1995-B Seniors Tournament quarterfinal game 4.
Dave Tucker — a real estate broker from Luray, Virginia
Diane Lilly — a homemaker from Potomac, Maryland
Sharon Croissant — an outplacement counselor from Hawthorn Hills, Illinois
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharon | $600 | $3,400 | $3,000 |
$6,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$3,500
22 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Diane | $600 | $900 | $8,100 |
$8,100
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$8,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dave | $1,300 | $1,000 | $7,000 |
$12,000
Automatic semifinalist |
$7,000
13 R, 1 W |
| U.S. CITIES | THE MOVIES | EDIBLE QUOTES | PEOPLE IN HISTORY | SPORTSWOMEN | DOOHICKEYS |
|
$100
[1]
This home of Disney World was probably named for a soldier killed in the Second Seminole War
Orlando
Sharon
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$100
[26]
One-third of the dialogue in this Kevin Costner film is in the Lakota language, with English subtitles
Dances with Wolves
Diane
|
$100
[6]
Clifton Fadiman described cheese as this liquid's "leap toward immortality"
milk
Sharon
|
$100
[7]
This Egyptian queen married 2 of her brothers: Ptolemy XII & Ptolemy XIII
Cleopatra
Diane
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$100
[21]
This woman nicknamed "Babe" was an All-American high school basketball player at age 16
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Sharon
|
$100
[16]
It's a small swiveling wheel attached to the bottom of pieces of furniture
a caster
Sharon
|
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$200
[2]
This capital's largest public employer is the state of South Dakota
Pierre
Sharon
Diane
|
$200
[27]
Sebastian Cabot provided the voice of Bagheera the panther for this 1967 animated Disney film
The Jungle Book
Sharon
|
$200
[8]
According to a nursery rhyme, "Oranges" and these fruits, "say the bells of St. Clement's"
lemons
Sharon
|
$200
[12]
As a tribute to this late admiral, his brother William was created Earl of Trafalgar
Lord Nelson
Sharon
|
$200
[22]
Maria Bueno won 12 grand slam doubles crowns in this sport in spite of a long bout with hepatitis
tennis
Sharon
|
$200
[17]
It's the penpoint you insert into the tip of a fountain pen
a nib
Dave
|
|
$300
[3]
Camden, New Jersey is in the metropolitan area of this Pennsylvania city
Philadelphia
Dave
|
$300
[28]
This Barrymore was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for the 1929 tearjerker "Madame X"
Lionel Barrymore
Sharon
Diane
|
$300
[9]
In "The Taming of the Shrew", Shakespeare wrote, "There's small choice in" these "rotten" fruits
apples
Diane
|
$300
[13]
It's believed William Clark, fond of this Indian guide, later raised & educated her son
Sacajawea
Sharon
|
$300
[23]
In September 1995 this American figure skater married her agent, Jerry Solomon
Nancy Kerrigan
Sharon
|
$300
[18]
They're the raised bars on the neck of a guitar
a fret
Sharon
|
|
$400
[4]
Harry Truman's summer White House was in this city
Independence, Missouri
Sharon
|
$400
[29]
Sidney Poitier helps a group of nuns build a chapel in this 1963 film that won him an Oscar
Lilies of the Field
Sharon
|
$400
[10]
British PM who said, we "have not journeyed all this way...because we are made of sugar candy"
Churchill
Diane
|
$400
[14]
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, who died in 1980, was the last person to hold this title
the Shah of Iran
Sharon
|
$400
[24]
In 1992 she became the first winner of back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the heptathlon
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Sharon
|
$400
[19]
It hangs inside a bell & strikes the sides to produce ringing
a clapper
Sharon
|
|
$500
[5]
This Tennessee city was built during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project
Oak Ridge
Dave
|
$500
[30]
This 1947 film that made Richard Widmark a star inspired a 1995 remake starring David Caruso
Kiss of Death
|
$500
[11]
Thackeray wrote a ballad about this Provencal seafood stew, calling it "a sort of soup, or broth, or brew"
bouillabaisse
Dave
|
DD
$500
[15]
Lev Davidovich Bronstein was the real name of this Communist leader banished from Russia in 1929
Leon Trotsky
Sharon
|
$500
[25]
In 1984 Joan Benoit became the first female Olympic gold medalist in this race
the marathon
Sharon
|
$500
[20]
Proper term for the roller on a typewriter
a platen
Diane
Dave
|
| THE CIVIL WAR | SCULPTORS | ARCHAEOLOGY | FASHION HISTORY | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS | KINGS & QUEENS |
|
$200
[21]
This ironclad sunk December 31, 1862 was mistaken for a sub during WWII & hit by depth charges
the Monitor
Sharon
|
$200
[1]
Pierre Puget's Milo of Crotona, sculpted for Versailles, is now in this Paris museum
le Louvre
Sharon
|
$200
[16]
Fossils of this early man were first discovered in a German valley in 1856
the Neanderthal
Dave
|
$200
[6]
This ancient Roman garment developed from the tebenna, a cloak worn by those darn Etruscans
a toga
Sharon
|
$200
[11]
The Provincetown Players staged the premieres of several of his plays, including "Desire Under the Elms"
(Eugene) O'Neill
Diane
|
$400
[29]
King John II Casimir Vasa, crowned in Krakow in 1648, abdicated this country's throne in 1668
Poland
Diane
|
|
$400
[22]
Of the 1,200 men awarded this for Civil War service, about 3/4 were later found ineligible under new rules
the Congressional Medal of Honor
Sharon
Dave
|
$400
[2]
Bartolommeo Ammannati was responsible for the grandiose courtyard of this Italian city's Pitti Palace
Florence
Dave
|
$400
[17]
Scientists learn about ancient plant life by studying fossilized grains of this from flowers
pollen
Diane
|
$400
[7]
The couturier Balenciaga moved to Paris in 1937 after Civil War broke out in this, his native country
Spain
Diane
|
$400
[12]
In 1643 this French playwright incorporated an acting troupe, the Illustre-Theatre, with the Bejart family
Molière
Diane
|
$600
[28]
When this country's King Baudouin died in 1993, he was succeeded by his brother, Albert II
Belgium
Diane
|
|
$600
[23]
Though Farragut took this city's bay in 1864, the Union didn't control the city until 3 days after Lee's surrender
Mobile
Dave
|
$600
[3]
This mobile sculptor's "Circus" is in the Whitney Museum
Calder
Sharon
|
$800
[19]
In 1995 it was announced that a tomb believed to contain 50 of this pharaoh's sons was found in Egypt
Ramses II (Ramses the Great)
Diane
Dave
|
$600
[8]
The Ramillies style of this 18th c. men's accessory featured a long braid tied with ribbons
a wig
Sharon
|
DD
$800
[13]
In this Chekhov play, Irina, Masha & Olga fail in their desire to return to Moscow from the provinces
the Three Sisters
Diane
|
$800
[26]
King Edward III led England into this lengthy war in 1337; he didn't live to see it end
the Hundred Years' War
Diane
|
|
$800
[24]
On May 30,1863 the Confederate Congress officially nicknamed Gen. Jackson's troops this "Brigade"
the Stonewall Brigade
Dave
|
$800
[4]
He was inspired to create such works as "Bronco Buster" by watching sculptor Frederic Ruckstull work
Remington
Diane
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
They were uncovered by a Bedouin boy exploring a cave at Qumran in 1947
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Diane
|
$800
[9]
Born in 1778, this ultimate English dandy wore elegantly tailored clothes with elaborate cravats
Beau Brummell
Sharon
Dave
|
$800
[14]
He played test pilot Chuck Yeager in the film "The Right Stuff" the same year his "Fool for Love" debuted
(Sam) Shepard
Diane
|
$1,000
[27]
Rene Descartes taught philosophy to this Scandinavian country's Queen Christina
Sweden
Sharon
Dave
|
|
$1,000
[25]
The Atlantic Monthly paid $5 for this Julia Ward Howe poem & published it in February 1862
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Diane
|
$1,000
[5]
In the 1920s Isamu Noguchi worked as an assistant to this Romanian-born "Bird in Space" sculptor
Constantin Brâncuși
|
$1,000
[20]
In the 1870s he published some of his findings in "Trojan Antiquities" & "Troy and its Ruins"
(Heinrich) Schliemann
Dave
|
$1,000
[10]
This fashionable empress, the wife of Napoleon III, was nicknamed the "Queen of the Crinoline"
Eugénie
Diane
|
$1,000
[15]
Robert Anderson is best known for this 1953 play about an insecure prep school boy & a kindly faculty wife
Tea and Sympathy
Diane
|
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Opened in 1994, it links the SNCB, SNCF & BR
the Chunnel (the English Channel Tunnel)