Joel Pool game 2.
Marnie Cox — an attorney from Astoria, New York
Mike Lally — a food safety inspector from Ada, Michigan
Joel Pool — a real estate developer from Oakland, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joel | $1,800 | $5,400 | $16,600 |
$31,700
2-day champion: $48,400 |
$16,600
20 R, 4 W |
| Mike | $2,800 | $2,400 | $1,400 |
$2,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,400
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Marnie | $1,000 | $4,200 | $15,800 |
$2,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,400
16 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| THE INDIANAPOLIS 500 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | WRITER'S DICTIONARY | IN PERE-LACHAISE CEMETERY | GIVE ME A PRIZE! | "IFY" ANSWER CORRECTLY |
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$200
[7]
This school's boilermaker band has been part of the pre-race ceremonies since 1919
Purdue
Mike
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$200
[6]
Governed by treaty, it's the formal return of a wanted criminal to the country where the offense occurred
extradition
Mike
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$200
[9]
From the Latin for "knowing", it's the character telling the story
narrator
Mike
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$200
[24]
This mime has the only spoken line of dialogue in "Silent Movie"
Marcel Marceau
Mike
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$200
[13]
Carleton Mabee won this literary prize for his Samuel Morse biography "The American Leonardo"
a Pulitzer
Mike
|
$200
[1]
To bring together as one
unify
Marnie
|
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$400
[8]
The tradition of drinking this in victory lane after the race was begun by Louis Meyer after his 3rd win in 1936
milk
Joel
Marnie
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$400
[16]
Agreements signed in this city between 1864 & 1949 govern the treatment of wounded soldiers & prisoners of war
Geneva
Mike
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$400
[20]
"Kick the bucket" is an example of this 5-letter type of phrase that doesn't literally mean what it says
an idiom
Joel
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$400
[25]
A grave is a grave is a grave for this writer born in Pennsylvania
Gertrude Stein
|
$400
[14]
The most prestigious award for pitching in baseball is the one named for this man who hurled a record 511 wins
Cy Young
Marnie
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$400
[2]
To prepare a pharaoh for burial
mummify
Joel
|
|
$600
[10]
This Texan known by his initials holds the record for most Indy 500 starts with 35, 1958-1992
(A.J.) Foyt
Mike
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$600
[17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of a generic coastline.) As defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, these coastal belts are considered sovereign & can extend outward for up to 12 miles
territorial waters
Joel
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$600
[21]
In 1865 Walt Whitman published both "Drum-Taps" & a follow-up titled this "to Drum-Taps"
Sequel
|
$600
[26]
"Earnest" Irish wit who died at age 46 in 1900
(Oscar) Wilde
Joel
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$600
[15]
He won a 1987 spoken word Grammy for "Lake Wobegon Days"
Garrison Keillor
Joel
|
$600
[3]
To explain something more thoroughly, or to just turn up the volume
amplify
Joel
Mike
|
|
$800
[11]
This nickname for the garage area, originally the fuel depot, was possibly inspired by a comic strip of the same name
Gasoline Alley
Mike
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$800
[18]
The bag or package in which dispatches are securely transported is called a diplomatic one of these
a pouch
Joel
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$800
[22]
It can mean firm determination or the outcome of the conflict in a story
resolution
Marnie
|
DD
$600
[30]
This novelist's magnum opus is literally translated "In Search of Lost Time"
(Marcel) Proust
Marnie
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$800
[27]
These "planetary" statuettes have been given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association since 1944
the Golden Globes
Marnie
|
$800
[4]
To execute in the ancient Roman fashion
crucify
Joel
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Now tragically deceased, this British racer won in 2011, the 100th anniversary of the Indy 500
Dan Wheldon
|
$1,000
[19]
