Dan Pawson game 8.
Allen Riedel — a teacher from Riverside, California
Nicole Steeves — a tutor and tour guide from Chicago, Illinois
Dan Pawson — a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 7-day cash winnings total $126,301)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $3,800 | $8,100 | $22,500 |
$25,000
8-day champion: $151,301 |
$12,400
25 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W |
| Nicole | $1,200 | $4,000 | $9,200 |
$9,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
12 R, 3 W |
| Allen | $1,400 | $200 | $3,000 |
$5,900
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,000
9 R, 5 W |
| IT HAPPENED IN '08 | LEONARD MALTIN ON DISNEY | SODA POP QUIZ | GAME RHYME TIME | TO EVERYTHING THIS IS A SEASON | TERN! TERN! TERN! |
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$200
[1]
1808:Napoleon's brother Joseph is made king of this neighbor of France
Spain
Dan
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$200
[5]
(Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) 1935's "The Band Concert", my favorite animated short, featured the color debut of this ultimate Disney icon, who played the maestro
Mickey Mouse
Nicole
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$200
[23]
Introduced in 2001, Pibb Xtra is a bolder version of this similarly named beverage
Mr. Pibb
Dan
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$200
[11]
Chess castle's crannies
rook's nooks
Dan
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$200
[18]
Munich's 16-day (or so) annual beer festival staggers to an end in this season
fall
Dan
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DD
$100
[29]
Terns eat insects, small fish & this type of arthropod whose name comes from the Latin for "hard-shelled ones"
crustaceans
Dan
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$400
[2]
1708:Later a state capital, this city is incorporated & renamed for Princess Anne of England
Annapolis
Nicole
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$400
[6]
(Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) The craze inspired by this TV hero in the '50s took Walt by surprise; he'd killed him off at the Alamo in episode 3, so he had to film prequels in order to bring him back
Davy Crockett
Nicole
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$400
[24]
Quite simply, Bubble Up is "a kiss of lemon, kiss of" this
lime
Dan
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$400
[12]
An ugly old witch who always wants to be "it"
hag tag
Dan
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$400
[19]
The annual Earth Day celebration takes place during this season
spring
Dan
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$200
[14]
Like a loon's, a tern's feet have this feature, yet terns are not notable swimmers
webbing
Dan
|
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$600
[3]
1908:She founds the Christian Science Monitor
Mary Baker Eddy
Dan
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$600
[7]
(Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) The crown jewel of Walt's career was this, my favorite Disney film of all time--& it gave the world a new movie star, Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins
Dan
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$600
[25]
Aargh! Black lemonade must be perfect for pirates; this Jolly Roger symbol adorns its label
the skull & crossbones
Dan
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$600
[13]
A mumblety-peg tool for a spouse
a wife knife (a knife wife accepted)
Allen
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$600
[20]
Pamplona's running of the bulls zips by during this season
summer
Dan
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$400
[17]
The sooty tern is about 16 inches long with a white forehead & is otherwise this color above & white below
black
Dan
Allen
|
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$800
[4]
1608:Dutchman Hans Lippershey files for a patent for this new scientific instrument
the telescope
Allen
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$800
[8]
(Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) A chance meeting with Leopold Stokowski led Walt to hire him for a "Sorcerer's Apprentice" short; Stokowski prodded him into making a longer film, this 1940 epic
Fantasia
Dan
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$800
[26]
The drink known as "Code" this is "everything you love about Mountain Dew with a smooth cherry flavor"
Red
Allen
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$800
[15]
A push from a pugilist's padded paw
a glove shove
Dan
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$800
[21]
We don't think Mike Tyson celebrates Boxing Day, which falls in this season, but he's surprised us before
winter
Nicole
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$600
[28]
Thisgeographic tern's 20,000-mile trip gives it the longest migration of any bird
the Arctic tern
Dan
Allen
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|
$1,000
[9]
508:Clovis I establishes this city as the capital of the Merovingian kingdom
Paris
Nicole
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$1,000
[10]
(Leonard Maltin wraps it up.) My favorite animated Disney film is this 1941 classic in which a lovable misfit becomes a high-flying circus star
Dumbo
Dan
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$1,000
[27]
Made originally from the roots of Smilax plants & similar to root beer, this sassy Old West treat is still served today
sarsaparilla
Dan
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$1,000
[16]
NHL projectile in a violent frenzy
a puck amok
Nicole
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$1,000
[22]
