Show #4726 - Monday, March 7, 2005

2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1, game 19.

Contestants

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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada

Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon

John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas

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Jeopardy! Round

NOVEL PLACES
WHO'S HAD MORE NO. 1 HITS?
WORLD LEADERS: 1871
A SNAKE IN THE CATEGORY
"DE" ARTS
A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10
(Alex: That should be easy.)
    $200 11
"East of Eden" & "The Grapes of Wrath" both involve treks to this state
    $200 26
Janet Jackson,
Joe Jackson,
Michael Jackson
    $200 15
In 1871 this man was President of the United States
    $200 1
At Lewiston in this state, the Snake River turns west & heads for the Columbia
    $200 20
The son of a surgeon, this director brought some gore to the screen in "Carrie" & "Scarface"
    $200 6
In 1952 the New York Yankees retired Joe DiMaggio's jersey with this number on it
    $400 25
Constance, an aristocrat's wife, has an affair with the gamekeeper of Wragby Hall, her husband's estate, in this novel
    $400 27
George Michael,
Phil Collins,
Elton John
    $400 16
The liberal prime minister of Great Britain in 1871
    $400 2
It's the defining term for the deep crevices between a copperhead's eyes & nostrils
    $400 21
Seen here, the work of Tamara de Lempicka typifies this art style
    $400 7
When it's noon in Bakersfield, it's this time in Hackensack
    DD: $1,000 12
This work, Jules Verne's first novel, surveys Africa from the air
    $600 28
Rick Springfield,
Bruce Springsteen,
Buffalo Springfield
    $600 17
In 1871 Leopold II began his seventh year as king of this country
    $600 3
Creepy-crawly singer-songwriter heard here

"I don't like spiders and snakes /
And that ain't what it takes to love me..."
    $600 22
Now in his 70s, he designed Laura Bush's 2005 Inauguration Day wear
    $600 8
Title number of habits of "Highly Effective People" in a Stephen Covey bestseller
    $800 13
This advertising man makes a 1-day pilgrimage through Dublin in Joyce's "Ulysses"
    $800 29
Whitney Houston,
Mariah Carey,
Barbra Streisand
    $800 18
Abd-ul Aziz was this Empire's sultan
    $800 4
In mythology, the Ouroboros is a snake or dragon with this in its mouth
    $800 23
His "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" is referred to as a tone poem
    $800 9
Number of lost tribes of Israel after the defeat by the Assyrians in 721 B.C.
    $1000 14
This Pulitzer Prize-winner by Jeffrey Eugenides follows a Greek family from Smyrna to the Detroit suburbs
    $1000 30
Heart,
Little Feat,
Murray Head
    $1000 19
The ninth Pope with this name was the pontiff
    $1000 5
This fire-breathing monster had the head of a lion, the body of a she-goat & the hindquarters of a snake
    $1000 24
In 1964 LBJ gave this abstract expressionist the Medal of Freedom
    $1000 10
It's the number that followed the last king of England named William

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

John Ryan Barbara-Anne
$1,200 $1,800 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

John Ryan Barbara-Anne
$2,200 $3,800 $6,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

PARTICLE PHYSICS
LET'S VISIT PALAU!
JAMIE FOXX ROLES
(Alex: You have to give us the movie title.)
AFRICAN CUISINE
LATIN LEGAL TERMS
& ONE LAST "EZ" CATEGORY
    $400 7
Our world is basically made of the up & down types of these subatomic particles
    $400 1
(Jeff Probst, host of Survivor, reads from Palau.) Food staples on Palau include sweet potatoes, cassava & this starchy tuber that's used to make poi
    $400 2
Small-town Georgian who won 12 Grammys
    $400 14
Mealie is the name for this cereal plant that is used to make mush & batters
    $400 8
Meaning "have the body", a writ of this 2-word phrase is the common means of obtaining release on bail
    $400 16
Bah! Humbug! It's Scrooge's first name
    $800 9
C.T.R. Wilson won the 1927 Nobel Prize for inventing this gas-filled compartment to detect charged particles
    $800 27
The large yellow circle on the flag of Palau represents this heavenly body
    $800 3
Boxing cornerman Drew "Bundini" Brown
    $800 15
Biltong from this country is Afrikaans for rump & tongue--it's from the rump & tastes like smoked tongue
    $800 10
The "M.O." on this phrase is that it applies to criminals' past behavior
    $800 20
Passages from Deuteronomy are inscribed on the small scrolls in these, found on the doorposts of Jewish homes
    $1200 17
In 2000 the tau neutrino was first observed at this Illinois lab named for a foreign-born physicist
    $1200 28
This tropical fruit is the chief cash crop of Palau
    $1200 4
Miami Sharks quarterback Willie Beamen
    $1200 21
Angola's cuisine is influenced by this European country that brought ingredients from its Brazilian colony
    $1200 11
An episode of "The Brady Bunch" educated us about this ancient maxim for "let the buyer beware"
    DD: $5,600 24
One of Thomas Edison's first-ever film shorts showed his assistant Fred Ott doing this
    $1600 18
A 1965 Nobel was for this type of electrodynamics & its impact on the physics of elementary particles
    $1600 29
When you arrive on the Island of Palau, you'll find out that it has 2 official languages: Palauan & this
    $1600 5
Max, an L.A. cab driver in for a long night
    $1600 22
Doro Wat, stewed chicken over injera bread, is a national dish of this East African country
    $1600 12
3-word phrase for "a person not acceptable" to the host country as the head of a diplomatic mission
    $1600 25
It's where in the world you can see the spectacular Angel Falls
    DD: $1,111 19
The study of collisions that create new particles is this physics branch, HEP for short
    $2000 30
(Jeff Probst reads from the jungle of Palau.) Palau is part of this group of islands named for King Charles II of Spain
    $2000 6
Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang
    $2000 23
Granular semolina goes by this name which is also the name of a stew made in Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia
    $2000 13
You don't adopt a child but assume obligations incident to the natural parent relationship "in" this phrase
    $2000 26
It's the architectural band of decorations seen here

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

John Ryan Barbara-Anne
$7,000 $16,111 $11,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

SPORTS PHRASE ORIGINS
In 1939 an Illinois sports official wrote "A little" of this alliterative phrase may "contribute to sanity"

Final scores:

John Ryan Barbara-Anne
$100 $8,224 $0
2nd place: $5,000 Winner: $15,000 + an advance to UToC Round 2 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

John Ryan Barbara-Anne
$7,000 $18,000 $17,400
9 R,
2 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 21 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $42,400

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Game tape date: 2005-02-09
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