2006 Back to School Week game 5.
Claire Winkler — from Fredericksburg, Virginia
Scottie Szewczyk — from Belleville, Illinois
Joe Kohake — from Florence, Kentucky
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe | $3,200 | $4,600 | $13,000 |
$20,801
Winner: $20,801 |
$15,000
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Scottie | $-600 | $2,000 | $4,000 |
$8,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Claire | $3,800 | $5,600 | $10,400 |
$8,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,400
15 R, 4 W |
| BIBLE HEROES | MUSIC TO YOUR EARS | LET'S PLAY A GAME! | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS | EAT WELL | RHYMES WITH MONEY |
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$200
[3]
At the burning bush, God told him he was "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob"
Moses
Joe
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$200
[23]
This teen queen sang, "Wake up, wake up on a Saturday night, could be N.Y., maybe Hollywood & Vine"
Hilary Duff
Scottie
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$200
[17]
You can apologize (as the name says) when you send someone back to the start in this Parker Brothers board game
Sorry!
Joe
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$200
[12]
Walter Diemer, with the Fleer Co., invented the first commercially successful type of this chewing gum in 1928
bubble gum
Claire
|
$200
[11]
Eat a salad with this vegetable that can be classified as butterhead, crisphead, leaf or Romaine
lettuce
Joe
|
$200
[1]
It can mean strange as well as amusing
funny
Joe
|
|
$400
[4]
Goliath mocked him, saying, "Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?"
David
Scottie
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$400
[24]
This "beautiful soul" heardherehas also been nominated for 2 acting Emmys for "All My Children""I don't want my love to go to waste /I want you and your beautiful soul..."
Jesse McCartney
Claire
|
$400
[18]
Boggle is a word search game; you make words using wood tiles in this classic board game
Scrabble
Joe
|
$400
[13]
In 1879 James A. Ritty invented this machine, & retailers have been ringing up sales ever since
a cash register
Claire
|
$400
[14]
Some of the recommended "whole" types of this food pyramid product are quinoa, millet, sorghum & barley
grains
Joe
|
$400
[2]
It's in the name of a kind of Cheerios
honey
Claire
|
|
$600
[5]
In Luke, he is quoted as saying, "I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh"
John the Baptist
Joe
|
$600
[25]
Bowling for Soup sang, "There was U2, & Blondie, & music still on MTV" in this song (Yes kids, MTV used to play music!)
1985
Joe
Scottie
|
$600
[19]
Collect pieces of cheese & build a zany contraption to try to catch your opponents in this board game
Mouse Trap
Claire
|
$600
[16]
In 1798 this cotton gin inventor began using a system of interchangeable parts to make muskets for the U.S. government
Eli Whitney
Joe
|
$600
[15]
If you want to go nuts, eat this nut native to Brazil and taken to Asia by Portuguese missionaries
the cashew
Joe
|
$600
[6]
Type of nose for those with a cold
runny
Claire
|
|
$800
[7]
When Jesus saw this tax collector & first Gospel writer, he told him to "follow me"
Matthew
Claire
|
$800
[26]
This "colorful" trio had a simple request: "Wake me up when September ends"
Green Day
Claire
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$800
[20]
The name of this game in which you stack hardwood blocks into a tower comes from a Swahili word for "to build"
Jenga
Joe
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
In 1938 chemist Roy Plunkett invented polytetrafluorethylene, a nonstick substance better known as this
Teflon
Joe
|
$800
[28]
If you don't like fuzzy food, eat this fruit that often originates from peach seeds
a nectarine
Scottie
|
$800
[9]
Skiing slope for beginners
the bunny slope
Claire
|
|
$1,000
[8]
In Judges he said, "With the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men"
Samson
Joe
|
$1,000
[27]
One letter, one number, one boy band; this group asked the musical question, "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf"
B5
Scottie
|
$1,000
[21]
Find out which of Mr. Boddy's guests murdered him in his own mansion & with what weapon in this classic mystery game
Clue
Joe
|
— |
$1,000
[29]
Among legumes, a good source of protein, are peas & this type of seed such as the pinto, white or black variety
beans
Joe
|
$1,000
[10]
Sack material similar to burlap
gunny
Scottie
Claire
|
| ASIAN BODIES OF WATER | CELEBS | AMERICAN HISTORY | STATUES | COUNTRIES BY NEWSPAPER | WORD UP! |
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$400
[21]
Although called a sea, it's actually a large salty lake between Israel & Jordan
the Dead Sea
Joe
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$400
[11]
This "Spider-Man" star's real first name is Tobias
Tobey Maguire
Claire
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$400
[1]
This famous transaction in 1803 doubled the territory of the U.S.
