2008 Kids Week Reunion game 5.
David Hudson — a junior from the University of Virginia
Cassie Hill — a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
Robert Arshonsky — a senior from Cal Poly
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert | $2,000 | $4,200 | $800 |
$4
3rd place: $2,500 |
$8,200
16 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Cassie | $2,600 | $4,200 | $6,600 |
$2,499
2nd place: $5,000 |
$6,600
13 R, 2 W |
| David | $1,000 | $2,300 | $10,700 |
$8,199
Winner: $25,000 |
$11,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| POLITICIANS | MOVIES BY QUOTE | WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG | NICE RIDE | BOOKS & AUTHORS | HIDDEN COLORS |
|
$200
[5]
After spending 4 days at the Beijing Olympics, he said the "highlight was getting my picture taken with the teams"
George W. Bush
Robert
|
$200
[6]
"I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine... fish are friends, not food"
Finding Nemo
Robert
Cassie
|
$200
[16]
Floods ravaged the Midwest in 1993 as the confluence of the Missouri & this river moved 19 miles upstream
the Mississippi
Cassie
|
$200
[21]
The Toyota Tundra is one of these vehicles with 2 main sections, a cab & a bed
a pickup truck
Robert
|
$200
[13]
In "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, teenaged Isabella Swan falls for a romantic one of these blood-suckers
a vampire
Robert
|
$200
[27]
Bob lacked the brushes to paint the door this color
black (Bo b lack ed)
Cassie
|
|
$400
[4]
On January 4, 2007, in the House of Reps., she said, "I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship"
Nancy Pelosi
David
|
$400
[7]
"Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig. Does whatever a spider-pig does /Can he swing /From a web? /No, he can't /He's a pig"
The Simpsons Movie
Cassie
|
$400
[17]
Chechnya, a breakaway republic, was overrun by the army of this country in 1994
Russia
Robert
|
$400
[22]
A type of this conveyance on runners bears the name of Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen
a sled
|
$400
[15]
"The Lobster Chronicles" is Linda Greenlaw's book about life on a small island off the coast of this state
Maine
Robert
Cassie
|
$400
[28]
Let's all agree no one will stop us from saving the Earth's environment
green (a gree n o)
Robert
|
|
$600
[3]
In May 2008 this city's mayor Ray Nagin told the citizens, "We are reinventing ourselves in recovery"
New Orleans
David
|
$600
[8]
"How ironic, Tony. Trying to rid the world of weapons you gave it its best one ever... and now I'm gonna kill you with it"
Iron Man
Cassie
|
DD
$500
[20]
In 2000 Clinton became the first sitting president to visit this country since Nixon visited the troops in 1969
Vietnam
David
|
$600
[23]
If a Dutch person says to use your fiets, he doesn't mean walk but ride this, as many in the Netherlands do
your bicycle
|
$600
[14]
"Forever in" this color is Ann Brashares' third sequel to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"
blue
Cassie
|
$800
[26]
Bringing old heirlooms to the antique store could pay off for you
gold (Bringin g old )
Cassie
|
|
$800
[2]
4 decades before serving in the Capitol as Senate majority leader, he served on the U.S. Capitol police force
Harry Reid
Robert
|
$800
[9]
"Belief, Dr. Jones, is a gift you have yet to receive"
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
|
$600
[18]
In 1995 an ultranationalist assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of this country
Israel
Robert
|
$1,000
[24]
L.A.'s Starline Tours can take you past Hollywood landmarks in this, another word for a streetcar
a trolley
Robert
|
$800
[12]
Hmm... a murderer has somehow escaped from a locked room in her 1938 mystery "Hercule Poirot's Christmas"
Agatha Christie
Cassie
|
$1,000
[25]
For angels to show up, just put out some candy
orange (f or ange ls)
|
|
$1,000
[1]
Republicans Pat Roberts & Sam Brownback have been senators from this Midwest state since the mid-1990s
Kansas
Robert
|
$1,000
[10]
"I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by"
Back to the Future
