Show #4718 2005-02-23 (taped 2005-02-08) Tournament of Champions

2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1, game 11.Single-player Final Jeopardy!

Contestants

Jeff Richmond — an attorney from Los Angeles, California

Billy Baxter — an attorney from Richmond, Virginia

Bernard Holloway — a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bernard $0 $200 $-3,000 $-3,000
3rd place: $5,000
$0
5 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Billy $-1,400 $1,000 $-600 $-600
2nd place: $5,000
$-600
12 R, 7 W
Jeff $2,400 $6,000 $11,800 $23,300
Winner: $23,300 + an advance to UToC Round 2
$12,800
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ASTRONOMY SPOUSE IN COMMON AMERICANA THAT '70s NEWS ITEM PEOPLE & PLACES BEASTLY LANGUAGE
$200 [11]
This totally darkened phase of the Moon occurs when the Moon is between the Sun & the Earth
the New Moon
Jeff
$200 [16]
Cindy Crawford, Carey Lowell
Richard Gere
Billy
$200 [6]
He presided over the Senate in the first Congress
John Adams
Jeff
$200 [21]
In the 1970s the organization NOW made the passage of this its top priority
the Equal Rights Amendment
Bernard
$200 [1]
Some folks from Scotland are Highlanders, while some people from this country are Shanghailanders
China
Billy
$200 [26]
Meaning to be prepared, it refers to having your canvasbacks strung
get your ducks in a row
$400 [12]
In August 1609 he demonstrated his newly constructed telescope to the Senate of Venice, who then doubled his salary
Galileo
Jeff
$400 [17]
Humphrey Bogart, Jason Robards, Jr.
Lauren Bacall
Billy
$400 [7]
The Liberty Bell weighs about a ton; this similarly named bell in Charlotte, N.C. weighs 7 tons
the American Freedom Bell
$400 [22]
On Aug. 4, 1972 Arthur Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison for shooting this governor
George Wallace
Billy
$400 [2]
The people of this British dependency are sometimes known as Onions for short--or is that for shorts?
Bermuda
Bernard
$400 [27]
To complain like a reddish-brown game bird with feathered feet & legs
grouse
Jeff
$600 [13]
When "shadow bands" are seen on Earth, it means this is about to happen up in the heavens
an eclipse
$600 [18]
Gary Oldman, Ethan Hawke
Uma Thurman
Billy
$600 [8]
Nimitz' line "Uncommon valor was a common virtue" was aboutthe World War II battle for this island
Iwo Jima
Bernard
$600 [23]
In 1978 robbers stole $6 million in cash & jewelry from Lufthansa Airlines at this U.S. airport
JFK
$600 [3]
A Manchegan is a "man of" this Spanish region
La Mancha
$600 [28]
Hard, shrewd bargaining, like negotiating for an Appaloosa
horse trading
Jeff
$800 [14]
In ancient times, this star rose at dawn during the hottest time of summer, thus the "dog days of summer"
Sirius (or Alpha Canis Majoris)
Billy Jeff
$800 [19]
Carrie Fisher, Edie Brickell
Paul Simon
Billy
$800 [9]
Following 1912, it was the next year a star was added to the U.S. flag
1959
Billy Jeff
$800 [24]
Officially, these '75 "Accords" were the final act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
the Helsinki Accords
Jeff
DD $1,000 [4]
The people of this Aussie state have an ap"peel"ing nickname: Apple Islanders
Tasmania
Bernard
$800 [29]
To create different words, this prefix can go before berry, neck & flesh
goose
Jeff
$1,000 [15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from beside a replica rover at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL.) This is a replica of both the Mars exploration rover Spirit & this companion, who came knocking in January 2004
Opportunity
Billy
$1,000 [20]
Peter Allen, Jack Haley, Jr.
Liza Minnelli
$1,000 [10]
Robert Mills designed this structure that opened in 1888 & was built from 36,491 blocks
the Washington Monument
Jeff
$1,000 [25]
This Army doctor convicted of the 1970 murder of his wife & family insisted that drug-crazed hippies did it
Jeffrey MacDonald
$1,000 [5]
This British city's Medieval Latin name was Cantabrigia, so its people are Cantabrigians
Cambridge
Billy Jeff
$1,000 [30]
This verb means to hesitate in confusion like a bottom-feeding fish
flounder
Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

