Dave Belote game 2.
Emily Brown — a fund-raiser from Lincoln, Rhode Island
Todd Ryan — a biology student from Jacksonville, Florida
Dave Belote — the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $39,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave | $1,400 | $5,600 | $13,200 |
$20,601
2-day champion: $60,600 |
$13,200
17 R, 1 W |
| Todd | $2,600 | $9,400 | $20,600 |
$20,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Emily | $2,600 | $3,400 | $15,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
15 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| NATIONAL ANTHEMS | DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS | JAILHOUSE ROCK | ALSO A U.S. STATE | COMMON LAST NAME'S THE SAME | WOODSTOCK |
|
$200
[1]
"Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the Queen"
the United Kingdom
Todd
|
$200
[30]
In Islam, the supreme being
Allah
Emily
|
$200
[12]
Al Capone & Machine Gun Kelly did time on this rock in San Francisco Bay
Alcatraz
Todd
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$200
[17]
It was destroyed in Havana Harbor on Feb. 15, 1898
the USS Maine
Todd
|
$200
[7]
Samuel, Don, Rafer
Johnson
Dave
Todd
|
$200
[2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) For an exhibit commemorating the 40th anniversary of the event, the museum constructed a replica of the Montreal hotel room used by this couple during their Bed-In for Peace
John & Yoko
Todd
|
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$400
[22]
"Arise, Ye Who Refuse To Be Slaves; With Our Very Flesh And Blood Let Us Build Our New Great Wall"
China
Todd
|
$400
[29]
In baseball, it's a play in which a runner is caught off base & thrown out by the pitcher or catcher
a pickoff
Dave
Todd
Emily
|
$400
[13]
From 1964 to 1982 this Nobelist was incarcerated on rocky Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town
Mandela
Dave
|
$400
[18]
A numbered shirt you just bought from your favorite football team
a New Jersey
Dave
Todd
|
$400
[8]
Tom, Shirley, Davy
Jones
Dave
|
$400
[3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) If you can't make it here to upstate New York, go to woodstock.com to read bios of performers like this man who closed the festival with blistering versions of "The Star Spangled Banner" & "Hey Joe"
Jimi Hendrix
Todd
|
|
$600
[23]
"All Should Love, Awe And Cherish Thee, Gracious Is Thy Nile To Humanity"
Egypt
Todd
|
$600
[28]
To baby, or to cook eggs in water just below the boiling point
to coddle
Dave
|
$600
[14]
The infamous penal colony on this rocky islet off the coast of South America opened in 1852
Devil's Island
Emily
|
$600
[19]
This band of "Wayward Sons" is fronted by Steve Walsh
Kansas
Todd
|
$600
[9]
Kate, Keely, Will
Smith
Emily
|
$600
[4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) In the museum's theater, visitors can relax on beanbag chairs & watch festival highlights, such as the work of this Indian sitar master & friend of The Beatles
Ravi Shankar
Emily
|
|
$800
[24]
"Sons Of The Gael! Men Of The Pale! The Long Watched Day Is Breaking"
Ireland
Dave
|
$800
[27]
From the Middle English for "knife", it means to cut small shavings from a piece of wood
to whittle
Todd
|
$800
[15]
Accused Kurdish terrorist Abdullah Ocalan is the sole inmate held on this country's rocky island of Imrali
Turkey
Dave
|
$1,000
[21]
First name of Ms. Engel of "Mary Tyler Moore" fame
Georgia
Dave
|
$800
[10]
Seth, Isiah, Clarence
Thomas
Emily
|
$800
[5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) The festival's iconic poster lists several acts who didn't end up playing, including these heavy metal forefathers who sang "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"--they ended up stuck at an airport
Iron Butterfly
Todd
|
|
$1,000
[25]
"Beneath Our Radiant Southern Cross We'll Toil With Hearts And Hands"
Australia
Dave
|
$1,000
[26]
A sophisticated debating technique is to point out that "I'm" this, "you're glue"
rubber
Emily
|
$1,000
[16]
This "Chateau" on a tiny rock in the Mediterranean was a prison in real life, not just in "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Château d'If
Todd
|
DD
$4,000
[20]
