Carl Brandt game 3.
Phil Fernandez — an engineer from San Diego, California
Jen Weaver — an office assistant from North East, Maryland
Carl Brandt — an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carl | $2,000 | $4,200 | $17,200 |
$11,999
3-day champion: $40,799 |
$18,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Jen | $1,600 | $4,400 | $11,200 |
$400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,200
20 R, 4 W |
| Phil | $5,000 | $6,000 | $10,800 |
$4,300
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR | SONG ADJECTIVES | RETRONYMS | THE IG NOBEL PRIZE | AMERICAN RESTAURANTS | HALLOWEEN: TRICK OR TREAT |
|
$200
[12]
Albert Fall was the 1st man guilty of this type of crime done as a Cabinet secy.--we don't know about misdemeanors
a felony
Phil
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$200
[4]
Nirvana:"Smells Like ____ Spirit"
Teen
Carl
|
$200
[26]
Before fat-free or 2% horned in, all milk sold was what we now call this type
whole
Jen
|
$200
[1]
An acoustics prize went to a study of why people hate the sound of fingernails interacting with this
a chalkboard
Carl
|
$200
[11]
Prime aged beef is the specialty of Mitchell's Steakhouse, just steps from the Capitol in this Ohio city
Columbus
Carl
|
$200
[17]
On Oct. 31, 2007 liberal Spaniards got a treat as a law banned public commemorations of this Fascist's rule
Franco
Phil
|
|
$400
[13]
(I'm U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne.) From 1901 to 1907 Ethan Hitchcock helped this president institute his forest-preserving policies
Theodore Roosevelt
Carl
|
$400
[7]
Wild Cherry:"Play That ____ Music"
Funky
Jen
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$400
[27]
A company called Bumkins makes this baby product, a retronym created by the disposable kind
cloth diapers
Carl
|
$400
[2]
A physics prize went to Robert Matthews for demonstrating why buttered toast usually does this when you drop it
falls on the butter side
Carl
|
$400
[22]
You'll really "dig" the Seattle seafood house called Ivar's Acres of these shellfish
Clams
Jen
|
$400
[18]
(I'm astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson.) It was a treat for us all on Halloween 2006 when NASA decided to go ahead & repair this & give it new instruments to probe the depths of the universe
the Hubble Telescope
Carl
|
|
$600
[14]
At age 65 this New Deal Interior Secretary had a son, also Harold, who became a Clinton advisor
Ickes
Carl
|
$600
[8]
The Verve:"____ ____ Symphony"
Bitter Sweet
Phil
|
$600
[28]
As of June 2008 the International Air Transport Association has eliminated these, maybe saving a tree or 2
paper tickets
Jen
|
$600
[3]
"Viva" this "love" drug! An aviation prize was awarded for discovering it aided in jetlag recovery in hamsters
Viagra
Phil
|
$600
[23]
If you can't get enough cocoa, head for North Damen Ave. in Chicago, to the restaurant called "Hot" this
Chocolate
Carl
|
$600
[19]
On Oct. 31, 1776 M.P.s might have felt tricked as this monarch told them it was not going too well over in America
George III
Carl
|
|
$800
[15]
(U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne delivers the clue.) The Interior Department is the steward for about 1/5 of the USA, including 262 million acres under the supervision of this bureau
the Bureau of Land Management
Phil
|
$800
[9]
Sheryl Crow:"My ____ Mistake"
Favorite
Phil
|
$800
[29]
This retronym for a type of computer also means a screen with icons on it
a desktop
Phil
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$800
[5]
An Aussie woman's study of this 3-letter word & the alphabetical order problems it creates won a literature award
"the"
Jen
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$800
[24]
The Caucus Room on 9th St. NW in this city is truly bipartisan; it's owned by Democrats & Republicans
Washington, D.C.
