Show #6247 2011-11-15 (taped 2011-09-27) Tournament of Champions

2011 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

Buddy Wright — an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas (subtotal of $6,000)

Tom Nissley — a writer from Seattle, Washington (subtotal of $18,800)

Roger Craig — a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware (subtotal of $50,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Roger	$6,800	$10,000	$15,600	$1,200	$13,000 25 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Tom	$200	$3,800	$14,600	$0	$14,600 16 R, 1 W
Buddy	$1,000	$1,600	$4,600	$4,600	$10,800 14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

USDA FOREST SERVICE	YOU MUST REMEMBERCASABLANCA	ANCIENT WISDOM	NAME THE CITY	FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	MELTING POTPOURRI
$200 [1] This threatened national symbol is thriving in areas protected by the Forest Service, like Washington's Skagit River bald eagle Roger	$200 [25] This 5-word line from the film was voted the fifth-greatest movie quote of all time by the American Film Institute "Here's looking at you, kid" Buddy	$200 [19] "The Frog and the Ox" by this fabulist says, "Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction" Aesop Tom	$200 [14] Roger Williams National Memorial Providence Roger	$200 [6] This, a collective settlement, usually agricultural, is from the modern Hebrew for "gathering" kibbutz Buddy	$200 [26] "Our actors", says Prospero, "were all spirits, and Are melted into" this, "into thin" this air Roger
$400 [2] In 1971 Woodsy Owl became a Forest Service spokesman urging Americans, "Give a hoot, don't" do this pollute Roger	$400 [24] It's this character's "Cafe Americain" where much of the action takes place Rick Roger	$400 [20] "Bartlett's" quotes Chinese scientist Chang Heng: "Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like" this part "of the egg" the yolk Buddy	$400 [15] Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo New Orleans Buddy	$400 [7] This 5-letter Latin word meaning "about" or "around" is used of approximate dates circa Buddy	$400 [27] This artist created the melting 1931 work seen here Dalí Roger
$600 [3] Theshapeof the Union Pacific Railroad logo was used, &this tree in thepinefamily was added to create the Forest Service logo fir Roger	$800 [12] Central to the plot are stolen "letters of" this that will allow anyone to travel unopposed transit Roger Tom	$600 [21] "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life" is a saying from his "Republic" Plato Buddy	$600 [16] The South by Southwest festival Austin Roger	$600 [8] Arabic gives us the names of both a plant &this bath sponge made from that plant a loofah Roger	$600 [28] Add melted cheese & chile peppers to tortilla chips & you get this Mexican-American appetizer nachos Tom Buddy
$800 [4] The Transfer Act of 1905 transferred U.S. forest reserves to the Department of Agriculture from this Cabinet dept. Interior Roger	$1,000 [13] Bogie delivers the film's last line to Claude Rains, who played this corrupt but honorable Frenchman Louis (Renault) Roger	$800 [22] Socrates once declared, "I am not" this "or a Greek, but a citizen of the world" Athenian Roger	$800 [17] The Beat Museum in North Beach San Francisco Tom	$800 [9] This Italian term describes music that has no instrumental accompaniment a cappella Roger	$800 [29] In 1979 equipment & human failures led to a partial meltdown of the No. 2 reactor at this U.S. site Three Mile Island Roger
$1,000 [5] During the Depression this New Deal agency renewed our decimated forests byplantingabout 3 billion trees the Civilian Conservation Corps (the CCC) Tom	DD $3,200 [11] After Nazi Major Strasser has been shot, the command goes out to "Round up" this group, the title of another film usual suspects Roger	$1,000 [23] This playwright observed in "Clouds" that "Old men are children for a second time" Aristophanes Tom	$1,000 [18] The American Swedish Institute Minneapolis Roger	$1,000 [10] German for "shape" gives us this name of a school of psychology Gestalt Roger	$1,000 [30] Melting copper & zinc together is the traditional recipe for this alloy used since Neolithic times brass Roger Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

