2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 2.
Steve Reynolds — a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma
Seth Alcorn — a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia
Tom Walsh — a writer from Washington, D.C.
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | $2,600 | $4,000 | $11,600 |
$12,401
Automatic semifinalist |
$13,600
21 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Seth | $1,200 | $100 | $5,300 |
$10,600
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,400
12 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Steve | $200 | $1,000 | $6,200 |
$10,900
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$6,200
10 R, 1 W |
| RECENT FICTION | BASEBALL ROOKIES OF THE YEAR | WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL | SWEET | BALLROOM BLITZ | SILENT "P" |
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$200
[6]
"The Princes of Ireland" is vol. 1 of Edward Rutherfurd's "Saga" named for this capital
Dublin
Tom
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$200
[1]
This center fielder who hit 660 homers & won 2 NL MVP awards started his pro career in the Negro Leagues
Mays
Tom
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$200
[16]
This philosopher & partner of Engels took up residence in London after being expelled from Prussia in 1849
Marx
Tom
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$200
[23]
Benjamin Eisenstadt introduced this pink-packeted product in 1957
Sweet'N Low
|
$200
[21]
The "Virginia" variety of this country dance starts with partners facing each other in 2 lines
the reel
Steve
|
$200
[11]
I'm somehow sensing you'll know this word for a medium, from the Greek for "of the soul"
psychic
Steve
|
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$400
[7]
A song provided the title of this Michael Walsh novel featuring Ilsa Lund & Victor Laszlo
As Time Goes By
Steve
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$400
[2]
He was the first Japanese player in nearly 30 years to play in the majors when he pitched for the Dodgers in 1995
Nomo
Tom
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$400
[17]
Seen here, the death of this Athenian philosopher was immortalized by Jacques-Louis David in 1787
Socrates
Tom
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$400
[24]
1 1997 song by The Verve says life is this type of symphony
a bittersweet symphony
Tom
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$400
[22]
A star was born when Rudolph Valentino did this Latin-American dance in "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
a tango
Seth
|
$400
[12]
An extinct flying reptile from the Cretaceous Period, it had a wingspan of about 25 feet
a pteranodon
Seth
|
|
$600
[8]
This term for a lawyer who pulls in profits provided the title of a John Grisham book
The Rainmaker
Tom
|
$600
[3]
This pitcher was Rookie of the Year in 1967; he won the Cy Young & a World Series ring in 1969
Seaver
Tom
|
$600
[18]
This philosopher & Sartre convened an intl. war crimes tribunal to publicize U.S. atrocities in Vietnam
Bertrand Russell
Tom
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$600
[25]
They're the climbers seen here
sweet peas
Steve
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$600
[28]
An 18th century dance & a social ball are both called this, from a French word for "petticoat"
a cotillion
Seth
|
$600
[13]
11-letter term describing the era of Jimi Hendrix & Timothy Leary
psychedelia (psychedelic)
Steve
|
|
$800
[9]
"Empire" is nonfiction by Niall Ferguson; this is Richard Russo's novel about small town man Miles Roby
Empire Falls
Tom
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$800
[4]
1956's Rookie of the Year with Cincinnati, he was the first player to be MVP in both the AL & NL
Frank Robinson
Tom
|
$800
[19]
In 1937 this U.S. educator headed an inquiry to hear Trotsky's rebuttal of the Moscow charges against him
John Dewey
|
$800
[26]
This Texas city is the seat of Nolan County
Sweetwater
|
$1,000
[30]
This ballroom dance may have been named for vaudeville comedian Harry
the foxtrot
|
$800
[14]
Any of several grouses of the genus Lagopus, having feathered feet
a ptarmigan
Seth
|
|
$1,000
[10]
In a series set in Africa, a woman named Precious Ramotswe runs this crime-solving outfit
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Tom
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$1,000
[5]
Playing for the New York Mets, he was named the 1983 National League Rookie of the Year
Darryl Strawberry
Tom
Steve
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$1,000
[20]
Thisintellectual known for his concept of the absurd classifies rebels into world deniers and world affirmers
Albert Camus
|
$1,000
[27]
"Albertine Disparue", a volume in this epic work, is sometimes translated as "The Sweet Cheat Gone"
Remembrance of Things Past
Tom
|
DD
$2,100
[29]
Wham's hit "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" mentions this American dance of the 1930s & '40s
the jitterbug
Seth
|
$1,000
[15]
Also called parrot fever, it can be contracted by handling sick parrots, pigeons or poultry
psittacosis
Tom
|
| HEIR OF THE DAG | BIG SCREEN BIOS | YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE | GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY | A WORLD OF POTPOURRI | LINGUA TECHNA |
|
$400
[16]
He succeeded Dag Hammarskjold as U.N. Secretary-General & used a single letter before his name
U Thant
Steve
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$400
[6]
"Great Balls of Fire!"
