Show #4725 2005-03-04 (taped 2005-02-09) Tournament of Champions

2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1, game 18.

Contestants

Grace Veach — a librarian from Lakeland, Florida

Keith Williams — a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont

John LeDonne — a bookstore manager from Concord, New Hampshire

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
John	$600	$1,800	$6,200	$0 3rd place: $5,000	$6,200 10 R, 2 W
Keith	$1,200	$6,200	$23,600	$13,600 2nd place: $5,000	$21,000 26 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Grace	$6,600	$7,600	$13,200	$26,200 Winner: $26,200 + an advance to UToC Round 2	$11,800 17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY	SPORTS NOTABLES	CANADA, "A"?	A HEAVENLY CATEGORY	FIRST LADY FIRSTS	____ & ____
$200 [7] The fleet-footed Atalanta once lost a race to Hippomenes when she stopped to pick up these golden fruits apples Keith	$200 [21] This boxer with an 'earing problem tops the list of ESPN's most outrageous sports characters Mike Tyson Grace	$200 [1] One of the provinces, eh Alberta Grace	$200 [2] A Lerner & Lowe song lyric goes, "Thank heaven for" these people, "they grow up in the most delightful way" little girls Keith Grace	$200 [25] The first First Lady to be born in Texas Lady Bird Johnson John	$200 [12] If you've lost weight, Mom might say you're nothing but these 2 anatomical items skin & bones Keith
$400 [8] This Roman goddess of wisdom is said to have leaped forth from the brain of Jupiter, fully mature & in armor Minerva Grace	$400 [22] He retired from the NHL for the final time in 1980, at age 52 Gordie Howe John	$400 [17] "Green Gables" girl of Prince Edward Island Anne Keith	$400 [3] The Indian game moksha-patamu (heaven & hell) gave us this Milton Bradley game that has its ups & downs Chutes & Ladders Grace	$400 [26] The first First Lady to be elected to public office Hillary Clinton Keith	$400 [13] The ingredients of this basic salad dressing might be the olive & balsamic types, respectively oil & vinegar (vinegar & oil accepted) Grace
$800 [10] Hamadryads were nymphs who lived in these; when they died, so did the hamadryads trees Grace	$600 [23] This team owner bought his team in 1973 for a mere $10 million, & it's won 7 World Series since George Steinbrenner John	$600 [18] Once part of Alcoa, this Canadian company with a 5-letter name is a giant in world aluminum manufacturing Alcan	$600 [4] The John Jakes novel "Heaven and Hell" takes place directly following this war the Civil War John	$600 [27] The first First Lady to be older than her husband Martha Washington Keith	$600 [14] If Bo Peep seeks her sheep on mountains & in valleys, she's literally searching here high & low Grace
$1,000 [11] Heracles' seventh labor was to bring Eurystheus this savage Cretan animal the bull	$800 [24] Michael "The Albatross" Gross won gold medals in this sport using an arm span far exceeding his height swimming Grace	$800 [19] Quebec's Shickshock Mountains are part of this system that runs to Alabama the Appalachians Keith	$800 [5] In Genesis 1, God gave the name Heaven to this, from the Latin for "support" the firmament Grace	$800 [29] The first First Lady to serve for 3 consecutive presidential terms Eleanor Roosevelt Keith	$800 [15] In 2002 Scotland's Inverness Prison reenacted its 1st inmate's arrival 100 years earlier, complete with this apparatus ball & chain Grace
DD $2,000 [9] Hera punished this nymph by saying that she shall have the last word but no power to speak first Echo Grace	$1,000 [28] This ice skater (& boxer) helped lift a night of Winter Olympics coverage to one of the highest rated TV shows ever Tonya Harding John	$1,000 [20] Centered in Nova Scotia, it was the name applied by France to its Atlantic coastal possessions in North America Acadia John Keith	$1,000 [6] The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy, this film starred Hiep Thi Le & Tommy Lee Jones Heaven and Earth	$1,000 [30] First name of the first First Lady to live in the White House Abigail (Adams) Keith	$1,000 [16] "The Federalist" No. 51 argues for the Constitution's "Partitian of Power", now called this system checks & balances Keith

