(Sofia: I'm at the Science Museum of Minnesota, trying to figure out what this is for; find out with me onJeopardy!.)
Barb Juengling — a director of assessment & accountability from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
Tom Inskeep — an administrative assistant from Coral Gables, Florida
Alex Gershman — a research consultant from Falls Church, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | $4,400 | $8,800 | $9,500 |
$999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Tom | $2,800 | $4,200 | $9,000 |
$8,400
New champion: $8,400 |
$9,000
16 R, 2 W |
| Barb | $200 | $400 | $4,000 |
$5
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,000
7 R, 2 W |
| MOUNTAINS | ALBUMS | LIBROS EN ESPANOL | POLITICS | POTPOURRI | POTABLE WORDS |
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$200
[26]
Air Force photos from 1949 show what some believe are the ruins of Noah's Ark on this Turkish mountain
Mount Ararat
Alex
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$200
[6]
In June 1967 The Beatles released this album about an "act you've known for all these years"
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Tom
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$200
[1]
Golding:"El Senor de las Moscas"
"Lord of the Flies"
Alex
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$200
[11]
You're on this "wing" if you support traditional values & the conservative party line
right-wing
Barb
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$200
[21]
First name of director Marshall, Garry's sister
Penny
Alex
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$200
[12]
A cotton-cleaning device, or a cry in a card game saying you've completed your hand
gin
Tom
|
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$400
[27]
Seen here is one of Hokusai's famous wood-block prints of this mountain
Mount Fuji
Tom
|
$400
[7]
His 1989 album "The End of the Innocence" won him a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal
Don Henley
Tom
|
$600
[3]
Stephen King:"Corazones en la Atlantida"
"Hearts in Atlantis"
Alex
Tom
|
$400
[13]
A fellow traveler sympathizes with this party
Communist Party
|
$400
[22]
Edison proposed using sheets of this metal, used with cadmium in a battery, as a substitute for paper in books
nickel
Alex
|
$400
[14]
It's the opposite of starboard
port
Alex
|
|
$600
[28]
The Pindus Mountains of this country separate Thessaly from Epirus
Greece
Tom
|
$600
[8]
This New Wave group's album "Shake It Up" begins with the lachrymose "Since You're Gone"
The Cars
Tom
|
$800
[4]
Vonnegut:"Matadero Cinco"
"Slaughterhouse Five"
Tom
|
$600
[18]
Before a U.S. general election, these elections are held to determine the party candidates
primaries (or caucus)
Alex
Tom
|
$600
[23]
Things that are commonplace are a this "a dozen"
dime
Alex
|
$600
[15]
The band Looking Glass found her "a fine girl"
"Brandy"
Alex
|
|
$800
[29]
One of Frederick Cook's unproven claims was that he was first to reach the summit of this highest U.S. mountain
Mount McKinley
Alex
Barb
|
$800
[9]
The soundtrack of this 1988 U2 film included "Angel of Harlem", recorded at Memphis' famed Sun Studios
Rattle and Hum
Alex
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
Hemingway:"El Viejo y el Mar"
"The Old Man and the Sea"
Alex
|
$800
[19]
Vote a straight one & it's all for one party; vote a split one & you pick from multiple parties
ticket
Alex
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$800
[24]
This "master" takes care of clothing & providing sustenance for a body of troops
quartermaster
Tom
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$800
[16]
To strike with a fist or make a hole in a ticket
punch
Alex
|
|
$1,000
[30]
(Alex T. in Africa) Coffee beans are still widely grown on the slopes of this mountain, Africa's second-highest
Mount Kenya
Tom
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$1,000
[10]
In 2001 their "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" CD was certified 9 times platinum
Smashing Pumpkins
Alex
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$1,000
[5]
Saint-Exupery:"El Principito"
"The Little Prince"
Alex
|
$1,000
[20]
A contraction of "procuracy", it's a person you authorize to vote in your place
proxy
Barb
|
$1,000
[25]
Founded in L.A. in 1965, this rent-a-car agency was acquired by Chrysler in 1990
Dollar Rent-a-Car
|
$1,000
[17]
It's the residue coal leaves after destructive distillation
coke
|
| WRITERS' PLOTS | WELL TRAINED | THE "BIG" PICTURE | 19th CENTURY WOMEN | -OLOGIES | QUESTIONABLE ANAGRAMS |
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$400
[1]
He's interred at his former home at 18354 Ventura Blvd. in Encino, not Tarzana, California
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Barb
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$400
[11]
The Japanese call this "ballistic" train the Shinkansen
bullet train
Alex
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$400
[4]
1999:Adam Sandler takes on fatherhood
Big Daddy
Tom
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$400
[12]
Little men & women might enjoy reading her other children's books, including "An Old-Fashioned Girl"
Louisa May Alcott
Barb
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$400
[15]
The abnormal branch of this field studies mental disorders, deviance & just plain weirdness
psychology
Tom
|
$400
[16]
The final ceremony:Real fun?
