2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
Chris Mazurek — an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
Cathy Lanctot — a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
Mehrun Etebari — a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehrun | $1,600 | $4,600 | $9,400 |
$700
3rd place: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System if eliminated |
$9,400
20 R, 3 W |
| Cathy | $1,200 | $2,800 | $10,400 |
$4,400
2nd place: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System if eliminated |
$8,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Chris | $3,000 | $7,000 | $19,400 |
$17,999
Automatic semifinalist |
$20,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| EUROPE | CINEMA CAFE | SHAKESPEAREAN I.M.s | LET'S SPEAK ESKIMO | FISSION | CHIPS |
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$200
[1]
Across the continent, the euro is divided into 100 of these--sound familiar?
cents
Mehrun
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$200
[6]
Morgan Spurlock eats nothing but McDonald's for a month in this documentary
Super Size Me
Chris
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$200
[7]
Told Antonio usury wuz kewl w/ examples from Bible... GTG. Check my site @ italianmoneyguy.com
Shylock
Mehrun
Chris
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$200
[15]
It's the Eskimo term for any dwelling, not just those made of ice
igloo
Chris
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$200
[20]
Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner & Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear fission by bombarding atoms of this element
uranium
Mehrun
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$200
[12]
A high-price/low-risk stock issued by a major company
blue chip
Cathy
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$400
[2]
On Jan. 1, 2007 Germany introduced a payment of up to $34,700 to Damen und Herren who do this together
have children
Chris
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$400
[13]
Catherine Zeta-Jones heats up the screen with sous-chef Aaron Eckhart in this film
No Reservations
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$400
[8]
Played Cassio like a keyboard (BEG)
Iago
Mehrun
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$400
[21]
It means "people" in the Eskimo language, & it's what most Canadian Eskimos call themselves
Inuit
Chris
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$400
[22]
The first fission bomb ever dropped in war had this diminutive name
Little Boy
Mehrun
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$400
[16]
This saying about ignoring the consequences goes back to the lumber industry's devil-may-care woodcutters
let the chips fall where they may
Mehrun
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$600
[3]
In 1998 2 million pilgrims went to see a piece of cloth in this Italian city's cathedral
Turin
Chris
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$600
[14]
A food critic names Adam Sandler "the best chef in the country" in this multicultural film
Spanglish
Mehrun
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$600
[9]
EM me @ than eoffife @ I'mtheregicider.com
Macduff
Mehrun
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$600
[28]
From a Greenland dialect of Eskimo, it means "small boat made of skins"
kayak
Mehrun
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$600
[23]
In fission, total mass decreases because part of the original mass is converted to this, as seen in Einstein's equation
energy
Mehrun
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$600
[17]
The "son" of Angela Lansbury's character in "Beauty and the Beast", Chip is one of these
a teacup
Cathy
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$800
[4]
The Alhambra towers above this southern Spanish city
Granada
Mehrun
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$800
[26]
Tita's desire for Pedro becomes a part of the food she prepares, & people who eat it literally smolder in this film
Like Water for Chocolate
Mehrun
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$800
[10]
Hammy called us "excellent good friends"; he's even giving us a trip to England! GGOH!
