Responses for Show #2585 - Friday, November 24, 1995

1995 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

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Isaac Segal, an advertising creative director from Cherry Hill, New Jersey (subtotal of $6,100)

Ryan Holznagel, a software writer from Forest Grove, Oregon (subtotal of $10,103)

David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California (subtotal of $5,500)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

STATE CAPITALS
NOTABLE NAMES
SPACE MISSIONS
TV COPS
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
POLITICAL SCIENTISTS
    $100 1
Honolulu

David
    $100 11
Klein

David
    $100 23
Moon

Ryan
    $100 16
Dragnet

Ryan
    $100 21
Delicious

David
    $100 3
The Constitution

Isaac
    $200 2
Salt Lake City

Isaac
    $200 12
Howard Cosell

David
    $200 26
7

Ryan
    $200 18
Jimmy Smits

David
    $200 22
Brussels Sprouts

Isaac
    $200 4
Warsaw

David
    $300 8
Trenton

Ryan
    $300 13
Nelson Mandela

Isaac
    $300 24
Mir (the space station)

Ryan
    $300 17
Barney Miller

Isaac
    $300 28
Celery

Isaac
    $300 5
Jeane Kirkpatrick

David
    $400 9
Juneau, Alaska

Ryan
    $400 14
Robert Kennedy

David
    $400 25
Venus

Isaac
    $400 19
Joseph Wambaugh

Ryan
    $400 29
Cantaloupe

Triple Stumper
    $400 6
(David: What is Le Monde?)
(Isaac: What is L'Express?)
(Ryan: What is the International Herald-Tribune?)

Le Figaro

DavidRyanIsaac
Triple Stumper
    $500 10
Baton Rouge

Ryan
    $500 15
Stephen Hawking

Ryan
    $1,100 27
(Alex: The [**] has landed for Ryan!)

Columbia & Eagle

Ryan
    $500 20
Helen Mirren

David
    $500 30
(Ryan: What is the juniper berry?)

sloe berry

Ryan
Triple Stumper
    $500 7
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Isaac

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

David Ryan Isaac
$900 $1,300 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

David Ryan Isaac
$1,700 $3,000 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS
WORLD HISTORY
JIMS & JAMESES
HEALTH & MEDICINE
LANGUAGES
LITERARY OPERAS
    $200 12
Paul Gauguin

David
    $200 16
Spain

David
    $200 20
Jim Henson

Isaac
    $200 28
Jaundice

David
    $200 29
Greek

David
    $200 6
Charles Dickens

David
    $400 15
Patrick Henry

Isaac
    $400 21
(Isaac: Who is Fahd?)

King Faisal

DavidIsaac
    $400 19
Jim Thorpe

Isaac
    $400 27
estrogen

Ryan
    $400 30
Mandarin

David
    $400 14
(E. T. A.) Hoffmann

Isaac
    $600 11
Sandro Botticelli

Isaac
    $600 1
Caligula

Ryan
    $600 18
James Watt

Ryan
    $600 26
Podiatry

David
    $600 25
(Alex: Oh, you guys are going to hear from friends & relatives on this! - Less than a minute to go...)

Hebrew

Triple Stumper
    $600 7
Lord Byron

Ryan
    $800 10
Georgia O' Keeffe

Ryan
    $1,111 2
(Ryan: $1,111 - is that possible?)
(Alex: That's possible - I will give our scorekeeper a chance to punch that in.)
...
(Alex: You have a "711" in front of you!)

Hungary

Ryan
    $800 17
James Galway

Ryan
    $4,000 23
Night Blindness

David
    $800 22
(David: What is Berber?)

French

David
Triple Stumper
    $800 8
"The Lady of the Lake"

David
    $1000 5
Duchess of Alba

Isaac
    $1000 3
Richard the Lionheart

David
    $1000 4
James Schlesinger

David
    $1000 24
(Ryan: What are diphtheria, polio and tetanus?)
...
(Alex: Whooping cough and pertussis are synonymous.)

diphtheria, whooping cough & tetanus

RyanIsaac
    $1000 13
English

Isaac
    $1000 9
Gustave Flaubert

Ryan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

David Ryan Isaac
$10,100 $7,911 $6,500

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. PRESIDENTS
(Alex: The president was... a Republican--all of them were--so if you wrote down the name of a Democratic president, you're in trouble!)
IsaacWho is Ford
$4,000
RyanWho is Ford?
$7,887
DavidWho was Nixon?
$9,000
(1 of) Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford & George Bush

Final scores:

David Ryan Isaac
$19,100 $15,798 $10,500

Cumulative scores:

David Ryan Isaac
$24,600 $25,901 $16,600
1st runner-up: $24,600 Tournament champion: $100,000 2nd runner-up: $16,600

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

David Ryan Isaac
$6,900 $7,000 $6,500
21 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
18 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
16 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $20,400

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Game tape date: 1995-10-11
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