Show #1425 1990-11-09 (taped 1990-10-22) Tournament of Champions

1990 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Andrew Bernknopf — a writer originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Steve Berman — a film executive originally from Toms River, New Jersey

Frank Spangenberg — a police officer from Flushing, New York

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Frank	$0	$3,200	$8,800	$10,100 Automatic semifinalist	$8,800 17 R, 1 W
Steve	$400	$1,600	$7,600	$7,601 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$8,400 20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Andrew	$-400	$1,500	$2,100	$4,200 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$2,900 19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

POETS & POETRY	2-LETTER WORDS	SPORTS	YEARS	BRAZIL	TAKES THE CAKE
$100 [16] Julia Ward Howe's visit to the Army of the Potomac in 1861 inspired this famous hymn "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" Steve	$100 [1] 2 "ens" in printing or Dorothy's Auntie em Frank	$100 [3] At the 1988 Olympics the USSR won the gold for team foil in this sport fencing Steve	$100 [5] A full-time student usually earns an associate degree at a junior college in this many years 2 Andrew	$100 [14] Brazil abolished this in 1888, 23 years after the United States slavery Andrew	$100 [13] Angel food cake uses only this part of an egg the white Andrew
$200 [17] Irving Babbitt, Geo. Santayana & Bertrand Russell were among this Prufrock poet's teachers at Harvard Eliot Andrew	$200 [2] This word combines with "Art" to mean the abstract style of creating optical illusions op Andrew	$200 [4] The Old Norse "Skjota", to shoot, gave us this word for a type of trapshooting skeet Steve	$200 [6] 1 of 2 lengths of time that can constitute a diamond anniversary 75 (or 60) Andrew	$200 [15] Colombia is second while Brazil is the world's largest exporter of this commodity coffee Steve	$200 [19] Light & dark batters combined give this cake the appearance of the rock it's named for marble cake Andrew
$300 [21] In Eugene Field's "Dutch Lullabye", the names of the 3 wooden shoe sailors Wynken, Blynken, & Nod Andrew	$300 [8] "Eeny, meeny, miny mo" are the words children use to choose who will be this "It" Andrew	$300 [7] Among college football coaches, Paul Bryant was nickanmed Bear & G. Warner was nicknamed this "Pop" Frank	$400 [12] Length of Rip Van Winkle's Catskill nap 20 years Frank	$300 [26] The cruzado replaced the cruzeiro as this in 1986 the monetary unit Andrew	$300 [25] This classic Viennese torte is filled with apricot jam Sachertorte Andrew
$400 [23] Carroll wrote about the Jabberwock & he wrote of the Jumblies (Edward) Lear Frank	$400 [20] This river begins near Monte Viso in the Cottian Alps & flows to the Adriatic Sea the Po Steve	$400 [10] According to Forbes Magazine, the 3 highest-paid athletes for 1990 compete in this sport boxing Frank Steve Andrew	$500 [18] The French & Indian War was known by this name in Europe the 7 Years War Frank	$400 [27] Between 1960 & 1980 the population of this city went from under 150,000 to more than 1,000,000 Brasilia Frank	$400 [29] Trademarked name for a fluted tube pan or the cake baked in it a Bundt Andrew
$500 [24] One of two Elizabethans famous for "Come live with me and be my love" Marlowe (or John Donne) Steve	$500 [22] In 1978 Barnard Hughes won a Tony as this title patriarch Da Frank	$500 [11] In 1990 this Reds outfielder set a World Series record with hits in 7 straight at-bats Billy Hatcher Steve	DD $800 [9] Age in years of the man being interviewed in the following:"By the way, sir, uh, are you married?""I have been married several hundred times.""I'm afraid to ask the next question. You've had many hundreds of wives.""Hundreds and hundreds of wives.""How many children do you have?""I have over forty-two thousand children. And not one comes to visit!" 2000 Andrew	$500 [28] This famous beach is just northeast of Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro Copacabana Frank	$500 [30] A Baba is most commonly flavored with this potent potable rum Frank

