2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 2, game 2.
India Cooper — an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
Scott Gillispie — a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
Steve Chernicoff — a technical writer from Berkeley, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve | $2,000 | $3,600 | $13,400 |
$21,601
Winner: $21,601 + an advance to UToC Round 3 |
$18,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Scott | $1,200 | $3,200 | $10,800 |
$21,500
2nd place: $10,000 |
$10,800
16 R, 4 W |
| India | $1,800 | $3,400 | $6,600 |
$13,200
3rd place: $10,000 |
$6,600
12 R, 2 W |
| TRIANGLES | HORTON HEARS THE WHO | ALSO A CANDY | GORGE | "W" | BUSH |
|
$200
[1]
It's the technical name for a tetrahedron with triangular sides
a pyramid
Steve
|
$200
[16]
He wrote all The Who's Top 40 hits except "Summertime Blues"
(Pete) Townshend
Scott
|
$200
[6]
A buoyant jacket used to keep a person afloat
a life saver
Steve
India
|
$200
[21]
Discovered in 1806 by Zebulon Pike's expedition, the Royal Gorge is found in this state
Colorado
India
|
$200
[11]
The saxophone is a member of this instrument family, not the brass family
woodwinds
India
|
$200
[23]
...who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
George Herbert Walker Bush
Scott
|
|
$400
[2]
In the "Steel City" of Pittsburgh, the downtown area is known as this triangle
the Golden Triangle
Steve
|
$400
[17]
The Who's demo of "I Can't Explain" featured this Led Zeppelin guitarist
Jimmy Page
Scott
India
|
$400
[7]
"Cabaret" club
Kit Kat
India
|
$400
[22]
Along its 277-mile length it ranges in width from 1/10 of a mile to 18 miles wide
the Grand Canyon
India
|
$400
[12]
56 miles from Hopewell, Virginia is this city that has been restored to the way it was in Colonial times
Williamsburg
Steve
|
$400
[24]
...born in Midland, Texas & earned a masters degree at the University of Texas
Laura Bush
Steve
Scott
India
|
|
$600
[3]
The east side of this large, triangular citadel faces Red Square
the Kremlin
Scott
|
$600
[18]
"Won't Get Fooled Again" includes the line "Meet the new" one of these, "same as the old" one
the boss
Scott
|
$600
[8]
Giant lies
whoppers
Scott
|
$600
[26]
The Brech de Roland, a narrow French gorge in these mountains, leads into a large natural amphitheater
the Pyrenees
Steve
|
$600
[13]
He was the British prime minister from 1964 to 1970 & again from '74 to '76
Harold Wilson
Steve
|
$600
[25]
...who was the first Republican reelected governor in his state's history
Jeb Bush
Steve
|
|
$800
[4]
From the Greek for "uneven", it's the term for a triangle in which no sides are the same length
scalene
Steve
|
$800
[19]
In 1990 The Who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Adam Clayton & this Irish group
U2
Scott
|
$800
[9]
A tract of land covered in scrubby evergreen plants
a heath bar
|
$800
[27]
The ruins of this terraced Inca city lie perched above the Urubamba River Gorge in the Andes Mountains
Machu Picchu
India
|
DD
$600
[14]
When measuring a horse using hands, you measure from the ground up to these, not the ears
the withers
Steve
|
$800
[29]
...who wrote a bestselling nonfiction book in 1990
Barbara Bush
Steve
|
|
$1,000
[5]
In 1911 a devastating fire at this company's factory in New York City killed 146 garment workers
the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
India
|
$1,000
[20]
This 1970 live album contained extended versions of "Magic Bus" & "My Generation"
Live at Leeds
|
$1,000
[10]
Ninepins
skittles
|
$1,000
[28]
This gorge in Tanzania was made famous by the work of the archaeologists Louis & Mary Leakey
Olduvai Gorge
India
|
$1,000
[15]
Considered the greatest poet of Medieval Germany, this man from Eschenbach wrote an early epic poem about the Grail
Wolfram von Eschenbach
|
$1,000
[30]
...who served as an artillery captain in World War I
Prescott Bush
Scott
|
| HISTORIC CHARLESTON | REEL PEOPLE | ITALIAN COMPOSERS | MOUSE PADS | ALONG THE TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY | "Z" BREEZE |
|
$400
