Ask Alex #15: Sport.Champion Update #3: Dan Melia.
Charles Murphy — a health care and financial services advisor from Westmont, Illinois
Edie Chang — an engineer from Sacramento, California
Leland Graham III — a research specialist and project coordinator from Rock Hill, South Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $48,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leland G. | $1,400 | $1,800 | $16,800 |
$1,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Edie | $3,800 | $4,800 | $9,200 |
$9,200
New champion: $9,200 |
$11,200
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Charles | $3,400 | $7,000 | $16,200 |
$6,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| DANCING STARS | BIBLICAL NAME'S THE SAME | MOO | CANNIBAL CUISINE | WE'RE ALL "WAITING" | EUROPE, AGES AGO |
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$200
[19]
He cut a rug with Cameron Diaz in "The Mask"
Jim Carrey
Leland G.
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$200
[1]
Benchley, Boyle,O'Toole
Peter
Leland G.
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$200
[4]
"Cow's breakfast" is a slang term for a big straw one of these worn by a farmer
a hat
Leland G.
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$200
[9]
First course, fettuccine & shiitake these in a cream sauce with Madeira wine; then I have a surprise for you
mushrooms
Leland G.
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$200
[16]
Where you sit at the doctor's office reading ancient magazines
the waiting room
Edie
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$200
[26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew hands us down a tale from the Lejre Archaeological Research Center, Denmark.) How stones of several tons were moved & lifted with Stone Age technology is the mystery of structures called dolmens, which were built as these
tombs
Leland G.
|
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$400
[21]
Tina Fey said acting with Alec Baldwin is like this man dancing with a hatrack--he makes the hatrack look good
Fred Astaire
Charles
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$400
[2]
Judd, Campbell, Watts
Naomi
Leland G.
Charles
|
$400
[7]
In a timeworn phrase, something that may never take place won't happen "until the cows" do this
come home
Leland G.
|
$400
[12]
I hope you give an "A" to my salad of these pungent leaves, also called rocket; it's a perfect side dish for you
arugula
Edie
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$400
[17]
This feature lets you know someone else is trying to reach you on the phone while you're talking to another
call waiting
Leland G.
|
$400
[27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports with a modern European from the Lejre Archaeological Research Center, Denmark.) Drinking horns show the importance of booze in the Iron Age; until wine spread up from the south, the choices were beer & this honey-based drink
mead
Edie
|
|
$600
[22]
He danced with cartoon mouse Jerry (as in Tom &) in "Anchors Aweigh", the film that established him as a superstar
Gene Kelly
Edie
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$600
[3]
Pitman, Mizrahi, Bashevis Singer
Isaac
Charles
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$600
[8]
A flirtatious female is said to be "making" these cow parts "at you"
eyes
Charles
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$600
[13]
What's in this 4-letter spread of pureed game, served in your hors d'oeuvre? That's my secret, isn't it?
pâte
Edie
|
$600
[18]
Female attendants to a queen
ladies-in-waiting
Charles
|
$800
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew plants information in our minds from the Lejre Archaeological Research Center, Denmark.) The Lejre site has recreated a sacrificial bog like those from which many bodies have been recovered, luckily preserved by sphagnan, a component of this plant material
moss
Charles
|
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$800
[24]
She danced with the animated MC Skat Kat in the video to her 1990 no. 1 hit "Opposites Attract"
Paula Abdul
Edie
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$800
[5]
Leakey,McCarthy, Matalin
Mary
Charles
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$800
[10]
Of all the world's countries, this one has the most cattle (appropriately, if you think about it...)
India
Charles
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$800
[14]
This 2-word small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin goes well with postman
filet mignon
Edie
|
$800
[20]
Drama in which Estragon & Vladimir idly pass time away hoping for the title character to appear
Waiting for Godot
Charles
|
$1,000
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew hammers out a clue from the Lejre Archaeological Research Center, Denmark.) Because it's the Iron Age, the village has this, as in a Longfellow poem; it forged everything from axes to knives
a smithy (or blacksmith)
Charles
|
|
$1,000
[25]
A lowlight of this Brat Packer's career: singing & dancing with Snow White at the Academy Awards in 1989
Rob Lowe
|
$1,000
[6]
Silver, Grey,McCrea
Joel
Charles
|
$1,000
[11]
"The cattle are lowing" in this ever-popular Christmas carol
"Away In A Manger"
Edie
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$1,000
[15]
Dessert! I'll have the ladyfingers, please, a small type of this "absorbent" cake; oh, you thought I meant...!
