Show #1781 1992-05-04 (taped 1992-03-08) College Championship

1992 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.First ever Tiebreaker Round in a tournament game.

Contestants

Chris Montplaisir — a senior from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill

Ken Kansa — a junior from George Washington University

Margaret Bickers — a freshman from Agnes Scott College

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Margaret $100 $1,200 $7,800 $5,800
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$7,800
14 R, 1 W
Ken $1,700 $2,600 $10,000 $11,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$10,100
22 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Chris $1,100 $3,200 $6,000 $11,000
Automatic semifinalist
$6,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. CITIES DISNEY WORLD SAINTS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AD LINES 2-LETTER WORDS
$100 [3]
A tourist attraction in this capital is the Seagull Monument in Temple Square
Salt Lake City
Margaret
$100 [5]
During the 20th anniversary celebration, he gave out his "Points of Light" awards
President Bush
Ken
$100 [1]
This saint, the Bishop of Myra, is the origin of Father Christmas
Nicholas
Ken
$100 [22]
The "French" one of these is descended from a hunting one
horn
Chris
$100 [15]
Products made by this company are "M'm! M'm! Good!"
Campbell's soup
Chris
$100 [13]
This word can precede "fly a kite", "for broke" & "to pieces"
go
Chris
$200 [10]
Suburbs of this southern capital include Marietta, Smyrna & Norcross
Atlanta
Chris
$200 [6]
Since the Dixie Landings Resort opened in 1992, Disney has over 17,000 of these on the property
hotel rooms
Chris
$200 [2]
St. Barnabas persuaded the Christians of Jerusalem to accept among them this apostle from Tarsus
Paul
Ken
$200 [20]
This stick used to play the cello is heavier than the one used to play the violin
bow
Ken
$200 [16]
"I Love What You Do for Me"
Toyota
Chris
$200 [14]
The manufacturing cities of Turin, Milan & Brescia lie in this Italian river's valley
Po
Margaret
$300 [11]
The tallest office building in Pennsylvania, the 64-story USX Tower, is in this city
Pittsburgh
Ken Chris
$300 [7]
This "hare with the flair" is the presiding spirit of the park's "Bi-Tencennial"
Roger Rabbit
Chris
$300 [4]
St. Ulric of Augsburg's Feast Day falls on this U.S. patriotic holiday
4th of July
Chris
$300 [21]
The cithara was an ancient instrument that had several of these which were plucked with a plectrum
strings
Ken
$300 [17]
"All You Need to Reach Out"
AT&T
$300 [23]
This interjection is used as an expression of surprise when it precedes "and behold"
lo
Chris
DD $500 [12]
In 1825 this Ohio city was chosen as the Great Lakes terminus of the Ohio & Erie Canal
Cleveland
Ken
$400 [8]
Walt Disney saw it as his answer to Sir Thomas More's Utopia
EPCOT Center
Chris
$400 [29]
His emblem of 2 crossed keys is featured on the Vatican flag
St. Peter
Margaret
$400 [27]
Not all of these instruments are Scottish; the zampogna is an Italian version
bagpipes
Chris
$400 [18]
"Give Us a Week, We'll Take Off the Weight"
Slim-Fast
Chris
$400 [24]
In 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Atlantic in a papyrus boat named for this Egyptian sun god
Ra
Ken
$500 [26]
The largest annual exposition in the U.S. is the state fair held in this second largest Texas city
Dallas
Margaret
$500 [9]
This Hollywood movie theatre known for its footprints, is recreated at the Disney-MGM Studios
Mann's Chinese Theatre
Ken
$500 [30]
St. Francis Xavier's body was enshrined at Goa in this country
India
Margaret
$500 [28]
The number of black keys on a standard piano; there are 52 white ones
36
Ken Chris
$500 [19]
"Nothing Beats a Great Pair of" these
L'eggs
Margaret
$500 [25]
3 of the 4 Greek letters that are 2-letter words
(3 of) xi, nu & pi (or mu)
Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORERS WOMEN'S RIGHTS 20th CENTURY NOVELS TRANSPORTATION CATS NUCLEAR PHYSICS
$200 [6]
In 1275 this Venetian & his father & uncle reached Shang-tu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
Chris
$200 [7]
Figures show that for women today who are service workers or managers, it's less than 75% of male peers'
salary
Chris
$200 [19]
It's subtitled "The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind"
Scarlett
Chris
$200 [18]
57 years after Lindbergh, Joe Kittinger made the first solo crossing of this ocean in a balloon
Atlantic
Ken
$200 [1]
Some cats might "envy" the Russian blue's beautiful eyes, which are this color
green
Chris
$200 [13]
From its resemblance to cell splitting in biology, the splitting of an atom is called this
fission
Ken
$400 [9]
On Hispaniola in December 1492 he built a fort, La Navidad, from the timber of one of his ships
Christopher Columbus
Chris
$400 [8]
To fight discrimination, founders of this magazine set up the Foundation for Women in 1972
Ms.
Ken
$400 [20]
This Mario Puzo saga of the Corleones was one of the best-selling novels of the 1970s
The Godfather
Chris
$400 [22]
With an estimated 60,000, Mexico City has more of these cars for hire than any other city
taxis
Ken
$400 [2]
Some cats are called tabbies, but these African cats are called Abys
Abyssinians
Margaret
$400 [14]
In 1896 Antoine Becquerel first noticed radiation from this element
uranium
Ken
DD $600 [10]
Nathaniel Palmer in 1820 is believed to be the 1st explorer to sight this continent
Antarctica
Chris
$600 [28]
In 1893 this country became the first to give women full voting rights after a vote in Wellington
New Zealand
Ken
$600 [21]
James Michener's "The Eagle and the "Raven" is a novel about Santa Anna's clash with this Texas statesman
Sam Houston
Ken
$600 [25]
Known by this nickname, Japan's express trains can travel at over 130 mph
bullet train
Margaret
$600 [3]
A color combination seen on some cats, or a substance that comes from a turtle's carapace
tortoiseshell
Margaret
$600 [15]
The antiparticle of the electron, it has the same mass but an opposite charge
positron
Margaret
$800 [11]
This British sea captain named Australia's east coast New South Wales
Cook
Chris
$800 [29]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton rewrote this holy book to lose its male bias, publishing parts in 1895 & 1898
The Bible
Chris
DD $600 [23]
It's the pen name under which Stephen King wrote the 1984 novel "Thinner"
Richard Bachman
Ken
$800 [26]
The prairie schooner was a variant of this covered wagon developed by Pennsylvania farmers
Conestoga
Margaret
$800 [4]
The Birman originated in this country, which you might guess from its name
Burma
Margaret
$800 [16]
Used in some nuclear reactors, deuterium oxide, D2O, is commonly called this
heavy water
Margaret
$1,000 [12]
Ships used by this explorer included the Hopewell, the Discovery & the Half Moon
(Henry) Hudson
Margaret
$1,000 [30]
His 1804 code said under law women were dependents of their fathers or husbands & had no rights
Napoleon
Ken
$1,000 [24]
Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" was based on this scandal of the 1920s
Teapot Dome
Ken
$1,000 [27]
When DELAG, the 1st German commercial airline, was founded in 1919 it flew only this type of craft
Zeppelin (dirigible)
Ken
$1,000 [5]
The Manx cat was named for the Isle of Man in this sea
Irish Sea
Ken Chris
$1,000 [17]
2 new ones of these particles were postulated in the late 1970s & named top & bottom
quarks
Margaret

Final Jeopardy!

THE 1970s

These documents revealed the Truman admin. gave military aid to France in its war against the Viet Minh

Pentagon Papers

Chris "What are the Pentagon Papers" — wagered $5,000
Margaret "What are ???" — wagered $2,000
Ken "What are the Pentagon Papers?" — wagered $1,000

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