In 2003 OPEC's secretary general said, "OPEC is not" this type of price-regulating body, "as some... insist on calling us"
a cartel
Joel
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$1,000
[23]
En garde! Raise your this, also a character whose opposite traits highlight those of the protagonist
a foil
Joel
Mike
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$800
[29]
Some of his "timely" genius is heard here
Chopin
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$1,000
[28]
This prestigious British prize for literature was started in 1968 as a counterpart to France's Prix Goncourt
the Booker Prize
Marnie
|
$1,000
[5]
To give something honor, as in "I won't" do this to "your question with a response"
dignify
Joel
|
| THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS | FROM THE SANSKRIT | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT | NATIVE AMERICANS BY TRIBE | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES | EYE Q |
|
$400
[1]
Currently the Commonwealth's official head
Queen Elizabeth
Mike
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$400
[3]
The name of this mountain range containing 9 of the world's 10 highest peaks is from the Sanskrit for "abode of snow"
Himalayas
Mike
|
$400
[21]
An assertion to a legal right to something; you can also make a "counter-" one
a claim
Joel
|
$400
[26]
Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Sioux
|
$400
[8]
A 1997 movie with Tommy Lee Jones policing aliens puts on a tutu to jete into a Natalie Portman film
Men in Black Swan
Marnie
|
$400
[16]
During an exam, your doctor will use drops to cause the pupils to do this, ophthalmologists' word for "widen"
to dilate
Joel
|
|
$800
[2]
In 1973 the Commonwealth issued a statement calling for an end to tests of these
nuclear weapons
Marnie
|
$800
[4]
Spiked or not, this drink comes from a word meaning "five nectars"
punch
Joel
|
$800
[22]
"Cross-" this is security for one debt that also serves as security for another
collateral
Joel
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$800
[27]
Geronimo
Apache
Joel
Mike
|
$800
[9]
1988 Dustin Hoffman film that definitely, definitely became the musical film version of "Don Quixote"
Rain Man of La Mancha
Marnie
|
$800
[17]
Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, can be controlled by eye drops that reduce pressure on the optic one of these
the optic nerve
Joel
|
|
$1,200
[13]
It achieved dominion status in 1867, the first Commonwealth member to do so
Canada
Joel
|
$1,200
[5]
Wise Jawaharlal Nehru was known as "Pandit"; if he'd done more CNN, 1 letter would have changed & he'd have been this
pundit
Joel
|
$1,200
[23]
This effort to boot a juror can be peremptory or for cause
a challenge
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
Osceola
Seminole (or Creek)
Mike
|
$1,600
[11]
Roger Moore 007 film that turns into another action pic with Uma Thurman as a killer bride
View to a Kill Bill
Mike
Marnie
|
$1,200
[18]
Smoking can increase the risk of getting this clouding of the lens
a cataract
Joel
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Recovering from years of strife between Hutus & Tutsis, it joined the Commonwealth in 2009
Rwanda
Mike
Marnie
|
$1,600
[6]
This 4-letter word for the plunder taken during war can also be a slang term for money
loot
Joel
Mike
|
$1,600
[24]
A judge other than a chief judge at one of the U.S. courts of appeals
a circuit judge
Marnie
|
— |
DD
$2,000
[10]
Mia Farrow taking a pregnant pause in a horror pic segues into Tina Fey's ticking biological clock in a 2008 comedy
Rosemary's Baby Mama
Marnie
|
$1,600
[19]
This condition usually caused by a misshapen cornea can be corrected with glasses or toric contact lenses
astigmatism
Joel
|
|
$2,000
[15]
The independence of the dominions was recognized by the 1931 Statute of this London borough where parliament sits
Westminster
Marnie
|
$2,000
[7]
This Sanskrit word for correct law or custom is found before "Bums" in a 1958 novel title
dharma
Marnie
|
$2,000
[25]
Executive clemency can lead to this, reducing the severity of a punishment
a commutation
Joel
|
— |
$2,000
[12]
The horror, the horror at seeing a Coppola war film turn into a 1942 film where Bette Davis overcomes her domineering ma
Apocalypse Now, Voyager
|
$2,000
[20]
Allergies or infections can cause inflammation of this membrane that lines the eyelids & covers the eyes' surface
the conjunctiva
Marnie
|
On September 5, Dwight Eisenhower told this state's governor that "the federal Constitution will be upheld by me by every legal means"
Arkansas