2009 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.From Las Vegas.
Donna Vogel — a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
Matt Kohlstedt — a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
Dan Pawson — a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $3,000 | $6,800 | $22,600 |
$22,600
Finalist |
$19,200
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Matt | $2,200 | $6,400 | $5,800 |
$5,600
2nd place: $10,000 |
$7,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Donna | $-1,800 | $-1,400 | $2,600 |
$2,600
3rd place: $10,000 |
$2,600
7 R, 4 W |
| 18th CENTURY LITERATURE | WORLD MUSIC | ALSO A VEGAS CASINO | CHALLENGING THE BARTENDER | EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION | "C-E-S" |
|
$200
[21]
In "Advice to a Young Tradesman", this Pennsylvanian wrote, "Remember that time is money"
Franklin
Dan
|
$200
[1]
Though this band's 2008 album is titled "Viva la Vida", they're actually British
Coldplay
Dan
|
$200
[17]
Titian or Vivaldi, heritage-wise
Venetian
Dan
|
$200
[11]
Barkeep, if you've never heard of a Moscow mule you can probably still guess this is its primary liquor
vodka
Dan
|
$200
[6]
Richard Burton claimed John Speke didn't follow this river in full from its source, so he was a big faker
the Nile
Dan
|
$200
[26]
Any forebear or progenitor
an ancestor
Matt
|
|
$400
[22]
This Defoe title gal is... busy, yes, that's the word... what with her pickpocketing, seduction & 5 marriages & all
Moll Flanders
Dan
|
$400
[2]
This "good girl gone bad" was discovered when a music producer heard her while on vacation in Barbados
Rihanna
|
$400
[19]
The scientific name of one type of this bird is Phoenicopterus ruber roseus
the flamingo
|
$400
[12]
My good man, make me an Indian summer, & don't skimp on the schnapps & cider, both this fruit flavor
apple
Matt
|
$400
[7]
The Inuit in Greenland called this African-American explorer Maripaluk, or "Kind Matthew"
(Matthew) Henson
Dan
|
$400
[27]
It's the Latin name for fishes as a class of vertebrates
Pisces
Donna
|
|
$600
[23]
A chief source of transcendentalist ideas was Immanuel Kant's 1781 "Critique of" this
Pure Reason
Dan
|
$600
[3]
"It's a Love Thing", "Your Everything" & "Rollercoaster" were country hits for this Down Under singer
Keith Urban
|
$600
[20]
Result of Midas embracing a member of Denver's NBA team
the golden nugget
Dan
|
$600
[13]
Yo, mixologist... my grandfather wants a Rickey made with the Beefeater brand of this liquor
gin
Dan
|
$600
[8]
Without his partner Jacques Marquette, he mapped the coastline of Labrador in 1694
Jolliet
Dan
|
$600
[28]
A bishop's bailiwick can be a bishopric or this synonym
a diocese
|
|
$800
[24]
The satirical 1724-25 pamphlet "Drapier's Letters" increased this English author's fame; a "modest" essay followed
(Jonathan) Swift
Matt
|
$800
[4]
Singing in English, Portuguese & Hindi, this Canadian knows how to "Say It Right"
Nelly Furtado
Donna
|
$1,000
[18]
A couple of owls
hooters
Matt
|
$800
[14]
Don't move slow as a zombie when mixing me a zombie, made with this main liquor
rum
Matt
|
$800
[9]
In 1488, before da Gama, this Portuguese sailor became the first to round the Cape of Good Hope
(Bartholomeu) Dias
Dan
|
$800
[29]
This element is atomic number 55
cesium
Dan
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Samuel Richardson's "Pamela" is this type of novel, written in the form of letters
epistolary
Dan
|
$1,000
[5]
This French first lady outraged many with a song that spoke of a love that was stronger than drugs
(Carla) Bruni
Matt
|
DD
$2,200
[16]
It extends upwards from the tropopause to about 30 miles above the Earth
the stratosphere
Matt
|
$1,000
[15]
Gimme this drink with blue curacao & lemonade; hey, it's Christopher Atkins, who starred in the movie
a blue lagoon
Donna
|
$1,000
[10]
In 1643 this Dutch navigator became the first European to reach the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga
Abel Tasman
