2007 Tournament of Champions final game 1.
Doug Hicton — a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Cliff Galiher — a student from Half Moon Bay, California
Celeste DiNucci — a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celeste | $4,000 | $5,600 | $14,200 | $20,000 |
$12,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Cliff | $4,200 | $4,200 | $7,400 | $2,800 |
$6,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Doug | $1,600 | $2,800 | $16,200 | $12,400 |
$14,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| BALLET | IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL | ALSO A TOOL | HABEAS CORPSES | "IRA" | FINANCE |
|
$200
[10]
The New York City Ballet's first visit to this city's famous festival inspired the ballet "Scotch Symphony"
Edinburgh
Celeste
|
$200
[16]
He perked up his career by letting Starbucks release his album "Memory Almost Full"
McCartney
Celeste
|
$200
[1]
This drink consists of 2 ounces of vodka & 5 ounces of orange juice
a screwdriver
Cliff
|
$200
[15]
In part due to fears of body snatching, his body was moved 17 times around his Springfield, Ill. national monument
Lincoln
Celeste
|
$200
[26]
Hey, you saps who think pneumonia killed President Harrison--I've got this kind of theory involving a group plan
a conspiracy theory
Doug
|
$600
[28]
Not a fraud scheme, the risk type of this puts more of your assets into the low-risk than the high-risk area
a pyramid
Celeste
Doug
|
|
$400
[11]
The 1972 ballet "Printemps" premiered in the winter, but its name is French for this season
spring
Cliff
|
$400
[17]
This '80s trio were "Spirits in the Material World" before the synchronicity of their 2007 reunion
The Police
Celeste
|
$400
[2]
We recommend giving someone this figuratively if you must fire him; later he might have one to grind
the axe
Celeste
|
$400
[21]
4 places claimed to be the burial site of this explorer, including crypts in Seville & Santo Domingo
Christopher Columbus
Celeste
|
$400
[6]
The lady was quite overcome by this moisture exuded by the muscular estate gardener
perspiration
Cliff
|
$800
[27]
It's often set up by the wealthy for their kids, but California has a state children's one for poor folks
a trust fund
Celeste
|
|
$600
[12]
Balanchine choreographed the leading role in "Allegro Brillante" for this part-Osage Indian ex-wife
Maria Tallchief
Celeste
|
$600
[18]
"Who Knew" this colorful singer could be so "M!ssundaztood"
Pink
|
$600
[3]
"U Can't Touch This" bone, aka the malleus, just behind the eardrum
the hammer
Doug
|
$600
[22]
Kept for years in her husband's dining room, her embalmed body was buried in Buenos Aires in '74
Eva Peron
Doug
|
$800
[8]
Australia's Yellow Tail winery sells this on its own as well as in a cabernet blend
shiraz
Celeste
|
$1,000
[25]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows an upward-tending graph with a deviant dip between March and May on the monitor.) Named for the implication that it brought some rationality to an exuberant market, it's a downward move by generally rising prices
a correction
|
|
$800
[13]
Alexandre Dumas fils' tale about "The Lady of" these flowers bloomed as the ballet "Marguerite and Armand"
the Camellias
Celeste
|
$800
[19]
This band is now part of the "Zeitgeist" after suffering "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
Smashing Pumpkins
|
$800
[4]
A light, stroking touch, or a dense growth of bushes
a brush
Cliff
|
$800
[23]
Executed in 1915, this radical labor activist was cremated & his ashes mailed to labor unions all over the world
Joe Hill
Celeste
|
$1,000
[9]
This type of medieval play often shows the Virgin Mary coming to the rescue
a miracle play
Celeste
|
— |
|
$1,000
[14]
As a law student in St. Petersburg, this man became interested in the arts, & in 1909 he founded the Ballets Russes
Diaghilev
Cliff
|
$1,000
[20]
"Hybrid Theory", the title of this rock-rap band's first hit album, was one of the band's former names
