2008 Kids Week Reunion game 2.
Joel Serna — originally from Fort Worth, Texas
Yoni Freund — a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
Allex Fambles — a sophomore from Brown University
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allex | $800 | $3,600 | $7,200 |
$399
3rd place: $2,500 |
$7,200
13 R, 1 W |
| Yoni | $4,400 | $4,000 | $10,400 |
$14,401
2nd place: $5,000 |
$8,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Joel | $3,600 | $7,200 | $22,200 |
$22,200
Winner: $25,000 |
$16,000
22 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| MY, HOW YOU'VE GROWN! | MUSICAL ADJECTIVES | LITERARY HODGEPODGE | LEARN TO COOK | THE DISAPPOINTING 21st CENTURY | REMEMBER "Y" 2 "K" |
|
$200
[8]
The tongue of this mammal is about 2 feet long & flits rapidly in & out to lick up the tiny prey in its name
an anteater
Joel
|
$200
[11]
Christina Aguilera sang "You are" this "no matter what they say, words can't bring you down"
beautiful
Joel
|
$200
[4]
In the Grimm tale "Jorinda and Joringel", Jorinda is turned into one of these birds known for singing in the evening
a nightingale
Joel
|
$200
[1]
To maximize flavor impact, this type of plant, like basil & parsley, should be added at the end of cooking
an herb
Allex
|
$200
[27]
We're not eating energy cubes, but more than 90% of U.S. homes do have this to cook frozen food in 1 minute
a microwave
Yoni
|
$200
[20]
An Eskimo canoe
a kayak
Joel
|
|
$400
[9]
It's the giant beast seenheretaking the bait; it can grow to about 60 feet & weigh more than 1,000 pounds
squid
Joel
|
$400
[15]
This hit gives me a tingle that "starts in my toes & I crinkle my nose wherever it goes I always know"
"Bubbly"
Allex
|
$400
[6]
You know this Lewis Carroll classic by a shortened name; its full title includes the word "Adventures"
Alice in Wonderland
Joel
|
$400
[2]
A cup of this long or short grain, the primary food of half the world's pop., is cooked with 2 cups of water
rice
Joel
|
$600
[23]
Type of city we don't live in, or type of stadium replaced by retractable-roof ones in Houston & Indianapolis
domed
|
$400
[21]
The only U.S. state that fits the category
Kentucky
Yoni
|
|
$600
[10]
Awwww! This giant 2-colored 6-foot, 300-pound Asian mammal is so cute!
a panda
Allex
|
$600
[16]
In a Linkin Park song, "I've become so" this "I can't feel you there"
numb
Joel
|
$800
[14]
"A Separate Peace" tells of 2 preppies at the Devon School in this "Granite State"
New Hampshire
Joel
|
$600
[3]
You'll want to cook this on the day you buy it; the husks should be green & the silk golden
corn
Yoni
|
$1,000
[28]
We hoped by now all music would be on this spooky-sounding instrument
a theremin
Allex
Yoni
|
$600
[26]
Former Texas gubernatorial candidate Friedman can help you with this adjective for tightly curled hair
kinky
Allex
|
|
$800
[12]
"S" is for this amphibian; most are only a few inches long, butgiant Chinese onescan grow much larger
salamander
Yoni
|
$800
[18]
Soft Cell sang, "Once I ran to you, now I'll run from you" in an '80s song about this title kind of love
Tainted
Joel
|
$1,000
[22]
"The Amber Spyglass" is the third book in the trilogy called "His Dark" these
Materials
Allex
|
$800
[5]
This fruit, essential to make guacamole, is ripe when the top & bottom yield to pressure
avocado
Yoni
|
— |
$800
[25]
This Russian composer's middle name was Ilyich
Tchaikovsky
Allex
|
|
$1,000
[17]
The curved horns of the water type of this animal may have a total length of 12 feet
a buffalo
Joel
|
$1,000
[19]
"Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you, only you can let it in" in this Natasha Bedingfield song
"Unwritten"
Allex
|
DD
$2,200
[13]
Part I of this 1995 Gregory Maguire novel that inspired a musical is called "Munchkinlanders"
Wicked
Yoni
|
$1,000
[7]
This tuber originally from the Peruvian Andes should be stored in a cool, dry place away from onions
a potato
Joel
|
— |
$1,000
[24]
One tap on a computer terminal gives us this compound word
keystroke
Joel
|