|
$1,000
[30]
It's the basket fitted onto a wooden handle that's used to throw & catch the ball in jai alai
a cesta
|
| SOUTH AFRICA | GEEK TV | WHAT'S THAT NUMBER? | TOUGH POTPOURRI | SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPORTMANTEAU! | THE WORLD COURT |
|
$400
[22]
In place from 1948 until the 1990s, it was the South African government's official policy of segregation
apartheid
Dan
|
$400
[8]
Jack may be the brawn, but Chloe O'Brian is the brains as the CTU senior analyst on this show
24
Matt
|
$400
[1]
Protons in a helium nucleus
2
Dan
|
$400
[25]
Damocloids aren't astronaut curse words; they're an unusual type of these with elliptical orbits
asteroids
Donna
|
$400
[9]
Power-hungry Scot plus a type of alcohol used as auto fuel
Macbethanol
Donna
|
$400
[16]
The World Court sprang from an 1899 initiative of this czar, who didn't get the benefit of a court himself
Nicholas II
Dan
|
|
$800
[21]
In 1967 this South African surgeon performed the world's first human heart transplant
Christiaan Barnard
Donna
|
$800
[4]
Alyson Hannigan was nerd-hot as a geek-turned-witch on this series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dan
|
$800
[2]
Musical notes in the chromatic scale
12
Donna
|
$800
[26]
It's the official language of Kiribati
English
|
$800
[10]
Soliloquy-lovin' title guy plus BLT ingredient
Hamlettuce
Dan
|
$800
[17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from The Hague in the Netherlands.) This Serb's trial for war crimes began in the Hague in 2002, buthedied before it ended; prosecutors hope that Radovan Karadzic's case will move faster
Milosevic
Dan
|
|
$1,200
[23]
South Africa completely surrounds this country once known as Basutoland
Lesotho
Dan
|
$1,200
[5]
Saying "Star Trek" & geek is redundant, but Wesley Crusher might have even outnerded Geordi on this series
Star Trek: TNG ( The Next Generation )
Dan
|
$1,200
[3]
Musical notes in Schoenberg's atonal scale
12
Donna
|
$1,200
[27]
The Mikimoto system for grading these rates the highest quality as AAA
pearls
Dan
Donna
|
$1,200
[11]
Mega-jealous guy plus a "prefrontal" type of brain surgery
Othellobotomy
Dan
|
$1,200
[18]
The court's deliberations are secret, or "in" this--not "on" this, which would mean very un-secret
camera
Dan
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Government buildings & the nearby Cullinan Mine are tourist highlights of this administrative capital
Pretoria
Donna
|
$1,600
[6]
On "The Office", he'll tell you farming beets for juice with his family begins with tasting the soil, literally
Dwight Schrute
Dan
|
$2,000
[15]
Articles in the U.S. Constitution
7
Dan
Matt
|
$1,600
[28]
His first trial for taking the Pentagon Papers ended in a mistrial; in the second, charges were dismissed
Daniel Ellsberg
Donna
|
$1,600
[12]
Bitter Trojan comedy plus Marcel Duchamp's art movement
Troilus and Cressidada
Matt
|
$2,000
[20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from The Hague in the Netherlands.) Though there were versions of the World Court in the early 20th century, the presentbodybegan work in 1946 as the ICJ, short for this
the International Court of Justice
Dan
|
|
$2,000
[30]
This "colorful" body of water is South Africa's longest river
the Orange River
|
$2,000
[7]
On a "Worst Geeks Ever" list would be this rotund graphic novel store proprietor on "The Simpsons"
Comic Book Guy
Matt
|
DD
$2,600
[14]
Millard Fillmore's, as U.S. President
13
Matt
|
$2,000
[29]
"The Seven" is a hip-hop musical based on Aeschylus' "Seven Against" this city
Thebes
Dan
|
$2,000
[13]
One-handed Roman plus a large receptacle for chewing tobacco expectoration
Titus Andronicuspidor
|
DD
$5,000
[19]
The International Criminal Court replaces ad hoc U.N. tribunals like this one for the 1994 events in this African country
Rwanda
Dan
|
Though Elvis was known as the King of Rock & Roll, the only 3 Grammy Awards he ever won were in this Grammy genre
gospel music