Show #4708 - Wednesday, February 9, 2005

2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1, game 1.

Contestants

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Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands

Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania

Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California

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Jeopardy! Round

GOOD CONDUCTORS
MOVIE MISSING LINKS
IN THE NEWS 2005
EAT YOUR VEGETABLES!
ADVICE
CLEANING YOUR "CLOCK"
    $200 2
Copper's conductivity & cost make it the most common metal for the rod that guides this to the ground
    $200 25
Free
____
Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
    $200 7
We wonder if the woman seen here is reacting to the Jan. 7 announcement of their breakup
    $200 21
Catherine de Medici was a lover of this food eaten by scraping the leaves with your teeth
    $200 14
As even old Aristotle once rhymed, "Well begun is half" this
    $200 1
Be prepared to break out the baby wipes if this innate mechanism in your wife's body is still "ticking"
    $400 3
Not as good a conductor as copper but a lot cheaper, it's the default metal for U.S. high-voltage power lines
    $400 27
A Time to
____
Bill
    $400 8
Israeli PM Sharon formed a new government to carry out his plan to dismantle all settlements in this area
    $400 22
The cross called celtuce combines the taste thrill of these two vegetables
    $400 15
This type of "contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" is attributed to Sam Goldwyn
    $400 10
Stubble on a man's face in the late afternoon, if he shaved in the morning
    $600 4
This metal is the gold standard of electrical conductivity among metals
    $600 28
The Ugly
____
Beauty
    $600 9
This ailing 80-year-old got a standing ovation for appearing at the inauguration
    $600 23
They make up the genus Beta
    $600 16
Will Rogers said, "We can't all be" these, "because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by"
    $600 11
A large pendulum clock having a long, upright case usually taller than 6 1/2 feet
    DD: $800 5
This form of carbon used in fishing rods is a good conductor--so cast with care around power lines
    $800 29
Lost in
____
Jam
    $800 17
Bill Gates is giving $750 million to this type of health program, & Norway is giving $290 million
    $800 24
Each of the plants seen here yields dozens of these veggies
    $800 19
In it's first installment, this successor column to Ann Landers said it's ok to charge your lazy son rent
    $800 12
This 1962 novel was partly inspired by an assault on author Anthony Burgess' pregnant wife
    $1000 6
Water's conductivity comes from these particles, like positive sodium ones & negative chlorine ones
    $1000 30
The Morning
____
Hours
    $1000 18
This state's governor Gregoire was sworn in after a hand recount gave her a 129-vote edge
    $1000 26
Snow Crown, a popular variety of this veggie, has a pure white head
    $1000 20
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be" was this character's advice to his son
    $1000 13
The most recent of these devices can achieve accuracy to within about 1 second in every 3 million years

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Leslie Michael Eric
$1,600 $800 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Leslie Michael Eric
$5,200 $2,600 $6,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

GREAT CONDUCTORS
COLE MINING
WHERE AM I?
JAPANESE AMERICANS
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S"
CLICHES IN OTHER WORDS...
    $400 6
This conductor "and the Pittsburgh (Symphony)" was a popular public TV series in the '70s
    $400 1
Nursery rhyme monarch who was a merry old soul
    $400 19
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Truman's Presidential Library. ) I'm here in the actual office Harry Truman worked in from 1957-1966 at his presidential library in this city
    $400 11
L.A. trial judge Lance
    $400 4
14-line poem that may be Petrarchan
(6)
    $400 26
Snap one lower extremity!
    $800 7
He's seen here in a typically passionate moment
    $800 2
Her biggest hits include 1997's "I Don't Want To Wait"
    $800 20
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a national park.) I'm in America's first national park in this state that also had our first national monument & national forest
    $800 15
Later to win Olympic gold, she won her first World Figure Skating Championship in 1991
    $800 5
Erle Gardner's middle name
(7)
    $800 27
Clothed for committing
homicide
    $1200 8
Conductor Georg Solti had a long tenure with the Chicago Symphony; George Szell, with this Great Lakes city's orchestra
    $1200 3
On the small screen he starred in "Midnight Caller"; on the big screen he was Mike Brady
    $1200 21
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a city square.) I'm in this city that was co-capital of the Colony & State of Connecticut 1701-1875
    $1200 16
Series regular who played a crewman on the original "Star Trek"
    DD: $6,000 12
What "Requiem for a Nun" is to "Sanctuary"
(6)
    $1200 28
Annoy a fellow the same height as thee
    DD: $3,500 9
He studied medicine at St. Xavier's College in India before becoming a conductor
    $1600 24
"Love For Sale" is one of the standards he wrote
    $1600 22
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a field of a certain cereal crop.) I'm the area known by this agricultural name, stretching from Nebraska to Ohio, & Minnesota to Missouri
    $1600 17
U.S. Army Chief of Staff 1999-2003
    $1600 13
Title age for a Tarkington lad
(9)
    $1600 29
One single avian present equals multiples perching amongst foliage
    $2000 10
The first British music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, his last name is also a noise
    $2000 25
A member of Jesse James' outlaw gang
    $2000 23
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a Navy yard.) I'm at the U.S. Navy's biggest West Coast base of operations, in this city
    $2000 18
Shuttle astronaut onboard the "Challenger"
    $2000 14
British biographer Lytton
(8)
    $2000 30
"Carmen" remains unfinished up to the time a beefy broad belts out a ditty

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Leslie Michael Eric
$9,900 $8,600 $15,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS
With 5, this president had more attorneys general in his administration than any other president

Final scores:

Leslie Michael Eric
$0 $10,600 $19,801
3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000 Winner: $19,801 + an advance to UToC Round 2

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Leslie Michael Eric
$14,000 $8,600 $15,000
22 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)
14 R,
2 W
15 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $37,600

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Game tape date: 2005-01-31
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