2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 3.
Vik Vaz — a medical student from Austin, Texas
Jason Richards — a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
Kerry Breitenbach — a marketing analyst from Cleveland, Ohio
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kerry | $1,600 | $2,000 | $10,400 |
$10,799
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$10,400
18 R, 3 W |
| Jason | $3,000 | $4,200 | $13,000 |
$11,000
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$13,000
16 R, 2 W |
| Vik | $3,400 | $6,000 | $23,200 |
$26,001
Automatic semifinalist |
$18,400
23 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| OPERA HOUSES | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | WHEN AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS ATTACK | LEGAL TYPES | IT'S ON THE MAP | LETTER PERFECT |
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$200
[1]
This opera company's home was originally on Broadway at 39th Street; it moved to Lincoln Center in 1966
the Metropolitan Opera
Kerry
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$200
[6]
"I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight in an everlasting kiss", says this classic song
"Born To Run"
Kerry
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$200
[21]
In 2002 a woman lost part of an ear to this marsupial, apparently off its eucalyptus diet; not so cute
a koala
Vik
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$200
[26]
In West Virginia civil trials, there are 6 of them
jurors
Jason
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$200
[11]
It's the powerful democracy of more than 1,000 islands seen here
Japan
Vik
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$200
[16]
It's the Roman numeral for 50
L
Vik
|
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$400
[2]
This Milan opera house was built by Maria Theresa of Austria to replace the Royal Ducal Theatre
La Scala
Kerry
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$400
[7]
It's "Greetings From" this New Jersey "Park" in the title of Bruce's first album
Asbury
Jason
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$400
[23]
In 2004 a 5-year-old Aussie girl saved her sister from an attack by this wild animal famous for a similar 1980 event
a dingo
Kerry
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$400
[27]
Type of witness who attests to reputation, not to the facts
a character witness
Vik
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$400
[15]
The Spanish vanquished a native empire in this country in 1532
Peru
Kerry
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$400
[20]
People with this most common blood type were once considered universal donors
O
Vik
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$600
[3]
Bennelong Point, the site of this opera house, was home to several Aboriginal clans when Europeans arrived
the Sydney Opera House
Vik
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$600
[8]
This hit off "Born in the U.S.A." begins, "I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school"
"Glory Days"
Kerry
|
$600
[22]
This aquatic animal's bill senses electrical fields; a 1980s test found it attacked a 1.5 V battery 88 out of 88 times
a platypus
Jason
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$600
[30]
Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's current title is this type of "counsel"
Special Counsel
Vik
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$600
[14]
In thousands of years of history, this island seenherehas been conquered & ruled by numerous empires & kings
Cyprus
Vik
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$600
[19]
It's the class of vitamins that includes thiamine & riboflavin
B
Jason
|
|
$800
[5]
The Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany was built as a place for this composer to stage his operas
Wagner
Kerry
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$800
[9]
The title track on this Springsteen album named for a state tells of a mass-murder spree by Charlie Starkweather
Nebraska
Jason
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$800
[24]
A golfer won a negligence lawsuit after a 5-foot, red one of these attacked him on a New South Wales course
a kangaroo
Jason
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$800
[29]
This person "of the court" is charged with preserving trial records
a clerk
Vik
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$800
[13]
"Y" not give us the name of this republic?
