Responses for Show #2576 - Monday, November 13, 1995

1995 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Ben Lyon, a College Championship winner from Edmond, Oklahoma

Gordon Wean, a teacher from Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C.

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Jeopardy! Round responses

NEVADA
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
COLORFUL BOOKS
(Alex: You're going for the title of a work & each title will contain a color.)
TELEVISION HISTORY
GUINNESS RECORDS
MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s
    $100 1
Gambling

Ben
    $100 26
Life

Gordon
    $100 7
"The Color Purple"

Ben
    $100 21
Shari Lewis

Ben
    $100 13
Washington Monument

Ben
    $100 8
Quack

Gordon
    $200 6
Pyramid

Gordon
    $200 27
Hartford

Gordon
    $200 5
(Ben: What are the Black Hills of Africa?)

Green Hills

BruceBen
    $200 22
Milton Berle

Bruce
    $200 17
Grand Canyon

Bruce
    $200 9
Python

Gordon
    $500 14
(Ben: Who is Carson?)
(Alex: Be more specific...)
(Ben: Who is Johnny Carson?)
(Alex: Ohhh...we caught you on that one!)

Christopher "Kit" Carson

Ben
    $300 28
AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)

Gordon
    $300 4
"Lady Sings the Blues"

Gordon
    $300 23
1

Bruce
    $300 18
Bay of Fundy

Bruce
    $300 10
Parachute

Ben
    $400 15
Comstock

Bruce
    $400 29
Knights of Columbus

Bruce
    $400 3
"The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
Steve Allen

Bruce
    $400 19
(Gordon: Who is Elvis Presley?)

Jimi Hendrix

GordonBen
    $400 11
Quinine

Ben
    $500 16
Virginia City

Ben
    $500 30
(Bruce: Who is Victor Hugo?)

Emile Zola

BruceBen
    $500 2
(Bruce: What is "Black Beauty?")

"The Black Stallion"

BruceBen
    $500 25
Rodgers & Hammerstein

Triple Stumper
    $500 20
Watch

Gordon
    $500 12
Quince

Bruce

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Bruce Gordon Ben
$200 $800 $1,300

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bruce Gordon Ben
$1,900 $1,500 $2,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

18th CENTURY AMERICANS
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
MUSIC
FAMOUS WOMEN
ISLANDS
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
    $200 9
Nathan Hale

Ben
    $200 2
University of Alabama

Bruce
    $200 20
Opus

Gordon
    $200 14
Clara Barton

Gordon
    $200 1
Vancouver Island

Ben
    $200 23
Tennessee Williams

Bruce
    $400 10
Thomas Jefferson

Bruce
    $400 5
Cambridge

Triple Stumper
    $400 22
Timpani

Gordon
    $400 15
Geraldine Ferraro

Bruce
    $400 3
Falkland Islands

Gordon
    $400 25
(less than a minute to go, Gordon...)

Neil Simon

Triple Stumper
    $600 11
Paul Revere

Ben
    $600 6
Kentucky

Bruce
    $600 24
Jazz

Gordon
    $600 16
Dian Fossey

Ben
    $600 4
Tasmania

Ben
    $600 30
Aristophanes

Gordon
    $800 12
Alexander Hamilton

Bruce
    $800 17
Cecil Rhodes

Bruce
    $800 27
Marine Corps Marching Band

Ben
    $800 18
Gertrude Ederle

Bruce
    $800 7
American Samoa

Bruce
    $800 26
Edward Albee

Ben
    $1,200 13
John Adams

Bruce
    $1000 21
Spelman College

Triple Stumper
    $1000 28
Richard Strauss

Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
Candy Lightner

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 8
(Bruce: What is Rhodes?)

Samothrace

Bruce
    $1000 29
Athol Fugard

Bruce

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bruce Gordon Ben
$7,100 $3,900 $6,100

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE ELEMENTS
(Alex: I think when I was growing up, we used to worry about finding it in milk.)
GordonWhat is strontium?
$3,850
BenWhat is iron?
$3,000
BruceWhat is strontium?
$5,101
Strontium

Final scores:

Bruce Gordon Ben
$12,201 $7,750 $3,100
Automatic semifinalist 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bruce Gordon Ben
$8,900 $3,900 $6,600
20 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
1 W		 17 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $19,400

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Game tape date: 1995-10-10
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