2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 3.
David Gard — a retail horticulturalist from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Monica Thieu — a psychology student from Dallas, Texas
Jason Keller — a tutor from Highland Park, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $4,600 | $8,800 | $28,200 |
$28,200
Automatic semifinalist |
$21,600
25 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Monica! | $1,800 | $1,400 | $9,800 |
$11,000
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,600
18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| David | $400 | $2,400 | $2,400 |
$100
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$2,400
9 R, 2 W |
| PORTU-GALS & GUYS | GENETICS | 3 Ls | TONY-WINNING MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS | AN IMPORTANT QUESTION | WHO WANTS A SANDWICH? |
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$200
[6]
This royal promoted voyages of discovery in the 1420s, but despite his nickname, never embarked on any himself
Prince Henry the Navigator
Monica!
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$200
[14]
"Genetics" as we use the word was coined in a 1905 letter by William Bateson, who popularized this monk's work
(Gregor) Mendel
Jason
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$200
[1]
A thin, flat case for paper money much like a wallet
a billfold
David
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$200
[11]
1983:"Felines"
Cats
David
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$200
[21]
James Russell Lowell asked, "What is so rare as a day in" this month?
June
David
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$200
[23]
After a certain holiday, use this leftover meat to make Pilgrim sandwiches
turkey
Jason
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$400
[7]
Though born in Canada, this "I'm Like A Bird" singer is of Portuguese descent & holds Portuguese citizenship
Nelly Furtado
Monica!
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$400
[15]
The "23" of 23andme.com, a site tracing ancestry & personal genetic information, refers to pairs of these
chromosomes
Monica!
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$400
[2]
Liable to err, unlike the Pope
fallible
Jason
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$400
[12]
1996:"Monthly Apartment Payment"
Rent
Monica!
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$400
[22]
A poem by him says, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!"
(Alfred Lord) Tennyson
Jason
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$400
[24]
Theirname implies that they go right down
sliders
Jason
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$600
[8]
Trained as a physician before becoming Pope in 1276, John XXI wrote the work "Liber de Oculo", "Concerning" this
the eye
Monica!
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$800
[17]
Way faster than it used to be, it's the act of determining a series like ACAAGATGCC & with it your genetic blueprint
sequencing a genome
Monica!
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$600
[3]
This interjection means "Praise ye the Lord!"
Hallelujah!
Jason
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$600
[13]
1964:"Hiya, Ms. Parton!"
Hello, Dolly!
Jason
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$600
[28]
It was Joseph Welch who asked him, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
(Joseph) McCarthy
Jason
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$600
[25]
An eatery founded by Pat Olivieri in 1940 claims to be the originator of this Philly favorite
a cheesesteak
Monica!
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$800
[9]
Shewas born in Portugal but became known as a Brazilian bombshell
Carmen Miranda
Jason
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$1,000
[18]
This test performed between the 15th & 18th weeks of pregnancy can detect fetal genetic disorders
amniocentesis
Monica!
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$800
[4]
Lumpy fat deposits in the thighs
cellulite
Monica!
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$800
[19]
2006:"Garden State Guys"
Jersey Boys
Jason
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$800
[29]
About the Tyger, this poet wondered, "What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
(William) Blake
Jason
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$800
[26]
Rachael Ray says you can use a heated foil-covered brick as a press to make this Italian-named sandwich
a panini
David
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$1,000
[10]
Teresa Heinz Kerry was born to Portuguese parents in this then-Portuguese colony on Africa's east coast
Mozambique
Jason
Monica!
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DD
$1,800
[16]
In 1986 the U.S. issued the first patent on a plant produced through genetic engineering, a hybrid of this grain
corn
Monica!
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$1,000
[5]
It describes ambiguous writing or a type of exercise machine such as a Nordic Track
elliptical
Jason
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$1,000
[20]
1970:"A Round of Clapping"
Applause
David
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$1,000
[30]
In "As You Like It", Shakespeare quoted this contemporary's "who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
Christopher Marlowe
Monica!
