2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 2, game 13.
Brian Weikle — a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Michael Rankins — a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
Grace Veach — a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grace | $1,600 | $2,000 | $24,000 |
$23,500
Winner: $23,500 + an advance to UToC Round 3 |
$16,600
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 |
$2,000
2nd place: $10,000 |
$2,000
5 R, 1 W |
| Brian | $5,200 | $11,200 | $24,400 |
$400
3rd place: $10,000 + $15,000 as a member of the Nifty Nine |
$24,400
29 R, 0 W |
| THE CIVIL WAR | TV THEME SONGS | THE NAME OF THE GAME | THAT'S ELEMENT-ARY | NASCAR SPONSORS | "D" DAY |
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$200
[21]
The First Minnesota Infantry lost 82% of its men on July 2, 1863, during this battle
Gettysburg
Grace
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$200
[1]
"It feels so right it can't be wrong, rockin' and rollin' all week long"
Happy Days
Brian
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$200
[11]
Parker Brothers prints about $50 billion of this game's "money" every year
Monopoly
Grace
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$200
[6]
The most important type of potash is this chloride
potassium chloride
Michael
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$200
[24]
"When you say" this sponsor of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s car, "you've said it all"
Budweiser
Grace
|
$200
[9]
The Iron Gates Gorge between Serbia & Romania was carved by this river
the Danube
Brian
|
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$400
[22]
This French emperor wanted to mediate the conflict, but England & Russia wouldn't go for it
Napoleon III
Brian
|
$400
[2]
"What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us?"
Joan of Arcadia
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$400
[12]
It's "Wheel of Fortune" without the wheel, but fail in this game & a man is executed
hangman
Brian
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$400
[7]
The name of this noble gas comes in part from the Greek for "sun"
helium
Brian
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$400
[25]
"Grab life by the horns" & name this car company that sponsors Kasey Kahne's No. 9
Dodge
Brian
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$400
[17]
In August 2003 this cable TV network aired the popular documentary "Nefertiti Resurrected"
the Discovery Channel
Grace
Brian
|
|
$600
[23]
Completes the names of two places where Lee & Grant met in different circumstances: Spotsylvania & Appomattox
Court House
Grace
|
$600
[3]
"Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again"
All in the Family
Brian
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$600
[14]
Test your memory of skits like "Samurai Delicatessen" in this game's "SNL" DVD edition
Trivial Pursuit
Brian
|
$600
[8]
Cadbury is a chocolate brand; this element, atomic number 48, was discovered by Friedrich Stromeyer
cadmium
Grace
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$600
[28]
A sponsor of Tony Stewart's NASCAR team, this company says, "You can do it, we can help"
Home Depot
Brian
|
$600
[18]
Trademarked recording tool secretaries use for transcription
a Dictaphone
Brian
|
|
$800
[26]
In November 1861 this future presidential candidate took charge of all Union armies
McClellan
Grace
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$800
[4]
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale"
Gilligan's Island
Michael
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$800
[15]
The name of this popular party game can also mean "pretenses" or "travesties"
charades
Brian
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$800
[10]
The elements run alphabetically from this, Ac, to zirconium
actinium
Grace
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$800
[29]
Jimmie Johnson's sponsor, this company says it's "Improving home improvement"
Lowe's
Brian
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$800
[19]
He's the general & government official seen here
Moshe Dayan
Brian
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|
DD
$1,000
[27]
In area, Texas was the largest of the Confederate states; this was the largest of the 24 Union states
California
Grace
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$1,000
[5]
"Who could it be? Believe it or not, it's just me"
The Greatest American Hero
Brian
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$1,000
[16]
You had a ghost of a chance in this 1980 video game; a "Ms." version launched in 1982
Pac-Man
Michael
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$1,000
[13]
One atomic mass unit equals 1/12 the mass of an atom of the most common isotope of this element
carbon
Brian
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$1,000
[30]
Jeff Gordon finds "The miracles of science" & a sponsor with this chemical co. that began in 1802 as an explosives co.