the Louisiana Purchase
Scottie
|
$400
[16]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the State Capitol at Lincoln, NE.) The Nebraska state capitol's statue,"The Sower", is tossing these to the Great Plains, 400 feet below
seeds (of prosperity)
Claire
|
$400
[26]
The Sydney Morning Herald, the Queensland Independent
Australia
Joe
|
$400
[6]
Change your attitude, or rather one letter in attitude, to get this word meaning "height"
altitude
Joe
|
|
$800
[22]
This holy river of India was named for the daughter of the Mountain God Himalaya
the Ganges
Joe
|
$800
[12]
He may have stepped down in 2006 as captain of England's national team, but nobody bends it like this soccer great
David Beckham
Scottie
|
DD
$800
[2]
In the 1760s these 2 surveyors used milestones to mark the boundary line between Maryland & Pennsylvania
Mason & Dixon
Scottie
|
$800
[17]
Blue Earth, Minnesota has a definitely "giant" 55-foot statue of this pea-pusher from commercials
the Green Giant
Joe
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$800
[27]
The Shizuoka Shimbun, the Nikkan Ube Jiho
Japan
Claire
|
$800
[7]
It's what we call a word that has the same meaning as another word
a synonym
Joe
Scottie
|
|
$1,200
[23]
The Sea of Japan splashes against this peninsula that's politically divided into North & South
Korea
Scottie
|
$1,200
[13]
She must have been in "7th Heaven" when her "Autobiography" & "I Am Me" CDs both reached No. 1
Ashlee Simpson
Claire
|
$1,200
[3]
The Watergate scandal led to the resignation of this U.S. president in 1974
Nixon
Joe
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$1,200
[18]
Sam Houstonstands 67 feet tall along Interstate 45 in this state
Texas
Joe
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$1,200
[28]
Avanti, Il Messaggero
Italy
|
DD
$800
[9]
This word can mean a hole or any hollow place, but especially in a tooth--ouch!
a cavity
Scottie
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Leading ports on this gulf include Abadan in Iran & Al Basrah in Iraq
the Persian Gulf
Scottie
|
$1,600
[14]
This star of "The Princess Diaries" & "The Devil Wears Prada" has the same name as Shakespeare's wife
Anne Hathaway
Claire
|
$1,600
[4]
This 14-letter term refers to the period of readjustment & rebuilding after the Civil War
Reconstruction
|
$1,600
[19]
The 7 rays of this mighty lady's crown represent the 7 seas & continents of the world
Lady Liberty
Claire
|
— |
$1,200
[8]
It's one of the bones of the forearm, or a line from the center of a circle to the circumference
the radius
Scottie
|
|
$2,000
[25]
One of the world's longest rivers, it forms the border between China's Sichuan Province & Tibet
the Yangtze River
Claire
|
$2,000
[15]
Yep! He made his "Soul Patrol" fans very proud when he became 2006's "American Idol"
Taylor Hicks
Claire
|
$2,000
[5]
Tragically, in the 1830s, some 4,000 members of this Indian tribe died during a forced march known as the Trail of Tears
the Cherokee
Joe
|
$2,000
[20]
The statue of this man, seenherecoming down, had gone up just a year earlier to mark his 65th birthday
Saddam Hussein
Joe
|
— |
$2,000
[10]
It means to take someone else's ideas or writings & pass them off as your own
plagiarism
Claire
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The quote "With malice toward none" is on the wall of his Washington, D.C. memorial
Abraham Lincoln