IBM Challenge mini-documentary: "Meet the Contestants"
Kristi Springer — a proposal writer from Naperville, Illinois
Roger Mueller-Kim — a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
Fred Cofone — a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred | $3,200 | $4,800 | $17,000 |
$13,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Roger | $1,400 | $4,000 | $10,400 |
$17,401
New champion: $17,401 |
$10,400
12 R, 1 W |
| Kristi | $600 | $3,000 | $8,600 |
$3,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
17 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| GOLF | GREENS | HAZARDS | CLUBS | BIRDIE | "FORE"! |
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$200
[1]
Term for the No. 1 wood, or the person using it
a driver
Fred
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$200
[21]
Joe Raposo wrote the words & music, but this character first sang, "It's Not Easy Being Green"
Kermit the Frog
Kristi
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$200
[12]
Now considered an environmental hazard, this refrigerant gas was discovered in the 1930s by Dr. Thomas Midgley
freon
Fred
Kristi
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$200
[30]
On film the members of "The Breakfast Club" were sentenced to it in the library
detention
Roger
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$200
[11]
The name of this small member of the parrot family can contain a "qu" instead of a "k"
a parakeet
Fred
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$200
[6]
It goes from your eyebrows to your hairline
forehead
Kristi
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$400
[2]
It's the 3-letter position of the ball & may be "good" or "bad" depending on the height of the grass
a lie
Fred
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$400
[22]
The Chinese have equated this green gemstone with purity & indestructibility
jade
Roger
Kristi
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$400
[13]
This state's many hazardous waste sites include Chemsol in Piscataway & Crompton in Perth Amboy
New Jersey
Fred
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$400
[29]
Wal-Mart opened the first one in 1983; today there are 47 million U.S. members
Sam's Club
Kristi
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$400
[15]
Seen here, & common in Hawaii, is the red-crested variety of this bird
the cardinal
Kristi
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$400
[7]
A guy from out of town... way out of town
a foreigner
Fred
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$600
[3]
Sand & pitching are common varieties of these irons used to loft short shots
a wedge
Fred
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$600
[23]
Green ones of these popularly come in jars, stuffed with almonds, anchovies or pimientos
olives
Fred
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$600
[14]
Cancel the picnic--the international symbol for thisis up ahead
biohazard
Fred
Roger
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$600
[28]
Now a prestigious musical group, the glee club of this Boston-area school began in 1858 basically as a social club
Harvard
Kristi
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$600
[16]
Only 2 species of cranes are native to North America: the sandhill & this noisy one
the whooping crane
Fred
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$600
[8]
A ground stroke, in tennis
a forehand
Fred
|
|
$800
[4]
A rare old gold coin, or an even rarer 3 under par on a single hole
a double eagle
Fred
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$800
[24]
Because Seattle is so lush & green, its official nickname is this city (it's a real gem)
the Emerald City
Fred
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$800
[18]
The scuba diving hazard known as the bends results from this gas being released into the blood during a too rapid ascent
nitrogen
Fred
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$800
[27]
This band was ready to "Tumble 4 Ya" in a hit song from 1983
Culture Club
Kristi
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$800
[17]
Share a laugh with this Aussie bird heard here
the kookaburra
Kristi
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$800
[9]
If you're leading an army or a movement, you're in this
the forefront
Roger
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$1,000
[5]
The closely mowed ring of grass around a putting green is called an apron or this out-there name
the fringe
|
DD
$1,200
[25]
The name of this element comes from the Greek for "light green"
chlorine
Fred
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$1,000
[20]
Hazard was the middle name of this Battle of Lake Erie hero; yellow fever was his fatal hazard 6 years later
Oliver Hazard Perry
|
$1,000
[26]
"Prosperity and opportunity through economic freedom" is the motto of the anti-tax "Club for" this
Growth
Roger
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$1,000
[19]
For his service during WWI, Cher Ami, one of these useful birds, was awarded France's Croix de Guerre
a homing pigeon
Roger
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$1,000
[10]
A male ancestor
a forebear (or forefather)
Kristi
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| NOVA: MAKING STUFF | "Q" FOOD & DRINK | POETS' MONOGRAMS | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS | VI PACK | COMPLETE THE OXYMORON |
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$400
[26]
The overlapping scales of these fish prevent algae from living there, & similar medicalmaterialmay reject bacteria
a shark
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$400
[2]
The meat of this American game bird is white & delicately flavored
quail
Kristi
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$400
[7]
Born & died in Amherst:ED
Emily Dickinson
Kristi
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$400
[1]
"You're not going to drown, Jack." "Why, Rose?" "I have an inflatable life raft. I probably should've said something earlier"
Titanic
Fred
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$400
[20]
As Emperor of this empire from 780 to 797, Constantine VI was so cruel his own mom deposed & blinded him
the Byzantine Empire
Roger
Kristi
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$400
[9]
To summarize a complicated case, the attorney submitted a lengthy...
