Ben Bishop game 2.
Zac Showers — a college English professor from Geneva County, Alabama
Josie Dickson — a college counselor from Austin, Texas
Ben Bishop — a student originally from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | $6,600 | $7,000 | $16,600 |
$23,000
2-day champion: $48,000 |
$15,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Josie | $1,600 | $3,400 | $9,800 |
$19,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
14 R, 2 W |
| Zac | $1,600 | $3,600 | $-1,200 |
$-1,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| A CLOSER LOOK AT ART | THEIR FIRST TOP 40 POP HIT | BRAND NAMES | WHICH CAME FIRST? | PHOTOGRAPHY | LET ME MIX YOU A METAPHOR |
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$200
[6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a famous painting on the monitor.) At first glance, you may not know that the 19th-century painting seen here was done by this artist until you notice theslippersnext to the horse
(Edgar) Degas
Zac
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$200
[26]
"...Baby One More Time"(1998)
Britney Spears
Ben
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$200
[16]
This brand of petroleum jelly was discovered as a byproduct in the 19th century
Vaseline
Josie
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$200
[11]
In TV game shows:"Jeopardy!","Wheel of Fortune","The Price Is Right"
The Price Is Right
Josie
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$200
[21]
A 1980 Pulitzer winner for a shot of an execution in this ayatollah-ruled country was anonymous until 2006
Iran
Ben
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$200
[1]
The lecture was champagne to most of the audience, but it wasn't really "my cup of" this
tea
Ben
|
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$400
[7]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a famous painting on the monitor.) Look past the first few people in the famous painting "At the Moulin Rouge" & you'll see this man, the artist, walking with his much taller cousin
Toulouse-Lautrec
Josie
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$400
[27]
"Our Lips Are Sealed"(1981)
The Go-Go's
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$400
[17]
In the 1950s Victor Mills used his grandkids as test subjects when he created this brand of disposable diapers
Pampers
Zac
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$400
[12]
In U.S. statehood:Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maine
Pennsylvania
Ben
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$400
[22]
William Henry Jackson's photographs of Wyoming in the 1870s helped establish this national park
Yellowstone
Zac
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$400
[2]
After Mary twisted John around her little finger, they worked together "hand and" this other item
glove
Ben
Josie
|
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$600
[8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a famous painting on the monitor.) In "The Night Watch" by this artist, thewoman with the golden glow may be his wife Saskia who died the year it was completed
Rembrandt
Zac
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$600
[28]
"Evil Ways"(1970)
Santana
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$600
[18]
This shoe brand is named after a swift African gazelle
a reebok
Zac
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$600
[13]
In Jane Austen novels:"Emma","Pride and Prejudice","Sense and Sensibility"
Sense and Sensibility
Josie
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$600
[23]
In 1888 George Eastman introduced this camera that came with a preloaded roll of film for 100 exposures
the Kodak
Zac
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$600
[3]
He thought he was beating a dead horse, but got his comeuppance when "the chickens" did this
came home to roost
Ben
|
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$800
[9]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a famous painting on the monitor.) Notice the washbasin & the simple clothes hanging on thewall--this artist's painting is so intimate, it's been called a self-portrait; it's his bedroom in Arles
Van Gogh
Ben
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$800
[29]
"It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over"(1991)
Lenny Kravitz
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$800
[19]
It's "the pfabulous pfaucet with the pfunny name"
Price Pfister
Josie
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$800
[14]
In monarchs:Charles I of England, Charles I of France, Charles I of Spain
Charles I of France
Ben
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$800
[24]
From 1917 to 1937 he took more than 300 portraits of his wife, artist Georgia O'Keeffe
Stieglitz
Josie
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$800
[4]
Dave was a millstone around Tom's neck, & then he "rode in" to office "on" Tom's these
his coattails
Zac
|
|
DD
$2,200
[10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a famous painting on the monitor.) The Gauguin work seen here is a tribute to this Postimpressionist; in fact, thebackgroundis one of his famous still lifes that Gauguin himself owned
(Paul) Cezanne
Ben
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$1,000
[30]
"Over My Head"(1976)
Fleetwood Mac
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$1,000
[20]
The Oyster has been a basic model of this Swiss watchmaker since the 1920s
Rolex
Josie
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$1,000
[15]