small state capitals QUOTABLE OSCAR HOSTS J.R. FURNITURE PLAYS "GRAY" MATTER
$400 [1]
Delaware's deed, given to William Penn in 1682, resides in the Hall of Records in this Capitol
Dover
Billy
$400 [18]
1995:"Uma, Oprah.Oprah, Uma"
David Letterman
Billy
$400 [9]
She got a B.A. from Cornell in 1960 & an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1963
Janet Reno
$400 [16]
Also known as the Sacco chair, it was designed by Zanotta of Milan & featured a bag filled with plastic beads
a bean bag (chair)
Billy
$400 [17]
In a Shakespeare play, Mamillius says, "A sad tale's best for" this season
winter
Bernard
$400 [6]
"Ugliness was the one reality", muses this Oscar Wilde title character
Dorian Gray
Billy
$800 [2]
The name of this capital is another word for God's guidance
Providence
Jeff
$800 [19]
1979:"Welcome to 2 hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a 4-hour show"
Johnny Carson
$800 [10]
This American journalist was embedded in Petrograd in 1917 during the "10 Days that Shook the World"
John Reed
Billy
$800 [23]
Empire, the first major style of the 1800s, originated in this country during its First Empire, 1804-1814
France
Billy
$800 [27]
The existential statement "Hell is other people" comes from this play
No Exit
$800 [7]
This 1858 work was a landmark in its use of medical illustrations of the human body
Gray's Anatomy
Billy
$1,200 [3]
The homes of Mark Twain & Harriet Beecher Stowe can be found in this state capital
Hartford
Bernard
$1,200 [20]
1968:"Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover"
Bob Hope
Bernard
$1,200 [11]
He'sseenhereperforming in one of his own works
Jerome Robbins
$1,200 [24]
From a Latin word for "read", it's a slanted-top stand used to support a speaker's notes
a lectern
Billy Jeff
DD $1,000 [30]
As the title implies, this play features an important arrival, that of Hickey in the saloon
The Iceman Cometh
Jeff
$1,200 [8]
On Oct. 7, 2003 Arnold terminated this man's stay in the governor's mansion
Gray Davis
Jeff
$1,600 [4]
The Old Barracks Museum in this capital was the location of a major turning point in the Revolutionary War
Trenton
Bernard
$1,600 [21]
2003:"It was so sweet backstage, you should see it. The Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo"
Steve Martin
$1,600 [12]
This portraitist was born in Devon on July 16, 1723
Sir Joshua Reynolds
$1,600 [25]
From the French for "scaffold", it's a stand resembling a scaffold that has open shelves used for small curios
an étagère
$1,200 [28]
Besides "Cyrano de Bergerac", his best-remembered play is the patriotic tragedy "The Eaglet"
Edmond Rostand
$1,600 [14]
Sciurus carolinensis, it pretty much always feels like a nut
a gray squirrel
Jeff
DD $2,000 [5]
A planetarium in this capital bears the name of Christa McAuliffe, who died in the 1986 Challenger explosion
Concord
Bernard
$2,000 [22]
1974: "Just think, the only laugh that man will probably ever get is for stripping and showing off his shortcomings"
David Niven
$2,000 [13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a street in the Lower East Side, New York.) This reformer & photographer described theconditionsof the Lower East Side in 1890's "How the Other Half Lives"
Jacob Riis
Jeff
$2,000 [26]
This English furniture designer who followed Chippendale wrote his "Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide" in 1788
Hepplewhite
Billy
$1,600 [29]
1949 play character who says, "Charley is... liked, but he's not--well liked"
Willy Loman
$2,000 [15]
In the 1870s he invented elements of a telephone-like device
Elisha Gray

Final Jeopardy!

BESTSELLING AUTHORS

In 2000 this writer, with more than 100 million copies of novels in print, had a new species of dinosaur named for him

Michael Crichton

Jeff "Who is Michael Crichton?" — wagered $11,500

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