Eddie Timanus game 1.
Becky Benjamin — a law student from Miami, Florida
Eddie Timanus — a sportswriter from Reston, Virginia
Keith Lorasch — a music educator from Eau Claire, Wisconsin (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,002)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keith | $1,500 | $3,000 | $7,000 |
$10,000
2nd place: a Las Vegas trip |
$5,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Eddie | $1,400 | $4,000 | $7,400 |
$14,400
New champion: $14,400 |
$6,500
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Becky | $500 | $1,400 | $2,600 |
$5,000
3rd place: 1-800-GIFT-CERTIFICATE gift certificate |
$3,600
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| CLASSICAL COMPOSERS | BASEBALL NICKNAMES | HEALTH & MEDICINE | BRIAN THE BABY BOOMER | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES | HOWDY, "BUSTER" |
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$100
[1]
Baptized Joannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, he commonly called himself Wolfgang Amade
Mozart
Becky
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$100
[2]
"Charlie Hustle"
Pete Rose
Eddie
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$100
[11]
Now hear this! One of the most common causes of hearing loss is a buildup of this substance
earwax
Keith
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$100
[20]
Brian learned to read with the repetitive activities of this boy & girl developed by William Gray
Dick & Jane
Keith
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$100
[14]
1976:"Yo, Adrian"
Rocky
Eddie
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$100
[13]
This video chain began in Dallas in 1985; it now has more than 4,000 U.S. stores & 2,000 overseas
Blockbuster
Becky
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$200
[6]
He dedicated his "Moonlight Sonata" to the countess Giulietta Guicciardi
Beethoven
Keith
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$200
[3]
"The Strawman"
Darryl Strawberry
Eddie
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$200
[12]
Of forceps, biceps, or triceps, the one that's a surgical instrument
forceps
Eddie
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$200
[25]
Teenage Brian strummed this song, asking "How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?"
"Blowin' In The Wind"
Eddie
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$300
[17]
1980:"Heeeeere's Johnny!"
The Shining
Becky
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$200
[15]
Who ya gonna call? Well, in this 1984 film it was Bill Murray & his cohorts
Ghostbusters
Eddie
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$300
[7]
His "1812 Overture" premiered in Moscow in 1882--not 1812
Tchaikovsky
Keith
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$300
[4]
"Dr. K"
Dwight Gooden
Eddie
Becky
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$300
[21]
Like lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by one of these arachnids
a tick
Becky
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$300
[26]
Brian chickened out when girlfriend Suzie asked him to join the October 1967 "March On" this building
the Pentagon
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$400
[18]
1964:"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room"
Dr. Strangelove
Keith
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$300
[22]
This commercial spokeskid of the 1950s lived in a shoe with his dog Tige, who lived there too
Buster Brown
Becky
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$400
[8]
This "Aida" composer was a deputy in the first Italian parliament in Turin in 1860
Giuseppe Verdi
Eddie
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$400
[5]
"The Iron Horse"
Lou Gehrig
Keith
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$400
[28]
The AMA now advises women to have this breast cancer screening annually beginning at age 40
a mammogram
Eddie
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$400
[27]
In the '80s, Brian took a job with this defense contractor whose name means "light from the gods"
Raytheon
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$500
[19]
1987:"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"
The Princess Bride
Eddie
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$400
[23]
In 1964 Russell Long & other senators led one that lasted a record 74 days against a civil rights bill
a filibuster
Eddie
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$500
[10]
He composed several works based on poems by Paul Verlaine, including "Ariettes Oubliees" & "Clair De Lune"
Claude Debussy
Keith
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$500
[9]
"The Splendid Splinter"
Ted Williams
Eddie
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$500
[29]
It's estimated that 1 in 12 African-Americans has the trait for this blood disease
sickle cell anemia
Keith
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$500
[30]
In the '90s Brian took up this game, like his boyhood idol Cary Middlecoff
golf
|
DD
$1,100
[16]
1975:"You're gonna need a bigger boat"
Jaws
Eddie
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$500
[24]
This 1895 sculpture was the first of 25 Western art bronzes by Frederic Remington
Bronco Buster
Keith
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| EUROPEAN HISTORY | FORGOTTEN MUSICALS | FICTIONAL HEROES | TOUGH GEOGRAPHY | QUICK BIOS | CROSSWORD CLUES "S" |
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$200
[13]
After a German blitzkrieg, this country's King Leopold III surrendered on May 28, 1940
Belgium
Keith
Eddie
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$200
[11]
He hadn't moved to Mayberry yet when he played the Jimmy Stewart role in the 1959 musical "Destry Rides Again"
Andy Griffith
Becky
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$200
[3]
This Mickey Spillane P.I. made his first appearance in 1947's "I, The Jury"
Mike Hammer
Becky
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$200
[2]
The 200,000-square-mile Libyan Erg is the largest area of sand dunes in this desert
Sahara
Eddie
|
$200
[19]
Born in Porbandar in 1869; fasted, iconoclasted; died in New Delhi, 1948
Mahatma Gandhi
Eddie
|
$200
[1]
Hitchcock was the "Master of" it(8)
Suspense
Eddie
|
|
$400
[18]
Her son Willem-Alexander is the first male heir in the Netherlands' House of Orange since 1890
Queen Beatrix
Eddie
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$400
[14]
Critics didn't "fawn" over the musical based on this Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings novel, so yes, deer, it flopped
The Yearling
Keith
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$400
[27]
At age 18 in 1625 he set out from Gascony to join the king's musketeers
d'Artagnan
Becky
|
$400
[8]
The economic center of this river's basin is the city of Manaus, Brazil
Amazon
Becky
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$400
[20]
Born c. 470 B.C.; taught a bit, tried & died c. 399 B.C.; met Bill & Ted in 1989
Socrates
Eddie
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$400
[4]
The "fishy" part of your shoe(4)
sole
Becky
|
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$600
[23]
This British lord was killed off Ireland in 1979 by IRA terrorists who placed a bomb in his boat
Lord Louis Mountbatten
|
$600
[15]
Exiting after only 19 performances, "Ari" wasn't based on Onassis, but on this Leon Uris novel
Exodus
|
$600
[28]
Collective name of Julie, Pete, & Linc
"The Mod Squad"
Keith
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$800
[10]
The Little Minch, a Scottish strait, separates this group's "Inner" & "Outer" islands
The Hebrides
Keith
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$600
[21]
Born 1557 in Temple Grafton, England; married a Stratford boy, 1582; died 1623
Anne Hathaway
Eddie
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$600
[5]
Male deer who's a "party" animal(4)
stag
Becky
|
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$800
[24]
This ancient Greek war named for a peninsula had 3 parts: Archidamian, Peace of Nicias, & Ionian
Peloponnesian War
Eddie
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$1,000
[17]
Even Lillian Gish as the Dowager Empress couldn't save "Anya", a musical based on this play
Anastasia
|
$800
[29]
He's been portrayed by Ralph Fiennes & Patrick Macnee
John Steed
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
Lake Scutari on the border of Albania & Montenegro is the largest lake on this peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
Becky
|
$800
[22]
Born near Gzhatsk in 1934; promoted to major in 1961 shortly before liftoff, just in case; died 1968
Yuri Gagarin
|
$800
[6]
"Wise" seasoning(4)
sage
Eddie
|
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$1,000
[25]
This grandfather of Charlemagne nailed the Moors at the Battle of Tours in 732, checking their advance
Charles Martel
Eddie
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
"Grovers Corners" musicalized this prize-winning play
"Our Town"
Keith
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$1,000
[12]
Only Russia & this former Soviet republic stretch from China to Europe
Kazakhstan
Eddie
Becky
|
$1,000
[26]
Born in Scotland c. 1645; kicked booty for booty on the high seas; hanged in London in 1701
Captain Kidd
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$1,000
[7]
It precedes beauty, bag or sickness(8)
sleeping
Becky
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Due to police irregularities, this man's Arizona conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966
Ernesto Miranda