Show #4709 2005-02-10 (taped 2005-01-31) Tournament of Champions

2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1, game 2.

Contestants

John Genova — a teacher from Granada Hills, California

Rachael Schwartz — a lawyer from Washington, D.C.

Michael Rankins — a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $1,800 $8,600 $20,400 $31,601
Winner: $31,601 + an advance to UToC Round 2
$16,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Rachael $3,000 $5,600 $15,800 $20,600
2nd place: $5,000
$17,200
25 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
John $-400 $0 $400 $800
3rd place: $5,000
$400
5 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

PENN. NAMES BROADWAY TRADITIONS OH, SHOOT! ADVERTISING SLOGANS AUTUMN LEAVES FROM D TO SHINING D
$200 [2]
Born in Springdale in 1907, she would later warn us about the effects of pesticides on the environment
Rachel Carson
Rachael
$200 [11]
Many an actor has browsed through plays at the Drama Book Shop, which moved from this square to W. 40th St. in 2001
Times Square
Rachael
$200 [20]
A popular merit badge this organization gives is for cartridge, air or muzzle-loading rifle shooting
the Boy Scouts
Rachael
$200 [1]
This product "gets the red out"
Visine
Rachael
$200 [30]
Though he died near Louisville in Autumn 1980, this honorary colonel still leaves a good taste in our mouths
Colonel Sanders
Rachael
$200 [15]
This German dog breed has short legs & a long body
a Dachshund
Rachael
$400 [3]
In 1903 he began building what is now the world's largest chocolate manufacturing plant
(Milton) Hershey
Michael
$400 [12]
These distinctive-looking programs have been given out in Broadway theatres since 1884
Playbill
Rachael
$400 [21]
Wiping off where you've been shot is considered cheating in this sport where you capture the flag
paintball
Michael
$400 [4]
"Like a rock"
Chevy
Rachael
$400 [29]
October 1972:This ballplayer leaves the epitaph "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives"
Jackie Robinson
Michael
$400 [16]
Some have found "Paradise" by the light of this car instrument panel
dashboard
Michael
$600 [5]
As its governor from 1995 to 2001, he kept his home state of Pennsylvania secure
Tom Ridge
Michael
$600 [13]
Talk about "Tradition": In 2004 Alfred Molina starred in the fourth Broadway revival of this musical
Fiddler on the Roof
Rachael
$600 [22]
This type of gun is used by police on speeders as well as by baseball coaches on their pitchers
a radar gun
Rachael John
$600 [6]
"Always low prices. Always"
Wal-Mart
John
$600 [28]
October 1964:His death at age 90 leaves Eisenhower & Truman as the only living ex-presidents
Herbert Hoover
$600 [17]
In 2003 Microsoft paid one of these to stockholders for the first time
a dividend
Rachael
$800 [9]
If you know that this man with a plan hailed from Uniontown, Pennsylvania, you deserve 5 stars
(George) Marshall
Rachael
$800 [14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands onstage in the Golden Theatre in New York wearing a motley raiment.) On a Broadway musical's opening night, the Gypsy Robe is presented to a chorus member by this actor's union
Equity
Michael
$800 [23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gets some help from Jimmy in the mountains of Montana.) Unlike skeet, where the clays go side to side, I'mdoing this type of shooting, which sends the clays straight out--pull!"Whoa!"
trapshooting
Michael
$800 [7]
"Expect more, pay less"
Target
$1,000 [26]
November 2001:This musician leaves a son, Dhani
George Harrison
$800 [18]
When Homer Simpson became a heretic, he said, "Don't worry... if I'm wrong, I'll recant on my" this
deathbed
Michael
$1,000 [10]
By the time he became Treasury Secretary in 1921, this financier was one of the richest men in America
Andrew Mellon
$1,000 [25]
Broadway's lights are dimmed to honor late, great luminaries, such as this lyricist partner of John Kander
Fred Ebb
Michael
$1,000 [24]
This Olympic event, from words meaning "two contests", first began as a sport in the late 1700s
the biathlon
Rachael
$1,000 [8]
"For styles that defy gravity"
Giga Hold
John
DD $3,000 [27]
Autumn 1893:This composer's death in St. Petersburg leaves rumors of suicide
Tchaikovsky
Michael
$1,000 [19]
A partly divine, partly human mythological being
a demigod
John

