2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.
Maria Wenglinsky — a teacher from Brooklyn, New York
Kermin Fleming — a student from Lexington, Kentucky
Doug Dorst — a writer and professor from Austin, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doug | $600 | $1,800 | $9,000 |
$5,999
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Kermin | $400 | $1,600 | $4,200 |
$99
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$4,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Maria | $4,800 | $10,800 | $13,200 |
$6,400
Automatic semifinalist |
$11,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 7 W |
| PICK THE MAMMAL | THE NEW YORK TIMESSPORTS | PAINT JOB | PROPER NAMES | LET US WORSHIP | LATIN LEXICON |
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$200
[2]
Prawn, fawn, satyricon
a fawn
Maria
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$200
[1]
This "most primal sport... has been condemned since Cain & Abel, but it's still here... on barges or in barrooms"
boxing
Maria
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$200
[21]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew dabs some red paint on a fresh canvas.) As it's water-based, this major type of artistic paint dries fast, so I have to get it right the first time
acrylic
Maria
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$200
[7]
A small piece of butter, or something you get "on the back"
Pat
Kermin
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$200
[16]
Some Hollywood stars with big egos could be accused of autolatry, the worship of this
themselves
Kermin
|
$200
[26]
Not a Chicago band member's kin, it means "and so forth"
et cetera
Doug
|
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$400
[3]
Civet, civray, cygnet
a civet
Doug
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$400
[8]
Dave Anderson lamented that Jerry Kramer, Rich Jackson & Charley Conerly were not inducted into this sport's Hall of Fame
professional football
Doug
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$400
[22]
Gloss & semigloss are this type of paint, also a decorative baked-on coating
enamel
Maria
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$400
[12]
General term for a Christmas song or hymn
Carol
Kermin
|
$400
[17]
You don't have to be from New Orleans to know that hagiolatry is the worship of or a deep reverence for these
the saints
Maria
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$400
[27]
An allowance for incidental costs, it means "for each day"
per diem
Kermin
|
|
$600
[4]
Koi, bolshoi, borzoi, bok choy
a borzoi
Doug
|
$600
[9]
On April 10, 2006 The New York Times said he "works magic for second Masters"
(Phil) Mickelson
Kermin
|
$600
[23]
(Jon of the Clue Crew rolls some green paint over a canvas.) A type of paint that gives just a slight gloss is named for this slightly glossly product of the animal world
eggshell
Maria
|
$600
[13]
To play in water, or walk through it, like baseball player Boggs
Wade
Maria
|
$600
[18]
Almost a cult with "Jeopardy!" writers & lexicographers, epeolatry is the worship of these
words
Maria
|
$600
[28]
Innate knowledge not based on experience, its antonym is a posteriori
a priori
Kermin
|
|
$800
[5]
Scarab, scallop, escolar, echidna
an echidna
Maria
|
$800
[10]
Not typically thought of as a contact sport, it's "athletic ballet... a brutal sport played by large and powerful men"
basketball
Doug
Kermin
Maria
|
$800
[24]
Traditionally, the finest oil paint brushes are made from the bristles of this animal, especially ones from Chungking
hogs
Maria
|
$800
[14]
To honor, as with one's presence
Grace
Maria
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$1,000
[20]
An ignicolist is a worshipper of this vital force
fire
Maria
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$800
[29]
A bishop's assurance that a book adheres to Catholic morals, this term now means approval in general
imprimatur
Maria
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Newt, nutria, nucleolus, neufchatel
a nutria
Maria
|
$1,000
[11]
It's "a brief blur of colors between the pate and the brie" for fans attending the major event in this sport
the Tour de France
Maria
|
$1,000
[25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a roughly-textured canvas.) Just as it sounds, this Italian term refers tolaying on paint with a paste-like thickness
impasto
Doug
|
$1,000
[15]