sponge cake
Edie
|
$1,000
[23]
Terry McMillan's bestselling 1992 novel about 4 African-American friends
Waiting to Exhale
Edie
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew chops up a fact for us at the Lejre Archaeological Research Center, Denmark.) The Stone Age is divided into three parts, depending on the sophistication of the tools; these antler axes tell us we're in this middle part
the Mesolithic
Edie
|
| SHAKESPEARE-POURRI | LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST | MEASURE FOR MEASURE | THE TEMPEST | HAMLET | MUCH "ADO" ABOUT NOTHING |
|
$400
[1]
The origins of this Shakespeare tragedy go back to Ovid's tale of Pyramus & Thisbe
Romeo & Juliet
Charles
|
$400
[26]
This actor divorced Demi Moore in 2000; did she ask for the whole 9 yards?
Bruce Willis
Leland G.
|
$400
[13]
A thrave is 24 sheaves of this grain, whether spring, winter or durum
wheat
Leland G.
|
$400
[11]
Often compared to golf balls, this is the largest form of precipitation
hail
Leland G.
|
$400
[21]
Dramatized by an HBO series, this Black Hills South Dakota hamlet boomed & waned with nearby gold mines
Deadwood
Leland G.
|
$400
[3]
Japanese for "exalted gate", it was a title once used for the emperor of Japan
Mikado
Charles
|
|
$800
[2]
Shakespeare provided the first printed appearance of this word, from the Spanish for "lizard"
alligator
|
$800
[27]
He divorced Farrah Fawcett in 1982; did that make him the $3 Million Man?
Lee Majors
Leland G.
|
$800
[17]
For dry measurements, it's one eighth of a peck; for liquid, it's .946 liters
a quart
Edie
|
$800
[12]
The cold phase of the weather-causing phenomenon El Niño is referred to as "La" this
Niña
Edie
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$1,200
[23]
"We bathe the world" is the slogan of this West Central Arkansas town
Hot Springs
Edie
|
$800
[4]
It's Spanish for "Saturday"
sábado
Charles
|
|
$1,200
[8]
It's the "earthy" Shakespearean term for the lower-class spectators
groundlings
Leland G.
|
$1,200
[28]
"It's the Pitts" was one headline describing Brad's broken engagement with her in 1997
Gwyneth Paltrow
|
$1,200
[18]
In viscosity ratings, the "W" in 10W-40 means 10 is the winter grade rating of this liquid
motor oil
Edie
|
$1,200
[14]
Monsoons prevail mainly in this ocean
the Indian
Leland G.
|
$1,600
[24]
On May 28, 1934 this fivesome was born in the hamlet of Callander, Ontario
the Dionne Quintuplets
Leland G.
|
$1,200
[5]
The easternmost island of the West Indies, its national flag is seen here
Barbados
Charles
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Lysander uses the word "bedroom" while trying to convince Hermia to sleep close to him in this comic play
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Charles
|
$1,600
[29]
Steven Spielberg divorced this actress in '89; was the courtroom a War of the Worlds? (Sorry, pun fatigue [I'm sure])
Amy Irving
|
$1,600
[19]
In a surveyor's chain, it's a unit of length equal to 7.92 inches; on the web, it's an object connected via hypertext
a link
|
$1,600
[15]
Meteorologist Theodore Fujita came up with the F-scale based on wind damage while studying these events
tornadoes
Leland G.
Edie
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$2,000
[25]
Sherwood Anderson's collection of short stories about life in a small Ohio Town
Winesburg, Ohio
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
In 1988 Congress passed an Indoor Abatement Act to reduce levels of this toxic gas in the home
radon
Charles
|
|
$2,000
[10]
"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed", explains Rosalind in this comedy
As You Like It
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1999 director James Cameron's marriage to this actress--dare we say--terminated?
Linda Hamilton
Charles
|
$2,000
[20]
With regard to height, 3 hands equals 1 of these
a foot
Charles
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$2,000
[16]
Some cyclones turn clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere due to this effect, which has no influence on toilet rotation
the Coriolis effect
Edie
|
DD
$7,000
[22]
This southernmost Florida town, population 25,000, takes its name from Cayo Hueso, or "Bone Island" in Spanish
Key West
Leland G.
|
$2,000
[7]
This handsome young man loved by Aphrodite was killed by a wild boar
Adonis
Charles
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On Advertising Age's list of the Top 10 Ad Icons of the 20th c., they're the 2 alliterative entries that end in "Man"
the Michelin Man & the Marlboro Man