2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.From Las Vegas.
Cora Peck — a high school teacher and grad student from Aliso Viejo, California
Dan Pawson — a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
Carl Brandt — an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carl | $1,200 | $4,800 | $12,400 |
$4,800
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$12,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Dan | $2,600 | $2,000 | $16,800 |
$16,599
Automatic semifinalist |
$13,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Cora | $1,800 | $4,000 | $8,500 |
$15,500
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$6,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC | MOVIES' LAST LINES | BANK ON IT | ETIQUETTE | NAME THAT CRITTER | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES |
|
$200
[26]
On May 1 in the western U.S. this is estimated to be 6:13 A.M.; by month's end it will be 5:44
sunrise
Carl
|
$200
[6]
1961:"Fat Man, you shoot a great game of pool." "So do you, Fast Eddie"
The Hustler
Dan
|
$200
[16]
In a 2008 weekend fire sale, this red, white & blue bank snapped up Merrill Lynch
Bank of America
Carl
|
$200
[21]
Miss Manners says that the only safe place to keep damaging love letters is in this place, "between burning logs"
the fireplace
Cora
|
$200
[1]
Panthera tigris
a tiger
Carl
|
$200
[11]
One dictionary defines it as "a fit of violent anger by the driver of an automobile"
road rage
Carl
|
|
$400
[27]
In late May, ahead of the official hurricane season, Tropical Storm Ana will threaten this state
Florida
Cora
|
$400
[7]
1964:"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"
Dr. Strangelove
Cora
|
$400
[17]
This British bank bought the banking & capital market operations from the bankrupt Lehman Brothers
Barclays
Carl
|
$400
[22]
If a bride's principal attendant is married, she isn't called a Maid of Honor but this
a Matron
Dan
|
$400
[2]
Ursus arctos horribilis
a grizzly bear
Carl
Dan
|
$400
[12]
This name evokes your average blue-collar worker, toting a half-dozen beers
Joe Sixpack
Carl
|
|
$600
[28]
The 6th, 7th & 15th of November seem to be good days for canning, pickling or making this fermented cabbage dish
sauerkraut
Cora
|
$600
[8]
1941:"The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of"
The Maltese Falcon
Cora
|
$600
[18]
This name precedes "Chase" in the name of the bank that gobbled up Bear Stearns
(J.P.) Morgan
Cora
|
$600
[23]
Add one letter to "etiquette" to get this word for online etiquette
netiquette
Carl
|
$600
[3]
Mus musculus
a mouse
Carl
|
$600
[13]
The HS in HSN, it's the browsing & buying of goods from cable TV or the Internet
home shopping
Carl
|
|
$800
[29]
March & September will see the vernal & autumnal this, when day & night are approximately the same length
equinox
Cora
|
$800
[9]
1953:"Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name"
From Here to Eternity
Cora
|
$1,000
[20]
The unusual name of this bank honors the setters of North Carolina who came from a Danube valley
Wachovia
Dan
|
$800
[24]
A fairly stiff handshake & a pat on the shoulder may help you avoid one of these, even the "air" type
a kiss
Cora
|
$800
[4]
Gymnogyps californianus
California condor
|
$800
[14]
Hey, man! Grab the tweezers! You've got one of these growing straight across your forehead
unibrow
Dan
|
|
$1,000
[30]
An article about this German born in 1571 is titled "The Man Who Moved the Universe"
(Johannes) Kepler
Carl
|
$1,000
[10]
1969:"We'll be in Miami in just a few minutes"
Midnight Cowboy
Dan
|
DD
$1,200
[19]
This company was incorporated to help those in need after a fire blackened the Seattle business district in 1889
Washington Mutual (WaMu)
Carl
|
$1,000
[25]
This should never precede a lady into a room, even if it's Caleche or Diorissimo
the perfume (the scent)
|
$1,000
[5]
Loxodonta africana
African elephant
|
$1,000
[15]
