2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 3.
Vinita Kailasanath — a recent college graduate originally from Laurel, Maryland
Scott Renzoni — a bartender and actor from Burlington, Vermont
John Beck — an associate creative director from Torrance, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $2,800 | $2,400 | $5,600 |
$599
3rd place: $5,000 |
$5,600
12 R, 5 W |
| Renzo | $2,000 | $3,200 | $11,000 |
$2,000
2nd place: $5,000 |
$14,000
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Vinita | $1,600 | $3,800 | $10,600 |
$10,200
Automatic semifinalist |
$10,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| AROUND THE CELL | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY | MONEY, MONEY, MONEY | I'VE GOT SUPERNATURAL POWERS | THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! | GAME OVER |
|
$200
[3]
The person you share your space with can be your cellie or, based on the type of bed you sleep on, this word
your bunkie
Renzo
|
$200
[14]
Tell the theater troupe it's a single toss of a fisherman's line & bait
a cast
Renzo
|
$200
[26]
In 1792 Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized the construction of a mint in this city
Philadelphia
John
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$200
[30]
Hanuman, a monkey god of this religion, sometimes has 5 heads
Hinduism
Vinita
|
$200
[12]
Things were grave indeed when Patricia Clarkson picked up an Emmy in 2002 for guest-starring on this HBO show
Six Feet Under
Vinita
|
$200
[11]
Your fighter, thief & wizard split the treasure & calculate their experience in this role-playing game created in 1974
Dungeons & Dragons
Renzo
|
|
$400
[4]
It's the period when prisoners are restricted to cells after a disturbance
lockdown
John
|
$400
[18]
You might be enticed by this general name for any artificial bait used to attract fish
a lure
Vinita
|
$400
[25]
He's the only Civil War general currently depicted on U.S. money
Grant
Renzo
|
$400
[1]
A Scottish breed of cow shares its name with this Celtic god of love whose kisses become birds
Angus
|
$400
[13]
(Hi. I'm LeVar Burton, and) In 1999 I won a Grammy for narrating "The Autobiography of" this winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
$400
[2]
You caught the ball & got tensies, which makes you the winner at this game
jacks
Vinita
|
|
$600
[5]
It's the common (printable) 4-letter term for a solitary confinement cell
the hole
Renzo
|
$600
[19]
By gum, it's a fishing spear with a 3-pronged point
a trident
Renzo
|
$600
[24]
Did you notice? In 2003 a new version of this note was introduced using background colors of green, blue & peach
the $20
Renzo
|
$600
[27]
This Semitic mother goddess can make the heavens & earth tremble (& film critics wince)
Ishtar
John
|
$600
[15]
Talk about a super Mario! He won more than 50 Indy car races before he retired in 1994
Mario Andretti
Renzo
|
$600
[8]
Created in 1981, this video game character's life ends when you hear thefollowingsound
Pac-Man
John
|
|
$800
[6]
Hot Kansas summers & no A/C in the cells got this federal prison its nickname "The Hot House"
Leavenworth
Renzo
|
$800
[20]
Hey, good buddy, it's ground-up bits of bait discarded into the water to attract game fish
chum
Vinita
|
$800
[22]
Discontinued in 1969, the $100,000 bill featured the portrait of this Democratic president
Woodrow Wilson
John
|
$800
[28]
The Greek goddess of justice, she can turn herself into animals & also be your worst enemy
Nemesis
Vinita
|
$800
[16]
(Hi, I'm Gretchen Carlson of the CBSSaturday Early Show.) You could say it was my "crowning" moment when I became the 1st classical violinist to win this national title
Miss America
|
$800
[9]
This rough-house recess game ends when the last opposing player fails to do what the name of the game suggests
dodgeball
John
|
|
$1,000
[7]
If you mark off each day on the wall, & you serve exactly 40% of a 5-year sentence, you end up with this many marks
730 (or 731)
John
|
DD
$1,000
[21]
It might be a social blunder to use one of these long poles with a hook on the end to land large fish
a gaff
Vinita
|
$1,000
[23]
In 2004 a new version of this coin depicted the peace medal Lewis & Clark gave to Indians during their exploration
a nickel
Vinita
|
$1,000
[29]
The Greek goddess of magic & Shakespeare's queen of the witches, she can make cows fat or skinny
Hecate
John
Renzo
|
$1,000
[17]
The epic in Stephen Vincent Benet's body of work that won him a 1929 Pulitzer
John Brown's Body
John
|
$1,000
[10]
