2009-2010 Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational quarterfinal game 4.
Joshua Malina — a TV actor and creator/producer fromCelebrity Poker Showdown
Harry Shearer — a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice fromThe Simpsons
Christopher Meloni — a star fromLaw & Order: SVUand HBO'sOz
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher | $3,000 | $5,200 | $13,200 |
$200
2nd place: $25,000 to Smile Train |
$13,200
18 R, 2 W |
| Harry | $2,400 | $5,000 | $13,000 |
$17,000
Winner: $50,000 to Common Ground Relief |
$13,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Joshua | $1,800 | $3,400 | $7,900 |
$1
3rd place: $25,000 to the Archer School for Girls |
$9,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| THEATRE | CELEBRITY HEADACHES | HAPPY FEDERAL HOLIDAY! | NAME THAT LANGUAGE | IN PLAIN SIGHT | LIMERICK TIME |
|
$200
[8]
"To be or not to be", Ralph Fiennes & more recently Jude Law have delivered the famous soliloquy as this Great Dane
Hamlet
Christopher
|
$200
[13]
If you're a celebrity, these photographers named for a character in a movie can be anywhere
paparazzi
Christopher
|
$200
[6]
In 1789 a general proclamation was issued naming November 26 a day of national this
thanksgiving
Harry
|
$200
[1]
¿Donde esta el baño?
Spanish
Christopher
|
$200
[16]
You can see George Washington in profile from Highway 244, the road to this national memorial
Mount Rushmore
Harry
Joshua
|
$200
[24]
Tom was certainly bitter / It leaked: He was a knitter! / He always would rue / That all his pals knew / How'd it get posted on ____
Twitter
Joshua
|
|
$400
[9]
In the female version of this play, Olive Madison is the slob & Florence Unger is the fussy neatnik
The Odd Couple
Harry
|
$400
[14]
Even in small towns, people might come up to you & ask for one of these, from the words meaning "self writing"
an autograph
Harry
|
$400
[7]
This man's Jan. 15 birthday is honored each year with a holiday on the third Monday of the month
Martin Luther King
Joshua
|
$400
[2]
Ich möchte etwas aus Leder
German
Christopher
|
$400
[17]
No wonder it's so long--it was built over 2 millennia across northern China & southern Mongolia
the Great Wall of China
Harry
|
$400
[25]
Miss Lee once tried to answer / What sign belonged to a dancer / "Pisces! / Oh crises! / I knew I should've guessed ____"
Cancer
|
|
$600
[12]
This Alfred Uhry play was based on the story of his Jewish grandmother & her black chauffeur
Driving Miss Daisy
Christopher
|
$600
[15]
It can be tough remembering your password for your secret bank account in this most populous city in Switzerland
Zurich
Christopher
|
DD
$400
[10]
In 1792 NYC honored the 300th anniv. of a famous arrival with the first major U.S. celebration of this holiday
Columbus Day
Harry
|
$600
[3]
Questa camera non mi piace molto
Italian
Joshua
|
$600
[18]
It's the highest concrete arch dam in the United States
the Hoover
Christopher
|
$600
[26]
Joe felt he should repent / So, off to church he went / The priest decreed / Joe wouldn't feed / He'd fast 40 days like it's ___
Lent
Joshua
|
|
$800
[22]
This playwright's "The Night of the Iguana" takes place at the rustic Costa Verde Hotel in Mexico
Tennessee Williams
Christopher
|
— |
$800
[11]
I've never belted out "Here We Come A-Wassailing", traditionally sung to celebrate this, but I'm still takin' this day off!
