2007 Tournament of Champions final game 2.
Doug Hicton — a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (subtotal of $12,400)
Cliff Galiher — a student from Half Moon Bay, California (subtotal of $2,800)
Celeste DiNucci — a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subtotal of $20,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celeste | $3,000 | $5,200 | $14,200 | $2,000 |
$8,000
15 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Cliff | $1,000 | $600 | $3,000 | $3,200 |
$5,000
8 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Doug | $4,000 | $6,600 | $22,600 | $9,199 |
$22,600
27 R, 2 W |
| NATIONAL PARKS | RECENT CINEMA | IF HE'D TAKEN MOM'S LAST NAME | IT AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE | ECONOMIES OF THE WORLD | CROSSWORD CLUES "G" |
|
$200
[30]
This "huge" Kentucky park is home to eyeless fish--don't need to see in the dark
Mammoth Cave
Celeste
|
$200
[16]
Dumbledore's Army is a small group of Hogwarts students who learn to defend against the Dark Arts in this film
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Cliff
|
$200
[21]
Jersey-born singer Frank Garaventi
Sinatra
Doug
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$200
[28]
This electronically recorded graphic representation is unique to each individual speaker
a voice print
Doug
|
$200
[5]
The 21st century has seen this communist island nation turn from sugar to tourism & biotechnology
Cuba
Celeste
|
$200
[11]
A group of geese(6)
a gaggle
Doug
|
|
$400
[29]
One of the delicate features of this park is seen here
Arches National Park
Cliff
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$400
[14]
In "The Nanny Diaries" she plays Annie Braddock, a college student taking care of a rich family's kid
Scarlett Johansson
Cliff
|
$400
[20]
4-star general Colin McKoy
Colin Powell
Celeste
|
$400
[7]
In 1912 he opened his eponymous clothing & shoe store in Freeport, Maine
L.L. Bean
Doug
|
$400
[6]
This country is the largest producer of newsprint & is also big in wheat, but fur trapping has dropped off
Canada
Doug
|
$400
[4]
One who looks after horses or brides(5)
a groom
Doug
|
|
$600
[13]
Other parks are "green" with envy that this one in Colorado has some of the USA's best-preserved cliff dwellings
Mesa Verde
|
$600
[15]
Some officials in New Hampshire were unhappy that the title of this action film was a play on the state motto
Live Free or Die Hard
Cliff
|
$600
[19]
Playwright William Arden
Shakespeare
Doug
|
$600
[26]
Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, was a native of this city
Geneva
Doug
|
$600
[27]
This country's GDP is growing about 10% a year & in 2004, says the World Bank, contributed 1/3 of world growth
China
Cliff
|
$800
[2]
Playwright A.R., or a stretcher(6)
Gurney
Doug
|
|
$800
[25]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Grand Teton National Park, WY.) Over 250 miles of trails exist in Grand Teton, many built by this New Deal agency, whose initials were CCC
the Civilian Conservation Corps
Cliff
|
$800
[17]
One of the taglines for this movie was "For years, lines have been drawn... and then colored in yellow"
The Simpsons Movie
Celeste
|
$800
[9]
Bestselling author Stephen Pillsbury
King
Celeste
|
$800
[8]
(Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a chess board.) Usually done early in the game, it's the chess move seen here & can't be done if you've previously moved your king
castling
Doug
|
$800
[22]
Ravaged by war, in 2002 this country became the world's largest supplier of opium
Afghanistan
Celeste
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
Medusa's favorite blue cheese?(10)
gorgonzola
Celeste
|
|
$1,000
[24]
This national park on Maine's rugged coast was the first one east of the Mississippi
Acadia National Park
Cliff
|
$1,000
[18]
She learned that she had been cast as Tracy Turnblad in "Hairspray" while working at a Cold Stone Creamery store
Nikki Blonsky
Cliff
|
$1,000
[10]
19th century scientist Charles Wedgwood
Darwin
Celeste
|
$1,000
[12]
Usually sold without the bone, this beef cut is taken from the breast section under the first 5 ribs
a brisket
Doug
|
$1,000
[23]
Due to the policies of Robert Mugabe, 4000% inflation has struck this African country
Zimbabwe
Doug
|
$1,000
[3]
Fish that lays its eggs out of water(7)
a grunion
|
| SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | JAZZ HANDS | ARABIC | POMPIDOU & CIRCUMSTANCE | UNREAL ESTATE | REAL CASTLES & PALACES |
|
$400
[26]
SCIAM reported on the founder type of these genetic changes--they happen in 1 person & affect millions of descendants
a mutation
Celeste
|
$400
[21]
This trumpeter was born May 26, 1926; you could call it the "birth of the Cool"
Miles Davis
Celeste
|
$400
[11]
A shamal is a wind that whips up this blinding phenomenon
a sandstorm
Doug
|
$400
[16]
Georges Pompidou took over as president of France upon this man's resignation
de Gaulle
Doug
|
$400
[1]
The Villa Diana in his novel "Tender Is The Night" was based on the French Riviera home of his friend Gerald Murphy
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Celeste
|
$400
[6]
Joan Rivers was among the guests at Charles & Camilla's wedding reception in this castle
Windsor Castle
Doug
|
|
$800
[27]
A March 2002 story was on this bacterial toxin, months after the "first purposeful release" in the U.S.
