2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 3, game 4.
April McManus — a homemaker from Hertfordshire, England
Robert Slaven — a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
John Cuthbertson — an investment analyst from San Diego, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $1,800 | $4,200 | $12,800 |
$22,401
Winner: $30,000 + an advance to UToC Round 4 |
$11,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Robert | $4,000 | $6,600 | $15,000 |
$4,399
3rd place: $15,000 |
$15,000
21 R, 1 W |
| April | $1,400 | $5,800 | $11,200 |
$22,300
2nd place: $15,000 |
$12,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| LITERARY TERMS | SITCOM NEIGHBORS | COMMUNICATION | CNN 25: INTERNATIONAL NEWS | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | BACKWORDS |
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$200
[21]
Intimate & perhaps lurid details are disclosed in this genre, such as those "of an English Opium Eater"
confessions
John
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$200
[6]
Barney Rubble
The Flintstones
John
April
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$200
[16]
Herbert Hoover in 1929 was the first president to have one of these on his desk, not in a booth outside his office
a telephone
April
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$200
[1]
In 1989, one loneprotestorhalted a column of tanks as it advanced on this square
Tiananmen Square
April
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$200
[7]
To pass a bill over a presidential veto, Congress must approve it by this fraction of those members present
two-thirds
John
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$200
[23]
I made a loop around this in Marc's backyard
a pool (loop)
April
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$400
[22]
Aramis was a musketeer; a composer of certain 14-line poems is one of these
sonneteer
Robert
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$400
[9]
A local orphanage & the North Korean Army
M*A*S*H
Robert
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$400
[17]
In the 1680s William Dockwra set up a system of hourly collections of letters within London at a cost of this much
a penny
April
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$400
[2]
(Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN's360.) In 2002 I reported from this capital that U.S. allies had liberated the previous November
Kabul
Robert
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$400
[8]
To keep them independent, Article III of the Constitution says Congress can't cut their pay once they're in
judges
Robert
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$400
[27]
Liam likes to sort this
mail (Liam)
John
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$600
[24]
Also called a saint's play, this type of medieval drama sounds like it should be in Smokey Robinson's singing group
a miracle play
April
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$600
[10]
"Hello, Newman"
Seinfeld
April
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$800
[19]
In the pyralis species of this, females respond to a male flash with a flash of their own 2 seconds later
fireflies
Robert
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$600
[3]
In 1997, we said "hello" to this sheep as CNN reported on her cloning by Scottish scientists
Dolly
April
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$600
[13]
Established in 1913, it's the independent agency that oversees the nation's banking system
the Federal Reserve
John
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$600
[28]
All monsters are frightening; ergo this type of monster is frightening
an ogre (ergo)
Robert
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$800
[25]
The name of this type of heroic epic comes from the Old Norse for "story" or "saying"
a saga
John
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$800
[11]
Mr. & Mrs. Roper
Three's Company
Robert
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$1,000
[20]
After WWII, the Navy formed this rating, abbreviated SM, for those who use flags during radio silence
a signalman
John
Robert
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$800
[4]
Held hostage in Lebanon, thisAP correspondant was finally freed in 1991, ending his 7-year ordeal
Terry Anderson
April
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$800
[14]
Robert Zoellick & Mickey Kantor have held this Cabinet-level job that negotiates agreements on world commerce
the (U.S.) Trade Representative
John
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$800
[29]
We traveled a yard in this type of cart
a dray (yard)
Robert
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$1,000
[26]
The name of this type of heroic epic is akin to an Old Norse word for "great-grandmother"
an edda
April
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$1,000
[12]
Nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz
Bewitched
Robert
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DD
$2,000
[18]
The 2-way field radio developed by Don Hings for bush pilots in 1937 soon got this snappier name
walkie-talkies
April
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$1,000
[5]
Tragically in 1995, more than 200 people died in thecountrythen called this during an outbreak of the Ebola virus
Zaire
April
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$1,000
[15]
He's Massachusetts' governor; his father served as the governor of Michigan in the '60s
Mitt Romney
Robert
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$1,000
[30]
We hear that T.S. Eliot was a fan of this printed cotton fabric
toile (Eliot)
Robert
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| ON THE MAP | TOP 40 MUSICAL CONTRACTIONS | WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS | DIDN'T YOU GET YOUR INVITATION? | COMMON BONDS | BACK WORDS |
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$400
[1]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from a blackboard.) When shown near Yulin & Hanzhong, the symbol seenhereindicates this world landmark
the Great Wall of China
Robert
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$400
[6]
"____ Only Just Begun"
We've
Robert
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$400
[26]
Imogen Cunningham shocked people with nude photos of her husband on this dormant Cascade Range volcano
Mount Rainier
April
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$400
[11]
Washington Hilton,7 P.M., Jan. 20, 2005
the Inaugural Ball
Robert
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$400
[12]
David Bowie's astronaut Tom; psychology or journalism; a person of legal age
major
Robert
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$400
[17]
These masses of fibrocartilage between vertebrae serve as shock absorbers
discs
Robert
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$800
[2]
Mercator's 1569 map projection makes this island (840,000 sq. mi.) look bigger than Africa (11-1/2 million sq. mi.)