Linkin Park
|
$1,000
[5]
Hit the backyard with this old term for a libertine
a rake
Doug
|
$1,000
[24]
This 19th century philosopher's body has been very utilitarian; it's on display at a university in London
Jeremy Bentham
Doug
|
DD
$1,400
[7]
The Motion Picture Association of America says this cost producers, theater owners, etc. $18.2 billion in 2005
piracy
Cliff
|
— |
| WAR MOVIES | ISLANDS | HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS | THE RULE OF THIRDS | AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$400
[23]
2004:Angry Greeks attack a fortified city-state
Troy
Cliff
|
$400
[14]
This "colossal" island is the largest in Greece's Dodecanese archipelago
Rhodes
Doug
|
$400
[5]
Older brother Frank is thrilled to welcome this Sept. 5, 1847 baby; 10 days old & making guns with his tiny fingers
Jesse James
Doug
|
$800
[1]
On Jan. 19, 1966 this woman was elected the third prime minister of her country
Indira Gandhi
Cliff
Doug
|
$800
[10]
Whether a surfin' one or a Pontiac, this term comes from the Swahili meaning "journey"
safari
Doug
|
$1,200
[24]
Jules Verne-Wilkie Collins sci-fi/detective novel about Civil War vets who want to shoot a cannon into a gem
From the Earth to the Moonstone
|
|
$800
[22]
1978:The wife of a soldier fighting in Vietnam works at a VA hospital & has an affair with a wounded vet
Coming Home
Cliff
|
$800
[18]
This group of islands off the northern coast of France was the only British soil occupied by the Germans in WWII
the Channel Islands
Doug
|
$800
[6]
This king is thrilled by the birth of Mary, Feb. 18, 1516; there's still plenty of time to have a son--right?
Henry VIII
Celeste
|
$1,200
[2]
You have to go through this ceremony in order to become a Freemason
the Third Degree
|
$1,200
[11]
The word "okra" is West African; in the language of Angola, okra was called this, which to us is a soup or stew
gumbo
Doug
|
$1,600
[25]
Novel-poem in which Sal & Dean hitchhike through a yellow wood where the path diverges, making all the difference
On the Road Not Taken
Doug
|
|
$1,200
[19]
1970:An historically correct re-creation of Pearl Harbor
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cliff
|
$1,200
[17]
This island nation's highest peak, Yu Shan, in the Chungyang range, is also called Mount Morrison
Taiwan
Cliff
|
$1,600
[8]
A 1906 announcement: dad Socrates & mom Penelope celebrate the launch of this new little ship
Aristotle Onassis
Celeste
|
$2,000
[4]
A member of the British Commonwealth, this country is the third-largest island in the Caribbean
Jamaica
Doug
|
$1,600
[12]
Go where some men have gone before with this 4-letter term from the Afrikaans for "migrate"
trek
Celeste
|
$2,000
[26]
Faulkner novel about Joe Christmas that's the Swedish playwright of "The Dance of Death"
The Light in August Strindberg
Cliff
|
|
$1,600
[20]
1936:Errol Flynn leads a cavalry unit into cannon, annihilation & everlasting glory
Charge of the Light Brigade
Cliff
Doug
|
$1,600
[16]
A causeway connects this Persian Gulf nation with the Saudi Arabian mainland
Bahrain
Celeste
|
$2,000
[9]
James & Lady Blanche have a "declaration": the July 25, 1848 birth of this future foreign secretary & prime minister
(Arthur James) Balfour
Doug
|
DD
$3,000
[3]
Twice in the 1990s, he came in third in U.S. presidential elections
Ross Perot
Doug
|
$2,000
[13]
The marimba was popularized in Central America, but the word is from this sub-Saharan group of about 500 langs.
the Bantu languages
|
— |
|
$2,000
[21]
1951:Erwin Rommel succeeds... for a while... in North Africa
The Desert Fox
|
$2,000
[15]
One of France's 26 regions, it doesn't count as an overseas one though it's 100 miles across the Mediterranean
Corsica
Doug
|
DD
$3,000
[7]
Henry & Clara Ford are proud to announce the rollout of this model Nov. 6, 1893
the Edsel
Celeste
|
— | — | — |
In 2007 this 1962 American Nobel laureate became the first person to receive his own personal genome map
James Watson