Show #6936 2014-11-10 (taped 2014-09-30) Tournament of Champions

2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

John Pearson — a fifth grade math teacher from Richardson, Texas

Rebecca Rider — an office supply sales assistant from Queens, New York

Ben Ingram — an IT consultant originally from Florence, South Carolina

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ben	$0	$2,400	$16,100	$16,801 Automatic semifinalist	$19,400 20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Rebecca	$1,600	$3,800	$6,600	$11,600 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$6,600 10 R, 2 W
John	$1,200	$2,000	$8,400	$0 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$10,400 19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

TWITTER FEEDS	A LITTLE ALLITERATION	FASHIONABLE COMMON BONDS	I MARRIED...	"A" MONSTER	FROM OUTER SPACE
$200 [27] A parody feed named for this London landmark reads "Bong" at 1 o'clock & "Bong bong" at 2 o'clock Big Ben Ben	$200 [19] The steady-state theory lost favor to this theory on the evolution of the universe the Big Bang John	$200 [18] Bike, balloon, Bermuda shorts John	$200 [9] Publisher George Putnam, who arranged my book "Last Flight" (Amelia) Earhart Ben	$200 [4] In "Tintin in Tibet" the hero's search for his friend Chang is made harder by the presence of this beast the abominable snowman John	$200 [16] A crab & a scorpion are part of this familiar circle of constellations the zodiac John
$400 [30] In 2011, after a 7-year breakup, this doll couple announced on Twitter that they were back together Ken & Barbie John	$400 [20] The name of this baking utensil has come to mean "lacking individuality" cookie cutter Rebecca	$400 [22] Cowboy, combat, waders boots Rebecca	$400 [24] Heloise in secret after we had a son called Astrolabe (nice name) (Peter) Abelard Rebecca	$400 [5] In Homeric poems Hermes is called the slayer of this giant with 100 eyes Argus John	$400 [17] It's the smallest of the 8 planets in the solar system Mercury Ben
$600 [11] Elaine's boyfriend won't stop posting Buzz Feed quiz results & Jerry overuses emojis on the "Modern" this feed Seinfeld John	$600 [14] The cornflower also has this alliterative masculine name bachelor's button	$600 [10] Cap, Kimono,3/4 sleeves	$600 [25] Maria Sklodowska, my radiant partner in the lab, too Pierre Curie John	$600 [6] The '80s show "Little Muppet Monsters" featured this feral drummer for Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem Animal Rebecca	$600 [1] Scientifically Alpha Canis Majoris, it is a mere 8.6 light years away & the brightest star in the night sky Sirius Ben
$800 [12] "Just seen a group of elderly fish. Old school" is a tweet from the feed called this -damentalism pundamentalism Ben Rebecca	$1,000 [21] This class of proteins in blood plasma is injected to treat measles gamma globulins	$800 [23] Knee high, crew, peds socks Ben	$800 [26] The future Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, a love match that produced 16 kids Maria Theresa John	$800 [7] The title character in Anne Rice's "Queen of the Damned", she's a really old vampire Akasha Rebecca	$800 [2] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of an expanding Sun obliterating planets on the monitor.) Today our Sun is a main sequence yellow dwarf, but in about 5 billion years when it uses up all its core hydrogen, it will become one of these massive objects, expanding past the orbits of some of the inner planets--maybe even Earth a red giant Ben
$1,000 [13] This San Francisco weather condition has its own Twitter feed; it's named Karl, & it notes, "Not all those in" it "are lost" fog Ben	DD $1,800 [15] "Put the ship of state on its feet" & "Play your cards to the hilt" are 2 of these expressions mixed metaphors Ben	$1,000 [29] Peg-top, pencil, flared skirts Rebecca	$1,000 [28] Mumtaz Mahal, my favorite wife, & built the Taj Mahal to honor her Shah Jahan Ben	$1,000 [8] Pete Seeger's picture book about this giant was inspired by a South African folktale Abiyoyo	$1,000 [3] Collective 2-word name for the 4 natural satellites orbiting Jupiter that were discovered in 1610 the Galilean moons Rebecca

