2009 Tournament of Champions final game 2.From Las Vegas.
Dan Pawson — a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts (subtotal of $22,301)
Aaron Schroeder — a grad student from San Diego, California (subtotal of $9,600)
Larissa Kelly — a grad student from El Cerrito, California (subtotal of $24,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larissa | $4,600 | $8,600 | $21,800 | $6,800 |
$17,000
26 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Aaron | $1,400 | $3,800 | $7,400 | $14,800 |
$7,400
12 R, 3 W |
| Dan | $3,200 | $2,000 | $19,200 | $26,200 |
$18,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| A LITTLE LIT | VEGAS FILMS | AT THE BUFFET | FLOORING | REBELLIONS: SHAYS' & WHISKEY | POETIC WORDS |
|
$200
[11]
Dickens' mother was probably the inspiration for Mrs. Micawber in this very autobiographical novel
David Copperfield
Larissa
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$200
[6]
In "Casino" he played Ace Rothstein, the mobster who ran The Tangiers
(Robert) De Niro
Larissa
Aaron
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$200
[21]
You might start off with the peel-&-eat these; the cocktail sauce is on the left
shrimp
Larissa
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$200
[1]
Grout & a special saw are tools for installing this type of floor
tile
Larissa
|
$200
[16]
Both Shays' Rebellion & the Whiskey Rebellion were protests against these
taxes
Larissa
|
$200
[26]
E'er is a poetic form of this adverb
ever
Larissa
|
|
$400
[12]
Up, up & away with Jules Verne's classic adventure "Five Weeks in" one of these
a Balloon
Larissa
|
$400
[7]
He directed the 2001 Vegas caper film "Ocean's Eleven"
(Steven) Soderbergh
Larissa
|
$400
[22]
I noticed the Lorraine type of this eggy dish, but I didn't see any real men eating it
quiche
Aaron
|
$400
[2]
Also the surface of bulletin boards, this material makes warm, sound-insulating flooring
cork
Dan
|
$400
[17]
Shays' Rebellion in this state in 1786-87 included an attack on the Springfield armory
Massachusetts
Dan
|
$400
[27]
E'en is a poetic form of this adverb
even
Dan
|
|
$600
[13]
If you love stories with surprise endings, pick up his 1906 collection "The Four Million"
O. Henry
Larissa
|
$600
[8]
The title of this 2008 Cameron Diaz-Ashton Kutcher film was inspired by a Sin City slogan
What Happens in Vegas
Aaron
|
$600
[23]
There's an outstandingpasta salad made with these stuffed rings seen here
tortellini
Aaron
|
$800
[4]
In forestry, it's a synonym for "dicot"; in real estate ads, it makes mouths water when seen before "floors"
hardwood
Larissa
|
$600
[18]
This Treasury Sec. helped form, & then tagged along with, the army sent to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion
Hamilton
Aaron
|
$600
[28]
In "To Celia", this possessive case of thou precedes the word "eyes"
thine
Larissa
|
|
$800
[14]
A.A. Milne wrote a book of verse called "Now We Are" this age--a bit younger than you
Six
Larissa
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$800
[9]
One review said this 1995 Elizabeth Berkley film was "'42nd Street' meets 'All About Eve' meets soft-core porn"
Showgirls
Dan
|
$800
[24]
I can't stay away from these appetizers: bacon wrapped around a water chestnut & a piece of liver
rumaki
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
This durable material almost synonymous with mid-20th c. flooring was patented in 1863
linoleum
Dan
|
$800
[19]
Though put down swiftly, Shays' Rebellion exposed the military weakness of this 1781 document
the Articles of Confederation
Aaron
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$800
[29]
"L'allegro" by Milton uses this 4-letter word for a deep shade of black, a shortening of the name of a wood
ebon
Larissa
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Prosper Merimee was just 19 when he wrote his first play, about this lord protector of England
Cromwell
Dan
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$1,000
[10]
In a 2003 film he played "The Cooler", a Vegas casino's gambling jinx
William H. Macy
Larissa
|
$1,000
[25]
Get your fill of this British-sounding "steak", a seasoned ground beef patty with onions & gravy
Salisbury steak
Larissa
|
$1,000
[5]
1 letter off from "flat stones", they make good flooring for your castle
flagstones
Aaron
|
$1,000
[20]
Thousands of Whiskey Rebels marched to "The Point" in this Penn. city, but were persuaded not to burn the town
Pittsburgh
Dan
|
$1,000
[30]
A poem by Robert Burns taught us that "gang aft" this means "often go wrong"
agley
Larissa
Dan
|
| TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES | THINK YOU KNOW BASEBALL? | CHAMPIONS OF TOURNAMENTS | MEET THE BEADLES | ADJECTIVES TO USE IN VEGAS | A VISIT TO BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY |
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$400
[9]
One of the "Stan"s:Tashkent
Uzbekistan
Dan
|
$400
[11]
He hit the first home run in All-Star game history (take a wild guess)
Babe Ruth
Larissa
|
$400
[23]
In 2006 in Berlin, Italy won this sports tourney by beating France, 1-1 (technically, that was the final score)
the World Cup
Larissa
|
$400
[24]
"Beadle", meaning a minor official, comes from Middle English for one of these old-time announcer guys--hark!
