2012 Power Players Week game 5.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Thomas L. Friedman — an author and foreign affairs columnist fromThe New York Times
Kelly O'Donnell — a political reporter from NBC News
Anderson Cooper — a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson | $3,000 | $4,200 | $15,600 |
$14,399
Winner: $50,000 to The Trevor Project |
$17,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kelly O | $-400 | $-400 | $2,000 |
$1,500
2nd place: $10,000 to the Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation |
$2,000
5 R, 3 W |
| Tom | $-400 | $2,800 | $8,400 |
$1,000
3rd place: $10,000 to Conservation International |
$8,400
9 R, 2 W |
| INSIDE THE BELTWAY | DOMESTIC AFFAIRS | 21st CENTURY LINGO | LITERARY MENAGERIE | THE STOCK TICKER |
|
$200
[10]
Central Alabama's Black Belt is famous for growing this fiber that was once "king"
cotton
Anderson
|
$200
[3]
The documentary "Client 9" chronicled "The Rise and Fall of" this New York governor
Eliot Spitzer
Anderson
|
$400
[1]
"Warm" rhyming term for a place with a strong Wi Fi connection
a hot spot
Anderson
|
$400
[15]
Paul Theroux:"The ____ Coast"
Mosquito
Anderson
|
$600
[21]
No more tears for this company, JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
Tom
|
|
$400
[11]
As part of their uniforms, beginners in judo & karate first wear belts of this color
white
Anderson
Kelly O
|
$400
[4]
The initial claim about his affair with Sally Hemings was printed in a Richmond newspaper
Thomas Jefferson
Anderson
|
$600
[2]
in 2011 Business Week said European government bonds were this "poisonous" kind of debt
toxic
Kelly O
Tom
|
$600
[16]
Roald Dahl:"Fantastic Mr ____"
Fox
Anderson
|
$800
[20]
This company providing energy products & services is HAL
Halliburton
Anderson
Tom
|
|
$600
[12]
In the late 1950s Nils Bohlin of this Swedish company pioneered the use of safety belts in automobiles
Volvo
Anderson
Kelly O
|
$600
[5]
Lady Emma Hamilton was this British naval hero's mistress & inherited money from him after he died at Trafalgar
Lord Horatio Nelson
|
$800
[8]
It's the "tiny" term for a person who writes short posts about one's personal life on Tumblr or Twitter
a microblogger
Tom
|
$800
[18]
John Updike:"____, Run"
Rabbit
Tom
|
$1,000
[19]
BUD is for you, as it's the symbol for this hyphenated pair of names
Anheuser-Busch
Tom
|
|
$800
[13]
These objects also known as planetoids are mainly found in a "belt" of them between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter
asteroids
|
$800
[6]
Sydney Biddle Barrows, who had a high-class pedigree & ran a high-class sex service, was dubbed this
the Mayflower Madam
Anderson
|
$1,000
[9]
In March 2009 Pres. Obama told "60 Minutes" that the U.S. needed one of these 2-word plans for leaving Afghanistan
an exit strategy
Tom
|
$1,000
[17]
Walter Farley:"The Black ____"
Stallion
|
— |
|
$1,000
[14]
Albrecht Classen's "The Medieval" this belt designed to protect a woman's virtue concludes they were never really in use
a chastity belt
Anderson
|
$1,000
[7]
In 1745 Louis XV took her as his official mistress; she gave her name to a fabric & a big hairstyle
Madame de Pompadour
|
— | — | — |
| "A.C." | PREPARE THE PREFIX | COLD, HILLY & EMPTY | TV GUIDEMOVIE SYNOPSES | I'M GROVER CLEVELAND | I APPROVED THIS MESSAGE |
|
$400
[16]
Here's a mystery: she wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott
Agatha Christie
|
$400
[17]
-curricular,-sensory,-marital
extra-
Anderson
Kelly O
|
$400
[7]
Bonanza, Idaho is now this abandoned type of "town" that faded away after the gold was gone
a ghost town
Anderson
|
$400
[14]
1994:"A cop versus a mad bomber who's rigged a bomb to a bus"
Speed
Anderson
|
$400
[26]
Condemning the overthrow of the Queen, I withdrew the treaty to annex these islands, now a state
Hawaii
Kelly O
|
$400
[1]
In a Police song about a castaway, Sting approved a "Message In" one of these
A Bottle
Anderson
|
|
$800
[9]
This sci-fi author made his "Final Odyssey" in 2008, dying at age 90
Arthur C. Clarke
Tom
|
$800
[18]
-culture,-insurgency,-intuitive
counter-
Kelly O
|
$800
[10]
Rising in our nation's Capital just a few blocks from here, it was once known as Jenkins Hill
Capitol Hill
Anderson
|
$800
[2]
2010:"Docudrama about the Triple Crown-winning race horse"
Secretariat
Kelly O
|
$800
[27]
In 1894 I became the first president to be protected by these men from the Treasury Department
the Secret Service
Anderson
|
$800
[22]
On a BBS, short for this "system", your online moderator approves of all messages that follow the rules
bulletin board system
|
|
$1,200
[6]
He also produced stationary sculptures called stabiles
Alexander Calder
Tom
|
$1,200
[19]
-focus,-didact,-bahn
auto-
|
$1,200
[11]
On Feb. 3, 1947 a village in this territory bordering Alaska recorded -81.4 F., an all-time low for Canada
the Yukon Territory
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
1953:"Life on a Honolulu Army post just before the Pearl Harbor attack"
From Here to Eternity
Anderson
|
DD
$800
[29]
I sent troops in to quell the 1894 Pullman Railroad strike because it was interrupting the delivery of this
the mail
Anderson
|
$1,200
[23]
Eugene H. Peterson approved "The Message", a contemporary version of this, with all 66 books combined into one
the Bible
|
|
$1,600
[8]
Awarded a Nobel Prize, this existentialist said he would have given it to fellow Frenchman Andre Malraux
Albert Camus
|
$1,600
[20]
-sphere,-rhythm,-degradable
bio-
Kelly O
|
$1,600
[12]
Fodor's says that Paris is no longer deserted in this month as was traditionally the case
August
Tom
|
$1,600
[4]
2010:"A ballet dancer goes insane"
Black Swan
Anderson
|
$2,000
[28]
In 1863 I paid George Benninsky $150 to do this instead of me; it was perfectly legal, & George didn't get killed
serve in the Civil War
|
$1,600
[24]
The Pope approved his message for this holiday in 2012; it said, "May the risen Christ grant hope to the Middle East"
Easter
Anderson
|
|
$2,000
[15]
This British journalist was masterful as the longtime host of "Masterpiece Theatre"
Alistair Cooke
Anderson
|
$2,000
[21]
-activity,-location,-isotope
radio-
Tom
|
$2,000
[13]
The iconic flag raising on Iwo Jima in 1945 took place on this hill (okay, "mount")
Suribachi
Anderson
|
$2,000
[5]
1969:"Sam Peckinpah's tale of aging gunmen in 1913 Texas"
The Wild Bunch
|
— |
$2,000
[25]
Marshall McLuhan would approve if you said this "is the message"; it's his most famous quote
the medium
Anderson
|
The National Inventors Hall of Fame said his work "brought the South prosperity", but he was out of business within 5 years
Eli Whitney