2004 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.
Chris Miller — a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
Anne Boyd — a freelance writer and student from Los Angeles, California
Tom Walsh — a writer from Washington, D.C.
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | $0 | $3,400 | $11,800 |
$14,701
Finalist |
$11,800
13 R, 2 W |
| Anne | $2,800 | $4,100 | $14,700 |
$14,700
2nd place: $10,000 |
$15,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chris | $2,400 | $5,200 | $16,200 |
$2,999
3rd place: $10,000 |
$17,200
25 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| BAHRAIN | POP CULTURE | BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE | GREAT BRITS | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME | BROADWAY CROSSWORD CLUES "T" |
|
$200
[26]
This Iberian power occupied Bahrain from 1521 until the locals asked for Persian help in 1602
Portugal
Tom
Chris
|
$200
[1]
Appropriately, Stephen King is the creator of this 2004 series based on a Danish TV production
Kingdom Hospital
Chris
|
$200
[21]
The new Woodrow Wilson Bridge project will connect Maryland & Virginia across this river
the Potomac
Tom
|
$200
[6]
In 1852, this poet laureate & lord wrote his "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington"
Tennyson
Chris
|
$200
[10]
Thyme honey from the Iblei Mtns. on this large Mediterranean isle has been a delicacy for centuries
Sicily
Chris
|
$200
[16]
It's how modern Millie is(10)
thoroughly
Anne
|
|
$400
[27]
Bahrain is known as this "of the Arabian Gulf", although cultured ones are banned in the market of the same name
the Pearl
Chris
|
$400
[2]
Debuting in 1982, it was the arcade follow-up to Centipede
Millipede
Chris
|
$400
[22]
This 22 ½ mile Hangzhou bridge will cut 2 hours off the travel time from Ningbo to this city, China's largest
Shanghai
Chris
|
$400
[7]
He joined the British navy at age 12 & died at the Battle of Trafalgar 35 years later
Lord Nelson
Chris
|
$400
[12]
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme figure prominently in this hit by Simon & Garfunkel
"Scarborough Fair"
Anne
|
$400
[17]
River City situation(7)
trouble
Chris
|
|
$600
[28]
The 5 triangular shapes on the Bahraini flag represent these "foundations" of Islam
pillars
Chris
|
$600
[3]
In 2004, she starred as Jenna Rink, who's "13 Going on 30"
Jennifer Garner
Chris
|
DD
$500
[24]
A bridge over this river will connect Vidin, Bulgaria with Calafat, Romania
the Danube
Anne
|
$600
[8]
Returning from the Crusades in 1192, this English king was captured in Vienna & jailed for over a year
Richard I
Chris
|
$600
[13]
This "elder" Roman encyclopedist referred to thyme as a fumigant
Pliny
Anne
|
$600
[18]
"No, No, Nanette" "beverage" song(3, 3, 3)
"Tea For Two"
Tom
|
|
$800
[29]
Bahrain's capital, it shares most of its letters with a Central American country
Manama
Tom
|
$800
[4]
Huey Freeman of this edgy comic strip is named after Black Panther Huey Newton
The Boondocks
Chris
|
$600
[23]
The new Colorado River bridge downstream of Hoover Dam will connect these 2 adjacent states
Nevada and Arizona
Anne
|
$800
[9]
There was no royal fun allowed when this man took power in England in 1653
Oliver Cromwell
Anne
|
$800
[14]
Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the "B"s in B&B
benedictine
|
$800
[19]
"Aida" lyricist's first name(3)
Tim
Chris
|
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1971 Bahrain joined this regional organization that was formed in Cairo in 1945
the Arab League
Tom
|
$1,000
[5]
Not to be confused with The Doves or Vines, this Swedish band had a hit with "Hate To Say I Told You So"
The Hives
Chris
|
$1,000
[25]
The Binh Bridge is being constructed for this Northern Vietnamese port city
Hai Phong
Tom
|
$1,000
[11]
American-born, this first woman in the House of Commons said, "I am the kind of woman I would run from"
Lady (Nancy Witcher) Astor
|
$1,000
[15]
Thyme contains about 1% this type of "oil" used in fragrances & pharmaceuticals
essential oil
Anne
|
$1,000
[20]
"My One And Only" tall Tony-winning Texan(5, 4)
Tommy Tune
Anne
|
| SCIENCE & NATURE | ART & ARTISTS | A CAJUN CATEGORY | TOP 40 MATH | THE VEEP | LETTER PERFECT |
|
$400
[7]
Samuel Schwabe got deeply into sunspots after trying to find a planet crossing the sun closer than this one
Mercury
Chris
|
$400
[21]
This Dutch painter, a member of the Delft Guild, had a total output of only about 40 pictures (one with a pearl)
(Jan) Vermeer
Anne
|
$400
[26]
Chicken-chasing & gathering ingredients for a communal gumbo are Cajun festivities for this pre-Lenten day
Mardi Gras
Chris
|
$400
[2]
Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Tons" times Eddie Money's "Tickets To Paradise"
32
Tom
Chris
|
$400
[1]
His father was born Theodore Anagnostopoulos
Spiro Agnew
Chris
|
$400
[12]
This letter begins the Shakespearean sonnet "...truant muse, what shall be thy amends..."
