2001 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.(Sarah: You'll beglued to the screentoday on theJeopardy!Tournament of Champions.)
Tad Carithers — an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
Ryan Moore — a partner in a start-up company from Venice, California
Babu Srinivasan — a history professor from Houston, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babu | $1,700 | $1,600 | $10,200 |
$20,400
2nd place: $5,000 |
$6,700
14 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Ryan | $800 | $2,200 | $5,800 |
$1,299
3rd place: $5,000 |
$5,800
13 R, 1 W |
| Tad | $2,300 | $4,400 | $10,300 |
$20,500
Finalist |
$10,400
29 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS | PRO FOOTBALL | THEY WERE FREEMASONS | CLEAN FREAK | ART-PODGE | "TIC" TALK |
|
$100
[26]
In the 1750s naval surgeon James Lind showed that this could be cured & prevented by eating citrus fruit
scurvy
Babu
|
$100
[1]
In 1999 this city's Colts won 10 more games than in 1998, the biggest one-season improvement to date
Indianapolis
Tad
|
$100
[16]
In 1960 this acting legend & Freemason played another Freemason, Davy Crockett, in "The Alamo"
John Wayne
Ryan
Tad
|
$100
[2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew wears an interesting headpiece.) Health regulations often call for some restaurant employees to wear these on their heads
hairnets
Tad
|
$100
[18]
This Chinese dynasty that reigned from 1368 to 1644 was known for beautiful vases
Ming
Tad
|
$100
[11]
This kind of person doesn't deny that God exists, he just believes it's impossible to know
agnostic
Tad
|
|
$200
[27]
He developed the live-attenuated vaccine for polio, which is given orally & requires no booster shot
Albert Sabin
Babu
Tad
|
$200
[4]
Until 1989 this was the only head coach the Dallas Cowboys ever had
Tom Landry
Tad
|
$200
[17]
This American conjurer, escapologist & Freemason was born in Budapest in 1874 as Ehrich Weiss
Harry Houdini
Tad
|
$200
[3]
It can mean to wash shampoo off hair, or a solution to color hair
rinse
Babu
|
$200
[19]
Damien Hirst is known for his dead-animals-in-tanks artworks, notably a tiger one of these fish in formaldehyde
tiger shark
Tad
|
$200
[12]
This ancient medical oath begins, "I swear by Apollo physician..."
the Hippocratic Oath
Tad
|
|
$300
[28]
Neatness doesn't always count--a moldy petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria led to the discovery of this antibiotic
penicillin
Tad
|
$400
[8]
This Dolphins quarterback retired after the 1999 season with a record 420 career touchdown passes
Dan Marino
Tad
|
$300
[23]
He regularly attended Masonic lodge meetings until 1911 when he became England's First Lord of the Admiralty
Winston Churchill
Ryan
|
$300
[5]
In this process, a stone surface is cleaned with tiny grains fired at high velocity
sandblasting
Tad
|
$300
[20]
"Lobster Trap and Fish Tail" is one of this artist's best-known mobiles
Alexander Calder
Tad
|
$300
[13]
This term for a reckless or foolish person is from the Latin for "moon-struck"
lunatic
Ryan
|
|
$400
[29]
Neatness does count--his discovery of antiseptics reduced deaths from surgical infections
Joseph Lister
Ryan
|
$500
[10]
In 1967 this Green Bay Packers quarterback was named MVP of the first Super Bowl
Bart Starr
Tad
|
$400
[24]
This Austrian Freemason used references to Masonry in his "Magic Flute"
Mozart
Tad
|
$400
[6]
It's the car care product whose symbol is seen here
Turtle Wax
Babu
|
$400
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew works on a craft.) From the French meaning "to cut out", it's the decorative art I'm demonstrating here
decoupage
Ryan
|
$400
[14]
A synonym for rural, it can also mean simple or artless
rustic
Tad
|
|
$500
[30]
Interferon alone or combined with the antiviral drug Ribavirin is used to treat the C-type of this disease
hepatitis
Ryan
|
DD
$600
[7]
2 of the 3 cities that had been home to the team now called the Titans
(2 of 3) Houston, Memphis & Nashville
Babu
|
$500
[25]
This former VP & Freemason launched a conspiracy to take over the U.S. Southwest
Aaron Burr
Tad
|
$500
[9]
Andy Warhol gave this steel wool product free publicity by sculpting its boxes
