2001 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 2.
Pam Mueller — a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
Andrew Garen — a project manager from Austin, Texas
Larry Cloud — a computer consultant from Inglewood, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larry | $100 | $1,700 | $7,000 |
$2,000
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$7,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Andrew | $2,600 | $5,100 | $4,900 |
$900
3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$4,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Pam | $300 | $1,300 | $6,700 |
$6,399
Automatic semifinalist |
$6,700
16 R, 2 W |
| U.S. CITIES | OH, DANNY BOY | PALEONTOLOGY | AWARD PRESENTERS | HISTORY TEST | WINNIE-THE-POOH'S ENTOURAGE |
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$100
[1]
Saltwater taffy originated in this New Jersey resort in 1883
Atlantic City
Andrew
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$100
[7]
In 1799 this pioneer left Kentucky because it was "Too crowded! I want more elbow-room"
Daniel Boone
Larry
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$100
[24]
500-million-year-old fish are the first known fossils of this backboned group of animals
vertebrates
Pam
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$100
[19]
The Royal Swedish Academy of the Sciences, the Swedish Academy & the Karolinska Institutet
the Nobel Prizes
Andrew
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$100
[12]
The Spanish version of this judicial body was set up in 1478; the Roman one, in 1542
the Inquisition
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$100
[3]
His human friend
Christopher Robin
Andrew
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$200
[2]
This city's metropolitan area consists of 6 Missouri counties & 5 Illinois counties
St. Louis
Pam
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$200
[8]
This former member of the Partridge Family turned 40 in August 1999
Danny Bonaduce
Andrew
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$200
[25]
Its tooth, mentioned in "Mack the Knife", is Georgia's state fossil & can date back 375 million years
shark
Larry
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$200
[20]
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
the Grammys
Andrew
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$200
[13]
In 1848 this U.S.-Mexico peace treaty was signed not far from the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Pam
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$200
[14]
His creator
A.A. Milne
Pam
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$300
[4]
The site of the University of Colorado's main campus, it owns Arapahoe Glacier, from which it gets most of its water
Boulder
Andrew
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$300
[9]
He was first elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Hawaii in 1962
Daniel Inouye
Andrew
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$300
[26]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew is at the Page Museum in Los Angeles.) The paw I'm holding belonged to a ground type of this, also one of the seven deadly sins
sloth
Larry
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$300
[21]
The League of American Theatres & Producers & the American Theatre Wing
the Tonys
Larry
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$300
[16]
The Boxer Protocol, signed in September 1901, forced this country to pay about $330 million
China
Andrew
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$300
[15]
Tiny Pooh friend who went to school in a pocket
Piglet
Andrew
Pam
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$400
[5]
Served by Blue Grass Airport, this Kentucky city was named for the first battle of the American Revolution
Lexington
Andrew
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$400
[10]
In 1971 he gave us the "History of U.S. Decision-Making Process on Viet Nam Policy", a 47-volume study, to the New York Times
Daniel Ellsberg
Andrew
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$400
[27]
The Sandhill type of this can fly; Diatryma, the predatory 7-foot "terror" type, couldn't
crane
Larry
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$400
[22]
The Downtown Athletic Club of New York
the Heisman Trophy
Larry
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$500
[18]
Vermeer's view of this city dates from a few years after its devastating powder magazine explosion
Delft
Andrew
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$400
[29]
Mother & son marsupials
Kanga & Roo
Pam
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$500
[6]
It's the easternmost port on Lake Erie
Buffalo
Andrew
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$500
[11]
A major Dublin street is named for this man who helped pass Catholic emancipation in the 1820s
Daniel O'Connell
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$500
[28]
Trilobites were among the first creatures to have these; they were compound crystals that survive as fossils
eyes
Andrew
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$500
[23]
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences
the Webby Awards
|
DD
$900
[17]
This ship left Tahiti April 4, 1789, apparently to the regret of many of the crew
the Bounty
Andrew
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$500
[30]
The imaginary creature who one night "set a trap" for Pooh
Heffalump
Pam
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| LET'S "C" WHAT YOU KNOW | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS | THE PURPLE TESTAMENT | WORKING TITLES | COMMON BONDS | FIVE WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL |
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$200
[1]
Pejorative name for any group with odd religious leanings & a charismatic leader
cult
Larry
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$200
[21]
Though they were designated a landmark in 1964, you can still ride them up & down the streets of San Francisco
cable cars
Larry
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$200
[16]
It's the answer to the classic joke "What's big & purple & swims in the ocean?"
