2014 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.
Julia Collins — a 20-timeJeopardy!champion from Kenilworth, Illinois
Jared Hall — a consultant from Washington, D.C.
Terry O'Shea — a junior at Princeton University from Bridgewater, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terry | $0 | $3,000 | $8,200 |
$8,200
2nd place: $10,000 |
$8,200
11 R, 0 W |
| Jared | $1,600 | $2,600 | $7,600 |
$7,600
3rd place: $10,000 |
$12,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Julia | $4,600 | $5,600 | $12,000 |
$16,500
Finalist |
$12,000
17 R, 2 W |
| BORDERING THE RED SEA | FICTION-ALE | DOUBLE "D" WORDS | STUFF | BOTANY | IN MEMORIAM 2014 |
|
$200
[30]
This country is the main filling between the Red Sea & Libya
Egypt
Jared
|
$200
[6]
Pabst Blue Robot is Bender's favorite on this TV show
Futurama
Julia
|
$200
[29]
A football get-together
huddle
Terry
|
$200
[3]
The world's fastest conventional one of these is France's TGV POS, which hit 357 mph in a 2007 test run
a train
Jared
|
$200
[20]
The pileus is the cap seen on many varieties of these chlorophyll-lacking organisms
mushrooms
Terry
|
$200
[1]
Hollywood's biggest littlestar, shepassed away at 85
Shirley Temple
Jared
|
|
$400
[4]
Until 2011, when the south part split away, it was the biggest country in Africa in total area
Sudan
Julia
|
$400
[7]
A blue ale is named for this warrior race related to Vulcans
the Romulans
|
$400
[19]
As a verb it means to cook on a flat metal surface; as a noun, it is the flat metal surface
griddle
Julia
|
$400
[5]
An inflatable life vest bears the name of this 1930s movie star
Mae West
|
$400
[21]
This flower in the primrose family comes in red, blue & white varieties as well as "the scarlet" one
a pimpernel
Terry
Julia
|
$400
[10]
This former Israeli prime minister's 8 years in a coma ended in January
Ariel Sharon
Jared
|
|
$800
[26]
The Red Sea Boys are the soccer team of this African country, the most recently independent Red Sea nation
Eritrea
Jared
|
$600
[2]
You'll find ent-draughts, served by an old stick, in this trilogy
The Lord of the Rings
Julia
|
$600
[16]
This type of circular ocean current moves in a direction contrary to the main current
an eddy
Terry
|
$600
[25]
Like spaghetti, the spaghetti type of this vegetable is often served with tomato sauce
squash
Jared
|
$600
[22]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a tree in Cambodia.) The banyan tree, common in Asia, sends outrootsthat become new trees; botanically, it's a fig tree & it's part of this genus whose American versions are a little tamer
Ficus
Jared
|
$600
[13]
Louis Zamperini, Olympic hero & WWII POW whose story of survival is told in this Laura Hillenbrand book, died at 97
Unbroken
Julia
|
|
DD
$1,000
[11]
This Red Sea port in Yemen gave its name to a candy made with milk chocolate & coffee
Mocha
Jared
|
$800
[8]
Harry Potter might get carded trying to drink a pint of this at The Three Broomsticks
butterbeer
Julia
|
$800
[17]
Also called an offshore hake, this cod relative is often used in British fish & chips
haddock
Terry
|
$800
[28]
A friend has no fixed address? Send a letter to his main P.O. addressed: name, this 2-word term, city, state, ZIP
general delivery
|
$800
[23]
The duke is a hybrid of the sweet & sour varieties of this fruit tree
a cherry tree
Terry
|
$800
[14]
This beloved actress, civil rights activist & wife of Ossie Davis passed away at age 91
Ruby Dee
Jared
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Snorkel or sunbathe at the southernmost point in Israel, this resort city at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba
Eilat
Julia
|
$1,000
[9]
This sitcom introduced Monkeyshine beer; Marcel was the mascot
Friends
Julia
|
$1,000
[18]
Rennet & ferrous lactate are on the FDA's list of these substances
food additives
|
$1,000
[27]
Since 2002 this Lower Manhattan area has had its own film festival