Louisiana celebrates Battle of New Orleans day during this season, y'all
winter
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$1,000
[30]
Named for the "sea" between SE Europe & Asia, this 21-inch-long bird is one of the largest kinds of tern
the Caspian tern (the Caspian Sea accepted)
Nicole
Allen
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| THE BARD WRITES | TV SHOWS BY CAST | ATTRACTION | "K" ON THE MAP | LOTS OF STUFF | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES |
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$400
[3]
When this prince dies, Horatio prays that "flights of angels sing thee to thy rest"
Hamlet
Nicole
Allen
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$400
[11]
Vanessa Williams, Tony Plana, Rebecca Romijn
Ugly Betty
Dan
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$400
[16]
Female deep-sea anglerfish use this, produced by bacteria, to attract prey
light (luminescence)
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$400
[1]
In 1990 Iraq invaded & tried to absorb this much smaller country it called its "19th province"
Kuwait
Allen
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$400
[18]
On old TV, "A fiery horse" & "a cloud of dust" let you know this guy was either coming or going
the Lone Ranger
|
$400
[23]
Breakfast dish that can also mean "to flatten"
pancake
Nicole
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|
$800
[4]
In "The Merchant of Venice", he says, "Since I am a dog beware my fangs"
Shylock
Dan
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$800
[12]
Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Annette O'Toole
Smallville
Nicole
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$800
[17]
Using adsorption (yes, with a "d"), activated charcoal in these military items attracts harmful chemical vapors
gas masks
Allen
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$800
[2]
It's the nearest capital city to the peak of Mount Everest
Kathmandu
Dan
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$800
[19]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew runs a wet finger around the rims of two crystal glasses with different amounts of water in them.) The more water in the glass, the slower these are, & the deeper the tone
vibrations
Allen
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$800
[24]
In 1966 the U.S. government banned M-80s & these round, red firecrackers
cherry bombs
Allen
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$1,200
[5]
A nurse tells Juliet, "His name is Romeo, and a" member of this family, "the only son of your great enemy"
Montague
Nicole
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$1,200
[13]
Cobie Smulders, Josh Radnor, Bob Saget (well, his voice, anyway)
How I Met Your Mother
Nicole
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$1,200
[28]
In a covalent bond, 2 atoms each contribute one of these to a pair, which is then attracted to the atoms' nuclei
an electron
Allen
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$1,600
[9]
This capital city lies on the shores of Lake Victoria
Kampala
Dan
Nicole
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$1,200
[20]
On a building site, you're a brick layer, but a pipe one of these
a fitter
Allen
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$1,200
[25]
The Boeing P-26 fighter of the 1930s & '40s was nicknamed this, like a classroom weapon
a peashooter
Dan
Allen
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|
$1,600
[6]
This play ends with, "goodnight unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dan
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$1,600
[14]
James Woods, Sarah Carter, Jeri Ryan
Shark
Dan
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$1,600
[29]
Bombykol, one of these attractant chemicals, is sort of the Calvin Klein obsession of the female silk moth
a pheromone
Nicole
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$2,000
[10]
This second-most populous Afghan city is said to have been founded by Alexander the Great
Kandahar
Dan
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$1,600
[21]
A cold-causing agent, its name combines the Greek & Latin words for "nose poison"
a rhinovirus
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$1,600
[26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew ties one on.) It's the 2-word spicy name for this type of knot that lets you join a rope to something else, like a rail or a post
a clove hitch
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DD
$7,000
[7]
When Mistress Page receives a love letter from Falstaff in this play, she asks, "How shall I be revenged on him?"
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Dan
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$2,000
[15]
Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Sean Leonard
House
Nicole
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$2,000
[30]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew is a bit too on-the-nose.) Gravity, the shape of a spoon, & this molecular force of attraction between separate bodies, from the Latin for "to stick", help me do an amazing trick
adhesion
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DD
$7,000
[8]
It became a Caribbean capital in 1872
Kingston (Jamaica)
Dan
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$2,000
[22]
Jesus was a teenager when this Roman was banished for a poem on the art of making love
Ovid
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$2,000
[27]
Reference to this container suggests the homespun style & philosophy of rural folk
cracker barrel
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This state has the largest sand dunes complex in the U.S., just north of a river named for its flatness
Nebraska