2002 Million Dollar Masters quarterfinal game 2.
Kate Waits — a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Brad Rutter — a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Claudia Perry — a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claudia | $2,800 | $4,400 | $12,400 |
$17,400
2nd place: $10,000 if eliminated |
$11,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 8 W |
| Brad | $3,400 | $5,800 | $17,800 |
$24,801
Automatic semifinalist |
$17,800
26 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Kate | $2,800 | $3,800 | $4,200 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 if eliminated |
$3,600
8 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| ART & ARTISTS | MY FAVORITE FILMS | BIG CITY LIFE | DISCOVERY CHANNEL | WORLD WAR I VETS | I'M IN "SEVENTH" HEAVEN |
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$200
[1]
"Dying Centaur" artist Antoine Bourdelle spent years as chief assistant to this more famous French sculptor
Rodin
Brad
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$200
[28]
Cathy, Cathy, Cathy! A 1939 classic... amour on the moors... need we say moor?
Wuthering Heights
Claudia
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$200
[30]
This term for the haphazard growth of a city also means to sit or lie with your limbs spread out
(urban) sprawl
Claudia
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$200
[24]
This fish seenhereis one of the fastest in the ocean, whether Atlantic or Pacific
a sailfish
Claudia
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$200
[17]
Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson was injured by this WWI weapon, leading to his death from TB
mustard gas
Brad
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$200
[29]
"...the right of trial by jury..."
the Seventh Amendment
Brad
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$400
[2]
This British abstract sculptor of "Madonna and Child" drew Londoners in the Underground during the blitz
Henry Moore
Kate
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$400
[11]
Eastwood, Garner, Sutherland & Jones proved that they had "the ripe stuff" in this 2000 film
Space Cowboys
Kate
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$400
[19]
The beginning of this regulation of land & building use dates from a 1916 New York City ordinance
zoning
Kate
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$400
[23]
Earth's longest mountain range is the mid-oceanic this, over 30,000 miles long
the ridge
Brad
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$400
[18]
Future U.S. president seenhereon his military ID
(Harry) Truman
Claudia
Brad
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$400
[22]
The Davidians are a branch of this religion
Seventh-day Adventists
Claudia
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$600
[8]
He was in his prime--or should we say his "Primavera"--when he painted "Fortitude" in 1470
Botticelli
Claudia
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$800
[4]
At one point, John Huston wanted Gable & Bogart to star in this film about 2 schemers who want to rule Kafiristan
The Man Who Would Be King
Kate
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$600
[12]
In the 1980s Yellow Thunder was a well-known one of these providing info to L.A. commuters
a traffic helicopter
Claudia
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$600
[25]
As seen here, some jellies have thousands of these tiny hairlike structures similar to flagella
cilia
Brad
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$600
[6]
This future leader of Yugoslavia was captured by the Russians in WWI & became a Bolshevik
Tito
Brad
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$600
[20]
One theory is this sports tradition began at Manhattan College in 1882 to control restless students in the stands
the seventh inning stretch
Claudia
Kate
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$800
[9]
This "Nude Descending a Staircase" artist also painted "The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes"
(Marcel) Duchamp
Claudia
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$1,000
[3]
In "Cool Hand Luke", he's the character actor who says, "What we've got here is failure to communicate"
Strother Martin
Claudia
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$800
[13]
Berlin, Maryland has a mayor; Berlin, Germany has this equivalent
a Bürgermeister
Brad
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$800
[26]
Proverbially, our contestants soak up facts like this type of creature that can filter 1,100 gallons of water a day
a sponge
Brad
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$800
[16]
Walt Disney served in World War I with this future McDonald's tycoon
Ray Kroc
Brad
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$800
[15]
Folklorically, this descendant will have occult powers; it's also an Iron Maiden album
seventh son of a seventh son
Brad
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$1,000
[10]
This Romanian known for his "Endless Column" also sculpted the scandalous "Princess X"
Brancusi
|
DD
$1,200
[5]
When you rent this 1970 biopic, watch for Tim Considine as the soldier who gets slapped
Patton
Kate
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$1,000
[14]
The rings of parks around Boston and Cleveland are both described as this expensive piece of jewelry
the Emerald Necklace
Claudia
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$1,000
[27]
It's the North Atlantic inlet seen here"Tides here are the largest in the world and have a profound effect on marine life."
