2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
Patrick Tucker — a graduate student of public policy from St. Louis, Missouri
Liz Murphy — a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
Ryan Chaffee — a tutor from Los Angeles, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan | $800 | $1,400 | $7,800 |
$1,800
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,800
13 R, 2 W |
| Liz | $2,200 | $7,400 | $17,400 |
$17,400
Automatic semifinalist |
$15,200
20 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Patrick | $1,600 | $1,600 | $2,400 |
$4,700
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$2,400
10 R, 5 W |
| NONFICTION | TV SHOWS BY GROUPS | WHOSE DISH IS IT ANYWAY? | 4 SCORE & 7 | "TOC" | A VISIT TO ANTARCTICA |
|
$200
[2]
Bob Woodward's "The Secret Man" was rushed to print after this Watergate informant revealed himself
Mark Felt
Patrick
|
$200
[15]
Sacred Order of the Stonecutters, soon followed by the No Homers Club
The Simpsons
Patrick
|
$200
[14]
Poached eggs, Canadian bacon & hollandaise on an English muffin:Eggs ____
Benedict
Patrick
|
$200
[13]
Shakespeare's 87th one of these begins, "Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing"
a sonnet
Liz
|
$200
[1]
From the Greek for "rule by the best", it's rule by a privileged, hereditary class
an aristocracy
Patrick
|
$200
[12]
(Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from aboard a boat in Antarctica.) Notorious for its turbulence, we are now in the passage between South America & Antarctica, named for this English sailor
Sir Francis Drake
|
|
$400
[3]
In his autobiography "Speak, Memory", he called "Lolita" "a painful birth, a difficult baby"
Nabokov
Ryan
|
$400
[16]
The Cheerios & Vocal Adrenaline
Glee
Ryan
|
$400
[23]
A New Orleans dessert:Bananas ____
Foster
Liz
Patrick
|
$400
[19]
The 87th of these ends, "all my springs are in thee"
a Psalm
Ryan
|
$400
[4]
A military prison
a stockade
Ryan
Liz
|
$400
[10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from near a glacier in Antarctica.) In Antarctica, iceberg formation is at its most spectacular as huge masses break off from continental glaciers--a process called this
calving
Patrick
|
|
$600
[6]
In 2005 he published an updated, easier to understand "Briefer History of Time"
Hawking
Liz
|
$600
[11]
The Batley Townswomen's Guild, known for their "muddy" historical reenactments
Monty Python
|
$600
[24]
A filet embellished with pate & mushrooms:Beef ____
Wellington
Liz
|
$600
[20]
Some Australians believe 87 is an unlucky number in this sport, as it's 13 short of a century
cricket
|
$600
[5]
Sciatica often leads to a pain in this body part
the buttocks
Patrick
|
$600
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Antarctica--with penguins.) Penguins usually walk upright, but if in a hurry, flop on their bellies & push off with their flippers & feet, traveling in a way named for this Native American sled
a toboggan
Liz
|
|
DD
$1,000
[7]
The 2009 Pulitzer for history went to Annette Gordon-Reed for "The Hemingses of" this home
Monticello
Liz
|
$800
[17]
From 1955, the International Order of Friendly Sons of the Raccoons
The Honeymooners
|
$800
[25]
A dessert with ladyfingers:____ Russe
Charlotte
Liz
|
$800
[21]
Francium's is 87
atomic number
Ryan
|
$800
[9]
The Borsa is Italy's main this
the stock exchange
Liz
|
$800
[28]
(Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) Both the Antarctic sea we're in & these albeside me are named for this famous 19th-century British explorer
(James) Weddell
Liz
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Completes the titles of diet books by Dr. Barry Sears: "The ____", "A Week in the ____" & "What to Eat in the ____"
Zone
Patrick
|
$1,000
[30]
The motorcycle gangs SAMCRO & The Mayans
Sons of Anarchy
|
$1,000
[26]
A southern good luck dish:Hoppin' ____
John
Liz
|
$1,000
[22]
In 2005 we learned that 87 Sylvia, one of these, is unique in that it has 2 moons
an asteroid
Liz
|
$1,000
[18]