Robert
|
$800
[19]
In 1996 British scientists successfully cloned this type of animal & named her Dolly
a sheep
David
|
— |
$1,000
[11]
Sebastian Faulks penned the new James Bond novel "Devil May Care" for the 100th anniv. of this author's birth
Ian Fleming
Robert
|
— |
| EUROPEAN CITIES | WE LOVE THE THEATRE | SO WHAT'D YOU DO WITH THE MONEY? | WORD ORIGINS | COME UP TO THE LAB | ...SEE WHAT'S ON THE SLAB |
|
$400
[6]
This Scottish city may have been named for Edwin of Northumbria, a 7th c. king who built a fort there
Edinburgh
Cassie
|
$400
[21]
This "Harry Potter" star showed off his buff bod when he took to the stage in "Equus"
Daniel Radcliffe
David
|
$400
[16]
In 1988 he could've said, "You're hired!" to work at NYC's Plaza Hotel, which he bought for $390 million
Donald Trump
Robert
|
$400
[1]
This word for desirable places like the Garden of Eden is from the Persian for "walled around"
paradise
Robert
|
$400
[11]
He had laboratories at Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey
Edison
Robert
|
$2,000
[26]
Thisslabthat's inscribed in 3 different languages was found by the French in 1799
the Rosetta Stone
Cassie
|
|
$800
[7]
For centuries, this Austrian city, whose name means "castle of salt", was the center of Europe's salt trade
Salzburg
Robert
|
$800
[22]
A long-running Off-Broadway hit revolves around an "Awesome '80s" one of these high school dances
a prom
|
$800
[17]
On Jan. 2, 2007 school was in at this TV icon's $40 million leadership academy in South Africa
Oprah Winfrey
David
|
$800
[2]
The name of this type of singing group that performs without instrumental accompaniment is from the Italian
a cappella
Robert
|
$800
[12]
This British university's Experimental Physics Dept. is known as the Cavendish Laboratory
Cambridge
David
|
— |
|
$1,600
[9]
This capital's stadium was rebuilt of white marble for the Olympic Games of 1896
Athens
David
|
$1,200
[23]
It's the season that precedes "Awakening" in the title of a rockin' Broadway musical about teens
Spring
Cassie
|
$1,200
[18]
G'day! In 2005 this News Corp. man jazzed up his Myspace account, buying the company for $580 million
(Rupert) Murdoch
Robert
|
$1,200
[3]
This dangerous river reptile's name is from the Greek for "pebble" & "worm"
crocodile
|
$1,200
[13]
In 1936, Frank Malina co-founded a Caltech rocket research project; it evolved into JPL, this laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
David
|
— |
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
A majority of this Italian city's population has left the islands & now lives on the mainland in Mestre
Venice
Robert
|
$1,600
[24]
Lin-Manuel Miranda was in college when he began writing "In the Heights", set in Wash. Hgts. in this NYC borough
Manhattan
Cassie
|
$1,600
[19]
On Nov. 26, 2007 the foundation of this couple gave $100 million to Rotary International to eradicate polio
Bill & Melinda Gates
David
|
$2,000
[5]
From the Latin, it once meant "one living on the opposite bank of a stream from another"; now it means "opponent"
rival
|
$1,600
[14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shines a flashlight through a prism and the beam is redirected onto a different wall.) The prism refraction experiment that I'm reenacting was first conducted in a laboratory by this man in 1666
Isaac Newton
Cassie
|
— |
|
$2,000
[10]
A lake called the Inner Alster lies in the center of this, Germany's chief port
Hamburg
|
$2,000
[25]
An MTV reality series searched for a new star for this musical & found it in Bailey Hanks (no law degree required)
Legally Blonde
Cassie
|
$2,000
[20]
His net worth was said to be $2 bil., so the $280 mil. he paid for the Dallas Mavericks was chump change!
Mark Cuban
David
|
DD
$5,400
[4]
This adjective that means "behaving disobediently or mischievously" comes from the Old English for "nothing"
naughty
Robert
|
$2,000
[15]
In his Nova Scotia lab, this man created a hydrofoil as well as his many acoustic devices
Alexander Graham Bell
|
— |
The logo of this NBA team has a rowel on it
the San Antonio Spurs