the Bay of Fundy
Claudia
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$1,000
[7]
Ernest Hemingway, e.e. cummings & this "U.S.A." trilogy author all drove ambulances in the war
Dos Passos
Brad
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$1,000
[21]
Released in 1957, this film was based on the play "Tramalning" that had also been written by the director
The Seventh Seal
Claudia
Brad
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| THE NEW YORK TIMESMAGAZINE | LITERARY MOVEMENTS | MIDDLE AGE FOLKS | OH, NO! IT'S OPERA! | MONSTERS INC. | BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID |
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$400
[7]
The date on the first issue of the magazine, Sept. 6, 1896, was this day of the week
Sunday
Brad
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$400
[29]
William Blake & Wordsworth were early members of this movement characterized by exaltation of emotion & passion
Romanticism (the Romantics accepted)
Claudia
Brad
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$400
[30]
In the late 1300s Margaret of this European country took control of Sweden and Norway
Denmark
Brad
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$400
[2]
George Gershwin personally asked Howard University voice professor Todd Duncan to originate this title role
Porgy
Brad
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$400
[28]
The first known report of this Scottish lake dweller dates from 565 A.D.
the Loch Ness Monster
Claudia
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$400
[14]
You might not want to tell your honey if you've got apiphobia, a fear of these
bees
Kate
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$800
[8]
Regular use of this began in the magazine in 1933, but didn't hit the Times' front page photos until 1997
color
Claudia
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$800
[26]
Flaubert led this movement in French literature, also called naturalism
realism
Claudia
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$1,200
[22]
This noted theologian was born in the Italian town of Aquino around 1225
Thomas Aquinas
Claudia
Brad
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$800
[3]
The works of this novelist & poet inspired "Lucia di Lammermoor", "La Donna del Lago" & "La Jolie Fille de Perth"
Sir Walter Scott
Brad
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$800
[27]
The Book of Job asks if this sea monster can be drawn out with a hook, or his tongue with a cord
the Leviathan
Kate
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$800
[15]
If you've got ailurophobia, avoid a musical by this composer that won Tony awards in 1983
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Brad
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$1,200
[9]
This New Jersey-based bra company with a "girlish" name has been one of the magazine's advertising mainstays
Maidenform
Claudia
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$1,200
[1]
Andre Breton wrote a manifesto of this artistic & literary movement that explored the unconscious mind
surrealism
Claudia
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$1,600
[23]
In 1129 she set up a convent in the building that once housed the monastery of Abelard, her ex
Heloise
Claudia
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$1,200
[4]
This composer of "Cavalleria rusticana" wrote "Il Piccolo Marat", a sadly neglected opera about the Reign of Terror
Mascagni
Claudia
Brad
Kate
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$1,200
[19]
This "enemy from hell" in an 8th century epic poem was said to be a descendant of Cain
Grendel
Claudia
Brad
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DD
$1,200
[16]
She could have called her 1973 bestseller "Aviophobia"
Erica Jong
Brad
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$1,600
[10]
Nan Robertson won a 1983 Pulitzer for her writing on this "syndrome" abbreviated TSS
toxic shock
Claudia
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$1,600
[12]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Ralph Waldo Emerson House in Concord, MA.) In 1842 Emerson gave a lecture called this, a 17-letter adjective for his literary & philosophical movement
transcendentalist
Brad
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
His brothers Thorvald & Thorstein & his half-sister Freydis also traveled to Vinland
Leif Ericson
Claudia
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$1,600
[5]
If you dread operas about druids, this 1831 Bellini opus is sure to "Gaul" you
Norma
Claudia
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$1,600
[20]
In mythology this fire-breathing monster wreaked havoc in Lycia before she was killed by Bellerophon
the Chimera
Brad
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$1,600
[17]
Be prepared to consume a daily Granny Smith if you've got iatrophobia, a fear of these
doctors
Brad
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$2,000
[11]
He coined the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" & now writes the magazine's language column
Safire
Brad
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$2,000
[13]
James Weldon Johnson & Zora Neale Hurston were writers associated with this 1920s movement
the Harlem Renaissance
Kate
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$2,000
[24]
In addition to being an historian & poet, Snorri Sturluson headed this Icelandic legislative body several times
the Althing
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$2,000
[6]
This Greek tragic heroine is the subject of 2 Gluck operas, one set in Aulis & one in Tauris
Iphigenia
Brad
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$2,000
[21]
In "The Time Machine", the gentle Eloi are preyed upon by this monstrous race that lives underground
the Morlocks
Brad
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$2,000
[18]
If you suffer from phasmophobia, you might want to rethink attending an 1881 classic play by this Scandinavian
Ibsen
Brad
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In 2001 the zinc industry was up in arms over Rep. Jim Kolbe's bill calling for the phasing out of these
pennies