization was headquartered at the Sperry gyroscope plant at Lake Success on Long Island
The United Nations
Rich
|
$800
[17]
Meaning "like a wild beast", it's the art movement associated with Matisse
Fauvism/Fauves
Cathy
|
$800
[6]
Edward VII's authorization in 1901 allowed John Doulton's Co. to market porcelain under this name
Royal Doulton
Rich
Chris
|
$800
[29]
Actor-playwright who won a 1979 Pulitzer Prize for "Buried Child"
Sam Shepard
Cathy
|
$800
[11]
To quell recent protests in Tbilisi in this republic, the gov't used poison gas & several people died
Georgia
Rich
|
$800
[24]
Mary Rinehart's
Roberts
Chris
|
|
$1,000
[13]
At 1st this "radio priest" supported FDR but in later years opposed the New Deal
Fr. Charles Coughlin
Chris
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
Artist whose most famous painting, seen here, is an example of the Rococo style:
Fragonard
Cathy
|
$1,000
[7]
Catalog shoppers know Lillian Katz better by this name
Lillian Vernon
Rich
|
$1,000
[28]
Durrenmatt play in which a woman promises to give townspeople a fortune if they will kill her ex-lover
The Visit
Cathy
|
$1,000
[19]
We gave the Soviets this spy in 1962 to get back U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers
Col. Rudolf Abel
|
$1,000
[26]
Mary Dodge's
Mapes
Rich
|
2 of the 4 U.S. states with a population density greater than 500 people per square mile
(2 of) Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey & Rhode Island