TOUGH BODIES OF WATER	I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR	GOOD MIGRATIONS	20th CENTURY AMERICANS	HAVE YOU HEARD THE "NEWS"?	17-LETTER WORDS
$400 [30] Maori rock carvings on the cliffs of Mine Bay in this country's Lake Taupo are accessible only by boat New Zealand Roger	$400 [1] Gisele Bundchen, in 2009 Tom Brady Buddy	$400 [28] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of North America and the Pacific Ocean.) Following a 5,000-mile migration route, the gray species of this creature travels from the Arctic to warm Mexican waters, where it mates & gives birth a whale Tom	$400 [6] His 1948 report on "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was based on over 5,000 case histories Kinsey Roger	$400 [26] Full name of the organization for which the man seenherehas plied his trade since 2001 Cable News Network Buddy	$400 [20] The introduction of power-driven machinery in the early 1800s was a big factor in this process industrialization Tom
$800 [29] Half a mile long, in the 1840s it inspired an American literary classic Walden Pond Roger Buddy	$800 [2] Kim Kardashian, in 2011 Kris Humphries Tom	$800 [27] Long ago, 4-million-strong herds of these humped ungulates migrated regularly through the Great Plains bison Buddy	$800 [21] In 1966 she helped found the National Organization for Women & became its first president (Betty) Friedan Tom	DD $600 [24] Its Nov. 22, 1963 front-page headline read: "Storm of Political Controversy Swirls Around Kennedy on Visit" The Dallas Morning News Buddy	$800 [19] Judicial review tests congressional legislation for this, conformity with a certain U.S. document constitutionality Tom
$1,200 [9] This river, Africa's third longest, rises in the Highlands of southern Guinea near its border with Sierra Leone Niger Roger	$1,200 [3] Nomar Garciaparra, in 2003 Mia Hamm Tom	$1,200 [15] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of southeast Africa, with Tanzania and the Indian Ocean labeled.) In Africa, the only place where vast animal migrations occur is in this large Tanzanian national park, where herds move in a circular route to find water & grazeable land Serengeti Roger	$1,200 [11] In 1945 in Newport, Arkansas, he opened his first store, a Ben Franklin variety store Sam Walton Buddy	$800 [25] Known for its college rankings, it was created by the 1948 merger of 2 magazines U.S. News & World Report Roger	$1,600 [16] A cosmetic treatment that gently sands the skin microdermabrasion Roger Buddy
$1,600 [7] The Amana Colonies were settled on this "stately" river in the 1850s Iowa Roger	$1,600 [4] Ashley Judd, in 2001 Dario Franchitti	$1,600 [13] Insects, like some locusts, migrate to areas where they do this, from the Latin for "winter" hibernate Tom	$1,600 [10] This Olympianwas named to the National Track & Field Hall of Fame in 1974 Wilma Rudolph Tom	$1,200 [22] It's been "the Bible of Baseball" since 1886 The Sporting News Tom	$2,000 [18] In politics, really, really traditional & right wing ultraconservative Roger Buddy
$2,000 [8] Finland's Aland Islands lie at the southern edge of this gulf the Gulf of Bothnia Tom	$2,000 [5] Carrie Underwood, in 2010 Mike Fisher Roger	$2,000 [14] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of North and South America.) Separated by up to 1,500 miles at the start of their annual migration, flocks of the scarlet type of this bird come closer together as they move down to South America tanager Roger	$2,000 [12] This Pittsburgh-born financier & art collector was Secretary of the Treasury under Harding, Coolidge & Hoover (Andrew) Mellon Roger	$1,600 [23] A 2011 scandal ended the 168-year run of this British scandal sheet News of the World Buddy	DD $4,800 [17] This adjective means "thwarting an intended goal", like living on credit while trying to save money counterproductive Buddy

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY POETRY

He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die"

Oscar Wilde

Buddy "Who is Shelley?" — wagered $0

Tom "Who is Coleridge?" — wagered $14,600

Roger "Who is P. Shelley?" — wagered $14,400

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