Responses for Show #1886 - Monday, November 16, 1992

1992 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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April McManus, a bookstore clerk and 1992 Teen Tournament champion originally from Woodbury, Minnesota

Richard Kaplan, a retired attorney from Los Angeles, California

Leszek Pawlowicz, a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona

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Jeopardy! Round responses

MYTHOLOGY
HITCHCOCK'S BLONDES
MUSIC
ETIQUETTE
STATE CAPITALS
ANAGRAMS
    $100 12
Hercules

Leszek
    $100 11
Doris Day

April
    $100 1
(April: What is jelly roll?)

jam session

LeszekApril
    $100 26
Cherry tomatoes

Richard
    $100 6
Little Rock

Richard
    $100 21
Salt (Last)

Richard
    $200 17
the Labyrinth

April
    $200 13
Grace Kelly

Leszek
    $200 2
Balalaika

Leszek
    $200 27
Pallbearer

April
    $200 7
Baton Rouge

April
    $200 22
Yacht (Cathy)

Richard
    $300 18
Hades

April
    $300 14
Carole Lombard

Leszek
    $300 3
Waltz

Richard
    $300 28
Cutting in

Leszek
    $300 8
Denver

April
    $300 23
(Alex: Leszek, before you make your next selection I would like to point out that for the last minute or so, we've been experiencing some problems with our score readout, but the scores as you see them right now are correct: $3,000, $2,100 and $1,400. Leszek, pick again.)

siren (risen)

Leszek
    $400 19
Argo

Richard
    $400 15
Kim Novak

Leszek
    $400 4
Chorister

Leszek
    $400 29
Caviar

Leszek
    $400 9
(Alex: Isn't it fun when you get it right?)

Albany, New York

April
    $400 24
Flemish (himself)

April
    $500 20
Thebes

Richard
    $500 16
Tippi Hedren

Leszek
    $500 5
Andante

Richard
    $500 30
Tulip

Richard
    $500 10
Lincoln, Nebraska

Leszek
    $500 25
Gabardine (Bargained)

April

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Leszek Richard April
$1,200 $900 $900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Leszek Richard April
$3,700 $2,700 $2,500

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

"B" IN LITERATURE
BALLET
FASHION HISTORY
SPORTS
ASTRONOMY
KINGS NAMED HAAKON
(Alex: Perhaps a narrow category, frightening the daylights out of April!)
    $200 8
Pearl S. Buck

Richard
    $200 7
a painting

April
    $200 30
black

Leszek
    $200 1
Wayne Gretzky

April
    $200 6
Mars

Richard
    $200 21
[Audience laughter before response]

Norway

Leszek
    $400 9
The Brothers Karamazov

April
    $400 17
Copenhagen

Leszek
    $1,500 26
(Leszek: What is a cowl?)
...
(Alex: Is FASHION HISTORY one of the categories you studied?)
(Leszek: No comment!)

a wimple

Leszek
    $400 2
Notre Dame

April
    $400 11
a comet

April
    $400 27
Christianity (Catholicism accepted)

April
    $600 10
Bleak House

Leszek
    $600 18
Georges Balanchine

Richard
    $600 25
Bloomers

Leszek
    $600 3
(Richard: What is Tampa Bay?)

Phoenix

RichardApril
    $600 14
a supernova

Leszek
    $600 28
poisoning

Leszek
    $800 12
Robert Browning

April
    $800 19
Oklahoma

Richard
    $800 24
Louis XV

Leszek
    $800 4
Kristi Yamaguchi

April
    $800 15
Sirius

Leszek
    $800 29
the 20th century

Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Leszek
    $1000 20
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
(Leszek: What is the toga?)

the chiton

Leszek
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Oakland Athletics

Leszek
    $1000 16
Uranus

Leszek
    $1,500 22
(Leszek: Gee, I didn't study this one!)

Iceland & Greenland

Leszek

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Leszek Richard April
$10,500 $3,900 $6,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
(Alex: I suppose you have to ask yourself the question, "Why would it be there?")
...
(Alex: ...remembering that so much of the work on the Manhattan Project for the atomic bomb was there in the City of Chicago.)
RichardWhat is M.I.T.?
$3,900
AprilWhat is Columbia?
$6,300
LeszekWhat is the University of Chicago?
$2,901
the University of Chicago

Final scores:

Leszek Richard April
$13,401 $0 $400
Finalist 3rd place: $5,000 + Jeopardy!/Wheel of Fortune video games for Super NES/Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! Challenge book 2nd place: $5,000 + Jeopardy!/Wheel of Fortune video games for Super NES/Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! Challenge book

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Leszek Richard April
$11,500 $3,900 $6,700
25 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
1 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $22,100

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Game tape date: 1992-10-19
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