Show #6940 2014-11-14 (taped 2014-09-30) Tournament of Champions

2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Mark Japinga — a graduate student in public affairs from Madison, Wisconsin

Sandie Baker — a data and translation coordinator from Eastpointe, Michigan

Jared Hall — a consultant from Washington, D.C.

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jared $4,400 $5,000 $9,800 $16,800
Automatic semifinalist
$12,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Sandie $800 $3,000 $9,000 $15,500
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$9,000
12 R, 4 W
Mark $3,600 $5,400 $13,900 $15,003
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$13,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE FUNNY PEOPLE CITY OF BIRTH LETTER PERFECT AUTHORS NOT A POP GROUP, YET A POP GROUP
$200 [30]
"On" this school, "On" this school, "Fight on for her fame, fight, fellows, fight, fight, fight", fight to say its name!
Wisconsin
Mark
$200 [29]
This funny family includes Damon, Marlon, Shawn & Keenen
the Wayans
Jared
$200 [28]
Bill Gates
Seattle
Mark
$200 [17]
007's boss
M
Sandie
$200 [21]
"Slaughterhouse-Five" was the first of his novels to feature his own drawings
(Kurt) Vonnegut
Mark
$200 [22]
Singer Bing, a series of single photo prints &poet Ogden
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Mark
$400 [2]
In 1825 this state university of New Jersey was renamed to honor a revolutionary war colonel
Rutgers
Jared Sandie
$400 [11]
In 2014, Spike hosted an all-star comedy tribute to this beloved comedian pictured here
Don Rickles
Mark
$400 [27]
Robert Louis Stevenson
Edinburgh
Mark
$400 [16]
"Special" serving, now with red berries
K
Sandie
$400 [7]
Thistale spinner continues to delight with more frights to come
Stephen King
Mark
$400 [23]
Auto racing's Mr. Fittipaldi, Huron or Erie &golfer Arnold
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Jared
$600 [3]
The tide most certainly does not roll at this school established in 1856 as the East Alabama Male College
Auburn
Mark
$600 [8]
Though she came around, Barbara Walters said she initially hated this funny lady's "Baba Wawa" impression
Gilda Radner
Sandie
$600 [12]
Jerry Garcia
San Francisco
Mark
$600 [18]
1969 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film
Z
Sandie
$600 [1]
Fittingly, this last name of "Girl With A Pearl Earring" historical novelist Tracy means "Knight"
Chevalier
$600 [25]
Scone or Rosetta; a Jewish house of worship; Chuck Yeager & the Red Baron
Stone Temple Pilots
Mark
$800 [4]
An ex-governor of California hired Frederick Law Olmsted to design the physical plan for this university
Stanford
Mark
$800 [9]
She'sdone HBO specials & had her own late-night talk show, & in 2014, she was a mentor on "Last Comic Standing"
Wanda Sykes
Mark
$800 [13]
Aung San Suu Kyi
Rangoon (or Yangon)
Jared
$800 [19]
Proverbial sign that oysters are safe to eat
R
$800 [6]
In 2010, the 25th anniversary of his "Less Than Zero", he published a sequel called "Imperial Bedrooms"
(Bret Easton) Ellis
Sandie
$800 [26]
Nationality of Jenny Lind & Stieg Larsson; last name of a Hugh Laurie TV M.D.; the Cosa Nostra
Swedish House Mafia
Mark
$1,000 [5]
One of these 2 "directional" schools is in Evanston, Illinois; the other, on Huntington Avenue in Boston
Northwestern University & Northeastern University
Jared
$1,000 [10]
She does a lot of improvising as the rather abrasive Fiona Wallice on "Web Therapy"
Lisa Kudrow
Sandie
DD $2,200 [15]
Arianna Huffington
Athens, Greece
Jared
$1,000 [20]
In physics, the most common symbol for momentum
p
$1,000 [14]
In 1960 she delivered a campus lecture titled "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World"
Ayn Rand
$1,000 [24]
The two items seen here
Arcade Fire
Sandie

