Show #1429 1990-11-15 (taped 1990-10-23) Tournament of Champions

1990 Tournament of Champions final game 1.

Contestants

Bob Blake — an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia

Larry McKnight — a computer analyst from Ventura, California

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

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Steve	$1,100	$3,400	$6,200	$2,200	$5,300 14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Larry	$100	$2,100	$6,100	$2,100	$6,100 15 R, 3 W
Bob	$2,700	$3,600	$16,600	$13,200	$12,000 28 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

"G" MEN	ESPAÑOL	WEIGHTS & MEASURES	TRAIN SONGS	NATURE	FINAL RESTING PLACES
$100 [11] In 1980, at age 19, he became the youngest player named MVP of the NHL Gretzky Steve	$100 [6] It's Spanish for "pineapple", as those who drink pineapple-coconut cocktails should know piña Bob	$100 [5] 1 hectare, the metric unit of area, is equal to 2.471 of these an acre Bob	$100 [19] In the old standard it's what "I've" been doing "all the live-long day" working on the railroad Larry	$100 [23] This flower has been grown since ancient times for its foliage, fragrance & hips a rose Steve	$100 [26] You'll find the 13 imperial tombs of the Ming dynasty in a valley on the outskirts of this capital Beijing Bob
$200 [13] He was Benson DuBois on TV before playing the "Phantom of the Opera" in L.A. Robert Guillaume Bob	$200 [7] A derisive word for a foreigner; Carlos Fuentes wrote of "The Old" one in 1985 gringo Larry	$200 [2] This cotton measure is 500 lbs. in the U.S. & only 176 lbs. in China a bale Steve	$200 [20] The Monkees took "The Last Train" there in 1966 & made it their first No. 1 hit Clarksville Steve	$200 [24] It'll run if there's danger, or, if cornered, kick out, but will not as legend says bury its head an ostrich Bob	$200 [30] Joseph Conrad is buried in the cemetery at this Gothic cathedral, as the archbishop could tell you Canterbury Steve
$300 [14] Under the pen name A.A. Fair, he created private eyes Bertha Cool & Donald Lam Erle Stanley Gardner Bob	$300 [8] The Spanish "calabozo" & the cowboy variation calaboose both mean this jail Bob	$300 [1] Measuring longitude at the equator 1 of these equals 69.17 miles a degree Larry	$300 [17] The British singer who rode the "Morning Train" to the top of the charts in 1981 Sheena Easton Bob	$300 [12] Of all the toucans, the toco has the biggest one of these a beak Bob	$300 [29] He was buried on St. Helena in his favorite uniform in 1821 but was moved to Paris in 1840 Napoleon Bob
$400 [15] After helping to organize the AFL, he headed it for almost 40 years Samuel Gompers Steve	$400 [9] Any Spanish pier or wharf, or a certain waterfront area in San Francisco embarcadero Bob	$400 [3] 6 miles square is exactly equal to this many square miles 36 square miles Steve	$500 [22] In "The Harvey Girls", Judy Garland sang about this railroad the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe Steve	$400 [16] Mor & mull are 2 types of this black decayed organic matter in soil humus Larry	$400 [28] Father Damien was buried on this Hawaiian island but in 1936 his remains were moved to Belgium Molokai Larry
$500 [18] Convinced the novel was evil, he burned the second part of "Dead Souls" shortly before he died Gogol Larry	$500 [10] The traditional title for daughters of the kings of Portugal & Spain infanta Bob	$500 [4] This unit named for a Swedish scientist is used to designate wavelengths of light angstrom Bob	DD $1,300 [21] The title destination of the train inthis1973 No. 1 hit:"L.A. proved too much for the man..." Georgia Steve	$500 [25] Legend says this flower's name comes from the last words of a knight who drowned picking one for his lady a forget-me-not Larry	$500 [27] This Diaghilev dancer is buried near the great French dancer Auguste Vestris in Montmartre Nijinsky Larry

