1990 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
Michael Thayer — a physics student from Rutgers University
Dan Katz — an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
Bob Blake — an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $700 | $3,000 | $7,400 |
$6,399
Automatic semifinalist |
$8,900
23 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dan | $300 | $500 | $4,200 |
$3,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$5,300
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $0 | $1,300 | $2,100 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$4,100
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| BY THE NUMBERS | PETS | MONARCHS | METALS | LABOR | BOBs & ROBERTs |
|
$100
[11]
If you wish to avoid something this is the length of the pole you wouldn't touch it with
a 10-foot pole
Michael
|
$100
[16]
The poodle probably originated in Germany, though it's most associated with this country
France
Dan
|
$100
[6]
Born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, she ruled Russia under this name
Catherine the Great
Bob
|
$100
[17]
The fissionable 235 isotope makes up less than 1% of this metal in nature
uranium
Dan
|
$100
[26]
The Mitsubishi Eclipse & Mazda 626 are 2 Japanese cars made in the U.S. by members of this union
the United Auto Workers
Bob
|
$100
[1]
Since 1960 this comedian's Desert Golf Classic has raised more than $20 million for charity
Bob Hope
Bob
|
|
$200
[12]
The last thing Old King Cole called for
his fiddlers three
Michael
|
$200
[22]
The green-winged teal, a small one of these birds, is well suited for living in garden ponds
a duck
Bob
|
$200
[7]
Of less than a year, 3 years or 4½ years, the length of time Julius Caesar ruled Rome alone
less than a year
Bob
|
$200
[18]
Photography accounts for almost half the industrial use of this metal in the U.S.
silver
Bob
|
$200
[27]
Fired in 1976, in 1980 striking workers got him reinstated at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk
Lech Walesa
Dan
|
$200
[2]
He's the national poet of Scotland
Robert Burns
Bob
|
|
$300
[13]
"It was love at first sight" Yossarian felt for the chaplain in this novel
Catch-22
Dan
|
$300
[23]
Of figs, grapes or avocados, the one that's poisonous to parrots
avocados
|
$300
[8]
He was sent to Mexico in 1864 to set up an empire for Napoleon III
Maximillian
Bob
|
$300
[19]
Amalgams, which may be liquid or solid, are alloys of this metal
mercury
Bob
|
$300
[28]
Term for the process by which unions & employers negotiate the terms of employment
collective bargaining
Michael
|
$300
[3]
In June he captured a Tony Award for his performance in "Tru"
Robert Morse
Dan
|
|
$400
[14]
Alan Alda & Carol Burnett starred in this comedy about a year in the lives of 3 couples
The Four Seasons
|
$400
[24]
The Birman & the Balinese are long-haired breeds of these
cats
Michael
|
$400
[9]
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought this pair to the British throne
William & Mary
Bob
|
$400
[20]
The U.S. nickel coin is actually 75% this metal
copper
Michael
|
$400
[29]
"Big Bill" Haywood helped organize this union whose members were called Wobblies
the Industrial Workers of the World
Michael
|
$400
[4]
The original Clarabell on "Howdy Doody", he later became "Captain Kangaroo"
Bob Keeshan
Bob
|
|
$500
[15]
In Britain, the numerical name for a midmorning snack
elevenses
Bob
|
$500
[25]
The largest lizard found in the New World is the common, or green, species of this
iguana
Bob
|
DD
$1,500
[10]
In 1974 Jigme Singye Wangchuk was crowned king in Thimphu, capital of this country between India & Tibet
Bhutan
Bob
|
$500
[21]
An oxide of this light metal, discovered in 1791, is used extensively as a white pigment
titanium
Dan
Michael
|
$500
[30]
Under David Dubinsky's leadership, this union grew from 34,000 members in 1932 to 404,000 in 1966
