Ask Alex #13: Pets.
Brian Stack — a file clerk from Fultondale, Alabama
Diane Trap — a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
Deepak Tamasker — an attorney originally from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $23,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deepak | $1,400 | $6,200 | $24,700 |
$16,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$24,200
27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Diane | $800 | $3,400 | $16,400 |
$21,400
New champion: $21,400 |
$15,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Brian | $3,000 | $3,400 | $5,400 |
$10,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| AMERICAN HISTORY | CABLE CHANNELS | PROPHET SHARING | WOMEN OF THE WORLD | SWEET! | "IND" THE KNOW |
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$200
[20]
Between 1856 & 1860, 2,962 of this faith set out from Iowa & Nebraska to Utah in the Handcart Migration
Mormonism
Brian
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$200
[1]
The Dire Straits song "Money For Nothing" says, "You play the guitar on" this cable channel
MTV
Diane
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$200
[26]
Before he was a prophet, Smohalla gained fame as one of these alliterative Native American healers
a medicine man
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$200
[6]
This Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in what is now Skopje, Macedonia in 1910
Mother Teresa
Diane
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$200
[11]
This slang term for coffee precedes "chip" in a Starbucks ice cream flavor
java
Deepak
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$200
[16]
This adjective refers to the original natives of any region
indigenous
Deepak
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$400
[21]
On April 2, 1917 President Wilson told Congress, "The world must be made safe for" this
democracy
Diane
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$400
[2]
This channel for women produces the original drama "Army Wives"
Lifetime
Deepak
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$400
[27]
In I Kings this fiery Biblical prophet won a contest with the prophets of Baal
Elijah
Diane
Brian
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$400
[7]
This British dame, Rudolf Nureyev's dance partner, was married to a Panamanian diplomat
Margot Fonteyn
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$400
[12]
Butter is an ingredient of this hard candy that has "butter" in its name; the rest of its name doesn't refer to whisky
butterscotch
Brian
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$400
[17]
The systematic teaching of beliefs to gain uncritical acceptance
indoctrination
Deepak
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$600
[22]
On April 20, 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this transportation method as a way to achieve school integration
busing
Deepak
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$600
[3]
This channel shows films like "The Magnificent Seven" & original series like "Mad Men" & "Breaking Bad"
AMC
Deepak
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$600
[28]
The soothsayer Calchas told this king he had to offer up his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis to get winds to rise
Agamemnon
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$600
[8]
She wrote her first novel, "The House of the Spirits", in exile soon after her uncle's assassination
Isabel Allende
Diane
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$600
[13]
A confection called a kiss is baked this: sugar & stiffly beaten egg whites
meringue
Diane
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$600
[18]
Punjab means "land of 5 rivers", & all 5 of the rivers eventually flow into this one
the Indus
Brian
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$800
[24]
John O'Sullivan, who later became a diplomat, coined this term for the USA's right to cover the continent
Manifest Destiny
Deepak
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$800
[4]
You'll "find" that this channel features "Cash Cab" & "Dirty Jobs"
Discovery
Brian
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$800
[29]
Poems known as the "Gathas" are attributed to this ancient prophet & teacher who lived in eastern Iran
Zoroaster
Deepak
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$800
[9]
This Norwegian beauty is noted for her work with Ingmar Bergman & with UNICEF
Liv Ullmann
Diane
Brian
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$800
[14]
A red cake named for this smooth fabric is really a chocolate cake--food coloring gives it the distinctive color
velvet
Deepak
Brian
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$800
[19]
Insurance term meaning to protect against damage, loss or injury
indemnity
Diane
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$1,000
[25]
In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt.
