2006 CelebrityJeopardy!game 9.From Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Scott Turow — a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
Paul Shaffer — a composer and musical director fromThe Late Show with David Letterman
Susan Lucci — an actress fromAll My Children
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan | $400 | $400 | $400 |
$600
3rd place: $25,000 to Little Flower Children & Family Services of New York |
$400
4 R, 2 W |
| Paul | $800 | $-600 | $800 |
$1,600
2nd place: $25,000 to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation |
$1,400
10 R, 8 W (including 1 DD) |
| Scott | $3,600 | $5,800 | $13,600 |
$14,400
Winner: $50,000 to Literacy Chicago & the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago |
$13,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| LITERATURE | NUMB WITH NUMBERS | PUPPETS ON PARADE | I'M READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP | ALL MY CHILDREN |
|
$200
[6]
Of Pastism, Presentism or Futurism, the literary movement that began around 1909
Futurism
Paul
Scott
|
$200
[7]
Total number of signs in the zodiac
12
Paul
|
$200
[16]
The Timon puppet in "The Lion King" was inspired by Bunraku, the traditional puppet theatre of this country
Japan
Paul
|
$200
[17]
Bully for you if you can name the Mount Rushmore prez seen here
Theodore Roosevelt
Scott
|
$200
[1]
Tabitha was Samantha & Darrin's daughter on this 1960s TV show
Bewitched
Paul
|
|
$400
[12]
(Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to a statue in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark.) This author once said that "The Little Mermaid" was the only one of his stories he felt moved by when he wrote it
Hans Christian Andersen
Scott
|
$400
[8]
Number of pounds in 10 tons, or of "Leagues Under the Sea"
20,000
Susan
|
— |
$400
[18]
Of the two mammals with "panda" in their names, it's the bear-like one seen here--though you're only seeing a small part of it
giant panda
Paul
Scott
|
$400
[2]
Nelson & Winthrop, 2 grandsons of this very rich guy, went on to be governors
(John D.) Rockefeller
Scott
|
|
$600
[13]
"The Miller's Tale" is one of the naughtiest of these famous Chaucer stories
The Canterbury Tales
Scott
|
$600
[9]
The hexagonal cells in a honeycomb each have this many sides
6
Susan
Paul
Scott
|
— |
$600
[19]
Take a shot & guessthisD.C. power broker's identity
Vice President Richard Cheney
Scott
|
$600
[3]
Isabella Rossellini is the daughter of a famous Italian director & this Oscar-winning actress
Ingrid Bergman
Susan
|
|
$800
[14]
The prep school classic "A Separate Peace" takes place during this war
the Second World War
Paul
Scott
|
$800
[10]
In Germany, "acht" is this number
8
Scott
|
— | — |
$800
[4]
On Sept. 4, 1957 this auto co. introduced the Edsel, a model named for the son of the company's founder
Ford
Paul
|
|
$1,000
[15]
This scary Edgar Allan Poe story takes place at a spooky masked ball given by a prince
"The Masque of the Red Death"
|
$1,000
[11]
Number of senators in the 82nd Congress, first in session in 1951
96
Scott
|
— | — |
$1,000
[5]
This playwright's daughter Oona married Charlie Chaplin when he was 54 & she was only 18!
Eugene O'Neill
Scott
|
| THE TOP TEN OF EVERYTHING | LET'S PLAY POKER | MUSIC | THE 1980s | ONE "L" |
|
$400
[17]
The top ten most populous cities in the U.S. include Dallas, San Antonio & this other Texas city
Houston
Paul
|
$400
[11]
In this type of poker, the bidding is done with articles of clothing
strip poker
Scott
|
$400
[1]
The "Bodyguard" soundtrack spawned her hit "I Will Always Love You"
Whitney Houston
Scott
|
$400
[3]
18-month-old Jessica McClure captured the nation's attention in 1987 after she fell into one of these
a well
Paul
Scott
|
$400
[14]
A rhyme says, "make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other" this metal
gold
Scott
|
|
$800
[19]
Worldwide, the top ten highest grossing movies of all time include 3 films about this boy wizard
Harry Potter
Paul
|
$800
[12]
The main event of the World Series of Poker is the game called "Texas" this
Texas Hold 'Em
Susan
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
(Before the clue is given, Mary Faber and her friend Kate Monster perform "There's A Fine, Fine Line" from the Tony-award winning smash hit Avenue Q.)"There's a fine, fine line between a lover and a friend /There's a fine, fine line between reality and pretend /And you never know 'til you reach the top if it was worth the uphill climb /There's a fine, fine line between love /And a waste of time"In one scene in "Avenue Q", Kate Monster sings atop this skyscraper on 5th Ave. at 34th St.
the Empire State Building
Scott
|
$800
[5]
In 1989 she got jail time & some unwanted publicity after allegedly slapping a Beverly Hills cop
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Paul
|
DD
$600
[18]
"It is easier for" this animal "to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God"
a camel
Paul
|
| — |
$1,200
[13]
In June of 2004 this star of "Hollywoodland" won the California State Poker Tourney & pocketed $356,000
Ben Affleck
Paul
Scott
|
$1,200
[4]
In 2002 he had a top 20 hit with "Your Body is a Wonderland"
John Mayer
Susan
|
$1,200
[8]
In 1981 she was taken to court--the Supreme Court--as its first woman justice
Sandra Day O'Connor
Scott
|
$800
[15]
When not lowercase, letters are this
capital
Paul
Scott
|
| — | — |
$1,600
[6]
In 1983 this singer hit No. 12 with the song "1999"
Prince
Paul
|
$1,600
[9]
Breaking up is hard to do, but on January 1, 1984 this telecommunications giant was forced to
AT&T
Scott
|
$1,200
[16]
A worthy, honest person is called this "of the earth"
salt
Scott
|
| — | — |
$2,000
[7]
"Let's Groove" with this R&B group that had a hit with "Shining Star"
Earth, Wind & Fire
Paul
|
$2,000
[10]
In 1988 Brisbane, Australia hosted a World Expo & this Canadian city hosted the Winter Olympics
Calgary
Susan
Paul
|
— |
Originally known as the Missouri Rockets, they performed at the opening of an East Coast theatre in 1931
the Rockettes