Double Jeopardy! Round

UNDER THE SEA OR OCEAN	THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE	WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU?	GETTING "ANCE"-Y	TOP 40 INSTRUMENTALS	THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS
$400 [14] Under this sea:The Nile Fan the Mediterranean Ben	$400 [15] "A Clockwork Orange" (Anthony) Burgess John	DD $100 [13] Grete Waitz served as one of these pacesetters in her first New York City Marathon: she won the race & set a world record a rabbit Ben	$400 [17] A horse does it by springing forward on its hind legs prance John	$400 [21] The opening theme to this movie about a Jew & a Christian racing at the Olympics was a No. 1 hit Chariots of Fire Ben	$400 [25] (I'm Ross Douthat.) I started as a Times op-ed columnist in 2009 with a provocative argument that the 2008 race would have been a clearer choice if this man from Wyoming had been the GOP nominee for president Dick Cheney John
$800 [12] Ocean:Reykjanes Ridge the Atlantic Ben	$800 [11] "All the President's Men" Woodward & Bernstein Ben John	$400 [20] It's another name for the shuttlecock in badminton a birdie John	$800 [16] In 1969 Robert Redford founded this Utah ski resort at the base of Mount Timpanogos Sundance John	$800 [22] This smooth sax man first flew into the Top 40 in 1987 with "Songbird" Kenny G Rebecca	$800 [27] David Brooks said a scandal like Bridgegate makes this governor "look unpleasant, but not unelectable" Chris Christie John
$1,200 [2] Sea:The Aleutian Basin the Bering Sea Ben	$1,200 [1] "The Fault in Our Stars" (John) Green Ben	$800 [19] Douglas Engelbart's 1970 patent for this device calls it a "position indicator control" a computer mouse	$1,200 [5] Karl Marx wrote, "All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy" one of these "to exorcise" communism alliance Rebecca	$1,200 [23] "Axel F", by one-hit wonder Harold Faltermeyer, was featured in this 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop John	$1,200 [28] (I'm Frank Bruni.) When I was New York Times Rome Bureau Chief in 2003thisman was the definition of "good copy"--like the week he went on trial while complaining that saving Italy was keeping him away from his house in Bermuda Berlusconi John
$1,600 [3] Ocean:Ninety East Ridge the Indian Ocean Ben	DD $2,000 [9] "Apocalypse Now" Joseph Conrad John	$1,200 [8] It's the type of shoe seen here a mule Rebecca	$1,600 [6] This word that precedes "of the evidence" means "superiority in weight" preponderance Ben	$1,600 [24] No copping out--in 1985 Jan Hammer hammered home the No. 1 theme to this TV series Miami Vice Ben	$1,600 [29] The Times' tragic Nov. 23, 1963 headline: "Kennedy Is Killed by Sniper"; a sub-headline: this gov. "Shot, Mrs. Kennedy Safe" Connally John
$2,000 [4] Sea:The West Mariana Basin the Philippine Sea Ben John	$2,000 [10] "Exodus", in 1960 Leon Uris John	$2,000 [18] You get closure with this type of clasp, seen here a lobster claw Rebecca	$2,000 [7] To look at someone this way means with a sideways, distrusting glance askance John	$2,000 [26] He tooted his own horn, a flugelhorn, on his Top 10 hit "Feels So Good" (Chuck) Mangione Ben	$2,000 [30] (I'm Linda Greenhouse.) In 1969 my first Times article was about the municipal election that saw this Republican, soon to turn Democrat, re-elected mayor John Lindsay

Final Jeopardy!

STATE HOLIDAYS

This is the only state that honors a former U.S. Secretary of State with his own legal holiday

Alaska

Rebecca "What is Alaska??" — wagered $5,000

John "What is Maine" — wagered $8,400

Ben "What is Alaska?" — wagered $701

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