Brian Meacham game 5.
Virginia Ogozalek — a professor emeritus from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Denis Theriault — a reporter and editor from Portland, Oregon
Brian Meacham — a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska (whose 4-day cash winnings total $90,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian | $1,800 | $4,000 | $9,400 |
$16,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,400
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Denis | $1,600 | $2,200 | $19,000 |
$19,199
New champion: $19,199 |
$17,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Virginia | $2,600 | $3,600 | $8,000 |
$6,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| FADE INTO BOLIVIAN | MISSING LYRICS | BIZ "B"s | 19th CENTURY AMERICA | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS | THE DOG WHISPERER |
|
$200
[18]
Bolivia's longest border is with this neighbor to the east
Brazil
Denis
|
$200
[1]
"Welcome to the ____ ____, such a lovely place, such a lovely face"
Hotel California
Brian
|
$200
[17]
Its original Irish cream is a blend of Irish whiskey with hints of vanilla & chocolate
Bailey's
Virginia
|
$200
[6]
In 1803 this "Buckeye State" entered the Union, the first state in which slavery was illegal from the outset
Ohio
Virginia
|
$200
[7]
It's the first 3-syllable word in the text of the King James Bible
beginning
Virginia
|
$200
[8]
(Cesar Millan walks several large dogs) Notice that I walk ahead of the dogs; I am communicating that I'm the pack leader, the equivalent of this leader of a wild pack
the alpha
Denis
Virginia
|
| — |
$400
[2]
"And another one gone and another one gone, another one ____ ____ ____"
bites the dust
Brian
|
$400
[19]
Thisbrand of frozen veggies uses the logo seen here
Birds Eye
Brian
|
$400
[13]
Years before his book of watercolors, he conducted America's first bird-banding experiments
Audubon
Virginia
|
$400
[23]
In 1966 Bobby Darin sang, "If I were a" this, "and you were a lady, would you marry me anyway? would you have my baby?"
carpenter
Virginia
|
$400
[9]
(Cesar Millan holds a dog.) One of the most powerful tools in working with dogs is giving rewards, what psychologists call this type of reinforcement
positive
Brian
|
| — |
$600
[3]
"Upside, inside out she's livin' ____ ____ ____"
la vida loca
Brian
|
$600
[20]
This "fraternal" company was the official supplier of typewriters to the 1984 Summer Olympics
Brother
Virginia
|
$600
[14]
About 4,000 Cherokee Indians died on the "Trail of" these in the late 1830s
tears
Denis
|
$600
[24]
This highly poisonous semi-metallic element, As, is often used in insecticides & weed killers
arsenic
Denis
|
$600
[10]
(Cesar Millan stands next to a seated dog.) Dogs look to us for reassurance & notice fear immediately; in an entire city, a dog could find 1 gram of butyric acid, a component of this human secretion
sweat (or perspiration)
Brian
Virginia
|
| — |
$800
[4]
"And then while I'm away I'll write home ev'ry day and I'll send ____ ____ ____ ____ ____"
all my loving to you
Denis
|
$800
[21]
This company is known for its Weejun loafers
Bass
Virginia
|
$800
[15]
On May 11, 1894 workers at this Chicago railroad car plant began a strike that lasted almost 3 months
the Pullman
Brian
|
$800
[25]
In the 1960s Speaker of the California Assembly Jesse Unruh said, "Money is the mother's milk of" this
politics
Denis
|
$800
[11]
(Cesar Millan stands by a small group of dogs.) With a little bit of help from me, the pack rehabilitates unstable dogs by showing them by example how to be calm & this, the opposite of dominant or assertive in behavioral science
submissive
Brian
|
| — |
$1,000
[5]
"What goes up must come down, ____ ____ got to go 'round"
spinning wheel
|
DD
$1,000
[22]
This company developed the Apollo lunar surface drill
Black & Decker
Virginia
|
$1,000
[16]
In an 1830 debate this senator said, "Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable"
Daniel Webster
Denis
|
$1,000
[26]
In 392 B.C. Isocrates founded a school to teach this skill of using language effectively & persuasively
