2017 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
Pranjal Vachaspati — a Ph.D. student from Urbana, Illinois
Hunter Appler — an attorney from Augusta, Georgia
Buzzy Cohen — a music executive from Los Angeles, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buzzy | $5,600 | $8,400 | $16,400 |
$30,000
Automatic semifinalist |
$16,400
21 R, 3 W |
| Hunter | $800 | $1,200 | $1,400 |
$1,400
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$8,400
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Pranjal | $5,200 | $5,400 | $15,000 |
$16,401
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,200
16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES | BACKING BANDS | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS | RECYCLOPEDIA | AMERICANA | THE CIA |
|
$200
[16]
Child psychologist Anna Freud
Vienna
Hunter
|
$200
[20]
Ziggy Marley & these alliterative folks
the Melody Makers
|
$200
[28]
In one version of the story, King Arthur obtains this from the Lady of the Lake
Excalibur
Buzzy
|
$200
[29]
This company "just does it"--turns old sneakers into material for court & playground surfaces
Nike
Hunter
|
$200
[30]
Valley Forge is 25 miles from this city where the British lived comfortably as the Continental Army froze
Philadelphia
Hunter
Pranjal
|
$200
[27]
(Alex gives the clue from the CIA.) In 1961, the CIA's historic mission of intelligence gathering and analysis took up residence in this community, named for the estate of an early colonial governor of Virginia
Langley
Hunter
|
|
$400
[22]
Martina Navratilova
Prague
Buzzy
Pranjal
|
$400
[21]
Siouxsie & these screamers
the Banshees
Buzzy
|
$400
[10]
It's an adjective describing the shape seen here
hexagonal
Pranjal
|
$400
[26]
Newspaper can be recycled via this art technique, whose name means "chewed paper"
papier-mâché
Hunter
|
$400
[17]
In the 1920s "Cave Wars", operators of smaller caves would falsely tell tourists about closures in this now national park
Mammoth Cave
|
$400
[25]
(Alex gives the clue from the CIA.) Standing guard on the CIA grounds is a statue of this early American spy who paid the ultimate price in service to his country way back in 1776
(Nathan) Hale
Pranjal
|
|
$800
[14]
Idris Elba
London
Buzzy
|
$600
[1]
Grandmaster Flash & this quintet, reminiscent of a Vin Diesel sequel
the Furious Five
Pranjal
|
$600
[24]
It means to place side by side for comparison
juxtapose
Hunter
|
$600
[6]
To reduce wasted food, the EPA suggest donating to food banks & doing this with food scraps, which will enrich soil
composting
Buzzy
|
$600
[2]
From 1934, Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit claims to be the world's oldest club for this very American genre of music
jazz
Buzzy
|
$600
[18]
(Alex gives the clue from the CIA.) In the 1950s and '60s, brave pilots wore body-fitting pressure suits like this one, often flying at higher than 70,000 feet in this alphanumeric reconnaissance aircraft that is still very much in use today
U-2
Buzzy
|
|
$1,000
[13]
Philosopher Baruch Spinoza
Amsterdam
Buzzy
|
$800
[4]
Edie Brickell & this crew
the New Bohemians
Hunter
|
$800
[12]
Any limb of the body
an extremity
Buzzy
|
$800
[7]
A benefit of recycling is fewer greenhouse gases like this one, whose molecule is seen here
methane
Buzzy
|
$800
[5]
Head west from this Tennessee city over the De Soto Bridgeand you're in Arkansas
Memphis
Pranjal
|
$800
[9]
(Alex gives the clue from the CIA.) Six Americans were rescued from revolutionary Iran in 1980, in a daring CIA plan using phony production materials like these, in this movie about a fake movie
Argo
Pranjal
|
|
DD
$1,600
[11]
Pope Francis I
Buenos Aires
Pranjal
|
$1,000
[3]
Bob Seger & this band
the Silver Bullet Band
|
$1,000
[15]
Put 2 letters before a word for nasty fumes to get this word for nasty behavior
obnoxious
Buzzy
|
$1,000
[8]
Don't put paint or oil in the trash or down the drain; collection centers dispose of them & other HHWs, short for these wastes
hazardous household wastes
Pranjal
|
$1,000
[19]
The Wyoming national refuge for these 600-pound creatures holds an annual antler auction
elk
Buzzy
Hunter
|
$1,000
[23]
(Alex gives the clue from the CIA.) Forged German passports like this one helped members of this forerunner of the CIA infiltrate Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II
OSS (Office of Strategic Services)
Buzzy
|
| B.C. PLACES | OPHTHALMOLOGY | "FUSION" | STARS' INITIAL SHOWS | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS |
|
$400
[26]
Around 700 B.C., long after the war told of by Homer, Greeks occupied this city's site & called it Ilion
Troy
Buzzy
|
$400
[29]
Seeing these not around angels' heads but around headlights may be a symptom of glaucoma
halos
Buzzy
|
$400
[27]
A muddled mental state
confusion
Hunter
|
$400
[28]
James Franco & Seth Rogen, 1999:"F. and G."
