Responses for Show #1421 - Monday, November 5, 1990

1990 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Michael Thayer, a physics student from Rutgers University

Dan Katz, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland

Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BY THE NUMBERS
PETS
MONARCHS
METALS
LABOR
BOBs & ROBERTs
    $100 11
a 10-foot pole

Michael
    $100 16
France

Dan
    $100 6
Catherine the Great

Bob
    $100 17
uranium

Dan
    $100 26
the United Auto Workers

Bob
    $100 1
(Alex: And it's up to Bob to start us off today, since he won the toss.)
(Bob: I'd be foolish to choose anything else. BOBs & ROBERTs for $100.)
(Alex: The first clue is...)

Bob Hope

Bob
    $200 12
[NOTE: This was the 40,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, 2006-01-04.]

his fiddlers three

Michael
    $200 22
a duck

Bob
    $200 7
less than a year

Bob
    $200 18
silver

Bob
    $200 27
Lech Walesa

Dan
    $200 2
Robert Burns

Bob
    $300 13
Catch-22

Dan
    $300 23
(Alex: They don't like [*], or [*] don't like them.)

avocados

Triple Stumper
    $300 8
Maximillian

Bob
    $300 19
mercury

Bob
    $300 28
collective bargaining

Michael
    $300 3
Robert Morse

Dan
    $400 14
(Alex: It also featured the music of Antonio Vivaldi.)

The Four Seasons

Triple Stumper
    $400 24
cats

Michael
    $400 9
William & Mary

Bob
    $400 20
copper

Michael
    $400 29
the Industrial Workers of the World

Michael
    $400 4
Bob Keeshan

Bob
    $500 15
elevenses

Bob
    $500 25
iguana

Bob
    $1,500 10
(Bob: What is Sikkim?)
(Alex: Nope. Sorry, you picked the wrong small country.)

Bhutan

Bob
    $500 21
(Dan: What is zinc?)
(Michael: What is cadmium?)

titanium

DanMichael
Triple Stumper
    $500 30
the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Bob
    $500 5
Bob Martinez

Bob

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 10):

Bob Dan Michael
$700 $300 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Dan Michael
$3,000 $500 $1,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD WAR I
BLACK AMERICA
AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
SIGNS & SYMBOLS
EUROPEAN RIVERS
MYTHOLOGICAL RELATIVES
    $200 21
England

Michael
    $200 26
Jackie Robinson

Dan
    $200 11
"Waltzing Matilda"

Bob
    $200 1
the swastika

Michael
    $200 13
the Danube

Bob
    $200 6
Prometheus

Dan
    $400 22
Hoover

Michael
    $400 27
Thurgood Marshall

Dan
    $400 12
Picnic at Hanging Rock

Triple Stumper
    $400 2
division

Dan
    $400 14
the Seine

Bob
    $400 7
Hermes

Michael
    $600 23
the "Rainbow Division"

Triple Stumper
    $600 28
(Ralph) Abernathy

Dan
    $600 18
The Shoes of the Fisherman

Dan
    $600 3
a chevron

Dan
    $600 15
(Michael: What is Egypt?)

Spain

BobMichael
    $600 8
Jocasta

Michael
    $800 24
Clemenceau

Bob
    $800 29
(Louis) Sullivan

Michael
    $1,100 19
(Dan: I have no idea.)

Colleen McCullough

Dan
    $800 4
the World Almanac

Dan
    $800 16
(Bob: What's the Saar?)

the Ruhr

BobMichael
    $2,000 9
(Michael: Who was Atalanta?)

Medea

Michael
    $1000 25
Verdun

Bob
    $1000 30
Benjamin Hooks

Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
My Brilliant Career

Bob
    $1000 5
(Alex: And the sign, of course, is Libra.)

the scales

Triple Stumper
    $1000 17
the Liffey

Bob
    $1000 10
Ares

Dan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bob Dan Michael
$7,400 $4,200 $2,100

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. CITIES
MichaelWhat is Sioux City?
$2,099
DanWhat is Des Moines?
$1,200
BobWhat is Sioux City
$1,001
Council Bluffs

Final scores:

Bob Dan Michael
$6,399 $3,000 $1
Automatic semifinalist 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Bob Dan Michael
$8,900 $5,300 $4,100
23 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $18,300

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Game tape date: 1990-10-22
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