2000 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.From the Atlanta Civic Center.
Carolyn Cracraft — a college senior from Chicago, Illinois
Steve Fried — a technical support specialist from Phoenix, Arizona
Michael Rooney — a college instructor from Pasadena, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | $-1,100 | $1,500 | $9,000 |
$199
3rd place: $5,000 |
$5,300
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Steve | $900 | $2,100 | $8,900 |
$8,199
Finalist |
$7,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Carolyn | $2,000 | $2,400 | $4,800 |
$4,800
2nd place: $5,000 |
$4,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| ANIMALS | GEORGIA SONGS | BEGINS & ENDS IN "H" | CHESS NUTS | BOASTING | ON AN OPEN FIRE |
|
$100
[2]
All but one of the domesticated breeds of this animal are derived from the mallard
Duck
Michael
|
$100
[30]
On March 7, 1979 Ray Charles appeared before a joint session of the Georgia legislature to perform this song
"Georgia On My Mind"
Michael
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$100
[13]
To tie temporarily, like a horse to a post
Hitch
Michael
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$100
[20]
Neither player wins with this kind of "mate"
Stalemate
Steve
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$100
[9]
This champion boasted, "They all will fall in the round I call" & "It ain't braggin' if you can do it"
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
Steve
|
$100
[28]
Backyard BBQ season starts on the weekend of this holiday, the last Monday in May
Memorial Day
Michael
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|
$200
[4]
The screech type of this creature may make its nest in a Saguaro cactus
Owl
Carolyn
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$200
[29]
A few days before his death in 1967 he recorded the lines, "I left my home in Georgia headed for the 'Frisco bay"
Otis Redding ("Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay")
Michael
|
$200
[14]
An opening in the deck of a ship for senator Orrin to pass through
Hatch
Carolyn
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$200
[19]
The only chess move in which a player may move 2 of his own pieces at the same time
Castling
Michael
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$200
[8]
In his 1964 State of the Union he said, responding to Khrushchev's boast, "We do not intend to be buried"
Lyndon Johnson
Carolyn
|
$200
[27]
A survey by the Barbecue Industry Association showed most U.S. backyard grills use these 2 fuel types
Coal & propane
Carolyn
|
|
$300
[5]
The Weddell species of this animal can stay underwater for over an hour
Seal
Michael
Steve
|
$300
[24]
This No. 1 hit by Vicki Lawrence was written by her then-husband Bobby Russell
"The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia"
Steve
|
$300
[15]
Condiment seen here before being ground for use:
Horseradish
Michael
|
$300
[18]
In chess notation, QR stands for this
Queen side rook
Michael
|
$300
[10]
In 1990 he boasted that if attacked, he would turn the Saudi oil fields into "A sea of fire"
Saddam Hussein
Carolyn
|
$300
[23]
In 1620 perhaps the first good meal the Pilgrims had was a barbecued meleagris gallopovo, one of these birds
Turkey
Steve
|
|
$400
[6]
Similar to a wattle, it's the throat flap of Zebu cattle or the mole anole lizard
Dewlap
|
$400
[25]
A boy named Johnny wins an important fiddlin' contest in this 1979 story song
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
|
$400
[3]
The "H" of the 4-H Club that fits the category
Health
Carolyn
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$400
[17]
A special way a pawn may capture, it's French for "in passing"
en passant
Michael
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$400
[11]
In a fairy tale, The Brave Little Tailor boasted he killed 7 with one blow! The town thought he meant men; he meant these
Flies
Michael
|
$400
[22]
No. 10 of his "Top Ten Signs You're At A Bad Barbecue" list is "Everything on the grill has a long thin tail"
David Letterman
Michael
|
|
$500
[7]
Dingoes go after these burrowing marsupials that come in a common & a hairy-nosed type
Wombats
Michael
|
$500
[26]
This Gladys Knight hit begins, "L.A. proved too much for the man, so he's leavin' the life he's come to know"
