Babu Srinivasan game 2.
Kevin Comer — a history student from St. Petersburg, Florida
Matt Fairley — a media analyst from Arlington, Virginia
Babu Srinivasan — a graduate student and history teacher from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babu | $2,000 | $2,200 | $15,400 |
$17,700
2-day champion: $29,000 |
$9,600
19 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Matt | $600 | $2,100 | $6,500 |
$500
3rd place: Discovery Channel Store gift certificate |
$6,500
21 R, 3 W |
| Kevin | $1,200 | $2,100 | $5,500 |
$10,500
2nd place: a trip to Rome, courtesy of Priceline.com |
$5,500
16 R, 1 W |
| THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMELINE | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | HOW HEAVENLY! | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL | BOOKS & AUTHORS | SUPER TOUGH ANAGRAMS |
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$100
[1]
The Times put the entire text of this November 20, 1863 speech on its front page
the Gettysburg Address
Babu
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$100
[17]
Bradley, Sharif, Khayyam
Omar
Kevin
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$100
[15]
Unlike the corned beef & red flannel varieties, the "Heavenly" type of this food is a candy
Hash
Kevin
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$100
[6]
In 1987 this A's first baseman was named the AL's Rookie of the Year; since then he's hit over 500 home runs
Mark McGwire
Kevin
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$100
[11]
An 1853 fire at his publisher's warehouse burned the remaining stock of his books, including "Moby Dick"
Herman Melville
Matt
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$100
[26]
On the "Oklahoma!" soundtrack, you'll hear "I'm Jist A Girl Who Cain't Say" this
No (on)
Matt
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$200
[2]
First word in the Times scoop headline on April 16, 1912; the second word was "sinks"
Titanic
Babu
|
$200
[18]
Allen, Hayes, Harrelson
Woody
Matt
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$200
[22]
Wallace Langham appeared in this 1996 film that featured John Travolta's most "angelic" performance
Michael
Matt
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$200
[7]
In April 1993 Joe DiMaggio threw out the first pitch in this Miami team's first regular season game ever
the Florida Marlins
Kevin
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$200
[12]
Joel Chandler Harris' book of this character's songs & sayings was subtitled "Legends of the Old Plantation"
Uncle Remus
Matt
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$200
[27]
For Al Hirt it's a note to follow so
la (Al)
Babu
Matt
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$300
[3]
In 1993 The New York Times Company bought this city's Globe for deep pocket change, $1.1 billion
Boston
Babu
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$300
[19]
Moore,McCullough, Dewhurst
Colleen
Matt
Kevin
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$300
[23]
This Scottish-born singer's "Angel Touch" dolls aren't "For Your Eyes Only"; anyone can buy them from QVC
Sheena Easton
Matt
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$300
[8]
Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux won the NL's Cy Young Award in 1992; he won it the next 3 years with this new team
the Atlanta Braves
Matt
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$300
[13]
This Mississippian's first novel, "Soldier's Pay", was recommended to a publisher by Sherwood Anderson
William Faulkner
Kevin
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$300
[28]
An ad for a Russian perfume might read, "Her lips said nyet, but her perfume said" this
da (ad)
Matt
|
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$500
[5]
In 1851 2 staffers from this New York paper, later merged with the Herald, founded the Times
the New-York Tribune
Matt
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$400
[20]
Burton, Robbins,McGraw
Tim
Babu
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$400
[24]
After classes of these were categorized numerically, number "nine" became a synonym for euphoria
clouds
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$400
[9]
At the beginning of 2000, Rickey Henderson had 1,334 career stolen bases, 396 more than this former Cardinal
Lou Brock
Babu
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$400
[14]
He wrote the screenplay to the 1983 Disney film "Something Wicked This Way Comes", which was based on his 1962 novel
Ray Bradbury
Babu
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$400
[29]
For me this measure for 12-point type is just fine
em (me)
|
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DD
$600
[4]
The Times won a Pulitzer for its publication of these purloined documents in 1972
the Pentagon Papers
Babu
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$500
[21]
Smith, Rogers, Durant
Will
Kevin
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$500
