Tom Walsh game 1.
Tom Walsh — a writer from Washington, D.C.
Naomi Brokaw — a math advisor from Santa Cruz, California
Joe Wolke — a vice president of IT communications and information from Northbrook, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe | $2,000 | $2,000 | $8,000 |
$4,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,600
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Naomi | $2,200 | $2,600 | $5,800 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
10 R, 1 W |
| Tom | $400 | $5,200 | $16,100 |
$16,100
New champion: $16,100 |
$19,600
22 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| COME HERE OFTEN? | CAN I BUY YOU A DRINK? | DO I KNOW YOU FROM SOMEWHERE? | WHAT'S YOUR SINE? | WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN THE MOVIES? | ARE YOU GIVING ME A LINE? |
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$200
[17]
In 1998 it became the seventh continent to get an ESPN feed
Antarctica
Joe
Tom
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$200
[1]
Ingredient in common to a Tequila Sunrise & a Screwdriver
orange juice
Naomi
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$200
[3]
This poet died in Dumfries, Scotland in 1796, just aged 37
Robert Burns
Joe
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$200
[2]
Trigonometry is from Greek words for this shape & "measure"
triangle
Joe
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$200
[12]
First brought to the big screen by D.W. Griffith in 1909, this hugely popular star was once known as "Little Mary"
Mary Pickford
Naomi
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$200
[24]
Running down the coast of California is a big one of these--the San Andreas
fault line
Joe
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$400
[18]
Cry "Yoo-Hoo!" in Canada's Yoho National Park from a peak in this range
the Rockies
Joe
Naomi
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$400
[4]
If you don't have one of these small appliances, you can forget about making frozen Daiquiris
blender
Joe
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$400
[8]
Also known as Abu Mazen or "Father of Mazen", he became Palestinian prime minister in 2003 but later resigned
Mahmoud Abbas
Tom
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$400
[6]
Using trig with the periodic movements of the sun & moon, the times of high & low these can be determined
tides
Naomi
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$400
[13]
Born in South Africa, this female star of "The Italian Job" was discovered in line at a Hollywood bank
Charlize Theron
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$400
[27]
Until the early '70s, this Moscow-Washington link had no speech facilities--it was a teletype
the Hot Line
Joe
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$600
[19]
For our final fling, let's head off to Loch Sunart in this famous northern region of Scotland
the Highlands
Tom
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$600
[5]
2 oz. of white wine & 6 oz. of this & you've got the standard white wine spritzer
club soda
Naomi
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$600
[9]
In 1984, with a thousand bucks & a dream, he founded the computer company named for himself
Michael Dell
Joe
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$600
[7]
Trig comes out of the geometry rules spelled out by this Greek around 300 B.C.
Euclid
Joe
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$600
[14]
Sophia Loren was a struggling teenage model when she met this future husband & beauty contest judge
Carlo Ponti
Joe
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$600
[25]
"Scabs" cross them
picket lines
Tom
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|
$800
[20]
Benbulbin is a peak in this country; you can take a peek at Yeats' grave nearby
Ireland
Tom
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$800
[10]
Traditionally, before you dip the rim of your Margarita glass in the salt, rub it with this
lime'lemon juice
Naomi
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$800
[22]
Born in France in 1596, he was a law student & soldier before becoming the father of modern philosophy
Rene Descartes
Tom
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$800
[29]
Trig comes into play in figuring out distances between points on one of these math shapes, like the Earth
sphere
Tom
|
DD
$600
[16]
She was discovered while performing at the 1940 Aquacade in San Francisco
Esther Williams
Joe
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$800
[26]
It's 60 feet from the head pin on an alley
the foul line (in bowling)
Naomi
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$1,000
[21]
Hoste is an island in this fiery-sounding archipelago off Chile
Tierra del Fuego
Tom
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$1,000
[11]
To make this type of Martini, add a splash of olive juice
Dirty Martini
|
$1,000
[23]
