Show #6944 2014-11-20 (taped 2014-10-01) Tournament of Champions

2014 Tournament of Champions final game 1.

Contestants

Julia Collins — a 20-timeJeopardy!champion from Kenilworth, Illinois

Arthur Chu — a compliance analyst, voiceover artist, and blogger from Broadview Heights, Ohio

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

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ben $4,600 $6,400 $12,800 $25,600 $12,800
16 R, 1 W
Arthur $4,000 $8,400 $25,600 $15,600 $24,000
29 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Julia $2,000 $2,400 $18,200 $6,400 $12,000
13 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

TODAY'S MUSIC WEBSITES FOR WOMEN BOOKS & ARTHURS HOMOPHONIC PAIRS COUNTRY BY STATE -GRAMS
$200 [30]
Recognize the voice of this country star?
(Blake) Shelton
Ben
$200 [26]
You can read about "the state of RGIII" on the website the this sport girl.com
football
Ben
$200 [25]
A young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale fathers Hester Prynne's daughter Pearl in this novel
The Scarlet Letter
Ben
$200 [27]
An underage gold digger
minor miner
Ben
$200 [14]
Hessen
Germany
Arthur
$200 [21]
J. Crew & Lands' End allow you to add this type of personalization to some items
monogram
Ben
$400 [29]
After announcing that the "Dog Days Are Over", this British band urged us to "Shake It Out, Shake It Out"
Florence and the Machine
Julia
$400 [23]
Providing resources for entrepreneurial gals is the job of ladieswho this (not "lunch") .com
launch
Arthur
$400 [7]
Published in 1927, "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" was the last of his Sherlock Holmes stories
(Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle
Arthur
$400 [28]
A Merlot complaint
wine whine
Arthur
$400 [16]
Amazonas & Bolivar
Venezuela
Ben Arthur
$400 [22]
A witty expression; Oscar Wilde had a flair for them
epigram
Arthur
$600 [9]
Not surprisingly, he serenaded his bride at their 2013 wedding with the song heard here
John Legend
Arthur
$600 [2]
A Gawker offshoot., this wicked commentary site shares its name with Ahab's wife
Jezebel(.com)
Julia
$600 [6]
In kids' books by Marc Brown, Arthur is one of these animals
aardvark
Julia
$600 [20]
An army or Marine Corps acting ensemble
troop troupe
Ben
$600 [1]
Hidalgo
Mexico
Arthur
$600 [24]
A 3D image made using a laser but not a lens
hologram
Ben
$800 [8]
In 2007 her song "No One" hit No. 1 on Billboard's pop & R&B charts
Alicia Keys
Julia
$800 [3]
Making good economic choices is at the heart of Ginger Dean's girlsjustwanna have these .com
funds
Ben
$1,000 [17]
His 1973 "Rendezvous with Rama", about an encounter with an alien spaceship, won both nebula & Hugo awards
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur
$800 [10]
Remorse over a golden object
gilt guilt
Arthur
$800 [4]
Tyrol
Austria
Ben
$800 [19]
The main cause of false-negative results with this type of imaging is breast tissue that is highly dense
mammogram
Arthur
$1,000 [15]
With his 2014 album "Paula" & tracks like "Get Her Back", he hoped to get back estranged wife Paula Patton
Robin Thicke
Ben
$1,000 [18]
The site called xo this girl's name says it's an "entirely devoted community of women (and some token males)"
Jane
Arthur
DD $2,400 [11]
Chapter 1 of this 1889 novel begins "'Camelot--Camelot...I don't seem to remember hearing of it before.'"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Arthur
$1,000 [12]
A timely, up-to-date small dried fruit
current currant
Arthur
$1,000 [5]
Malacca
Malaysia
Ben
$1,000 [13]
In 2013 this image-sharing app said its 90 million users were posting 40 million photos per day
Instagram
Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