"Midnight Train To Georgia"
Steve
|
$500
[16]
Buffy's TV town of Sunnydale sits atop it
Hellmouth
|
$500
[1]
Bobby Fischer beat this man in Iceland in 1972 to take the world chess title
Boris Spassky
Steve
|
DD
$900
[12]
A turn of the century boast went "Nothing on Earth can hold" this performer "a prisoner"
Harry Houdini
Carolyn
|
$500
[21]
A cheeseburger wouldn't be complete without the processed "American" cheese he introduced in 1915
James Kraft
Michael
|
| SOUTHERN LIT | HE DIRECTED THAT? | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | I SENSE A THEME | MUSIC APPRECIATION | MATH VOCABULARY |
|
$200
[23]
This play's setting is "A two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields"
A Streetcar Named Desire
Steve
|
$200
[7]
Liza's dad, he directed 1950's "Father Of The Bride"
Vincente Minnelli
Steve
|
$200
[15]
My oh Maya! It's the most populous country in Central America
Guatemala
Michael
|
$200
[30]
You can "ride the movies" at this film company's Hollywood theme park
Universal Studios
Steve
|
$200
[25]
He composed an "Irish Symphony" a few years before he teamed up with W.S. Gilbert
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Steve
|
$200
[21]
The second power of a number; or an old-fashioned, unhip person
Square
Carolyn
|
|
$400
[22]
The title of this novel about Mississippi's Compson family comes from a line in Act V of "Macbeth"
The Sound And The Fury
Michael
|
$400
[6]
In 1992 this diminutive funny man went behind the camera for the not-so-funny "Hoffa"
Danny DeVito
Carolyn
|
$400
[14]
It was once known as Southern Rhodesia, then just as Rhodesia
Zimbabwe
Carolyn
|
$400
[29]
You may see Shamu the killer whale at one of these parks in San Diego, Orlando, Cleveland or San Antonio
SeaWorld
Steve
|
$400
[24]
This "Bolero" composer based his "Mother Goose" suite on fairy tales by Charles Perrault
Maurice Ravel
Carolyn
|
$400
[17]
An angle that is less than a right angle; or sharp & severe
Acute
Michael
Steve
|
|
$800
[19]
This author of "The Civil War: A Narrative" appears in Ken Burns' TV documentary on the subject
Shelby Foote
|
$600
[5]
His big screen version of "Annie" came more than 40 years after "The Maltese Falcon"
John Huston
Michael
|
$600
[12]
It was formerly Northern Rhodesia
Zambia
Michael
Carolyn
|
$600
[28]
At one of these restaurants, you can get a Die Hard Daiquiri, a Cliffhanger or a Mr. Freeze's Margarita
Planet Hollywood
Steve
|
$800
[9]
This German composed the "Sailors' Chorus" heard here:
Richard Wagner (from The Flying Dutchman )
|
$600
[16]
The sum of x numbers divided by x; or typical, common or ordinary
Average
Carolyn
|
|
$1,000
[18]
She's written about the South in such books as "Delta Wedding" & "The Optimist's Daughter"
Eudora Welty
|
$800
[3]
He directed Goldie Hawn in "Swing Shift" before shifting to films like "The Silence Of The Lambs"
Jonathan Demme
Steve
|
$800
[11]
The George Cross, awarded for bravery in World War II, appears on this island country's flag, seen here:
Malta
Steve
|
$800
[27]
For the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta this chain of music clubs ran a temporary venue in a Baptist tabernacle
House of Blues
|
$1,000
[8]
This musical direction, Italian for "lively", is also the title of a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
Allegro
Steve
|
$800
[2]
Point (0,0) on a graph; or the beginning
Origin
Steve
|
|
DD
$4,300
[20]
This novel begins, "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"
To Kill A Mockingbird
Michael
|
$1,000
[4]
One of Francis Ford Coppola's early films was this musical about a leprechaun & a stolen pot of gold
Finian's Rainbow
|
$1,000
[13]
You're on a roll if you know that Bialystock is one of this country's largest provinces
Poland
Carolyn
|
$1,000
[26]
Diana Ross & Boyz II Men are among the celebrity investors in this restaurant chain
Motown Cafe
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
In the late 1950s he became the first U.S.-born conductor to head the New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein
Steve
|
$1,000
[1]
The instantaneous rate of change of a function; or not original, adapted from others
Derivative
Michael
|
In Homer, Athena takes the form of this old friend of Odysseus to advise Odysseus' young son
Mentor