Donna Vogel game 1.
Donna Vogel — a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
John Brown — a middle school teacher from Tampa, Florida
Louis Burnoski — a civil engineer from Akron, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louis | $2,600 | $4,400 | $15,000 |
$1,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| John | $1,600 | $1,800 | $4,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,200
10 R, 3 W |
| Donna | $4,400 | $4,800 | $14,400 |
$20,399
New champion: $20,399 |
$19,400
21 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| AMERICAN LIT | ALL NATURAL EATS | GOVERNMENT | THEY SAID IT | CASING YOUR STATE | FROM THE FRENCH |
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$200
[1]
In a poem by Longfellow, Hiawatha's marriage to her is no laughing matter
Minnehaha
John
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$200
[3]
American pioneer John Chapman would press you to eat this fruit & would plant the seeds to make orchards
the apple
Donna
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$200
[9]
It's the term of office of Ohio state representatives--come on, take a guess
2 years
Louis
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$200
[24]
This oft-divorced Hungarian said, "I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house"
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Louis
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$200
[20]
In 1864 its capital moved from Fort Whipple to Prescott, which lost the honor in 1867, then got it back in 1877
Arizona
John
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$200
[16]
This word for a type of business like Quizno's comes from the French for "free"
a franchise
Louis
John
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$400
[2]
In this 1959 William Gibson drama, Helen Keller realizes things have names
The Miracle Worker
Louis
Donna
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$400
[4]
Eat some orange vegetables, like the acorn, butternut & hubbard types of this gourd
a squash
Louis
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$400
[10]
In both NYC & L.A., the mayor is the chief executive & this is the main legislative body
the city council
Donna
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$400
[26]
This country star said she's not offended by dumb blonde jokes: "I know... I'm not dumb... I also know I'm not blonde"
Dolly Parton
John
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$400
[21]
A then 1 1/2-mile horse race was inaugurated in this state in 1875; Aristides won by 2 lengths
Kentucky
John
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$400
[17]
The name of this rodent that hibernates nearly half the year may come from the French for "sleep"
a dormouse
Donna
|
|
$600
[5]
"Living By The Word" is a collection of prose pieces by this author of "The Color Purple"
Alice Walker
John
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$600
[6]
Eat spears of this green vegetable, but not the same-named fern, which is a houseplant
asparagus
Donna
|
$600
[11]
The USA's oldest appellate court in continuous existence is this highest body in Massachusetts
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Louis
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$600
[27]
The witticism A verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's printed on" is attributed to this film pioneer
Samuel Goldwyn
|
$600
[22]
Don't go nuclear on us, but the federal government owns about 85% of this state's land
Nevada
John
Donna
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$600
[18]
This elaborate sumptuous meal takes its name from the French for "little bench"
a banquet
Donna
|
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$800
[12]
Sinclair Lewis' real estate salesman who's "never done a single thing I've wanted to do in my whole life"
(George) Babbitt
Louis
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$800
[7]
They have no flavor or aroma, but cloud ears, a type of this, are used in many Chinese dishes for their texture
a mushroom
Donna
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$800
[14]
Created in 1914, this commission works to maintain competition & protect customers
the F.T.C. (the Federal Trade Commission)
John
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$800
[28]
Trailing in the GOP nomination race in 2008, this Arkansan said, "I didn't major in math--I majored in miracles"
Huckabee
Louis
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
Hop over to Grasshopper Glacier in this state's Custer National Forest; you can still see 'em in the ice
Montana
Donna
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$800
[19]
The name of this type of silk is from the French for "curled"
crêpe
|
|
$1,000
