2007 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.
Jeff Spoeri — a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
Celeste DiNucci — a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Christian Haines — a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian | $2,000 | $5,600 | $13,100 |
$15,401
2nd place: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System |
$13,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Celeste | $1,600 | $4,800 | $8,800 |
$15,401
Finalist |
$11,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jeff | $1,800 | $5,000 | $15,400 |
$4,599
3rd place: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System |
$15,400
18 R, 1 W |
| BOOKS OF THE APOCRYPHA | ESPN ENTERTAINMENT | JAPANESE THEATRE | I WANT CANDY | IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME | FROM THE GREEK |
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$200
[11]
The British tell the tale of St. George & this; the Apocrypha has the book of Bel & this
the Dragon
Christian
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$200
[1]
In the ESPN drama "3", Barry Pepper played this late NASCAR legend
Dale Earnhardt
Christian
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$200
[14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew observes a female kabuki performer at a kabuki theatre in Tokyo, Japan.) In the word "kabuki", the middle syllable, "bu", stands for this art form, a major part of kabuki
dance
Celeste
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$200
[13]
I could go for some of these sugar & marshmallow chicks--especially the blue ones--when's Easter?
Peeps
Celeste
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$200
[20]
It's black & white & eats about 80 pounds of bamboo shoots a day
a panda bear
Christian
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$200
[5]
A pentad is a group of this many
5
Christian
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$400
[12]
You can read his "Song" in the Old Testament & his "Wisdom" in the apocrypha
Solomon
Jeff
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$400
[2]
3 sharps team up to take down Don "The Matador" Everest in "Tilt", an ESPN series about this card game
poker
Christian
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$400
[15]
Kabuki introduced the revolving stage to the world in the 1770s; it was inspired by this children's toy
a (spinning) top
Jeff
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$400
[16]
"Joy of Cooking" has a recipe for dark chocolate this & credits Baltimore with the invention; I prefer vanilla or maple
fudge
Jeff
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$400
[21]
Born in South Africa, this Sisters of Notre Dame nun wears her habit to host TV shows on art
Sister Wendy
Celeste
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$400
[7]
In 1840 Christian Schonbein followed his nose to identify this form of oxygen & named it from the Greek for "smell"
ozone
Celeste
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$600
[28]
There are up to 4 books of this military group associated with Hanukkah
the Maccabees
Christian
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$600
[3]
John Turturro played this oft-fired manager in the 2007 ESPN miniseries "The Bronx is Burning"
Billy Martin
Christian
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$600
[25]
(Alex holds up a mask in a store in Tokyo, Japan.) These traditional masks are worn by the shite, or hero, of this revered & highly stylized form of Japanese drama
noh
Jeff
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$600
[17]
Meaning "no equal", it's another name for snow caps
nonpareils
Jeff
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$800
[23]
"My fellow Americans", this black & white cocker spaniel gave its name to a 1952 speech
Checkers
Jeff
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$600
[8]
Triglycerides are these, from the Greek for "fat"
lipids
Christian
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$800
[29]
Break out the hamantaschen--the apocrypha contains additions to her Old Testament book
Esther
Christian
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$800
[4]
In 2005 ESPN aired "Four Minutes", about this athlete who was born in Middlesex, England in 1929
Roger Bannister
Celeste
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$800
[26]
Instead of human actors, bunraku theatre features these, which are manipulated in full view of the audience
puppets
Celeste
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$800
[18]
You can buy squares of its chocolate, like the raspberry or mint-filled, at its famous square in San Francisco
Ghirardelli
Jeff
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$1,000
[24]
An African name for this monkey that sits in trees as if in prayer means "messenger of the gods"
the colobus
Celeste
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$800
[9]
From Greek for "steward", it's been defined as "the dismal science"
economics
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$1,000
[30]
This beautiful widow who beheads General Holofernes gets her own book
Judith
Celeste
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$1,000
[6]
Matt Dillon narrates "Once in a Lifetime", about this New York City soccer team Pele played for
the Cosmos
Jeff
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$1,000
[27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents in front of a kabuki demonstration in Tokyo, Japan.) Kabuki theatre's golden age came as Japan developed an urban culture in this era, named for what Tokyo was called then
the Edo era
Christian
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$1,000
[19]
Hershey's could have called this candy bar "Thingamajig"; it would have been 4 letters shorter
Whatchamacallit
