2012 Power Players Week game 3.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Chris Wallace — a TV host fromFox News Sunday
Katty Kay — a Washington, D.C. anchor fromBBC World News America
Dr. Mehmet Oz — a cardiac surgeon and TV host fromThe Dr. Oz Show
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Oz | $1,000 | $1,000 | $3,000 |
$5,900
3rd place: $10,000 to HealthCorps |
$3,000
6 R, 1 W |
| Katty | $2,600 | $4,000 | $7,800 |
$8,000
2nd place: $10,000 to the International Women's Media Foundation |
$8,800
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chris | $200 | $3,000 | $19,400 |
$22,800
Winner: $50,000 to Hope for the Warriors |
$19,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| FAIR & BALANCED | ABRUPT ABBREVS. | WASHINGTON, D.C. | IT'S THE "E"-CONOMY | THE AUDACITY OF HOPE |
|
$200
[1]
In March 2012 Rep. Paul Ryan introduced a plan that he said would achieve this fiscal goal in 10 years
a balanced budget
Katty
|
$200
[12]
In a boxing ring, TKO
a technical knockout
Chris
|
$200
[7]
The Smithsonian museums are along the National this, "America's Front Lawn"
the Washington Mall
Dr. Oz
|
$200
[6]
Goods & services produced in one nation & sold in another
exports
Chris
|
$200
[13]
Bob Hope on this man's win in a 1960 primary: "It proves that a millionaire has just as good a chance as anybody else"
JFK
Chris
|
|
$400
[2]
The Trylon & the Perisphere were symbols of this 1939 event held in New York
the World's Fair
Dr. Oz
|
— |
$400
[15]
(Alex presents the clue from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) From the front balcony of the Newseum, we can easily see its neighbor, the embassy of this longtime U.S. ally; it's the embassy that's closest to the U.S. Capitol building
Canada
Chris
|
$400
[8]
The ratio of the value of the U.S. dollar to that of the Chilean peso is called this rate
the exchange rate
Dr. Oz
|
$400
[14]
"Reagan wears the flag of his country in his lapel"; this Soviet leader "wears the map of his country on his forehead"
Gorbachev
Katty
|
|
$600
[3]
The name of this constellation is Latin for "balance"
Libra
Katty
|
— |
$600
[20]
Its Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom is the permanent home of the Declaration of Independence
the National Archives
Chris
|
$600
[9]
Salary & tips are considered this type of income that has its own "tax credit"
earned income
|
$600
[16]
This George H.W. Bush veep "thinks Roe vs. Wade are two ways to cross the Potomac"
Dan Quayle
Chris
|
|
$800
[4]
Since 2000 Starbucks has coffee certified "fair" this, from small-scale farmers organized into cooperatives
fair trade
Dr. Oz
Katty
|
— |
$1,000
[19]
This neighborhood is named for the traffic circle where Mass., Connecticut & New Hampshire Aves. intersect
DuPont Circle
Katty
|
$800
[10]
Stocks are also called these, & the stock market is also called this market
the equity market
Dr. Oz
|
$800
[18]
"They keep asking" him "why he won't debate Humphrey. That's like asking Rosemary why she won't have another baby"
Richard Nixon
Chris
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Some thought his play "A Delicate Balance" repeated themes from his earlier "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Edward Albee
Katty
|
— | — |
$1,000
[11]
It takes "work" to remember that Keynes' major opus is "The General Theory of" this, "Interest and Money"
Employment
|
$1,000
[17]
LBJ "is traveling throughout the Far East to make" these. "If it works, he may try it in" the United States
friends
|
| POLITICAL CINEMA | YOU CALL YOURSELF A DOCTOR? | COLOR ME BAD | "BLOW" HARDS | THE NEW YORK TIMESTHE ARTS | THE BRITISH ARE COMING! |
|
$400
[2]
"Thirteen Days", starring Kevin Costner, was based on the events surrounding this 1962 crisis
the Cuban Missile Crisis
Katty
|
$400
[1]
Economist Nouriel Roubini is known as Dr. this for his forecasts full of gloom & this
Doom
Chris
|
$400
[23]
Dark name for medieval plague
the Black Death
Katty
|
$400
[14]
It can be a wild social affair or an easy one-sided victory in sports
a blowout
Chris
|
$400
[13]
A review of a 2012 show at this place, the Met for short, informed us that Degas looked like Jerry Seinfeld
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Katty
|
$400
[3]
In the War of 1812 British general Sir Isaac Brock struck from Canada to capture this not-yet-Motor City
Detroit
Chris
|
|
$800
[4]
George Clooney directed & starred in this 2011 film about presidential primary shenanigans
The Ides of March
Katty
|
$800
[10]
Spokane-born Doc Hastings of this state is one of few in Congress with not only no M.D. but no college degree
Washington
Chris
|
$800
[24]
Herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas
Agent Orange
Dr. Oz
|
$800
[15]
An informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization
a whistleblower
Katty
|
$800
[19]
Arts Beat reported on the craze for "Zou Bisou Bisou", a song featured in this TV show about advertising
Mad Men
Chris
|
$800
[8]
Its 3,000 volumes were destroyed when the British burned the Capitol, its first home, in 1814
the Library of Congress
Chris
|
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
This 1939 Jimmy Stewart classic premiered here at Constitution Hall"It's just the blood and bone and sinew of this democracy that some great men handed down to the human race, that's all!"
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Katty
|
$1,200
[25]
Thisnovelty song presenter hung up his stethoscope, retiring his radio show in 2010
Dr. Demento
|
— |
$1,200
[16]
This group was big in the '90s with hits like "Only Wanna Be With You"
Hootie & the Blowfish
Chris
|
$1,200
[20]
nytimes.com posted an architectural rendering of this school's 2.5-mil.-square-foot expansion in Greenwich Village
NYU
Chris
|
$1,200
[9]
On April 19, 1775 700 British troops reached this town near dawn; about 70 minutemen were there to greet them
Lexington, Massachusetts
Dr. Oz
|
|
$1,600
[6]
He channeled Bill Clinton when he played Southern governor Jack Stanton in "Primary Colors"
John Travolta
Chris
|
$1,600
[26]
The ideas of Lowell Wood, dubbed "Dr. Evil", helped inspire Ronald Reagan to propose this defense program
the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Chris
|
— |
$1,600
[17]
Fictional C.S. Forester navy man Horatio
Hornblower
Chris
|
$1,600
[21]
Times reviewers sigh & musicians' unions fume over dance companies like Paul Taylor's using music presented this way
on tape (or recorded)
Chris
|
DD
$2,000
[11]
The British did not have bon temps in the Jan. 8, 1815 battle of this city
New Orleans
Chris
|
|
$2,000
[7]
In this 2007 film Tom Hanks played a Texas congressman who covertly aided Afghan rebels against the Soviets
Charlie Wilson's War
Katty
|
— | — |
$2,000
[18]
Using the power of breath to shape molten sand
glassblowing
Chris
|
$2,000
[22]
A 2011 review said the acoustics of this famous NYC hall turned a chorale's words into whooshes
Carnegie Hall
Chris
|
$2,000
[12]
Washington crossed the Delaware to beat British forces in the battle of this future New Jersey capital
Trenton
Chris
|
In 2011, in the preface to the 75th anniversary edition, Pat Conroy called this novel "the last great... victory of the Confederacy"
Gone with the Wind