Joel Pool game 1.
Cindy Hager — a mixed animal veterinarian from Banner, Wyoming
Joel Pool — a real estate developer from Oakland, California
Jacob Silverman — an arts and culture journalist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,998)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob | $3,200 | $3,700 | $11,700 |
$6,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joel | $800 | $600 | $8,400 |
$16,700
New champion: $16,700 |
$7,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Cindy | $3,400 | $4,200 | $7,800 |
$3,899
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,400
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| 3-NAMED AUTHORS | NUMBER, PLEASE | FAMOUS IVY LEAGUERS | SOUNDS LIKE 2 LETTERS | GIRL SCOUT COOKIES | S'MOORS |
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$200
[16]
He followed up "Kidnapped" with a sequel called "Catriona" that didn't fare quite as well
Robert Louis Stevenson
Cindy
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$200
[6]
The White House is this number Pennsylvania Avenue NW
1600
Joel
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$200
[1]
It's no conspiracy: this "JFK" director dropped out of Yale to go fight in Vietnam
Oliver Stone
Jacob
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$200
[11]
Type of nest after the kids move out
empty
Cindy
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$200
[26]
The first recorded Girl Scout cookie sale occurred in December 1917 by the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee in this state
Oklahoma
Joel
Cindy
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$200
[21]
In the 9th century the Emir of Cordoba built the military fortress Magerit, which later became this capital
Madrid
Joel
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$400
[17]
In 1917, 3 years after "Tarzan of the Apes", he wrote "A Princess of Mars", the first of 11 John Carter novels
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Joel
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$400
[7]
It follows "MI" in the name of Britain's domestic security service
5
Jacob
Joel
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$400
[2]
A very young Oscar winner, this actress could mix her "True Blood" with the blue bloods at Columbia
Anna Paquin
Jacob
Cindy
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$400
[12]
Wall-climberseen here
ivy
Cindy
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$400
[27]
Due to flour, sugar & butter shortages, the Girl Scouts sold calendars instead of cookies during this period
World War II
Joel
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$400
[22]
The Moors changed this brutal sport practiced by the Visigoths in Andalusia into more of an art form
bullfighting
Cindy
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$600
[18]
In 1985 he published the South America-set "Love in the Time of Cholera"
Gabriel García Márquez
Jacob
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$600
[8]
Rome was built (not in a day) on this many hills
7
Jacob
|
$600
[3]
Name this college football coach who got his law degree from Penn in 1892 & we'll give you $600, but no trophy
(John) Heisman
Jacob
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$600
[13]
Title number of days needed by Phileas Fogg to traverse the globe
eighty
Cindy
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$600
[28]
Once known as chocolate mints, they are the most popular Girl Scout cookies, accounting for 25% of sales
Thin Mints
Jacob
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$600
[23]
This Portuguese town where visions were seen in 1917 was named for a count's wife, a Moor who became a Christian
Fatima
|
|
$800
[19]
Sadly, in 2008, this author of "Infinite Jest" took his own life
David Foster Wallace
Jacob
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$800
[9]
This interstate runs from Santa Monica to Jacksonville
10
Jacob
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$800
[4]
He graduated from Brown as an honors playwright before getting into acting playing Jim Halpert
John Krasinski
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$800
[14]
The first one ever awarded, in 1949, went to ventriloquist Shirley Dinsdale, star of the show "Judy Splinters"
an Emmy
Cindy
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$800
[29]
Also called Do-si-dos, this sandwich cookie is one of 3 varieties sold every year by all Girl Scouts
the peanut butter sandwich
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$800
[24]
In 732 the Moors had penetrated into France but were turned back at Tours by this grandfather of Charlemagne
Charles Martel ("The Hammer")
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|
DD
$2,500
[20]
Her final resting place is a Missouri cemetery where she shares a headstone with husband Almanzo
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Jacob
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$1,000
[10]
An eye chart is usually read from a distance of this many feet
20
Cindy
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$1,000
[5]
Shegraduated magna cum laude from Penn and got some medical training playing Dr. Kim Briggs on "Scrubs"
Elizabeth Banks
Jacob
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$1,000
[15]
Shaq knows it precedes "Hot" in the name of a pain-relieving cream