Christian
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DD
$2,000
[22]
Famous for his B&W images used in psychology, as a youth he was named "Kleck", German for "inkblot"
(Hermann) Rorschach
Celeste
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$1,000
[10]
This first name of poet Roethke means "gift of God"
Theodore
Christian
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| OPERA | FUNNY OR DIE | A SLICE OF LETTISH | UNDER THE VOLCANO | YOGA TIME | EPONYM DROPPER |
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$400
[5]
Susanna the maid is the bride in this Mozart opera
The Marriage of Figaro
Celeste
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$400
[13]
In "A Day at the Races", while checking a pulse, he said, "Either he's dead or my watch has stopped"
Groucho Marx
Celeste
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$400
[21]
Bishop Albert made this Latvian capital the HQ of the Knights of the Sword
Riga
Celeste
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$400
[22]
Lava that flows far forms shield volcanoes; this island is made up of 5 of them, including Mauna Kea
the Big Island of Hawaii
Christian
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$400
[11]
Some yoga poses, or asanas, are named after animals, like the upward facing this, seen here
dog
Celeste
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$400
[6]
This 2-word phrase for a loyal & resourceful assistant comes from a character in a Daniel Defoe novel
Man Friday
Jeff
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$800
[4]
The name of this Verdi opera means "The Fallen Woman"
La Traviata
Celeste
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$800
[20]
This good sport said, "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours"
Yogi Berra
Christian
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$800
[27]
Newly independent at the time, Latvia joined this world body on Sept. 22, 1921
the League of Nations
Jeff
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$800
[23]
One difference between wide & narrow craters is the presence of this to mix with magma & cause big steam explosions
water
Jeff
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$800
[12]
Contrary to popular belief, only a minuscule fraction of this "weaving" school of yoga deals with sex
Tantric
Jeff
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$800
[7]
March Madness is in effect with this instrument named for a composer whose band first used it
a sousaphone
Christian
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$1,200
[1]
Puccini's last opera, it's set in Peking
Turandot
Christian
Celeste
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$1,200
[17]
This director: "There are worse things" than death; "ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
Woody Allen
Christian
Celeste
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$1,200
[28]
About 60% of Latvians are ethnically Latvian; this nationality makes up about a third of the population
Russian
Jeff
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$1,200
[24]
Volcanoes can be formed by plumes of magma originating in this layer of the Earth below the crust
the mantle
Jeff
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$1,200
[14]
A tradition of yoga teaches that the cosmos was once filled with this 1-syllable mantra
om
Christian
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$1,200
[8]
Call the sheriff! This English shire is named for an Old Saxon landowner; the name means "Snot's home"
Nottingham
Jeff
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$2,000
[3]
"La Bisbetica Dominata" was based on this Shakespeare play
The Taming of the Shrew
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$1,600
[18]
This man who played Honore Lachaille in "Gigi" said, "I prefer old age to the alternative"
(Maurice) Chevalier
Jeff
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$1,600
[29]
This is the sea on Latvia's west coast
the Baltic
Christian
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$1,600
[26]
In this island country, nearly 60% of eruptions, like those of Katla, occur under glacial ice
Iceland
Celeste
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DD
$1,500
[16]
According to yoga philosophy, these "wheels" are the 7 main centers of spiritual energy in the human body
the chakras
Christian
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$1,600
[9]
Seen here, it's named for a U.S. Army officer who designed it as an effective weapon for trench warfare
a Thompson (submachine) gun
Celeste
Jeff
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DD
$4,000
[2]
This 1892 Leoncavallo work has a play within the opera
Pagliacci
Celeste
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$2,000
[19]
This 19th c. journalist said, "Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate"; then he disappeared
Ambrose Bierce
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$2,000
[30]
In Latvia, male first names usually end in "S"; female first names, usually in this vowel
A
Jeff
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$2,000
[25]
From words meaning "fire" & "broken", this type of flow of searing gas & rock swept down Mt. Pelee in 1902
a pyroclastic flow
Jeff
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$1,600
[15]
Yoga is mentioned in these ancient religious texts of India that date back 3,500 years
the Vedas
Christian
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$2,000
[10]
It's the financial "scheme" named for the Italian swindler who made it famous in the 1920s
Ponzi
Christian
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The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films its director felt he had made to that point
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