2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.From Las Vegas.
Donna Vogel — a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
Jim Stevens — a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
Aaron Schroeder — a grad student from San Diego, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron | $5,600 | $9,400 | $18,200 |
$18,200
Automatic semifinalist |
$17,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Jim | $2,400 | $4,200 | $1,000 |
$1,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$8,200
15 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Donna | $600 | $2,800 | $11,600 |
$9,900
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,600
14 R, 1 W |
| HISTORICAL VOICEMAILS FROM... | CLASSIC ALBUMS | FOOD FOR THOUGHT | PREZ DISPENSERS | LANDS O' LAKES | GOING INTO O____T |
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$200
[11]
Si, President Wilson... I led the 1916 raid of a N.M. town but sending troops into Mexico after me? Bad idea!
Pancho Villa
Aaron
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$200
[1]
Rolling Stone named this 1967 Beatles album the greatest of all time & deemed its cover a work of art
Sgt. Pepper's
Jim
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$200
[14]
These, from the state flower of Kansas, are a natural way to relieve insomnia
sunflower seeds
Jim
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$200
[22]
Bill Clinton unseated this U.S. president
George H. W. Bush (George Herbert Walker Bush)
Aaron
Jim
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$200
[6]
This high South American lake straddles the border between Bolivia & Peru
Lake Titicaca
Aaron
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$200
[21]
Salve
ointment
Jim
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$400
[12]
Monsieur Zola, merci beaucoup for writing "J'Accuse" pour moi, sorry it got you busted for libel
Dreyfus
Aaron
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$400
[2]
Released in 1969, it's the musical tale of a "deaf, dumb & blind kid" who "sure plays a mean pinball"
Tommy
Jim
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$400
[17]
Thissuper food, which even resembles the brain, has fatty acids that help with brain function
walnuts
Aaron
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$400
[26]
In 1965 he defeated Philippine President Macapagal
Marcos
Jim
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$400
[7]
Entebbe is a key Ugandan port on this, the world's second-largest freshwater lake
Lake Victoria
Aaron
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$400
[27]
One who usually expects a favorable outcome
an optimist
Donna
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$600
[13]
Czarina, they'll have to poison, shoot, shoot again & drown me in the Neva River to tear us apart! I'm feeling dizzy...
Rasputin
Donna
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$600
[3]
Her "Pearl" album wasn't yet completed when she died in 1970
Janis Joplin
Jim
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$600
[18]
At 70ish calories, this "incredible edible" packs a lot of protein & nutrients like choline, a memory booster
eggs
Jim
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$600
[25]
Valery Giscard d'Estaing was beaten by him in a 1981 election
François Mitterrand
Aaron
Jim
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$600
[8]
Ownership of Lake of the Woods is split between these 2 countries
Canada & the United States
Aaron
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$600
[28]
Nocturnal wildcat
an ocelot
Jim
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$800
[15]
It's April 14, 1865 & I'm having a bad night, too; I got stabbed in the throat but I'll stay on as Sec. of State
Seward
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$800
[4]
This feast from Guns N' Roses is one of the biggest-selling debut albums of all time
Appetite for Destruction
Aaron
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$800
[19]
Squash & sweet potatoes are rich in this orange pigment that's good for the eyes & the brain
beta -carotene
Aaron
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$800
[24]
In 1995 Aleksander Kwasniewski defeated this incumbent
Lech Walesa
Jim
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$1,000
[10]
In 1499 explorer Alonso de Ojeda followed the South American coast to this lake & named the region Venezuela
Lake Maracaibo
Aaron
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$800
[29]
5-letter term for apparent, as a lie
overt
Donna
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$1,000
[16]
Hey, "the Elder"! It's your nephew "the Younger" here, what did you think of my "Letters" to Emperor Trajan?
