2001 International Championship semifinal game 1.From the Las Vegas Hilton.
Carsten Wiedemann — a journalist from Hellerup, Denmark
Sharon Eshel — a graduate student from Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel
Yuri Bershidski — a television producer from Moscow, Russia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yuri | $900 | $2,800 | $9,600 |
$19,100
2nd place: $5,000 |
$8,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Sharon | $300 | $1,000 | $1,400 |
$2,800
3rd place: $5,000 |
$1,400
8 R, 2 W |
| Carsten! | $2,300 | $2,700 | $10,600 |
$19,600
Finalist |
$6,400
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| AFRICAN CITIES | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE | IN GOD'S NAME | JULIO IGLESIAS | THE WORLD IN 1901 | 4-LETTER WORDS |
|
$100
[5]
Tourbooks suggest shopping for baskets on Muindi Mbingu Street in this Kenyan capital
Nairobi
Carsten!
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$100
[1]
Kulcha, nan & paratha are types of this from India & a Hindi knows which side his is buttered on
Bread
Sharon
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$100
[21]
This chief Norse god gave one of his own eyes to the giant Mimir for a drink from the Fountain of Wisdom
Odin
Yuri
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$100
[26]
Julio's 77th album, released in 2000, has 2 songs about this body part, "Corazon Partio" & "Dos Corazones, Dos Historias"
Heart
Carsten!
|
$100
[10]
In 2000 the state of Alabama voted to end a 1901 ban on this type of marriage
Interracial marriage
|
$100
[16]
Spanish for "few" or the '70s group that sang "Crazy Love"
Poco
|
|
$200
[6]
This capital city's Grand Palace was once home to Haile Selassie
Addis Ababa
Yuri
|
$200
[2]
A type of this is the queso in a quesadilla
Cheese
Yuri
|
$200
[22]
Counted among this ancient people's gods were Khonsu, Amon & Ptah
Egyptians
Sharon
|
$200
[27]
Born in 1975, this son of Julio's has become a singing superstar too
Enrique Iglesias
Yuri
|
$200
[11]
These "wild" South Africans carried on their war with guerrilla actions against the British
Boers
Sharon
|
$200
[17]
Miss Te Kanawa should know this means "left" in Java
Kiri
Yuri
|
|
$300
[7]
Founded in 332 B.C., this port city was designed by Dinocrates, architect to Alexander the Great
Alexandria
Carsten!
|
$300
[3]
It's the type of pastry dough you use when you whip up some Greek floyeres
Phyllo
|
$300
[23]
Name of the passionate pipe-playing god portrayed here
Pan
Carsten!
|
$300
[28]
On the 1984 hit "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", Julio duetted with this U.S. country music star
Willie Nelson
Carsten!
|
$300
[12]
On Jan. 22, 1901 the Prince of Wales succeeded to the English throne as this king
Edward VII
Carsten!
|
$300
[18]
Dash it, it's German for "dog"
Hund
Carsten!
|
|
$400
[8]
Sudan's national museum is in this capital city
Khartoum
Carsten!
|
$400
[4]
To make this classic German-named dish, pound a veal cutlet, coat it with crumbs, then brown it in fat
Wiener schnitzel
Carsten!
|
$400
[24]
As the Aztec god of this, Huitzilopochtli must have been "hot" stuff
Sun
Sharon
|
$400
[29]
"La Cumparsita" is found on Julio's album named for this South American dance
Tango
Yuri
|
$400
[13]
Emil von Behring won the first Nobel Prize for Medicine with a serum against this "d"isease, a common killer
Diphtheria
|
$400
[19]
Consisting of 2 4-letter words, this French phrase on a menu means there is a set cost for a meal
Prix fixe
Sharon
|
|
DD
$800
[9]
It's the oldest of Morocco's imperial cities, & a fine place to shop for a hat
Fez
Carsten!