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE'S FOOLS FURNITURE LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY KILLER TV READING THE METER FROM THE...
$400 [29]
Trinculo in this play is a follower of Stephano & Caliban in a murder plot--not so funny
The Tempest
Jared
$400 [19]
With bookshelves, drawers & a writing surface, an escritoire or a secretary is one of these
a desk
Mark
$400 [6]
In 1520 this Portuguese navigator became the first European to reach what is now Chile
Magellan
Sandie
$400 [1]
Christopher Moltisanti
The Sopranos
Sandie
$400 [30]
3M's Edge eg5 Personal Noise Dosimeter measures local noise levels from 70 to 140 of these units
decibels
Mark
$400 [15]
Italian for "detached", it refers to a singing style where notes are disconnected
staccato
Mark
$800 [28]
The 2 gravediggers in "Hamlet" argue whether her drowning was a suicide
Ophelia
Mark
$800 [20]
This name was once used for a divan introduced to Europe from Turkey; today it's a low footstool
an ottoman
Mark
$800 [7]
The 1881 addition of this region stretching south from Argentina's Colorado River expanded the nation's territory
Patagonia
Jared
$800 [2]
Leland Palmer, AKA Killer Bob
Twin Peaks
Sandie
$800 [16]
You can make a simple inclinometer with a protractor, string & washer; you'll need this, the study of angles, to read it
trigonometry
Mark
$800 [10]
Yiddish, it means gall, audacity or nerve; you've got a lot of it, pal!
chutzpah
Jared
$1,200 [8]
This play's title characters have corresponding fools: Valentine's servant Speed & Proteus' servant Launce
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
$1,200 [21]
A little bird gave us this term for the space-saving furniture seen here
nesting tables
Sandie
$1,200 [12]
Zapatista rebels seized towns in this Mexican state in 1994, protesting possible economic damage from NAFTA
Chiapas
Sandie Mark
$1,200 [3]
Brian Moser, AKA the Ice Truck Killer
Dexter
$1,200 [13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a thermometer.) Look at the number on the lowest of the floatingspheresto read the thermometer named for this Italian who discovered that the density of a liquid changes according to its temperature
Galileo
$1,200 [14]
French for "to cloy"--don't be this, sooo unimpressed with life
blasé
Sandie
$1,600 [23]
In "Troilus & Cressida", Thersites says this commander of the Greek Forces "has not so much brain as ear-wax"
Agamemnon
Jared
$1,600 [22]
This chair, a molded plywood seat & back connected by stainless steel tubing, is named for its designer
an Eames chair
Jared
$1,600 [9]
When Hugo Chavez died in 2013, this V.P. became president of Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro
$1,600 [4]
Lester Nygaard
Fargo
Mark
$1,600 [27]
The Dynojet 224x dynamometer uses software to give readings up to 2,000 foot-pounds of this rotational force
torque
Jared
$1,600 [17]
Spanish for "to bake in pastry", these tasty meat pies are usually single-serving turnovers
empanadas
Mark
DD $4,000 [24]
"The more fool I", says Touchstone on arriving at his new forest home in this comedy
As You Like It
Jared
$2,000 [25]
This Scottish-born furniture maker was a leading exponent of the Neoclassical style
Duncan Phyfe
Jared
$2,000 [11]
In 1949 this Central American nation abandoned its army & established a Civil Guard in its place
Costa Rica
Mark
$2,000 [5]
Red John
The Mentalist
Sandie
$2,000 [26]
Physicists use a "mass" this to measure the characteristics of molecules; the output is called a "stick diagram"
spectrometer
Sandie
DD $2,500 [18]
German for "form" or "shape," it's used to mean the overall mood or quality of something
gestalt
Mark

Final Jeopardy!

OPERA CHARACTERS

In an 1893 opera that was its composer's greatest success, Peter & Gertrud are the parents of these 2 characters

Hansel & Gretel

Sandie "Who are Hansel & Gretel?" — wagered $6,500
Jared "Who are Hansel & Gretel" — wagered $7,000
Mark "Who are Hansel & Gretel" — wagered $1,103

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