2009-2010 Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational quarterfinal game 2.
Michael McKean — a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer fromHairsprayandThe Pajama Game
Soledad O'Brien — an anchor and special correspondent from CNN'sSpecial Investigations Unit
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kareem | $600 | $3,200 | $4,400 |
$8,800
2nd place: $25,000 to the Skyhook Foundation |
$12,400
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Soledad | $400 | $-200 | $7,200 |
$6,200
3rd place: $25,000 to the Soledad O'Brien and Brad Raymond Family Foundation |
$5,000
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Michael | $4,000 | $7,000 | $17,400 |
$24,800
Winner: $50,000 to the International Myeloma Foundation |
$17,400
23 R, 2 W |
| AMERICAN HISTORY | FAMOUS O'BRIENS | GOOD BOOKS | OTHER SPORTS LEGENDS | ON THE COVER OFPEOPLE |
|
$200
[6]
You're in the Army now--in 1940 FDR instituted the first peacetime one of these in U.S. history
the draft
Kareem
|
$200
[13]
Cubby O'Brien & Annette Funicello were 2 members of this Disney TV group
the Mouseketeers
Michael
|
$200
[1]
The title of this 1951 J.D. Salinger book doesn't refer to a boozy baseball player
Catcher in the Rye
Michael
|
$200
[11]
On Tennis magazine's list of the 40 greatest players from 1965 to 2005, she's the top female player
Martina Navratilova
Soledad
Michael
|
$200
[21]
The "Best (and Worst!) of 2008" issue had "My Year of Surprises"; she "Talks About Marriage, Men and 'Marley & Me'"
Jennifer Aniston
Soledad
|
|
$400
[7]
This term for a mechanical device can also be an organization running city politics, like NYC's Tammany Hall
a machine
Michael
|
$400
[14]
Edna O'Brien's frank depiction of women's lives has gotten her books banned in this, her native country
Ireland
Michael
|
$400
[2]
Before "The Lord of the Rings" came this other Tolkien tale about little Bilbo & a big dragon
The Hobbit
Kareem
|
$400
[12]
In 2009 this player who holds the record for career steals slid free & clear into the Baseball Hall of Fame
Rickey Henderson
Michael
|
$400
[22]
May 25, 2009: This reality show couple--"We might split up"; July 6: "(Him) to (her): get a lawyer"
Jon & Kate
Michael
|
|
$600
[8]
Edward Brooke was the first African American to hold this post for a state; Eric Holder is the first federal one
Attorney General
Soledad
|
$600
[15]
To cook these vegetables O'Brien, dice them & fry them with onions & green peppers
potatoes
Michael
|
$600
[3]
In addition to his Sherlock Holmes books, he wrote historical nonfiction like "The Great Boer War"
Arthur Conan Doyle
Michael
|
$600
[18]
In 1996 this "Golden Boy" TKOed Julio Cesar Chavez in 4 rounds; in '98, it took him 8
Oscar De La Hoya
|
$600
[23]
In 2008, "A Decade After Revealing His Parkinson's", this movie & sitcom "Star Talks About How He and His Family Cope"
Michael J. Fox
Michael
|
|
$800
[9]
Buzz Aldrin & Jim Lovelldo look liketwinsas they prepare for a mission in this 1960s program
Gemini
Michael
|
$800
[16]
In 1996 Dan O'Brien won a gold medal in this grueling Olympic sport, the first American to do so since Bruce Jenner
the decathlon
Kareem
Soledad
|
$800
[4]
In a review, Time magazine referred to the title man of this 1925 novel as a "Jazz Age zillionaire"
The Great Gatsby
Michael
|
$800
[19]
As a rookie in 1975, this Chicago Bear led the league in kickoff returns; he went on to a "sweet" career as a running back
Walter Payton
Kareem
|
$800
[24]
On March 31, 2008 it was "Twin Bliss! Intimate Photos at Home" with her, "Marc Anthony and Max and Emme"
Jennifer Lopez
Michael
|
|
$1,000
[10]
This man's 1807 steamboat run up the Hudson led to an 1824 Supreme Court decision on interstate commerce
(Robert) Fulton
Kareem
|
$1,000
[17]
At the end of Prohibition in 1933, Pat O'Brien converted his speakeasy to a legal bar in this city
New Orleans
Michael
|
$1,000
[5]
In a Toni Morrison novel, Sethe kills her daughter named this so she won't know a life of servitude
Beloved
Kareem
Michael
|
$1,000
[20]
