Responses for Show #1781 - Monday, May 4, 1992

1992 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.
First ever Tiebreaker Round in a tournament game.

Contestants

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Chris Montplaisir, a senior from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Ken Kansa, a junior from George Washington University

Margaret Bickers, a freshman from Agnes Scott College

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Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. CITIES
DISNEY WORLD
SAINTS
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
AD LINES
2-LETTER WORDS
    $100 3
Salt Lake City

Margaret
    $100 5
President Bush

Ken
    $100 1
Nicholas

Ken
    $100 22
horn

Chris
    $100 15
Campbell's soup

Chris
    $100 13
go

Chris
    $200 10
Atlanta

Chris
    $200 6
hotel rooms

Chris
    $200 2
Paul

Ken
    $200 20
bow

Ken
    $200 16
Toyota

Chris
    $200 14
Po

Margaret
    $300 11
(Chris: What is Philadelphia?)

Pittsburgh

KenChris
    $300 7
Roger Rabbit

Chris
    $300 4
4th of July

Chris
    $300 21
strings

Ken
    $300 17
AT&T

Triple Stumper
    $300 23
lo

Chris
    $500 12
Cleveland

Ken
    $400 8
EPCOT Center

Chris
    $400 29
St. Peter

Margaret
    $400 27
bagpipes

Chris
    $400 18
Slim-Fast

Chris
    $400 24
Ra

Ken
    $500 26
Dallas

Margaret
    $500 9
Mann's Chinese Theatre

Ken
    $500 30
(Margaret: What is Portugal?)

India

Margaret
Triple Stumper
    $500 28
(Ken: What is 35?)

36

KenChris
    $500 19
L'eggs

Margaret
    $500 25
(3 of) xi, nu & pi (or mu)

Ken

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Margaret Ken Chris
$100 $1,700 $1,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Margaret Ken Chris
$1,200 $2,600 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

EXPLORERS
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
20th CENTURY NOVELS
TRANSPORTATION
CATS
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
    $200 6
Marco Polo

Chris
    $200 7
salary

Chris
    $200 19
Scarlett

Chris
    $200 18
Atlantic

Ken
    $200 1
green

Chris
    $200 13
(Ken: What is [*]? [rhyming it with vision])
(Alex: Yes, [*].)

fission

Ken
    $400 9
Christopher Columbus

Chris
    $400 8
Ms.

Ken
    $400 20
The Godfather

Chris
    $400 22
taxis

Ken
    $400 2
Abyssinians

Margaret
    $400 14
uranium

Ken
    $600 10
Antarctica

Chris
    $600 28
New Zealand

Ken
    $600 21
Sam Houston

Ken
    $600 25
bullet train

Margaret
    $600 3
tortoiseshell

Margaret
    $600 15
positron

Margaret
    $800 11
Cook

Chris
    $800 29
The Bible

Chris
    $600 23
Richard Bachman

Ken
    $800 26
Conestoga

Margaret
    $800 4
Burma

Margaret
    $800 16
heavy water

Margaret
    $1000 12
(Henry) Hudson

Margaret
    $1000 30
Napoleon

Ken
    $1000 24
Teapot Dome

Ken
    $1000 27
Zeppelin (dirigible)

Ken
    $1000 5
(Chris: What is the North Sea?)

Irish Sea

KenChris
    $1000 17
quarks

Margaret

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Margaret Ken Chris
$7,800 $10,000 $6,000

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1970s
(Alex: And for the first time ever in any of our tournaments we have a tie and we must go to a tiebreaker clue, a tiebreaker answer. So, players pick up your signaling buttons, please. And since this is the only tournament we have ever done this, there is one important rule of which you should be aware and that is the fact you cannot win by default. You must give a correct response. The tiebreaker category for today is... AMERICAN AUTHORS. Here is the clue for you...)
ChrisWhat are the Pentagon Papers
$5,000
MargaretWhat are ???
$2,000
KenWhat are the Pentagon Papers?
$1,000
Pentagon Papers

Tiebreaker Round responses

AMERICAN AUTHORS
Ernest Hemingway

Chris

Final scores:

Margaret Ken Chris
$5,800 $11,000 $11,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Margaret Ken Chris
$7,800 $10,100 $6,000
14 R,
1 W
22 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W
22 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $23,900

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Game tape date: 1992-03-08
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