a herald
Aaron
|
$400
[17]
Your bold, audacious bets could be called this, perhaps from a blend of "bold" & "audacious"
bodacious
Larissa
|
$400
[27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from outside Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York.) Work done at Brookhaven, which is run by this Cabinet department, has produced six Nobel Prizes, including one for work on solar neutrinos
Energy
Dan
|
|
$800
[8]
Island country in the Indian ocean:Port Louis
Mauritius
Aaron
|
$800
[4]
Their home parks have included the Union Grounds, Crosley Field & Riverfront Stadium
the (Cincinnati) Reds
Dan
|
$800
[22]
As world champ of this Parker Bros. game, Antonio Fernandez won $15,140, the total amount of "cash" in the game
Monopoly
Larissa
|
$800
[25]
In hunting season, Beadle County, South Dakota is a bad place to be a ring-necked one of these, the state bird
a pheasant
Larissa
|
$800
[10]
I expect to be treated like a VIP, so remember that the "I" stands for this adjective
important
Larissa
|
$800
[30]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a lab at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY.) Conditions milliseconds after this event are replicated on a microscopic scale by creating a superhot fireball in this 3-D camera
the Big Bang
Dan
|
|
$1,200
[7]
A former Soviet republic: Chisinau
Moldova
Aaron
|
$1,200
[3]
The New York Yankees have won 26 World Series titles; these N.L. birds are a distant second, with 10
the Cardinals
Dan
|
$1,200
[21]
In 2007 Nigel Richards took home $15,000 as the letter-perfect world champ of this Hasbro game
Scrabble
Aaron
Dan
|
$1,200
[26]
In this Sondheim musical, Beadle Bamford gets sliced up for pie filling (don't worry, he wasn't a good guy)
Sweeney Todd
Aaron
|
$1,200
[15]
Also a type of fabric, this synonym for lavish describes my suite (& it rhymes with lush)
plush
Dan
|
$1,600
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY.) Cooled magnets at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider facilitate this super phenomenon; current shows no resistance, & gold ions travel at nearly light speed
superconductivity
Larissa
|
|
$1,600
[6]
In western Africa:Yamoussoukro
Cote d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast)
Larissa
Dan
|
$1,600
[2]
Researchers have knocked a point off his record lifetime batting average, reducing it to .366
(Ty) Cobb
Dan
|
$1,600
[12]
In 2007 16-year-old Ayan Tariq bested 31 others to win $100,000 playing this title ex-coach's football video game
(John) Madden
Larissa
|
$1,600
[13]
George Beadle won a Nobel Prize for studying the genetics of a bread type of this fuzzy fungus
mold
Aaron
|
$1,600
[16]
I must see the "O" show--it boasts this type of swimming, also an artistic Olympic event
synchronized
Aaron
|
$2,000
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside a supercomputer room at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY) NY Blue is an 18-rack supercomputer at Brookhaven that processes in terms of this speed--one trillion floating operations per second
a teraflop
Aaron
|
|
$2,000
[5]
In the Pacific:Honiara
the Solomon Islands
Dan
|
$2,000
[1]
"Avian" nickname of 1960s reliever Phil Regan, notorious for "stealing" wins from starting pitchers
"The Vulture"
Dan
|
$2,000
[14]
In 1972 "Amarillo Slim" won this annual event
the World Series of Poker
Dan
|
$2,000
[20]
In this author's "Night", Moshe the Beadle warns the Jews of Sighet about the looming holocaust, but they don't listen
(Elie) Wiesel
Dan
|
DD
$5,000
[18]
From the Latin for "great-souled", it will describe your immense generosity after you win big bucks
magnanimous
Larissa
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the clean room at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY.) The etcher used in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials' clean room uses this highly ionized state of matter to work on tiny circuits
plasma
Larissa
|
Born in 1683, the second British king of this name was the last one not born in the British Isles
George