Until 1994 this right wing for the Detroit Red Wings held the NHL record for the most goals with 801
Gordie Howe
Kareem
|
$1,000
[25]
December 17, 2007: "Stop Calling Me Fat!"; this "Ghost Whisperer" "Urges Women to 'Put on a Bikini and Stay Strong'"
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Michael
|
| HEALTH & MEDICINE | TV SOLE DADS | I WENT TO UCLA | JAZZ ODYSSEY | LISTEN TO THE FLOWER PEOPLE | BIG BOTTOM |
|
$400
[14]
Formerly known as insulin dependent, type 1 of this disease accounts for only 5-10% of all cases of the disease
diabetes
Soledad
|
$400
[9]
Widower & sole dad Billy Ray Cyrus raises a pop star daughter on this Disney Channel sitcom
Hannah Montana
Soledad
|
$400
[21]
Tell your old man to drag this '70s UCLA & Trail Blazer center (& Lanier!) up & down the court for 48 minutes
Bill Walton
Kareem
|
$400
[4]
This brilliant pianist's compositions include "Blue Monk" & "'Round Midnight"
Thelonious Monk
Michael
|
$400
[24]
A Dutch flower seller once told me that daffodils & tulips are most often grown from these, not seeds
bulbs
Soledad
|
$400
[1]
Seabed samples suggest that this 970,000-square-mile sea between Europe & Africa was once largely dry
the Mediterranean Sea
Kareem
|
|
$800
[15]
Extreme cold can bring on hypothermia & this condition, when areas of skin & underlying tissue freeze
frostbite
Michael
|
$800
[10]
David Hasselhoff was a divorced single dad on this '90s smash; luckily, he had a few babes around to console him
Baywatch
Soledad
|
$1,200
[23]
Here's an offer you can't refuse: name this co-writer & director of "The Godfather"
Francis Ford Coppola
Soledad
Michael
|
$800
[5]
May 30, 2009 would have been the 100th birthday of this clarinetist & "King of Swing"
Benny Goodman
Michael
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
My Latin teacher often reminded me that the name of this month comes from a Latin word meaning "'when flower buds open"
April
Soledad
|
$800
[2]
The bottom of this ocean has a ridge that rises to form islands like Iceland & St. Helena
the Atlantic Ocean
Kareem
|
|
$1,200
[16]
A lumbar puncture, used to diagnose things like meningitis, is also called this
a spinal tap
Kareem
|
$1,200
[11]
The movie "Tin Men" said this classic TV Western was about "a 50-year-old father with three 47-year-old sons"
Bonanza
Michael
|
DD
$8,000
[22]
Kirsten Gillibrand got her law degree from UCLA in 1991 & filled the Senate seat left vacant by this woman in 2009
Hillary Clinton
Kareem
|
$1,200
[6]
The Encyclopedia Britannica calls this Hot Five bandleader "the first superstar of jazz"
Louis Armstrong
Michael
|
— |
$1,200
[3]
A lowlife opportunist, or a fish like the lake sturgeon, which takes sustenance from the bed of big lakes
a bottom-feeder
Michael
|
|
$1,600
[17]
One of the things the MMR vaccine protects against is this viral infection that causes swelling of the salivary glands
mumps
Soledad
|
$1,600
[12]
His wife is killed in a courthouse shooting, leaving Detective Sipowicz to raise their baby boy alone in this cop drama
NYPD Blue
Michael
|
— |
$1,600
[7]
A 2008 Grammy went to the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's "Monday Night Live at" this venue
the Village Vanguard
Kareem
|
— |
$1,600
[19]
The 600,000-square-mile bottom of this gulf off the southern U.S. includes the Sigsbee Abyssal Plain
the Gulf of Mexico
Kareem
|
|
$2,000
[18]
A.L.S., the most common form of motor neuron disease, is also named for him
Lou Gehrig
Kareem
|
$2,000
[13]
Widower Fred MacMurray raised Mike, Robbie, Chip & Ernie (go figure!) on this long-running comedy
My Three Sons
Soledad
|
— |
$2,000
[8]
This Dave Brubeck Quartet tune got its title because it's played with an irregular quintuple time signature
"Take Five"
Michael
|
— |
$2,000
[20]
In 2008, over 65 years after it was sunk, HMAS Sydney was found 11/2 miles down in this ocean off Western Australia
the Indian Ocean
Kareem
|
Trees with biblical names include the Joshua tree & the world's oldest tree, a 4,700-year-old pine named for him
Methuselah