Pliny
Aaron
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$1,000
[5]
Simon & Garfunkel were a "matching set", both dressed in black, on the cover of this 1968 album
Bookends
Jim
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$1,000
[20]
Treat yourself to this food, especially to the "dark" type which enhances mood & brain activity
chocolate
Aaron
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$1,000
[23]
Leonid Kuchma ousted Leonid Kravchuk in this country
the Ukraine
Aaron
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
The reservoir known as Lake Nasser in Egypt is Lake Nubia in this country
the Sudan
Aaron
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$1,000
[30]
2-word French term for a small item of aesthetic interest
objet d'art
Donna
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| "MEN" OF THE WORLD | ANIMATED MOVIE PLOTS | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS | FLOWER POWER | EUROPEAN POETS | POLYSYLLABIC VOCABULARY |
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$400
[1]
This state capital is about 85 miles northeast of San Francisco
Sacramento
Donna
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$400
[6]
In this 2008 film Jedi Knights try to restore peace as the droid army rampages
The Clone Wars
Donna
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$400
[11]
Even with two extra pawns, white can't force a win here, because these piecescan travel only on opposite-colored squares
the bishops
Jim
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$400
[16]
Its name comes from geranos, Greek for "crane"; its seed capsules look like a crane's bill
a geranium
Jim
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$400
[19]
The Boathouse, this poet's writing shed in Laugharne, Wales, is now a museum
Dylan Thomas
Donna
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$400
[20]
This 4-syllable word can refer to any one of the 4 authors of the Gospels or to a type of minister
evangelist
Aaron
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$800
[2]
Much of this nation's northern border with Saudi Arabia is undefined, as it lies in the desert
Yemen
Aaron
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$800
[7]
4 musicians help Lord Admiral save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies & their anti-music missiles in this classic
Yellow Submarine
Aaron
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$800
[12]
Literally "in passing", it's the 2-word term for how a pawn can capture another pawn that's moved past it
en passant
Donna
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$800
[17]
In 1907 a pink one of these boutonniere flowers was chosen as the emblem of Mother's Day
a carnation
Jim
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$800
[27]
In the early 14th century, he called his most famous work a "comedy" because of its sad beginning & happy ending
Dante
Jim
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$800
[21]
The name of this, a meeting or conference, comes from the Greek for "to drink together"
a symposium
Aaron
Donna
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$1,200
[3]
In a children's tale, this city of Germany is known for its band of animal musicians
Bremen
Donna
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$1,200
[8]
Mrs. Brisby gets help from some super-smart rats who've escaped from a lab in this Don Bluth film
The Secret of NIMH
Aaron
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$1,200
[13]
(Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a chessboard.) White should have an easy win here, but he blows it by moving his queen to the D6 square, leading to this drawn outcome
a stalemate
Jim
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$1,600
[25]
The genus of this purplish flower is also a musical instrument
Viola (or violet)
Donna
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$1,200
[28]
His father came from Russian nobility; his mother was descended from an African prince
Pushkin
Jim
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$1,200
[22]
A mere dabbler wouldn't know that this 10-letter Italian word means "a lover of the arts"
a dilettante
Donna
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$1,600
[4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.) Memorial Union Terrace at University of Wisconsin-Madison is right on this lake, whose name comes from a Siouan word
Mendota
Aaron
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$1,600
[9]
50-foot-tall, metal-eating, talking robot befriends boy in this 1999 film
Iron Giant
Aaron
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$1,600
[14]
Initiated by the moves E4 E6, this defense got its name from its use by a Paris team in an 1834 match with London
the French defense
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$2,000
[26]
Saffron is derived from this flower
the crocus
Aaron
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$2,000
[30]
In 1871, as a debauched, visionary 16-year-old, he wrote "Le Bateau ivre" or "The Drunken Boat"
Arthur Rimbaud
Donna
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$1,600
[23]
Similar to metonymy, it's a part standing in for the whole, like "sail" to mean a ship
synecdoche
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$2,000
[5]
An Australian gold mining town shares this name with former Aussie prime minister Robert
Menzies
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$2,000
[10]
In this 2007 film things don't get better for young Marjane after the Shah is supplanted by the Islamic Revolution
Persepolis
Aaron
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$2,000
[15]
(Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a chessboard.) White can't move hisknight, because doing so would exposehisking; the knight's said to be stuck to the king with this tactic, named for a pointy little object
pinned
Donna
|
DD
$3,800
[18]
Japan's special day honoring this flower is also called the Festival of Happiness
the chrysanthemum
Jim
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DD
$3,400
[29]
The Irish Literary Theatre opened on May 8, 1899 with this co-founder's drama "The Countess Cathleen"
William Butler Yeats
Jim
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$2,000
[24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew performs a science experiment with a purple Magic Marker.) Draw on chalk & put it inwaterto see thecomponent layersof marker color; it's a demonstration of this range of lab techniques that separate & analyze, from the Greek for "color" & "writing"
chromatography
Donna
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Tennyson called this British painter, Constable's contemporary, the "Shakespeare of Landscape"
J.M.W. Turner