Passed by Congress:the Embargo Act, the Smoot-Hawley Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act
the Embargo Act
Ben
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$1,000
[25]
Truman Capote wrote the text for this fashion photographer's 1959 collection "Observations"
Richard Avedon
Josie
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$1,000
[5]
I was on a wild goose chase when I "hit" this, which marathoners do around mile 20
the wall
Ben
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| LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS | SHATNER HAPPENS | AVIATION | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTATIONS | AN I FOR AN A |
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$400
[11]
A Joyce epic:"Odysseus"
Ulysses
Ben
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$400
[16]
In 1954 Bill appeared as Ranger Bob in the Canadian version of this classic kids' show
Howdy Doody
Josie
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$400
[19]
This low-fare airline founded in 1999 & based at JFK offers 36 free DirecTV channels at every seat
JetBlue
Ben
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$400
[6]
In 1586 this circumnavigator attacked & destroyed the Spanish fort at St. Augustine
Drake
Ben
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$400
[1]
In Exodus it's "eye for eye," this for this, "hand for hand, foot for foot"
tooth for tooth
Zac
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$400
[26]
A law partnership buys a piece of agricultural land
firm & farm
Ben
|
|
$800
[12]
A puritanical tale:"A Note From Miss Johansson"
The Scarlet Letter
Ben
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$800
[17]
Psycho killer Mike Myers wears Bill's face--a Captain Kirk mask, painted white--in this 1978 horror classic
Halloween
Zac
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$800
[20]
This airport named for a former mayor served the Denver community for 66 years, until it closed in 1995
Stapleton Airport
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$800
[7]
In 1738, after 36 years of sharing a governor with New York, this colony got its own governor, Lewis Morris
New Jersey
Ben
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$800
[2]
The motto of Johns Hopkins U., from John's gospel, is "Veritas vos liberabit", this "shall make you free"
truth
Zac
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$800
[27]
There was a sharp, unpleasant taste to the thick liquid for making the pancakes
bitter batter
Ben
Zac
|
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$1,200
[13]
It has Dickensian structure:"Desolate Abode"
Bleak House
Zac
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$1,200
[18]
On his 1968 album "The Transformed Man", Bill...um... sings this Beatles classic, kaleidoscope eyes & all
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Ben
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$1,200
[21]
In 1994 Northrop acquired this aerospace company, which became a part of its name
Grumman
Ben
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$1,200
[8]
A 1765 British law required of colonists this "fractional" Act, housing British soldiers
Quartering
Ben
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$1,600
[4]
Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "Let no man think me" one of these; "for ye" suffer these "gladly"
fools
Josie
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$1,200
[28]
There with a type of pack on his aching shoulder sat the best pitcher on our staff
ice & ace
Josie
|
|
$2,000
[15]
An 1888 Kipling work:"Prince Charles"
"The Man Who Would Be King"
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$1,600
[24]
A bewreathed & betogaed Bill shared a pioneering 1968 interracial Kiss with this "Star Trek" character
Lieutenant Uhura
Zac
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$1,600
[22]
Flying this plane 59.6 miles up in 1962, Robert White became the first non-NASA American to qualify as an astronaut
X-15
Zac
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$1,600
[9]
An offshoot of the Salem colony, this city was founded on September 17, 1630 by John Winthrop & others
Boston
Josie
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$2,000
[5]
Job knows "though" these "destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God"
worms
Josie
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$1,600
[29]
Irritating complaints may just be certain sour "bunch" fruits
gripes & grapes
Josie
|
|
DD
$10,800
[14]
A Miller's tale:"23 Degrees, 27 Minutes North of the Equator"
Tropic of Cancer
Zac
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$2,000
[25]
Bill's 2008 autobiography begins, "Call me... Captain James T. Kirk, or Sergeant T.J. Hooker, or" this guy this guy
Denny Crane
|
$2,000
[23]
In 1986 he & Jeana Yeager piloted the Voyager on the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world
(Dick) Rutan
Josie
Zac
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$2,000
[10]
In 1741 the Great Awakening reached a peak when he delivered the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Jonathan Edwards
Ben
|
DD
$4,800
[3]
"A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger" is one of this book's adages
Proverbs
Zac
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$2,000
[30]
The cloth substitution meant that our salesman went out with a better sample of material
switch & swatch
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Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, let" him "be and all was light"
Isaac Newton