2-word beseeching request for Ms. Fanning to continue in the direction of Antarctica
South Dakota
Todd
|
$1,000
[11]
James, Jerry, Gatemouth
Brown
Emily
|
$1,000
[6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) Woodstock opened with a performance by this African-American folk artist who was called back for so many encores, he ran out of material & had to improvise his now classic "Freedom"
Richie Havens
Todd
Emily
|
| MATH | MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS 2009 | OPERA | LETTER, PLEASE | DEATH IN VENICE | LIFE IN DES MOINES |
|
$400
[11]
Popular in geometry, as in logic, are statements known as "if..." this
& then
Todd
|
$400
[16]
On September 25 she turned 40 & her husband Michael Douglas turned 65
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Emily
|
$400
[23]
"The Canterbury Pilgrims", an 1884 opera, is based on a work by him
Geoffrey Chaucer
Todd
|
$400
[6]
Thiamin is the first of this vitamin group
B
Dave
|
$400
[1]
Peggy of this American family of art patrons turned her Venice palazzo into a museum; her ashes are in its garden
Guggenheim
Emily
|
$400
[21]
You can't miss this building, finished in 1886 & regilded in 1927, 1965 & 1998
the Capitol
Dave
|
|
$800
[12]
The formula to find the area of one of these is 1/2 base times height
a triangle
Todd
|
$800
[17]
Don't expect this Fox News "Culture Warrior" to mellow in his 60s, which started September 10
Bill O'Reilly
Dave
|
$1,200
[27]
In a fairy tale Rossini opera, Angelina is called this
Cinderella ( La Cenerentola )
Emily
|
$800
[7]
U.N. Secretary-General Thant's initial letter
U
Dave
|
$800
[2]
It's the main character Gustave von Aschenbach who succumbs in this author's "Death in Venice"
Thomas Mann
Dave
|
$800
[22]
A bar, opened in 2005, that re-creates an old-time tavern atmosphere is named for this Miller beer
High Life
Emily
|
|
$1,200
[13]
In coordinate geometry, the abscissa is the distance of a point from this vertical axis
the y -axis
Todd
|
$1,200
[18]
September marked the 80th birthday of this golfer & the 20th of his hospital that's helped an "Army" of kids
Arnold Palmer
Todd
|
$1,600
[26]
"Pagliacci" is almost always performed with this 1-act Mascagni opera, "Cav" for short
Cavalleria rusticana
|
$1,200
[8]
Females have 2 copies of this chromosome
X
Dave
|
$1,200
[3]
This composer died in the Palazzo Vendramin but was buried in the garden at Wahnfried, his home in Bayreuth
(Richard) Wagner
Emily
|
$1,200
[24]
Let's visit Wallace House, home to a family that produced 2 Secys. of this; maybe there'll be Vilsack House someday
agriculture
Dave
|
|
$1,600
[14]
The continuous summing of a change in a function over an interval, it's the inverse process of differentiation
integration
Todd
|
$1,600
[19]
We hope his cast mates threwhiman "Office" party when he turned 30 on October 20
(John) Krasinski
Emily
|
$2,000
[28]
Tom Rakewell is lured into a life of vice in this 1951 opera based on a series of engravings by William Hogarth
The Rake's Progress
|
$1,600
[9]
Tomcats, Falcons & Eagles get this alphabetical designation in the Air Force
F
Todd
|
$2,000
[5]
This Russian founder of the Ballets Russes fell into a coma & died while on holiday in Venice
Sergei Diaghilev
|
$1,600
[25]
The annual Pridefest is more festive since the April 2009 decision that allowed this in Iowa
gay marriage
Emily
|
|
$2,000
[15]
When 2 of these intersect, their intersection is a straight line
a plane
Dave
|
$2,000
[20]
She married fellow musician Ryan Adams in March, a month before turning 25
Mandy Moore
Todd
|
DD
$4,000
[29]
Several operas based on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" are named for this Gypsy girl
Esméralda
Emily
|
$2,000
[10]
Precedes "priori" in a Latin phrase used in the study of logic
a
Todd
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
This physicist who noted an effect in sound waves from moving sources died in Venice in 1853 & is buried in its San Michele
(Christian) Doppler
Emily
|
$2,000
[30]
Des Moinesians keep current with this newspaper, founded in a log cabin in 1849
The Des Moines Register
|
The name of this royal daughter from a tragedy is from a word meaning "little king"
Regan (from King Lear )