1999 Tournament of Champions final game 1.
Dave Abbott — a musician and contract manager from Cincinnati, Ohio
J.J. Todor — an attorney from Pataskala, Ohio
Juliet Wiley — a stay-at-home mom from Plano, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juliet | $400 | $1,400 | $4,400 | $7,400 |
$4,400
11 R, 2 W |
| J.J. | $1,800 | $3,100 | $6,000 | $9,000 |
$7,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dave | $2,000 | $2,600 | $5,600 | $7,100 |
$6,600
21 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| "N" THE ATLAS | JAZZ NICKNAMES | WEIRD NATURE | TEA TIME | ELECTIONS | (5,5) |
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$100
[17]
Ask any monster how to get to this loch just southwest of Inverness
Loch Ness
Dave
|
$100
[1]
The Aristocrat of Swing, or The Duke
Duke Ellington
J.J.
|
$100
[24]
These ungulates have a third eyelid to protect their eyes from blowing sand
camels
Dave
|
$100
[8]
Koicha is a thick tea served during the Cha-No-Yu, this country's famous tea ceremony
Japan
J.J.
|
$100
[6]
In 1997 all but 10 Republican congressmen voted to re-elect this House speaker
Newt Gingrich
J.J.
|
$100
[12]
Very, very, very, very dark, like tar
pitch black
Dave
|
|
$200
[18]
This French region takes its name from invading Norsemen of the mid-9th century
Normandy
Juliet
|
$200
[2]
Yardbird
Charlie Parker
Dave
|
$200
[27]
A giraffe can clean its ears with this up to 18-inch-long appendage
its tongue
J.J.
|
$200
[13]
Ironically, it was an Englishman who introduced tea served this way, at the St. Louis World's Fair
iced tea
Juliet
|
$200
[7]
While this man was preparing for space, George Voinovich & Mary Boyle were campaigning for his Senate seat
John Glenn
Juliet
|
$200
[22]
Savviness, or "stable"-mindedness
horse sense
|
|
$300
[19]
This city was bombed by "Bock's Car" on August 9, 1945
Nagasaki
J.J.
|
$300
[3]
Sassy
Sarah Vaughan
Dave
|
$300
[28]
Named for the Welsh for "white head", this bird can swim, but not fly
a penguin
|
$300
[14]
Fictional girl who says, "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!"
Alice
Dave
|
$300
[9]
In 1996, at age 74, Cecil Underwood became the oldest governor ever elected in this "Mountain State"
West Virginia
Dave
|
$300
[23]
Mine are vibrating even as I speak
vocal cords
Juliet
|
|
$400
[20]
You'll find Fiordland National Park & Abel Tasman National Park in this country
New Zealand
J.J.
|
$400
[4]
The First Lady of Jazz
Ella Fitzgerald
Dave
|
$400
[29]
Call a cop! You're born with 300 of these, but by the time you grow up you only have 206
bones
Dave
|
$400
[15]
Tea is also grown on this island, whose name is synonymous with coffee
Java
Dave
|
$400
[10]
This year was "The Year of the Woman" with 11 major party Senate candidates who were women
1992
J.J.
|
$400
[25]
The best thing to win; it's blue ribbon level
first place
J.J.
|
|
$500
[21]
This ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris River was destroyed by Babylonians, Medes & Scythians in 612 B.C.
Nineveh
Dave
|
$500
[5]
The Empress of the Blues
Bessie Smith
J.J.
|
$500
[30]
A fungus gets mighty cozy when it teams up with one of these organisms to live symbiotically as a lichen
algae
|
$500
[16]
Deborah Kerr served more than tea in this 1956 film based on a play
Tea and Sympathy
Juliet
Dave
|
DD
$600
[11]
In 1994 George W. Bush won Texas' gubernatorial race on the day brother Jeb lost this state's race
Florida
J.J.