Moby Grape
Pam
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$200
[8]
Stephen Crane's Civil War story "Private Fleming, His Various Battles" has a more classic ring with this title
The Red Badge of Courage
Pam
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$200
[6]
It's a mixture of lime or cement with other ingredients used to bond bricks together
mortar
Pam
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$200
[26]
Dustin Hoffman learns about plastics & then busts up a wedding in this classic 1967 film
The Graduate
Pam
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$400
[2]
In "Born Yesterday", Judy Holliday drops an "un" & tells boorish Broderick Crawford, "You're just not" this
couth
Larry
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$400
[22]
Check it out! You'll find this landmark at Independence Ave. & 1st Street in Washington, D.C.; now keep it down!
Library of Congress
Larry
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$400
[17]
The 1990 film "Graffiti Bridge" was the sequel to this 1984 hit film
Purple Rain
Andrew
Pam
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$400
[9]
F. Scott Fitzgerald regretted changing the title of "Trimalchio in West Egg" to this
The Great Gatsby
Larry
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$400
[7]
Oy! Jim Berg & Tim Nyberg believe "if it ain't stuck, & it's supposed to be," use this tape
duct tape
Andrew
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$400
[27]
She was repeatedly a bride, not a bridesmaid, to Alec Baldwin in "The Marrying Man"
Kim Basinger
Andrew
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|
$600
[3]
Seen here, this flower gives its name to a vivid shade of blue
cornflower
Larry
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$800
[24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is in New Orleans.) The bar I'm about to enter was once a blacksmith's shop used by this man as a front for his pirate operations
Jean Lafitte
Andrew
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$600
[18]
Seen here, it's a purple variety of quartz
amethyst
Pam
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$600
[10]
He used "Dark House" as the working title for both "Absalom, Absalom!" & "Light in August"
William Faulkner
Larry
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$600
[13]
Though called tar, the black sticky pitch is really this, used as a glue by early Indians & today, to pave roads
asphalt
Larry
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$600
[28]
Peter Cook officiated the "mawwidge" of Robin Wright & Chris Sarandon in this fairy tale film
The Princess Bride
Andrew
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$800
[4]
From the Chinese for "breath", it's the vital life force in the body
chi
Pam
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$1,000
[25]
The Little White Schoolhouse in this Wisconsin city claims to be the "Birthplace of the Republican Party"
Ripon
Larry
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$800
[19]
Nicknamed the "Purple Heart Battalion", WWII's 442nd Regiment was made up of Americans of this ethnicity
Japanese
Larry
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$1,000
[12]
Sinclair Lewis' conformist was G.T. Pumphrey of Monarch City, but became this title character of Zenith
George Babbitt
Andrew
Pam
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$800
[14]
In food processing, monoglycerides are added to bond these 2 opposite liquids to improve smoothness
water & oil
Pam
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$800
[29]
During "Rocky Horror", audiences throw rice when this TV mayor attends a wedding with Susan Sarandon
Barry Bostwick
Pam
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$1,000
[5]
The fact that 9 plus 3 is equal to 3 plus 9 demonstrates this property, from the Latin for "exchange"
commutative
Pam
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DD
$2,400
[23]
Designed by Eero Saarinen, this is the tallest monument in the U.S.
the Gateway Arch
Larry
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$1,000
[20]
A gunman named Lassiter is the hero of this Zane Grey novel
Riders of the Purple Sage
Larry
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DD
$2,700
[11]
Hemingway considered "To Write It Truly" & "Love is Hunger" as titles for this memoir of living in Paris in the '20s
A Moveable Feast
Larry
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$1,000
[15]
In 1951 this company put its Elmer's glue into a plastic squeeze bottle with an orange top
Borden's
Larry
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$1,000
[30]
Here's a wedding & a funeral; this "Muse" star played "Private Benjamin"'s husband who died on their wedding night
Albert Brooks
Larry
Andrew
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These 2 companies whose products complement each other are the only 2 that have ever topped the Fortune 500
General Motors & Exxon