Show #4756 2005-04-18 (taped 2005-03-22) Tournament of Champions

2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 2, game 4.

Contestants

Michael Daunt — an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Bob Harris — a writer from Los Angeles, California

Bruce Borchardt — a metrologist from Washington, D.C.

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bruce $1,400 $3,200 $8,400 $8,400
2nd place: $10,000
$8,400
12 R, 0 W
Bob $3,400 $3,600 $17,200 $2,200
3rd place: $10,000
$15,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $600 $5,400 $16,000 $22,801
Winner: $22,801 + an advance to UToC Round 3
$15,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC QUOTATIONS PLAYING PRESIDENT FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL BRITISH SPELLING BEE BEEN THERE... DONE THAT
$200 [18]
In "Notes on Hospitals", she wrote that the first requirement of a hospital is to "do the sick no harm"
Florence Nightingale
Bruce
$200 [12]
The 2003 movie with James Brolin as him aired on Showtime after CBS dropped it
Reagan
Bob
$200 [26]
The bearded tit
a bird
Bob
$200 [1]
In the British version of Monopoly, you might draw a card saying "Go directly to" this lockup
G-A-O-L
Bruce
$200 [7]
Thiscountry is in the east of a subcontinent
Bangladesh
Bob
$200 [5]
In 1817 Scotland's David Brewster patented this pattern-making tube made with mirrors & ground glass
a kaleidoscope
Bruce
$400 [19]
This 4-letter word precedes "Caesar, we who are about to die salute thee"
hail
Michael
$400 [13]
Charlton Heston is seenhereas this prickly character before he became president"What did you say?""I said, 'I wonder whose bed Rachael'll be putting her moccasins under next.'"[Smack!]
Andrew Jackson
Bob
$400 [27]
The coati
a mammal
Michael
$400 [2]
The equivalent of our own Donald Rumsfeld, the UK's Geoffrey Hoon is the minister of this
D-E-F-E-N-C-E
Bruce
$400 [8]
Thisnation sticks out like a sore thumb
Denmark
Michael
$400 [6]
Samuel B. Fay patented the first bent-wire one of these in 1867; it was originally used to attach tags to fabric
a paper clip
Bob Michael
$600 [20]
When he landed on Leyte Island in October 1944, he said, "The hour of your redemption is here"
MacArthur
Michael
$600 [14]
E.G. Marshall, Robert Duvall & Tom Selleck have all played this U.S. president
Eisenhower
Bob
$600 [28]
The skipjack
a fish
Bruce
$600 [3]
Lovely Rita of Liverpool knows this unit of measure is 39.37 inches
M-E-T-R-E
Bruce
$600 [9]
Itextends about 3,200 miles from east to west
Indonesia
Michael
$600 [23]
Robert Banks & John Hogan invented a type of this substance, giving grocery shoppers a checkout choice
plastic
Michael
$800 [21]
In 1811 Joseph de Maistre wrote in "Letter to X", "Every nation has the" one of these "it deserves"
the government
Michael
DD $1,000 [15]
William Parry was James Garfield in the originial production of this Sondheim musical
Assassins
Bob
$800 [29]
The wahoo
a fish
Bob
$800 [4]
With no pence on hand, you might ask the curry restaurant, "Will you take" a personal one of these?
C-H-E-Q-U-E
Bob
$800 [10]
You don't hear so much about the East Bank where this country is
Jordan
Bob
$800 [24]
Burglar alarm seller E.T. Holmes employed the 1st of these in 1877, "plugging in" 6 Boston telephone subscribers
switchboard
Bob
$1,000 [22]
At Manila Bay, Commodore Dewey said to this captain of his flagship, "You may fire when you are ready..."
(Charles) Gridley
Bob
$1,000 [16]
Kelsey Grammer played this general in A&E's 2003 "Benedict Arnold"
Washington
Michael
$1,000 [30]
The margay
a mammal
$1,000 [17]
In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this
C-O-L-O-U-R
Michael
$1,000 [11]
Formerly a British protectorate, it's the republic outlined here
Zambia
$1,000 [25]
In 1775 American inventor David Bushnell built a working one of these vehicles he called "The Turtle"
a submarine
Bruce

