Show #4741 - Monday, March 28, 2005

2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1, game 34.

Contestants

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Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California

India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York

Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York

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Jeopardy! Round

MINNESOTA
WHO PLAYED 'EM?
BORN IN THE U.S.A.
THIRD WORLD
THE SUPREME COURT
IN A WORD
(Alex: Each correct response will be a word that you can find inside the clue I will give you.)
    $200 1
This "crazy" state bird is also called the Great Northern Diver
    $200 26
2005:
Date doctor Alex "Hitch" Hitchens
    $200 21
He was born in 1786 in Eastern Tennessee & died in 1836 at the Alamo
    $200 6
In 1983 Ronald Reagan signed the law making the third Monday of January this man's "day"
    $200 8
The 1857 decision named for this plaintiff ruled that slaves did not have the right to sue in federal courts
    $200 14
It's how you play certain instruments, like a guitar
    $400 2
Home to a famous clinic, this city was named for a city in New York
    $400 27
2003:
Katherine Watson, an art history instructor at Wellesley in 1953
    $400 22
This "Lonesome Dove" author was born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas
    $400 7
Kanchenjunga, the world's third-tallest peak, is found in this mountain range
    $400 12
In 1979 this future justice was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals
    $400 17
In ligament you'll find this slang term for a woman's shapely leg
    $600 3
Minnesota leads the country in producing ore of this metal, most of it from taconite in the Mesabi Range
    $600 28
2001:
Wedding planner Mary Fiore
    $600 23
Born May 10, 1838 near Bel Air, Maryland, he'd find fame in the theater for 2 very different reasons
    $600 9
The third "Amityville Horror" & the third "Jaws" films were both filmed in this special process
    $600 13
Justice Potter Stewart famously said of it, "I know it when I see it"
    $600 18
What she felt when she wasn't hired
    $800 4
The bank the James-Younger Gang tried to rob on Sept. 7, 1876 now houses this city's Historical Society Museum
    $800 29
2000:
Benjamin Martin, a patriot in 1776
    DD: $2,000 24
You don't get more all-American than this illustrator born Feb. 3, 1894 in NYC
    $800 10
He's third in line to the British throne, after his father & brother
    $800 15
A Rhodes scholar, he joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990 & is the only current justice who has never married
    $800 19
Hidden in the chandelier is the name of this famous composer
    $1000 5
The northernmost point in the contiguous 48 states lies on the northwest angle in this U.S.-Canadian lake
    $1000 30
1992:
Griffin Mill, a Hollywood "player"
    $1000 25
North Carolina-born on Nov. 2, 1795, he was the 11th U.S. president
    $1000 11
In geometry, one way to prove 2 lines are this is to show they are both perpendicular to a third line
    $1000 16
In 1938 this future Supreme Court justice was the first-round draft choice of the football Pittsburgh Pirates
    $1000 20
Take your medicine & tell us the name of this once powerful family of Florence, Italy

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

Fraser India Bill
$1,800 $1,000 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Fraser India Bill
$6,600 $3,400 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

2004 PASSINGS
IT'S GENETIC
JAZZ
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "G"
TYLERS & TAYLORS
(Alex: We'll need the first name, obviously.)
ADJECTIVES
    $400 6
April 24:
Nearly 100 years old, this legend of cosmetics born Josephine Ester Mentzer
    $400 8
The first year of this decade saw the first human gene therapy treatment, for a rare immune disorder
    $400 22
Bebop trumpeter John Birks Gillespie earned this nickname for his clowning & horseplay
    $400 1
Color of Hudson's "Mansions" or Williams' "Corn"
(5)
    $400 11
In 2004 she published the novel "The Amateur Marriage"
    $400 14
Lipton describes its teas with this 5-letter adjective
    $800 7
March 30:
This urbane "Masterpiece Theatre" host, age 95
    $800 9
(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to a Punnett square on a chalkboard.) Shown here, this would be the expected ratio of offspring exhibiting the upper case dominant trait to those exhibiting the lower case recessive trait
    $800 23
The 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert featuring this clarinetist's band is one of the great live recordings in jazz
    $800 2
"Tuesday's child is full of" it
(5)
    $800 12
He led the first great popular rebellion in English history
    $800 15
Best is this form of good, also an adjective meaning "excellent"
    $1200 17
August 7:
This "colorful" oil field firefighter who inspired John Wayne's "Hellfighters"
    $1200 10
The origin of the Human Genome Project lies in Alfred Sturtevant's 1913 map of the genes on one of these
    $1200 26
On his dad Duke's death in 1974, he took over the orchestra
    $1200 3
Nokomis lived "by the shores of" it
(6, 5)
    $1200 13
He died July 9, 1850 in Washington, D.C.
    DD: $3,000 16
They're the 2 common English words ending in ‑gry; despite what you may see online, there is no third one
    DD: $3,000 18
Sept. 18:
This alliteratively named lawyer who pioneered "palimony"
    $1600 29
The enzyme reverse transcriptase is vital to this "backward" group of organisms including HIV
    $1600 27
This great tenor saxophonist was nicknamed "The Hawk"
    $1600 4
He foisted "Faust" upon us in 1808
(6)
    $1600 24
In 1994 he was named Womenswear Designer of the Year for his own clothing line
    $1600 20
Adjective for the blissful smile of one declared by the church to be among the blessed
    $2000 19
August 3:
This hyphenated 95-year-old photographer died at his home in Provence, France
    $2000 30
This type of "pair", such as guanine-cytosine, forms a rung on the DNA ladder
    $2000 28
Louis Armstrong's mentor, this jazz "King" was ruined by dental trouble & died while working as a poolroom marker
    $2000 5
Danish historian Saxo
(11)
    $2000 25
He was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962-1964
    $2000 21
"Cervine" means like this ruminant

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Fraser India Bill
$2,800 $16,200 $7,000
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PRESIDENTS
He's the only U.S. president to serve in the Senate after leaving the White House

Final scores:

Fraser India Bill
$0 $16,000 $100
3rd place: $5,000 Winner: $16,000 + an advance to UToC Round 2 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Fraser India Bill
$4,600 $16,200 $5,600
22 R
(including 1 DD),
8 W
(including 1 DD)
16 R,
0 W
11 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $26,400

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Game tape date: 2005-03-01
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