2006 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.
Bob Mesko — an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
Aaron Thompson — a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
Vik Vaz — a medical student from Austin, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| Vik | $2,600 | $2,800 | $9,000 |
$18,000
Finalist |
$13,600
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Aaron | $2,400 | $6,400 | $17,000 |
$13,999
2nd place: $10,000 |
$14,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Bob | $1,800 | $6,000 | $10,000 |
$1,999
3rd place: $10,000 |
$10,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| NONFICTION | AN ENGLISH-SPORTS DICTIONARY | OK COMPUTER | CHANGE THE WORLD | BODIES OF WATER | A CATEGORY OF CATEGORIES |
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$200
[1]
"Night" is this Nobel Peace Prize winner's account of surviving Auschwitz as a teenager
Elie Wiesel
Vik
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$200
[6]
English: sweet glaze on a cake; hockey: shooting the puck all the way down from your own end
icing
Vik
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$200
[30]
This "high-flying" computer program from Adobe converts other types of documents into a PDF file
Acrobat
Vik
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$200
[29]
Seen here is a gold coin depicting this Macedonian ruler who died in 323 B.C.
Alexander the Great
Aaron
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$200
[28]
After Lake Superior, this African lake is the largest body of fresh water in the world
Lake Victoria
Aaron
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$200
[27]
RHYME TIME:Roald Dahl candy man's toy trucks
Wonka's Tonkas
Aaron
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$400
[2]
Columnist Anna Quindlen wrote "A Short Guide to" one of these
a Happy Life
Vik
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$400
[10]
English: a newspaper story you saved; football: blocking below the waist from behind
clipping
Bob
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$400
[26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew accesses a video of Sarah of the Clue Crew scuba diving on the Jeopardy!web site from her laptop.) A synonym for "flowing", it's the type of video you can watch when youvisit usat jeopardy.com
streaming
Aaron
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$400
[24]
For collectors & investors, this country mints a maple leaf coin in gold & silver
Canada
Aaron
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$400
[14]
The Persian Gulf is an arm of the Arabian Sea, which is part of this ocean
the Indian Ocean
Vik
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$400
[25]
BEFORE & AFTER:Popular "holy" expression about work week's end joins Jason in a 1980 horror movie
Thank God it's Friday the 13th
Aaron
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$600
[4]
Hunter S. Thompson found fear and loathing "in Las Vegas" & "on" this "Trail" in the title of a 1973 book
the Campaign Trail
Bob
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$600
[7]
English: a father's coming-of-age talk with his son; basketball: the opposite of zone
man-to-man
Vik
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$600
[21]
This popular Internet service provider began as QCS, Quantum Computer Services
AOL (America Online)
Aaron
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$600
[22]
The Susan Constant, Godspeed & Discovery are theshipsdepictedon this state's quarter
Virginia
Bob
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$600
[11]
In the 1770s James Cook explored this sea between Australia & New Zealand
the Tasman Sea
Vik
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$600
[16]
14-LETTER WORDS:Secondary or incidental, it often precedes "evidence" in law
circumstantial
Aaron
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$800
[3]
Grammar is hot! This bestseller is Lynne Truss' "Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Aaron
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$800
[8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the slopes of Park City, Utah while a snowboarder does a stunt.)English: the sudden seizing of something as in the power type; snowboarding: amovewhere you hold your board
a grab
Aaron
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$800
[19]
From the Old English for "clasp" & "table", it's where anything you "cut" or "copy" is stored until you "paste"
a clipboard
Bob
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$800
[15]
When this king married in 1938, Egypt issued a 100-piastre gold coin to commemorate the event
King Farouk
Aaron
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$800
[12]
This longest river in Ireland nearly divides the country in two
the Shannon
Bob
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$800
[17]
CROSSWORD CLUES "A":Athos' ami(6)
Aramis
Bob
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$1,000
[5]
Augusten Burroughs put the "fun" in dysfunctional with his memoir called "Running with" these
Scissors
Aaron
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$1,000
[9]
English: a small piece of candy; golf: how you put a ball back in play after knocking your shot into a lake
a drop
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$1,000
[20]
It can be a hiding place for food or treasure, or a place for memory on a computer's motherboard
a cache
Bob
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DD
$1,000
[23]
Hereare the 2 new coins minted by this country in 2004
Iraq
Bob
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$1,000
[13]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Tervasaari.) Tervasaari, just off Helsinki, sits in this armof the Baltic Sea
the Gulf of Finland
Vik
Aaron
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$1,000
[18]
"TOM" TERRIFIC:12-letter adjective that means showing no evidence of disease
asymptomatic
Aaron
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| THE ANIMAL KINGDOM | CAMEO CAMERA | HISTORIC AMOURS | GONE TOO SOON | BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES | THE "GOOD", THE "BAD" & THE "UGLY" |
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[25]
Steven Jay Gould said this animal's "thumb" is an enlarged wrist bone that lets it strip bamboo shoots
a panda
Vik
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$400
[16]
He got himself into "Lifeboat" as the before & after in newspaper ads for Reduco the Obesity Slayer
Alfred Hitchcock
Bob
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$400
[1]
This Louis known as "the Well-Beloved" lived up to his name by romancing all 5 of the Nesle sisters
Louis XV
Aaron
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$400
[29]
Heard here, he was the youngest of the 3 singers who perished in a February 1959 plane crash"Para bailar la bamba /Para bailar la bamba..."
