IBM Challenge promo: "The Television Event of the Decade"
Kate Rowland — a family doctor from Chicago, Illinois
Sarah Monteith — a television development assistant originally from Sugar Land, Texas
Paul Wampler — a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee (whose 4-day cash winnings total $72,002)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul | $-800 | $2,600 | $5,800 |
$2,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,800
12 R, 4 W |
| Sarah | $3,200 | $6,200 | $8,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,200
16 R, 1 W |
| Kate | $800 | $3,600 | $9,400 |
$16,401
New champion: $16,401 |
$12,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| A YEAR ENDING IN 11 | THEIR BETTER HALF | THE CITY'S OLDEST RESTAURANT | "WARE"-ING | EARHART | ON YOUR SLEEVE |
|
$200
[4]
Irving Berlin writes his first big hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
1911
Sarah
|
$200
[16]
Melanie Griffith
Antonio Banderas
Sarah
|
$200
[1]
Union Oyster House--a Massachusetts city
Boston
Sarah
|
$200
[12]
Tools, machinery & other implements for home & work bought at the store of the same name
hardware
Sarah
|
$200
[10]
In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly over it alone & the first person of any sex to cross it by air twice
the Atlantic Ocean
Sarah
|
$200
[22]
Actor Dwayne Johnson has a half sleeve type of this; musician Travis Barker has 2 full ones
tattoos
Paul
|
|
$400
[5]
General William Henry Harrison defeats the Shawnee Indians at the battle of Tippecanoe
1811
Sarah
|
$400
[17]
Warren Beatty
Annette Bening
Sarah
|
$400
[2]
Dock's Oyster House--a New Jersey city
Atlantic City
Kate
|
$400
[13]
When Alcatraz was a prison, these items with a metallic name were counted by officers after each meal
silverware
Sarah
|
$400
[27]
An aviator contemporary of Amelia's was dubbed "Lucky" this; Amelia was "Lady" this
Lindy
Kate
|
$400
[23]
Basketball sleeves contain this flexible segmented polyurethane fiber, an anagram of "expands"
spandex
Paul
|
|
$600
[7]
Explorer Henry Hudson is set adrift in his namesake bay by a mutinous crew & never seen again
1611
Kate
|
$600
[18]
Calista Flockhart
Harrison Ford
Kate
|
$600
[3]
Antoine's, 713 rue St. Louis
New Orleans
Paul
Kate
|
$600
[14]
Malicious computer programs that are secretly installed on a computer to steal the user's private information
spyware
Sarah
|
$600
[28]
Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison in this state; a bridge & an airport there are named for her
Kansas
|
$600
[24]
This ornamental shoulder piece has an apostle in its name
epaulet
Sarah
|
|
$800
[8]
Queen Anne of England establishes the Ascot horse races
1711
Kate
|
$800
[19]
Trisha Yearwood
Garth Brooks
Sarah
|
$800
[6]
Yar, 32/2 Leningradsky Prospect
Moscow
Paul
|
$800
[15]
Caveat Emptor is usually translated as this 4-word English phrase
let the buyer beware
Kate
|
$800
[29]
Amelia once took this First Lady on a flight over Washington, D.C. while both were wearing evening gowns
Eleanor Roosevelt
Kate
|
$800
[25]
The French call this geographical feature "la Manche", which means "The Sleeve"
the English Channel
Paul
|
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
In a warmup to his assault on Mexico, Cortes helps Velazquez conquer Cuba
1511
Kate
|
$1,000
[20]
Javier Bardem
Penélope Cruz
Sarah
|
$1,000
[11]
Casa Botin, located on Calle de los Cuchilleros (made famous in a Hemingway novel)
Madrid
Paul
Sarah
Kate
|
$1,000
[21]
Before it reaches Trenton, it skirts the Kittatinny Mountains & flows past Nockamixon Rocks
the Delaware
Paul
|
$1,000
[30]
Amelia was the first woman to receive this award, the DFC
the Distinguished Flying Cross
Paul
|
$1,000
[26]
You can use sleeves to protect these items used in both Magic: The Gathering & Pokemon
cards
Kate
|
| LAST OF THE COMPOSERS | MARK MARKS THE SPOT | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA | WHAT'S THE NAME OF YOUR UNION? | WRITING FUNNY | ACT YOUR "AGE" |