This 2-wheeled off-road racing began in England & was originally called scrambling
motocross
|
$1,000
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew walks barefoot along the shore in Antarctica.) Surprisingly, you can even walk barefoot in some Antarctic water, like here on volcanic Deception Island at this type of vent in the earth, from the Latin for "smoke"
fumarole
Ryan
|
| BAYS | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS | CARRIAGES | LET'S GET DRESSED IN THE 1920s | INTERNATIONAL ORGS. | 11-LETTER WORDS |
|
$400
[16]
Major ports on this bay include Chittagong in Bangladesh & Pondicherry in India
the Bay of Bengal
Liz
|
$400
[6]
Bob Fosse won an Oscar for this 1972 Liza Minnelli film
Cabaret
Ryan
|
$400
[26]
This 17th century carriage had a separate hooded seat at the rear & was named for the capital of Germany
a Berlin carriage
Patrick
|
$400
[1]
Now for a dab of her No. 5 perfume, introduced in 1922
(Coco) Chanel
Liz
|
$400
[17]
CIS, the Commonwealth of these, was founded in 1991 by 12 former Soviet republics
Independent States
Ryan
|
$400
[13]
Unplanned or without premeditation, like some combustion
spontaneous
Liz
|
|
$800
[8]
Largo Bay is not in Florida but on the Forth Estuary in this U.K. country
Scotland
Liz
|
$800
[2]
"Revenge of" in 1978 was the fifth in this series of comedies directed by Blake Edwards
The Pink Panther
Patrick
|
$800
[27]
French for "chair", this carriage was adapted from the sedan chair in France
a chaise
Ryan
|
$800
[7]
Bill Tilden popularized this sweater, a cream or white cable knit; it's also the sport he played
tennis
Liz
|
$800
[11]
Founded in 1976, the AMF is this monetary fund with 22 African & Middle Eastern member nations
Arab
Patrick
|
$800
[18]
Boy Scout law No. 1 says "a scout is" this, meaning deserving of confidence
trustworthy
Liz
|
|
$1,200
[9]
To enter this Japanese bay on which Yokohama lies, you must first enter Sagami Bay
Tokyo Bay
|
$1,200
[3]
Near the commencement of his career, he directed "The Graduate"
(Mike) Nichols
Ryan
|
$1,200
[28]
Tilbury & Stanhope are 2 varieties of this one-horse carriage, also a night's work for a musician
a gig
Ryan
|
$1,200
[20]
Turkey's Kemal Ataturk said let's not get dressed in this hat symbolizing Islamic orthodoxy
a fez
Liz
|
$1,200
[12]
ASEAN is the "Association of" these "Nations"; Laos is a member
Southeast Asian
Ryan
|
$1,200
[23]
It's an abnormal fear of dead bodies
necrophobia
Ryan
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Egypt's Bay of Tinah lies on the north shore of this peninsula
the Sinai
Ryan
|
$1,600
[4]
His Westerns include "Wagon Master" & "Fort Apache"
John Ford
Patrick
|
$1,600
[29]
Designed by & named for a British architect in 1834, this carriage featured an elevated rear driver's seat
the Hansom carriage
|
$1,600
[21]
After a referendum in Reedy, West Virginia, women were allowed to wear these golf pants worn by men only
knickers
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
BSEC is the economic cooperation zone named for this body of water; its 12 members include Bulgaria
the Black Sea
Liz
|
$1,600
[24]
A type of lamp powered up by a ballast
fluorescent
|
|
DD
$3,200
[10]
During one tide cycle, more than 100 billion tons of seawater flow in & out of this bay between N.B. & Nova Scotia
the Bay of Fundy
Liz
|
$2,000
[5]
Clark Gable was happy to see him come in & finish directing "Gone with the Wind"
Victor Fleming
Patrick
|
$2,000
[30]
The name of a baron & political reformer was on a 19th century closed carriage & on 20th c. Cadillac car models
Brougham
|
$2,000
[22]
Last name of Italian shoe designer Salvatore, who set up a company in Florence in 1927
Ferragamo
|
$2,000
[19]
Known as NAM, it was founded in 1961 by nations that wanted to stand apart from the Eastern & Western blocs
the Non-Aligned Movement
Patrick
|
$2,000
[25]
One who describes the surface features of a region
topographer
Ryan
Patrick
|
Immediately before the Caroline era came this one, also from the monarch's Latin name
Jacobean