|
$500
[15]
This beef & sour cream dish is named for a Russian count
Beef Stroganoff
Sharon
|
$500
[25]
We're not sure, but this wing-footed Roman god of commerce might be liquid at room temperature
Mercury
Yuri
|
— |
$500
[14]
The world's most productive oil field was in the area of this city, now the capital of Azerbaijan
Baku
Yuri
|
$500
[20]
This founder of analytical psychology will never get old
Carl Jung
Yuri
|
| LITERATURE | THE PRESIDENT WHO... | TROPICANA | OPERA | 20th CENTURY WOMEN | ART & ARTISTS |
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$200
[1]
Polish-born Jerzy Kosinski wrote all of his novels, including "Being There" in this, his adopted language
English
Yuri
|
$200
[26]
...who was barred from a third term as Serbian president; in 1997 was made president of Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milosevic
Carsten!
|
$200
[7]
This popular tropical fruit was named for its resemblance to a pine cone
Pineapple
Sharon
|
$200
[2]
Characters in this Bizet opera include a toreador, a gypsy girl & cigarette factory girls
Carmen
Yuri
|
$200
[21]
In 1968 this widow of a U.S. president married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Yuri
|
$200
[16]
"Red Vineyard at Arles" was possibly the only painting this Dutchman sold during his lifetime
Vincent van Gogh
Carsten!
|
|
$400
[12]
She based the characters of Anne & Robert in her novel "The Mandarins" on herself & Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Yuri
|
$400
[27]
...who became the first popularly elected head of this island in 1996, Lee Teng-hui, is a Taipei personality
Taiwan
Carsten!
|
$400
[8]
This tropical island has roads linking Port Antonio, Montego Bay & Kingston
Jamaica
Yuri
|
$400
[3]
This Austrian composer didn't complete his operas "Adrast" & "Sakuntala"; he left a symphony "unfinished", too
Franz Schubert
Carsten!
|
$400
[22]
Less than a week after Princess Diana died, the world mourned the death of this beloved nun in India
Mother Teresa
Sharon
|
$400
[17]
A famous Rembrandt painting shows "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of" this ancient poet
Homer
|
|
$600
[13]
It's the native country of Flora Nwapa, who wrote "This is Lagos, and Other Stories"
Nigeria
Yuri
|
$800
[29]
...who went from La Prensa to la presidencia of Nicaragua in 1990
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Yuri
|
$600
[9]
It's the name for the parallel at 23 degrees 27 minutes south latitude
Tropic of Capricorn
Yuri
|
$600
[4]
In Offenbach's "Orphee aux Enfers", Orpheus goes to Hades to retrieve this woman, his cheatin' wife
Eurydice
Yuri
|
$600
[23]
Previous jobs on her resume would include research chemist, lawyer & prime minister of Great Britain
Margaret Thatcher
Sharon
|
$600
[18]
He depicted a poppy field in a hollow near Giverny in the painting seen here
Claude Monet
Yuri
Carsten!
|
|
$800
[14]
The original Italian title of this Umberto Eco novel is "Il Nome Della Rosa"
"The Name of the Rose"
Carsten!
|
DD
$4,500
[28]
...who ended the ban on the ANC in South Africa in 1990
F.W. de Klerk
Carsten!
|
$800
[10]
Large tropical rain forest regions include the Amazon & one centered on this 2,900-mile-long African river
Congo
Yuri
Carsten!
|
$800
[5]
Verdi's "Falstaff" is based on Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays & this Shakespeare comedy
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Carsten!
|
$800
[24]
Italian lawmaker Alessandra Mussolini is the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini & the niece of this famous actress
Sophia Loren
Yuri
Sharon
|
$1,000
[20]
He's the great 16th century German artist seen here in a self-portrait
Albrecht Durer
Carsten!
|
|
$1,000
[15]
In 2000 Turkish author Andrew Mango published a new biography of this founder of modern Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Yuri
|
— |
$1,000
[11]
The largest country in the world entirely in the tropics is this Asian nation made up of over 13,700 islands
Indonesia
Yuri
|
$1,000
[6]
A comic opera by Strauss based on an incident from his marriage, or a short orchestral piece played between scenes
Intermezzo
Yuri
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1988 this Karachi-born woman became the first female to head a modern Islamic country
Benazir Bhutto
Carsten!
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
Appropriately, one of this painter's views of Toledo can be seen at his museum in Toledo, Spain
El Greco
Yuri
|
The highest peak outside of Asia is found in this mountain range
the Andes (Mount Aconcagua)