Show #5329 2007-11-08 (taped 2007-10-09) Tournament of Champions

2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Steve Unite — a writer from Studio City, California

Sara Terrell — a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut

Christian Haines — a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Christian	$5,400	$11,400	$18,800	$24,001 Automatic semifinalist	$18,800 28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Sara	$0	$200	$-1,000	$-1,000 3rd place: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System if eliminated	$-1,000 5 R, 4 W
Steve	$3,400	$5,600	$12,000	$10,000 2nd place: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System if eliminated	$12,000 15 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE U.S. SENATE	TV DETECTIVES	SOUTHERN CUISINE	THE NEW YORK TIMESTRAVEL	STOCK & TRADE	COVER YOUR "BASE"s
$200 [1] This Connecticut senator lost the 2006 Democratic primary but later won reelection as an independent Joe Lieberman Steve	$200 [6] This show began by saying "Once upon a time, there were 3 little girls who went to the police academy" Charlie's Angels Christian	$200 [11] At Cracker Barrel restaurants, you can fill up on comfort foods like biscuits & gravy & this hominy dish grits Christian	$200 [21] Visit Stanley Park, one of the largest urban parks in North America, while in this British Columbia city Vancouver Christian Sara	$200 [30] For everything else, there's MA, this company MasterCard Steve	$200 [16] The wooden skirting at the bottom of an interior wall a baseboard Christian
$400 [2] This North Carolina Republican is the wife of a former U.S. senator from Kansas Elizabeth Dole Christian	$400 [7] Bing Crosby was an early choice to play this detective but said no, so Peter Falk got the role Columbo Christian	$400 [12] "Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking" recipes including Dixie, Georgia & bourbon versions of this classic pie pecan Christian Steve	$400 [23] Several articles on Bonaire focus on diving beneath the blue waters of this sea the Caribbean Christian	$400 [28] If you want to snowboard or ski, go freestyle with KTO, this sporty company K2	$400 [17] A collection of digital info organized for convenient access a database Sara
$600 [3] A senator must be a U.S. citizen for 9 years & be at least this age 30 Christian	$600 [8] Expecting cancellation, this Hawaiian eye was killed off in 1987 but oops! got renewed & resuscitated Magnum, P.I. Christian	$600 [13] You can add a little crunch to your cornbread using these crispy pieces of pork or poultry fat after it's been rendered cracklings Christian	$600 [22] You can book a trip right on the website with a link to this site whose logo shows a plane & a globe Expedia(.com) Christian	$600 [27] You can really clean up with this company, WHR Whirlpool Christian	$600 [18] To lower someone or something in rank or esteem to debase Christian
$800 [4] While serving in Vietnam in the 1960s, this Republican senator from Nebraska received 2 Purple Hearts Chuck Hagel Christian	$800 [9] Top fashion model Maddie Hayes became a reluctant P.I. paired with David Addison on this show Moonlighting Steve	$800 [14] Some say this black-eyed peas & rice dish was named for a servant who kept on his toes while dishing it out Hoppin' John Christian	$800 [24] The Times reports that war-torn countries are reviving tourism, like this African nation ravaged by genocide in 1994 Rwanda Christian	$800 [26] This company, RTN, believes in a strong defense Raytheon	$800 [19] A parachutist who leaps from standing high structures, not out of a plane a base jumper Christian
$1,000 [5] This senator was admitted to the New York bar in 1975 but has never practiced law Chuck Schumer Christian	$1,000 [10] "This is" this trailer-dwelling private eye. "At the tone, leave your name & message. I'll get back to you" Rockford Steve	$1,000 [15] From French for "to suffocate", it's a popular Cajun stew of crawfish & vegetables served over white rice étouffée Steve	$1,000 [25] On this island just east of Java, Seminyak Beach is a quieter alternative to touristy Kuta Bali Steve	DD $2,000 [29] This company, TM, is a hybrid, as it also runs a financial services division Toyota Christian	$1,000 [20] 2-word term for a chemical unit linking complementary strands of DNA a base pair Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY	SEASONAL CINEMA	FIRST LADIES	WORLD AUTHORS	20th CENTURY COMPOSERS	VOCABULARY