|
$400
[22]
Although he completed a few musical pieces afterward, "William Tell" was his 38th & final opera
(Gioachino) Rossini
|
$400
[11]
He took a comedic turn in "The Other Guys" as Det. Terry Hoitz, who wants to "fly like a peacock"
(Mark) Wahlberg
Paul
|
$400
[16]
(Lindblad Expeditions naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from South Georgia.) Unlike the larger emperor, this second biggest species of penguin prefers the sub-Antarctic islands, like South Georgia, better than ice for forming its vast colonies
king penguins
Kate
|
$400
[17]
UPS drivers
the Teamsters
|
$400
[1]
His website says, "Dave lives in Miami... he has a son... and a daughter... neither of whom thinks he's funny"
Dave Barry
Sarah
|
$400
[6]
Ace or tourniquet
a bandage
Kate
|
|
DD
$600
[28]
In 1751 he composed his last all-new composition, the oratorio "Jephtha"
Handel
Kate
|
$800
[12]
"Don't Forget The Lyrics!" or this Sugar Ray frontman who started hosting that show in 2010
(Mark) McGrath
Sarah
|
$800
[24]
(Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) The island of South Georgia has no indigenous mammals, but reindeer were introduced here in 1911 to provide meat by Captain C.A. Larsen from this country
Norway
Kate
|
$800
[18]
The men & women assembling Mustangs & Malibus
the United Auto Workers
Kate
|
$800
[2]
Thomas B. Thorpe wrote these alliterative, exaggerated stories, like "The Big Bear of Arkansas"
tall tales
Paul
|
$800
[7]
The carrying capacity of a large ship is measured in this 7-letter word
tonnage
Sarah
Kate
|
|
$800
[23]
His last work was "Parsifal", which premiered at Bayreuth in 1882
(Richard) Wagner
Paul
|
$1,200
[13]
Mark Boal won 2 Oscars for this 2009 film about bomb defusers in Iraq
The Hurt Locker
Paul
|
$1,200
[25]
(Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) South Georgia is the breeding ground for close to half the world's population of the largest pinniped--the Southern type of this seal now protected from hunting
elephant seals
|
$1,200
[19]
Approximately 2 million K-12 public school teachers in the U.S.
the National Education Association (NEA)
|
$1,200
[3]
Former Harvard Lampoon staffer Doug Kenney was the first editor of this magazine
National Lampoon
Paul
|
$1,200
[8]
A heavy bombardment of artillery
a barrage
Paul
|
|
$1,600
[29]
This Hungarian was just measures away from finishing his "Piano Concerto No. 3" when he died in New York in 1945
Béla Bartók
|
$1,600
[14]
Mark Mothersbaugh whipped it into shape as a member of this New Wave band
Devo
Sarah
|
$1,600
[26]
The area around the island has some commercial fishing for the Patagonian this, aka Chilean sea bass
toothfish
|
$1,600
[20]
Dole berry pickers
the United Farm Workers
Kate
|
$1,600
[4]
Marrying Laura West made funny man S.J. Perelman brother-in-law to this author of 2 of Amer. lit's most depressing novels
Nathanael West
|
$1,600
[9]
From the French for "training", it's an equestrian event
dressage
Kate
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Composed in 1795, his last symphony, No. 104 In D Major, is popularly known as "The London"
Franz Joseph Haydn
|
$2,000
[15]
Seen here, this actor is known for his work in indie films
(Mark) Ruffalo
Paul
|
$2,000
[27]
(Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) South Georgia is theburial sitefor this explorer who made a grueling journey across the island after his ship, the Endurance, was trapped in pack ice
Sir Ernest Shackleton
|
$2,000
[21]
Peyton Manning
the NFL Players Association
Paul
Kate
|
$2,000
[5]
Peace be with you! 2009 was the 150th birthday of this great Yiddish comic writer
Sholom Aleichem
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
Within a circuit, it's calculated by the amount of current flow of 1 coulomb per second past a given point
the amperage
Kate
|
In this classic film, one of the characters tries to quote the Pythagorean theorem but gets it wrong
The Wizard of Oz