Show #4613 2004-09-29 (taped 2004-04-30) Tournament of Champions

2004 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Steve Reynolds — a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma

Arthur Gandolfi — a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York

Tom Baker — a writer from Tokyo, Japan

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $-200 $4,400 $15,200 $0
3rd place: $10,000
$11,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Arthur $3,200 $4,800 $16,400 $31,400
Finalist
$16,400
22 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Steve $1,800 $3,200 $7,600 $7,600
2nd place: $10,000
$7,600
10 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT ROMAN STAND-UP COMEDY THE 3rd FILM IN THE SERIES WEBSITES YANGTZE DOODLE GO ON A DIET PROVERBIOS EN ESPAÑOL
$200 [12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from an open mic in a small club.)I tell you it was so cold today... (How cold was it?) It was so cold, I wished we were back in 64 when he was emperor. Hot times, if you know what I mean!
Nero
Arthur
$200 [7]
The year Stallone debuted the first of the 3 "Rambo" films he also appeared in the 3rd film in this series
Rocky
Arthur
$200 [26]
Look up your car's trade-in value & get new car pricing at kbb.com; KBB, short for this
Kelley Blue Book
Arthur
$200 [6]
The Grand Canal connects the Yangtze River to this other major river
the Yellow River
Steve
$200 [18]
The company named for this woman, co-founder with her husband Sid, urges a balanced food, body & mind approach
Jenny Craig
$200 [1]
"El silencio es oro"
silence is golden
Steve
$400 [13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from an open mic in a small club.)Boy, in the old days we knew how to par-tay. You know what they say--if you can remember this festival of the god Bacchus, you weren't there!
a bacchanalia
Arthur
$400 [11]
This character was the object of the title search in "Star Trek III"
Spock
Tom
$400 [27]
"Bush regales dinner guests with impromptu oratory on Virgil's minor works", this satirical news website headlined
The Onion
Tom
$400 [8]
The 2 rivers in the world that are longer than the Yangtze
the Amazon and the Nile
Arthur
$400 [19]
All foods have a point value & you're given an assigned daily point total at a meeting in this Heinz-owned plan
Weight Watchers
Steve
$400 [2]
"El fin justifica los medios"
the end justifies the means
Tom
$600 [14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from an open mic in a small club.)See, in this place, I like to stay in the calderium; avoid the frigidarium. I like my tenaculum the size it is!
the baths
Tom
$600 [23]
In a 1990 film in this series, Marty travels to 1885 to save Doc Brown
Back to the Future
Tom
$600 [28]
This 6-letter .com claims to find "the right answer for... every one" of the 200 million queries its users have daily
Google
Arthur
$600 [9]
The Yangtze flows through this province that's China's most populous & known for its spicy cuisine
Szechuan
Tom
$600 [20]
Whoopi Goldberg's a big loser on this "shake"y product & diet
Slim·Fast
Tom
$600 [3]
"El amor es ciego"
love is blind
Tom Steve
$800 [15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from an open mic in a small club.)Talk about a terrible cook! My wife's pretty bad, but at least she never gave me poisoned figs like Livia gave this guy
Augustus Caesar
Tom Arthur
$800 [24]
"With a Vengeance", not "III", came after this in the title of a 1995 film
Die Hard
Tom
$800 [29]
At him online.com, visitors have hit a link to his golf club, applied for a job on his NBC show & basked in his excess
Trump
Arthur
$800 [10]
Native to the Yangtze river valley, this fruit is also known as a Chinese gooseberry
a kiwi
Tom Steve
$800 [21]
Eating the proper balance of low-fat proteins, carbs & good fat is the key to this Dr. Sears diet
The Zone
Tom
$800 [4]
"La pluma es mas poderosa que la espada"
the pen is mightier than the sword
Arthur
$1,000 [16]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from an open mic in a small club.)How about Varis's army being wiped out in the forest in this country? That's like me being in the arena against Spartacus!
Germany
Arthur
$1,000 [25]
Lorraine Axeman, one of our researchers, was an extra in "Army of Darkness", Sam Raimi's 3rd film in this Series
The Evil Dead
Steve
$1,000 [30]
This abbreviation .gov promises that the organization is "bringing safety to America's skies"
FAA
Tom
$1,000 [17]
This dam, one of the world's largest when completed, is being built on the Yangtze to control flooding
the Three Gorges Dam
Tom
$1,000 [22]
This geographic diet's name comes from the Greek & Southern Italian consumption of grain, fruit, veggies & fish
the Mediterranean Diet
Tom
DD $1,000 [5]
"Las malas noticias viajan rapido"
bad news travels fast
Arthur

