2004 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.
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
| 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 |
| ANCIENT ROMAN STAND-UP COMEDY | THE 3rd FILM IN THE SERIES | WEBSITES | YANGTZE DOODLE | GO ON A DIET | PROVERBIOS EN ESPAÑOL |
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$200
[6]
The Grand Canal connects the Yangtze River to this other major river
the Yellow River
Steve
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$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
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$400
[11]
This character was the object of the title search in "Star Trek III"
Spock
Tom
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
|
| 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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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Once known as "the hand somest man in America", he performed his last play, "The Apostate", on March 18, 1865
John Wilkes Booth