2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
Catherine Hardee — an aspiring teacher from Kinston, North Carolina
Vaughn Winchell — a graduate student in mathematics from Columbia, Maryland
Dan Feitel — an attorney originally from Gillette, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $2,600 | $3,400 | $7,800 |
$14,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,800
14 R, 3 W |
| Vaughn | $5,400 | $8,000 | $17,200 |
$16,599
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$17,200
20 R, 0 W |
| Catherine | $1,400 | $1,000 | $17,800 |
$17,600
Automatic semifinalist |
$17,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| DESPICABLE "ME" | MINIONS | A BIT O' BRIT LIT | STOCK SYMBOLS | CHESS CHAMPS | MR. SMITH GOES TO... |
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$200
[27]
She's just doing her alliterative job--it was you who parked too long
a meter maid
Vaughn
|
$200
[23]
Collective noun for the cybernetic life forms on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" that want to assimilate other species
the Borg
Catherine
|
$200
[10]
The title character in "The Pilgrim's Progress" is named this, but nobody calls him Chris
Christian
Vaughn
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$200
[22]
ANN represents this women's apparel brand
Ann Taylor
Dan
|
$200
[21]
World champion Viswanathan Anand was born in this country
India
Catherine
|
$200
[17]
The New World in 1607 & soon becomes president of this colony
Jamestown
Vaughn
|
|
$400
[14]
John, Paul, George & Ringo battled blue ones of these bad guys
Meanies
Vaughn
|
$400
[24]
Because the Wicked Witch of the West possesses the Cap of Quelala, these creatures have to do her bidding 3 times
flying monkeys
Catherine
|
$400
[1]
This "Blithe Spirit" playwright published poems under the pen name Hernia Whittlebot
Noël Coward
Vaughn
|
$400
[15]
You might do some healthy shopping here, WFM
Whole Foods Market
Vaughn
|
$400
[26]
World champ Mikhail Botvininnik practiced concentration by having this blown in his face
cigarette smoke
Catherine
|
$400
[25]
The National Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts; in 1852 he partners with this man
(Daniel) Wesson
Vaughn
|
|
$600
[5]
No one likes this ailment whose symptoms include Koplik's spots
measles
Vaughn
|
$600
[11]
In "The Spy Who Loved Me", Curt Jurgens sends this 7'2' steel-toothed minion after James Bond
Jaws
Vaughn
|
$600
[2]
Jane Eyre marries this mysterious man
Rochester
Catherine
|
$600
[8]
A unit of heat, or the 3-letter stock symbol for Peabody Energy
BTU
|
$600
[28]
In 1978 Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman to be awarded this title
grandmaster
Catherine
|
$600
[18]
Salisbury, now Harare, & in 1964 becomes prime minister of Southern this
Rhodesia
Dan
Catherine
|
|
$800
[6]
Houdini tried to expose one of these who went by the name Margery
a medium
Dan
|
$800
[12]
In a preface to "The Hobbit", Tolkien says this 3-letter word is usually translated as goblin
Orc
Catherine
|
$800
[3]
1741's "Shamela" was a satire of Samuel Richardson's moralistic novel about this title girl
Pamela
Vaughn
|
$800
[9]
SAM is this city's "beer company"
Boston
Dan
|
$800
[29]
He resigned for good in 2008 in Iceland, where he'd beaten Boris Spassky in 1972
(Bobby) Fischer
Dan
Vaughn
|
$1,000
[20]
St. James Parochial School; in 1928, he becomes the first major party presidential candidate of this faith
Roman Catholic
Vaughn
|
|
$1,000
[7]
The Assyrians despised this ancient people who destroyed their empire
the Medes
Vaughn
|
$1,000
[13]
A parrot named Iago does some dirty work for Jafar, a vizier & sorcerer in this Disney film
Aladdin
Dan
|
$1,000
[4]
"The Holy Grail" & "The Last Tournament" are 2 of the 12 connected poems in this Tennyson work
Idylls of the King
Vaughn
|
$1,000
[16]
It is HON, as in "HON, would you do the dishes & make me a thermal sensor?"