Freaks and Geeks
Pranjal
|
$400
[30]
Before Warner Books picked it up, James Redfield self-published this "Prophecy" about a mysterious manuscript
The Celestine Prophecy
|
$400
[1]
We rarely speak of this piece of wood except to shut tight the proverbial "hatches"
batten
Pranjal
|
|
$800
[4]
Thisship-building civilization made of independent city-states began trading with Egypt around 3000 B.C.
Phoenicia
Pranjal
|
$800
[25]
A subspecialty covers Fuchs' dystrophy & other diseases of this dome-shaped covering in front of the iris & pupil
a cornea
Pranjal
|
$800
[24]
One way to say a sports team has to get better players is that it "needs" this 8-letter word "of talent"
an infusion
Pranjal
|
$800
[16]
Jason Bateman, 1981:"L.H.O.T.P."
Little House on the Prairie
Buzzy
|
$800
[22]
Along with creating Ms. Gale & her little dog too, he self-published a book on interior decorating
(L. Frank) Baum
Buzzy
|
$800
[15]
It sounds like a meal's last course, but this word is usually paired with "just" to describe karmic retribution
deserts
Hunter
|
|
$1,200
[12]
After 1400 B.C. this city near Crete's northern coast reverted from mighty capital to just another town
Knossos
Pranjal
|
$1,600
[7]
Note the category title & you'll be most of the way to this instrument with a light & mirror, invented around 1850
an ophthalmoscope
Pranjal
|
$1,200
[8]
This vehicle out of Detroit that debuted with the 2006 model was once going to be called the Futura
the Ford Fusion
Buzzy
|
$1,200
[14]
Tom Hanks, 1980:"B.B."
Bosom Buddies
Hunter
|
$1,600
[20]
With her husband Leonard, she founded Hogarth Press in 1917 & published her own work with it
(Virginia) Woolf
Hunter
|
$1,200
[11]
Paired with "call", this word means a commanding gesture & not the "Devils Haircut" singer
beck
Buzzy
|
|
$1,600
[10]
During this Babylonian king's reign, he captured Jerusalem twice, the second time destroying the city's temple
Nebuchadnezzar
Hunter
|
$2,000
[23]
About half a million Americans a year have this surgery to improve their vision; its name is a 5-letter acronym
LASIK
Buzzy
|
$1,600
[2]
In the 1800s, with instruments called the impellor & the gravitator, Dr. James Blundell pioneered this procedure
a blood transfusion
Buzzy
|
$1,600
[17]
Sarah Jessica Parker, 1982:"S.P."
Square Pegs
|
$2,000
[19]
In 1827 he paid a printer to publish 50 copies of "Tamerlane and Other Poems"
Edgar Allan Poe
|
$1,600
[5]
Depending on the context, this 4-letter word means country or friends when paired with "kin"
kith
Hunter
|
|
$2,000
[13]
Hattusa, a vast fortress city, served as the capital of this empire that covered most of ancient Anatolia
the Hittite Empire
Buzzy
|
DD
$4,000
[9]
Ophthalmologists put a plus sign before your prescription number to show you have this condition
farsightedness
Pranjal
|
$2,000
[3]
Cinematographers use paper & fabric to achieve this softening of light
diffusion
Buzzy
|
$2,000
[18]
Adam Sandler & Denis Leary, late '80s:"R.C." on MTV
Remote Control
Buzzy
|
DD
$7,000
[21]
In the 1700s, this poet published his own books, made his own ink & hand-printed the pages like the one seen here
William Blake
Hunter
|
$2,000
[6]
It means to go by a leisurely, indirect route & is usually found before "one's way"
wend
Pranjal
|
This 1880 piece was written more than 6 decades after the Battle of Borodino, the conflict it commemorates
the 1812 Overture