2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 2, game 15.
John Cuthbertson — an investment analyst from San Diego, California
Tad Carithers — an attorney from New York City, New York
Bob Verini — a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $0 | $600 | $3,000 |
$3,000
3rd place: $10,000 + $15,000 as a member of the Nifty Nine |
$5,200
14 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Tad | $4,800 | $9,600 | $14,400 |
$13,900
2nd place: $10,000 |
$14,400
21 R, 2 W |
| John | $200 | $2,600 | $14,500 |
$22,900
Winner: $22,900 + an advance to UToC Round 3 |
$13,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| MY FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM | POLITICKING | TERRE HAUTE CUISINE | MAY | THE JIMMY | THE "METH"OD |
|
$200
[5]
You should have heard my "boo-yah!" in 2004 when Shaun Alexander scored his NFL-leading 20th of these
a touchdown
Tad
|
$200
[2]
This campaigning term came from a tree part on which frontier speechmakers stood
the stump
Bob
|
$200
[18]
Hungry in Terre Haute? Stop at the Arches on U.S. Highway 41 for some Chicken Selects here
McDonald's
Tad
|
$200
[26]
May 3, 1912:The first victims of this disaster are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia
the Titanic sinking
Bob
|
$200
[10]
In 1988 this popular minister tearfully admitted on his national TV show that he was guilty of an unspecified sin
Jimmy Swaggart
Bob
|
$200
[1]
This word begins a rhyme about what a bride needs on her wedding day
something
John
|
|
$400
[6]
Straight-up swap at this position, Roethlisberger for Culpepper... what do you say?
quarterback
Tad
|
$400
[17]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a butterfly ballot in a voting booth at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA.) Florida voting machines introduced this 4-letter word to many people's vocabularies in 2000
chad
Tad
|
$400
[19]
Lots of good eating on U.S. 41--there's a seafood restaurant in this "colorful" chain launched in Florida in 1968
Red Lobster
Bob
|
$400
[27]
May 13, 1787:11 ships leave England on a voyage that ends by establishing a penal colony here
Australia
John
|
$400
[13]
Lightning rod Scottish politician Jimmy Wray is a member of the British parliament for this political party
Labour
Tad
|
$400
[3]
Rice paddies release this greenhouse gas
methane
Bob
|
|
$600
[7]
I'm glad I traded for this flamboyant receiver who went from Frisco to Philly in 2004
Terrell Owens
Tad
|
$600
[20]
Authority from the people to govern a certain way, or from the League of Nations to administer an area
a mandate
John
|
$600
[23]
The culinary delights of U.S. 41 include this pizza chain founded by John Schnatter downstate in Jeffersonville, In.
Papa John's
John
|
$600
[28]
May 31, 1913:The 17th Amendment is ratified, authorizing the direct election of these
senators
Tad
|
$600
[14]
With an average speed around 133 mph, Jimmy Bryan won this race in 1958
the Indianapolis 500
Bob
|
$600
[4]
Term originally applied to a mid-18th century religious society founded at Oxford
the Methodists
Tad
|
|
$800
[8]
I'm expecting a few long ones from the well-named Ryan Longwell, a regular at this position
kicker
Tad
|
$800
[21]
There are 2 "re" processes that changes the areas House seats represent: reapportionment & this
redistricting
John
|
$800
[24]
Any day of the week, hit this chain on U.S. 41 for a Three-For-All wings, skins & mozzarella appetizer
T.G.I. Friday's
Tad
|
$800
[29]
May 10, 1941:He parachutes into Scotland with a "peace plan"
(Rudolf) Hess
Tad
|
$800
[15]
He won a 1986 Pulitzer for his work as a columnist for the New York Daily News
Jimmy Breslin
Bob
|
$800
[11]
His group won a Grammy in 1998 for "Imaginary Day"
Pat Metheny
Tad
|
|
$1,000
[9]
Letting go of this Rams back with almost 12,000 career rushing yards could come back to haunt me
Marshall Faulk
Tad
|
$1,000
[22]
The government system used by the U.S.; it divides power between the central & state governments
federalism
Tad
|
$1,000
[25]
If this school's 11,200 students tire of chain food, they hit Poplar Street for steaks at Stables