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ELEMENTS	BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS	FARMING MATH	"F"OOD WORD ORIGINS	NOVELS BEFORE & AFTER	WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE
$400 [2] This element known to the ancients is liquid at room temperature mercury Keith	$400 [1] "Mamma Mia" takes place on one of this country's islands; the plot concerns a big fat wedding Greece Keith	$400 [7] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew milks a cow at Old World, Wisconsin.) Jersey cows, vital to the dairy industry, produce 40 pounds of milk a day; if a gallon weighs 8 pounds, that's this many gallons--I think I'm gonna need a bigger bucket 5 Keith	$400 [26] This type of peach is so named because its flesh does not cling to the pit a freestone peach Keith	$400 [16] Theodore Dreiser's classic about the actress who played Princess Leia Sister Carrie Fisher John Keith	$400 [21] The vehicle in which the deceased travels to the cemetery a hearse Keith
$1,200 [13] 2 of the ores for this yellowish-green gas are rock salt & horn silver chlorine John	DD $600 [4] Shubert Alley is the setting for both the opening & closing scenes of this smash hit that debuted in 2001 The Producers Keith	$800 [11] If oats cost 40 cents a peck & you spend $1.20 on them every day, you have this type of habit three pecks a day Keith	$800 [27] It's a corn tortilla rolled around a filling in a flute-like shape, so its name is Spanish for "flute" a flauta Grace	$800 [17] Jack London's masterpiece about a sled dog who delivers a famous brand of Kentucky bourbon The Call of the Wild Turkey	$800 [22] A round solid geometric figure, or a field of knowledge a sphere Keith
$1,600 [14] This element, symbol Ti, was first called menachite after the cornish town of its discovery, Manaccan titanium Keith	$800 [3] (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Gershwin Theatre in New York.) The cast of "Wicked" sings about spending one short day in this place, a major metropolis in the land of Oz the Emerald City Keith	$1,200 [10] If you make half of your 16 pigs run to get their slop, you'll hear the sound of this many feet on the ground 32 Keith	$1,200 [28] A Louisiana French word for "twisted" gave us the name of this gumbo powder filé Grace	$1,200 [18] Amy Tan's happy-go-lucky book about a luncheon item made with chicken, bacon & several slices of toast The Joy Luck Club Sandwich Keith	$1,200 [23] A Mexican poncho without the hole a serape John
$2,000 [15] All elements except this one have neutrons in the nucleus hydrogen Keith	$1,600 [5] (Hi, I'm Kate Monster.) And in "Avenue Q", atop this famous skyscraper, I sing "I Wish I Could Go Back To College"--don't forget to say "What is"! the Empire State Building Keith	$1,600 [8] If it takes 50 pounds of seed to grow an acre of wheat, a ton of seed will get you this many acres 40 Keith	$1,600 [29] It's often described as bow tie pasta, but its name comes from the Italian for "butterflies" farfalle John	$1,600 [19] Hemingway's book about an elderly guy trying to catch an echinoderm that looks like a giant pickle The Old Man and the Sea Cucumber Keith	$1,600 [24] To delete recorded data erase Grace
DD $4,000 [12] The 2 radioactive elements named for planets that follow uranium on the periodic table neptunium & plutonium Keith	$2,000 [6] Act I, scene 1 of this Sondheim musical introduces us to "Nippon. The floating kingdom" Pacific Overtures John Keith	$2,000 [9] Ga. & N.C., each producing $3 million of grapes a year, combine to total this percentage of New York's $50 million 12 percent John Keith	$2,000 [30] The name of this pleasantly bitter herb is derived from the Latin fenum Graecum, which means "Greek hay" fenugreek Grace	$2,000 [20] Depressing Dickens tome about the legislative body that met in colonial Virginia in 1619 Bleak House of Burgesses Grace	$2,000 [25] Basking or bonnethead a shark Grace

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. ISLANDS

Dutch for either "devil's whirlpool" or "spite the devil", Spuyten Duyvil Creek forms part of its northern border

Manhattan

John "What is U.S. Virgins" — wagered $6,200

Grace "What is Manhattan?" — wagered $13,000

Keith "What is New York?" — wagered $10,000

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