Responses for Show #2580 - Friday, November 17, 1995

1995 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Jim Morgan, a personnel manager from New Brunswick, New Jersey

Matt Zielenski, a Teen Tournament winner from Broadview Heights, Ohio

Len Krisak, an editor from Newton, Massachusetts

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Jeopardy! Round responses

CATS & DOGS
NUMBER, PLEASE
POETS & POETRY
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
RIVERS
BRITISH HISTORY
    $100 5
collie

Jim
    $100 17
9

Len
    $100 1
Pisa

Jim
    $100 24
Labor Day

Jim
    $100 3
Avon

Jim
    $100 2
Magna Carta

Jim
    $200 10
Siamese

Jim
    $200 20
40

Matt
    $200 13
Carl Sandburg

Jim
    $200 26
Easter

Jim
    $200 9
Tigris & Euphrates

Matt
    $200 4
Queen Victoria

Matt
    $300 12
(Len: What is a fox-haired terrier... [*]?)
(Alex: [*] is correct, but that is not what you said the first time; I believe you said fox-haired terrier, and so we have to rule against you.)

fox terrier

Len
Triple Stumper
    $300 21
7

Matt
    $300 18
(Jim: Who is Byron?)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

LenJim
    $300 27
Boxing Day

Jim
    $300 11
(Len: What is the Suez?)

Panama Canal

LenMatt
    $300 6
Henry VIII

Len
    $400 15
Burmese

Matt
    $400 22
12

Len
    $400 19
Toussaint L'Ouverture

Matt
    $400 28
Thanksgiving Day

Jim
    $400 14
Mississippi River

Matt
    $400 7
Hundred Years' War

Jim
    $500 16
Poodle

Triple Stumper
    $500 30
(Matt: What is 3?)

4

MattJim
    $500 23
(Len: Who is Robert Browning? ...aargh!)
(Jim: Who are the Millays?)
...
(Alex: And Len suddenly realizes where he went wrong; the clue had to do with the woman; "she".)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

LenJim
Triple Stumper
    $500 29
(Matt: What is Passover?)

Purim

MattJim
    $500 25
Rhine

Len
    $500 8
(Jim: What is English?)
...
(Alex: St. David is the patron saint of Wales.)

Welsh

Jim

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

Len Matt Jim
-$300 $700 $700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Len Matt Jim
$500 $1,400 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

COMPOSERS
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
BLACK AMERICANS
15-LETTER WORDS
PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS
WINE & CHEESE
    $200 2
Scott Joplin

Jim
    $200 8
(Matt: What is American Greetings?)

Hallmark

MattJim
    $200 21
(Len: Who is Jessica?)

Florence Griffith Joyner

Len
Triple Stumper
    $200 9
Procrastination

Jim
    $200 1
Richard Nixon

Matt
    $200 26
France

Jim
    $400 3
Antonio Vivaldi

Matt
    $400 14
Alcoa

Jim
    $400 22
Frederick Douglass

Matt
    $400 10
Americanization

Jim
    $400 6
James Madison

Matt
    $400 27
Gouda

Len
    $600 4
"New World Symphony"

Jim
    $600 15
Wal-Mart

Jim
    $600 23
(Matt: What is Houston?)
(Len: What is Austin?)

Dallas

LenMatt
Triple Stumper
    $600 11
Prestidigitator

Jim
    $600 16
James Monroe

Jim
    $600 28
Feta

Jim
    $800 5
Franz Joseph Haydn

Len
    $800 19
(Len: What is Allstate?)

Sears, Roebuck

Len
Triple Stumper
    $800 24
Toni Morrison

Jim
    $800 12
Vasoconstrictor

Triple Stumper
    $800 17
Andrew Jackson

Matt
    $800 29
Worms

Matt
    $1000 7
(Jim: Who is Mozart?)

Ludwig van Beethoven

MattJim
    $1000 20
Seagram's

Matt
    $500 25
(Jim: Who is Medgar Evers?)

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Jim
    $1000 13
Gotterdammerung

Matt
    $2,500 18
Woodrow Wilson

Matt
    $1000 30
Gorgonzola

Len

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Len Matt Jim
$1,100 $9,100 $5,800

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS NAMES
(Alex: Prince Philip was her cousin, a distant cousin, related to Empress Alexandra.)
[The four wildcard semifinalists are Isaac Segal, Jim Vercolen, Ryan Holznagel, and Gordon Wean.]
LenWho is Anastasia?
$1,099
JimWho is Anastasia?
$1,000
MattWho is Anastasia?
$2,501
Anastasia

Final scores:

Len Matt Jim
$2,199 $11,601 $6,800
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Len Matt Jim
$1,100 $7,600 $6,800
8 R,
6 W
18 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
25 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $15,500

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Game tape date: 1995-10-10
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