Responses for Show #310 - Friday, November 15, 1985

1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Ron Black, an attorney from Raleigh, North Carolina

Nathan Walpow, a data processor and an actor originally from Queens, New York

Michael Day, a financial analyst from Columbus, Ohio

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Jeopardy! Round responses

19TH CENTURY
FOOD & DRINK
IN OTHER WORDS...
WEAPONS
BRITISH TV
NEWSPAPER FILLERS
    $100 4
baseball

Michael
    $100 22
milk

Michael
    $100 18
(Ron: What is bullfight?)
(Michael: What is a bull using its horns and charging?)

take the bull by the horns

MichaelRon
Triple Stumper
    $100 3
water

Michael
    $100 2
halo

Ron
    $100 1
nails

Ron
    $200 12
Arbor Day

Michael
    $200 23
(Ron: What is X?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)

X marks the spot

Ron
    $200 11
blackjack

Michael
    $200 7
The Taming of the Shrew

Ron
    $200 5
(Ron: What are Mercedes?)

Rolls-Royces

MichaelRon
    $300 13
Wells Fargo

Ron
    $300 24
don't put all your eggs in one basket

Ron
    $300 14
blowgun dart

Ron
    $200 8
Benny Hill

Ron
    $300 6
Oscars

Nathan
    $400 17
(Alex: Yes, transcontinental trip by railroad.)

go across the country

Michael
    $400 25
(Ron: What is put your first foot forward?)

(always) put your best foot forward

NathanRon
    $400 15
Abel

Ron
    $400 9
Patrick McGoohan

Ron
    $400 20
30th

Nathan
    $500 19
(Joseph) Pulitzer

Ron
    $500 26
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

look before you leap

Ron
    $500 16
rapier

Ron
    $500 10
Muppets

Ron
    $500 21
1600

Nathan

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 16):

Michael Nathan Ron
$800 $300 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Nathan Ron
$1,200 $1,600 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PHYSICS
FASHION
CLASSICAL MUSIC
MOUNTAINS
MYTHOLOGY
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
    $200 1
electricity

Michael
    $200 18
b

Michael
    $200 9
mesa

Nathan
    $200 4
wings

Ron
    $200 14
[The audience was laughing as they had their own interpretation of the clue's wording.]

watch

Ron
    $400 2
white

Michael
    $400 23
Miami

Triple Stumper
    $400 19
Bizet

Michael
    $400 10
(Zebulon) Pike

Michael
    $400 5
Gordian Knot

Ron
    $400 17
jellyfish

Michael
    $600 3
gravity

Ron
    $600 24
knock-off

Nathan
    $100 15
[Ron arrived at the correct response by guessing.]
(Alex: By golly, he said [*], and that's what we were going for.)

Stolzel valve

Ron
    $600 11
(Michael: What are the Catskills?)
(Nathan: What are the Finger Lakes?)

Adirondacks

MichaelNathanRon
    $600 6
Golden Fleece

Michael
    $800 7
holography

Nathan
    $800 20
(Michael: What is the violin?)

oboe

Michael
Triple Stumper
    $800 16
Etna

Ron
    $3,000 12
Hermes & Aphrodite

Ron
    $800 26
arithmetic

Triple Stumper
    $1000 8
kinetics

Nathan
    $1000 27
(Nathan: What is the floor?)

the foot

Nathan
Triple Stumper
    $1000 21
Franz Joseph Haydn

Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
(Ron: What is Mount Hermon?)

Mount Carmel

Ron
Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
Meander

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
March Hare

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Michael Nathan Ron
$2,400 $2,600 $8,700
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LANDMARKS
[Ron drew an arc across the top of his response and had an arrow pointing to the last word of his response which was written higher than the first part.]
MichaelWhat is the mall?
$2,400
NathanWhat is the mall?
$2,597
RonWhat is the Gateway Arch
$3,300
Gateway Arch

Final scores:

Michael Nathan Ron
$0 $3 $12,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Michael Nathan Ron
$2,400 $2,600 $7,100
14 R,
3 W		 8 R,
2 W		 22 R
(including 3 DDs),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $12,100

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Game tape date: 1985-10-28
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