O
Anne
|
|
$800
[8]
A seal's these, also called vibrissae, sense vibrations in the water that can represent food
their whiskers
Anne
|
$800
[22]
This Englishman describedhis workas "modern moral subjects... similar to representations on the stage"
(William) Hogarth
Anne
|
$800
[27]
This Cajun favorite, deep-fried & dusted with sugar, is the state doughnut of Louisiana
a beignet
Tom
|
$800
[3]
Rolling Stones' "Nervous Breakdown" number plus Beatles' "Days A Week"
27
Tom
|
$800
[17]
Vice President under Thomas Jefferson, he was the first Vice President who did not later become President
Aaron Burr
Chris
|
$800
[13]
As you might expect, this is the first letter in the poem "Song of Myself"
I
Chris
|
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
A male moth's antennae are attuned to these released by female moths
pheromones
Anne
|
$1,200
[23]
Gericault's most famous work, "The Raft of" this ship, was based on a historic event & caused a political scandal
the Medusa
Anne
|
$1,200
[28]
If we covered everything Cajun from A to Z, we'd finally come to this accordion-based musical style heard here
zydeco
Chris
|
$1,200
[4]
The Crests' "Candles" plus Boyz II Men's "Season Of Loneliness"
20
Tom
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
This senator from Indiana who became Vice President has a city named for him--in Alaska, of all places
(Charles) Fairbanks
Chris
|
$1,200
[14]
John Doe played bass & wrote songs for this seminal punk rock band, "discovered" by Ray Manzarek of The Doors
X
Chris
|
|
$1,600
[10]
It's the wavelike muscular contractions of the alimentary canal that move food through the digestive system
peristalsis
Chris
|
$1,600
[24]
His "Jolly Toper" of the 1600s is seen here
Frans Hals
Tom
|
$1,600
[29]
After Louisiana, this state has the largest Cajun population, especially in areas like Port Arthur
Texas
Tom
|
$1,600
[5]
The speed Sammy Hagar "Can't Drive" minus Three Dog Night's title "Loneliest Number"
54
Chris
|
$1,600
[19]
The nation's 42nd Vice President, he was born in Ceylon... Ceylon, Minnesota, that is
(Walter) Mondale
Tom
|
$1,600
[15]
On a baseball scorecard, you can mark a walk with either a "W" or 2 of these
B
Tom
|
|
$2,000
[11]
Conductors allow electric current to flow & these opposite materials restrict the flow of the current
insulators (or resistors)
Chris
|
$2,000
[25]
Minerva, Venus & Juno are the 3 being "judged" in this famous Claude Lorrain painting
The Judgment of Paris
Anne
|
$2,000
[30]
The Cajuns are descended from the Acadians, the subject of this famous 1847 poem
Evangeline
Anne
|
$2,000
[6]
In the song's title, Zager & Evans' "In The Year" this minus The Commodores' "Times A Lady"
2522
Anne
|
$2,000
[20]
As Harding's running mate in 1920, he said, "One with the law is a majority"
(Calvin) Coolidge
Tom
|
$2,000
[16]
The holes in the body of a typical violin get their name from being shaped like this letter
F
Chris
|
A San Francisco resident since the 1950s, in 1998 he became the city's first Poet Laureate
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (owner of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco)