2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
Paul Nelson — a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa
Jason Shore — a medical student from Plano, Texas
Stephanie Jass — a history professor from Milan, Michigan
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephanie | $2,800 | $5,800 | $13,000 |
$13,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$13,000
20 R, 2 W |
| Jason | $200 | $3,600 | $13,000 |
$14,000
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$13,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Paul | $0 | $2,000 | $15,800 |
$15,800
Automatic semifinalist |
$12,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| FROM THE GREEK | GINGHAM STYLE | BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES | PLANE SPEAKING | THE LEFTY |
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$200
[3]
This form of Egyptian writing gets its name from Greek for "pertaining to sacred writing"
hieroglyphics
Stephanie
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$200
[1]
It just isn't this outdoor event without a red & white gingham check tablecloth--& the ants
a picnic
Stephanie
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$200
[9]
1861:"Silas"
Marner
Stephanie
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$200
[16]
This world capital on the Gulf of Finland boasts a railway station designed by Eliel Saarinen
Helsinki
Jason
|
$200
[21]
Small planes have 2- or 3-bladed these, but others have some with 8 blades
propellers
Stephanie
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$200
[22]
The leftyseenhereon the left
Babe Ruth
Jason
|
|
$400
[5]
Both "apothecary" & this other synonym for a drugstore come from the Greek
pharmacy
Jason
|
$400
[2]
The white puff-sleeve blouse & blue gingham pinafore worn by this "Wizard of Oz" actress sold for $480,000 in 2012
Judy Garland
Jason
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$400
[10]
1839:"Nicholas"
Nickleby
Stephanie
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$400
[17]
A 2-time Olympic host, this New York village has a population of around 2,500
Lake Placid
Stephanie
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$400
[23]
Gyroscopes help maintain course as part of this airplane feature; in the feature "Airplane!", it was inflatable
the autopilot
Jason
|
$400
[25]
...whose website included Dr. Oz explaining why lefties are smarter
Oprah
Stephanie
|
|
$600
[6]
This adjective found before "school" or "knockout" comes from the Greek for "art"
technical
Stephanie
|
$600
[4]
In 2012 this soccer club, Man U for short, introduced new gingham uniforms that honored its city's industrial past
Manchester United
Jason
|
$600
[11]
1989:"Billy"
Bathgate
Stephanie
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$600
[18]
Norway has hosted the Olympics twice--in Oslo in 1952 & in this small town in 1994
Lillehammer
Jason
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$600
[24]
Top floor, please, Otis! It's a hinged surface on a plane's rear stabilizer that controls pitch
an elevator
Stephanie
|
$600
[26]
The leftyseen here with his bandmates
Kurt Cobain
Stephanie
|
|
$800
[14]
Appropriately, this synonym for "abyss" comes from the Greek for "yawning hollow"
chasm
Jason
|
$800
[7]
Chet Atkins provided music & Amy Grant, narration, on an audio version of "The Gingham Dog &" this animal
the Calico Cat
|
$800
[12]
1869:"Lorna"
Doone
Stephanie
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
Most of its more than 14 million people are ethnically Han
Beijing
Jason
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$800
[29]
This alert! Ground & flight are types of this flap on top of the wing that rises to reduce lift & increase drag
the spoiler
|
$800
[27]
...on "The Simpsons" who opened a doomed Leftorium
Ned Flanders
Stephanie
|
|
$1,000
[15]
The Greek for "leader of a people" gives us this word for a leader who gains power by arousing people's emotions
a demagogue
Jason
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$1,000
[8]
In a 1953 film Doris Day delivered "Gingham Fer The Girls" as this lover of Wild Bill Hickok