You've spoken to Atrus on D'ni so put your mouse down & eject this computer game
Myst
Vinita
|
| AROUND THE CELL | MOVIE MUSICALS | METER MAIDS | A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF HERBERT HOOVER | DESPOTPOURRI | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS |
|
$400
[13]
6 elements make up 99% of a cell's weight: carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur & these familiar 2
hydrogen & oxygen
John
|
$400
[5]
This 2002 flick earned Oscar nominations for Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chicago
John
|
$400
[21]
Her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" ends, "And say simply very simply with hope good morning"
Maya Angelou
Renzo
|
$400
[26]
In 1928 Hoover won 444-87 in the Electoral College over Al Smith & his "Strange Interlude" opened in New York
(Eugene) O'Neill
John
Vinita
|
$400
[16]
This "Scourge of God" despot is referred to in the "Volsunga Saga" as Atli
Attila (the Hun)
Vinita
|
$400
[15]
Although it sounds like it has something to do with a Southern peanut, it really pertains to Pataki or Jeb
gubernatorial
Vinita
|
|
$800
[12]
The synthesizers called ribosomes are about 50% protein &, as you might guess, 50% this substance
RNA
John
Vinita
|
$800
[4]
"Hello, Gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first line in this musical, her first film
Funny Girl
|
$800
[22]
Her "Aurora Leigh" is "a poem in nine books"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
|
$800
[27]
In 1932 Hoover lost 472-59 in the Electoral College to FDR & the Cubs got swept by this team in the World Series
the Yankees
|
$800
[17]
After an anti-Roman uprising in 40 B.C., this despot fled to Rome, where the Senate elected him King of Judea
Herod (the Great)
Renzo
|
$800
[6]
Though it may sound like a laughing beer, it's really a hubbub, maybe in a pub, bub
a brouhaha
|
|
$1,600
[9]
By this process, water moves through cellular membranes to equalize pressure
osmosis
Vinita
|
$1,200
[1]
Donald O'Connor "made 'em laugh" in one of this 1952 movie's most famous numbers
Singin' in the Rain
John
|
$1,200
[23]
This lady from an old New England family wrote "A Lady", which says, "You are beautiful and faded, like an old opera tune"
(Amy) Lowell
Renzo
|
$1,200
[28]
Hoover was born in 1874, the year this man began his second stint as Britain's P.M.
Disraeli
John
Vinita
|
$1,200
[18]
His attempt to escape Bucharest by helicopter failed in 1989, & after a tribunal he & his wife Elena were shot
Ceaușescu
Renzo
|
$1,200
[7]
Meaning to throw out of a window, this term gained fame after a 1618incident in Prague where 2 officials were so thrown
defenestration
Vinita
|
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew motions to a diagram on a chalkboard.) During cell division, structures called spindles attach theseto one end of the cell
chromosomes
Vinita
|
$1,600
[2]
In this musical Western, Clint Eastwood sings "I Still See Elisa" & "I Talk To The Trees"
Paint Your Wagon
Renzo
|
$1,600
[24]
This American poet titled her 1960 collection "To Bedlam and Part Way Back"
Anne Sexton
Renzo
Vinita
|
$1,600
[29]
1929 wasn't so hot for Hoover but it was for architecture; this Disney Hall designer was born on Feb. 28
(Frank) Gehry
John
|
$2,000
[20]
This advisor to Ivan the Terrible was elected czar after the death of the Czarevich Fyodor
Boris Godunov
|
$1,600
[8]
Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was a demon's name & mentioned in "King Lear"
flibbertigibbet
|
|
$2,000
[11]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a cell at a chalkboard.) Though its name is from the Latin for "empty", this cavity in a plant cell holds a solution that's important for life
a vacuole
Vinita
|
$2,000
[3]
In 1967 Tommy Steele starred in back-to-back musicals: "The Happiest Millionaire" & this "monetary" one
Half a Sixpence
|
$2,000
[25]
Her best-known poem says, "I was much further out than you thought and not waving but drowning"
Stevie Smith
John
|
$2,000
[30]
Hoover died in October 1964, 6 months after this famous American faded away
(Douglas) MacArthur
Renzo
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
Crazed with grief when his mother died in 1827, this African warrior chief forbade the drinking of milk
Shaka Zulu
Renzo
|
$2,000
[14]
Sigmund knows that this is from the German for "damage" & "joy" & I'm getting a certain amount of it right now
schadenfreude
Renzo
|
Leo Tolstoy's story about Hadji Murat, "who slew the Russian swine", opens in this present-day Russian republic
Chechnya