Show #1094 1989-05-11 (taped 1989-04-08) College Championship

1989 College Championship quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Anna Siomopoulos — a sophomore from Cornell University

Kyle Bostian — a senior from University of Massachusetts

Alex Yang — a senior from Tulane University

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $1,400 $2,100 $10,200 $10,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$9,900
22 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Kyle $900 $2,900 $6,700 $12,700
Automatic semifinalist
$6,700
18 R, 2 W
Anna $800 $1,800 $3,600 $199
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$3,900
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES FOOD TV ACTORS & ROLES COLLEGE SPORTS FIRST AID KNIGHTS
$100 [8]
The Pony Express ran from St. Joseph, Missouri as far west as this state
California
Anna
$100 [1]
Created by Brennan's Restaurant in New Orleans, Bananas Foster is served for this course
dessert
Alex
$100 [3]
Telly Savalas 1st played this role in a blockbuster 1973 TV movie, "The Marcus-Nelson Murders"
(Theo) Kojak
Alex
$100 [22]
Kurt Thomas, Jim Hartung & Mitch Gaylord were all-around NCAA champions in this sport
gymnastics
Alex
$100 [21]
If you accidentally splash acid in your eye, immediately flush it with this
water
Kyle
$100 [13]
The truce of God in the early 11th century prohibited fighting on this day of the week
Sunday
Anna
$200 [9]
This, the "Mountain State", has the highest average altitude of any state east of the Mississippi
West Virginia
Anna
$200 [2]
This name for clear soup comes from the French for "to boil"
bouillon
Alex
$200 [4]
In 1987 Donna Rice appeared on this Florida-based series as the wife of a murdered cop
Miami Vice
Kyle
$200 [27]
Johns Hopkins has won 42 nat'l championships in this Amer Indian game whose name means "hooked stick"
lacrosse
Kyle
$200 [23]
If a person has fainted, leave him lying down but raise these slightly
his knees (or his feet or his legs)
Alex
$200 [14]
Knights used this heavy club with a spiked or flanged metal head to crush opponents' armor
a mace
Kyle
$300 [10]
This state, not Mississippi or Connecticut, has the longest 1-word name
Massachusetts
$300 [18]
The red flannel variety of this is made from corned beef & beets
hash
$300 [5]
Of Shadrach, Meshach or Abednego, the one who plays Anthony on "Designing Women"
Meshach (Taylor)
Alex
$300 [28]
From 1964-75 this John Wooden-coached team won a record 10 NCAA basketball championships
UCLA
Kyle
$300 [24]
Term for a break in a bone, whether simple or compound
a fracture
Anna
$300 [15]
The era of knights is often called this, after a French word meaning "horse soldiery"
chivalry
Alex
$400 [11]
Burlington, the largest city in this state, has fewer than 50,000 people
Vermont
Anna
DD $300 [19]
Snack food title of thefollowingtune; you can picture it cooking if you close your eyes: "instrumental music plays"
"Popcorn"
Anna
$400 [6]
John Goodman has become a new kind of sex symbol playing her hefty husband on TV
Roseanne Barr
Alex
$400 [29]
Major Leaguers Hubie Brooks, Bob Horner & Reggie Jackson played college baseball at this school an Tempe
Arizona State
Kyle
$400 [25]
Applying an ice bag to a sprain in the 1st half hour may reduce the pain & retard this
swelling
Alex
$400 [16]
Knights sometimes used this heavy beam to smash down castle walls & gates
a battering ram
Anna
$500 [12]
George Mitchell, the Senate Majority Leader, represents this state
(the state of) Maine
$500 [20]
The ingredient that puts the crunch in a Baby Ruth candy bar
peanuts
Anna
$500 [7]
Adrian Zmed played Officer Vince Romano on this Wm. Shatner series before hosting "Dance Fever"
T.J. Hooker
Kyle
$500 [30]
School that has won 5 of the last 11 Orange Bowl games
Oklahoma
Kyle
$500 [26]
The "R" in CPR stands for this
resuscitation
Kyle
$500 [17]
Sancho Panza was one of these, a knight's personal valet
a squire
Anna