Icy
Joel
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$1,000
[30]
New for 2012, Savannah Smiles are this fruit flavor, reviving the "Coolers" of a few years back
lemon
Joel
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$1,000
[25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Soon after most of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by the Moors in the 8th century, the Spanish began regaining lost territory until around 1300 only this Moorish kingdom remained
Granada
Jacob
|
| ON THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST | LOFTY LANGUAGE | AMERICAN NICKNAMES | WEBCAMS | WEATHER HISTORY | "BIG" MOVIE QUOTES |
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$400
[9]
In Moscow:This area that's had its colorful name since long before Communist rule
Red Square
Joel
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$400
[4]
It comes before "flown" or "falutin"
high
Joel
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$400
[14]
It was the nickname of frontiersman William Cody
Buffalo Bill
Joel
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$400
[22]
In April of 2011, people set their browsers to watch these baby birds hatch in Decorah, Iowa
bald eagles
Cindy
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$400
[19]
In 1869 Cleveland Abbe began predicting storms & became the first to offer daily these
forecasts
Joel
|
$400
[1]
1998:"The Dude abides"
The Big Lebowski
Joel
|
|
$800
[10]
In Wiltshire, England:Avebury & this more famous group of megaliths
Stonehenge
Jacob
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$800
[5]
This adjective for overblown verbiage comes from a shorter word paired with "circumstance"
pompous
Jacob
Cindy
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$800
[15]
This battleship where World War II ended was nicknamed "Mighty Mo"
the Missouri
Joel
|
$800
[23]
If you can't get to St. Barts, just stare at the screen and imagine yourself by this sea
the Caribbean
Cindy
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$800
[20]
In the late 18th century, Antoine Lavoisier determined that air is mostly this element
nitrogen
Joel
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$800
[2]
1985:"Be sure and tell 'em Large Marge sent ya"
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
|
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$1,200
[11]
In Nepal:Chitwan National Park, one of the last refuges of the Bengal tiger & this huge 1-horned beast
a rhino (Indian rhinoceros)
Joel
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$1,200
[6]
Adjective for a railway, or language raised high above the ordinary level
elevated
Joel
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$1,200
[16]
Adjective in common to Ronald Reagan, the ____ President, & John Gotti, the ____ Don
Teflon
Jacob
Cindy
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$1,200
[24]
This5:30 PM footage that might want to make you work late is from Caltrans, short for this state government department
the California Department of Transportation
Jacob
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$1,200
[21]
With these instruments, Blaise Pascal proved that air pressure is reduced with altitude
a barometer
Jacob
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$1,200
[3]
1983: "I feel terrible, the last time I spoke with Alex, we had a fight..." "That's probably why he killed himself"
The Big Chill
Jacob
|
|
$1,600
[12]
In Italy:The Piazza del Duomo with the much-photographed campanile called this
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Joel
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$1,600
[7]
7-letter adjective for ornate prose or for a Hawaiian shirt
flowery
|
DD
$1,600
[17]
The Department of State & an area of Washington, D.C. are nicknamed this
Foggy Bottom
Cindy
|
$1,600
[25]
You might want to keep an eye on the webcam of this volcano next to Mauna Loa; it's the world's most active
Kilauea
Joel
|
$2,000
[30]
It was proposed in 1902 that radio waves bounce back to Earth from an electrified layer of the atmosphere later termed this
the ionosphere
Jacob
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$1,600
[27]
1986, Kurt Russell:"You know what ol' Jack Burton always says in a time like this?" "Who?" "Jack Burton, me"
Big Trouble in Little China
Cindy
|
|
$2,000
[13]
In Mexico:The old city of Teotihuacan, which includes the temple of this feathered serpent god
Quetzalcoatl
Cindy
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$2,000
[8]
This word meaning "lofty" is also the highest reputation level in World of Warcraft
exalted
|
$2,000
[18]
Before it proved itself successful, this steamboat was referred to as "Fulton's folly"
the Clermont
|
$2,000
[26]
This lady has a greatviewof a great American city; you can share it via webcam
the Statue of Liberty
Jacob
|
DD
$3,000
[29]
In 1944 bombers at high altitude were speedily propelled forward--what's now called this 2-word phenomenon
a jet stream
Joel
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$2,000
[28]
1996, Stanley Tucci:"That is a risotto; is a special recipe that my brother and I bring from Italy"
Big Night
Joel
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This play that came to Broadway in 2005 is set in the autumn of 1964 at St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx
Doubt