PAINT BY YEARS SUBATOMIC YOU MUST BE CONFUSED 1940s TELEVISION INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS II THE RECKONING
$400 [15]
1904:Picasso's "Woman Ironing" exemplifies this colorful "period" of his career
blue period
Arthur
$400 [26]
W particles transmit this force that, despite its name, is stronger than gravity
weak nuclear force
Arthur
$400 [30]
Sudoku-ed? Jigsaw-ed? Either way, catch 2 Zs in this word meaning confused
puzzled
Arthur
$400 [28]
On a Sept. 22, 1949 episode of this series, a character wonders, "Who's the masked man?"
The Lone Ranger
Arthur
$400 [1]
For the U.K.'s current prime minister
600 (DC, David Cameron)
Arthur
$400 [29]
In 1916 he made Russian bigwigs nervous, so they poisoned him.& shot him. twice. then drowned him
Rasputin
Julia
$800 [8]
1601:Caravaggio anticipates the Baroque era in "the conversion of" this man
Saul (or St. Paul)
Ben Julia
$800 [20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Theoretical particles known as gluons--sort of the universe's original adhesive--bind quarks into these two types of subatomic particles
protons and neutrons
Arthur
$800 [25]
In a song title, it follows "Bewitched, Bothered and..."
Bewildered
Arthur
$800 [27]
In 1948 this freckle-faced, plaid-shirted puppet had "plastic" surgery to improve his looks
Howdy Doody
Julia
$800 [5]
For the "Bowling for Columbine" documentary filmmaker
2,000 (MM, Michael Moore)
Julia
$800 [23]
This mobster developed Vegas gambling (yay!); skimmed funds in building the Flamingo (oops); killed in '47 (eesh)
Bugsy Siegel
Arthur
$1,200 [12]
1658:He plays with light in "The Milkmaid"
(Johannes) Vermeer
Julia
$1,200 [3]
In a 1905 paper Einstein was the first to theorize about these, also called light quanta
photons
Arthur
$1,200 [2]
"Confuse" is synonymous with this "con-" word, that also means to associate by mistake
conflate (or confound)
Arthur
$1,200 [24]
Boxing was big on the small screen, like on the "Cavalcade of Sports" Friday night fights from this NYC venue
Madison Square Garden
Arthur
$1,200 [4]
For the professional name of the supermodel married to David Bowie
1 (I, Iman)
Julia
$1,200 [22]
In 1535 Henry VIII said, please sir, I want some of this man who refused to help annul my marriage--"some" being his head
Thomas More
Julia
$2,000 [14]
1771:Benjamin West shakes things up by depicting contemporary history in "The Death of General" him
Wolfe
Ben
$1,600 [9]
Named for a physicist, it's the "god particle" that endows subatomic particles with mass
Higgs boson
Arthur
$1,600 [19]
To jumble; when you achieve success despite a lack of skill, you do this "through"
muddle
Arthur
$1,600 [21]
TV's first telethon was 1949's "Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund" hosted by this man, "Mr. Television"
(Milton) Berle
Ben
$2,000 [7]
For the American who in 1964 founded Muslim Mosque, Inc.
1,010 (MX, Malcolm X)
$1,600 [11]
The first words of an article called "John Brown's Day of Reckoning" are this place in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Harper's Ferry
Julia
DD $5,000 [13]
1577:Shortly after his arrival in Spain, this foreign-born man paints his "Assumption of the Virgin"
El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos)
Julia
$2,000 [10]
From the Greek for "swift", these theoretical particles are said to exist only at speeds faster than light
tachyons
Arthur
$2,000 [18]
This 10-letter word meaning confused is from the Latin for "not more"
nonplussed
Arthur
$2,000 [16]
On Aug. 10, 1948 he brought his radio hit "Candid Microphone" to television
(Allen) Funt
Ben
DD $4,400 [6]
For the judge best known for the 1994 O.J. Simpson case
51 (LI, Lance Ito)
Julia
$2,000 [17]
This emperor got the boot at the 41 A.D. Palatine games; Cassius Chaerea killed him, but many wanted to
Caligula
Arthur

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

In this year, there were no pres's or VPs running, but 3 of the 4 men on the 2 major party ballots would become president

1920

Ben "What is 1920?" — wagered $12,800
Julia "What is1952191952?" — wagered $11,800
Arthur "What is1936?1932" — wagered $10,000

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