[13]
"Lost Laysen" is a once-lost novella that this "Gone With The Wind" author wrote when she was just 16
Margaret Mitchell
Louis
|
$1,000
[8]
Whether it's the pascal or golden variety of this vegetable, its name comes from the Greek for "parsley"
celery
Donna
|
$1,000
[15]
Some say the Bush administration's domestic spying conflicts with FISA, the Foreign Intelligence this Act
Surveillance
Donna
|
$1,000
[29]
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie" is attributed to this "Round Table" wit
Dorothy Parker
Louis
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$1,000
[25]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands next to a Seeing Eye dog.) While there are other schools, only dogs trained at The Seeing Eye's Morristown location in this East Coast state can rightly be called Seeing Eye dogs
New Jersey
Donna
|
— |
| HBO | "BIG" LOVE | EXTRAS | ROME | OZ | SIX FEET UNDER |
|
$400
[26]
"Big Love", about a polygamist & his 3 wives, is set in this state
Utah
Louis
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$400
[4]
In a classic children's story, he tries to get the 3 little pigs & instead ends up in a pot of boiling water
the Big Bad Wolf
Louis
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$400
[11]
Koalas are fussy eaters & dine almost exclusively on the leaves of this genus of trees in the myrtle family
eucalyptus
John
|
$400
[1]
Roman candidates for public office made these whiter by rubbing them with chalk; black ones were worn at funerals
togas
John
|
$400
[18]
The MGM classic "The Wizard of Oz" premiered in August of this year
1939
Louis
|
$400
[16]
A statue at his memorial reads, "I never met a man I didn't like"
Will Rogers
Louis
|
|
$800
[27]
On "Extras", this British heartthrob sent himself up by acting jealous of one of his "Pirates" co-stars
Orlando Bloom
Louis
|
$800
[7]
Rooseveltian partner of "speak softly"
big stick
Louis
|
$800
[12]
In one production of the ballet "Cinderella", Robert Helpmann & Frederick Ashton danced the parts of these 2 meanies
the ugly stepsisters
Donna
|
$800
[2]
In the mid-1st century, Rome was trading one amphora of this for one slave from Gaul
wine
John
Donna
|
$800
[22]
"The Wizard of Oz" won 2 Oscars, one for Original Score & one for Best Song--this one almost cut from the film
"Over The Rainbow"
Donna
|
$800
[17]
"The best is yet to come" says this swingin' singer's grave in California's Desert Memorial Park
(Frank) Sinatra
Donna
|
|
$1,200
[28]
On the 7th episode of "Rome", this warring general & rival of Julius Caesar is killed after fleeing to Egypt
Pompey
Louis
John
|
$1,200
[8]
Bogey played Philip Marlowe in this 1946 big screener
The Big Sleep
Louis
|
$1,200
[13]
An apple that the USDA grades "extra" this doesn't have a ribbon on it but is mature, clean & well-formed
fancy
Donna
|
$1,200
[3]
The domus was a single-family house, & insulae were a block or blocks of these
apartments
Donna
|
$1,200
[23]
In 2000 a whopping $666,000 was paid by a collector for a pair of these worn in the film
ruby slippers
John
|
$1,200
[19]
New Englander whose epitaph, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world", is from his poem "The Lesson For Today"
(Robert) Frost
Donna
|
|
$1,600
[29]
She played a corrections officer on "Oz" but is more famous as Tony's dissatisfied wife Carmela Soprano
Edie Falco
|
$1,600
[9]
The state animal of Colorado is a breed of this
a bighorn sheep
Donna
|
$1,600
[14]
Differences in this bony structure that includes the hip distinguish the sexes & reveal if a woman ever gave birth
the pelvis
Donna
|
$2,000
[6]
It's said Romulus founded Rome on this hill, found between the Circus Maximus & the Colosseum
the Palatine
|
$1,600
[24]
Buddy Ebsen was hired to play this character but had to quit after he developed an allergy to aluminum dust
the Tin Man
Louis
|
$1,600
[20]
His tombstone says, "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever"
Walter Reed
Donna
|
| — |
$2,000
[10]
In the hobo song, it's the mountain "where you sleep all day" & "where they hung that jerk who invented work"
the Big Rock Candy Mountain
Donna
|
$2,000
[15]
A song in this duo's operetta "Iolanthe" says, "What a joy to breathe the balmy air of Grosvenor Square"
Gilbert & Sullivan
Louis
|
DD
$3,800
[5]
Virgil tells of the travels of this vowel-heavy Trojan prince who laid the groundwork for Rome
Aeneas
Louis
|
$2,000
[25]
Frank Morgan played 5 different roles in the movie: a guard, a professor, a gatekeeper, a cabbie & this
the Wizard
|
DD
$4,000
[21]
From one of his works, this Irish poet's epitaph is "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!"
William Butler Yeats
Donna
|
Living from 1846 to 1935, this celebrated Frenchman was known as "the king of chefs and the chef of kings"
Georges Auguste Escoffier