2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.
Francois Barcomb — an 11th grade physics teacher from New Paltz, New York
Steven Grade — a sports industry consultant from Atlanta, Georgia
Ryan Fenster — a graduate student from SeaTac, Washington
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan | $-600 | $1,000 | $4,000 |
$8,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,400
14 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Steven | $4,200 | $8,400 | $9,200 |
$18,400
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,200
19 R, 3 W |
| Francois | $5,100 | $7,100 | $34,300 |
$34,300
Automatic semifinalist |
$25,600
24 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| ORGANIZATIONS | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES | MISCELLANY | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE | NOVEMBER DATEBOOK | SINGLE-NAMED CELEBS |
|
$200
[30]
The ABA for short, it has a standing committee on legal aid & indigent defendants
the American Bar Association
Ryan
|
$200
[23]
Portmanteau word for a close friendship between men; the movie "I Love You, Man" portrayed one
a bromance
Francois
|
$200
[29]
This is the primate with the longest gestation period
humans
Ryan
|
$200
[7]
Act IV, scene i:"A cavern and in the midst a boiling cauldron"
Macbeth
Steven
|
$200
[11]
Radical students stormed the U.S. embassy in this city November 4, 1979, leading to an international crisis
Tehran
Francois
|
$200
[12]
She's been caught in Peter Parker's web playing MJ in Marvel's Spider-Man flicks
Zendaya
Steven
|
|
$400
[15]
Representing more than 6,000 schools, this organization had "Entrance Examination" in its name when it started in 1900
College Board
Ryan
|
$400
[22]
This phrase comes from the color used on TV maps to show the areas Al Gore won in the 2000 presidential election
blue states
Steven
|
$400
[25]
In the U.S., if the level of purity is below 10 of these units, you cannot call it gold
karats
Steven
|
$400
[6]
Act III, scene i: "Before the Senate house; senators in session seen through open doors"
Julius Caesar
Steven
|
$400
[28]
A brand of Scotch is named for this last surviving tea clipper ship, launched 150 years ago November 22
Cutty Sark
Francois
|
$400
[27]
In 2010, back when she still spelled her name with a dollar sign, she had a No. 1 hit with "We R Who We R"
Kesha
Francois
|
|
$600
[9]
At alpa.org, read about the union of these workers, pushing for aviation safety as well as bargaining
pilots
Ryan
Francois
|
$600
[21]
Having a dish of zoodles? That's strips of this, cut to resemble pasta
zucchini
Steven
|
$600
[24]
In Egypt falafel is commonly made with fava beans rather than with this legume traditional in the United States
chickpeas
Ryan
|
$600
[3]
Act I, scene ii:"The island. The entrance of a cave"
The Tempest
Steven
|
$600
[19]
She succeeded her sister Mary on Nov. 17, 1558 & then reigned for almost 45 years
Elizabeth I
Steven
|
$600
[26]
Bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he's acted in films like "Baby Driver" & "The Big Lebowski"
Flea
Steven
|
|
$800
[8]
Mark Cuban & Subway Sandwiches founder Fred DeLuca are among alumni of this org. formed to teach business savvy to the "Junior" set
JA (Junior Achievement)
|
$800
[16]
This phrase refers to a statement cautioning students that class material may be disturbing or upsetting
a trigger warning
Steven
|
$800
[1]
Parts of London have detachable fence sections that were originally used as these emergency medical items during World War II
stretchers
Ryan
|
$800
[4]
Act II, scene i:"Portia's house at Belmont"
The Merchant of Venice
Ryan
Steven
|
$800
[13]
This Polish labor leader was released from arrest on Nov. 14, 1982 & was hailed upon his arrival in his home city
Lech Wałęsa
Francois
|
$800
[17]
This British model almost had a date with Elwood in "The Blues Brothers", but it didn't "stick"
Twiggy
Steven
|
|
$1,000
[10]
The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation eventually became this organization in 1938
the March of Dimes
Francois
|
$1,000
[20]
This phrase refers to the tendency to seek out information that supports your existing beliefs while avoiding facts that contradict them
confirmation bias
Ryan
|
$1,000
[2]
The modified Mercalli scale measures the intensity of these
earthquakes
Steven
|
$1,000
[5]
A tragedy, act I, scene ii: "The Earl of Gloucester's castle"
King Lear
Steven
|
DD
$2,500
[14]