|
$500
[26]
Term for a periodical published by a business for its employees
house organ
|
| ILLUSTRATORS | MOVIE NOSTALGIA | NAME THE POET | LEGAL LINGO | YO, POPE ADRIAN! | SPELL THE LAST NAME |
|
$200
[20]
In the early 1820s, before publishing his bird drawings, he worked as a taxidermist
John J. Audubon
J.J.
|
$200
[6]
Great silent film director Mack Sennett said, "A mother never gets hit with a custard" one of these
pie
J.J.
|
$200
[1]
"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree"
Joyce Kilmer
Dave
|
$200
[16]
It can precede "with a deadly weapon", "with intent to commit murder" or "and battery"
assault
Dave
|
$200
[11]
Born Nicolas Breakspear, Adrian IV is still the only man from this country to have been pope
Great Britain (England)
Dave
|
$200
[26]
French emperor Napoleon (I)...
B-O-N-A-P-A-R-T-E
J.J.
|
|
$400
[22]
Last name of "Treasure Island" illustrator N.C., the father & teacher of painter Andrew
Wyeth
Dave
|
$400
[7]
In "Good News", Peter Lawford's last line to June Allyson, "They sure are blue", refers to these
her eyes
Juliet
|
$400
[2]
"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, in the forests of the night"
William Blake
Juliet
|
$400
[17]
Term for the exhibits, objects, documents, testimony, etc. used in court to prove or disprove facts
evidence
J.J.
|
$400
[12]
Adrian VI in 1522 was the last non-Italian Pope until this man
John Paul II
Dave
|
$400
[27]
Indian prime minister Indira...
G-A-N-D-H-I
Juliet
Dave
|
|
$800
[24]
The ALA's medal for the artist of the best children's picture book of the year bears his name
Randolph Caldecott
Juliet
Dave
|
$600
[8]
"Splish Splash", he sang the title tune for the Hayley Mills film "That Darn Cat!"
Bobby Darin
Dave
|
$600
[3]
"She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies"
Lord Byron
Dave
|
$600
[18]
Baseball term for laws demanding a mandatory sentence for successive felony convictions
"three strikes" law
J.J.
|
$600
[13]
This would be the holy sea, S-E-A, for all the Pope Adrians; the name Adrian means from its coast
the Adriatic Sea
J.J.
|
$600
[28]
Czech-born retired tennis star Martina...
N-A-V-R-A-T-I-L-O-V-A
J.J.
|
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
Heillustratedhis own works like "There was a young lady whose chin, resembled the point of a pin"
Edward Lear
Dave
|
$800
[9]
Nat King Cole sang "When I Fall In Love" in the Errol Flynn film named for this Turkish city
Istanbul
|
$800
[4]
"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so"
John Donne
Dave
|
$800
[19]
Acts that lower the dignity of the trial may bring a fine or a jail sentence if you're held in this
contempt of court
Juliet
|
$800
[14]
Adrian III died on his way to the Diet of this, not from a diet of these
Worms
J.J.
|
$800
[29]
Florentine author of "The Prince" Niccolo...
M-A-C-H-I-A-V-E-L-L-I
J.J.
|
|
$1,000
[25]
His name is a homophone of an adjective that describes some of his works
Edward Gorey
Juliet
|
$1,000
[10]
This 1971 film set in a Siberian labor camp is based on a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Juliet
J.J.
|
$1,000
[5]
"That's my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive. I call that piece a wonder, now"
Robert Browning
Juliet
|
DD
$1,500
[21]
(Hi, I'm Star Jones of The View. As a lawyer I can tell you:) This Latin phrase meaning "of unsound mind" is often used to indicate permanent or temporary insanity
non compos mentis
J.J.
|
$1,000
[15]
Adrian II approved the Slavic liturgy in the new script invented by Methodius & this saint
Cyril (his brother)
J.J.
|
$1,000
[30]
"Finlandia" composer Jean...
S-I-B-E-L-I-U-S
Dave
|
Africa's newest independent state, it was an Italian colony until WWII, & later incorporated into another country
Eritrea (formerly part of Ethiopia)