Double Jeopardy! Round

EGYPTIAN LIFE 1970s POP MUSIC LABOR YOUR NUMBER'S UP FILL IN THE TITLE I'M JUST A "BILL"
$400 [2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) As in many Arab countries a standard greeting is "salam alekum" which literally wishes this to the other person
peace
Michael
$400 [26]
In this hit Barry Manilow sings that "Time in New England took me away, to long rocky beaches & you by the bay"
"Weekend In New England"
Bob
$400 [1]
This word refers to an employer's refusal to let employees enter the workplace without accepting his terms
a lockout
Michael
$400 [21]
Number of face cards in a standard deck
12
Bob Michael
$400 [16]
Jack Kerouac:"The _____ Bums"
Dharma
Bob
$400 [11]
P.T. Barnum used them to advertise his attractions in the 1840s
billboards
Bruce
$800 [3]
When drinking ahwa, leave these in the bottom of the cup, where they're read like tea leaves
coffee grounds
Bruce
$800 [27]
This Fleetwood Mac album spent 31 weeks at No. 1, more than any other album of the 1970s
Rumours
Bob
$800 [4]
The Pittsburgh-based union of these workers was not happy with Pres. Bush's decision to lift tariffs
steel
Bob
$800 [22]
Number of stars on the U.S. flag for the longest period of time
48
Bruce Michael
$800 [17]
Nathaniel Hawthorne:"The Blithedale _____"
Romance
$800 [12]
The top of this recreation item is called the bed & may be 800 pounds of slate
a billiard table
Michael
$1,200 [8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) I'm in Cairo's Khan El-khalili Bazaar, known here by this one-syllable Arabic name for a main market
suq
Michael
$1,200 [28]
It was Mike Love who gave Daryl Dragon this nickname
"The Captain"
Bob
$1,600 [6]
Members of the Industrial Workers of the World were sometimes called by this "shaky" nickname
wobblies
Bob
$1,200 [23]
Classic game show hosted by Jack Barry & Maury Povich
21
Michael
$1,200 [18]
Joseph Conrad:"The Secret _____"
Agent
Bruce
$1,200 [13]
Lodging for a soldier
billet
Michael
$1,600 [9]
City dwellers can get away to Ras Mohammed National Park on these 2 gulfs
the Gulf of Suez & the Gulf of Aqaba
$1,600 [29]
In 1977 Stevie Wonder sang, "There's Basie, Miller, Satchmo and the king of all", him
Sir Duke
Bob
$2,000 [7]
A 1970 act of Congress created this agency that develops standards to help workers survive the workplace
OSHA
Michael
$1,600 [24]
Record number of wins in one NBA season, by the Chicago Bulls in 1995-96
72
$1,600 [19]
John Stuart Mill:"The Subjection of _____"
Women
$1,600 [14]
The psalmist says, "Deep calleth unto deep... all thy waves and" these "are gone over me"
billows
Michael
$2,000 [10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a bookstore in Cairo, Egypt.) Browsing Cairo's many bookstores, you'll inevitably come across works by this author, the 1988 Nobel Prize winner
(Naguib) Mahfouz
Bob
$2,000 [30]
"And if one night you hear crying from above, it's 'cause" of this, the title of a 1976 hit
"Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel"
DD $4,400 [5]
His entry in the World Book lists birth & death as (1913-1975?)
Jimmy Hoffa
Bob
DD $3,000 [25]
Number of different opening moves possible by one player in a game of chess
20
Michael
$2,000 [20]
William Dean Howells:"The Rise of _____"
Silas Lapham
$2,000 [15]
The name of this London fish market became synonymous with abusive language
Billingsgate
Bruce

Final Jeopardy!

INVENTED WORDS

In works by Lewis Carroll, this word means "four in the afternoon; the time when you begin broiling things for dinner"

brillig

Bruce "What is brillig?" — wagered $0
Michael "What is brillig?" — wagered $6,801
Bob "What is teatime?" — wagered $15,000

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