John Krizel game 3.
Donna Gottlieb — a homemaker and Army wife originally from Hillsdale, New Jersey
Gene Beed — a pediatrician and professional moderator from Irvine, California
John Krizel — a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,802)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $3,600 | $7,000 | $17,400 |
$32,001
3-day champion: $78,803 |
$17,400
23 R, 0 W |
| Gene | $3,600 | $6,800 | $16,000 |
$25,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,000
19 R, 1 W |
| Donna | $2,000 | $4,400 | $12,600 |
$4,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
15 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W |
| TOP U.S. FRANCHISES | CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? | HELLO, DOLL-Y | CREATURES OF NATURE | 1984 | BIG "BROTHER" |
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$200
[6]
Oh, thank heaven for this largest chain of convenience stores where you can get a Big Gulp day or night
7-Eleven
John
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$200
[7]
"No thanks, Mrs. Robinson. I don't know what a 'cougar' is & I don't think I want to find out. Is Elaine home?"
The Graduate
John
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$200
[26]
This type of doll represents a particular person; sticking pins in it is said to reinforce spells cast on that person
a voodoo doll
Gene
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$200
[21]
Taking the 'go" out of escargot, this mollusk is said to be able to lie dormant for months at a time
the snail
Donna
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$200
[1]
January 1:This Southeast Asian sultanate gains its full independence from Great Britain
Brunei
John
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$200
[16]
Zeppo or Gummo
Marx Brothers
John
|
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$400
[9]
Ante up the money & you can have one of these hardware stores; it's "the helpful place"
Ace
John
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$400
[8]
"Oh, geez... George, it turns out Bedford Falls would be better off if you'd never been born. Now... this is awkward"
It's a Wonderful Life
Gene
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$400
[27]
In the 1880s this inventor reduced the size of a phonograph so that it could fit inside a doll & make it "talk"
Edison
Donna
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$400
[22]
The peregrine type of this bird can reach speeds of 200 mph in a dive
a falcon
Gene
|
$400
[2]
January 24:Apple introduces this influential computer model
the Macintosh
Gene
|
$400
[17]
A sibling by marriage, not genetics
a brother-in-law (or step-brother)
Donna
|
|
$600
[12]
"Grill & chill" with this franchise that's been serving up its soft-serve ice cream since 1940
Dairy Queen
John
|
$600
[10]
"No, no, no, I'm Antoninus! I'm not that guy! You want him! He's right there! The one that looks like Kirk Douglas"
Spartacus
John
|
$600
[28]
Mattel has announced 2 new "I Can Be..." dolls of her: news anchor & computer engineer
Barbie
Donna
|
$600
[23]
Seethisalliterative sea creature? It can pack a 300- to 650-volt wallop
an electric eel
Gene
|
$600
[3]
May 19:Led by a Great One, this Canadian team takes its first Stanley Cup
the Edmonton Oilers
John
|
$600
[18]
5-word nickname of Philadelphia
"The City of Brotherly Love"
John
|
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
This women-only circuit-training fitness center began franchising in 1995
Curves
Donna
|
$800
[11]
"No. Wilson woulda killed you, Terry. You wouldn't have been a contender, just a bum, which is what you are. Sorry."
