Paul Kursky game 1.
Laura White — an English professor from Lincoln, Nebraska
Paul Kursky — a copywriter from San Francisco, California
Anne Triolo — a screenwriter and bookstore manager from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anne | $1,200 | $5,800 | $14,000 |
$4,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Paul | $3,400 | $5,800 | $11,000 |
$11,300
New champion: $11,300 |
$11,000
17 R, 4 W |
| Laura | $2,600 | $3,600 | $5,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| PHILOSOPHERS | ST. AUGUSTINE | IMMANUEL CAN'T... | NEAT, SHE | SPIN-OZA | CONFUSE US |
|
$200
[1]
You shouldn't put this French "Discourse on Method" author before the horse
Descartes
Anne
|
$200
[16]
St. Augustine, Florida boasts a "farm" founded in 1893 for these reptiles with more than 20 related species
alligators
Laura
|
$200
[6]
Immanuel can't have a milkshake: like 90% of Asian Americans, he has an intolerance to this sugar
lactose
Paul
|
$200
[18]
You'll find obsessive-compulsive Bree van de Kamp tidying up on this ABC show
Desperate Housewives
|
$200
[14]
In a Grimm fairy tale, this little man spins straw into gold: can you guess his name?
Rumpelstiltskin
Laura
|
$200
[11]
Changing the last vowel of a word meaning "seat of government" creates this building where lawmakers meet
capital/capitol
Paul
|
|
$400
[2]
Kukai & Saicho were major philosophers of this country's Heian period
Japan
Anne
Laura
|
$400
[17]
Ending a long period of this country's rule, 1819's Adams-Onis treaty turned St. Augustine over to the U.S.
Spain
Anne
|
$400
[7]
Immanuel can't become U.S. president because he's not yet this minimum age
35
Anne
|
$400
[22]
This character on "Friends" is a "self-professed neat freak"
Monica
Anne
Paul
|
$400
[15]
Spinnerets are the organs in a spider that spin this fiber for its web
silk
Laura
|
$400
[12]
Affluent means wealthy: effluent refers to waste in this state of matter
liquid
Laura
|
|
$800
[4]
The argument that the mind at birth is a blank slate is "key" to his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
John Locke
Laura
|
$600
[19]
Of course St. Augustine is home to this legendary spring sought by Ponce de Leon: okay, it's a tourist spot opened in 1901
the Fountain of Youth
Anne
|
$600
[8]
No, Immanuel can't return to the soccer game; he got one of these cards, his first ever & is not allowed back
a red card
Paul
Laura
|
$600
[23]
Annette Bening chafes when Kevin Spacey tries to seduce her in this 1999 movie: she's worried he'll spill beer on the couch
American Beauty
Anne
|
$600
[26]
Spins performed in this include the sit spin, the camel spin & the Biellmann spin
figure skating
Anne
|
$600
[13]
Spelled with "al" at the end, this word refers to a school official: with "le", it's a fundamental truth
principal/principle
Paul
|
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Plato & Xenophon left accounts of this philosopher who wrote nothing himself
Socrates
Laura
|
$800
[20]
Believe it or not, this man's oldest Odditorium of weird stuff is located in St. Augustine
Ripley
Paul
|
$800
[9]
Immanuel can't spell very well: he keeps transposing letters, which makes me think he has this learning disorder
dyslexia
Paul
|
$800
[24]
This real-life actress played by Faye Dunaway kinda flipped out when she thought her bathroom wasn't clean enough
Joan Crawford
Paul
Laura
|
$800
[27]
This instrument on your car's dashboard measures the revolutions or spins per minute of the engine shaff
the tachometer
Paul
|
$800
[29]
When this heavy metal loses an "A", it becomes a word meaning "guided"
lead
|
|
$1,000
[5]
This 3-named British political theorist who wrote "On Liberty" was also a major utilitarian philosopher
(John Stuart) Mill
Paul
|
$1,000
[21]
St. Augustine's Castillo de San Marcos is an old fort built from a form of limestone known as coquina, or "little" these
shells
Paul
|
$1,000
[10]
Immanuel can't stand girls, & yes, it's safe to call him one of these, from the Greek for "woman hater"