Honeywell
Dan
|
$1,000
[30]
World champ from 1985 to 2000, this Russian modestly titled his series of books on other champs "My Great Predecessors"
(Garry) Kasparov
Dan
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
The University of Glasgow in 1737; in 1776 he publishes this
The Wealth of Nations
Catherine
|
| SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST | -OLOGIES | VISITING ITALY | WHOSE SONGS? | QUOTATIONS BY THE NUMBER | THE SILENT LETTER IN... |
|
$400
[28]
He dedicated the portrait seenhereto Paul Gauguin
van Gogh
Dan
|
$400
[30]
It's the scientific study of lawbreakers & their illegal acts
criminology
Dan
|
$400
[5]
The Tuscan town of Poggibonsi is part of the region called this local wine "Classico"
Chianti
Catherine
|
$400
[23]
"Ms. Jackson" & "Hey Ya!"
OutKast
Dan
|
$400
[25]
Billy Wilder:"Hindsight is always ____/____"
20/20
Vaughn
|
$400
[26]
A combination of 3 musical tones played simultaneously on a piano
h (in chord)
Catherine
|
|
$800
[27]
This artist created atripleself-portraitfor a 1960 cover of "The Saturday Evening Post"
Rockwell
Catherine
|
$800
[29]
Pharology is the study of these structres that help prevent shipwrecks
lighthouses
Dan
|
$800
[4]
Grand Duke Leopold I gave this Florence landmark its status as a museum
the Uffizi
Dan
|
$800
[22]
"Union of the Snake" & "Hungry Like the Wolf"
Duran Duran
Dan
|
$800
[24]
Princess Diana:"There were ____ of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded"
3
Catherine
|
$800
[15]
A 5-letter railroad or bus station
t (in depot)
Dan
|
|
$1,600
[18]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Commissioned in the 1470s, "The Adoration of the Magi" features several members of the Medici family, including Cosimo, & theman in robesis believed to be a self-portrait of the artist, this Florentine painter
(Sandro) Botticelli
Dan
Catherine
|
$1,200
[11]
A principal use of aphasiology, the study of speech disorders: to help the 800,000 who suffer this in the U.S. each year
strokes
Catherine
|
$1,200
[1]
Villa Oleandra is George Clooney's house on this lake
Como
Catherine
|
$1,200
[16]
"Trumpets" & "Want to Want Me"
Jason Derulo
Catherine
|
$1,200
[8]
George Orwell:"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking ____"
thirteen
Catherine
|
$1,600
[7]
A word meaning to grind or grate teeth together in rage
g (in gnash)
Vaughn
|
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
Hereis a rare self-portrait of this artist, who made quite an impression
Mary Cassatt
Catherine
|
$1,600
[12]
The person seenhereis equipped for this specific -ology
apiology
Vaughn
|
$1,600
[2]
Enjoymanarola, one of the five towns on Italy's West Coast collectively known by this name, Italian for "Five Lands"
La Cinque Terre
Dan
|
$1,600
[21]
"Wannabe" & "2 Become 1"
the Spice Girls
|
$1,600
[9]
Justice Harry Blackmun:"We're all eccentrics. We're ____ prima donnas"
9
Vaughn
|
$2,000
[14]
A word meaning to sentence to a punishment such as a life sentence
n (in condemn)
Vaughn
|
|
$2,000
[19]
Shortly before his 29th birthday, this German Renaissance man painted the self-portrait seen here
(Albrecht) Dürer
Catherine
|
$2,000
[13]
Carpology isn't the study of a type of fish, it's the study of these plant parts
fruits (or seeds)
|
$2,000
[3]
Stabiae, where Pliny the Elder died of volcano-related causes, is near Pompeii & this other destroyed town
Herculaneum
Catherine
|
$2,000
[20]
"679" &"Trap Queen"
Fetty Wap
Catherine
|
$2,000
[10]
Shakespeare:"And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being ____ ages"
7
Vaughn
|
DD
$2,400
[6]
A 4-letter word for a mausoleum
b (in tomb)
Catherine
|
He was the first to have both fiction & nonfiction No. 1 New York Times best sellers; the latter featured his beloved poodle
John Steinbeck