Show #4615 2004-10-01 (taped 2004-04-30) Tournament of Champions

2004 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

Russ Schumacher — a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado (subtotal of $9,600)

Tom Walsh — a writer from Washington, D.C. (subtotal of $19,700)

Arthur Gandolfi — a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York (subtotal of $0)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Arthur $2,200 $2,600 $6,200 $12,400 $6,200
11 R, 4 W
Tom $0 $1,200 $8,800 $11,800 $10,000
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Russ $2,000 $5,800 $17,600 $27,850 $15,600
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ANAGRAMMEDWEST WINGSTARS BIRD-BRAINED BALLETS AMERICANS IN PARIS ENGLISH LIT TAKE IN ORDER!
$200 [11]
Social insects, termites live in groups of a few hundred to several million called these
colonies
Arthur
$200 [6]
Hail to the chief:ART MEN SHINE
Martin Sheen
Russ
$200 [21]
One of these large birds is featured in "Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel" (reminds me of "Fantasia")
ostriches
Arthur
$200 [16]
The avant-garde author of "Three Lives", her home was a salon for emerging artists such as Picasso & Braque
(Gertrude) Stein
Russ
$200 [26]
Published in 1976, her last Miss Marple case, "Sleeping Murder", was actually written during WWII
(Agatha) Christie
Russ
$200 [1]
Add this letter to "S" for the Internet domain name of Napoleon's last home
H
$400 [12]
Dioxide of this element, symbol Cr, is used to make recording tape for cassettes
chromium
Arthur
$400 [7]
She "presses" on:SOLE JAIL NANNY
Allison Janney
Russ
$400 [22]
The "Bluebird Pas de Deux" is performed at Princess Aurora's wedding in this fairy tale ballet
Sleeping Beauty
$400 [17]
While in Paris, poet & critic Ezra Pound helped little-known talent T.S. Eliot edit this 1922 poem
"The Waste Land"
Tom
$400 [27]
She introduced Mr. & Mrs. Dalloway in her first novel, "The Voyage Out"
Virginia Woolf
Russ
$400 [2]
Now add this letter to get H. Rider Haggard's novel about an African sorceress
E
$600 [13]
The Cassini spacecraft is scheduled to study this planet & send a probe to the surface of its moon Titan
Saturn
Russ
$600 [8]
We're still "laugh-in" at her:O MY ILL LINT
Lily Tomlin
Russ
$600 [23]
Gelsey Kirkland starred in the 1972 version of "The Song of" this nocturnal bird
a nightingale
Arthur
$600 [18]
This "Fanfare for the Common Man" composer sold his first work while studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris
(Aaron) Copland
Russ
$600 [28]
Chapters in this novel include "Wickfield and Heep" & "Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet"
David Copperfield
Russ
$600 [3]
Next add this letter for a ballpark opened April 17, 1964
A
Arthur Russ
$800 [14]
The name of this pivoted frame for the combustion chamber & nozzle of a rocket sounds like Macy's one-time rival
a gimbal
Arthur
$800 [9]
Quite a "lady":DANCING CART HONKS
Stockard Channing
$800 [24]
Tamara Karsavina won the role of this title bird in a 1910 ballet because Anna Pavlova didn't like the music
the Firebird
Russ
DD $1,000 [19]
Alexander Calder made one of his first wire sculptures in the image of this expatriate singer/dancer
Josephine Baker
Russ
$800 [29]
Published in 1590, "The Legend of the Red Cross Knight" is the first of 6 books in this poetic epic
The Faerie Queene
Arthur Tom
$800 [4]
Then add this letter to get a type of stress affecting solids or a change in the wind speed
R
Russ
$1,000 [15]
This biologist first gained acclaim for writing in 1937 with her article "Undersea" in the Atlantic Monthly
Rachel Carson
$1,000 [10]
He's Toby Z:HARD CHIC RIFFS
Richard Schiff
$1,000 [25]
Created for Anna Pavlova, this famous ballet solo is a lot shorter than "Swan Lake"
"The Dying Swan"
$1,000 [20]
During his self-exile, he voiced the strife of black Americans in books like 1961's "Nobody Knows My Name"
James Baldwin
$1,000 [30]
She's the heroine of the long-banned 18th century novel "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"
Fanny Hill
$1,000 [5]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew wears a warm, woolly coat.) Finally add these four letters to get the type of coat I'm wearing
L-I-N-G
Arthur