Ritchie Valens
Aaron
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$400
[24]
Either of the 2 composers who in 1897 based an opera on Henri Murger's novel "Scenes de la vie de boheme"
Puccini (or Leoncavallo)
Vik
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$400
[6]
This story says "then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully"
"The Ugly Duckling"
Aaron
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$800
[30]
This serpent devourer was introduced into Jamaica to kill rats--didn't work; the rats simply climbed into trees
the mongoose
Vik
Aaron
Bob
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$800
[11]
In his last role filmed on U.S. soil, this man slit Jack Nicholson's nose in "Chinatown"
Roman Polanski
Aaron
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$800
[2]
Johann Struensee, physician to this country's King Christian VII, was executed for romancing the queen
Denmark
Vik
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$1,200
[14]
In 1995, 33-year-old Alison Hargreaves conquered Mount Everest, only to perish months later on this 2nd-highest mountain
K2
Bob
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$800
[23]
With Brahms' help, this composer's "Moravian Duets" & "Slavonic Dances" brought attention to Czech music
Dvorák
Vik
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$800
[7]
In 1933 FDR espoused this policy in which the U.S. "respects the rights of others"
the Good Neighbor Policy
Bob
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$1,200
[28]
This animal's 3-letter name is derived from an African word for "black", referring to the black wildebeest
the gnu
Aaron
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$1,200
[9]
You'll find Jim Lovell as the captain of the Iwo Jima in this 1995 flick
Apollo 13
Vik
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$1,200
[3]
He may have sired several of Lady Castlemaine's children; no wonder he was "The Merry Monarch"
Charles II
Vik
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$1,600
[15]
Michael Jackson's song "Gone Too Soon" was a tribute to this Indiana teen who died of AIDS in 1990
Ryan White
Aaron
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$1,200
[20]
Josef Suk arranged a meditation on an old carol about this Bohemian "King", the Czech patron saint
Wenceslas ("Wen'slas" accepted)
Bob
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$1,200
[8]
This national park is about 30 miles north of Wounded Knee
Badlands
Bob
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$1,600
[27]
There are African, Japanese & fat species of this rodent that may hibernate half the year
the dormouse
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$1,600
[10]
Appropriately, she is the host at the past lives pavilion in Albert Brooks' 1991 film "Defending Your Life"
Shirley MacLaine
Aaron
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$1,600
[4]
This Parisian actress born in 1844 counted Victor Hugo & the future Edward VII among her lovers
Sarah Bernhardt
Vik
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$2,000
[17]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) The Oval Office was a place of sorrow when President Kennedyheard of the death of this Congolese leader in early 1961
(Patrice) Lumumba
Vik
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$1,600
[21]
In this Smetana opera, Kecal the marriage broker tries to bribe Jenik to give up his true love
The Bartered Bride
Vik
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$2,000
[19]
This hyphenated Black Forest town has hot springs that the Romans built 2,000 years ago
Baden-Baden
Aaron
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$2,000
[26]
Canada has made this arctic bovine a protected species
the musk ox
Vik
Aaron
Bob
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$2,000
[12]
This comic's cameo in 1985's "Spies Like Us" involved him playing golf in a tent & was his last movie role
Bob Hope
Aaron
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$2,000
[5]
Robert Devereux, the Earl of this, succeeded his stepfather the Earl of Leicester as Elizabeth I's "favorite"
Essex
Vik
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DD
$3,000
[13]
Of this athlete, Pres. Clinton said, "We were dazzled by her speed, humbled by her talent & captivated by her style"
Florence Griffith Joyner ("Flo-Jo")
Aaron
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$2,000
[22]
Also a Yul Brynner film, this Janacek piece came from a Gogol tale of a Cossack who revolts against the Poles
Taras Bulba
Bob
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DD
$4,600
[18]
A mischievous sprite in English folklore also called Puck
Robin Goodfellow
Vik
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The name of this monster is from the Greek for "she-goat"
the Chimera