A socialite whose name is still on magazines, he published Mademoisellle & Glamour starting in the 1930s
Conde Nast
|
— |
$800
[15]
Jack Nicholson discovered this Arkansas native & 2 years later she won an Oscar for "Melvin and Howard"
Mary Steenburgen
|
$1,000
[28]
In 1957 this chain of about 60 radar sites along the 70th Parallel went into operation
Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line
|
| OCEANOGRAPHY | "WILD" ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT | MR. & MYTH | TECH TV | NAVAL BATTLES | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME |
|
$400
[17]
This 6-foot unit is used mainly in terms of marine depth, & gave its name to a "meter" that measures depth
fathom
Joe
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$400
[1]
From 1963 to 1985, this TV show was hosted by Marlin Perkins
Wild Kingdom
Naomi
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$400
[15]
Hephaestus became lame after his mother Hera or his father Zeus, we're not sure which, dropped him off this mountain
Mount Olympus
Naomi
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$400
[20]
One gadget on Tech TV's "Fresh Gear" was the Roomba, a robot version of this cleaning device
vacuum
Tom
|
$400
[11]
On March 9, 1862 these 2 ironclads fought for 4 hours with neither ship receiving much damage
the Monitor & the Merrimac
Tom
|
$400
[5]
Morrison, Cliburn, Heflin
Van
Tom
|
|
$800
[18]
The part of the ocean from about 300 to 3,000' feet down is called the thermocline, since this happens as you go deeper
it gets colder
Tom
|
$800
[2]
It's the groovy proto-punk hit from 1966 heard here
"Wild Thing"
Tom
|
$800
[16]
When Zeus flooded the world, Deucalion built one of these; hmmmm, that story sounds familiar
an ark
Joe
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$800
[21]
The program shown here is called this Japanese style "Unleashed"
Anime
Naomi
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$800
[12]
In this 1805 battle Lord Nelson split Admiral Villeneuve's fleet in half & then proceeded to destroy each half
Trafalgar
|
$800
[7]
Costello, Stojko, Grbac
Elvis
Tom
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$1,200
[26]
For scientists, not surfers, 1978's Seasat satellite used radar to measure the heights of these
waves
Tom
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$1,200
[3]
A popular children's book, this Maurice Sendak story was turned into an opera in 1980
Where the Wild Things Are
Tom
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$1,200
[22]
He was called the second-bravest Trojan (Hector was first); Virgil wrote the book on him
Aeneas
Tom
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$1,200
[25]
A "Cybercrime" episode showed how students at Washington's Highline High used computers to change these
grades
Joe
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$1,600
[14]
The 1st extensively recorded naval battle was in 480 B.C. at Salamis where this Greek city-state beat the Persians
Athens
Naomi
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$1,200
[8]
Bradley, Epps, Khayyam
Omar
Tom
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$1,600
[29]
In 1919 the French tested one of these devices that measure the depth of the ocean (ocean ocean ocean)
SONAR (or echosounders)
Tom
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$1,600
[4]
Clark Gable starred in the 1935 big screen version of this Jack London adventure tale
Call of the Wild
Joe
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DD
$1,500
[23]
Iolaos cauterized the places where this hero cut the heads off the Hydra & stopped them from growing back
Hercules
Tom
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$1,600
[27]
It's the workhorse fighter plane profiled here in "Future Fighting Machines"
F-15 (the Eagle)
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
In a 1588 battle this fleet commanded by Medina Sidonia lost 63 ships due to high winds & the British navy
the Spanish Armada
Tom
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$1,600
[9]
Walker, Bernardi, Johnson
Herschel
Tom
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| — |
$2,000
[6]
Even though it was in Swedish, Ingmar Bergman was nominated for an Oscar for writing this 1950s film
Wild Strawberries
|
$2,000
[24]
While king of this city, Eteocles was killed by one of the seven against it
Thebes
Tom
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$2,000
[28]
In 2003 Tech TV took a "First Look" at the new fee-charging version of this music service
Napster
Tom
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$2,000
[19]
The U.S. lost the destroyer Hammann & the aircraft carrier Yorktown in this June 1942 battle in the north Pacific
Midway
Joe
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$2,000
[10]
Horowitz, Nabokov, Zworykin
Vladimir
Tom
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On April 25, 1792 Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person in history to have a bad encounter with this
the guillotine