$400 [16] (Jon of the Clue Crew reads from the marble-columned rotunda of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) The rotunda is named after this U.S. president who collected specimens for the museum Teddy Roosevelt Sara	$400 [21] Quick! Name this seasonal 1959 Elizabeth Taylor film based on a Tennessee Williams play Suddenly, Last Summer Steve	$400 [7] She played a lady in waiting, not a First Lady, in the Broadway musical "Lute Song" Nancy Reagan Christian	$400 [6] Last name of brothers Jakob & Wilhelm, known for their German dictionary as well as their fairy tales Grimm Steve	$400 [1] Olivier Messiaen studied these to imitate their sounds in works like "Catalogue d'oiseaux" birds Sara	$400 [30] A mark of disgrace; its name is from the Greek for "tattoo mark" stigma
$800 [17] (Jon of the Clue Crew reads underneath an ornamented hanging boat at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) This seaworthy 63-foot canoe was carved from a single tree trunk by the Haida, a native people from islands off this Canadian province British Columbia Christian	$800 [22] Richard Gere & Winona Ryder have a May-December romance in this weepy 2000 drama Autumn in New York Christian	$800 [8] For 12 years, she was the wife of Washington, D.C. jeweler Norman Galt; he died in 1908 Edith Wilson Steve	$800 [12] As a medical student at Moscow University, he wrote stories under the name Antosha Chekhonte Chekhov Christian	$800 [2] First name of Austro-American composer Schoenberg; he anagrammed it to name his son Ronald Arnold Sara	$800 [29] "Pathetic" this is the attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects fallacy Sara
$1,200 [18] (Hi, I'm Neil de Grasse Tyson.) I'm the director of this world-famous planetarium here at the museum, opened in 1935 & named for a philanthropist the Hayden Planetarium Christian	$1,200 [23] Glenn Close & Patrick Stewart played a battling royal couple in a TV remake of this 1968 film The Lion in Winter Christian	$1,200 [9] As one of her daughters tells it, she was born "in a miner's shack high in the mountains of Eastern Nevada" Pat Nixon	$1,200 [13] Keeping it in the family, Johann Wyss edited his dad's manuscript about this Swiss family the Swiss Family Robinson Sara	$1,200 [3] Sir Ralph Vaughan Williams put these jazzy horns in his 9th symphony, with the instruction not to sound like "demented cats" saxophones Christian	$1,600 [27] This adjective means both "bloody" & "cheerfully optimistic" sanguine Steve
$1,600 [19] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History.) One of the iconic exhibits in the Hall of Ocean Life is the coral reef diorama near a 30-times enlarged model of one of these creatures that make up reefs polyps Christian Sara	$1,600 [24] It's the English title of Ingmar Bergman's "Jungfrukallan" The Virgin Spring	$1,600 [10] If there had been an inaugural ball in 1877 (there wasn't), she probably would have served lemonade Lucy Hayes Steve	$1,600 [14] While serving as an ambulance driver during WWI, he finished his novel "Of Human Bondage" Somerset Maugham Sara Steve	$2,000 [5] He was buried in New York in 1945 & reburied in his beloved Hungary in 1988 Béla Bartók Christian	$2,000 [28] Both "mercenary" & this synonym come from Latin roots that refer to payment soldier (of fortune)
$2,000 [20] The museum's 563-carat sapphire called the Star of India was actually found on this island Sri Lanka	$2,000 [25] Burgess Meredith re-created his Broadway role in this 1936 film based on a Maxwell Anderson play Winterset Steve	$2,000 [11] Mrs. Harding was nicknamed "Flossie", but this was her real first name Florence Steve	$2,000 [15] In 1909 this author of "The Immoralist" co-founded the literary magazine The New French Revue André Gide	DD $3,000 [4] Nickname of Roy Harris' Symphony No. 14, premiered in Washington, D.C. in 1976 "Bicentennial" Christian	DD $2,400 [26] In a fightin' mood? You can enter the fray or take part in this noisy disturbance, from the Italian for "to smash" a fracas Christian

Final Jeopardy!

THE PERSIAN GULF

Its national anthem begins, "O Lord, protect for us Our Majesty the Sultan"

Oman

Steve "What is Saudi Arabia?" — wagered $2,000

Christian "What is Oman?" — wagered $5,201

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