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHIC "SAINT"s	INVENTORS & INVENTIONS	UNREAL ESTATE	ARCHITECTURE	19th CENTURY AMERICA	GILBERT & SULLIVAN
$200 [3] The largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, it was named "Santa Cruz" by Columbus St. Croix Andrew	$200 [1] Nicolas Appert, who invented canned food, also came up with these cubes used to make instant soup bouillon Andrew	$200 [21] His seventh & final voyage took him to the Land of Serendib Sinbad Steve	$200 [8] It's a ceiling built in stone, brick or concrete, or a big bank safe a vault Frank	$200 [15] P.T. Barnum purchased this pachyderm, billed as the world's largest, from the London zoo in 1882 Jumbo Andrew	$200 [25] It's said that a Japanese sword dropping from Gilbert's library wall inspired this 1885 opera Mikado Steve
$400 [7] This Florida city was named for a city in Russia St. Petersburg Frank	$400 [2] He invented champagne by devising the corking system necessary to make it Dom Perignon Steve	$400 [22] Its inhabitants include the Duchess, the Gryphon & the Dormouse Wonderland Andrew	$400 [9] The armlike beams connecting a high wall to outside supports in Gothic churches flying buttresses Steve	$400 [17] The National Republicans & Anti-Masons formed the nucleus of this party founded in the 1830s the Whigs Steve Andrew	$400 [26] Sullivan wrote the music to the hymn about them "marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before" Christian Soldiers Steve
$600 [10] A steamboat on this U.S. city's seal symbolizes its growth St. Louis Andrew	$600 [4] In the 1890s he tried coal dust as a power source for his engine before trying crude fuel oil Diesel Andrew	$600 [23] It's the largest palace in Asgard Valhalla Steve	$600 [12] By using pendentives the Byzantines managed to set these on square bases domes Andrew	$600 [18] After his defeat for reelection to the House of Representatives in 1835, this frontiersman left for Texas (Davy) Crockett Frank	DD $600 [27] It's set in a ruined chapel & on a rocky seashore on the coast of Cornwall, not on the open sea The Pirates of Penzance Steve
$800 [11] A small nation in the Caribbean is comprised of the Grenadines & this island St. Vincent Frank	$800 [5] In '53 Dr. J. Gibbon invented this machine that permitted cardiac surgery longer than 10 minutes the heart-lung machine Steve	DD $800 [24] Thrushcross Grange is the estate rented to Mr. Lockwood in this novel Wuthering Heights Steve	$800 [14] The director of Germany's Bauhaus school from 1919-1928, he took the chair of architecture at Harvard in 1937 Gropius Steve	$800 [19] Lincoln, Grant & Jefferson Davis served in the military under this general who became president Zachary Taylor Frank Andrew	$800 [28] This opera is subtitled "The Lass that Loved a Sailor" The H.M.S. Pinafore Frank
$1,000 [13] Only 1 person survived the destruction of this city on Martinique when Mt. Pelee erupted in 1902 St. Pierre Frank	$1,000 [6] Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchhoff developed this device to see the wavelengths of light spectroscope Steve Andrew	$1,000 [30] In Aristophanes' "The Birds", a couple of Athenians convince the birds to found a city called this Cloud-Cuckoo Land Frank	$1,000 [16] Term for the iron grating that slides up & down in front of the door in a fortified building a portcullis Steve	$1,000 [20] This 1803 case was the first in which the Supreme Court declared a law of Congress unconstitutional Marbury v. Madison Steve	$1,000 [29] In 1881 producer d'Oyly Carte built this London theatre for Gilbert & Sullivan the Savoy Theatre Steve

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. POLITICS

This city has been the site of more major party presidential nominating conventions than any other

Chicago

Andrew "What is Chicago?" — wagered $2,100

Steve "What is Chicago?" — wagered $1

Frank "What is Chicago?" — wagered $1,300

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