This hyphenated term describes an athletic shoe designed for various activities like aerobics & muscle building
cross-trainer
Dan
|
| OPERA | OLYMPIC FACTS | 20th CENTURY MILITARY NAMES | A DAMSEL IN THIS DRESS | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 15th GRADER? | THE JOURNEY OF LIFE |
|
$400
[5]
"Mefistofele" is based on this 1808 literary work
Faust
Cora
|
$400
[6]
It was Michael Phelps' margin of victory for his seventh gold in 2008, the 100-meter butterfly
a hundredth of a second
Dan
|
$400
[17]
In 1998 DNA testing identified this memorial's Vietnam War remains as those of Lt. Michael J. Blassie
(Tomb of) the Unknown Soldier
Carl
|
$400
[29]
Erica's been working out to fit into this dress that's also the holder for a sword
a sheath
Carl
|
$400
[30]
For most students, 15th grade would be this year of college
junior year
Dan
|
$400
[21]
A child still small enough to ride a trike; it rhymes with "trike"
tyke
Cora
|
|
$800
[1]
The Duke of Mantua's "La donna e mobile" is from this opera
Rigoletto
Carl
|
$1,200
[14]
Cathy Freeman was the first athlete of this ethnicity to win individual gold for Australia
Aborigine
Carl
|
$1,200
[18]
Kristin Baker was the first woman to be named First Captain of this school's corps of cadets
West Point
Cora
|
$800
[28]
Beth's dress falls to a series of points below the knee--it's alliteratively called this type of hem
a handkerchief hem
|
$800
[8]
Every 15th grade music major can identify this note seen here
a G (a quarter note accepted)
Dan
|
$800
[12]
This word for one not quite an adult comes from the same Latin root as "adult"
adolescent
Cora
|
|
$1,200
[2]
This 2008 opera is based partly on a 1986 David Cronenberg film
The Fly
Carl
|
$1,600
[15]
Sometimes called the metric mile, it's the last of the 10 events in the decathlon
the 1500 meters
Cora
|
$1,600
[19]
Before the war in Vietnam, he became the youngest ever Major General of the U.S. Army (age 42)
William Westmoreland
Cora
|
$1,200
[27]
Carrie's got on American Apparel's dress named for this Channel Islands fabric & carries it well
jersey
Carl
|
$1,200
[9]
You won't pass 15th grade math unless you know it's the first derivative of x3
3x 2
Dan
|
$1,200
[22]
3-letter term for a young man, or the British culture of hard-partying young men
a lad
Dan
|
|
$1,600
[3]
In a Beethoven opera, Leonore disguises herself as this boy
Fidelio
Dan
|
$2,000
[16]
Divided into 1- & 2-handed events, these 1896 Olympic contests were won with marks of 157 & 246 pounds
weightlifting
Cora
|
$2,000
[20]
France's commander of Allied forces during the closing months of World War I
(Maréchal) Foch
Carl
Cora
|
$1,600
[26]
I had to know where Faye'sparty dresswas from, and when I got a peek at thelogo, I knew it was this designer
Jessica McClintock
|
$1,600
[10]
15th grade physics whizzes know it's the force described by the equation seen here
gravity
Dan
|
$1,600
[23]
Elliot Jaques coined this term for when adults realize their time will run out (so better buy a sports car)
a mid-life crisis
Dan
|
|
$2,000
[4]
Eva will wed the contest winner in "Die" this "von Nurnberg"
Meistersinger
Dan
|
DD
$2,500
[13]
He said he threw his 1960 gold medal into the Ohio River after being denied service at a whites-only diner
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
Cora
|
DD
$4,000
[7]
Before he died in 1981, he was the USA's last surviving 5-star officer
(General) Omar Bradley
Dan
|
$2,000
[25]
Amy's in a $46,000 dress embellished with crystal from the house of this Spanish designer whose first name was Cristobal
Balenciaga
|
$2,000
[11]
15th grade English majors know this sonneteer who wrote "Astrophel and Stella" back in the 1500s
Sir Philip Sidney
|
$2,000
[24]
Time magazine called this gift "a metaphor for retirement from a corporate culture that cared for its workers"
a gold watch
Carl
|
The name of this character from an 18th century French work is from the Greek for "all tongues"
Dr. Pangloss