A British nobleman ranking above a viscount & below a marquess
Earl
Maria
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
Selenolatry is the worship of this object
the Moon
Maria
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$1,000
[30]
Literally "into the middle of things", it's how you describe a story that begins in the middle of the action
in medias res
Maria
|
| PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS | NO. 1 ALBUMS | FIRST LADIES | A WORLD OF FACTS | THEY SAID IT IN 2005 | "C" FOOD |
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$400
[10]
The Federico Garcia Lorca play "Bodas de Sangre" is usually known in English as this "Wedding"
Blood Wedding
Maria
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$400
[23]
1973:This group's "Houses of the Holy"
Led Zeppelin
Doug
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$400
[6]
She appeared with her husband in a 1961 episode of "General Electric Theater" titled "Money and the Minister"
Nancy Reagan
|
$400
[16]
In 1805 in Milan's cathedral, this non-Italian was crowned King of Italy
Napoleon
Maria
|
$400
[21]
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"
George Bush
Doug
|
$400
[1]
If you crave Craisins you know that they're sweetened & dried these
cranberries
Kermin
|
|
$800
[12]
He set his play "The Lady from the Sea" in a small town on a fjord
Ibsen
Maria
|
$800
[24]
1990:"Please (this rapper) Don't Hurt 'Em"
Hammer
Doug
|
$800
[7]
She said a quiet husband wouldn't be hard to get used to after teaching at the Clarke Institute for the Deaf
Mrs. (Grace) Coolidge
Maria
|
$800
[17]
Nestor Kirchner is the current president of this South American country
Argentina
Maria
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$1,200
[28]
"...Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even--you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is"
Tom Cruise
Doug
|
$800
[2]
"Fabric" name for a certain cake made with oil instead of solid shortening
chiffon cake
Doug
Maria
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Sophocles' last play was entitled "Oedipus at" this village--coincidentally, Sophocles' birhplace
Colonus
Maria
|
$1,200
[25]
2006:The first TV movie soundtrack to ever hit No. 1, from this Disney Channel movie
High School Musical
|
$1,200
[8]
In her early 20s, she studied dance under Martha Graham in NYC; she moved back home to Grand Rapids in 1941
Mrs. (Betty) Ford
Maria
|
$1,200
[18]
This capital of Madhya Pradesh state was the site of a deadly industrial accident in 1984
Bhopal
Kermin
|
$1,600
[29]
"I said I believed the information came from another source, whom I could not recall"
Judith Miller
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
A plant disease known in the U.S. as this smut creates a Mexican delicacy known as huitlacoche
corn
Kermin
|
|
$1,600
[14]
(Edward Albee delivers the clue.) The precarious equilibrium of a couple named Agnes & Tobias is central to this play I wrote in 1966
A Delicate Balance
Maria
|
$1,600
[26]
1976:He "Comes Alive!"
Frampton
Doug
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$1,600
[9]
In 1982 she founded her Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas to preserve native North American plants
Lady Bird Johnson
Doug
Kermin
Maria
|
$1,600
[19]
This Asian river, the world's third longest, may be the world's deepest--490 feet in some spots
the Yangtze
Kermin
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
"To my fellow journalists... risking all and to each of you, courage"
Dan Rather
Doug
|
$1,200
[3]
This veggie is the main ingredient in the German dish Blumenkohlsalat
cauliflower
Maria
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Jason Miller ended his play "Barrymore's Ghost" with these 4 words, the last that Hamlet speaks in "Hamlet"
The rest is silence
Kermin
|
$2,000
[27]
(Note the year!)1958:His "Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1"
Van Cliburn
|
$2,000
[11]
The woman born Sara Delano took her son on a 1904 cruise to quash the romance with this woman
Eleanor Roosevelt
Kermin
|
$2,000
[20]
Before independence in 1966, Botswana was a protectorate known as this
Bechuanaland
|
$2,000
[30]
"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat"
Mark Felt
|
$2,000
[5]
These are poached in a sweetened syrup to make marrons glaces
chestnuts
Maria
|
The symbol of this element first isolated in 1783 comes from its German name
tungsten