| BIBLE PEOPLE | ONE-WORD MOVIES | CHINA & INDIA | NOT TO BE CONFUSED | GEOMETRY | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT |
|
$400
[13]
The first son of the first man
Cain
Yoni
|
$400
[8]
Due to a new rule this 2007 Amy Adams Disney film will be the last to have 3 songs nominated for the Best Song Oscar
Enchanted
Allex
|
$400
[19]
In 2007, after years of 7 & 8% growth, India's GDP reached $1 trillion, or about 41 trillion of these Indian units
rupees
Joel
|
$400
[18]
Manzanilla is a Spanish sherry; mantequilla is Spanish for this dairy product
butter
Yoni
|
$400
[6]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a line segment sweeping out a circle on the monitor.) Euclid's third postulate tells us that from any line segment, a circle can be drawn with one endpoint as the center & the segment itself as this line
radius
Allex
|
$400
[1]
The small depressions on a golf ball are called these; smile & show yours
dimples
Allex
|
|
$800
[14]
Pharaoh's daughter finds him floating in a basket in the Nile & raises him as her own son
Moses
Joel
|
$800
[9]
Crispin Glover spouts actual Anglo-Saxon in this 2007 CGI monster movie based on an ancient epic
Beowulf
Allex
|
$1,200
[27]
India has more than 150 million of these shunned people, now officially called "Scheduled Castes"
the Untouchables
Joel
|
$800
[20]
Jamie Lynn Spears is Britney's sis; Jamie-Lynn Sigler played Meadow, daughter of a crime boss, on this HBO series
The Sopranos
Allex
|
$800
[7]
You may consider all the angles but to measure them you'll need this semicircular instrument
a protractor
Yoni
|
$800
[2]
A polyglot, one who speaks many languages, can also be called multi-this, from the Latin for "tongue"
lingual
Allex
|
|
$1,200
[15]
Goliath of Gath was the champion of these people
the Philistines
Joel
|
$1,200
[10]
No horsing around, the tagline for this 2003 film was "A longshot becomes a legend"
Seabiscuit
Yoni
|
$1,600
[25]
India's states have their own official languages including Gujarati, Marathi & this language of thehighlighted state
Punjabi
|
$1,200
[21]
If you're really smart you won't confuse these 2 words, meaning a really smart guy & a classification above species
genius & genus
Joel
|
$2,000
[26]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a circle drawing itself around a regular pentagon on the monitor.) A circle is said to be this when it surrounds a polygon in such a way that each vertex touches the circle
circumscribed
|
$1,200
[3]
Lupine means "like a wolf"; porcine means like this animal
a pig
Joel
|
|
$2,000
[17]
This Biblical prophet of Pethor had a conversation with his beast of burden when it started to talk
Balaam
Yoni
|
$1,600
[11]
Timothy Olyphant of "Deadwood" went bald & dodged bullets while plying this title trade in a 2007 film
Hitman
|
$2,000
[24]
The Golden Shield, which restricts online viewing of controversial topics, is known as the "Great" this "of China"
firewall
Yoni
Joel
|
$1,600
[22]
In Judaism, Kiddush is a blessing said over wine or bread, while this is a mourner's prayer
Kaddish
Yoni
|
DD
$5,000
[28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a triangle with two angles labeled on the monitor.) In this triangle, if angle A is 42 degrees & angle B is 60 degrees, then angle C has to equal this
78 degrees
Joel
|
$1,600
[4]
Someone who's described as patroclinous would most resemble this person
your father
|
|
DD
$4,000
[16]
In I Samuel, David saved this king's life more than once
Saul
Joel
|
$2,000
[12]
Scenes in this 1997 Jodie Foster film were filmed at the Very Large Array of radio telescopes in New Mexico
Contact
Yoni
|
— |
$2,000
[23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew unfolds a paper snowflake cut-out.) Origami is the art of paper folding; this is the Japanese art of paper folding & cutting to make designs like this
kirigami
|
— |
$2,000
[5]
Adjective meaning like the author of "The Prince", or like the cunning policies set forth in the book
Machiavellian
Joel
|
He was the most recent president who had not previously been a state governor
George H.W. Bush