Christmas
Joshua
|
$800
[4]
Kawa ga made toi desu ka
Japanese
Christopher
|
$800
[19]
Parts of this natural wonder seenhereare just 10 miles off the shore of northeastern Australia
the Great Barrier Reef
Christopher
|
— |
|
$1,000
[23]
The musical "Nine" is an adaptation of this Italian director's movie "8 1/2"
Federico Fellini
Harry
|
— |
$1,000
[21]
Matthew Maguire, a machinist, played a big role in staging the first parade for this holiday in NYC in September 1882
Labor Day
Joshua
|
$1,000
[5]
Veni, vidi, vici
Latin
Harry
|
$1,000
[20]
There are more than 600 of those gigantic big head statues on this Chilean island
Easter Island
Harry
|
— |
| SCIENCE | THE FOLKSMEN | IN A GOOD CAUSE | PEOPLEBOOKS | STABLER | "ARG"!!! |
|
$400
[20]
This green pigment is required for photosynthesis
chlorophyll
Harry
|
$400
[8]
This "Freewheelin'" folkster was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1941
Bob Dylan
Christopher
|
$400
[7]
After helping out in the American Revolution, Tadeusz Kosciuszko went home to fight for this land's freedom
Poland
Harry
|
$400
[13]
In "Home Game", Michael Lewis' flaws "amuse more than irritate", like changing only 7 of his son's first 600 of these
diapers
Christopher
|
$400
[2]
This 3-letter piece stabilizes the motion of an airplane, rocket or fish
a fin
Harry
|
$400
[1]
As a noun, it's a flat boat; as a verb, it's often used with "in" & means to rudely interrupt
barge
Christopher
|
|
$800
[21]
One meter equals 39.37 of these
inches
Joshua
|
$800
[10]
First names of Messrs. Yarrow & Stookey, who folked it up with the late Mary Travers
Peter & Paul
Christopher
|
$800
[9]
Add 1 letter to quality to get this quality that W.E.B. Du Bois fought for
equality
Harry
|
$800
[14]
Want an "endearing memoir-with-recipes"? Try Giulia Melucci's "I loved, I lost, I made" this popular pasta
spaghetti
Joshua
|
$800
[27]
Carboxymethyl cellulose & locust bean gum make this cold, sweet treat more stable
ice cream
Harry
|
$800
[3]
It's the white space around printed matter
margin
|
|
$1,600
[25]
A depiction of this dinosaur of the Cretaceous period isseen here
a Triceratops
Christopher
Joshua
|
$1,200
[12]
His 1965 "Songbook" album includes solo versions of "I Am A Rock" & "The Sound Of Silence"
Paul Simon
Joshua
|
$1,200
[11]
According to the Innocence Project, 17 convicts who were exonerated using DNA had spent time on this row
death row
Harry
|
$1,200
[15]
Clarissa Cruz called Jennifer Weiner's novel "engaging"; She & Jen must be BFFs, short for these (also the title)
best friends forever
Christopher
|
$1,200
[28]
If you live in L.A. you know this word is used for reinforcing an existing building so it's stabler for the next quake
retrofit
Harry
Joshua
|
$1,200
[4]
I'm so sluggish & apathetic; I'm so this that I can hardly finish reading the cl...
lethargic
Christopher
|
|
$2,000
[24]
pH, the measure of acidity, stands for "potential of" this most abundant element
hydrogen
Christopher
|
$1,600
[17]
In the late '50s Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds & Bob Shane earned folk fame as this group
The Kingston Trio
Harry
|
$1,600
[16]
Doctors Without Borders has given out nets in malaria-ridden Guinea; not for basketball but to stop these insects
mosquitoes
Harry
|
$1,600
[22]
A review of "South of Broad" says Pat Conroy's "first novel in 14 years begins where he left off:" this So. Carolina city
Charleston
|
$1,600
[29]
Lithium was used on gout when doctors noticed it made moods more stable; now it's used for this up-&-down disorder
manic depression (or bipolar)
Joshua
|
$1,600
[5]
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park lies on the east coast of this Florida island
Key Largo
|
|
DD
$3,000
[26]
Fructose is a monosaccharide, a simple one of these
a sugar
Joshua
|
$2,000
[18]
Rolling Stone called this Okie from Okemah "the face of American folk music"
Woody Guthrie
Harry
|
$2,000
[19]
Charles Lummis fought to end the policy of making Native American children leave these areas for boarding schools
reservations
Christopher
|
DD
$3,300
[23]
"Not Harry but the next best thing" said People of this woman's "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"
J.K. Rowling
Joshua
|
— |
$2,000
[6]
It's the item of apparel seen here
cargo pants
Christopher
|
It was inspired by a piece of Australian physical education equipment & 100 million were sold worldwide in 1958
the hula hoop