Ask Alex #11: Hobby.
Alison Miester — a human resources specialist from Longmont, Colorado
Ranjan Ramchandani — a management consultant from Houston, Texas
Victoria Harkavy — an AmeriCorps service member from Potomac, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria | $4,000 | $4,000 | $7,600 |
$15,200
2-day co-champion: $40,100 |
$7,600
16 R, 4 W |
| Ranjan | $3,200 | $1,800 | $15,200 |
$15,200
New co-champion: $15,200 |
$16,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Alison | $800 | $2,200 | $6,800 |
$9,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,600
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| NEVADA | BEATLES LYRICS | WE'VE GOT ISSUES | MEETING YOUR CAR MAKER | FEEL THE PAINE | "OW"! |
|
$200
[22]
Though it's one of the driest states in the U.S., "Nevada" means this-covered
snow
Ranjan
|
$200
[15]
"Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble tres bien ensemble"
"Michelle"
Ranjan
|
$200
[1]
A 2006 issue of a magazine called this Spectator included articles on Chardonnay & Southern France's best reds
Wine
Victoria
|
$200
[3]
Let this company's Solara shine into your Matrix
Toyota
Ranjan
|
$200
[17]
Thomas Paine called monarchy evil & this monarch a "royal brute"
George III
Ranjan
|
$200
[9]
Not a consonant
a vowel
Ranjan
|
|
$400
[23]
Wanting to become a state, Nevada telegraphed a 16,543-word copy of this to Lincoln so he could review it
its state constitution
Ranjan
|
$400
[16]
"Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door, who is it for?"
"Eleanor Rigby"
Victoria
|
$400
[2]
The name of this fashion mag is French for "she"
Elle
Alison
|
$400
[27]
This carmaker is a Trailblazer in Malibu
Chevrolet
Ranjan
|
$400
[18]
Thomas Paine First published "Common Sense" in this appropriate year
1776
Ranjan
|
$400
[11]
A gaucho in Galveston
a cowboy
Victoria
|
|
$800
[26]
The pinon has racked up fame as one of Nevada's 2 official state these
the tree
Alison
|
$600
[10]
"You say yesI say noyou say stop andI say go go go"
"Hello, Goodbye"
Victoria
Ranjan
Alison
|
$600
[4]
"An ounce of" this magazine on healthy living "is worth a pound of cure"
Prevention
Victoria
|
$600
[28]
Cut through the Crossfire in this company's Sebring
Chrysler
Victoria
Ranjan
|
$600
[19]
A member of this religious denomination, Tom couldn't support the death penalty, even for the aristocracy
the Quakers
Alison
|
$600
[12]
When domesticated, they're called poultry
fowl
Victoria
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Just southeast of Las Vegas, it began as a WWII magnesium-supplying town & is now Nevada's 2nd-largest city
Henderson
Ranjan
|
$800
[8]
"Beep beep mm, beep beep, yeh!"
"Drive My Car"
Victoria
|
$800
[5]
Hopefully this magazine with editor-in-chief Rosemary Ellis earned its own seal of approval
Good Housekeeping
Victoria
|
$800
[30]
No one can Eclipse this automaker's Lancer
Mitsubishi
Victoria
|
$800
[20]
Paine wrote "The Rights of Man" in support of this foreign upheaval
the French Revolution
Victoria
|
$800
[13]
The superciliary ridge over the eyes
a brow
Victoria
|
|
DD
$2,600
[24]
The first live telecast of one of these originated in Nevada on April 22, 1952
a nuclear explosion (or detonation)
Ranjan
|
$1,000
[7]
"I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me"
"Norwegian Wood"
Ranjan
|
$1,000
[6]
"The Devil Wears Prada" is said to be a novelized portrait of Anna Wintour, this magazine's editor
Vogue
Ranjan
|
$1,000
[29]
This company's Impreza could very well be your Legacy
Subaru
|
$1,000
[21]
In "The American Crisis, No. 1", Paine scorned "the summer soldier" & this other fair-weather fighter
the sunshine patriot
Victoria
|
$1,000
[14]
Hughes or Stern
Howard
Alison
|
| WORLD HISTORY | THEY'RE TALKIN' BASEBALL | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE | SPAM | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS |
|
$400
[6]
In the 3rd century B.C., during the reign of Shih Huang Ti, at least 1 million slaves were used to build this
the Great Wall
Victoria
|
$400
[1]
An umpire, accused of not seeing if a ball was fair or foul: "On a clear day, I can see" this "& that sucker is 93 mil. miles away"
the Sun
Ranjan
Alison
|
$400
[25]
"T.P.P."by John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress
Ranjan
|
$400
[2]
The origin of "spam" as a term for unwanted e-mail is disputed; some say it stems from a skit by this comedy group
Monty Python
Ranjan
|
$400
[13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a right triangle on the monitor.) It's the sum of angles B & C
90 degrees
Ranjan
|
$400
[15]
It's anyone who lives in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin--that part of the U.S.
