John Krizel game 2.
Susan Neuffer — an actor and census clerk from New York, New York
Michael Muller — a seventh grade history teacher originally from Springfield, Illinois
John Krizel — a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $2,200 | $6,800 | $13,400 |
$20,801
2-day champion: $46,802 |
$14,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Michael | $3,600 | $3,600 | $9,200 |
$18,205
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Susan | $400 | $2,600 | $10,400 |
$9,201
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| THE QUOTABLE EINSTEIN | BILLBOARD'S TOP ARTISTS | ESTONIA | OLD LUNCH COUNTER LINGO | DOUBLE CONSONANTS | HERE'S ANDERSON COOPER |
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$200
[7]
"Life is like riding" one of these; "to keep your balance you must keep moving"
a bicycle
Michael
|
$200
[1]
Billboard ranked him the No. 1 artist of the '50s, No. 2 for the '60s & No. 11 for the '70s
Elvis
Michael
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$200
[13]
Sailing is a popular Estonian sport; for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, races were held off the coast in this sea
the Baltic
John
|
$200
[6]
If a server yells, "put out the lights & cry", someone's ordered liver & these
onions
John
|
$200
[19]
A soft song for a child going to sleep
a lullaby
John
|
$200
[24]
(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) As a reporter, I joined numerous heads of state & as many as 2 million people in Rome in 2005 for this man's funeral
Pope John Paul II
Michael
|
|
$400
[12]
This "is more important than knowledge"
imagination
Michael
|
$400
[2]
They were tops for the '60s, by a fab margin
The Beatles
Susan
|
$400
[14]
Once ruled by Germans, Danes, Swedes & Russians, it first gained independence the year this war ended
World War I
Michael
|
$400
[8]
"Bossy in a bowl" is this hearty dish containing chunks of meat & vegetables
beef stew
Michael
|
$400
[20]
It's another name for a mongrel dog, Jeff
a mutt
Susan
|
$400
[25]
(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) In 2008 I moderated a Republican debate appropriately held at the presidential library of this man whose political heir the candidates claimed to be
Ronald Reagan
Michael
|
|
$600
[18]
"I never think of" this period of time. "It comes soon enough"
the future
John
Michael
|
$600
[3]
This flamboyant sir was the top artist of the '70s by a single point
Elton John
John
|
$600
[15]
In the 1550s this awful Russian invaded & devastated much of Estonia
Ivan the Terrible
John
Michael
|
$600
[9]
"Hold the hail" means you'll get a soft drink without this
ice
Michael
|
$600
[21]
It's found in the sky between Scorpio & Capricorn
Sagittarius
John
|
$600
[26]
(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) On election night 2008, I did my first ever interview with this type of 3D image; I was in Washington & will.i.am was beamed in from Chicago
a hologram
John
|
|
$800
[29]
This "cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding"
peace
Susan
|
$800
[4]
The competition was stiff but he "Beat It" to claim top artist of the '80s
Michael Jackson
Michael
|
$800
[16]
It's Estonia's capital & largest city
Tallinn
|
$800
[10]
Order a "crowd" & you'll get this many of whatever you ordered
three
John
|
$800
[22]
Proverbially, to perform a futile act is to do this to the deck chairs on the Titanic
rearrange
John
|
$800
[27]
(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) For CNN's "Planet in Peril" series, I reported from Africa on the spread of viruses that could be the next of these, a word literally meaning a disease affecting everyone
a pandemic
John
|
|
$1,000
[30]
"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power," this "is inevitable"
war
Michael
|
$1,000
[5]
The 1999 Billboard Music Awards were "One Sweet Day" for her; she was named top artist of the '90s
Mariah Carey
|
DD
$1,000
[17]
Ethnically about 25% of Estonians are Russian; about 2% trace heritage to this 2nd-most populous ex-Soviet republic
