Show #4783 2005-05-25 Tournament of Champions

2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 5, game 3.

Contestants

Brad Rutter — a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania (subtotal of $38,400)

Jerome Vered — a writer from Los Angeles, California (subtotal of $19,600)

Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (subtotal of $26,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ken $800 $4,600 $9,400 $8,599 $7,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Jerome $0 $2,200 $8,300 $1,000 $6,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Brad $6,000 $9,800 $23,600 $23,600 $23,800
30 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

DINOSAURS WOMEN OF COUNTRY WEBSTER'SNEW WORLD COLLEGE DICTIONARY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IF IT'S TUESDAY THIS MUST BE BELGIAN
$200 [2]
Although its name suggests that it had 5 of these, the Pentaceratops had just 3; 2 were merely enlarged cheekbones
horns
Brad
$200 [9]
In 2004 this beauty made her movie debut as Sarah Sunderson in "The Stepford Wives"
Faith Hill
Brad
$200 [14]
Alphabetically, the first new entry for 2005 is the name of this radical Islamic organization
al-Qaeda
Ken
$200 [30]
Jean-Pierre Rampal was best known for his virtuosity with this instrument
the flute
Ken Jerome
$200 [16]
In the comics, this character's famous line is "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"
Wimpy
Jerome
$200 [21]
Historians don't know when this capital city was founded, only that it sprouted up before 700 A.D.
Brussels
Brad
$400 [3]
Scientists believe that dinosaurs lived through 3 geologic periods: Triassic, Jurassic, then this next one
Cretaceous
Brad
$400 [10]
(Hi, I'm Carolyn Dawn Johnson.) In my first hit single, you might say I had this state on my mind
Georgia
Brad
$400 [15]
Also listed is this 3-word chronic medical condition specific to some veterans of Operation Desert Storm
Gulf War Syndrome
Brad
$400 [29]
The first music for this reed instrument now usually tuned in B flat appeared in Amsterdam in the early 1700s
the clarinet
Jerome
$400 [17]
An act of Congress fixed this as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
Election Day
Brad
$400 [22]
It's the Belgian town in the title of the artworkseen here
Waterloo
Brad
$600 [4]
The name Psittacosaurus means this type of lizard; it had a strong beak like that on this present-day bird
a parrot
Ken
$600 [11]
1 of 2 country women who hit the Billboard Top 40 in 1997 with "How Do I Live"
LeAnn Rimes (or Trisha Yearwood)
$600 [1]
Webster's got down to business with this term for the buying & selling of goods & services over the Internet
e-commerce
Brad
$800 [27]
Thehornseen at Kansas City's American Jazz Museum belonged to this '40s & '50s musician who grew up in Kansas City
Charlie Parker
Brad
$600 [18]
In England these breakfast items are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday
pancakes
Jerome
$600 [23]
In the post-9/11 travel downturn, this national airline collapsed & was replaced by the smaller SN
SABENA
Ken
$800 [5]
High levels of this metal, at. #77, in rocks near dinosaur fossils led to the asteroid theory of their demise
iridium
Ken
$800 [12]
Among her No. 1 hits over the last 23 years are "You Lie", "Somebody" & "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter"
Reba McEntire
$800 [7]
Something's fishy with the addition of this fatty acid found in fish oil that's linked to low cholesterol & LDL levels
omega-3
Ken Brad
$1,000 [28]
"Sweet" name for the folk instrument heard here, or perhaps up in the Appalachian Mountains
the dulcimer
Brad
$800 [19]
Tuesday is named for the warrior god Tiu, whose father was this other god
Odin
Brad
$800 [24]
This uncle of Queen Victoria was king of Belgium for almost 35 years
Leopold I
Jerome Brad
$1,000 [6]
Similar to an Apatosaurus, this 52'-tall herbivore whose name means "arm lizard" had longer forelegs than hindlegs
Brachiosaurus
Brad
$1,000 [13]
In 2005 this hot newcomer won 2 CMT awards for her videos "Redneck Woman" & "When I Think About Cheatin'"
Gretchen Wilson
Brad
$1,000 [8]
New wine words include syrah & this Australian equivalent
shiraz
Brad
DD $2,400 [26]
This instrument of the cult of Apollo lent its name to the type of poetry it accompanied
lyre
Ken
$1,000 [20]
His bestseller "Tuesdays With Morrie" chronicled his weekly visits to his dying professor
