IBM Challenge mini-documentary: "What is a Grand Challenge?"
Ryan Nelson — a law student originally from Tampa, Florida
Tom Jennings — a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gitta Neufeld — a Judaic teacher trainer from Far Rockaway, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gitta | $3,200 | $7,000 | $11,400 |
$11,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,400
18 R, 3 W |
| Tom | $2,200 | $2,600 | $21,000 |
$24,000
New champion: $24,000 |
$19,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Ryan | $1,400 | $2,200 | $3,200 |
$4,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,200
11 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| THE WRITER | THE PERFORMER | THE DIRECTOR | THE CAMERA MAN | THE PRODUCER | "ACTION"! |
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$200
[1]
In 2010 he hit the shelves with his legal thriller "The Confession"
(John) Grisham
Tom
Ryan
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$200
[16]
Patton Oswalt cooked up the voice of Remy the Rodent in this 2007 Pixar film
Ratatouille
Ryan
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$200
[21]
J. Edgar Hoover became the first director of the new FBI on March 22, 1935, serving this president
FDR
Tom
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$200
[26]
Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this
V-J Day
Gitta
Tom
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$200
[11]
"Ho, ho, ho!" This jolly guy has appeared in ads for vegetables since 1928; the company was named for him in 1950
the Jolly Green Giant
Ryan
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$200
[6]
I try, & I try, but I can't get no this word meaning an act of gratification
satisfaction
Tom
|
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$400
[2]
In 1936 this Jazz Age author detailed his physical & spiritual collapse in "The Crack-Up"
Fitzgerald
Tom
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$400
[17]
From 1960 to 2010 Don Hastings played Bob Hughes on this "global" CBS soap opera
As the World Turns
Gitta
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$400
[22]
Born in this city in 1895, J. Edgar Hoover graduated from its National University law school in 1917
Washington
Tom
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$400
[27]
Certain Robert Mapplethorpe photos caused Congress to enact restrictions on grants given by this body
the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts)
Tom
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$400
[12]
Robert Chesebrough produced a clear petroleum jelly & started selling it under this brand name in 1870
Vaseline
Tom
|
$400
[7]
A decrease in economic activity; I couldn't bear it! I can't! I won't! I shan't!
a contraction
|
|
$600
[3]
Peru's version of "Super Mario", he won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa
|
$600
[18]
Esai Morales lawyered up as Edward James Olmos' dad, Joseph Adama, in this "Battlestar Galactica" prequel
Caprica
Gitta
|
$600
[23]
Hoover's many innovations included establishing a national bank for these biometric identifiers
fingerprints
Tom
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$600
[28]
John Filo, an undergrad at this Ohio school, won a 1971 Pulitzer after getting an iconic photo of a slain classmate
Kent State
Gitta
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$600
[13]
"Choosy moms choose" this brand of peanut butter
Jif
Ryan
|
$600
[8]
2-word "atomic" term for a series of events in which each event is the result of the one preceding & the cause of the next
a chain reaction
Gitta
|
|
$800
[4]
Muriel Spark's 1961 novel about an eccentric Edinburgh teacher detailed "The Prime of Miss" this
Miss Jean Brodie
Gitta
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$800
[19]
J.K. Simmons, seriously evil in "Oz", brought it down to "not so nice" as publisher J. Jonah Jameson in this 2002 film
Spider-Man
Ryan
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$800
[24]
In the 1960s Hoover expanded his COINTELPRO plan to harass & disrupt this Southern extremist white power group
the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
Tom
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$800
[29]
Steve McCurry took a photo of an Afghan girl for this venerated magazine in 1984, then reunited with her 17 years later
National Geographic
Tom
Ryan
|
$800
[14]
This brand's Wienermobile dates back to 1936
Oscar Mayer
Ryan
|
$800
[9]
Rotting, or the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria
putrefaction
Gitta
|
|
$1,000
[5]
This man who penned "A la recherche du temps perdu" suffered from asthma
Marcel Proust
|
$1,000
[20]
This "Some Like It Hot" co-star who died in 2010 turned to Matisse-influenced art in later years
Tony Curtis
Gitta
Tom
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$1,000
