Show #4763 - Wednesday, April 27, 2005

2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 2, game 11.

Contestants

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Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California

Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia

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Jeopardy! Round

THEY USED TO BE IN CHARGE
(Alex: You have to name the country.)
SINGERS ALSO KNOWN AS
BEASTLY BUSINESS
TERMINATOR OF ENDEARMENT
PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES
"NYM" DROPPER
    $200 3
Prime Minister Eamon de Valera
    $200 8
Edward Mahoney "cashed" in under this name
    $200 17
Of the Gabbro, the goldendoodle, or the gadroon, the one that's a real breed of dog
    $200 16
Arnold graduated from this state university at Superior, not Madison, with a degree in business & international economics
    $200 1
He won the U.S. presidential election that had the top voter turnout of the 1960s, 62.8%
    $200 24
They're words with opposite meanings
    $400 4
President Alberto Fujimori
    $400 10
A member of The Monkees, this lanky gent is the one whose real first name is Robert
    $400 18
In a mental puzzle dating from the 9th century, a farmer, a goat, some cabbages & a wolf all have to do this
    $400 20
This ex-governor of Minnesota rumbled in the jungle with Arnie in "Predator"
    $400 2
In February 1983 this TV show about the 4077th got a 77% rating
    $400 25
John le Carre is one, for David Cornwell
    $600 5
Prime Minister Jan Chistiaan Smuts
    $600 11
Jamesetta Hawkins rearranged part of her real name to get this stage name
    $600 19
The burrowing wolf variety of this arthropod uses its fangs to poison insects that it ambushes
    $600 21
Mr. S was the 1st private citizen in the U.S. to own one of these, aka the high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle
    $600 9
To reduce a quantity by 25%, multiply the quantity by this
    $600 26
An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of a series of words
    $800 6
Pasha Muhammad Ali
    $800 12
This hip-hop crooner whose first hit was "Think Of You" does have a last name--it's Raymond
    $800 29
Some female lobsters do it only once a year, male lobsters more often, & its name is from the Latin for "change"
    $800 22
In 1990 Arnold became chairman of "The President's Council on" this
    $800 14
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a chalkboard.) For the quantities represented here, it's the ratio of imports to exports expressed as a percentage
    DD: $2,000 27
Guillotine & sandwich are examples of these
    $1000 7
Supreme Director Bernardo O'Higgins
    $1000 13
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart": tell me that Pauline Matthews changed her name to this
    $1000 30
To blacken by burning, or a light-colored spotted trout
    $1000 23
The Governator's father-in-law is this man from a pre-Revolutionary Maryland family
    $1000 15
Up from about 6% in 1980, this ethnicity now makes up about 12.5% of the U.S.
    $1000 28
Words that have the same spelling but different pronunciations & meanings

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

Mark Lan Jeff
$1,600 $3,000 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Lan Jeff
$3,400 $7,800 -$800

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY GREECE
ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTORS
(Alex: We'll give you the role, you name the Academy Award-winning actor.)
NATIONAL PARKS
OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER
(Alex: You'll love this. [*]. We'll need the person's first and last names in that one.)
"C" IN SHAKESPEARE
ALSO A PLANET
    $400 16
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the seashore in Greece.) A favorite description of the sea for Homer, as in book two of "The Odyssey", is to call it "dark as" this liquid
    $400 2
2000:
Maximus Decimus Meridius
    $400 21
The USA's largest national park in area is Wrangell-St. Elias in this state
    $400 25
He co-wrote the musicals "South Pacific" & "The King and I"
    $400 8
"Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides", warns this woman in Act I of "King Lear"
    $400 1
Founded in 1938, it was a Ford Motor Company brand name of semi-luxury models
    $800 17
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Athens, Greece.) In 1810, here in Athens, this British author wrote, "Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh, give me back my heart!"
    $800 4
1979:
Ted Kramer
    $800 22
The 1 million gallons of water that bubbles up each day in this Arkansas park is a warm 140 degrees
    $800 26
He was Lucky Luciano's right-hand man & the financial mastermind behind the mob
    $800 12
He calls Gertrude "Our sometime sister, now our Queen"
    $800 3
In 2000 Sports Illustrated for Women named her Sportswoman of the Year
    $1200 18
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Santorini, Greece.) He wrote in 1941's "The Colossus of Maroussi" that, "In Greece, light penetrates to the soul, opens the doors and windows of the heart"
    $1200 9
1996:
Football player Rod Tidwell
    $1200 28
In 1980 the name of Mount McKinley National Park was changed to this
    DD: $2,000 24
He quipped, "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances"
    $1200 13
In "Troilus and Cressida", King Priam says that this daughter of his "doth foresee" (yes, but does anyone listen?)
    $1200 5
In 1911 in Tacoma, this confectioner founded what is today one of the USA's largest privately-owned corporations
    $1600 19
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a shore in Greece.) He wrote about the beauty of the Greek landscape in "The Magus", set on an island like the one where he had lived
    $1600 10
2002:
Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman
    DD: $1,800 23
This national park in Florida consists of 27 low coral islands, none of which has fresh water, thus its "parched" name
    $1600 27
This industrialist's son Solomon founded a famous New York City museum
    $1600 14
A rather confused Macbeth says, "The Thane of" this place "lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"
    $1600 6
Reportedly, Mozart wrote it in the space of a few weeks in 1788
    $2000 20
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Greece: "I'm at the Temple of Demeter on Naxos.") In the "Works and Days", this ancient poet wrote of the importance of praying to Demeter if you want crops to flourish
    $2000 11
1999:
Lester Burnham
    $2000 30
This park covers much of Maine's Mount Desert Island
    $2000 29
Best known for his science of cybernetics, this math professor graduated from college in 1909 at age 14
    $2000 15
In "Richard III", Richard's brother George is the doomed duke of this
    $2000 7
An important fuel project by the Allies during WWII, its goal was to build "pipe-lines under the oceans"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Lan Jeff
$10,600 $18,800 $1,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

RELIGIOUS HISTORY
From the Greek, the name of this movement of the early Christian era means that its members had knowledge of God

Final scores:

Mark Lan Jeff
$21,200 $21,250 $3,200
2nd place: $10,000 Winner: $21,250 + an advance to UToC Round 3 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mark Lan Jeff
$10,600 $19,800 $3,600
13 R,
2 W		 25 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $34,000

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Game tape date: 2005-03-29
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