Mitch Albom
Brad
$1,000 [25]
This hero created by the Belgian artist Herge has adventures with his dog Snowy at his side
Tintin
Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASIAN HISTORY GLOVE, AMERICAN STYLE POETS & POETRY "G" PEOPLE LATIN CLASS ROCKS
$400 [4]
The revenge of the 47 ronin, a 1703 incident in this country, is remembered there each December 14
Japan
Brad
$400 [6]
Despite playing only 28 games at first base in 1999, Rafael Palmeiro won this MLB defensive award
Gold Glove
Ken Brad
$400 [16]
John Berryman's poem "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet" is a tribute to her
Anne Bradstreet
Ken
$400 [21]
In some Arthurian legends, it's this knight & son of Lancelot who pulls the sword out of the stone
Galahad
Ken
$400 [11]
-que at the end of a word means this, as in Senatus Populusque Romanus
and
Brad
$400 [26]
From about 1620 to the mid-1800s, firearms used this rock to produce a spark that ignited the gunpowder
flint
Brad
$800 [5]
In the 1st century Kanishka ruled a chunk of central Asia from what's now Peshawar in this country
Pakistan
Jerome
$800 [7]
Known as "The Wizard", this Hall-of-Fame Cardinal set records for most assists & total chances accepted
Ozzie Smith
Ken
$800 [17]
Shakespeare said of this handsome mythological man, "hunting he lov'd, but love he laugh'd to scorn"
Adonis
Brad
$800 [22]
Born in Minneapolis, he made billions off oil & picked up a little art along the way
J. Paul Getty
Brad
$800 [12]
It completes the trio of nominative singular forms of the word for "this", hic, haec, ...
hoc
Brad
$800 [27]
Gneiss & chlorite are regional types of this class of rock that forms when heat & pressure cause changes
metamorphic
Brad
$1,200 [1]
Fingers were pointed at Syria when this ex-P.M. of Lebanon was killed in February 2005
Rafic Hariri
Jerome
$1,200 [8]
Terry Sawchuk & Chico Resch wore blockers & catch gloves as stars in this sport
hockey
Ken
$1,200 [18]
Chilean poet Lucila Godoy Alcayaga combined the names of 2 of her favorite poets to get this pen name
Gabriela Mistral
Ken
$1,200 [23]
Vegas celebrity weddings go back at least to 1943 when trumpeter Harry James married this sex symbol of the day
Betty Grable
Jerome
$1,200 [13]
Remember Caesar's famous phrase & you'll know this first-person past tense of pando, "I extend"
pandi
Jerome
$1,200 [28]
Cuprite is an important ore at the Bisbee, Arizona mine called this metal's "Queen"
copper
Ken
$1,600 [2]
In 1975 the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia & the left-wing group with this Laotian name took over in Laos
Pathet Lao
Jerome
$1,600 [9]
AKA "The Glove" for his defense, this guard got no love from the Lakers when they traded him to the Celtics in 2004
Gary Payton
Brad
$1,600 [19]
He was a bank clerk in the Yukon before he published "Songs of a Sourdough" in 1907
Robert Service
Ken
$2,000 [25]
Thecoverof her "Ballad Of Sexual Dependency" shows her photo of Nan & Brian in bed
Nan Goldin
DD $1,400 [14]
For most adjectives, adding -issimus to the stem gets you this form
the superlative
Brad
$1,600 [29]
These alpine mountains in Italy are named for the magnesian limestone of which they're made
the Dolomites
Ken Jerome
$2,000 [3]
These mercenaries from the Magar, Gurung & other Nepalese tribes defended the British Empire in WWs I & II
the Gurkhas
Brad
$2,000 [10]
One of the 2 200-meter medalists who each wore a black glove on the Mexico City Olympic victory stand
(John) Carlos (or Tommie Smith)
Brad
$2,000 [20]
William Cullen Bryant was just 17 when he wrote this poem whose name comes from the Greek for "view of death"
"Thanatopsis"
Brad
DD $3,300 [24]
His triumph as Richard III in 1741 made him the leading British actor of his time
(David) Garrick
Jerome
$2,000 [15]
It's an alliterative Latin idiom meaning "once the necessary changes have been made"
mutatis mutandis
$2,000 [30]
Igneous rocks described as mafic are primarily made up of magnesium & this
iron

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY AMERICANS

These names of 2 original Mercury astronauts, who orbited Earth in May 1962 & May 1963, are also occupations

Scott Carpenter & Gordon Cooper

Jerome "Who are Carpenter & Shepherd?" — wagered $7,300
Ken "Who are Cooper and Shepard? GO BRAD!" — wagered $801
Brad "Who are Carpenter + Cooper" — wagered $0

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