funeral
Alex
|
|
$800
[2]
Saint Martin's Churchyard in Laugharne, Wales is where this poet wound up after drinking himself to death
Dylan Thomas
Tom
|
$800
[25]
The 20th Century Limited took you from New York to this city where you could catch the Super Chief to Los Angeles
Chicago
Alex
|
$800
[5]
1970:Dustin Hoffman as Jack Crabb, aged 121
Little Big Man
Barb
|
DD
$500
[29]
This woman famous for her pantaloons became president of the Iowa Woman Suffrage Society in 1871
Amelia Bloomer
Alex
|
$800
[21]
Branch of biology defined as the study of organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye
microbiology
Alex
|
$800
[17]
People complain there's too much of it in the movies:Nice love?
violence
Tom
|
|
$1,200
[3]
In Manhattan's Trinity Cemetery, you can visit John J. Audubon as well as this "Visit From St. Nick" poet
Clement Clarke Moore
|
$1,200
[26]
This country's Central Railway takes you up 13,000 feet going from La Oroya to Cuzco
Peru
Tom
|
$1,200
[8]
1987:Dennis Quaid & Ellen Barkin have a steamy romance in New Orleans
The Big Easy
Barb
|
$800
[13]
At her death in 1901 she had 37 great-grandchildren, including the future George VI & the czar's daughter Olga
Queen Victoria
Alex
Barb
|
$1,200
[22]
Sovietology is also some tmes called this, after a structure in Moscow
Kremlinology
Alex
|
$1,200
[18]
Elmer Gantry, for example:Evil's agent?
evangelist
|
|
$1,600
[6]
Henrik Ibsen is with his family in the Cemetery of Our Savior in this world capital
Oslo, Norway
Alex
Barb
|
$1,600
[27]
The name of this Paris-to-Istanbul service that began in 1873 is now on a London-to-Venice train service
Orient Express
Alex
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$1,600
[9]
2002:Frankie Muniz' stolen school essay becomes a big Hollywood movie
Big Fat Liar
|
$1,200
[14]
In 1801 Lady Emma Hamilton bore this naval hero a daughter while both were married to other people
Admiral Nelson
Alex
|
$1,600
[23]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Science Museum of Minnesota) This device was once used in this discredited science of determining personality by reading the bumps on the skull
phrenology
Alex
|
$1,600
[19]
A Tennessee municipality:Hen villas?
Nashville
Tom
|
|
$2,000
[7]
He's buried in Oxfordshire under a headstone that says "Here Lies Eric Arthur Blair"
George Orwell
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
The 2,461-mile-long Indian Pacific line connects the east & west coasts of this country
Australia (goes from Perth to Sydney)
Alex
|
$2,000
[10]
1998:Jeff Bridges is an L.A. slacker who bowls
The Big Lebowski
Tom
|
— |
$2,000
[24]
Cornell's medical website calls this study of the functions of living organisms the oldest basic medical science
physiology
|
$2,000
[20]
Sister in a famous family of singers:Am I so modern?
Marie Osmond
|
Of the Central American countries, it has the highest percentage of people of African descent
Belize