Mehrun Etebari game 5.
Dianne Lindsay — a publisher's representative from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Phil Cunneff — a musician and teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
Mehrun Etebari — a grad student from Durham, New Hampshire (whose 4-day cash winnings total $99,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehrun | $7,800 | $12,400 | $27,800 |
$29,000
5-day champion: $128,100 |
$26,200
33 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Phil | $200 | $1,400 | $600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$600
5 R, 1 W |
| Dianne | $1,800 | $6,200 | $12,600 |
$22,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,600
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| AMERICAN AUTHORS | BEGINNING & END | STATE SUPERLATIVES | 3 LITTLE LETTERS | CALL OUT THE VOICE SQUAD | YOU'RE UNDER A "REST" |
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$200
[6]
While he was in Spain in 1959, he wrote "The Dangerous Summer", a story about rival bullfighters
Hemingway
Mehrun
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$200
[13]
Like a door, a Broadway show does these 2 things
open & close
Mehrun
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$200
[1]
A valley at 282 feet below sea level in this state is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere
California
Mehrun
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$200
[8]
Like banks, many grocery stores now have these for dispensing cash & taking deposits
ATMs
Phil
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$200
[26]
He was the voice of Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie"
Walt Disney
Dianne
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$200
[21]
Eastern European capital city of more than 2.2 million
Bucharest
Mehrun
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$400
[7]
In 1884 she moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska & later fictionalized it as the town of Hanover in "O Pioneers!"
Willa Cather
Mehrun
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$600
[15]
"From" this to this is an idiom meaning from the start of a meal (or something else) to the end
from soup to nuts
Dianne
|
$400
[2]
With 6,640 miles of coast, this state has the longest shoreline
Alaska
Mehrun
|
$400
[9]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Catalina Island Conservancy.) Rampant use of this 3-letter insecticide lead to a hefty settlement for restorating the population of Catalina'sbald eagles
DDT
Mehrun
|
$400
[27]
(Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) Among my many "Simpsons" voices are the subservient Smithers & this man who lives next door to Homer--Howdy, neighbor
Ned Flanders
Mehrun
|
$400
[22]
Any mountain's summit
crest
Phil
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|
$600
[16]
(Alex reports from the Mark Twain House.) Mark Twain said that this anti-slaverynovelist, his next-door neighbor, liked to sneak up behind people and "fetch a war-whoop that would jump that person out of his clothes"
(Harriet Beecher) Stowe
Mehrun
|
$800
[17]
These titles of the2 paintingsseen hererepresent the beginning & end of Jesus' life
"The Nativity" & "The Crucifixion"
Phil
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$600
[3]
It pumps more than one million barrels of oil a day, more than any other state
Texas
Mehrun
Dianne
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$600
[10]
"Day to Day" & "All Things Considered" are among the programs going out to its 26 million listeners
NPR
Mehrun
|
$600
[28]
The voice of Daffy Duck (for the first 50 years)
Mel Blanc
Mehrun
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$600
[23]
A braced framework for carrying a railroad over a chasm
a trestle
Dianne
|
|
$800
[18]
Under the name Laura Bancroft, he wrote about Twinkle & Chubbins in Nature Fairyland after taking us to Oz
L. Frank Baum
Dianne
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$1,000
[20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates the monitor.) A porkchop plot, named for its shape, is used for planning space missions; the vertical & horizontalaxesplot possible dates for these 2 flight events
takeoff & landing (or launch & arrival)
Dianne
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$800
[4]
Considered the healthiest state in 2006, it's also home to the Mayo Clinic
Minnesota
Dianne
|
$800
[11]
Its headquarters compound in Langley, Virginia is named for Former President George Bush
the CIA
Mehrun
|
$800
[29]
He voiced Puss In Boots in "Shrek 2"
Antonio Banderas
Mehrun
|
$800
[24]
Quickly! (to an Italian)
Presto
Dianne
|
|
$1,000
