2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 2, game 7.
Jerome Vered — a writer from Los Angeles, California
Sean Ryan — a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
Leah Greenwald — an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leah | $2,400 | $8,900 | $14,500 |
$15,999
3rd place: $10,000 |
$12,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Sean | $200 | $1,400 | $9,000 |
$18,000
2nd place: $10,000 + $15,000 as a member of the Nifty Nine |
$10,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jerome | $5,000 | $7,000 | $21,000 |
$30,000
Winner: $30,000 + an advance to UToC Round 3 |
$21,000
26 R, 0 W |
| ART & ARTISTS | "LOVE" ON TELEVISION | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS | THE RURAL SCENE | THE URBAN SCENE | IN THE DICTIONARY |
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$200
[1]
Fittingly, Francois Boucher painted "The Toilet of" this Roman goddess for Madame de Pompadour
Venus
Sean
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$200
[6]
Madylin Sweeten plays the daughter & her brothers play the twin sons on this sitcom
Everybody Loves Raymond
Sean
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$200
[16]
"Not just peanuts"
Carter
Jerome
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$200
[26]
"Clem's plowin' the lower forty" & "them weevils is eatin' up the back forty" refer to 40 of these
acres
Leah
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$200
[15]
Often, a route along a waterway isn't called a street or ave., but this, like Boston's Memorial & Storrow
a drive
Jerome
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$200
[25]
If you're dining alfresco, you're dining here
out of doors
Jerome
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$400
[2]
Donatello was born in this city, where he assisted Ghiberti in finishing the bronze doors of the baptistery
Florence
Jerome
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$400
[7]
She hosted "True Tales of Teen Trauma" on MTV & also played Sarah on "Party of Five"
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Sean
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$400
[17]
"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow"
Clinton
Jerome
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$400
[27]
In a classic book, "its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose and mouth painted on it"
a scarecrow
Leah
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$400
[12]
Sodium vapor is a common type of these, which help prevent crime & traffic accidents
streetlights
Sean
Jerome
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$400
[24]
A 16th century hangman gave us this name for the framework over an oil well
derrick
Sean
|
|
$600
[3]
Actress Ellen Andre posed as thedejected womanfor his famous 1876painting"The Absinthe Drinkers"
(Edgar) Degas
Jerome
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$600
[8]
Yikes! Tiny Tim once played a suspected vampire on this comedy anthology series that debuted in 1969
Love, American Style
Jerome
|
$600
[18]
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
William Henry Harrison
Jerome
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$600
[28]
A farrow is a litter of these
piglets
Leah
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$600
[11]
A defining characteristic of a high rise is having this item perfected in the 19th century by Otis
the elevator
Leah
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$600
[20]
Used to express farewell, this French word means "I commend you to God"
adieu
Jerome
|
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$800
[4]
Antonic Canova created 2 gigantic nude statues of this emperor (oddly, one was given to the Duke of Wellington)
Napoleon
Sean
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$800
[9]
Our own Johnny Gilbert was once the announcer for this dating show hosted by Chuck Woolery
Love Connection
Jerome
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$800
[19]
"It's morning again in America"
Ronald Reagan
Leah
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$800
[29]
This English word for a young, non-laying female chicken is related to the French for "chicken"
pullet
Sean
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$800
[13]
It opened in 1900, its first line running from Paris' Porte de Vincennes to Porte Maillot
the Métro
Leah
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$1,000
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a winery.) The science of growing grapes is viticulture; the science of making wine is known as this
oenology
Leah
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Known for his religious art, Sebastien Bourdon served as court painter to this queen of Sweden in the 1650s
Christina
Sean
Jerome
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$1,000
[10]
This '80s sitcom was based on a TV movie in which Tony Randall played a gay man
Love, Sidney
Leah
|
$1,000
[21]
"A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"