[25]
Shelley Fabares had a No. 1 hit with this song in 1962, long before she co-starred on "Coach"
"Johnny Angel"
Matt
|
$500
[10]
In 1984 he was president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee & became baseball's 6th commissioner
Peter Ueberroth
Matt
Kevin
|
$500
[16]
E.M. Forster's experience as a secretary to an Indian prince was put to good use in this 1924 novel
A Passage to India
Babu
|
$500
[30]
It is a tropical shrub
ti (it)
Babu
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| PRESIDENTIAL MOMS | CLASSICAL MUSIC GOES TO THE MOVIES | I SEE TENNESSEE | POPULAR SCIENCE TOP STORIES OF 2000 | MMM...PIE | 15-LETTER WORDS |
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$200
[5]
"Miss Lillian" Gordy
Jimmy Carter
Babu
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$200
[13]
Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" was most memorably used in this 1968 film
2001: A Space Odyssey
Kevin
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$200
[18]
The willingness of Tennessee's citizens to serve in the military earned the state this nickname
"The Volunteer State"
Kevin
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$200
[1]
This planet, once wrongly thought to have canals, may have water at its surface after all
Mars
Matt
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$200
[11]
It's the 3-word French term that describes pie that's served with ice cream
a la mode
Matt
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$200
[26]
Myopia
nearsightedness
Babu
|
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$400
[6]
Sara Delano
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Matt
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$400
[14]
The piece heard here was frighteningly effective in this 1979 Robert Duvall film
Apocalypse Now ("Ride of the Valkyries")
Matt
|
$400
[20]
In 1999 Chattanooga celebrated 100 years of putting this beverage into bottles
Coca-Cola
Kevin
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$400
[2]
The U.S. & Florida governments agreed on a $7.8 billion plan to restore water flow to this area
the Everglades
Matt
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$400
[12]
Use the eating variety of this gourd for pies; the jack o' lantern type produces poor pies
Pumpkin
Kevin
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$400
[27]
This formal ecclesiastical censure deprives a person of membership in a church
excommunication
Kevin
|
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$600
[7]
Jessie Woodrow
Woodrow Wilson
Babu
|
$600
[19]
"Rhapsody In Blue" was put to good use in this "geographic" Woody Allen comedy
Manhattan
Babu
|
$800
[24]
The structure seen here was built for the World's Fair held in this city
Knoxville
Matt
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$600
[3]
Oceanic bacteria may convert sunlight to energy with this process, like plants
photosynthesis
Matt
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$600
[15]
Finely crush these whole-wheat honey-sweetened crackers, mix with butter & sugar, & you've got a delicious pie crust
Graham crackers
Matt
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$600
[28]
A magician who shows his manual dexterity by performing legerdemain or slight of hand
prestidigitator
Matt
|
|
$800
[8]
Dorothy Walker
George (Herbert Walker) Bush
Babu
|
$800
[21]
The Samuel Barber piece heard here was evocatively used in this Oliver Stone Oscar winner
Platoon
Kevin
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$1,000
[25]
In 1925 he told a Tennessee court, "I feel that I have been convicted of violating an unjust statute"
John Scopes
Matt
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$800
[4]
A 170-room palace found in the rain forest of this country is a trove of Mayan archaeology
Guatemala
Babu
|
$800
[16]
Fabric names for pie fillings include French silk & this light & fluffy type, often lemon
chiffon
Babu
Kevin
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$800
[29]
One who travels completely around the world
circumnavigator
Matt
Kevin
|
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$1,000
[9]
Phoebe Millard
Millard Fillmore
Babu
|
$1,000
[22]
The Bach work heardherewas featured in this 1975 sci fi classic that starred James Caan
Rollerball ("Toccata & Fugue")
Babu
|
DD
$2,600
[23]
Though born in Washington, D.C. on March 31, 1948, his birth was front page news in the Nashville Tennessean
Al Gore, Jr.
Babu
|
DD
$4,600
[10]
The fossil of Eosimias suggests a transitional figure between lower & higher members of this order of mammals
primates
Babu
|
$1,000
[17]
"Colorful" term for a pie made with a layer of dark chocolate custard topped with rum custard & whipped cream
black bottom pie
|
$1,000
[30]
From German myth, it means "Twilight of the gods"
Gotterdammerung
Kevin
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The world's highest airport is found in this Asian political region of 472,000 square miles
Tibet