2001 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
Rick Knutsen — a musician from Brooklyn, New York
Mark Eckard — a software designer from Bedford, Massachusetts
Babu Srinivasan — a history professor from Houston, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babu | $1,200 | $3,000 | $5,800 |
$11,500
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$5,100
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Mark | $2,300 | $3,700 | $11,400 |
$12,900
Automatic semifinalist |
$9,900
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Rick | $1,000 | $1,400 | $9,600 |
$7,599
3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$8,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| AL, HISTORY'S PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PAL | THE LANGUAGE OF SPORT | THAT'S GOTTA HURT | FABULOUS FELINES | RESTAURATEURS | VOCABULARY |
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$100
[1]
In 1871 Chicago, Al promises to retrieve this woman's lantern from a barn but he'll get to it in a minute; oops
Mrs. O'Leary
Mark
|
$100
[11]
Full-court press
basketball
Mark
|
$100
[20]
When 2 people are shooting guns & their aim intersects at you, you're caught in one of these
crossfire
Mark
|
$100
[25]
Cathy Rigby & Rosie O'Donnell have both played this feline role in "Seussical the Musical"
The Cat in the Hat
Mark
|
$100
[17]
Nobuyuki Matsuhisa learned his trade at these "bars" in Tokyo, moved on to Peru & then conquered America
sushi bars
Rick
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$100
[2]
Perhaps because of the nursery rhyme, this word for what Little Miss Muffet sat on has come to mean "footstool"
tuffet
Babu
|
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$200
[3]
In '69 Al holds up Apollo 11's launch when he's late picking up this 2nd man on the Moon to drive him to Cape Kennedy
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
Mark
|
$200
[12]
No holds barred
wrestling
Rick
|
$200
[21]
This practice that causes searing pain, once used on Army deserters, is now limited to livestock
branding
Mark
|
$200
[27]
Ginger the cat sells groceries to mice who are "rather afraid of" her in a 1909 tale by this woman
Beatrix Potter
Mark
|
$200
[26]
In the '50s the owner of Danny's Donuts expanded, added hamburgers & altered the name to this
Denny's
Rick
|
$200
[7]
German word appropriate after the following situation[Alex sneezing]
Gesundheit!
Mark
|
|
$300
[4]
Uh oh! Security man Frank Wills finds the tape Al forgot to remove for his pals at this complex on June 17, 1972
the Watergate Hotel
Babu
|
$300
[13]
To be stumped, sticky wicket
cricket
Rick
|
$300
[22]
The British navy suspended this punishment in 1881; the state of Delaware banned it in 1972
flogging
Babu
Rick
|
$300
[28]
Matilda, seen here, is the resident cat at this Manhattan hotel; you might find her near the round table
the Algonquin
Rick
|
$300
[19]
This world-famous Austrian opened Santa Monica's Schatzi on Main (schatzi means "sweetheart")
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Mark
|
$300
[8]
This word given to a policy of segregation means "separateness" in Afrikaans
apartheid
Mark
|
|
$400
[5]
Al blames irresponsible lending practices, not his own panic-selling, as a cause of this Oct. 24, 1929 event
the stock market crash
Babu
|
$400
[14]
Down & out
boxing
Babu
|
$500
[24]
If you don't duck during tacking, you might get conked by this horizontal spar at the foot of a sail
the boom
Rick
|
$400
[29]
In "The Jungle Book", Bagheera the panther is Mowgli's friend & this fearsome tiger is his enemy
Shere Khan
|
$400
[16]
Breed seen here & in the name of Stuart Anderson's steakhouses
black angus
Babu
|
$400
[9]
This synonym for an imaginary thing came from a mythical monster with a lion's head, goat's body & dragon's tail
chimera
Mark
|
|
$500
[6]
Wanting to get this Austrian archduke out of his hair, Al told him to go to Sarajevo on June 28, 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Mark
|
$500
[15]
Ground rules
baseball
Mark
|
DD
$1,100
[23]
It can mean to swindle or overcharge someone, or to thumb his eye
gouge
Babu
|
$500
[30]
Charles Perrault popularized the tale of this well-shod feline known in French as "Le Chat Botte"
Puss 'n Boots
Mark
|
$500
[18]
This dashing restaurateur is married to Cindy Crawford
Randy Gerber
|
$500
[10]
