2011 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.
Roger Craig — a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
Mark Runsvold — a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
Joon Pahk — a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joon | $800 | $3,400 | $11,800 |
$11,662
2nd place: $10,000 |
$11,800
14 R, 4 W |
| Mark | $400 | $2,200 | $13,400 |
$1,055
3rd place: $10,000 |
$13,400
19 R, 1 W |
| Roger | $3,200 | $5,000 | $27,600 |
$27,600
Finalist |
$12,400
21 R (including 3 DDs), 6 W |
| THE QUOTABLE CHURCHILL | ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK | GAELIC PRIDE | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? | REAL LANDS | FICTIONAL LANDS |
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$200
[1]
This "at all costs," this "in spite of all terror," this "however long and hard the road may be" (V is for...)
victory
Mark
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$200
[24]
"100 Doses" & "Bad Day To Be A Rhesus Monkey" were on the soundtrack to this 2011 medical thriller
Contagion
Mark
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$200
[19]
From the Gaelic, it's a poet, from Avon or not
a bard
Roger
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$200
[26]
At her wedding, Kate Middleton wore a diamond one of these, her something borrowed (from the Queen)
a tiara
Mark
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$200
[14]
This Central American country named for the Savior contains a central range of 20 volcanoes
El Salvador
Roger
|
$200
[3]
Neverland
(James) Barrie
Mark
|
|
$400
[2]
It's whom Churchill called "a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder"
Hitler
Roger
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$400
[25]
This invitation to insanity is the first song on the "Purple Rain" soundtrack
"Let's Go Crazy"
Mark
|
$400
[20]
A large group of families that are related, it's from the Gaelic for "family"
a clan
Mark
|
$400
[27]
You can wear an ascot to Ascot or this hat to the horse race of the same name at Epsom Downs
derby
Roger
|
$400
[15]
The Chittagong Hills of this country lie along its borders with Burma & India
Bangladesh
Roger
|
$400
[4]
Eastasia & Oceania
(George) Orwell
Roger
|
|
$600
[8]
In a 1940 speech in the House of Commons, "Men will still say: 'This was their ____ hour'"
finest
Roger
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$600
[11]
This Jeff Bridges sequel featured tracks called "The Grid" & "The Son of Flynn"
Tron: Legacy
Joon
Roger
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$600
[21]
In Gaelic this historic catastrophe is known as "An Gorta Mor" (The Great Hunger)
the (Irish) Potato Famine
Roger
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$600
[28]
A stovepipe hat is an elongated type of this hat
a top hat
Joon
|
$600
[16]
The river sharing the name of this landlocked land in Central South America forms a seasonal swamp, the Pantanal
Paraguay
Joon
Mark
Roger
|
$600
[5]
Shangri-La
James Hilton
Joon
Roger
|
|
$800
[9]
"The maxim of the British people is" this "as usual"
business
Roger
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$1,000
[13]
Rick Garcia sang "Welcome Amigo" & Los Lobos the theme song for this 2011 animated film
Rango
Joon
Roger
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$800
[22]
From the Gaelic for "war cry", it's a distinctive phrase or saying used to advertise a product
a slogan
Joon
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$800
[29]
The name of this headdress & the word "tulip" are derived from the same word
turban
|
$800
[17]
A fluffy toy dog is named for this historical region along Poland's Baltic coast
Pomerania
Joon
Roger
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$800
[6]
San Lorenzo & Tralfamadore
(Kurt) Vonnegut
Roger
|
|
$1,000
[10]
"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by" these
the facts
|
DD
$1,800
[12]
This 1984 film included Salieri's 1788 "Axur, re d'Ormus"
Amadeus
Roger
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$1,000
[23]
It's a large 2-edged Scottish broadsword
a claymore
Roger
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$1,000
[30]
The name of this head scarf is the Russian word for "grandmother"
babushka
Joon
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$1,000
[18]
Thiscountry off Africa's coast ismade upof the Barlavento island group & the Sotavento island group
Cape Verde
Roger
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$1,000
[7]
Pern
(Anne) McCaffrey
Joon
|
| ETHICS | FOOD SCIENCE | TERMS OF ART | SILENT-LETTERED WORDS | RUSSIA THEN & NOW | PUTTING CELEBRITIES ON THE MAP |
|
$400
[30]
J.G. Fichte made ethics a matter of doing one's this around the same time Lord Nelson was expecting each man to "do his" this