Indiana State University
|
$1,000
[30]
May 15, 1756:This European war begins when England declares war on France
The Seven Years' War
Tad
|
DD
$2,200
[16]
In 1922 he was the first pilot to cross the U.S. in under 24 hours
Jimmy Doolittle
Bob
|
$1,000
[12]
In mythology, the husband of Pandora & brother of Prometheus; in astronomy, a moon of Saturn
Epimetheus
|
| MY FANTASY WRITER TEAM | THESPIAN-"O" | THAT ISLAND IS OURS! | MICROSOFT | MUSIC APPRECIATION | LET'S LEARN SCOTTISH GAELIC |
|
$400
[3]
Paul Gallico owned 23 of these animals at a time & wrote a fantasy about a boy who's changed into a white one
cats
Bob
|
$400
[1]
In an Oscar acceptance speech, he thanked Joey LaMotta, "even though he's suing us"
Robert De Niro
Tad
|
$400
[24]
Cayman Brac
Great Britain (or United Kingdom)
Bob
Tad
|
$400
[18]
When Steve Ballmer became CEO, this man's new role was "Chief Software Architect"
Bill Gates
Tad
|
$400
[4]
Penillion, a traditional form of Welsh singing, is almost always accompanied by this musical instrument
the harp
Bob
|
$400
[16]
In Gaelic, this body, set up in 1999 for the first time since 1707, is Pàrlamaid na h-Alba
(Scottish) Parliament
Bob
|
|
$800
[11]
Mom threw out all my Pern--Anne McCaffrey's books about Pern, where people ride these mythical beasts
dragons
John
|
$800
[2]
Hoo ah! He turned down the role of Han Solo in "Star Wars"; maybe he should've turned down "Gigli", too
(Al) Pacino
John
|
$800
[27]
Hopen, part of Svalbard
Norway
Bob
John
|
$800
[19]
In 1995, this product "95" sold more than 1 million copies in 4 days
Windows
Tad
|
$800
[7]
This notation used to indicate that the music should get softer is often abbreviated dim.
diminuendo
John
|
$800
[17]
Nic, "daughter of", is the female equivalent of this 3-letter form seen in many surnames
Mac
John
|
|
$1,200
[12]
Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Mists of" here gives the women's view of the Arthurian legend
Avalon
John
|
$1,200
[5]
He got an Oscar nomination for his role as Sal the pizza parlor owner in "Do the Right Thing"
Danny Aiello
Bob
Tad
John
|
DD
$900
[30]
Bonaire
the Netherlands
John
|
$1,200
[20]
In March 2004 this body hit Microsoft with a 497 million-euro fine for its bus. practices (take it out of petty cash)
the European Union
John
|
$1,600
[9]
Tales of Tapio, a Finnish forest god, inspired "Tapiola", this composer's last major symphonic work
Sibelius
Bob
|
$1,200
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a blackboard.) In Gaelic, "à" means this, as in "Tha mi à glaschu"; it can mean the exact opposite in French
from
John
|
|
$1,600
[13]
Terry Pratchett created this round "world" that rests on elephants resting on a turtle
Discworld
Bob
|
$1,600
[6]
Mira's dad, he played Henry Kissinger in 1995's "Nixon"
Paul Sorvino
John
|
$1,200
[28]
Grand Canary Island
Spain
John
|
$1,600
[21]
Now both an NFL & NBA team owner, he co-wrote a "BASIC" computer language for the Altair 8800 in 1975
Paul Allen
John
|
$2,000
[15]
He wrote 4 "Mephisto Waltzes", but the last was unfinished when he died in 1886
Liszt
Bob
|
$1,600
[25]
If you know cardhu ("black rock") & laphroaig ("beautiful hollow by the broad bay") you either love Gaelic or this
scotches
|
|
$2,000
[14]
Xanth is a land created by this writer, & if you say his first & last name you'll hear "Xanth" in the middle
Piers Anthony
|
$2,000
[10]
She went from playing doctor in "Medicine Man" to playing one again on "The Sopranos"
(Lorraine) Bracco
Tad
|
$1,600
[29]
New Caledonia
France
Bob
Tad
John
|
$2,000
[22]
MS-DOS for short, this was introduced on IBM personal computers in 1981
Microsoft Disk Operating System
Bob
|
DD
$3,600
[8]
One movement of this famous set of symphonic sketches is called "Jeux de vagues" ("The Play of the Waves")
La Mer
John
|
$2,000
[26]
Linne Chluaidh is Gaelic for the body of water known by this distinctively Scots name
Firth
Bob
Tad
|
It refers to a mythical bird that calmed waves, or to past happy "days"; spelled differently, it's a sleeping pill
halcyon