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASIAN CAPITALS TALKING HEADS LITERARY LITERARY CHARACTERS INVENTORS ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, MINERALS FILL IN THE ____
$400 [13]
Inchon, about 20 miles to the southwest, is this capital's seaport
Seoul
Rachael John
$400 [6]
Todaysheinterviews stars; she met many as the daughter of a New York City nightclub owner
Barbara Walters
Rachael
$400 [7]
Stephen Daedalus is the writer hero of this Joycean "Portrait"
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Rachael
$400 [18]
In 1891 he devised the kinetoscope, a device you looked into to watch moving pictures
Edison
Rachael
$400 [26]
Canis lupus is the scientific name for the gray one of these
a wolf
John
$400 [1]
In courtship:On bended ____
knee
John
$800 [14]
The name of this capital of Bangladesh may derive from that of a tree once common in the area
Dhaka
Rachael
$800 [9]
He's the best-selling Limbaugh nemesis seen here
Al Franken
Rachael
$800 [8]
Philip Jose Farmer wrote a novel under the name of this sci-fi writer invented by Kurt Vonnegut
Kilgore Trout
Michael
$800 [19]
In the 1930s, using fused silica & silicones, J. Franklin Hyde found the first new way to make this in 3,000 years
glass
Rachael
$800 [27]
This white legume has long been a staple of a branch of the armed forces, hence its name
the navy bean
Michael
$800 [2]
On court:____-and-volley
serve
Rachael
$1,200 [15]
In 1776, during the reign of Timur Shah, the Durrani rulers moved their capital from Kandahar to this city
Kabul
Michael Rachael
$1,200 [21]
He's the hard-hitting news honcho seen here
Chris Matthews
Michael
$1,200 [10]
In this Russian-American's "Pale Fire", John Shade is the late author of a 999-line poem
Vladimir Nabokov
$1,200 [20]
The home of this inventor in Rochester, N.Y. is now an international museum of film & photography
Eastman
Michael
$1,200 [28]
The reptile family Helodermatidae consists of only 2 members, the Mexican beaded lizard & this poisonous guy
the Gila monster
Michael
$1,200 [3]
At court:Lady-in-____
waiting
Michael
DD $1,400 [16]
On Jan. 6, 2005 an international summit on tsunami relief opened in this city
Jakarta
Rachael
$1,600 [22]
Bow ties & bold talk characterize this newscaster & commentator
Tucker Carlson
Rachael
$1,600 [11]
He's Philip Roth's novelist alter ego in books like him "Unbound"
Zuckerman
Rachael
$1,600 [24]
On December 12, 1901 he received the letter "S" in Morse code via transatlantic wireless telegraphy
Marconi
$2,000 [30]
Verona & Treviso are varieties of this bitter, red-leafed salad green
radicchio
Rachael
$1,600 [4]
To the food court!:____ Caesars
Little
Michael
$2,000 [17]
This capital's famous avenue on the waterfront, Roxas Boulevard, was once known as Dewey Boulevard
Manila (in the Philippines)
Rachael
$2,000 [23]
Thisformer deputy director of the Peace Corps has won more than 30 Emmy awards
Bill Moyers
Michael
$2,000 [12]
Writer Philip Quarles in "Point Counter Point" is a self-portrait by this author
Aldous Huxley
$2,000 [25]
His company began in 1903 with the sale of 51 safety razors & 168 blades
(King) Gillette
John
DD $3,000 [29]
Used in watches, it's the most common piezoelectric crystal
quartz
Michael
$2,000 [5]
In the courtyard:Pigeon, aka rock ____
dove
John

Final Jeopardy!

LEGAL TERMS

Innuendo is what a plaintiff must demonstrate in order to prove the commission of this

slander (or libel or defamation)

John "What is slander" — wagered $400
Rachael "What is defamation?" — wagered $4,800
Michael "What is slander?" — wagered $11,201

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