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT VIPs	ITALIAN LITERATURE	WORLD GEOGRAPHY	THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION	OPERA	ABBREV.
$200 [7] It was once believed that this Hun, who died on his wedding night, was murdered by his bride Attila Bob	$200 [23] Besides "The Prince", he is also known for his "Discourses on" Livy Machiavelli Larry	$200 [2] This country's name means "Land of the Southern Slavs" Yugoslavia Bob	$200 [1] He wrote, "The birthday of a new world is at hand" in his pamplet "Common Sense" Thomas Paine Bob	$200 [9] In "Siegfried" Fafner the giant is turned into one of these mythical beasts before Siegfried slays him a dragon Bob	$200 [17] This is the abbreviation for a postscript after a P.S. P.P.S. Larry
$400 [8] He was the 6th ruler of the Amorite dynasty of Babylon; you probably remember him for his code Hammurabi Steve	$400 [24] The Academic American Ency. calls this Dante work the greatest poem of the Middle Ages the Divine Comedy Bob	$400 [3] Just north of Khartoum, Sudan, these 2 "colorful" rivers combine to form the Nile the Blue Nile & the White Nile Bob	$400 [13] This craftsman designed the 1st official seal of the Colonies & the 1st issue of Continental currency Paul Revere Steve	$400 [27] 1st name shared by Rigoletto's daughter, a "Saturday Night Live" star & a R. Hayworth character Gilda Bob	$400 [18] Medically, G.I. stands for this system gastrointestinal Steve
$600 [10] Amenhotep IV of Egypt changed his name to this because he was so devoted to the god Aton Akhenaten Larry Bob	$600 [19] Completes the title of Giorgio Bassani's novel set in Fascist Italy, "The Garden of the..." Finzi-Continis Larry	$600 [4] The Gulf of Bothnia & the Gulf of Finland are both extensions of this sea the Baltic Larry	$600 [14] The first of these 5 acts closed the port of Boston until payment was made for the destroyed tea the Coercive Acts (or the Intolerable Acts) Larry	$800 [29] English composer whose 1947 opera "Albert Herring" is about a young man, not a young fish Benjamin Britten Steve	$600 [20] The abbreviation cc: near the bottom of a letter means this copies to Larry
$1,000 [12] This "Great" king of Persia was the son of Darius the Great & the Grandson of Cyrus the Great Xerxes Larry	$800 [25] "Pinocchio" author Carlo Lorenzini used this last name, taken from his family village Collodi Bob	$800 [5] This sea in the North Atlantic is delineated only by the plants that float on its surface the Sargasso Sea Bob	$800 [15] Frontiersman who won victories at Kaskaskia, Cahokia & Vincennes in the NW Territory George Rogers Clark Steve	$1,000 [30] Drops of blood from the ceiling reveal where an outlaw is hiding in this Puccini opera The Girl of the Golden West	$800 [21] Most int'l airlines arrive at their fares through IATA, which stands for this the International Air Transport Association Bob
DD $3,000 [11] Sennacherib, king of this country, made Nineveh his capital & built a magnificent new palace there Assyria Bob	$1,000 [26] This Existentialist Italian playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 Pirandello Bob	$1,000 [6] In 1943 this Mexican volcano grew from a small depression to 1,000 ft. in height Parícutin Bob	$1,000 [16] Prime minister during the war, some later called him "the minister who lost America" Lord North Larry	DD $3,000 [28] Marie, the heroine of this Donizetti opera, was adopted as an infant by French soldiers The Daughter of the Regiment Bob	$1,000 [22] WPA was the abbreviation for this Depression-era program the Works Progress Administration (or the Works Projects Administration) Larry

Final Jeopardy!

SPACE EXPLORATION

Next pair in the sequence:Gumdrop, Spider; Charlie Brown, Snoopy;...

the Columbia & the Eagle

Larry "What is ? and Eagle" — wagered $4,000

Steve "What is ??" — wagered $4,000

Bob "What are" — wagered $3,400

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