Ask Alex #21: Animal.
Marianne Fichtel — an investor relations manager from Brooklyn, New York
Anthony Ambrogi — a college admissions director from Richmond, Virginia
Francois Dominic Laramée — a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| François | $2,000 | $3,000 | $4,600 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
9 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Anthony | $6,000 | $8,100 | $13,300 |
$300
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,800
25 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Marianne | $0 | $2,000 | $18,500 |
$10,399
New champion: $10,399 |
$18,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| A YEAR ENDING IN '09 | MOVIES BY SONGS | POTPOURRI (REALLY) | INTO AFRICA | ANCIENT ROMAN DINING | GOING "PRO" |
|
$200
[11]
Peary & Henson reach the North Pole
1909
Anthony
|
$200
[16]
1997:"My Heart Will Go On"
Titanic
Marianne
|
$200
[26]
Yankee Scents of New England makes a red, white & blue potpourri named for this holiday
Independence Day (the 4th of July)
Anthony
|
$200
[2]
These 2 oceans meet at South Africa's Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point in Africa
the Atlantic & the Indian
Anthony
|
$200
[21]
It was the only animal raised purely for consumption; the snout was a particular delicacy
pig
François
|
$200
[1]
10-letter word for the owner of an establishment
proprietor
Anthony
|
|
$400
[12]
Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
1809
Anthony
|
$400
[17]
1999:"Blame Canada"
South Park
François
|
$400
[27]
Eli Whitney probably knew that many potpourris use the fruit of this plant of the genus Gossypium
cotton
François
|
$400
[3]
Stop at the Falls Bridge or the Boiling Pot when you visit this magnificent African waterfall
Victoria Falls
Anthony
|
$400
[22]
The Magister Bibendi determined the proportion of water to this in the mixture that was drunk; 2 to 1 was common
wine
Anthony
|
$400
[4]
Profusely productive, like some authors
prolific
François
|
|
$600
[13]
The first major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches the Carolinas
1709
Anthony
|
$600
[18]
1976:"Gonna Fly Now"
Rocky
Anthony
|
$600
[28]
Potpourri is often used to fill these small scented packets with a French name
sachets
|
$600
[8]
It's the North African capital considered the center of Coptic Christianity
Cairo
Anthony
|
$600
[23]
The finest type of this substance used in almost every dish came from Croatia; the cheapest kind was only for lamps
olive oil
Anthony
|
$600
[5]
This gas used primarily as a fuel is also called dimethylmethane
propane
Anthony
|
|
$800
[14]
Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1609
Anthony
|
$800
[19]
1969:"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Anthony
|
$800
[29]
Though they can irritate skin, the red hot fruits of this edible plant, Capsicum annuum, are found in some potpourris
jalapeño (Cayenne accepted)
Marianne
|
$800
[9]
Dakar, the capital of this country, is the westernmost city in continental Africa
Senegal
François
|
$1,000
[25]
A dish called placenta resembled a cheese version of this gooey Greek pastry
baklava
Anthony
|
$800
[6]
This Titan was the father of Deucalion
Prometheus
François
|
|
$1,000
[15]
King Henry VII of England dies
1509
Anthony
|
$1,000
[20]
1983:"Maniac"
Flashdance
Marianne
|
$1,000
[30]
The Royal Botanic Gardens at this London estate has a research collection of more than 700 types of potpourri
Kew Gardens
|
$1,000
[10]
Aside from the Republic of the Congo, one of the 3 countries once known together as French Equatorial Africa
(1 of) Chad, Gabon & the Central African Republic
|
DD
$1,500
[24]
The equivalent of "soup to nuts" was "ab ovo usque ad mala"--meals began with these & ended with fruit
eggs
Anthony
|
$1,000
[7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of three footprints on the monitor.) An imprint of your foot can determine if you have a normal, high or low arch; a low arch causes the foot to roll inward too much when running, called over- this
pronating
Anthony
|
| CELEBRATING POE'S BICENTENNIAL | THE BELLES | THE RAVEN | THE PURLOINED LETTER | THE PREMATURE BURIAL | THE "GOLD" BUG |
