2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 2, game 11.
Jeff Richmond — an attorney from Los Angeles, California
Lan Djang — a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mark Dawson — a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark | $1,600 | $3,400 | $10,600 |
$21,200
2nd place: $10,000 |
$10,600
13 R, 2 W |
| Lan | $3,000 | $7,800 | $18,800 |
$21,250
Winner: $21,250 + an advance to UToC Round 3 |
$19,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jeff | $1,000 | $-800 | $1,600 |
$3,200
3rd place: $10,000 |
$3,600
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| THEY USED TO BE IN CHARGE | SINGERS ALSO KNOWN AS | BEASTLY BUSINESS | TERMINATOR OF ENDEARMENT | PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES | "NYM" DROPPER |
|
$200
[3]
Prime Minister Eamon de Valera
Ireland
Lan
|
$200
[8]
Edward Mahoney "cashed" in under this name
Eddie Money
Mark
Lan
|
$200
[17]
Of the Gabbro, the goldendoodle, or the gadroon, the one that's a real breed of dog
the goldendoodle
|
$200
[16]
Arnold graduated from this state university at Superior, not Madison, with a degree in business & international economics
the University of Wisconsin
Jeff
|
$200
[1]
He won the U.S. presidential election that had the top voter turnout of the 1960s, 62.8%
(John F.) Kennedy
Lan
Jeff
|
$200
[24]
They're words with opposite meanings
antonyms
Jeff
|
|
$400
[4]
President Alberto Fujimori
Peru
Lan
|
$400
[10]
A member of The Monkees, this lanky gent is the one whose real first name is Robert
Nesmith
Mark
|
$400
[18]
In a mental puzzle dating from the 9th century, a farmer, a goat, some cabbages & a wolf all have to do this
cross a river
|
$400
[20]
This ex-governor of Minnesota rumbled in the jungle with Arnie in "Predator"
Jesse Ventura
Lan
|
$400
[2]
In February 1983 this TV show about the 4077th got a 77% rating
M*A*S*H
Lan
|
$400
[25]
John le Carre is one, for David Cornwell
pseudonym
Mark
|
|
$600
[5]
Prime Minister Jan Chistiaan Smuts
South Africa
Lan
|
$600
[11]
Jamesetta Hawkins rearranged part of her real name to get this stage name
Etta James
|
$600
[19]
The burrowing wolf variety of this arthropod uses its fangs to poison insects that it ambushes
a spider
Lan
|
$600
[21]
Mr. S was the 1st private citizen in the U.S. to own one of these, aka the high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle
a Hummer (or Humvee)
Mark
|
$600
[9]
To reduce a quantity by 25%, multiply the quantity by this
0.75
Lan
|
$600
[26]
An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of a series of words
acronym
Jeff
|
|
$800
[6]
Pasha Muhammad Ali
Egypt
Lan
|
$800
[12]
This hip-hop crooner whose first hit was "Think Of You" does have a last name--it's Raymond
Usher
Mark
|
$800
[29]
Some female lobsters do it only once a year, male lobsters more often, & its name is from the Latin for "change"
molt
Lan
Jeff
|
$800
[22]
In 1990 Arnold became chairman of "The President's Council on" this
Physical Fitness
Mark
|
$800
[14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a chalkboard.) For the quantities represented here, it's the ratio of imports to exports expressed as a percentage
125%
Mark
Jeff
|
$1,000
[28]
Words that have the same spelling but different pronunciations & meanings
heteronyms
Lan
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Supreme Director Bernardo O'Higgins
Chile
Lan
|
$1,000
[13]
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart": tell me that Pauline Matthews changed her name to this
Kiki Dee
Mark
|
$1,000
[30]
To blacken by burning, or a light-colored spotted trout
char
Lan
|
$1,000
[23]
The Governator's father-in-law is this man from a pre-Revolutionary Maryland family
Sargent Shriver
Lan
|
$1,000
[15]
Up from about 6% in 1980, this ethnicity now makes up about 12.5% of the U.S.
