Responses for Show #740 - Friday, November 20, 1987

1987 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

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Bob Verini, a playwright/actor from New York, New York (subtotal of $3,800)

Eugene Finerman, a writer from Chicago, Illinois (subtotal of $6,800)

Dave Traini, a teacher from Medford Lakes, New Jersey (subtotal of $7,600)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICANA
RELIGION
MAPS
1988
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
"PAR" FOR THE COURSE
    $100 16
(Dave: Who are the Marines?)

the Army

DaveEugene
    $100 4
apartheid

Dave
    $100 18
water

Bob
    $100 30
February 29th (Leap Year Day accepted)

Bob
    $100 1
Chernobyl

Dave
    $100 3
parties

Eugene
    $200 17
blue

Eugene
    $200 15
Lebanon

Bob
    $200 21
(Bob: What is covering all possible territory?)

they are bound

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $200 29
all of them (435)

Dave
    $200 2
(Eugene: What are electrons?)

neutrons

EugeneBob
    $200 8
parquet

Bob
    $300 19
Charter Oak

Triple Stumper
    $300 14
E-L

Bob
    $300 22
(Bob: What is the International Date Line?)

Prime Meridian (Greenwich)

DaveBob
    $300 28
33

Triple Stumper
    $300 5
cadmium

Dave
    $500 9
Dolly Parton

Bob
    $400 20
Montana

Dave
    $400 13
Jimmy Swaggart

Bob
    $400 23
scale

Dave
    $400 27
a solar eclipse

Triple Stumper
    $400 6
the positron

Triple Stumper
    $400 10
parsley

Bob
    $500 26
(Bob: Who was Johnny Appleseed?)

a son and a father of a U.S. President

EugeneBob
    $500 12
(Dave: What is their standing as saints?)

Feast Days

Dave
Triple Stumper
    $500 24
contour lines

Dave
    $500 25
(Alex: A minute to go in the round!)

super

Bob
    $500 7
quarks

Dave
    $500 11
Parsis

Eugene

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 9):

Dave Eugene Bob
$1,000 -$100 $900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Eugene Bob
$2,200 $1,200 $1,900

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD HISTORY
POETRY
FOOTBALL
OPERA
LABOR UNIONS
MIDDLE NAMES
    $200 7
Cecil Rhodes

Dave
    $200 20
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

Bob
    $200 28
Green Bay Packers

Dave
    $200 15
Brunhilde

Dave
    $200 21
Ronald Reagan

Eugene
    $200 11
(Bob: What is a cent?)

Cash

DaveBob
    $400 8
Mounties

Eugene
    $400 19
Oliver Goldsmith

Bob
    $600 30
(Bob: And Dad, I wish I paid attention when you wanted me to watch football! What is end?)

kickers

Bob
    $400 5
lieutenant

Bob
    $400 23
Wobblies

Bob
    $400 13
Maria

Bob
    $600 9
Singapore

Dave
    $600 18
painter

Triple Stumper
    $600 29
[ERRATUM: The record was 6 (only once with the Colts), not 7, as noted in OOPS! $800 in show #882, aired 1988-06-07.]

Don Shula

Bob
    $600 3
Cellini and Godunov

Bob
    $600 24
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union

Bob
    $600 4
Booker T. Washington

Dave
    $800 10
Suriname

Bob
    $800 17
"Song of Myself"

Eugene
    $800 27
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.
Gene, select!)

Chicago Bears (1940)

Triple Stumper
    $800 2
Faust

Bob
    $800 25
United Auto Workers

Eugene
    $3,700 6
(Bob: It's the last day; I have to bet everything!)

John Quincy Adams

Bob
    $1000 12
Talleyrand

Bob
    $1000 16
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
(Bob: Who was Pop Warner?)

Jim Thorpe

Bob
Triple Stumper
    $1000 1
(Eugene: What is The Merry Widow?)

Die Fledermaus

Eugene
Triple Stumper
    $1000 22
Robert Wagner

Bob
    $1000 14
(Alex: The S. was for Seidenstricker.)

Comfort

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Dave Eugene Bob
$4,200 $2,400 $11,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

19th CENTURY DEMOCRATS
EugeneWho was Buchanan?
$2,400
DaveWho was Buchanan?
$4,200
BobWho was Franklin Pierce James Buchanan?
$1,201
James Buchanan

Final scores:

Dave Eugene Bob
$8,400 $4,800 $12,201

Cumulative scores:

Dave Eugene Bob
$16,000 $11,600 $16,001
1st runner-up: $16,000 2nd runner-up: $11,600 Tournament champion: $100,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Dave Eugene Bob
$4,200 $2,400 $8,500
15 R,
2 W		 9 R,
2 W		 23 R
(including 2 DDs),
6 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $15,100

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Game tape date: 1987-10-27
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