Tribeca
Julia
|
$1,000
[24]
The name of this lovely flower is from the Greek for "water vessel"
hydrangea
|
$1,000
[15]
Called "South Africa's grande dame of literature", she passed away at 90
Nadine Gordimer
Jared
|
| ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMY | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS | THE 19th CENTURY | RHYME 3 TIMES | IN BLACK & WHITE | IN "GREY" |
|
$400
[30]
Before Roget stole, looted, purloined & pilfered this word, it was a Greek treasury house
thesaurus
Terry
|
$400
[7]
When he was just 24, Stephen Crane published this novel about Union soldier Henry Fleming
The Red Badge of Courage
Julia
|
$400
[24]
In the 1870s cowboy Frank Maynard turned an old ballad into the mournful song about "The Streets Of" this city
Laredo
Julia
|
$400
[29]
An unclothed, vulgar fellow
a nude, rude dude
Terry
Jared
|
$400
[21]
The director of this mostly B&W film said the little girl's red coat symbolizes the bloodstain of the Holocaust
Schindler's List
Jared
|
$400
[19]
This drink's flavor & aroma come from the bergamot orange
Earl Grey tea
Julia
|
|
$800
[23]
The oldest & simplest order of classic Greek architecture
Doric
Julia
|
$800
[3]
Oprah said that this Alice Walker novel was life-changing for her & she was honored to play a role in the movie
The Color Purple
Jared
|
$800
[4]
In the 1820s this monarch founded a Zulu empire, one of the largest in Africa
Shaka
Jared
|
$800
[17]
The yelp of a crafty secret agent
the cry of a sly spy
Terry
|
$800
[11]
Joseph Cotten chases Orson Welles through the sewers of Vienna in this film
The Third Man
|
$800
[18]
Doug Flutie was MVP of this game 3 times
the Grey Cup
Julia
|
|
$1,200
[16]
Today a loge is a theater box, but the logeum was this part of a Greek theater
the stage
Jared
|
$1,200
[2]
Perfect beach reading in 1951 was this James Jones novel set in Hawaii just before Pearl Harbor
From Here to Eternity
Julia
|
$1,600
[12]
These "monthly" rebels of 1825 Russia rose up in protest over Nicholas I's assumption of the throne
the Decembrists
|
$1,200
[22]
The evening meal of a less-fat champion
a dinner of a thinner winner
Jared
|
$1,200
[20]
This film about 2 escaped convicts, one black & one white, won an Oscar for best black & white cinematography
The Defiant Ones
Julia
|
$1,200
[10]
It's Tarzan's noble title
Lord Greystoke
Jared
|
|
$1,600
[9]
A cubiculum wasn't a tiny Roman office space, it was one of these
a bedroom
|
$2,000
[8]
This 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel has the alternate title "The Evening Redness in the West"
Blood Meridian
Jared
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
His industrial oxidation process was perfected around 1856, allowing the mass production of steel
Bessemer
Jared
|
$1,600
[28]
The only burrowing rodent part in the play
the sole mole role
Terry
|
$1,600
[25]
This director said that the "modest, austere story" of "Nebraska" "seemed to lend itself to being made in black and white"
Alexander Payne
Julia
|
$1,600
[13]
In an expression from the French, it's someone wielding power behind the scenes
the Grey Eminence
|
|
$2,000
[1]
An example of thetriumphalarchis that of the stern Emperor Septimius this, meaning "stern"
Severus
|
DD
$4,200
[5]
"At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" is a query from this 1979 novel
Sophie's Choice
Jared
|
$2,000
[6]
Active during the Civil War, he spoke of an "obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers"
Mathew Brady
Terry
Jared
|
$2,000
[27]
A fake stone timepiece
a mock rock clock
Julia
|
$2,000
[26]
Aerosmith got the song title "Walk This Way" from a line in this movie
Young Frankenstein
Jared
|
$2,000
[14]
Vigilant 19th century Skye terrier of an Edinburgh graveyard
Greyfriars Bobby
|
This capital city, which at 12,330 miles is farthest from Madrid, is named for a soldier who spent time in Madrid
Wellington