[11]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the waterfront in Charleston, SC.) Colonel William Rhett of Charleston, who captured the notorious pirate Stede Bonnet, may have inspired the name of this fictional Charlestonian
Rhett Butler
Scott
|
$400
[26]
In a 2004 biopic, the wife of this scientist says, "I hardly ever see him since he took up sex"
Kinsey
Scott
|
$400
[1]
Venetian concerto master Antonio
Vivaldi
India
|
$400
[2]
According to Aesop, the country mouse of the fable was this type also called a vole
a field mouse
|
$400
[16]
If you're motoring through Alberta, take in this rodeo, the "Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth"
the Calgary Stampede
Steve
|
$400
[21]
It's 5 plus 4 numerals used on your letters & packages now
a ZIP code
Scott
|
|
$800
[12]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a boat off Charleston, SC.) In its 1863 assault on Battery Wagner, the Union's first Blackunitearned this, also the title of a 1989 film about it
Glory
India
|
$800
[27]
Henry Fonda & Glenn Ford were Admirals Nimitz & Spruance in the 1976 movie about this crucial battle of World War II
Midway
Steve
|
$800
[4]
Giacomo, who found Giuseppe Verdi influential
Puccini
Steve
|
$800
[3]
Like many mice, it's how genus Oxymycterus creates its refuge
burrowing (or digging)
Steve
|
$800
[17]
Mile zero of the Trans-Canada Highway is marked by a monument in this city on Vancouver Island
Victoria
Steve
|
$800
[22]
Carl Jung taught at a university here
Zurich
Scott
India
|
|
$1,200
[13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the waterfront in Charleston, SC.) On September 21, 1989, Charleston wasn't quite so peaceful, as this hurricane made landfall here with 135 mile-per-hour winds
Hugo
Scott
|
$1,200
[28]
He's the famed Apache leader portrayed here"I break the arrow. I will try the way of peace."
Cochise
Steve
|
$1,200
[5]
Gioacchino, of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" fame
Rossini
Scott
|
$1,200
[6]
An endangered California mouse is named for the salt type of this damp area
a marsh
Steve
|
$1,200
[18]
A symbol of this Montreal World's Fair, the Biosphere served as the U.S. pavilion & now is an ecology museum of water
Expo 67
Steve
|
$1,200
[23]
Between 1883 & 1885 Nietzsche turned out a 4-part work about this wandering teacher
Zarathustra
India
|
|
$1,600
[14]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC.) At Fort Sumter, early one morning in this month & year, South Carolinian Henry Farley fired what may have been the Civil War's first shot
April, 1861
Steve
|
$1,600
[29]
Both Ray Liotta & D.B. Sweeney have portrayed this gifted baseball player
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson
Scott
|
DD
$2,000
[7]
Ottorino; he pined for Rome
Respighi
Steve
|
$1,600
[9]
Tall grass is the favored habitat of the mouse named for this agricultural event
harvest
Scott
|
$2,000
[20]
The summit of Rogers Pass in British Columbia was the site of the 1962 opening of the highway by this Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker
Scott
|
$1,600
[24]
In the Bible, he predicted the messiah would arrive in Jerusalem by donkey
Zechariah
Scott
|
|
$2,000
[15]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a boat off Charleston, SC.) Sullivan's Island held thousands of quarantined Africans who survived the Atlantic crossing known by this 2-word term
the Middle Passage
Steve
|
$2,000
[30]
The title Westerner of a 1972 Robert Redford film; in real life, he was said to eat his enemies' livers
Jeremiah Johnson
Steve
|
$2,000
[8]
Vincenzo, who made a "Norma" conquest
Bellini
Scott
|
$2,000
[10]
The mouse that's called Britain's most common mammal isn't the "forest mouse" but this synonym
wood mouse
Steve
|
DD
$5,000
[19]
The eastern terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway is at this provincial capital
St. Johns, Newfoundland
Steve
|
$2,000
[25]
This charismatic religious reformer brought the Reformation to Switzerland
Huldrych Zwingli
Steve
|
It sided with Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, & the Bible includes 2 letters to its Christians
Corinth