In grammar, this is the term for the noun to which a following pronoun refers
antecedent
Rick
|
| 19th CENTURY AMERICA | PAINTING & SCULPTURE | ENDS IN "FF" | LITERATURE | ICELANDIC HOTSPOTS | JASON MILLER |
|
$200
[16]
In a famous duel July 11, 1804 he deliberately misfired; his opponent didn't
Alexander Hamilton
Rick
|
$200
[11]
This Picasso masterpiece expressing the horrors of war was done entirely in gray, black & white
"Guernica"
Rick
|
$200
[6]
This officer is charged with maintaining order in a courtroom during a trial
bailiff
Mark
|
$200
[1]
At the end of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", this sadistic slave owner dies insane
Simon Legree
Babu
|
$200
[21]
Iceland's first settler, Ingolfur Arnarson, named this city "Smoky Bay" because of the hot springs there
Reykjavik
Mark
|
$200
[26]
Jason Miller earned an Oscar nomination for his electrifying film debut as Father Karras in this 1973 classic
The Exorcist
Rick
|
|
$400
[20]
In 1851 he sold the first performance rights to his "Old Folks at Home" to Edwin Christy
Stephen Foster
Mark
|
$400
[12]
Among his many sculptures are "The Cowboy" & "Coming Through the Rye"
Frederic Remington
Mark
|
$400
[7]
The relationship of "Frasier" to "Cheers", or "Melrose Place" to "Beverly Hills 90210"
spin-off
Mark
|
$400
[2]
In "Pudd'nhead Wilson", Twain wrote, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and" then do this to "that basket"
watch
|
$400
[22]
These 2 world leaders met in Iceland in 1986 to ease the heat generated by the Cold War
Ronald Reagan & Mikhail Gorbachev
Rick
|
$400
[27]
Shortly before his death, Jason wrote a teleplay about this TV "Honeymooner", once his father-in-law
Jackie Gleason
Mark
|
|
$600
[17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Marshall Gold Discovery Park.) James Marshall found gold in California on January 24 of this year; I guess it took a few months for news to spread
1848
Rick
|
$600
[13]
Life was a "beach" for this Frenchman who captured the two women seen here
Paul Gauguin
Mark
|
$600
[8]
It means to tip your hat when greeting someone
doff
Mark
|
$600
[3]
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 collection of stories was titled "Tales of" this "Age"
the Jazz Age
Rick
|
$800
[24]
Famous for his laboratory "burner", he also studied the volcanic rocks of Iceland's Mount Hekla
Robert Bunsen
Babu
|
$600
[28]
Jason played this fellow playwright, also a Pulitzer Prize winner, in the 1980 TV movie "Marilyn: The Untold Story"
Arthur Miller
Rick
|
|
$800
[18]
She spent "Ten Days in a Mad House" before going "Around the World in 72 Days"
Nellie Bly
Babu
|
$800
[14]
This monumental unfinished Rodin work is also known as "La Ponte de L'Enfer"
"The Gates of Hell"
Rick
|
$800
[9]
This word meaning to heartily drink a beer, or any beverage, dates back almost 500 years
quaff
Mark
|
$800
[4]
A review said this 1979 William Styron novel "belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces"
Sophie's Choice
Mark
Rick
|
$1,000
[25]
A famous hot spring of southern Iceland gave us this term for a steaming hot spring
geyser
|
$800
[29]
When Jason played Edmund in "Long Day's Journey into Night", this "First Lady of the American Theatre" played his mother
Helen Hayes
Rick
|
|
$1,000
[19]
Those who left the Republican Party in 1884 were dubbed these, from a Native American term for "big chief"
Mugwumps
Babu
|
$1,000
[15]
Court painter to Philip IV, he depicted the Spanish royal family in his painting "Las Meninas"
Diego Velázquez
Mark
|
DD
$2,500
[10]
This resort town in the Canadian Rockies is famous for its hot sulfur-water swimming pools
Banff
Mark
|
$1,000
[5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew is in New Orleans.) This author of the classic American novel "Winesburg, Ohio" once lived here in the Pontalba Apartments on Jackson Square
Sherwood Anderson
Rick
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
An Icelandic volcano is the starting point for the explorations in this Jules Verne classic
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Rick
|
$1,000
[30]
Jason won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize & the Tony Award for writing this play about the reunion of a basketball team
That Championship Season
Mark
|
It's the only country bordering the Caspian Sea that was not a member of the Soviet Union
Iran