a misogynist
Anne
|
$1,000
[25]
Jayma Maysplays a germophobic guidance counselor on this Fox series
Glee
Anne
|
$1,000
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a revolving gas planet on the monitor.) This planet might be a sphere if it weren't spinning so fast--turning on its axis in under ten hours, resulting in a bulge near the equator
Jupiter
Anne
|
$1,000
[30]
Some people needlessly put ir- in front of this word that means "in spite of everything"
regardless
Paul
|
| SCIENCE CLASS | MOVIE BY CAST | HISTORIC AMERICANS | ORANGE SLICES | ARE YOU WELL RED? | TOO MUCH "SUN" |
|
$400
[15]
From the Flemish pronunciation of "chaos". Jan van Helmont coined this term for air that wasn't air
gas
Paul
|
$400
[13]
Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'nique
Precious
Anne
|
$400
[5]
In May 1844 he sent the first official message via telegraph
(Samuel) Morse
Anne
|
$400
[9]
The classic first course of melon & this is seen here
prosciutto
Paul
|
$400
[1]
"The Custom-House" is an introductory section to this Hawthorne classic
The Scarlet Letter
Anne
|
$400
[2]
It's also known as a seismic seawave
a tsunami
Paul
|
|
$800
[16]
Scientists believe that, like humans, many dinosaurs were endothermic, which means this
warm-blooded
Laura
|
$800
[14]
Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Renee Zellweger
Bridget Jones's Diary
Paul
|
$1,200
[7]
This Secy. of State had success in preventing foreign governments from giving official recognition to the Confederacy
(William) Seward
Laura
|
$800
[11]
Thisfruit is cultivated in semitropical zones
a papaya
Laura
|
$800
[20]
This Tom Clancy thriller is about a Soviet captain who decides to defect--with his Typhoon-class submarine
The Hunt for Red October
Paul
|
$800
[3]
This time-telling device consists of 2 parts, a gnomon & a plane
a sundial
Laura
|
|
$1,200
[17]
The geologic period named for this coal-producing U.S. state is also called the Late Carboniferous Epoch
Pennsylvania
|
— |
$1,600
[8]
In the 1950s he made news as Adlai Stevenson's running mate & chair of a Senate committee on organized crime
Estes Kefauver
Anne
|
$1,200
[12]
Surprisingly, this tropical fruit is a relative of the pistachio & the cashew
a mango
Anne
|
$1,200
[21]
In this novel Sherlock Holmes investigates a murder at Lauriston Gardens
A Study in Scarlet
Laura
|
$1,200
[4]
Sidney Poitier starred in the film version of this drama about a black Chicago family
Raisin in the Sun
Paul
|
|
$1,600
[18]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew dissects and demonstrates a doorknob.) A doorknob acts as a force multiplier, with a larger knob turning a smaller attached shaft--an example of this simple machine
wheel and axle
|
— |
$2,000
[10]
He eulogized George Washington as "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen"
Light Horse Harry Lee
|
$1,600
[22]
Seen here, it's the national fruit of Japan
a persimmon
Paul
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
The title figure of this Steinbeck work is a colt that Jody receives as a gift & names Gabilan
The Red Pony
Anne
|
$1,600
[26]
In the 19th century Rudolf Wolf connected these solar phenomena to fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field
sunspots
Paul
Laura
|
|
$2,000
[19]
These 2-syllable fragments of clay vessels found at archaeological digs help us learn about a culture
potsherds
Laura
|
— |
DD
$3,000
[6]
In 1976 the U.S. posthumously restored the citizenship of this labor organizer & socialist leader who lost it in 1918
(Eugene) Debs
Anne
|
$2,000
[23]
Not only does this winter squash have orange splotches on its skin, but its flesh is orangey, too
an acorn squash
Anne
|
$2,000
[25]
In books by Baroness Orczy, foppish Sir Percy Blakeney is secretly this swashbuckling hero
the Scarlet Pimpernel
Anne
|
$2,000
[27]
It's another name for a bluegill
a sunfish
Paul
|
Introduced in the '70s to replace steel belting on high-speed tires, it's called stronger than steel & lighter than nylon
Kevlar