Double Jeopardy! Round

FLOWERS THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK MUSEUMS LITERATURE THE WOMEN OF CONGRESS JEOPORTMANTEAU!
$400 [10]
In Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" we learn that this flower "by any other name would smell as sweet"
a rose
Arthur
$400 [16]
His first published song was 1909's "Marie from Sunny Italy"; later ones include "Cheek to Cheek" & "Easter Parade"
Irving Berlin
Arthur
$400 [20]
A museum dedicated to this literary character is located, where else, but at "221B" Baker Street in London
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur
$400 [2]
Her career as a novelist dawned with "Dawn O'Hara"; "Show Boat" showed up later
Edna Ferber
Tom
$400 [1]
"An Invitation to the White House" is a bestseller by this current senator
(Hillary) Clinton
Tom
$400 [26]
Meatpacking "Jungle" city plus burrowing rodent
Chicagopher
Arthur
$800 [11]
The Italians call this flower girasole because its head turns to follow the light
a sunflower
Arthur
$800 [22]
This song complains, "Since my gal and I ain't together keeps raining all the time"
"Stormy Weather"
Tom
$800 [21]
For nearly 4 centuries, what is now the Topkapi Palace Museum was the residence of this empire's sultans
the Ottoman Empire
Tom
$800 [3]
Gom Gut & Plick et Plock were pseudonyms of this Inspector Maigret creator
Georges Simenon
$800 [6]
Judy Biggert represents this state's 13th District, which includes parts of DuPage, Will & Cook counties
Illinois
Arthur
$800 [27]
Thane of Cawdor plus birthplace of Jesus
Macbethlehem
Arthur
$1,200 [12]
It's believed that this flower's scientific name Papaver came from "pap" because its juice was used to make babies sleepy
the poppy
Tom
$1,200 [23]
Dorothy Fields, the most successful female theater lyricist of the 20th century, wrote the words to this classic
"A Fine Romance"
$1,200 [17]
Appropriately, this vast Russian art museum houses the icon of St. Nicholas seen here
the Hermitage
Arthur
$1,200 [4]
Hmm... he dedicated his 1820 poem "The Witch of Atlas" to his wife Mary
(Percy Bysshe) Shelley
Steve
DD $1,200 [7]
In 2003 Republican Lisa Murkowski took the oath of office as this state's sixth U.S. Senator since statehood
Alaska
Arthur
$1,200 [28]
"Book"ish nickname of fictional young detective Leroy Brown plus the doctor he might see for a check-up
Encyclopediatrician
Steve
$1,600 [13]
Known as a "fairy flower", this bloom of the genus Digitalis has a darker side; large doses of it can be poisonous
foxglove
Tom
$1,600 [24]
The last song George Gershwin composed, its title is followed by the line "not for a year, but ever and a day"
"Our Love Is Here To Stay"
Tom
$1,600 [18]
The Vasamuseet in Stockholm houses one of the oldest complete examples of these, the Vasa
a ship
Tom
$1,600 [5]
Lloyd Brown, once an inmate of this city's Alleghany County jail, based his novel "Iron City" on life there
Pittsburgh
Arthur
$1,600 [8]
Republican Barbara Cubin represents this state in the House all by herself
Wyoming
Tom
$1,600 [29]
17-year migratory insect plus creamy egg-based dessert
Locustard
Arthur
$2,000 [14]
Certain orchids, genus Cypripedium, are known by this feminine name, from their resemblance to delicate footwear
lady's slippers
Steve
$2,000 [25]
In "You're The Top", this American wrote, "But if this ditty is not so pretty, at least it'll tell you how great you are"
Cole Porter
Steve
DD $6,000 [19]
There are museums devoted to this writer in Nairobi, Kenya & in Rungstedlund, Denmark
Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa )
Tom
$2,000 [9]
"I shouldn't mind being a bride... if I could be one without having a husband", says Bathsheba in this Hardy novel
Far From the Madding Crowd
Tom
$2,000 [15]
It's the last name of California Reps. Loretta & Linda, the first sisters in Congress
Sanchez
Steve
$2,000 [30]
Kubla Khan's stately pleasure dome site plus a quilt
Xanaduvet
Arthur

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY NAMES

Once known as "the hand somest man in America", he performed his last play, "The Apostate", on March 18, 1865

John Wilkes Booth

Steve "Who is Edwin Booth?" — wagered $0
Tom "Who was [a zigzag that resembles WVthm]" — wagered $15,200
Arthur "Who is John Wilkes Booth?" — wagered $15,000

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