the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Bob
|
$500
[5]
In 1986 he was elected Florida's first Hispanic governor
Bob Martinez
Bob
|
| WORLD WAR I | BLACK AMERICA | AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE | SIGNS & SYMBOLS | EUROPEAN RIVERS | MYTHOLOGICAL RELATIVES |
|
$200
[21]
The Sopwith Camel was one of this country's best fighter planes of the war
England
Michael
|
$200
[26]
In 1962 this ex-Brooklyn Dodger became the first black elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
Jackie Robinson
Dan
|
$200
[11]
Andrew Paterson wrote this ballad that begins "Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong"
"Waltzing Matilda"
Bob
|
$200
[1]
It was a symbol of good luck until the Nazi Party used it as its symbol
the swastika
Michael
|
$200
[13]
The Hungarian Parliament building lies on a bank of this river
the Danube
Bob
|
$200
[6]
This fire-stealer warned his son Deucalion of a great deluge, so he built an ark
Prometheus
Dan
|
|
$400
[22]
This future president headed the Food Administration during the war
Hoover
Michael
|
$400
[27]
Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967, he's now its oldest member
Thurgood Marshall
Dan
|
$400
[12]
A novel by Joan Lindsay was the basis for this Peter Weir film about the disappearance of a teacher & kids
Picnic at Hanging Rock
|
$400
[2]
In math a horizontal line with a dot above & below it represents this
division
Dan
|
$400
[14]
The largest port on this river is Le Havre
the Seine
Bob
|
$400
[7]
Maia, the mother of this Greek messenger of the gods, was one of the Pleiades
Hermes
Michael
|
|
$600
[23]
The U.S. Army's 42nd division under Chief of Staff D. MacArthur had this colorful nickname
the "Rainbow Division"
|
$600
[28]
In 1968 this Baptist minister succeeded M.L. King Jr. as president of the S.C.L.C.
(Ralph) Abernathy
Dan
|
$600
[18]
Morris West's 1963 bestseller about a Russian pope
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Dan
|
$600
[3]
In heraldry, a device shaped like an inverted V, or the name on the signs of a gas station chain
a chevron
Dan
|
$600
[15]
The name of this country's Guadalquivir is from the Arabic "Wadi al-Kabir" meaning Great River
Spain
Bob
Michael
|
$600
[8]
Antigone's complex family tree included this woman, who was her mother & her grandmother
Jocasta
Michael
|
|
$800
[24]
Known as "The Tiger", this Frenchman presided over the Paris Peace Conference
Clemenceau
Bob
|
$800
[29]
A former medical professor, he now heads the Department of Health & Human Services
(Louis) Sullivan
Michael
|
$1,000
[20]
Miles Franklin's story of a headstrong, intelligent woman in turn-of-the-century Australia
My Brilliant Career
Bob
|
$800
[4]
Annual reference book whose symbol, a globe sitting on an open book, is found on its spine
the World Almanac
Dan
|
$800
[16]
This German tributary of the Rhine has lent its name to a major industrial region
the Ruhr
Bob
Michael
|
$1,000
[10]
The Amazon queen Hippolyta was the daughter of this war god, the Greek equivalent of Mars
Ares
Dan
|
|
$1,000
[25]
There were over 600,000 casualties in the 1916 battle for this French city
Verdun
Bob
|
$1,000
[30]
Appointed FCC commissioner in 1972, he later resigned to become exec. director of the NAACP
Benjamin Hooks
|
DD
$1,100
[19]
The latest tome from this author of "Tim" is "The First Man in Rome"
Colleen McCullough
Dan
|
$1,000
[5]
This symbol for a sign of the zodiac can be seen in the Treasury seal on a $1 bill
the scales
|
$1,000
[17]
In Dublin, 10 bridges span this river as it leisurely winds its way to the sea
the Liffey
Bob
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
Some legends say she killed her brother Absyrtus while others say Jason murdered him
Medea
Michael
|
The name of this Iowa city commemorates the powwow Lewis & Clark held with area Indians in 1804
Council Bluffs