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The Cincinnati Enquirer FROM PAGE A1 Saturday, February 20, 1999 A3 Ji 1 Hnft tin Timi to Buy Your Ptot for ttrly Sprint Inttallitionl Sharonville man wins big (Otters to hold local tryouts Mm-. i 3 I'll I NO PAYMENTS TIL K.f vvwi 1 11.1" 111 I P) Jeopardy! is coming to Cincinnati May 4-5. The trivia game-show staff will test more than 200 adults, plus another 60 parent-child teams, for a new "family tournament" to air this fall. Prospective candidates will be seen only by appointment, says Laine Sut- ten, Jeopardy! promotion director. Appointments will be booked starting March 23 by a toll-free telephone number announced on the show, she said, or through the show's Internet site: www.jeopardy.com WCP0-TV (Channel 9), which airs the show, will help book one of the 70-person audition sessions.

Three groups of 70 adults (210 total) will be given a written test of 50 questions. Those who score 35 or better will play a game. Producers will be looking for players with poise, confidence, accuracy, personality and ability to follow instructions. For the family tourney, Jeopardy! will test parents with children born between August 1986 and July 1988. About 25,000 adults throughout the country will audition for the next taping season (July-April).

About 400 will be invited to Los Angeles (at their own expense) to tape a show. Jeopardy! will pay for the parent-child teams' trips, Ms. Sutten said. 7S -v MiHMP Ml li I CONTINUED FROM PAGE Al day final round was broadcast nationally. "I know this sounds corny, but I think God let me win to help me get through this.

It's helping," he said. In third place going into Friday, Mr. Abbott clinched the title with ah impressive comeback. Down by early in the game, he nailed 17 of 19 answers in the second round to defeat J.J. Todor, 24, of Pataskala, Ohio, and Juliet Wiley, 34, of Piano, Texas.

He blamed his concentration lapse on having to tape three shows -r Tuesday's semifinals and the finals in one day last month in Los Angeles. i "I was thinking about everything else my brother, or who was going to be watching, people I went to high school Save 4 '-'4-, a. 9 i Over 100 Top Brand spas if Viking GAZEBOSPA 1 I 4 8 iTi i 3-4 Person Spa 1888 i 1 includes: i TO. I I 1 4-5 Person Spa Light 4 Person Spa i -w mm-. mm 1 Redwood Gazebo Redwood 10 Jets Skirt know this sounds corny, but I think God let me win Chemicals with everything but the game," said Mr.

Abbott, a 1974 graduate of Highlands High School in Fort Thomas. He blew a i i.liihiuiiiiii.i.i. ii i Ml '7 InuKl Iff ABOVE GROUND to help me get through "video daily dou- )(o) this. It's l(Q )(2) in the game by failing to say that Patrick Duffy was taking a shower in his 1986 return to helping. Dave Abbott DECK POOLS Custom Cut wood DECEt --k i The Cincinnati EnquirerTV image Dave Abbott of Sharonville exults after winning the $1 00,000 Tournament of Champions on the "Jeopardy!" game show.

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Abbott broke out of his funk after the first commercial break, when host Alex Trebek asked him if his wife, Janet, was in the studio audience. Thinking about his spouse, who had read him Trivial Pursuit cards, "really got me to focus," he said. The turning point came later in the first round on his correct response to a category called "Common Bonds." The answer was: "Capistrano swallows, undelivera-ble mail and Jeopardy! champs." His reply: "What are things that come back?" He dominated the Jeopardy! hoard after that. He answered correctly 27 times during the half-hour, compared to 1 1 for Mr. Todor and 10 for Ms.

Wiley. But Mr. Abbott won the tourney do yet with the rest. Frankly, it wasn't for the money that I went out in the first place. Then it turned into a mission," said the former church choir director.

He bought a new tuba with his June winnings to play in the Northern Kentucky University Quintet. Now that he has won it all on Mr. Abbott plans to spend more time with his wife and children, Adrienne, 11, and Doug, 9. "I've told a couple of people that I'm on the 'Jeopardy! patch," he joked about his TV addiction. "I promised the kids that I would stop watching, but it hasn't worked out that way yet." by only $900, with a two-day total of $21,500.

Mr. Todor was second with Ms. Wiley was last with $7,500. Mr. Abbott couldn't remember much that happened on the show, except that the studio audience including last year's three finalists gave him a standing ovation.

"I'm in an exclusive group of nerds," he said with a laugh. "I don't remember a clue, not a bloody thing. It's completely gone," he said Friday afternoon, before watching the show with friends at his home. Mr. Abbott already has spent part of the prize money.

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