a Midwesterner
Victoria
|
|
$800
[7]
Columbus was the first European to reach S. America, landing at the mouth of the Orinoco in what's now this country
Venezuela
Ranjan
|
$800
[3]
Garry Maddox, reflecting on hitting a grand slam: "As I remember it, the bases were" this
loaded
Ranjan
|
$800
[24]
"B."by Toni Morrison
Beloved
Victoria
|
$800
[4]
In 2007 this company lost a trademark suit against Spam Arrest, a Seattle maker of anti-spam software
Hormel
Ranjan
|
$800
[14]
75% of 200 plus 200% of 75 equals this
300
Victoria
|
$800
[16]
Originally a computer term, it now refers to doing any number of jobs at the same time
multitasking
Alison
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Overthrown by the revolution of 9 Thermidor, he died on the guillotine, ending the Reign of Terror
Robespierre
Ranjan
|
$1,200
[26]
Ralph Kiner: "If" this Ol' Perfesser, an ex-Yankee & Met manager, "were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave"
Casey Stengel
|
$1,600
[12]
"B.R."by Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
Alison
|
$1,200
[5]
One of the first major spam outbreaks was a 1994 "global alert for all" because this man "is coming soon"
Jesus
Victoria
|
$1,200
[20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates an equation on the monitor.) It's the more familiar way to express this equation
E=mc 2
Ranjan
|
$1,600
[18]
Almighty or infinite in power, as god is
omnipotent
Ranjan
|
|
$1,600
[9]
In 1935, under U.S. rule, it became a commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as president
the Philippines
Ranjan
|
$1,600
[29]
Pitcher Mike Flanagan said, "You're having a bad day when the 5th...rolls around & they drag" this outfield area
the warning track
|
$2,000
[23]
"M.N."by Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night
|
$1,600
[27]
It's the practice of angling for e-mail users' private info using spam as bait
phishing
Alison
|
$1,600
[21]
This trigonometric function is the ratio of an angle's opposite side to its hypotenuse
sine
Ranjan
|
DD
$1,800
[17]
It's the more common term for a dactylogram
a fingerprint
Alison
|
|
$2,000
[10]
At the Battle of Lewes in 1264, this king & his son Edward were defeated & captured by Simon de Montfort
Henry III
|
$2,000
[30]
Tommy Lasorda, asked in 1981 about contract negotiations for this Mexican lefty pitcher: "He wants Texas back"
Fernando Valenzuela
Alison
|
DD
$3,000
[11]
"A.T.P.H." by Cormac McCarthy
All The Pretty Horses
Ranjan
|
$2,000
[28]
Spam sent via instant messaging systems is known by this portmanteau term
spim
|
$2,000
[22]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) If a line's slope equals 3, "X" equals 1 & "B" equals 1, then "Y" equals this
4
Victoria
|
$2,000
[19]
It means next to last
penultimate
Victoria
|
Pope Sixtus' death in 1590 ended his plan to convert this, still in Rome today, to a wool factory to employ city prostitutes
the Colosseum