Jen
|
$800
[20]
The great sleuth gets tricked in the first story in these "of Sherlock Holmes", published on Halloween 1892
The Adventures
Jen
|
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
Gale Norton ran the department using the 4 C's: communication, consultation & cooperation, to further this 4th C
conservation
Phil
|
$1,000
[10]
Depeche Mode:"____ Jesus"
Personal
Jen
|
$1,000
[30]
The emergence of neoconservatives led to this longer retronym for real traditionalists like Pat Buchanan
a paleoconservative
Carl
|
$1,000
[6]
A medical award went to a "penetrating... report" on this alliterative sideshow act "& its side effects"
sword swallowing
Jen
|
$1,000
[25]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a restaurant courtyard lit for nighttime dining in Central Park, New York.) Originally built to house sheep, it's come a long way & is now a lavish cafe overlooking Central Park
Tavern on the Green
Carl
|
$1,000
[21]
On Oct. 31, 1938 this Wall Street institution treated investors to a 15-point protection plan
the New York Stock Exchange
Carl
|
| THE INTERIOR OF THE SECRETARY | 1930s CINEMA | WHAT THE DICKENS! | KNOW YOUR RIGHTS | HISTORY CROSSWORD CLUES "M" | AFTER TRICK OR TREATING... |
|
$400
[21]
In 2007 Philippines justice secretary Raul Gonzalez had a transplant of this paired organ
kidneys
Phil
|
$400
[11]
She almost got the role of Scarlett's sister Carreen in "GWTW"--fate intervened & she went to Oz instead
(Judy) Garland
Carl
|
$400
[6]
Pip Pip hooray for this novel in which Pip learns that honest work is more rewarding than shallow dreams
Great Expectations
Jen
|
$400
[16]
Upon Stonewall Jackson's injury by friendly fire in 1863, this man remarked "I have lost my right arm"
Robert E. Lee
Jen
|
$400
[1]
Menes (not Elvis) made it his capital(7)
Memphis
Jen
|
$400
[26]
...collect money for this U.N. agency whose national day coincides with Halloween
UNICEF
Jen
|
|
$800
[22]
As one of these pieces of furniture, a "secretary" may have pigeonholes inside
a desk
Jen
|
$800
[12]
(Film critic Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) "Three Little Pigs", a Disney Silly Symphony of 1933, introduced this song that became an anti-Depression anthem
"Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?"
Jen
|
$800
[7]
Chapter 1 of this novel is "I am born"; but (uh-oh!) by chapter 4, "I fall into disgrace"
David Copperfield
Jen
|
$800
[17]
In place settings, the fork named for these shellfish is the only one ever placed to the right of the plate
the oyster fork
Jen
|
$800
[2]
Congress put it in a "Compromise"-ing position(8)
Missouri
Carl
|
$800
[28]
...show your regional pride by saluting the 144th anniversary of this "Silver State" joining the Union
Nevada
Jen
|
|
$1,200
[23]
The scientific name Sagittarius serpentarius tells you that inside the secretary bird you may find this, its main food
a snake
Phil
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
Brian Aherne was doomed to play this emperor in the 1939 film "Juarez"
Maximilian
Carl
|
$1,200
[8]
It's a "Mystery" who killed this title character, but Charles Dickens Jr. said his father told him it was Jasper
(Edwin) Drood
Carl
|
$1,200
[18]
9-letter word for the right side of a clipper or a brigantine
starboard
Jen
|
$1,200
[3]
Phoebe Fillmore's bouncing baby boy(7)
Millard
Jen
|
$1,200
[30]
...head over to the frightful fun at Knott's Scary Farm, known as this for most of the year
Knott's Berry Farm
Phil
|
|
$1,600
[24]
On Dec. 30, 1968 in Norway, a heart attack ended the life of this first U.N. secretary-general
Trygve Lie
Carl
Jen
|
$1,200
[13]
Elsa Lanchester played 2 roles in this 1935 sequel: the title mate, &, in an amusing prologue, Mary Shelley
The Bride of Frankenstein
Carl
|
DD
$1,200
[9]
When Nell works for Jarley's Wax-Work in this novel, she sleeps in a creepy room with the wax-work figures
The Old Curiosity Shop
Carl
|
$1,600
[19]
It's a right-hand page of a book; the verso is a left-hand page
the recto
Phil
|
$1,600
[4]
Italian edict city, in 313 A.D.(5)
Milan
Phil
|
$1,600
[29]
...check out FEARnet.com & download scary movies like 1978's "Halloween" starring this woman as Laurie
Jamie Lee Curtis
Carl
|
|
$2,000
[25]
You'll warm the interior of your secretary with a gift during this, formerly National Secretaries Week
Administrative Professionals Week
|
$2,000
[15]
Cecil Kellaway played the impresario in "Intermezzo" & Mr. Earnshaw (Cathy's father) in this 1939 classic
Wuthering Heights
Jen
|
$2,000
[10]
Dickens called his younger brother "Moses"; nasally, that became "Boses", inspiring this Dickens pen name
Boz
Carl
Jen
|
$2,000
[20]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows an animated anatomical diagram on the monitor.) The heart's right ventricle pumps directly into this artery that carries blood into the lungs
the pulmonary
Carl
|
$2,000
[5]
"Mess"ed-up wife of Emperor Claudius(9)
Messalina
Jen
|
$2,000
[27]
...prepare yourself for this Catholic holy day, the day after Halloween
All Saints Day
Phil
|
A key to Alexander Graham Bell's experiments was one of these, procured by a doctor friend, Clarence Blake
an ear