[25]
Among those Hoover's FBI tracked down & killed was this young-looking brute, in November 1934
"Baby Face" Nelson
Gitta
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
He told the Warren Commission of a nightmare in which his film plays out until its violent end & he snaps awake
Abraham Zapruder
Ryan
|
$1,000
[15]
This superpremium ice cream brand produces a line called Five--with only (you guessed it) 5 ingredients
Häagen-Dazs
Gitta
|
$1,000
[10]
For federal contracts, this 2-word employment term was first used in an order issued by JFK in 1961
affirmative action
Tom
|
| CONSTELLATIONS | 1980s NO. 1 HITMAKERS | IN CRISIS MODE | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST | ART QUOTES | "C" IT, SAY IT |
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$400
[1]
The star Arcturus is known as the "bear guard" because it guards this constellation
Ursa Major
Gitta
|
$400
[3]
1981:"Kiss On My List"; they had 2 other No. 1s that year
Hall & Oates
Tom
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$400
[22]
One of the "Six Crises" Richard Nixon faced in his book of that title was this president's heart attack
Eisenhower
Gitta
|
$400
[2]
Of the numbers 1-10 spelled out
eight
Tom
|
$400
[26]
In the 1959 book "Cubism", he is quoted as saying, "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them"
Picasso
Gitta
Ryan
|
$400
[12]
Attach thisto your date on your way to the prom
a corsage
Tom
|
|
$800
[8]
First named in 1603, Columba is also known as "Noah's" this, the bird that returned to the ark with an olive leaf
the dove
Tom
|
$800
[4]
1988:"Look Away"; a groove from this pop-rock group with an urban name
Chicago
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$800
[21]
As part of this crisis, JFK announced a naval blockade Oct. 22, 1962
the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ryan
|
$800
[17]
Of the Jovian planets
Jupiter
Gitta
Ryan
|
$800
[27]
In 1888 he wrote to his brother Theo, "I cannot help it that my paintings do not sell"
Van Gogh
Tom
|
$800
[13]
The name of this drinking vessel comes from the Latin for "cup"
a chalice
Ryan
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Musca, or "the fly", was originally called Apis for this insect
the bee
Tom
|
$1,200
[5]
1984:"Footloose"; kick off your Sunday shoes with this bearded guy
(Kenny) Loggins
Tom
|
$1,200
[23]
It began Nov. 4, 1979 & lasted 444 days
hostages in Iran
Tom
Ryan
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$1,600
[19]
Of the colors of the Olympic rings
black
Tom
Ryan
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$1,200
[28]
The New York Times reported he said, "If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself"
Norman Rockwell
Gitta
|
$1,200
[14]
Some of these small engravings date as far back as the 3rd century B.C.
cameos
Gitta
|
|
$1,600
[10]
Vega is the main star of this constellation with the Latin name of an instrument
Lyra
Gitta
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$1,600
[6]
1984:"Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)"; do you have the genesis of an idea about him?
Phil Collins
Tom
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$1,600
[24]
Speculative attacks on the Baht triggered this continent's financial crisis of 1997-98
Asia
Ryan
|
$2,000
[20]
Of South Africa's 3 national capitals
Bloemfontein
Gitta
Tom
|
$1,600
[29]
John Singer Sargent reportedly said, "Every time I paint" this type of work, "I lose a friend"
a portrait
Gitta
|
$1,600
[15]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew uses paper cups & sheets of paper to demonstrate.) There is little support on one horizontal surface; however, with the load distributed among several vertical surfaces, you get much stronger support when the paper is ridged this way, from the Latin for "wrinkle"
corrugated
Gitta
|
|
DD
$4,000
[11]
An exquisite double star is part of the urn, or pitcher, in this constellation
Aquarius
Tom
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$2,000
[7]
1988:"Wishing Well"; whatever happened to him? He lives in Milan & goes by Sananda Maitreya
Terence Trent D'Arby
Tom
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$2,000
[25]
Bad feelings left by 1908's Bosnian crisis, in which this dual monarchy annexed Bosnia, helped start WWI
Austria-Hungary
Gitta
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
Of presidents who died in office
Garfield
Ryan
|
$2,000
[30]
He said, "One night I dreamt I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I... bought the materials to begin it"
Jasper Johns
Tom
|
$2,000
[16]
Thislarge flightless ratite is found on New Guinea & nearby islands
the cassowary
Tom
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Its Declaration of Independence was signed in 1847 by 11 men in that nation's Providence Baptist Church
Liberia