Erik Nelson game 1.
Jenny Caplan — a Ph.D. student from Syracuse, New York
Erik Nelson — a graduate student from Boston, Massachusetts
Wes Pierce — a financial planner from Anaheim Hills, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $47,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wes | $4,200 | $7,000 | $12,600 |
$10,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,600
22 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Erik | $3,400 | $7,300 | $15,300 |
$25,201
New champion: $25,201 |
$14,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Jenny | $600 | $3,600 | $5,200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
7 R, 0 W |
| CLASSIC SITCOMS | THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN | GOOD TIMES | FRIENDS | CHEERS | ALL IN THE "FAMILY" |
|
$200
[1]
Its premise: a broomstick rider tackles suburbia with her adman husband
Bewitched
Jenny
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$200
[20]
The coldest area of the troposphere occurs over this line; makes sense, since the line's at 0 degrees
the equator
Wes
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$200
[16]
For a good time call(800) 25-SHAMU to plan a visit to this California attraction
SeaWorld
Erik
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$200
[25]
Andrew Gossett named a Texas town after this man, a family friend from back in Tennessee
Davy Crockett
Erik
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$200
[11]
It's the booze that's in both a Bloody Mary & a screwdriver
vodka
Erik
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$200
[6]
Until January 2009 it's W., Laura, Jenna & Barbara Bush
the First Family
Wes
|
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$400
[2]
The Beverly Hillbillies preferred to call their swimming pool the "cement" this
pond
Jenny
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$400
[21]
When the Earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation, it's called this effect
the greenhouse effect
Erik
|
$600
[18]
Hit the beach, then take to the airin this fun sport seen here
parasailing
Erik
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$400
[26]
Lucas Cranach was not yet Mayor of Wittenberg when this friend of his nailed the 95 Theses on the church door
Martin Luther
Erik
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$400
[12]
This type of liquor precedes "sunrise" & "sunset" in the names of cocktails
tequila
Erik
|
$400
[7]
Arboreal chart of your genealogy
your family tree
Erik
|
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$600
[3]
An urban junk dealer & his offspring scheme & dream on this classic show
Sanford and Son
Wes
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$600
[22]
Of about 1/4, 2/3 or 3/4, Earth's orbital period is 365 & this fraction of a day
1/4
Jenny
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$800
[19]
Enjoy a murder mystery weekend aboard this train that travels between Istanbul & Paris
the Orient Express
Wes
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$600
[27]
He & Sartre had been friends until his attack on Stalinist communism l'estranged them
Camus
Jenny
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$600
[13]
Put the lime in the rum & Coke & drink it all up under this Spanish name
a Cuba Libre
Wes
|
$600
[8]
Sly's musical partners
the Family Stone
Erik
|
|
$800
[4]
It's the city where the Cunninghams live out the sunny 1950s on "Happy Days"
Milwaukee
Wes
|
$800
[24]
Earth's liquid iron core is instrumental in creating this field that protects the Earth from cosmic rays
geomagnetic field (electromagnetic field accepted)
Wes
|
$1,000
[23]
Oh, boy! You get to eat with your hands & take in a jousting tournament at this chain of dinner theaters
Medieval Times
Wes
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$800
[28]
In 1970 she wrote an article for National Geographic called "Making Friends with Mountain Gorillas"
(Dian) Fossey
Jenny
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$800
[14]
This cocktail named for a motorcycle attachment is triple sec, brandy & lemon juice
a sidecar
Erik
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$800
[9]
This magazine was founded in 1932 & given away in grocery stores until 1946
Family Circle
|
|
$1,000
[5]
(I'm Rob Reiner.) Thanks to "All in the Family" & Archie Bunker, I think I'll be forever associated with this beefy nickname
"Meathead"
Wes
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$1,000
[30]
An equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter makes the Earth this type of spheroid
oblate
Jenny
|
DD
$1,500
[17]
Appropriately, in Germany, this roughly 2-week celebration kicks off with a brewer's parade
Oktoberfest
Erik
|
$1,000
[29]
A book says these 2 men, one said to be a drunk & the other thought insane, had "the friendship that won the Civil War"