Calamity Jane
Stephanie
Jason
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$1,000
[13]
2008:"Olive"
Kitteridge
|
$1,000
[20]
30 miles east of the Yellow Sea, this city boasts the Changdok Palace, which dates back to 1405
Seoul
Paul
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$1,000
[30]
You get an "A" for IDing this movable surface near the trailing edge of a wing used in maneuvers like banking
an aileron
Jason
|
$1,000
[28]
Seen here at the top ofhisgame
Rafael Nadal
Paul
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| FROMZORBA THE GREEK | SCIENCE | CROSSWORD CLUES "J" | THE 4 ELEMENTS | PRESIDENTIAL ACQUISITIONS | THE LATE, GREAT COMEDIAN |
|
$400
[19]
"How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of" this, "a roast chestnut, ...the sound of the sea"
wine
Paul
|
$400
[1]
Where m is mass & v is velocity, this type of energy possessed by a moving body is defined as 1/2 mv2
kinetic
Jason
|
$400
[6]
The slammer(4)
jail
Jason
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$400
[11]
Of the 4 classical elements, the one paired with "Space" in the name of a Smithsonian museum
air
Stephanie
|
$400
[14]
The Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson
Jason
|
$400
[22]
"It's alive!" screamed this "SNL" heavyweight when a deer came to life in "Tommy Boy"
(Chris) Farley
Paul
|
|
$800
[21]
Authors, take note: "All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to" do this
write about it
Paul
|
$800
[2]
This alphabetically first of the 6 noble gases is used in light bulbs & vacuum tubes
argon
Paul
|
$800
[7]
Immature(8)
juvenile
Paul
|
$800
[12]
2 million kilowatts can be generated by the power plant at this dam on Lake Mead
Hoover
Stephanie
|
DD
$1,000
[17]
The Alaska Purchase
Andrew Johnson
Jason
|
$800
[24]
This African-Amer. comic noted, "When you're on fire & running down the street, people will get out of your way"
(Richard) Pryor
Stephanie
|
|
$1,200
[20]
"Like everyone else, I've committed the great folly. That's what I call" this institution
marriage
Jason
|
$1,200
[3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows animations on the monitor.) The three methods of heat transfer are radiation via particles & waves, convection via circulation, & this method where heat is transmitted from one medium to another by direct contact
conduction
Jason
|
$1,200
[8]
Old, cruddy car(6)
junker
Jason
|
$1,200
[13]
Types of this kind of footwear made by Kalso include the Nomad & Outlier
Earth shoe
|
$1,200
[18]
Hawaii Annexation
William McKinley
Stephanie
|
$1,200
[25]
Mitch Hedberg said, "When I was a boy, I laid in my" this-sized "bed & wondered where my brother was"
a twin
Stephanie
|
|
$1,600
[23]
"Happy is the man... who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail" this sea
the Aegean
Paul
|
$1,600
[4]
Common 4-letter term for an ordinary hexahedron
a cube
Jason
|
$1,600
[9]
Pertaining to the throat or neck(7)
jugular
Jason
|
$1,600
[15]
EPA programs under this act include Ozone Layer Protection, the Acid Rain Program & Climate Change
the Clean Air Act
Stephanie
|
$1,600
[28]
Florida Cession(OK, we'll tell you it was in 1819, during his first term)
Monroe
Paul
|
$1,600
[26]
One of "The Original Kings of Comedy", this man replaced Bill Murray in the "Charlie's Angels" franchise
Bernie Mac
Stephanie
Jason
|
|
DD
$5,000
[29]
"Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of" this beautiful goddess
Aphrodite
Paul
|
$2,000
[5]
This moon of Jupiter is named after a Trojan boy from Greek myth
Ganymede
Jason
|
$2,000
[10]
Famous Zola phrase (en francais)(7)
J'accuse
Paul
|
$2,000
[16]
A corona discharge, light & crackling from objects such as masts, also has this more religious name
St. Elmo's fire
Jason
|
$2,000
[30]
Texas Annexation(late 1845)
Polk
Paul
|
$2,000
[27]
He said, "There are 400,000 words in... English... & there are 7 of them you can't say on television. What a ratio... 399,993:7"
(George) Carlin
Stephanie
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Champollion's deciphering the 1st symbol as "sun" led to translating then ameof this leader--there were 11 of them named this
Ramses