Ukraine
Michael
|
$1,000
[11]
Oh, look, Little Johnny is chowing down on a "bow wow with red lead", this favorite
a hot dog with ketchup
John
|
$1,000
[23]
A 1992 film was titled "Dr." these small laughs
giggles
John
|
$1,000
[28]
(Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) In 2005 I reported on the anti-Syrian demonstrations that came to be known as the Cedar Revolution in this country
Lebanon
Susan
|
| ART & ARTISTS | PICK A PART | NAME THAT ELEMENT | NUMBER, PLEASE | MEGA-EVENTS | "STANDING" ROOM ONLY |
|
$400
[7]
This Russian-born French painter served as art director of the Moscow Jewish State Theater from 1919 to 1922
Chagall
Susan
|
$400
[1]
1961:Holly Golightly
Audrey Hepburn
Susan
|
$400
[3]
The symbol for this nasty gas is Cl
chlorine
John
|
$400
[12]
Its what you get when you multiply the number of Rhode Island's senators by the number of California's
4
John
|
$400
[24]
The Cold War was effectively over on Nov. 9, 1989 when large jubilant crowds tore down this symbol of world division
the Berlin Wall
John
|
$400
[17]
Enthusiastic applause by an audience on its feet
a standing ovation
Susan
|
|
$800
[8]
In 1926 this Belgian artist produced his first surrealist work, "Le Jockey Perdu"
René Magritte
|
$800
[2]
2008:Harvey Milk
Sean Penn
Michael
|
$800
[16]
It makes up about 80% of the Earth's atmosphere
nitrogen
John
Michael
|
$800
[13]
A soldier's "about face" involves a turn of this many degrees
180
John
|
$800
[25]
62,000 crowded L.A.'s Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967 for the first of these
Super Bowl
|
$800
[18]
The permanent professional infantry force of a nation
a standing army
Michael
|
|
$1,200
[9]
In 1976 this sports artist was presented with an award of merit from the American Athletic Union
LeRoy Neiman
|
$1,200
[4]
1984:Antonio Salieri
F. Murray Abraham
Susan
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
Its symbol is the same 2 letters as Minnesota's postal abbreviation
manganese
John
|
$1,200
[14]
Number of days in Maxwell Anderson's 1948 play about Anne Boleyn
1,000
Susan
|
$1,200
[26]
In 1896 more than 2,000 were trampled in the stampede for free beer at the coronation of this doomed czar
Nicholas II
Susan
|
$1,200
[19]
A permanent legislative group in Congress that meets regularly
a standing committee
John
|
|
$1,600
[10]
His only figure portrait accepted for the salon was of his mistress Camille Doncieux, who in 1870 became his wife
Monet
Susan
|
$2,000
[6]
2001:Iris Murdoch (1 of the 2)
Judi Dench (or Kate Winslet)
Susan
|
$1,200
[23]
Alphabetically, it's right after radium
radon
Michael
|
$1,600
[15]
We just got a call from the authorities to evacuate, in the system known as "reverse" this
9-1-1
Michael
|
$1,600
[27]
Over 42 days in early 2007, an estimated 70 million gathered for the Ardh Kumbh festival in this country
India
Michael
|
$1,600
[20]
Performing ostentatiously in order to impress or gain attention
grandstanding
Michael
|
|
$2,000
[11]
Bertoldo di Giovanni was a student of this great Florentine sculptor & a teacher of Michelangelo
Donatello
|
DD
$3,000
[5]
1967:Luke Jackson
Paul Newman
Susan
|
$1,600
[29]
This synthetic element created in 1976 was named for a Danish pioneer of quantum physics
bohrium
John
Susan
|
$2,000
[22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew uses an abacus.) On an abacus, beads above the bar represent units of 5; each bead below has a value of 1; only the beads touching the bar are counted, so the configurationherestands for this 3-digit number
828
John
|
$2,000
[28]
On Feb. 4, 2008 1 million gathered in this South American capital to protest against the FARC terrorist group & its actions
Bogotá
Michael
|
$2,000
[21]
When the British want you to rise, as for a judge, they say, "be" this, also referring to an honorable citizen
upstanding
John
Susan
|
When the body of this man who died in 1870 was moved in 2002, a cloth with the motto "Un pour tous, tous pour un" was used
Alexandre Dumas