Brillo
Babu
|
$500
[22]
Christianity & Aztec ritual inspired the thorn necklace worn by this Latina woman in a masochistic 1940 self-portrait
Frida Kahlo
Ryan
|
$500
[15]
It's the principal Christian church in Egypt
Coptic
Ryan
|
| BOTSWANA ANAGRAMS | SERGEI EISENSTEIN CINEMA | OPERA HAS BEEN VERDI, VERDI GOOD TO ME | IT'S MY LIFE | FRANCE LOSES THE FIGHT | EGGS-ACTLY |
|
$200
[1]
The Limpopo River also has the name of this reptile that some want to make into "coil decor"
crocodile (coil decor)
Babu
|
$200
[10]
Sergei's film about one of these labor events juxtaposed shots of workers with slaughterhouse footage
strike
Ryan
|
DD
$100
[4]
Egyptologist Auguste Mariette claimed his scenario was the basis for the libretto of this 1871 opera
Aida
Tad
|
$200
[11]
In "An Hour Before Daylight" this former president shares memories of growing up in rural Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Tad
|
$200
[5]
Napoleon's forces suffered about 40,000 casualties losing this June 18, 1815 battle
Waterloo
Tad
|
$200
[25]
After the robin goes bob-bob-bobbing along, it lays an egg of this color
blue
Tad
|
|
$400
[2]
Though Botswana has little or no gold, these mineral products might get the "Midas nod"
diamonds (Midas nod)
Tad
|
$400
[21]
Sergei ran afoul of Stalin while making a film on the life & times of this brutal czar
Ivan the Terrible
Babu
|
$200
[3]
In the 1830s Verdi studied with Vincenzo Lavigna, formerly maestro al cembalo at this Milan opera house
La Scala
Tad
|
$400
[12]
This anthropologist told about her early years in 1972's "Blackberry Winter"
Margaret Mead
Tad
|
$400
[6]
In May 1940 Germany attacked France through this country, now home to NATO HQ; France fell by June
Belgium
Tad
|
$400
[27]
A pound of this egg delicacy from Russia could set you back $1,200; from Iran, over $1,600
caviar
Tad
|
|
$600
[14]
In this area that covers much of Botswana, you might take "a rash ideal trek"
Kalahari Desert (a rash ideal trek)
Ryan
|
$800
[23]
The title month "October" is the one in this revolutionary year
1917
Babu
|
$400
[20]
In English "Il Trovatore" means this, a wandering minstrel
a troubadour
Ryan
|
$600
[13]
Title of Billie Holiday's 1965 autobiography & of the movie it later inspired
"Lady Sings the Blues"
Babu
|
$600
[7]
The Third Republic began after France lost the war to this Bismarck-led German state
Prussia
Babu
|
$600
[29]
The Sauropod, a dinosaur the size of a bus, came from eggs discovered in this country's Patagonia region
Argentina
Babu
Ryan
|
|
$800
[15]
If you lose all your clothes in this capital, just "go on bare"
Gaborone (go on bare)
Ryan
|
$1,000
[24]
Sponsored by Upton Sinclair, Eisenstein set out to film "Que Viva" this country
Mexico
Babu
|
$600
[30]
The title character of this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked court jester
Rigoletto
|
$800
[18]
Read up on this longtime speaker of the House in his 1987 memoir "Man of the House"
Tip O'Neill
Tad
|
$800
[8]
The English won most of the battles in this 1337-1453 war but in the end France drove them out
Hundred Years' War
Babu
|
$800
[28]
Chinese cooking has extremes of Egg Foo Yung & this dish of duck eggs that have been buried for a long while
thousand/hundred-year-old eggs
Tad
|
|
$1,000
[16]
When Botswana was this British protectorate, it was perhaps more of a "can and ale hub"
Bechuanaland (can and ale hub)
|
DD
$3,800
[22]
Beatrice Vitoldi played "Mother with Baby Carriage" in this film
Battleship Potemkin
Babu
|
$1,000
[17]
Verdi's last opera, this comic masterpiece is based in part on Shakespeare's "King Henry IV"
Falstaff
Ryan
|
$1,000
[19]
This TV news producer tells his own story in "Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years & 60 Minutes in Television"
Don Hewitt
Tad
|
$1,000
[9]
The 1520s weren't good for France either; it lost Milan to Charles V, leader of this "empire" that began in 962
Holy Roman Empire
Tad
|
$1,000
[26]
The Franklin Mint has the eggs named for this artisan ranging from $37.50 to the eggs-pensive $6,900
Faberge
Babu
|
Upon this nation's independence in 1903, it was "moved" from one continent to another
Panama