|
$400
[1]
Sadly, Poe's still-mysterious death happened just 10 days before this event he'd planned with Elmira Shelton
his wedding
Anthony
|
$400
[6]
Mary Ann Mobley was Miss Mississippi before winning this national title
Miss America
Marianne
|
$400
[11]
One study in this "Last Frontier" state showed that ravens have more than 30 distinct vocalizations
Alaska
Marianne
|
$400
[12]
In 2006, brothers Jim & Dean Thomas helped catch a thief selling stolen Civil War letters on this auction website
eBay
Anthony
|
$400
[13]
Among the items found in this boy king's tomb were bows & arrows, toys, games & jewelry
King Tut
Anthony
|
$400
[16]
We're rich! Oh, wait... it's only this, iron pyrite
fool's gold
Anthony
|
|
$800
[2]
Instead of happy hours, the Poe Museum in Richmond, Va. celebrates Poe with these antonymic events
unhappy hours
François
|
$800
[7]
Louisville belles wear custom-made hats for this equine event on the first Saturday in May
the Kentucky Derby
François
|
$800
[27]
In Norse myth, this god had 2 ravens that flew about the world each day & came back to tell what they had seen
Odin
Marianne
|
$800
[23]
A 1783 letter signed by this general (& future president) was stolen in the 1940s but turned up at a 2006 auction
George Washington
Marianne
|
$800
[14]
Peter II, Czar of Russia from 1727 to 1730, died at age 14 in an outbreak of this now-eradicated disease
smallpox
Marianne
|
$800
[19]
You earn one of these with 500,000 sold copies of your latest musical single
a gold record
Anthony
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Visit Poe's room at the University of Virginia & you'll notice that it has this appropriate number
13
Anthony
|
DD
$1,600
[8]
The title of a play & a film written by Robert Harling popularized this 2-word "floral" term for Southern women
steel magnolias
François
|
$1,200
[28]
The raven is part of this bird's family, but "as the raven flies" just doesn't sound as good
crow
Marianne
|
$1,200
[24]
Oh, "The Sound and the Fury" when 6 of this novelist's letters were stolen in 2002 (they were later found)
Faulkner
Marianne
|
$1,200
[15]
His son Hamnet died of unknown causes in 1596 at the age of 11
William Shakespeare
|
$1,200
[20]
It's the variety of tall herbsseen here
goldenrod
Marianne
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Take a tour of St. John's Church Cemetery, where Eliza, this relative of Poe's, is buried, led by an actress portraying her
his mother
Anthony
|
$1,600
[9]
Born in N.C. in 1768, this cupcake was the belle of Washington society even after she was first lady
Dolley Madison
Marianne
|
$1,600
[29]
A raven's not picky, eating rodents, insects, grain & garbage in this kind of diet, from the Latin for "all eating"
omnivore
Marianne
|
$1,600
[25]
Somehow, this fascist dictator stole Clara Petacci's heart, & hundreds of their love letters are missing
Mussolini
Anthony
|
$1,600
[17]
Both his sons with Catherine of Aragon were Henry, Duke of Cornwall, & both died in infancy
Henry VIII
Anthony
|
$1,600
[21]
This cartoonist drew intricate diagrams of impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing
(Rube) Goldberg
François
|
|
$2,000
[5]
The Casemate Museum in Fort Monroe, Va. has an exhibit on Poe's military life, including his appt. to this school
West Point
Marianne
|
$2,000
[10]
His Southern belle play "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" is a revision of his more famous "Summer and Smoke"
Tennessee Williams
|
DD
$2,500
[30]
The motto of Raven Beer, based in this appropriate city: "The taste is poetic"
Baltimore
Marianne
|
$2,000
[26]
Stolen letters & blackmail were part of the ill luck leading to this "Earnest" playwright's rack & ruin
Oscar Wilde
Marianne
|
$2,000
[18]
This romantic poet was only 25 when he died in Italy of tuberculosis in 1821
John Keats
Marianne
|
$2,000
[22]
When FDR took the U.S. economy off this, his budget director asserted, "This is the end of... civilization"
the gold standard
Marianne
|
Of the 30 corporations that make up the Dow Jones index, it's the only one that began as an entertainment company
Disney