Show #1195 1989-11-10 (taped 1989-10-16) Tournament of Champions

1989 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

QUOTES CINEMA LIBRARIES SCIENCE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 2-LETTER WORDS
$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

Double Jeopardy! Round

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

Final Jeopardy!

THE CENSUS

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

Cathy "What are Delaware + New Jersey?" — wagered $3,000
Chris "What are Massachusetts + NEW YORK?" — wagered $3,400
Rich "What is N.J. + R.I.?" — wagered $1,800

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