Jerry Lee Lewis
Seth
|
$400
[1]
This character described himself as having "more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty"
Falstaff
Seth
|
$400
[11]
The first brewery in the New World was opened in 1612 in the city that then had this "Dutch" name
New Amsterdam
Tom
|
$400
[21]
Even the Duchess of Windsor is included on Royalty Row at the Royal London Wax Museum in this B.C. capital
Victoria
Tom
|
$400
[26]
You can't dip them in milk, but these bits of information sent from web servers to browsers sure are sweet
cookies
Seth
|
|
$800
[17]
Born in Ghana in 1938, this U.N. Secretary-General won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2001
Kofi Annan
Steve
|
$800
[7]
"Your Cheatin' Heart"
Hank Williams, Sr.
Steve
|
$800
[2]
About 230 years B.S. (before Shakespeare), Chaucer wrote an 8,000-line poem about this title Homeric pair
Troilus and Criseyde
Seth
|
$800
[12]
His establishment of the St. Louis Refrigerator Car Co. in 1878 enabled his beer to be distributed on a large-scale basis
Busch
Tom
|
$800
[22]
Visit the graves of Mozart's wife & father at this city's St. Sebastian cemetery--but you won't find Mozart with them
Salzburg
Tom
Seth
|
$800
[27]
42.53.508.454 is an example of one of the numbers known by these 2 initials, which are basically web addresses
IP
Seth
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Serving from 1946 to 1952, this Oslo University graduate was the first U.N. Secretary-General
Trygve Lie
|
$1,200
[8]
"Bananas Is My Business"
(Carmen) Miranda
Tom
|
$1,600
[4]
In this comedy featuring a "fantastical Spaniard", 4 guys take a 3-year vow of celibacy & wackiness ensues
Love's Labour's Lost
|
$1,200
[13]
Cheers to Congress for adopting this number amendment in 1933 to deal with a drier former one
21st
Tom
|
$1,200
[23]
Since 1981 Queen Beatrix has lived at Huis Ten Bosch palace in this "court"ly city
The Hague
Steve
|
$1,200
[28]
This adjective that precedes "server" refers to a server that is an intermediary between a user & a client
proxy
|
|
$1,600
[19]
After his term as U.N. Secretary-General he became president of Austria in 1986
(Kurt) Waldheim
Tom
|
$1,600
[9]
"Man of a Thousand Faces"
Lon Chaney, Sr.
Seth
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
After being a 16th C. version of "The Terminator", the title guy buys the farm too at the end of this, Will's 1st tragedy
Titus Andronicus
Seth
|
$1,600
[14]
In the 1890's William Painter invented the top, seen here, whose projections got it this "regal" name
the crown bottlecap
Seth
|
$1,600
[24]
The name of this capital of Senegal comes from a Wolof word for the tamarind tree
Dakar
Tom
|
$1,600
[29]
First developed by Xerox, this local access network technology sounds like a device to catch an anesthetic
an ethernet cable
Tom
|
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
This Secretary-General accompanied Anwar Sadat on his historic trip to Israel in 1977
(Boutros) Boutros-Ghali
Tom
|
$2,000
[10]
"Monster"
Aileen Wuornos
Seth
|
$2,000
[5]
The last of the tragedies, this play deals with the conflict between Rome's patrician & plebeian classes
Coriolanus
|
$2,000
[15]
Inspired by a glass of beer, Donald Glaser made this device in 1952 to track cosmic rays
the bubble chamber
|
$2,000
[25]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew stands with a mariachi band in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.) Add 3 letters to "guitar" to get the name of this bass guitar used in Mexican music
guitarron
Steve
|
$2,000
[30]
Measured in bits per second, it's how much data can be sent through a connection (or the size of a ring)
bandwidth
|
She survived the President by 39 years & was married to an archaeology professor at the time of her own death in 1947
Frances Folsom Cleveland