Greenland
Robert
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$800
[7]
"____ Stop The Rain"
Who'll
John
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$800
[27]
She was hired by the government tophotographdisplaced Oklahoma farmers during the Depression
Dorothea Lange
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$800
[22]
Grauman's Chinese, Dec. 1, 2004--Leo was there (Cate wasn't)
the premiere of The Aviator
April
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$800
[13]
Clement Moore's reindeer, the Supreme Court's associate justices, Elizabeth Taylor's marriages
eight
April
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$800
[18]
L1 through L5 refers to 5 vertebrae in the lower back, with the "L" standing for this
lumbar
April
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$1,200
[3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from behind a globe.) From the Greek for "beside each other", it's the geographic term for the line seen here
a parallel (of latitude)
Robert
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$1,200
[8]
"____ Too Proud To Beg"
Ain't
April
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$1,200
[28]
Early morphing technology, as in a 1982photoby Nancy Burson, combined this U.S. & this Soviet leader
Reagan & Brezhnev
Robert
April
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$1,600
[24]
Seen here, New York City, May 24, 1883
the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge
John
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$1,200
[14]
Games like 20 Questions, a body recently dead, a hair dryer on a stand
things in parlors
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$1,200
[19]
As its name implies, this type of anesthesia that eases labor pains is injected into a space outside the spinal cord
epidural
Robert
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$1,600
[4]
On a map of the U.S., 1 of the 2 states that each border 8 other states
Missouri (or Tennessee)
John
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$1,600
[9]
"____ Be The Day"
That'll
April
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$1,600
[29]
Though she failed her college intro to photography course, her untitled filmstillsmade the grade at MoMA
Cindy Sherman
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$2,000
[25]
July 2004:Herbert Allen's media power pow-wow at this resort
Sun Valley, Idaho
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$1,600
[15]
A potent drink, a powerful rifle, a runner finishing with a burst
a kick
John
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$1,600
[20]
This triangular bone lies directly above the coccyx & joins with the hip bones to form the rear of the pelvis
the sacrum
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DD
$3,000
[5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers from a blackboard.) On a map of the Pacific, the symbol seenhereindicates this feature that shares its name with nearby islands
the Marianas Trench
John
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$2,000
[10]
"____ Got Time For The Pain"
Haven't
April
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$2,000
[30]
Berenice Abbott assisted Man Ray before opening her own portrait studio, where she photographed this"Orphée" writer
Jean Cocteau
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DD
$3,000
[23]
Westminster Abbey, Nov. 20, 1947
the wedding of Elizabeth II & Prince Philip
April
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$2,000
[16]
Modem, quasar, Gestapo
acronyms
Robert
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$2,000
[21]
These muscles of the upper back are named for their particular quadrilateral shape
the rhomboid muscles (trapezius accepted)
April
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Songs in this 1956 show include "Oh, Happy We", "You Were Dead, You Know" & "The Best Of All Possible Worlds"
Candide