Hispanic
Lan
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
Guillotine & sandwich are examples of these
eponyms
Jeff
|
| LITERARY GREECE | ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTORS | NATIONAL PARKS | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE | ALSO A PLANET |
|
$400
[16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the seashore in Greece.) A favorite description of the sea for Homer, as in book two of "The Odyssey", is to call it "dark as" this liquid
wine
|
$400
[2]
2000:Maximus Decimus Meridius
Russell Crowe
Jeff
|
$400
[21]
The USA's largest national park in area is Wrangell-St. Elias in this state
Alaska
Jeff
|
$400
[25]
He co-wrote the musicals "South Pacific" & "The King and I"
Oscar Hammerstein
Jeff
|
$400
[8]
"Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides", warns this woman in Act I of "King Lear"
Cordelia
Lan
|
$400
[1]
Founded in 1938, it was a Ford Motor Company brand name of semi-luxury models
Mercury
Lan
|
|
$800
[17]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Athens, Greece.) In 1810, here in Athens, this British author wrote, "Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh, give me back my heart!"
Byron
Mark
|
$800
[4]
1979:Ted Kramer
Dustin Hoffman
Jeff
|
$800
[22]
The 1 million gallons of water that bubbles up each day in this Arkansas park is a warm 140 degrees
Hot Springs
Lan
|
$800
[26]
He was Lucky Luciano's right-hand man & the financial mastermind behind the mob
Meyer Lansky
Lan
|
$800
[12]
He calls Gertrude "Our sometime sister, now our Queen"
Claudius
Jeff
|
$800
[3]
In 2000 Sports Illustrated for Women named her Sportswoman of the Year
Venus Williams
Lan
|
|
$1,200
[18]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Santorini, Greece.) He wrote in 1941's "The Colossus of Maroussi" that, "In Greece, light penetrates to the soul, opens the doors and windows of the heart"
Henry Miller
|
$1,200
[9]
1996:Football player Rod Tidwell
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Lan
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1980 the name of Mount McKinley National Park was changed to this
Denali
Lan
|
$1,600
[27]
This industrialist's son Solomon founded a famous New York City museum
Meyer Guggenheim
Lan
Jeff
|
$1,200
[13]
In "Troilus and Cressida", King Priam says that this daughter of his "doth foresee" (yes, but does anyone listen?)
Cassandra
Mark
|
$1,200
[5]
In 1911 in Tacoma, this confectioner founded what is today one of the USA's largest privately-owned corporations
(Frank) Mars
Lan
|
|
$1,600
[19]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a shore in Greece.) He wrote about the beauty of the Greek landscape in "The Magus", set on an island like the one where he had lived
John Fowles
|
$1,600
[10]
2002:Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman
Adrien Brody
Lan
|
DD
$1,800
[23]
This national park in Florida consists of 27 low coral islands, none of which has fresh water, thus its "parched" name
Dry Tortugas National Park
Lan
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
He quipped, "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances"
Oscar Wilde
Lan
|
$1,600
[14]
A rather confused Macbeth says, "The Thane of" this place "lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"
Cawdor
Mark
|
$1,600
[6]
Reportedly, Mozart wrote it in the space of a few weeks in 1788
"The Jupiter Symphony"
Mark
|
|
$2,000
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Greece: "I'm at the Temple of Demeter on Naxos.") In the "Works and Days", this ancient poet wrote of the importance of praying to Demeter if you want crops to flourish
Hesiod
Mark
|
$2,000
[11]
1999:Lester Burnham
Kevin Spacey
Lan
|
$2,000
[30]
This park covers much of Maine's Mount Desert Island
Acadia
Mark
|
$2,000
[29]
Best known for his science of cybernetics, this math professor graduated from college in 1909 at age 14
Norbert Wiener
|
$2,000
[15]
In "Richard III", Richard's brother George is the doomed duke of this
Clarence
Lan
|
$2,000
[7]
An important fuel project by the Allies during WWII, its goal was to build "pipe-lines under the oceans"
the Pluto Project
Mark
Jeff
|
From the Greek, the name of this movement of the early Christian era means that its members had knowledge of God
Gnosticism