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY OPERA INSECTS EUROPE LITERATURE ASTROLOGY
$200 [16]
A month after U.S. delegates signed this organization's charter on 6/26/45, the Senate ratified it
the United Nations
$200 [2]
At the end of Verdi's opera, this Ethiopian slave girl is buried alive
Aida
Alex
$200 [26]
These timber eaters can't digest wood by themselves: organisms in their intestines do it for them
termites
Kyle
$200 [11]
This annual Bavarian festival actually begins in September
Oktoberfest
Kyle
$200 [1]
The 1st line of "Gone With the Wind" says that this character "was not beautiful"
Scarlett O'Hara
Alex
$200 [19]
It's known as the sexiest sign of the zodiac, but beware its sting
scorpion
Kyle
$400 [17]
Pilots Mathias Rust & Francis Gary Powers both spent over a year in prison in this country
Russia (Soviet Union)
Alex
$400 [3]
It was Georges Bizet's last & most famous opera
Carmen
Alex
$400 [27]
Ants use these appendages to touch taste & smell
their antenna
Anna
$400 [12]
Italy's "boot" looks like it's about to kick this island
Sicily
Kyle
$400 [7]
Part I of this Robert Louis Stevenson novel is entitled "The Old Buccaneer"
Treasure Island
Kyle Anna
$400 [20]
1 of the 3 signs of the zodiac whose symbols have horns
(1 of) Aries (Taurus & Capricorn)
Kyle Anna
DD $700 [18]
By 1981 this Eastern European union led by an an electrician had around 10 million members
Solidarity
Alex
$600 [4]
It was Engelbert Humperdinck's 1st & most successful opera
Hansel and Gretel
Alex
$600 [28]
Because it feeds by using its long snout, this cotton destroyer is also called a snout beetle
a boll weevil
Alex
$600 [13]
Formerly a province, Provence is a region in this country
France
Kyle
$600 [8]
The hero of this J.D. Salinger novel has a precocious little sister named Phoebe
The Catcher in the Rye
Kyle
$600 [21]
It's the 3rd sign of the zodiac, but it's symbolized by 2 figures
Gemini
Anna
$800 [24]
In 1976 Mao, who ran China since 1949, & this man, who ran Chicago since 1955, both died
(Richard) Daley
Kyle
DD $1,000 [5]
After the famous overture is over, this 1829 Rossini opera goes on & on for nearly 6 hours
William Tell
Alex
$800 [29]
This substance oozes from a bee's pores & forms tiny flakes on the outside of its abdomen
wax
Alex
$800 [14]
In June 1988 M. Thatcher held an emergency meeting to find ways to curb fan violence in this sport
soccer
Kyle
$800 [9]
His 1925 novel "An American Tragedy" was based on a real life murder case
Theodore Dreiser
Alex
$800 [22]
People born under the sign of Cancer are ruled by this heavenly body & are known as its "children"
the Moon
Kyle
$1,000 [25]
The top secret study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam published by The New York Times in 1971
the Pentagon Papers
$1,000 [6]
The words that complete the title of the opera cycle "The Ring of..."
the Nibelungen
Alex
$1,000 [30]
Painted lady, great purple hairstreak & zebra aren't rock bands but types of these
butterflies
Alex
$1,000 [15]
The Azores were a group of deserted islands when discovered & claimed by this country in the 15th century
Portugal
Alex
$1,000 [10]
It's Turgenev's greatest novel--"relative"ly speaking
Fathers and Sons
$1,000 [23]
The most widely read astrologer of the Renaissance, his prophecies are still read today
Nostradamus
Alex

Final Jeopardy!

MONEY

"In God we trust" & this word appear on the front of every current U.S. coin

liberty

Anna "What is money?" — wagered $3,401
Kyle "What is liberty?" — wagered $6,000
Alex "What is currency" — wagered $200

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