rhetoric
Brian
|
$1,000
[12]
(Cesar Millan snaps his fingers and makes a short vocal sound to a dog before giving the clue.) Operant conditioning is a fancy way of saying learning from consequences, like the simple act of correction; it is part of this school of psychology that deals with actions, not inner states, so it works well with dogs
behavioralist/behaviorism
Virginia
|
| THE NEW YORK TIMESIN THE 21st CENTURY | PHYSICAL SCIENCE | FAMOUS LAST WORD | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS | PROFILES | IN COURAGE |
|
$400
[1]
A local news blog that debuted in 2007 is called this "room", conjuring up visions of fedoras & copy boys
city room
Denis
|
$400
[11]
A pair of pliers is an example of this type of simple machine
a lever
Denis
|
$400
[6]
In the Pledge of Allegiance
all
Brian
|
$400
[26]
In 1974 this beat poet for "The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971"
(Allen) Ginsberg
Virginia
|
$400
[21]
In happier times the royal Grimaldifamily of this country kicked up its heels
Monaco
Denis
|
$400
[16]
It's a cosmetic used to color the cheeks
rouge
Brian
|
|
$800
[2]
Between 2001 & 2010 the Times won 26 Pulitzers, including one in 2009 for covering the stunning downfall of this governor
Eliot Spitzer
Denis
|
$800
[12]
Types of these fast-moving air currents found in the troposphere include polar & subtropical
the jet stream
Denis
|
$800
[7]
In the constitutional text of the presidential oath of office--a 6-letter word
States
|
$800
[28]
In 2001 for his novel "The Corrections"; it was also an Oprah selection
Franzen
Virginia
|
$1,200
[23]
Let the name of this French scientist ferment in your brain
Pasteur
Denis
|
$800
[17]
It's another name for the mountain lion
cougar
Brian
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The 1st Timescast of newsroom video aired in 2010 & 1 story discussed was this tech co.'s rocky relationship with China
Google
Brian
|
$1,200
[13]
Thin slabs of itacolumite, a rare kind of this "grainy" rock, can actually be bent or squeezed out of shape
sandstone
Brian
Denis
|
$1,600
[9]
In "America the Beautiful"
sea
Brian
Virginia
|
$1,200
[29]
In 1952 for her nonfiction bestseller "The Sea Around Us"
Rachel Carson
Virginia
|
$1,600
[24]
This Massachusetts man was still a student at Yale when hespoke with Vice President Hubert Humphrey
John Kerry
Denis
|
$1,200
[18]
Impel or goad
urge
Brian
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Around this event in the fall of 2010, nytimes.com ran a "word train" to gauge readers' moods--no. 1 was "disgusted"
the mid-term election
Brian
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1911 Heike Onnes first observed superconductivity when he cooled this slippery element to -452 degrees Fahrenheit
mercury
Denis
|
$2,000
[10]
In the "Flintstones" theme
time
Denis
|
$1,600
[30]
In 1960 for "Goodbye, Columbus" & in 1995 for "Sabbath's Theater"
Philip Roth
Virginia
|
$2,000
[25]
Thissoprano is seen in profile; the gentleman blindfolded next to her is Aristotle Onassis
Maria Callas
Virginia
|
$1,600
[19]
This carpenter's tool bores holes in wood
auger
Brian
|
|
$2,000
[5]
In 2011 the Dealbook feature reported on this Wall St. bank's failed plan to let U.S. clients invest early in Facebook
Goldman Sachs
Brian
|
$2,000
[15]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by a display of the sun.) Nuclear fusion in the Sun'scoreproduces energy that eventually flows to the photosphere--first, byradiation& then by heat currents using this process, also used in a type of oven
convection
Denis
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
In the first sentence of a Miranda warning
silent
Brian
|
$2,000
[27]
In 1974 for "Gravity's Rainbow"
Thomas Pynchon
Denis
|
DD
$2,400
[22]
This spy novelist is seen here with a drink in hand, though it looks more like wine than a vodka martini
Ian Fleming
Denis
|
$2,000
[20]
It's just "I" in Latin
ego
Brian
|
A 1984 country hit, "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" is the basis for its theme song
Monday Night Football