anthrax
Celeste
|
$800
[22]
I've got "A Love Supreme" for "The Last Trane"; it's one of "My Favorite Things" by this saxophonist
(John) Coltrane
Celeste
Doug
|
$800
[15]
The number 3 is talaata, & this day of the week is El Talaat
Tuesday
|
$800
[17]
From 1962 to 1968 Pompidou held this job, just under president; no 5th Republic-an has held the post longer since
prime minister
Doug
|
$800
[2]
Satis House is the home of Miss Havisham in this classic
Great Expectations
Doug
|
$800
[7]
As you can see, Neuschwanstein Castleis one of the most beautiful in this mountain range
the (Bavarian) Alps
Cliff
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Appropriately, he wrote the October 1994 story "The Search for Extraterrestrial Life"
Carl Sagan
Doug
|
$1,200
[23]
(Jon of the Clue Crew sits at the kit.) The use of the floor tom was popularized by this drummer, especially with Benny Goodman on "Sing, Sing, Sing"
Gene Krupa
Doug
|
$1,200
[14]
The name of this headdress for men may be related to the word "coif"
kaffiyeh
Doug
|
$1,200
[18]
During WWII, G.P. fought as a lt. & won this French military honor created in 1915 to reward bravery
the Croix de Guerre
Celeste
|
$1,200
[3]
Bly is the "big ugly antique" house that may be haunted in this Henry James novelette
The Turn of the Screw
Celeste
Doug
|
$1,600
[9]
Churchill, Stalin & FDR hung out in the Livadia Palace during this 1945 conference
Yalta
Doug
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Millions of spam messages are generated by "rogue... software programs" called these, a 4-letter word
bots
Doug
|
$1,600
[24]
We pray to hear his hands on the piano keys "'Round Midnight" (which he wrote)
Thelonious Monk
Celeste
|
$1,600
[13]
Change 1 letter in "wade" to get this, a gully that's dry except during periods of rain
a wadi
Doug
|
$1,600
[19]
In '61 Georges led secret talks with this country's Front de Liberation Nationale & got a cease-fire there
Algeria
Cliff
|
$1,600
[4]
Shellmound is the Fairchild Family plantation in this Mississippi woman's 1946 novel "Delta Wedding"
Eudora Welty
Doug
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
King John's Castle rises majestically above the banks of this river in the city of Limerick
the Shannon River
Cliff
|
|
DD
$7,000
[28]
An IPY, an international this year, kicked off in 2007 to study ice shelfs & permafrost
polar
Celeste
|
$2,000
[25]
Thisgypsy guitarist lost the use of two fingers on his left hand, but still had some of the best jazz hands around
Django Reinhardt
Doug
|
$2,000
[12]
In Arabic, follow a hope about the future, like the train arriving shortly, with this, meaning "Allah willing"
inshallah
|
$2,000
[20]
This Pompidou protege & recent French pres. organized talks with trade unions after 1968's mass demonstrations
Chirac
Doug
|
$2,000
[5]
Castle Richmond is the title setting of an 1860 work by this author of "Barchester Towers"
(Anthony) Trollope
Doug
|
$2,000
[10]
In the Yusupov Palace, an eerie wax figure of this mystic dominates the room in which he was poisoned
Rasputin
Cliff
|
From the Latin for "fortified town", this term later referred to a person--the representative of a town or borough
burgess