Jim Stevens game 3.Ask Alex #9: Charities.
Helene Glass — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois
Marmi Maramot — a transplant data analyst from Los Angeles, California
Jim Stevens — a math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $49,002)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim | $4,400 | $7,600 | $23,800 |
$23,999
3-day champion: $73,001 |
$20,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Marmi | $800 | $8,600 | $11,800 |
$11,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Helene | $1,400 | $2,400 | $1,400 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,400
11 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| BOOK DEDICATIONS | ALBUMS | TECH-KNOW-LEDGY | A BUNCH OF NUTS | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | YOURS FOR AN "ONG" |
|
$200
[1]
There's no catch--he dedicated "Catch-22" "To my mother and to my wife, Shirley, and my children, Erica and Ted"
(Joseph) Heller
Marmi
|
$200
[2]
Arthur Koestler's book "The Ghost in the Machine" inspired the title of a 1981 album by this trio
The Police
Marmi
|
$200
[9]
On Feb. 17, 2009 this type of TV broadcast technology will end in the U.S.; we're going digital
analog
Marmi
|
$200
[26]
They can be boiled, candied or pureed, but at Christmas time it's traditional to roast them "on an open fire"
chestnuts
Marmi
|
$200
[16]
Model Klum, Madam Fleiss
Heidi
Marmi
|
$200
[8]
A multitude of people crowded together
a throng
Jim
|
|
$400
[4]
His "The Faerie Queene" has a bunch of dedicatory sonnets, including one to Sir Walter Raleigh
(Edmund) Spenser
Jim
|
$400
[3]
This group has scored 5 straight No. 1 albums, including 2003's "St. Anger" & 2008's "Death Magnetic"
Metallica
Jim
|
$400
[12]
This photo co. created the Easy Share printer with prints that are less expensive & last 100 years
Kodak
Marmi
|
$400
[27]
The shells of these greenish nuts used to be dyed red; not so much anymore
pistachios
Jim
|
$400
[22]
Winemaker Gallo, writer Hemingway
Ernest
Helene
|
$400
[10]
The Blue Line subway here can take you from Fortress Hill to Sai Wan Ho
Hong Kong
Helene
|
|
$600
[5]
"Of Time and the River" is dedicated to Maxwell Perkins, who in this job shaped Thomas Wolfe's unwieldy novels
editor
Jim
|
$600
[13]
This group was "Hangin' Tough" at No. 1 in 1988 & returned to "the block" (& the No. 2 spot) in 2008
New Kids on the Block
Marmi
|
$600
[15]
In 2008 lampposts in London were padded to prevent injuries due to this activity by pedestrians
texting
Jim
|
$600
[28]
In a can of mixed nuts, these large nuts seenhereare often the last to go
Brazil nut
Helene
|
$600
[23]
Cardiac pioneer DeBakey, Irish hero Collins
Michael
Marmi
|
$600
[11]
Dorothy Lamour popularized this wraparound dress
a sarong
Jim
|
|
$800
[6]
He dedicated "Lord Jim" to Mr. & Mrs. G.F.W. Hope "with grateful affection"
Joseph Conrad
Jim
|
$800
[14]
The soundtrack to this 1986 Molly Ringwald film includes OMD's "If You Leave" & the title track by the Psychedelic Furs
Pretty in Pink
Jim
Marmi
|
$800
[20]
To stop attackers from accessing your computer, in network settings, shut off the print sharing & this other "sharing"
file sharing
Jim
|
$800
[29]
This nut of a hickory tree follows "butter" in the name of a classic ice cream flavor
pecans
Marmi
|
$800
[24]
Portraitist Stuart, solo singer O'Sullivan
Gilbert
Helene
|
$800
[18]
The national currency of Vietnam
the dong
Helene
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Machiavelli wrote an entire dedicatory preface to "The Prince" to this "Magnificent" de Medici
Lorenzo de Medici
Helene
|
$1,000
[17]
Robert Mapplethorpe shot the cover of "Horses", an album by this influential female rocker
Patti Smith
Marmi
|
$1,000
[21]
(Agent Jenkins of the Geek Squad presents the clue.) We can geek-up your computer by installing a printer, digital camera or any other external device, which is called this in computer speak, from the Greek for "to carry around"
a peripheral
Jim
|
DD
$4,000
[30]
Hazelnuts are also called these, after a saint
filberts
Marmi
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$1,000
[25]
Frenchmen Clemenceau & Bizet
Georges
Jim
|
$1,000