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$1,000
[27]
This city gives its name to an omelette & a sandwich of eggs, chopped ham & green pepper
Denver
Jason
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| NAME THE COMPOSER | WHO'S YOUR MAMA? | AMERICAN HISTORY | LAKES | NATURAL SYMBOLS | LET'S MAKE THEM SCOTTISH |
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$400
[10]
(Gilles Apap delivers the clue.) Born in Genoa, he was the greatest violin virtuoso of the early 1800s
Paganini
Jason
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$400
[26]
Sean Lennon
Yoko Ono
Monica!
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$400
[13]
On October 7, 2001 Operation Enduring Freedom began with a U.S. air assault on terrorist strongholds in this country
Afghanistan
Monica!
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$400
[3]
Lake Ladoga was divided between the Soviet Union & this nation until a 1940 war, when the Soviets seized the entire lake
Finland
David
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$400
[19]
This flower "of the valley" represents Jesus
a lily
Monica!
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$400
[1]
Making a Scot of a word that comes before "longlegs" gives you this fella
Mack Daddy
Jason
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$800
[11]
(Gilles Apap delivers the clue.) He was prolific in many ways
Johann Sebastian Bach
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$800
[27]
Lucie Arnaz
Lucille Ball
Jason
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$800
[16]
In 1951, this man entered government service as an attorney in the Department of Justice
Robert Kennedy
David
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$800
[4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A narrow passage called the Rigolets connects this Louisiana lake to Lake Borgne & the Gulf of Mexico
Pontchartrain
Jason
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$800
[20]
At Dodona this mighty tree was the symbol of Zeus
the oak
Monica!
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$800
[15]
Woman in a Kiss song, I hear you calling, but you've become this title Shakespeare guy
Macbeth
Jason
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$1,200
[7]
(Gilles Apap delivers the clue.) He depicted spring in one of his best-known works
(Antonio) Vivaldi
Jason
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$1,200
[28]
Actress Mamie Gummer
Meryl Streep
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$1,600
[17]
On Sept. 16, 1893 the Cherokee Outlet in this U.S. territory was opened to white settlement
Oklahoma
Jason
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$1,200
[2]
Shared by Macedonia & Albania, Ohrid Lake--one of Europe's most beautiful--is on this peninsula
the Balkan
David
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$1,200
[23]
Ancient Egyptians thought it was bird royalty, & Horus took its shape
a falcon
Monica!
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$1,200
[14]
Ach! It's the type of art seen here
macrame
David
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$1,600
[8]
(Gilles Apap delivers the clue.) This Russian gave us a classic concerto
Tchaikovsky
Monica!
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$1,600
[29]
Models Elizabeth & Georgia May Jagger
Jerry Hall
Monica!
David
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$2,000
[18]
On August 14, 1941 FDR & Churchill issued this charter of cooperation
the Atlantic Charter
Jason
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$2,000
[6]
This lake that has a female name lies in an old glacial basin between Germany, Austria & Switzerland
Lake Constance
David
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$1,600
[22]
This bird is regarded as a symbol of jealousy, as it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds
the cuckoo
Monica!
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$1,600
[24]
The king variety of this "Scottish" fish can be more than 5 1/2 feet long
a mackerel
Monica!
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$2,000
[9]
(Gilles Apap delivers the clue.) He made the strings represent Peter in "Peter and the Wolf"
Prokofiev
Jason
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$2,000
[30]
Dakota Johnson of TV's "Ben and Kate"
Melanie Griffith
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DD
$5,400
[12]
In a 1779 battle in the North Sea, he captured the Serapis, a British Man-of-War
John Paul Jones
Jason
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DD
$4,000
[5]
To create this lake in the 1960s, historical ruins such as Abu Simbel were moved to higher ground
Lake Nasser
Jason
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$2,000
[21]
Aptly, this flower is the symbol of Canada's Alzheimer Society
the forget-me-not
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$2,000
[25]
It's a whole that reflects on a larger scale one of its parts
a macrocosm
Monica!
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Her 1886 obituary in a Massachusetts paper said, "Very few in the village, except among the older inhabitants, knew" her "personally"
Emily Dickinson