Responses for Show #1197 - Tuesday, November 14, 1989

1989 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Bruce Cox, a computer operations analyst from Lakeside, California

Eric Newhouse, a student and winner of last year's Teen Tournament from Sioux City, Iowa

Rich Lerner, a lawyer from Pago Pago, American Samoa

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORD ORIGINS
WOMEN IN SPORTS
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
TELEVISION
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
"C" IN GEOGRAPHY
    $100 25
salon

Rich
    $100 1
the Little League World Series

Bruce
    $100 26
plutonium

Bruce
    $100 8
War and Remembrance

Eric
    $100 16
(Eric: Who was Jefferson Davis?)

Abraham Lincoln

EricBruce
    $100 6
Cambridge

Eric
    $200 24
mauve

Triple Stumper
    $200 2
Mary Decker

Bruce
    $200 27
carbon

Rich
    $200 10
Remington Steele

Eric
    $200 18
Lloyd Bentsen

Rich
    $200 7
Calcutta

Bruce
    $300 9
monopoly

Bruce
    $300 3
Joan Benoit Samuelson

Rich
    $300 28
(Alex: Einstein's Theory of Relativity.)

E = mc2

Rich
    $300 13
Cops

Eric
    $300 19
(Eric: What are slaves?)

American Indians

RichEric
    $300 11
Chicago

Eric
    $400 15
hurry (or quick or fast)

Rich
    $400 4
basketball

Rich
    $400 29
critical mass

Eric
    $400 17
Dr. Zachary Smith

Rich
    $400 20
Abe Fortas

Eric
    $400 12
Croatia

Bruce
    $1,000 21
(Eric: What is melancholy?)

dismal

Eric
    $500 5
figure skating

Rich
    $500 30
electrons

Eric
    $500 23
Lee Horsley

Bruce
    $500 22
FDR

Rich
    $500 14
Corfu

Eric

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Rich Eric Bruce
$1,200 $1,500 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Rich Eric Bruce
$3,600 $1,400 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

RULERS
TIME
PLAYWRIGHTS
PACIFIC ISLANDS
BIBLICAL QUOTES
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
    $200 18
the Bruce

Bruce
    $200 24
all the livelong day

Eric
    $200 23
Neil Simon

Eric
    $200 9
Tahiti

Eric
    $200 19
Samson

Eric
    $200 26
Cecil Rhodes

Bruce
    $400 4
Peter

Eric
    $400 13
April

Rich
    $400 12
Edward Albee

Eric
    $400 14
[Eric smiles at Rich!]

Samoa

Eric
    $400 29
a season

Eric
    $400 25
(Rich: What is the Sorbonne?)

University of Paris

Rich
Triple Stumper
    $600 3
(Rich: Who was Maximillian?)

Joseph Bonaparte

Rich
Triple Stumper
    $600 11
the pub is about to close

Triple Stumper
    $600 10
(Bruce: Who was Shakespeare?)

John Fletcher

Bruce
Triple Stumper
    $600 16
the Cook Islands

Bruce
    $600 30
his own soul

Bruce
    $600 21
John Wesley

Eric
    $800 2
Manchus

Eric
    $800 8
Paleozoic Era

Rich
    $1,400 6
(Eric: Who was Lorraine Hansbury?)
[HUAC: House Un-American Activities Committee]

Lillian Hellman

Eric
    $800 17
Molokai

Bruce
    $800 28
thy rod and thy staff

Rich
    $800 20
(Alex: Not the actor.)

Sir Richard Burton

Triple Stumper
    $1000 1
Sforza

Triple Stumper
    $1,000 7
(Alex: Eric, a good news-bad news situation?)

Hegira (Muhammad's flight)

Eric
    $1000 5
(Rich: Who was Goldsmith?)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Rich
Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
Fiji

Rich
    $1000 27
faith

Bruce
    $1000 22
Thomas Wolsey

Eric

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Rich Eric Bruce
$4,600 $5,800 $4,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
RichWho is Caine?
$1,201
BruceWho is Gunn?
$4,700
EricWho is ?
$3,601
Long John Silver (in Treasure Island)

Final scores:

Rich Eric Bruce
$3,399 $2,199 $0
Finalist 2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Rich Eric Bruce
$4,600 $8,200 $4,700
15 R,
3 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 2 DDs)		 14 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $17,500

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Game tape date: 1989-10-17
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