Yemen
Jason
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$800
[18]
In standard tuning, the top & bottom strings of a 6-string guitar are tuned to this note
E
|
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
London's Royal Opera House traces its history back to a 1728 performance of this John Gay "Opera"
The Beggar's Opera
Vik
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$1,000
[10]
The 2006 album "We Shall Overcome" is a tribute to this Weavers co-founder & folk legend
Pete Seeger
Jason
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$1,000
[25]
In 2001 this large bird was seen running down Mississippi 51, then went after an animal control officer
an emu
Kerry
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$1,000
[28]
A "U.S." one is a judicial officer appointed by district court judges
a magistrate
Kerry
Jason
Vik
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$1,000
[12]
Twenty-million-strong border country of South Africa seen here
Mozambique
Kerry
Vik
|
$1,000
[17]
In physics, it's the symbol for Planck's constant
h
Vik
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| THE NEW YORK TIMESARTS | TV NUMBERS | ALTERNATIVE ENERGY | POLITICIANS | SHORT FICTION | PARLEZ-VOUS ANGLAIS? |
|
$400
[26]
Computer analysis of newly found paintings said the drip patterns weren't consistent with this artist's previous works
Pollock
Vik
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$400
[6]
This show finished in Nielsen's top 10 programs a record 23 consecutive seasons
60 Minutes
Vik
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$400
[19]
Photovoltaic (or "P.V.") cells, which can power homes, are more commonly called these
solar (cells)
Vik
|
$400
[14]
In 1983 Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of this Midwest city
Chicago
Vik
|
$400
[11]
His story "The Undefeated" tells of Manuel Garcia, a bullfighter just released from the hospital who refuses to retire
Hemingway
Kerry
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$400
[1]
My kids made an oddly lifelike bust of me using this substance, "chewed paper"
papier-mâché
Kerry
|
|
$800
[30]
The Times called this Fox sitcom, a critical darling, "an alliance between 'The Royal Tenenbaums' & 'The Simpsons'"
Arrested Development
Jason
|
$800
[7]
714 was the number on the badge seen at the beginning & end of this show that debuted in 1951
Dragnet
Kerry
|
$800
[25]
Partly from the Greek for "heat", it's the type of energy produced by Iceland's Krafla Plant
geothermal
Kerry
|
$800
[18]
In 2001 this Mississippi senator alternated between being majority leader & minority leader
Trent Lott
Jason
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$800
[12]
Fitzgerald's "Tales of" this alludes to the 1920s, but most of the stories were written before 1920
the Jazz Age
Kerry
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$800
[2]
If you don't like traffic, live on this kind of street, the "bottom of the sack"
a cul-de-sac
Kerry
|
|
$1,200
[29]
The Times said a 2005 production of this Shaw play about a career woman was "intriguingly nuanced drama"
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Kerry
Vik
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$1,200
[8]
Time stopped when Elisha Cuthbert was bitten by a mountain lion during the filming of this Fox show
24
Kerry
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$1,200
[22]
Pumped-storage is one type of plant for this, the nation's largest renewable electricity source
hydroelectric
Kerry
Vik
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$1,200
[17]
Nelson Aldrich, a senator from 1881 to 1911, was the grandfather of this vice president named for him
Nelson Rockefeller
Jason
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$1,200
[13]
Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" lives in this village, where he attends a witches' sabbath
Salem
Jason
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$1,200
[3]
I'm never sure if I want to order my food prix fixe or this way, "according to the menu"
à la carte
Jason
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|
$1,600
[28]
In 2006 Angela Gheorghiu had a "supercharged star turn" as Violetta in this Verdi opera
La Traviata
Vik
|
$1,600
[9]
4 8 15 16 23 & 42 are numbers inexplicably tied to characters on this show
Lost
Kerry
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$1,600
[20]
By 2003, there were 65 facilities for this type of power in the U.S., generating about 20% of our energy
nuclear power
Kerry
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$2,000
[16]
This Republican "from the State of Maine" served as Secretary of State under Garfield, Arthur & Benjamin Harrison
James G. Blaine
Vik
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$2,000
[24]
His short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" was adapted into the 1990 film "Total Recall"
Philip Dick
Jason
|
$1,600
[4]
"Present yourself" at the designated place & time for this type of meeting
a rendezvous
Jason
|
|
$2,000
[27]
"The Seven", a hip-hop reworking of his "Seven Against Thebes", is a "risky adventure in aesthetic cross-pollination"
Aeschylus
Jason
Vik
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$2,000
[10]
The name in this series' title referred to Malloy & Reed's patrol car; the number referred to their beat
Adam-12
|
$2,000
[21]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew opens a vat in from Napa Valley, CA.)This alcoholproduced by grape fermentation is also used to make solvents & gasoline
ethanol
Vik
|
DD
$4,000
[15]
In 1832 this South Carolina statesman resigned as vice president & became a senator
John C. Calhoun
Vik
|
DD
$4,000
[23]
This Mississippian's 1941 story "The Worn Path" won her an O. Henry Memorial Contest Award, the first of several
Eudora Welty
Vik
|
$2,000
[5]
Richard Branson & Michael Dell are 2 famous examples of this type of businessman: "one who undertakes"
an entrepreneur
Jason
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Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge referred to the "motiveless malignity" of this character
Iago