duty
Joon
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$400
[12]
At 144 degrees ovotransferrin in these common food items denatures & they then begin to set
eggs
Mark
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$400
[19]
This golden-brown tint from a marine animal is applied to black & white images to give them an antique look
sepia
Roger
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$400
[6]
C:The levator scapulae, for example; it helps raise the shoulder blade
a muscle
Mark
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$400
[14]
Around 1050 Yaroslav I issued the first Russian code of law, the Russkaya Pravda, or "Russian" this
Truth
Mark
|
$400
[1]
Putting a letter before the first name of a "Grease" actress fills the seats in La Paz
Bolivia Newton-John
Roger
|
|
$800
[28]
A book called "Ethical" this dietary practice covers Pythagoras, Shelley & Gandhi
Vegetarianism
Mark
Roger
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$800
[27]
This fruit-based carbohydrate is what gels jams & jellies
pectin
Mark
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$800
[29]
From Latin for "drawn away", it refers to art that doesn't represent recognizable physical forms
abstract
Joon
|
$800
[7]
U:This feeling of remorse that your grandmother may try to instill in you
guilt
Mark
|
$800
[15]
On Sept. 1, 2004 terrorists from this breakaway republic took more than a thousand hostages at a school in Beslan
Chechnya
Mark
|
$800
[2]
Adding a letter to a "There's Something About Mary" star's name makes her more bankable in Yaounde
Cameroon Diaz
Mark
|
|
$1,200
[21]
Washington Hospital Center has a 35-member committee on this to help sort out painful decisions
bioethics
Joon
|
$1,200
[10]
You can kill nasty things in wooden cutting boards with the acidity in the white type of this--Heinz wants you to know
vinegar
Mark
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$1,200
[24]
It's the "disappearing" 2-word term for the place in a painting where receding parallel lines seem to meet
the vanishing point
Joon
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$1,200
[8]
P:This French word for a highly successful & unexpected act
a coup
Mark
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$1,200
[16]
In 1916 Prince Yusupov poisoned & shot this Svengali before finally drowning him
Rasputin
Mark
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$1,200
[3]
A famed lyricist, not brother George, is the big draw in Tehran
Iran Gershwin
Joon
|
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$2,000
[25]
The idea that the good can be objectively found is part of this -ism, also referring to obsessively high standards
perfectionism
Joon
Mark
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$1,600
[13]
Careful when eating bagels with these seeds on them--you could test positive for heroin!
poppy seeds
Roger
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$2,000
[22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a painting shown on a monitor.) In art composition, to make the painting more interesting, divide it & put the focus along thelinesto follow this fractional rule
the rule of thirds
Roger
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$1,600
[9]
M:This memory-assisting type of phrase
a mnemonic
Roger
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$1,600
[17]
In August 2011 a retired cop was charged in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, of this profession
journalism
Roger
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$1,600
[4]
A boxer from Louisville has a big pay day in Bamako when you add a letter to his name
Muhammad Mali
Joon
|
|
DD
$10,000
[23]
Monistic theories reduce the search for good to one thing, like pleasure in the case of this theory
hedonism
Roger
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$2,000
[26]
Activia says its yogurt is creamy & full of this type of culture that boosts health
probiotic
Mark
|
DD
$7,400
[20]
Mind your this 16th c. Italian art movement that gave us long-necked Madonnas
Mannerism
Roger
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$2,000
[11]
S:This 7-letter word that means "fitting" or "opportunely"
apropos
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$2,000
[18]
In 1903 the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into the Bolsheviks & this group whose name means "minority"
Mensheviks
Joon
|
$2,000
[5]
After inserting a letter into a late actress' name, "Hud" is sold out for weeks in Kathmandu
Patricia Nepal
Joon
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A 2005 sale of 14,159,265 shares prompted the headline "Google offers shares, seeks global piece of" this
pi