[19]
Shape of Poe's title box
oblong
Marmi
|
| PEOPLE IN THE ARTS | THE SPORTS BAR | THEY GOT STRUCK | WE'RE MAP-HAPPY | "OAK" LAND | RAIDERS |
|
$400
[1]
Eyeball a Warhol or 2 at one of these run by Larry Gagosian, maybe on Madison Ave. or in Beverly Hills
an art gallery
Marmi
|
$400
[26]
The vertical bars called uprights are 18'6" apart in the pro & college versions of this sport
football
Jim
|
$400
[16]
For the first time in 195 years, by the National Association of Letter Carriers in 1970
the U.S. Postal Service
Helene
|
$400
[21]
Marked in red on the map are these geographic features; at any given time, about 20 of them are extremely active
volcanoes
Jim
|
$400
[6]
Frog speech
croak
Jim
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$400
[7]
On raids, Ness' Untouchables welcomed members of this profession, even those from the Tribune
the press (reporters accepted)
Jim
|
|
$800
[2]
This Madrid-born tenor has also run a couple of opera companies
Placido Domingo
Helene
|
$800
[27]
The recommended height of the flagstick is 7 feet in this sport
golf
|
$800
[17]
By the UAW in Flint, December 1936 to February 1937
General Motors
Jim
|
$800
[22]
World Book uses a 5-pointed star with a circle around it to denote a city with this distinction
a capital city
Jim
|
$800
[12]
To drench
to soak
Marmi
|
$800
[8]
Wingate's Raiders played a key role in the recovery of Burma, helping prevent a Japanese invasion of India in this war
World War II
Jim
|
|
$1,200
[3]
In 2008 Philippe de Montebello retired after 30 years directing this Fifth Ave. arts temple
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Helene
|
$1,200
[28]
Try the straddle cut on the bars that are 6'5" above the ground & at most 20.5" apart in this male gymnastics event
the parallel bars
Jim
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$1,200
[18]
In 1968, this city's Public Works Department by sanitation workers, bringing Dr. King to town
Memphis
Helene
|
$1,200
[23]
(Jon of the Clue Crew points to a little lake in a little country on a map on the monitor.) Lake Assal, the lowest point in Africa at 509 feet below sea level, is in this country
Djibouti
Helene
|
$1,200
[13]
A burnoose or a serape
a cloak
Helene
|
$1,200
[9]
John J. Pershing's attempts to stop this Mexican raider included the U.S. cavalry's "last charge"
Pancho Villa
Jim
|
|
$2,000
[5]
His artworks command prices of $400,000, & he was Oscar-nominated for directing "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
(Julian) Schnabel
Marmi
|
$1,600
[29]
For men, the bar has a minimum length of 8 feet, 6.25 inches & weight of 1.75 pounds in this field event
the javelin
|
$1,600
[19]
By Colombian banana plantation workers in 1928
the United Fruit Company
Jim
|
$1,600
[24]
Hema Maps is based in this country, so they make an upside down world map showing their continent on top
Australia
Jim
|
$1,600
[14]
Samuel Woodworth wrote a beloved poem about "The Old" this object "which hung in the well"
the oaken bucket
Helene
|
$2,000
[11]
In the early 1860s this band of Confederate guerillas raided Missouri & Kansas border towns loyal to the Union
Quantrill's Raiders
Jim
|
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
The name of this innovative theater & opera director is just 1 letter different from a late British comic actor
Peter Sellars
Helene
|
$2,000
[30]
The bars are set 4-6 feet apart as well as 7'11" & 5'2" above the floor in this female gymnastics event
the uneven bars
Jim
|
$2,000
[20]
By the Teamsters in August (at least not December) 1997
UPS
|
$2,000
[25]
(A red shape zooms out of the sea on the map on the monitor as Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) Located in the Caribbean, this tiny island's shape inspired its unusual name, which is Latin for "eel"
Anguilla
Helene
|
$2,000
[15]
Connecticut has this specific tree on its state quarter
the Charter Oak
Helene
|
DD
$5,000
[10]
Cecil Rhodes' attempted invasion known as the Jameson Raid set the stage for this war
the Boer War
Jim
|
Its author called it "a Ghostly little book... which shall not put my readers out of humour... with the season"
A Christmas Carol