On the Waterfront
Gene
|
$800
[29]
Chrissa Maxwell, who moved to Minnesota to live with her grandmother, is the 2009 girl of the year in this line
American Girl
Donna
|
$800
[24]
Now known as an insurance mascot, this type of lizard gets a grip using its roughly 14,000 setae on each footpad
a gecko
John
|
$800
[4]
August 21:Half a million people march through the streets of Manila protesting this president's rule
Marcos
John
|
$800
[19]
Sanguine term for a steadfast friend
a blood brother
John
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Begun in Japan, this chain of math & reading centers ranks as the top tutoring services franchise
Kumon
Gene
|
$1,000
[13]
"Oh, Rosebud! I thought you said something else. That was his sled. That all you need? I'm kinda busy"
Citizen Kane
Donna
|
$1,000
[30]
This doll with the red-&-white striped legs & red yarn hair was created by cartoonist Johnny Gruelle in 1915
Raggedy Ann
Gene
|
$1,000
[25]
The Hercules type of this insect can lift things 850 times its own weight
a beetle
Gene
|
$1,000
[5]
Jan. 3:Syria frees a U.S. Navy flier following a visit from this U.S. politician; June 27: Cuba frees 48 prisoners ditto
Jesse Jackson
Gene
|
$1,000
[20]
The title of this WWII-set miniseries is also a phrase from Shakespeare's "Henry V"
Band of Brothers
John
|
| GEOMETRY | PRO NOUNS | OPERA CHARACTERS | CAN YOU PICTURE IT? | STATE LAKES | FROM THE GREEK |
|
$400
[11]
A cube has this many sides
6
John
|
$400
[16]
Pro golfers know this term for an assistant comes from Latin for "head"
caddie
Gene
|
$400
[1]
In various versions of "Othello", she's smothered, strangled or stabbed to death
Desdemona
John
|
$400
[21]
In 2008, this leader went from president to prime minister, but he's still very powerful
Putin
John
|
$400
[6]
Yellowstone Lake
Wyoming
Gene
|
$400
[26]
Greek gives us this word for a poetic foot of 2 syllables, an unstressed followed by a stressed
iamb
Donna
|
|
$800
[12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a geometric animation on the monitor.) When three boxes form a right triangle, the sum of the squares in the top two boxes is equal to the number of squares in the larger box, illustrating this geometric theorem
the Pythagorean theorem
Gene
|
$800
[17]
Baseball pros are familiar with this geometric name for the area where the next hitter waits his turn
the on-deck circle
John
Donna
|
$800
[2]
Yum-Yum, who is due to marry Ko-Ko, falls in love with the minstrel Nanki-Poo in this operetta
The Mikado
Donna
|
$800
[22]
He's the multiple gold medal-winning Olympianseenhere
Jesse Owens
John
|
$800
[7]
Grand Lake O' the Cherokees
Oklahoma
Donna
|
$800
[27]
This bowl-shaped depression at the mouth of a volcano is from the Greek for "mixing vessel"
crater
Donna
|
|
$1,200
[13]
No matter how many sides a convex polygon has, the sum of its exterior angles will always equal this many degrees
360
Gene
|
$1,200
[18]
A tennis pro can teach you not to step over the baseline while you serve--that would be one of these
a foot fault
John
|
DD
$1,200
[3]
A one-act opera based on an episode in "Great Expectations" is called this woman's "Wedding night"
Miss Havisham
Donna
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$1,200
[23]
The tattoo seenherewas made with this reddish-orange dye
henna
John
|
$1,200
[8]
Lake Shasta
California
Gene
|
$1,600
[29]
(Alex reports from a Ford Motor Company plant in Dearborn, MI.) To make jobs easier & safer, trucks on the assembly line are raised or lowered on these accordion lifts, which are called skillets; it's an example of this science of practical human engineering; it comes from the Greek word which means "work"
ergonomics
Gene
|
|
$1,600
[14]
An ellipse's center of symmetry is midway between these 2 points, abbreviated f.
foci
John
|
$1,600
[19]
In pro basketball it's a violation to stay in this part of the court for more than 3 seconds
the paint
John
|
$1,600
[4]
This widower & hunchback is the court jester to the Duke of Mantua
Rigoletto
Donna
|
$1,600
[24]
Seen here, the largest high relief sculpture in the world is located in this state
Georgia
Gene
|
$1,600
[9]
Sam Rayburn Lake
Texas
Donna
|
$2,000
[30]
It can be an introductory scene of a play or an introductory verse of a poem
prologue
Gene
|
|
$2,000
[15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a geometric animation on the monitor.) Two identical regular pyramids with square bases attached base to base form the regular type of this geometrical figure in which all faces are equilateral triangles
an octahedron
Gene
Donna
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$2,000
[20]
In pro hockey, it's 64 feet from the goal line to this line
the blue line
John
|
$2,000
[5]
Characters in this John Adams opera include Chou En-lai, Chairman Mao & Henry Kissinger
Nixon in China
Gene
|
$2,000
[25]
It's the cave where the work seenherewas found; obviously, it was home to some of the first muralists
Lascaux
Donna
|
$2,000
[10]
Lake Peekskill
New York
Donna
|
DD
$3,000
[28]
The name of this learning disability is partly from the Greek for 'word"
dyslexia
Donna
|
In 1929 he became a special agent with the Treasury Department's Prohibition Bureau, Chicago Division
Eliot Ness