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Chris
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$800
[29]
Eskimos have words for different varieties of this; api is for when it's on the ground
snow
Chris
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$800
[24]
Controlled or uncontrolled, this is a process in which neutrons released in fission produce additional fissions
chain reaction
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$800
[18]
This U.S. president's 4 children include Amy & Chip
Carter
Chris
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$1,000
[5]
Paris is organized into 20 of these
arrondissements
Cathy
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$1,000
[27]
Tony Shalhoub & Stanley Tucci, Primo & Secondo, try to keep their Italian restaurant cooking in this film
Big Night
Cathy
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DD
$1,000
[11]
Come c me in "Pyramus and Thisbe"! OBTW, tired of "head of an ass" jokes, TYVM
Bottom
Chris
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$1,000
[30]
Eskimos know this high flyer, Branta canadensis, is an iqsrabutilik
Canada goose
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$1,000
[25]
Einstein's letter to FDR about the possibility of fission bombs mentions the work of this Italian-born physicist
(Enrico) Fermi
Chris
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$1,000
[19]
Ojibwa is another name for this American Indian tribe
Chippewa
Chris
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| ANATOMY | MUST FLEE TV | CRIME TIME | THE NEW YORK TIMESOP-ED | FORMER PLACE NAMES | "THINK" ABOUT IT |
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$400
[10]
This bone in the lower leg is the second-longest in the human body
the tibia
Cathy
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$400
[13]
Jack & other members of the Counter Terrorism Unit are chasing & sometimes being chased in this series
24
Cathy
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$400
[29]
The President signed legislation in 1990 requiring the government to track these crimes done out of prejudice
hate crimes
Mehrun
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$400
[1]
He did not go gentle into that good "Nightline", ripping ABC in an op-ed for trying to replace him with Letterman
Ted Koppel
Mehrun
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$400
[7]
From 1793 to 1834, this now-largest Canadian city was known as York
Toronto
Mehrun
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$400
[19]
A research institute, like the RAND Corporation
a think tank
Chris
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$800
[12]
These glands also produce norepinephrine
the adrenal glands
Cathy
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$800
[14]
On this series, survivors from the 12 colonies hunt for the mythical 13th colony called Earth
Battlestar Galactica
Chris
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$800
[25]
It's obtaining & using another person's name, social security number & other personal info to commit fraud
identity theft
Chris
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$800
[3]
In 2006 Roger Mahoney, high up in this organization, said he would disobey a bill & keep helping illegal immigrants
the Catholic Church
Mehrun
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$800
[6]
What was once East Pakistan is today this country
Bangladesh
Mehrun
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$800
[20]
Title question in a 1979 No. 1 hit by Rod Stewart, & the answer ahead of time is "Yes"
"Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
Mehrun
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DD
$800
[24]
This heart valve gets its name from its resemblance to a bishop's hat
the mitral valve
Chris
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$1,200
[15]
The horned-rimmed glasses guy pursued & kidnapped people with special abilities on this show
Heroes
Chris
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$1,200
[26]
While he was never convicted of murder, Al Capone did spend 8 years in prison for this crime
tax evasion
Cathy
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$1,200
[8]
In 1995 Don Hewitt, then executive producer of this TV show, wrote that some trials shouldn't be televised
60 Minutes
Mehrun
Cathy
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$1,200
[5]
This country was formerly called Abyssinia
Ethiopia
Mehrun
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$1,200
[21]
Marvelous, melodic mantra of The Little Engine That Could
"I think I can"
Chris
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$1,200
[18]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew plays with a skeleton.) The bones of the shoulder--the clavicle, the scapula & the humerus--form this type of joint, which is more susceptible to injury because itmoves in multiple directions
a ball and socket
Mehrun
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$1,600
[16]
Framed for robbing the Bank of Hanoi, this group escapes from military prison & hires themselves out
The A-Team
Chris
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$1,600
[28]
In March 2006 he was denied parole for the 13th time for the murder of Robert Kennedy
Sirhan Sirhan
Chris
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$1,600
[9]
This Russian eulogized Reagan as "a president who listened" though "we had to overcome mistrust"
Gorbachev
Chris
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$1,600
[2]
Miss Saigon? It's still around, it just goes by this name
Ho Chi Minh City
Cathy
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$1,600
[22]
Describing the essence & vitality of the city, Dallas' slogan is "Live large", do this
"think big"
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$2,000
[30]
This bone is between the last lumbar vertebra & the coccyx
the sacrum
Mehrun
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$2,000
[17]
Bill Paxton flees the polygamist Juniper Creek compound & forms a "compound" of his own on this HBO series
Big Love
Chris
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DD
$4,000
[27]
In a letter to her sons before her 1953 execution, she wrote, "Always remember that we were innocent"
Ethel Rosenberg
Cathy
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$2,000
[11]
This free market-loving economist praised vouchers in 2002's "The Market Can Transform Our Schools"
(Milton) Friedman
Chris
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$2,000
[4]
In 1966 Leopoldville, the capital of Congo, was renamed this
Kinshasa
Mehrun
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$2,000
[23]
The motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" is often translated as this, starting with "evil"
"Evil to him who thinks evil"
Cathy
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Referring to the Great Bear constellation, this area's name is from the Greek meaning "opposite the bear"
Antarctica