[19]
William Rose Benet won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God", & this brother won for "John Brown's Body"
Stephen Vincent Benet
Mehrun
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
In 2006 it began on July 1 in Strasbourg & ended on July 23 in Paris
the Tour de France
Mehrun
|
$1,000
[5]
Its Boeing manufacturing plant in Everett is the world's largest building by volume
Washington
Dianne
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$1,000
[12]
A TV cable network, or an explosive for bombs
TNT
Mehrun
|
$1,000
[30]
He provided the voices of both Beavis & Butthead
Mike Judge
Mehrun
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$1,000
[25]
The son of Agamemnon, he avenged his father's death by killing his mother Clytemnestra
Orestes
Dianne
|
| EARLY AMERICA | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS | DOWN MEXICO WAY | TAKE A PILL | TRANSPORTATION | AN E FOR AN I |
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$400
[10]
In 1718 this Texas town was founded by Martin de Alarcon & Father Olivares & named for St. Anthony of Padua
San Antonio
Mehrun
|
$400
[2]
1980: "Regular Folks"
Ordinary People
Phil
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$400
[17]
In 1986 Mexico scored as the first country to host this international sports competition twice
the World Cup
Mehrun
|
$400
[16]
Going on a cruise? You might pick up this Pfizer product, the "original" or "less drowsy" formula
Dramamine
Mehrun
|
$400
[26]
The bestselling passenger car of all time is this company's Corolla
Toyota
Mehrun
|
$400
[1]
A Hawaiian wreath becomes an area sheltered from wind
a lei & a lee
Dianne
|
|
$800
[11]
In defending British soldiers on trial for this 1770 event, John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things"
the Boston Massacre
Mehrun
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$800
[3]
1932: "Magnificent Inn"
Grand Hotel
Dianne
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$800
[18]
This resort city about 200 miles southwest of Mexico City is famous for its cliff divers
Acapulco
Mehrun
|
$800
[22]
Antabuse is designed to make you feel really, really bad after ingesting this
alcohol
Phil
|
$800
[29]
The transport for a 19th century double date might have been a barouche, one of these
a carriage
Mehrun
|
$800
[7]
A "landing" area is transformed into a serious throat infection
strep & strip
Dianne
|
|
$1,200
[12]
In 1685 he joined his father in pastorship of the Old North Church, a post he held until his death
Cotton Mather
Mehrun
|
$1,200
[4]
1976: "A Single Colorado Mountain"
Rocky
|
$1,200
[19]
Founded in the 1530s, this capital of Jalisco state is the second-largest in Mexico
Guadalajara
Mehrun
|
$1,200
[23]
Estramustine is a chemotherapy agent for this glandular cancer in men
prostate cancer
Mehrun
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
Since 1899 these stalwart animals used in transport have served as the mascots of the Army Corps of Cadets
mules
Mehrun
|
$1,600
[9]
One means "severely tested"; the other, "trapped on a branch"
tried & treed
|
|
$1,600
[13]
In 1562, in what is now S.C., these French Protestants established a colony named Port Royal
the Huguenots
Dianne
|
$1,600
[5]
1954: "Dockside"
On the Waterfront
Mehrun
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$1,600
[20]
This gritty 1961 Tennessee Williams play unfolds in a seedy Mexican hotel
Night of the Iguana
Dianne
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$1,600
[24]
Pravastatin aims to block your body's ability to make this
cholesterol
Mehrun
|
$1,200
[27]
Cabbies in this Eur. city spend 2 years gaining "the knowledge", mental maps needed to get a license
London
Dianne
|
$2,000
[15]
"To replenish" becomes "to knock down"
to fill & to fell
|
|
$2,000
[14]
In "Of Plymouth Plantation", he wrote that there was so much disease "the living were scarce able to bury the dead"
William Bradford
|
$2,000
[6]
1966: "One Bloke Year-Round"
A Man For All Seasons
Phil
Dianne
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$2,000
[21]
This popular resort island lies north of Cozumel off the coast of the state of Quintana Roo
Cancun
Mehrun
|
$2,000
[25]
This tranquilizer that sounds like a village was introduced in 1955 & became the USA's bestselling drug
Miltown
Dianne
|
$1,600
[28]
In "Sixteen Candles", Molly Ringwald says, "I loathe" this method of transport
the bus
Mehrun
|
DD
$4,000
[8]
"Gentle" becomes "to blend"
mild & meld
Dianne
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Richard Attenborough, who was in the original 1952 cast of this play, helped celebrate its performance No. 20,000 in 2000
The Mousetrap