Show #6241 2011-11-07 (taped 2011-09-26) Tournament of Champions

2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Buddy Wright — an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas

Erin McLean — a junior at Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts

Paul Kursky — an online marketing producer from San Francisco, California

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Paul	$1,000	$1,600	$1,200	$2,400 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$1,200 12 R, 7 W
Erin	$600	$4,800	$8,600	$16,003 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$10,800 14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Buddy	$3,800	$8,000	$16,800	$17,201 Automatic semifinalist	$16,800 23 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

ON A U.S. POSTAGE STAMP	SPORTS NUMBERS	HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	PLANET OF THE CORGIS	THE CARIBBEAN	SCIENCE "K"LASS
$200 [9] Ray Harroun driving No. 32, his Marmon Wasp, to commemorate the centennial of this race the Indianapolis 500 Buddy	$200 [12] Points for a touchdown plus a 2-point conversion 8 Paul	$200 [17] Ongoing TV drama about Cap'n Crunch or Cheerios a cereal serial Paul Buddy	$200 [11] People in Cardiff know that the 2 types of corgi each have this nationality in their names Welsh Paul	$200 [1] These areas not for the shy include parts of Jamaica's Seven Mile Beach & of course Booby Cay, just offshore nudist beaches Buddy	$200 [2] Almost exactly equal to the mass of 1,000 cubic centimeters of water, it's a base unit in the metric system a kilogram Paul Erin Buddy
$400 [10] This ovine critter seenhereon a 17-cent stamp a bighorn sheep Erin	$400 [13] Number of RBIs credited to a batter who hits a grand slam 4 Erin	$400 [18] Adam & Eve's competent son able Abel Buddy	$400 [24] This author who wrote about a rabid St. Bernard owns corgis & featured one in his novel "Under the Dome" (Stephen) King Paul	$400 [7] The island of St. Eustatius has a holiday on Nov. 16, the date in this year it gave the 1st official salute to a U.S. ship 1776 Buddy	$400 [3] Just add 273.15 to your Celsius reading to get this kelvin Buddy
$600 [22] Oveta Culp Hobby, who helped form this, WAC for short the Women's Army Corps Buddy	$600 [14] Number of seconds in a full NBA shot clock 24 Buddy	$600 [19] Bad-smelling chicken or turkey foul fowl Buddy	$600 [26] Here's our friend the corgi taking this future world leader for a walk in Hyde Park around 1940 Queen Elizabeth II Paul Erin	$600 [8] The Casals Festival in this Puerto Rican city is one of the Caribbean's best-known cultural events San Juan Paul	$800 [5] A substance to start a fire, or the point that's the lowest temperature at which something will autoignite the kindling point
$800 [23] The dinnerwareseen here with this Spanish name Fiestaware Erin	$800 [15] An NHL team killing a penalty normally has this many guys on the ice 5 Paul Buddy	$800 [20] Monetary gain for a person who speaks for God prophet profit Buddy	$800 [27] The dorgi is a dog produced when a corgi mates with this similar-looking breed a dachshund Erin	$800 [29] The boulders seen here, known as "the Baths", are an attraction in this group, known as the BVI the British Virgin Islands Buddy	DD $1,000 [4] This noble gas used in high-speed photography lamps takes its name from the Greek for "hidden" krypton Buddy
$1,000 [25] This herb, Salvia officinalis sage Paul	$1,000 [16] If you win the first point of a tennis game, you have this number as your score 15 Buddy	$1,000 [21] A mixture of 2 languages spoken by a plentiful city bird pigeon pidgin Buddy	$1,000 [28] Once members of the AKC's working group, corgis are now classified in this group, as they were bred to handle cattle herding dogs Erin	$1,000 [30] You might see Oscar de la Renta around Punta Cana, on the eastern tip of Hispaniola in this country the Dominican Republic Erin	$1,000 [6] Macrocystis, this type of seaweed, can be 200 feet long kelp Paul

Double Jeopardy! Round

VERSE CASE SCENARIO	CHARACTERS FROM MOVIES	WHAT'D YOU CATCH?	9-LETTER WORDS	NOTABLE WOMEN	TREASURES OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
$400 [9] This 2-letter word is the title & first word of Kipling's poem that ends, "You'll be a man, my son!" if Erin	$400 [6] 1987:Inigo Montoya, Prince Humperdinck, Fezzik The Princess Bride Buddy	$400 [1] A bullhead type of this, genus Ameiurus a catfish Paul	$400 [13] To pump, fade or hang ten, you'll need this piece of equipment a surfboard Buddy	$400 [21] This first woman on the Supreme Court left the court in 2006 Sandra Day O'Connor Erin	$400 [26] This man slept here--no, really--during the Revolutionary War Washington Paul
$800 [10] She wrote, "Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell" Sylvia Plath Buddy	$800 [7] 2008:Kirk Lazarus, Tugg Speedman Tropic Thunder Erin	$800 [2] After a struggle, not a fish, but an Eagle GT tire from this maker Goodyear	$800 [14] Chemical weedkiller an herbicide Buddy	$800 [22] Her grave marker in Africa says, "No one loved gorillas more" (Dian) Fossey Paul	$800 [27] John J. Audubon never made it to California; he painted this vulturespecies from a dead specimen a California condor Paul
$1,200 [18] This Chilean poet wrote, "I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair" (Pablo) Neruda Erin	$1,200 [8] 1978:Dean Vernon Wormer, Doug Neidermeyer National Lampoon's Animal House	$1,200 [3] Not a starfish, but this heavenly one a sunfish Paul Erin	$1,200 [15] This removable footway connects a ship with a pier a gangplank Paul	$1,200 [23] Isak Dinesen wrote in both English & this, her native language Danish Erin	$1,200 [28] John Jay's"In Relation to Foreign Nations"is one of just four extantmanuscriptsin the series known as these "Papers" The Federalist Papers Erin
$1,600 [19] She began a poem, "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten" Edna St. Vincent Millay	$1,600 [11] 1989:Lloyd Dobler, Diane Court Say Anything... Paul	$1,600 [4] A cold, while fishing nearly 200-square-mile Flathead Lake in this northern state Montana Paul	$1,600 [16] This type of computer program is available for free on a trial basis; then a fee is paid for continued usage shareware Buddy	$1,600 [24] This Italian-born woman was famous for her educational methods (Maria) Montessori Buddy	$1,600 [29] New York City is thefinish lineof the 73-stepboard gamecalled "Round the World with"this adventuress Nellie Bly Buddy
DD $2,200 [20] Longfellow: "Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life" these 4 words "some rain must fall" Erin	$2,000 [12] 1982:King Kaiser, Alan Swann My Favorite Year	$2,000 [5] This fish with a beach city just south of Boca Raton named for it a pompano	$2,000 [17] (Sarah of the Clue Crew rubs her finger on a glass.) Rubbing your finger on the rim causes the glass to vibrate; the sound's pitch is due to this 9-letter term, the number of vibrations per second frequency Paul Erin	DD $1,600 [25] Piloting Vostok 6, she orbited the Earth 48 times during her trip into space in 1963 (Valentina) Tereshkova Buddy	$2,000 [30] In November of 1776 more than 700 New Yorkers loyal to Britainsignedwhat's known as the "Declaration of"this Dependence

Final Jeopardy!

FROM THE GREEK

The word for a song element you won't find in instrumentals comes from the name of this instrument

a lyre

Paul "What is a lyre?" — wagered $1,200

Erin "What is a Lyre?" — wagered $7,403

Buddy "What is a lyre?" — wagered $401

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