Grant & Sherman
Erik
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$1,000
[15]
Go retro with this cocktail, sugar, bitters & bourbon garnished with a cherry
an old fashioned
Erik
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$1,000
[10]
Dan Quayle implied "Murphy Brown" lacked them
family values
Wes
|
| MEDICAL MATTERS | FOLK MUSIC | STATES BY COUNTIES | ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE THEATRE | CNN ON POLITICS | "PAR"TY TIME |
|
$400
[20]
A tumor is classified as benign when it's unlikely to spread & as this when it's cancerous
malignant
Wes
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$400
[1]
He probably had a "Rocky Mountain High" when Peter, Paul & Mary took his composition "Leaving On A Jet Plane" to No. 1
John Denver
Erik
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$400
[8]
Palo Alto, Dallas, Dubuque
Iowa
Wes
Erik
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$400
[21]
Eleanor said Ralph Bellamy was "remarkable" as this man who triumphed over polio in "Sunrise at Campobello"
FDR
Erik
|
$400
[11]
(I'm Anderson Cooper.) CNN's election team can often project winners based on these surveys of people who've just voted, but we don't do it in close races, & never before the voting is done
exit polls
Wes
|
$400
[3]
In September 1974 Richard Nixon received a "full, free and absolute" one
a pardon
Wes
|
|
$800
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew indicates a pair of bones on the monitor.) There are many types of bone fractures; here, the oblique fracture is closed with a diagonal break, while this type, an open fracture, breaks through the skin
a compound fracture
Erik
|
$800
[2]
This trio's 1963 hit "Reverend Mr. Black" was based on the traditional folk song "Lonesome Valley"
The Kingston Trio
Wes
|
$800
[9]
Appomattox, King and Queen, Spotsylvania
Virginia
Wes
|
$800
[26]
Seeing this play at the Castle of Elsinore thrilled Eleanor; she also liked the Danish pastry served at intermission
Hamlet
Erik
|
$800
[14]
(I'm Candy Crowley.) Obama won more states but Clinton won the bigger ones, so a long battle lay ahead after the results on February 5, 2008, known as this day
Super Tuesday
Erik
|
$800
[4]
After Muslims captured Athens in the 1400s, this temple to Athena was used as a mosque
the Parthenon
Wes
|
|
$1,200
[24]
An implantable one of these devices that delivers an electric shock may be used to correct a rapid heartbeat--clear!
a defibrillator
Erik
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$1,200
[18]
In 2000 the Library of Congress named this "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" composer one of its living legends
Pete Seeger
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
Lewis and Clark, Petroleum, Custer
Montana
Wes
|
$1,200
[28]
Eleanor took Indira Gandhi to see this man's play "The Night Of The Iguana"; it left both ladies "a little baffled"
Tennessee Williams
Erik
|
$1,200
[15]
(I'm Bill Schneider.) Add up the Republicans & the Democrats in the U.S. House for the 110th Congress & you get this total that's been standard for almost a century
435
Erik
|
$1,200
[5]
This verb form is sometimes left dangling
a participle
Wes
|
|
$1,600
[25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates the shoulder of a skeleton on the monitor.) A dislocated shoulder occurs when the top of this bone pops out of the socket of the scapula--not funny
the humerus
Wes
|
$1,600
[19]
A 2008 Grammy for Best Historical Album went to a 1949 performance by this man who was "Bound For Glory"
Woody Guthrie
Wes
|
$1,200
[10]
Switzerland, Wabash, Elkhart
Indiana
Erik
|
$1,600
[29]
Eleanor had not expected this movie star's 1953 performance in "John Brown's Body" to satisfy her as it did
Tyrone Power
|
$1,600
[16]
(I'm Campbell Brown.) On March 4, 2008 John McCain clinched the GOP nomination with 4 primary wins including this vast state, where he made his victory remarks
Texas
Jenny
|
$1,600
[6]
Vellum is a high-quality, fine-grained type of this
parchment
Wes
Erik
|
|
$2,000
[27]
Mononucleosis is usually caused by this virus, EBV for short
the Epstein-Barr virus
|
$2,000
[22]
In 1967 the D.A.R. refused to allow this daughter of a Mexican-American physicist to perform at Constitution Hall
Joan Baez
Wes
Erik
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$1,600
[12]
Lake of the Woods, Red Lake, Lake
Minnesota
Wes
|
$2,000
[30]
Bewildered by this poet's play "The Cocktail Party", Eleanor cracked that "He must be doing something extremely clever"
T.S. Eliot
Erik
|
$2,000
[17]
(I'm Wolf Blitzer.) Federal Election Commission rules for 2007-2008 put a limit of this much for an individual gift per candidate per election
$2,300
Erik
|
DD
$3,000
[7]
It's equal to 3.26 light years
parsec
Wes
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Of the 3 African countries ruled by monarchs, it's the farthest north
Morocco