Hoover
Leah
Sean
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$1,000
[30]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue while milking a cow.) Stimulation of the teats tells the pituitary gland to produce oxytocin, one of these, which leads to milk production
a hormone
Sean
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$1,000
[14]
She became a symbol of urban indifference when she was killed in 1964 in earshot of her Queens neighbors
(Kitty) Genovese
Jerome
|
DD
$2,500
[22]
From the Latin for "yield", this verb can mean "to die" or to yield to temptation
succumb
Leah
|
| THE BIG BAND ERA | STARDUST | TUXEDO JUNCTION | SOUTH OF THE BORDER | DEEP PURPLE | TAKE THE "A" TRAIN |
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$400
[17]
In a Duke Ellington hit song title, it's the line that follows "It don't mean a thing"
"if it ain't got that swing"
Jerome
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$400
[21]
This word for a large system of stars comes from the Greek for "milk"
galaxy
Leah
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$400
[26]
Europeans once called tuxedos by the name of this city in Monaco
Monte Carlo
Jerome
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$400
[12]
Denmark
Germany
Jerome
|
$400
[6]
To be "raised to the purple" is to become one of these, as Archbishop Terence Cooke did in 1969
a cardinal
Jerome
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$400
[1]
It can be keynote or residential
an address
Sean
|
|
$800
[8]
Title transport in the big band classic heard here
the Chattanooga Choo Choo
Sean
|
$800
[22]
Noted astronomer Fred Whipple famously described the comet as an enormous, dirty one of these
a snowball
Sean
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$800
[27]
In 2005 he catered his 11th Governors Ball for Academy Award winners & disappointees alike
Wolfgang Puck
Leah
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$800
[13]
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Jerome
|
$800
[7]
This murderous Detroit bootlegging mob is mentioned in "Jailhouse Rock"
the Purple Gang
Leah
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$800
[2]
According to Genesis 4, he was the middle child
Abel
Sean
Jerome
|
|
$1,200
[18]
A 1941 hit for the Andrews Sisters, the song about this "boy" was also nominated for an Academy Award
the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B
Jerome
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
A faint constellation in the northern sky, Camelopardalis represents this animal
the giraffe
Sean
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$1,200
[28]
Gentlemen should be prepared to dress for dinner on this newest Cunard ship, the longest, tallest ocean liner
the Queen Mary II
Jerome
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$1,200
[14]
Guyana
Brazil
Jerome
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
Washington's HQ, a state historic site in Newburgh, N.Y., has the first one of these ever given, in 1783; it's made of wool
a Purple Heart
Sean
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1919 Ernest Rutherford bombarded nitrogen with these particles to transform it into oxygen
alpha particles
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$1,600
[19]
Glenn Miller's version of this song with a 3-word title was his biggest hit
"In The Mood"
Sean
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$1,200
[23]
Algol is one of these, 2 stars revolving around each other, also called a double star
a binary star
Sean
|
$1,600
[29]
In January 2005 Donald Trump had a formal wedding reception at this Palm Beach estate of his
Mar-a-Lago
Leah
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$1,600
[15]
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Jerome
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$1,600
[10]
This whisky brand, whose logo is seen here, comes in an elegant purple bag
Crown Royal
Sean
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$1,600
[4]
It can be a call to go left or right in square dancing with interlocking arms
an allemande
Jerome
|
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$2,000
[20]
"Sing, Sing, Sing" was a smash hit for this clarinetist & his big band
Benny Goodman
Jerome
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$2,000
[25]
The Oort cloud & its inner region, this belt, are thought to contain billions of comets
the Kuiper belt
Sean
Jerome
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$2,000
[30]
On Nov. 28, 1966 this author threw a star-studded "Black & White Ball" in honor of Kay Graham
Truman Capote
Leah
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$2,000
[16]
Namibia
South Africa
Sean
|
$2,000
[11]
As well as part of a punk rocker's coif, a purple hairstreak is a type of this insect
a butterfly
|
$2,000
[5]
Once a separate kingdom, it's now a state in the extreme northeast of India
Assam
Sean
|
In 1942 Aung San, commander of this country's Independence Army, married nurse Khin Kyi
Burma