2014 Tournament of Champions final game 1.
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
| 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 |
| TODAY'S MUSIC | WEBSITES FOR WOMEN | BOOKS & ARTHURS | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS | COUNTRY BY STATE | -GRAMS |
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$200
[30]
Recognize the voice of this country star?
(Blake) Shelton
Ben
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$200
[26]
You can read about "the state of RGIII" on the website the this sport girl.com
football
Ben
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$200
[25]
A young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale fathers Hester Prynne's daughter Pearl in this novel
The Scarlet Letter
Ben
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$200
[27]
An underage gold digger
minor miner
Ben
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$200
[14]
Hessen
Germany
Arthur
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$200
[21]
J. Crew & Lands' End allow you to add this type of personalization to some items
monogram
Ben
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$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
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$400
[23]
Providing resources for entrepreneurial gals is the job of ladieswho this (not "lunch") .com
launch
Arthur
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$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
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$400
[16]
Amazonas & Bolivar
Venezuela
Ben
Arthur
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$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
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$600
[2]
A Gawker offshoot., this wicked commentary site shares its name with Ahab's wife
Jezebel(.com)
Julia
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$600
[6]
In kids' books by Marc Brown, Arthur is one of these animals
aardvark
Julia
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$600
[20]
An army or Marine Corps acting ensemble
troop troupe
Ben
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$600
[1]
Hidalgo
Mexico
Arthur
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$600
[24]
A 3D image made using a laser but not a lens
hologram
Ben
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$800
[8]
In 2007 her song "No One" hit No. 1 on Billboard's pop & R&B charts
Alicia Keys
Julia
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$800
[3]
Making good economic choices is at the heart of Ginger Dean's girlsjustwanna have these .com
funds
Ben
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$1,000
[17]
His 1973 "Rendezvous with Rama", about an encounter with an alien spaceship, won both nebula & Hugo awards
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur
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$800
[10]
Remorse over a golden object
gilt guilt
Arthur
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$800
[4]
Tyrol
Austria
Ben
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$800
[19]
The main cause of false-negative results with this type of imaging is breast tissue that is highly dense
mammogram
Arthur
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$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
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$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
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$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
|
| PAINT BY YEARS | SUBATOMIC | YOU MUST BE CONFUSED | 1940s TELEVISION | INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS II | THE RECKONING |
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$400
[15]
1904:Picasso's "Woman Ironing" exemplifies this colorful "period" of his career
blue period
Arthur
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$400
[26]
W particles transmit this force that, despite its name, is stronger than gravity
weak nuclear force
Arthur
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$400
[30]
Sudoku-ed? Jigsaw-ed? Either way, catch 2 Zs in this word meaning confused
puzzled
Arthur
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$1,600
[9]
Named for a physicist, it's the "god particle" that endows subatomic particles with mass
Higgs boson
Arthur
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$1,600
[19]
To jumble; when you achieve success despite a lack of skill, you do this "through"
muddle
Arthur
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$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
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$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
|
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