brief
Kristi
|
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$800
[27]
The ability to absorb stress makes metal this, an adjective in a Ford pickup ad slogan
tough
Kristi
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$800
[17]
This alkaloid from the bark of a tree is the base flavor in most bitters
quinine
Roger
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$800
[8]
Maybe this Brit's life could be the subject of a PBS special:PBS
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fred
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$800
[3]
"I see dead people, Dr. Crowe... but you're not one of 'em. You're very, very much alive & happily married"
The Sixth Sense
Kristi
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$800
[21]
Shakespeare wrote not 1, not 2, but 3 plays about this guy
Henry VI
Kristi
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$800
[13]
Only 52 degrees today in Tallahassee? That's a low...
high
Fred
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$1,200
[28]
Materials that influence light waves to bend around them are a step toward a "cloak of" this, as in Harry Potter
invisibility
Kristi
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$1,200
[18]
It's the Native American name for the East Coast hard-shell clam
quahog
Fred
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$1,600
[11]
Her candle burned at both ends:ESVM
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Roger
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$1,200
[4]
Charlton Heston's Detective Thorn:"It's lettuce. The secret ingredient is lettuce"
Soylent Green
Kristi
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$1,200
[22]
Rodrigo Borgia became Alexander VI in this post in 1492
the Pope
Roger
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$1,600
[15]
The Native American warrior who fled the battle was a cowardly...
brave
Fred
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$1,600
[29]
Making stuff smaller includes a pill with a camera taking 2 pictures a second of this tract--GI for short
gastrointestinal
Fred
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$1,600
[19]
This "supergrain of the future" is considered a complete protein
quinoa
Kristi
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
He was the "Ploughman Poet":RB
Robert Burns
Kristi
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$1,600
[5]
"Forget it, Jake, it's... hold on--Evelyn's okay. The bullets missed her in the car. She's fine & the cops are letting her go"
Chinatown
Roger
Kristi
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$1,600
[23]
In "The King's Speech" Colin Firth plays this monarch who struggled with his stammer
George VI
|
DD
$1,800
[14]
Those diamonds are stolen! Or, in criminal slang, that's some hot...
ice
Fred
|
|
$2,000
[30]
So light & strong, 1 pound could stretch around the Earth, the silk spiders spin to hang from is called this kind of line
a dragline
|
$2,000
[25]
This 2-word Italian term means "four cheeses" & is used in a sauce made with--guess what--4 cheeses
quattro formaggi
Roger
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$2,000
[12]
A fan of Xanadu:STC
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fred
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$2,000
[6]
"Hold the execution. John Coffey's been found innocent. He is a free man.""Phew. That was close"
The Green Mile
Kristi
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$2,000
[24]
From 1910 to 1925 you could rendezvous with Rama VI, king of this Asian country
Thailand
Roger
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$2,000
[16]
Yom Kippur seemed to last forever; it was a slow...
fast
Fred
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For decades Rolls-Royce also owned this luxury brand named for its founder; now both are produced by German companies
Bentley