On Nov. 9, 1908 a tradition began as hotel guest Archie Bailey ordered 25 of these to put in the rooms
Gideon Bibles
Francois
|
$1,000
[18]
This Mogadishu-born supermodel was smokin' on the big screen opposite James Kirk in "Star Trek VI"
Iman
Francois
|
| CLASSIC ROCK GUITARISTS | BODIES OF WATER | STAMPS | TOUGH CROSSWORD CLUES | BLACK HOLES | REVELATIONS |
|
$400
[29]
Shortly after burning it up at Monterey Pop in '67, he opened for The Mamas & The Papas at the Hollywood Bowl
Jimi Hendrix
Steven
|
$400
[27]
The coastline of the state of Western Australia is mainly on this ocean
the Indian
Ryan
|
$400
[28]
5 phrases from this song are represented on a set of stamps; one shows a double rainbow over Kansas for "spacious skies"
"America the Beautiful"
Steven
|
$400
[30]
Like a lion(7)
leonine
Ryan
|
$400
[25]
A supermassive black hole is at the center of almost every large one of these, like NGC 4450
a galaxy
Ryan
Francois
|
$400
[24]
After cops closed a 2017 exhibit in Genoa, 20 of 21 of these attributed to Amedeo Modigliani & Moïse Kisling were revealed to be fakes
paintings
Steven
|
|
$800
[18]
Robby Krieger said, "Not having a bass player" in this band "made me play more bass notes to fill out the bottom"
The Doors
Francois
|
$1,200
[7]
From the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River flows into this body of water that's about 300 square miles & shrinking
the Dead Sea
Francois
|
$800
[26]
"3 Days of Peace and Music" & a dove are on the 2019 stamp honoring the 50th anniversary of this
Woodstock
Ryan
|
$800
[22]
Female friend, in French(4)
amie
Francois
|
$800
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Measuring from a black hole's event horizon, where not even light can escape its gravitational pull, to its center is known as the Schwarzschildthis
radius
Ryan
Steven
|
$800
[23]
Documents declassified in 2017 reveal Dallas' FBI office got a death threat against this man Nov. 23, 1963; he died on the 24th
Lee Harvey Oswald
Steven
Francois
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Rock royalty since the 1970s, this guitarist wrote "We Will Rock You"
(Brian) May
Steven
|
$1,600
[6]
Kiev is on this river that rhymes with "deeper"
the Dnieper
Ryan
|
$1,200
[19]
These black grapes with a 2-word French name make a nice red wine as well as a pretty 5-cent stamp
Pinot Noir
Francois
|
$1,200
[3]
Muse of love poetry(5)
Erato
Steven
Francois
|
$1,200
[17]
A type of radiation emitted from just outside a black hole is named for this physicist who theorized its existence in 1974
(Stephen) Hawking
Steven
|
$1,200
[8]
In 2015 it was revealed that this automaker had programmed 11 million cars to cheat on emissions tests
Volkswagen
Ryan
|
|
$1,600
[2]
It was a busy 1983 for this late, great blues-rock god, debuting his "Texas Flood" album & playing on Bowie's "Let's Dance"
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Francois
|
$2,000
[1]
The Loire & the Garonne rivers flow into this large bay that's noted for its rough waves & heavy storms
the Bay of Biscay
Francois
|
$1,600
[5]
That's the spotted type of this eel on the coral reef postcard stamp
a moray
Ryan
|
$1,600
[15]
Mortise's projecting partner(5)
a tenon
Francois
|
$1,600
[4]
After its fuel is spent, any star with a mass more than 1.44 times that of this becomes a neutron star or a black hole
our Sun
Francois
|
$2,000
[10]
The 2014 revelation of kickbacks from the Petrobras Oil Company helped lead to the ouster of her as Brazil's president
Dilma Rousseff
Ryan
|
|
$2,000
[14]
Money, it's a hit! In 2019 this Pink Floyd man got $21 million for his guitars at auction & donated the money to fight climate change
David Gilmour
Francois
|
DD
$8,000
[20]
This sea is fairly straight on Italy's shores, but dented by coves & islands on the Balkan side
the Adriatic Sea
Francois
|
$2,000
[12]
The stamp honoring this Hindu holiday features a traditional oil lamp called a diya
Diwali
Francois
|
$2,000
[11]
Gaelic or Scots Gaelic(4)
Erse
Ryan
Francois
|
$2,000
[16]
The world didn't end Sept. 10, 2008, when this was switched on near Geneva; though it may create tiny black holes, they're no threat
the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Ryan
|
DD
$5,400
[9]
A bestselling 1836 "Autobiography" by this frontiersman who died that year was revealed as a hoax in the 1880s
Davy Crockett
Ryan
|
From an 1894 work, his name literally translates to "tiger king"
Shere Khan