2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1, game 1.
Eric Terzuolo — a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
Michael Galvin — a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
Leslie Frates — a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leslie | $1,600 | $5,200 | $9,900 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$14,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $800 | $2,600 | $8,600 |
$10,600
2nd place: $5,000 |
$8,600
14 R, 2 W |
| Eric | $2,600 | $6,200 | $15,000 |
$19,801
Winner: $19,801 + an advance to UToC Round 2 |
$15,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| GOOD CONDUCTORS | MOVIE MISSING LINKS | IN THE NEWS 2005 | EAT YOUR VEGETABLES! | ADVICE | CLEANING YOUR "CLOCK" |
|
$200
[2]
Copper's conductivity & cost make it the most common metal for the rod that guides this to the ground
lightning
Michael
|
$200
[25]
Free____Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Willy
Leslie
|
$200
[7]
We wonder if the woman seenhereis reacting to the Jan. 7 announcement of their breakup
Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt
Michael
|
$200
[21]
Catherine de Medici was a lover of this food eaten by scraping the leaves with your teeth
an artichoke
Michael
|
$200
[14]
As even old Aristotle once rhymed, "Well begun is half" this
done
Leslie
|
$200
[1]
Be prepared to break out the baby wipes if this innate mechanism in your wife's body is still "ticking"
her biological clock
Eric
|
|
$400
[3]
Not as good a conductor as copper but a lot cheaper, it's the default metal for U.S. high-voltage power lines
aluminum
|
$400
[27]
A Time to____Bill
Kill
Leslie
|
$400
[8]
Israeli PM Sharon formed a new government to carry out his plan to dismantle all settlements in this area
the Gaza Strip
Michael
|
$400
[22]
The cross called celtuce combines the taste thrill of these two vegetables
celery & lettuce
Leslie
|
$400
[15]
This type of "contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" is attributed to Sam Goldwyn
a verbal contract (oral contract accepted)
Michael
|
$400
[10]
Stubble on a man's face in the late afternoon, if he shaved in the morning
a five o'clock shadow
Leslie
|
|
$600
[4]
This metal is the gold standard of electrical conductivity among metals
silver
Eric
|
$600
[28]
The Ugly____Beauty
American
Michael
|
$600
[9]
This ailing 80-year-old got a standing ovation for appearing at the inauguration
Chief Justice Rehnquist
Leslie
|
$600
[23]
They make up the genus Beta
beets
Leslie
Michael
|
$600
[16]
Will Rogers said, "We can't all be" these, "because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by"
heroes
|
$600
[11]
A large pendulum clock having a long, upright case usually taller than 6 1/2 feet
a grandfather clock
Leslie
|
|
DD
$800
[5]
This form of carbon used in fishing rods is a good conductor--so cast with care around power lines
graphite
Eric
|
$800
[29]
Lost in____Jam
Space
Leslie
Eric
|
$800
[17]
Bill Gates is giving $750 million to this type of health program, & Norway is giving $290 million
immunization
Michael
|
$800
[24]
Each of the plantsseenhereyields dozens of these veggies
Brussels sprouts
Eric
|
$800
[19]
In it's first installment, this successor column to Ann Landers said it's ok to charge your lazy son rent
Ask Amy
Michael
|
$800
[12]
This 1962 novel was partly inspired by an assault on author Anthony Burgess' pregnant wife
A Clockwork Orange
Leslie
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Water's conductivity comes from these particles, like positive sodium ones & negative chlorine ones
ions
Eric
|
$1,000
[30]
The Morning____Hours
After
Eric
|
$1,000
[18]
This state's governor Gregoire was sworn in after a hand recount gave her a 129-vote edge
Washington
Leslie
|
$1,000
[26]
Snow Crown, a popular variety of this veggie, has a pure white head
cauliflower
Leslie
|
$1,000
[20]
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be" was this character's advice to his son
Polonius
Leslie
|
$1,000
[13]
The most recent of these devices can achieve accuracy to within about 1 second in every 3 million years
an atomic clock
Eric
|
| GREAT CONDUCTORS | COLE MINING | WHERE AM I? | JAPANESE AMERICANS | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S" | CLICHES IN OTHER WORDS... |
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$400
[6]
This conductor "and the Pittsburgh (Symphony)" was a popular public TV series in the '70s
André Previn
Eric
|
$400
[1]
Nursery rhyme monarch who was a merry old soul
Old King Cole
Leslie
|
$400
[19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Truman's Presidential Library.) I'm here in the actual office Harry Truman worked in from 1957-1966 at his presidential library in this city
Independence
Leslie
|
$400
[11]
L.A. trial judge Lance
Ito
Leslie
|
$400
[4]
14-line poem that may be Petrarchan(6)
a sonnet
Michael
|
$400
[26]
Snap one lower extremity!
Break a leg!
Leslie
Michael
|
|
$800
[7]
He's seenherein a typically passionate moment
Leonard Bernstein
Eric
|
$800
[2]
Her biggest hits include 1997's "I Don't Want To Wait"
Paula Cole
Leslie
|
$800
[20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a national park.) I'm in America's first national park in this state that also had our first national monument & national forest
Wyoming
Leslie
|
$800
[15]
Later to win Olympic gold, she won her first World Figure Skating Championship in 1991
Kristi Yamaguchi
Leslie
|
$800
[5]
Erle Gardner's middle name(7)
Stanley
Eric
|
$800
[27]
Clothed for committinghomicide
dressed to kill
Leslie
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Conductor Georg Solti had a long tenure with the Chicago Symphony; George Szell, with this Great Lakes city's orchestra
Cleveland
Leslie
|
$1,200
[3]
On the small screen he starred in "Midnight Caller"; on the big screen he was Mike Brady
Gary Cole
Michael
|
$1,200
[21]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a city square.) I'm in this city that was co-capital of the Colony & State of Connecticut 1701-1875
New Haven
|
$1,200
[16]
Series regular who played a crewman on the original "Star Trek"
George Takei
Michael
|
$1,600
[13]
Title age for a Tarkington lad(9)
seventeen
|
$1,200
[28]
Annoy a fellow the same height as thee
pick on somebody your own size
Eric
|
|
$2,000
[10]
The first British music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, his last name is also a noise
Simon Rattle
Michael
|
$1,600
[24]
"Love For Sale" is one of the standards he wrote
Cole Porter
Leslie
|
$1,600
[22]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a field of a certain cereal crop.) I'm the area known by this agricultural name, stretching from Nebraska to Ohio, & Minnesota to Missouri
the Corn Belt
Michael
|
$1,600
[17]
U.S. Army Chief of Staff 1999-2003
(General) Shinseki
Eric
|
$2,000
[14]
British biographer Lytton(8)
Strachey
Eric
|
$1,600
[29]
One single avian present equals multiples perching amongst foliage
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Michael
|
|
DD
$3,500
[9]
He studied medicine at St. Xavier's College in India before becoming a conductor
Zubin Mehta
Leslie
|
$2,000
[25]
A member of Jesse James' outlaw gang
Cole Younger
Eric
|
$2,000
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a Navy yard.) I'm at the U.S. Navy'sbiggest West Coast base of operations, in this city
San Diego
Leslie
|
$2,000
[18]
Shuttle astronaut onboard the "Challenger"
Ellison Onizuka
Leslie
|
DD
$6,000
[12]
What "Requiem for a Nun" is to "Sanctuary"(6)
a sequel
Leslie
|
$2,000
[30]
"Carmen" remains unfinished up to the time a beefy broad belts out a ditty
the opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
Leslie
|
With 5, this president had more attorneys general in his administration than any other president
Ulysses S. Grant