Show #4708 2005-02-09 (taped 2005-01-31) Tournament of Champions

2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1, game 1.

Contestants

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

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

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

Double Jeopardy! Round

GREAT CONDUCTORS COLE MINING WHERE AM I? JAPANESE AMERICANS LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S" CLICHES IN OTHER WORDS...
$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

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS

With 5, this president had more attorneys general in his administration than any other president

Ulysses S. Grant

Michael "Who is Ulysses S. Grant" — wagered $2,000
Leslie "who was LIncoln?" — wagered $9,900
Eric "Who was Grant?" — wagered $4,801

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