Double Jeopardy! Round

CALCULUS CHART TOPPERS GEOGRAPHY BLOGS FIVE EASY PEACES WORD ORIGINS
$400 [21]
"Vive la" this, for which Augustin Cauchy introduced the delta symbol in the 19th century
difference
Arthur Tom
$400 [22]
This Debby Boone hit was No. 1 on the Top 40 chart for 10 weeks, longer than any other song of the 1970s
"You Light Up My Life"
Tom
$400 [6]
Buffalo & Cleveland are major ports on this Great Lake
Erie
Russ
$400 [16]
The word blog evolved as a shortened form of this
web log
Russ
$400 [11]
Alexander II signed the Peace of York in 1237, establishing a permanent boundary between these 2 countries
England and Scotland
Arthur
$400 [1]
Whether it's a problem in the eye or a waterfall, it's from the Greek for "to dash down"
cataract
Tom
$800 [27]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a blackboard.) By finding the value of the right side of the equation, we'll do this to the function
integrate it
$800 [23]
His No. 1 R&B hits include "Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1"
James Brown
$800 [7]
This Atlantic "sea" is named for the seaweed that can be seen there
the Sargasso Sea
Russ
$800 [17]
Lawyer Lawrence Lessig started blogging after being thrown off the anti-trust case against this software giant
Microsoft
Russ
$800 [12]
The Peace of this mountain range agreed to by Louis XIV & Philip IV ended the 1600s Franco-Spanish War
the Pyrenees
Russ
$800 [2]
From the Italian for "bench", it's a sumptuous feast given in someone's honor
banquet
Tom
$1,200 [28]
On a graph, the derivative of a function is this, which all lines except vertical ones have
a slope
Arthur
$1,200 [24]
Her 1996 hit "Because You Loved Me" topped the adult contemporary charts for an amazing 19 weeks
Celine Dion
$1,600 [9]
In 1951 Portugal allowed NATO to establish an airbase on the island of Terceira in this archipelago
Azores
Arthur
$1,200 [18]
The Lycos blog posted a link to a job listing for an entertainment liaison in this newest Cabinet department
Homeland Security
Arthur
$1,200 [13]
After John II's 1356 defeat at the Battle of Poitiers, the Peace of Bretigny was signed, ending the 1st phase of this
the Hundred Years' War
Tom
DD $1,200 [3]
This large, triangular sail used on some racing yachts is said to derive its name from a yacht called the Sphinx
a spinnaker
Tom
$1,600 [29]
Often symbolized L, it's the value approached by a function as its variable approaches a given value
a limit
Arthur
$1,600 [25]
In 1995 she had 2 songs debut at the top of the charts; one was a duet with Boyz II Men
Mariah Carey
Russ
$2,000 [10]
It's the capital & chief seaport of Trinidad & Tobago
Port-of-Spain
$1,600 [19]
blogforamerica.com was started to raise money for & awareness of his presidential campaign
(Howard) Dean
Tom
$1,600 [14]
The Peace of Utrecht ended this war & recognized the legitimacy of Louis XIV's grandson as King of Spain
the War of the Spanish Succession
Tom
$1,600 [4]
This Protestant group was named for its founders' strict & orderly approach to life & the Scriptures
Methodists
Tom
$2,000 [30]
Related to the word "increase", it's a small change in a variable representing distance or time
increment
Russ
$2,000 [26]
He wrote Bread's only No. 1 hit, "Make It With You", as well as the title track to the 1977 film "The Goodbye Girl"
David Gates
Tom
DD $3,000 [8]
One of the 2 South American countries trying to claim Graham Land, part of the British Antarctic territory
Argentina (or Chile)
Russ
$2,000 [20]
This notorious comedienne seenhereblogs about such things as her potty mouth & the end of the world
Margaret Cho
Russ
$2,000 [15]
Negotations in a Duchy in what is now Western Germany led to the naming of this 1648 peace
Westphalia
Tom
$2,000 [5]
From the Latin word lampreda we get lamprey, as well as the name of this mollusk
limpet
Arthur

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICANISMS

Around 1900 Monroe Rosenfeld remarked that the music heard along NYC's 28th Street sounded like this

tin pans

Arthur "What are tin pans?" — wagered $6,200
Tom "What are tin pans?" — wagered $3,000
Russ "What are tin pans?" — wagered $10,250

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