the Alien & Sedition Acts
Deepak
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$1,000
[5]
Channel that's been home to gritty shows like "Dirt" & "Rescue Me"
FX
Brian
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$1,000
[30]
On the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo included some of these ancient oracle-like prophetesses
sibyls
Diane
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$1,000
[10]
Under 5 feet tall & all of about 90 pounds, this frail French chanteuse was nicknamed the "Little Sparrow"
(Edith) Piaf
Deepak
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DD
$800
[15]
Some pies have a top named for this garden structure
a lattice
Brian
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$1,000
[23]
Also a term in logic, it's the process by which a magnetic field is ordered into poles
induction
Deepak
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| RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS | CANADIAN FOOTBALL | GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY | TURKISH LITERATURE | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS | BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES |
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$400
[16]
Sergey Korolyov was instrumental in the success of this first artificial satellite of the Earth
Sputnik
Deepak
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$400
[2]
One of the 8 teams in the CFL is the Stampeders, who play for this city in the Canadian Rockies
Calgary
Brian
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$400
[23]
Guyana is divided into 3 regions: a highland, an inland forest & a coastal plain along this ocean
the Atlantic
Deepak
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$400
[21]
The poem called the "Garibnameh" contains 11,000 masnavi, which we know as these rhymed 2-line units of verse
couplets
Deepak
|
$400
[1]
This first sign is a nocturnal animal; those born under it work best in quiet hours; oo, you dirty...
rat
Deepak
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$400
[11]
Unlike some, I like my women to be "cranio", this quality we also admire on "Jeopardy!"
intelligence
Deepak
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$800
[17]
Rehovot in this country has an institute named for Russian-born Chaim Weizmann, who synthesized acetone
Israel
Brian
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$800
[3]
Unlike the NFL, a CFL team gets this many downs in a series to advance the ball 10 yards
three
Deepak
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$800
[24]
Located at the mouth of the Demerara River, it's the capital & largest city
Georgetown
Deepak
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$800
[22]
A religious kaside poem praised God, this man or his son-in-law, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph
Muhammad
Deepak
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$800
[5]
This wascally sign whose years include 1951 & 1999 shows bravery against high odds & is rarely be-Fudd-led
a rabbit
Brian
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$800
[12]
Forget about him, he met someone down at Ipanema Beach & now he's "apaixonado", this condition
in love
Diane
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$1,200
[18]
In the mid-18th c. Mikhail Lomonosov became the first scientist to record the freezing of this liquid metal
mercury
Deepak
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$1,200
[4]
French for "red", it's the term used for the point that is scored if a punt goes out of the end zone untouched
rouge
Diane
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$1,200
[25]
Spectacular waterfalls in Guyana include one named for a British king of this name, who ruled 1901-10
Edward
Diane
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$1,200
[26]
Sultan Abdulhamid II's censorship hindered Ottoman writers until this "youthful" group's 1908 revolution
the Young Turks
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$1,200
[8]
This sign for 2006 shows devotion to family; aren't you a good sign? Yes you are! Good sign!
the dog
Diane
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$1,200
[13]
Cousin Fred said he was Napoleon last night; I'm afraid he might be "maluco", this
crazy
Deepak
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$1,600
[19]
Lev Landau won a 1962 Nobel Prize for working in low-temperature physics, also known as this
cryogenics
Diane
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$1,600
[6]
This former Boston College & New England Patriots QB was the CFL's most outstanding player 6 times
Doug Flutie
Deepak
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$2,000
[30]
Guyana has had a long-standing border dispute with this small country to its southeast
Suriname
Deepak
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$1,600
[27]
Peter Ustinov directed & starred in the film version of the Yasar Kemal novel "Memed, My" this predatory bird
Hawk
Brian
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$1,600
[9]
1967 folks "flock" to this sign that represents the essence of the Yin, the feminine passive principle
the sheep
Deepak
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$1,600
[14]
If you want another drink, hand over some "grana", this; I'm not covering for you anymore after last night
money
Brian
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$2,000
[20]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows the periodic table on the monitor.) In devising the periodic table, Mendeleev laid out the elements in rows & columns to show the different relationships when read each way; he's said to have been inspired by a version of this card game
solitaire
Diane
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$2,000
[7]
The Alouettes play their home games at Molson Stadium on the campus of this Montreal university
McGill
Deepak
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DD
$3,000
[29]
One of Guyana's largest cities, it's also an old name for New York City
New Amsterdam
Diane
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$2,000
[28]
Seyid Imadeddin Nesimi wrote 2 of these poetry collections, also a word from Turkish for a couch
divan
Diane
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DD
$2,500
[10]
The only 2-letter sign, it represents solid dependability, method & routine
the ox
Deepak
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$2,000
[15]
That very blond guy you met at carnival is called an "alemao", literally a man from this country
Germany
Deepak
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The parents of this 1942 film character are an unnamed mother & a father known as "the great prince of the forest"
Bambi