DuPont
Brian
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$1,000
[20]
From the Latin for "to lead", it's a pipe or passage that can carry body fluids or air
a duct
Brian
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| WHERE AM I? | SIDESHOW CINEMA | AMERICAN "W"RITERS | IN THE NAVY | RELIGION | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS |
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$400
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls the grassy grounds of the mystery location.) I'm in this town that's home to a U.S. president's house & library, & was named for a New York governor accused of cross-dressing
Hyde Park
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$400
[21]
In 1964 this rock & roll star was a "Roustabout" for carnival owner Barbara Stanwyck
Elvis Presley
Brian
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$400
[6]
He created the story that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree with his hatchet
Parson Weems
Grace
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$400
[22]
Time is kept on Navy ships through the sounding of these; 8 of them signify the end of a 4-hour watch
bells
Brian
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$400
[1]
LDS is an abbreviation for laus deo semper, "praise to God always", & for this term for a religious group
Latter-Day Saints
Grace
|
$400
[12]
Abe Vigoda standout role & Pentiums
Fish & chips
Brian
|
|
$800
[17]
On the streets of San Francisco, if I'm walking north on Ashbury & I pass Waller, the next street I hit is this one
Haight
Grace
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$800
[29]
In "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man", he played circus owner Larson E. Whipsnade
W.C. Fields
Brian
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$800
[7]
His last book was "America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President, 1956-1980"
Theodore White
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$800
[23]
In 1898 this man resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to organize a volunteer cavalry regiment
Teddy Roosevelt
Brian
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$800
[2]
It can be any person who's reached Nirvana, or a specific one of the 6th century B.C.
buddha
Michael
|
$800
[13]
Presbyterian Protestant reformer & the author of "Leviathan"
Calvin & Hobbes
Grace
|
|
$1,200
[18]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in a knit cap and mittens in front of the Egyptian movie theater.) I'm in this Utah city, which buzzes with film & dealmaking excitement each year during the Sundance Film Festival
Park City
Michael
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$1,200
[27]
This 1983 Ray Bradbury film gets its title from the line in "Macbeth" that follows, "By the pricking of my thumbs..."
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Grace
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$1,600
[9]
Stories set in her native Mississippi include "The Robber Bridegroom" & "The Ponder Heart"
Eudora Welty
Brian
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$1,200
[24]
Name shared by Barbary Coast pirates of the 1700s & U.S. Navy World War II fighter planes
Corsairs
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$1,200
[3]
Thomas Coke & Francis Asbury, the 1st Methodist superintendents in America, soon took this other religious title
bishop
Grace
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$1,200
[14]
A critter of the Aves class & sorcery
Bird & Magic
|
|
$1,600
[19]
If I'm feeling a surge of yin-yang energy, I might be a Bell Rock, an energy vortex in this Arizona Red Rock City
Sedona
Brian
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$1,600
[28]
Tyrone Power descends to a job as a carnival geek in this 1947 release
Nightmare Alley
|
$2,000
[10]
His first novel, "The Dream Life of Balso Snell", sold only 500 copies
(Nathanael) West
Grace
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$1,600
[25]
It's the last year a Naval Academy graduate was a major-party candidate for president
1980
Brian
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$2,000
[5]
The founder of this religion in the 500s B.C. was known as Jina; an anagram of Jina gave us its present name
Jainism
Brian
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$1,600
[15]
One kestrel & one yeti
a falcon & a snowman
Brian
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$2,000
[20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands stands in front of the famous NASA Vehicle Assembly Building.) At the Kennedy Space Center, I'm not on Cape Canaveral, but on this nearby island
Merritt Island
Grace
|
$2,000
[30]
This 1960 Disney flick starring Kevin Corcoran in the title role was subtitled "Or Ten Weeks with a Circus"
Toby Tyler
|
DD
$7,600
[8]
In the 1940s this epic war novelist served aboard the destroyer-minesweeper Zane
(Herman) Wouk
Grace
|
$2,000
[26]
The headquarters of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet is in this Persian Gulf island country
Bahrain
Grace
Michael
|
DD
$3,600
[4]
A homophone of a weapon, it's the list of books making up scripture
canon
Grace
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$2,000
[16]
A light racing boat & Dr. McCoy of "Star Trek"
scull & Bones
Brian
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Some versions of this painting based on a Bible verse show William Penn making a treaty with the Indians in the background
Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom