2012 Power Players Week game 4.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Lewis Black — a stand-up comedian fromLewis Black's Root of All Evil
Clarence Page — a journalist fromThe Chicago Tribune
Chuck Todd — a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News andMeet the Press
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck | $1,800 | $2,400 | $18,400 |
$18,100
Winner: $50,000 to Samaritan Inns |
$17,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Clarence | $800 | $3,000 | $9,000 |
$7,000
2nd place: $10,000 to the American Institute for Stuttering |
$9,000
13 R, 2 W |
| Lewis | $-800 | $400 | $8,000 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 to the 52nd St. Project and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
$8,000
9 R, 1 W |
| THE DAILY RUNDOWN | ART & ARTISTS | SUPER PACKS | PAGE TURNERS | THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD | FADE TO "BLACK" |
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$200
[1]
This TV sports spectacle premiered Monday, Sept. 21, 1970; are you ready?
Monday Night Football
Clarence
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$200
[12]
Thomas Sully painted the portrait of this man that's the basis for the $20 bill
Andrew Jackson
Chuck
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$200
[13]
Military folk carry personal items in this large, cylindrical 6-letter "bag"
duffel
Lewis
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$200
[2]
Completes the John le Carre title, "Tinker, Tailor..."
Soldier, Spy
Clarence
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$200
[17]
He entered Congress in 1995, 30 years after he & Cher topped the pop charts
Sonny Bono
Clarence
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$200
[3]
Term for films like "Catch-22" & "Dr. Strangelove", which juxtapose morbid elements with farce
black comedies
Chuck
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$400
[4]
In the '90s she took wing with the album "Tuesday Night Music Club" & the hit "All I Wanna Do"
Sheryl Crow
Clarence
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$400
[18]
This Impressionist painter was the father of Jean, director of "The Rules of the Game"
Renoir
Lewis
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$400
[14]
Frequent travelers appreciate the tri-fold feature of Tumi's Presidio model of this bag
a garment bag
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$400
[11]
Ann Charles sets creepy novels in this morbid-sounding South Dakota city
Deadwood
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$400
[20]
Look out, Adam Sandler! Senator Orrin Hatch's many songs include "Eight Days Of" this
Hanukkah
Chuck
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$400
[8]
It's not church bells but "Hells Bells" that opens this AC/DC album
Back in Black
Chuck
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$600
[5]
Ash Wednesday is the first day of this religious period
Lent
Chuck
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$600
[19]
In depicting Native Americans, George Catlin often painted this beast, as in "Assiniboine Indians Pursuing" it "on Snowshoes"
a buffalo
Clarence
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— |
$600
[15]
He's Ian Fleming's title "doctor"
Dr. No
Lewis
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$600
[21]
The 1998 album "Let Freedom Sing" is by The Singing Senators quartet, who specialized in this non-hair-raising vocal style
the barbershop quartet
Clarence
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$600
[9]
Queen Anne's Revenge was this pirate's ship
Blackbeard
Chuck
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|
DD
$1,000
[6]
Thursday, Nov. 26, 1863 was proclaimed as "a day of" this "and praise"
thanksgiving
Chuck
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$800
[16]
You presumed right if you think you're looking at this Chicago-born author of legal thrillers
Scott Turow
Clarence
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— |
$800
[10]
The Siksika are part of this Native American Confederacy
the Blackfeet
Clarence
Lewis
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$1,000
[7]
Jason Voorhees is the hockey-masked psycho in this film franchise; don't go in the basement!
Friday the 13th
Chuck
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| STOP THE PRESSES! | THE NEW YORK TIMESMOVIES | POLITICAL NICKNAMES | "DAR" | CONSTITUTION | HAUL |
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$400
[2]
In 2012 this encyclopedia announced it was discontinuing its 244-year-old print version & going online only
the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lewis
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$400
[1]
nytimes.com velcomes you to the list of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", vich includes this 1931 Bela Lugosi film
Dracula
Chuck
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$400
[7]
A 1950s senator who saw red:"Tail Gunner Joe"
Joe McCarthy
Chuck
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$400
[16]
A term of endearment, like for my Clementine
darling
Chuck
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$400
[21]
Article 47 of this European nation's constitution says "The confederation shall respect the autonomy of the cantons"
Switzerland
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$400
[22]
A purse seine is a huge one of these that takes many fishermen (or a power block) to haul out of the water
a net
Chuck
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$800
[3]
In 2011 this online retailer announced that its sales of e-books exceeded its sales of hardbacks & paperbacks
Amazon
Clarence
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$800
[4]
nytimes.com links to reviews of the top 10 DVD rentals: this Brad Pitt film about "baseball in the digital age" hit No. 1 in 2012
Moneyball
Lewis
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$800
[10]
A 1920s president:"The Sphinx of the Potomac"
Calvin Coolidge
Clarence
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$800
[17]
The inner bull's eye is commonly worth 50 points in this game
darts
Chuck
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$800
[26]
Excluding the 27 amendments, this country's constitution is among the world's shortest at just 4,426 words
the United States
Chuck
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$800
[23]
In the mid-1990s New York City broke the 40-year dominance of organized crime in the hauling of this
garbage
Lewis
|
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$1,200
[6]
This city's 146-year-old Post-Intelligencer went online only in 2009
Seattle
Clarence
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$1,200
[5]
The nytimes.com movie archive has year-by-year "Critics' Picks": 1960 includes this mother of an Anthony Perkins pic
Psycho
Chuck
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$1,200
[11]
A nearly 50-year congressman:"Mr. Sam"
Mr. Rayburn
Chuck
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$1,200
[18]
This capital of Australia's Northern Territory is named for an evolutionary scientist
Darwin
Chuck
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$1,600
[28]
Part III of its constitution prohibits discrimination on account of caste
India
Lewis
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$1,200
[24]
In trucking, it's been defined as a run that covers more than 1,000 miles
a long haul
Chuck
|
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$2,000
[9]
The web preserves the final edition of this "News" paper; it says, "Our time chronicling the life of Denver and Colorado... is over"
The Rocky Mountain News
Chuck
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$1,600
[14]
Stephen Holden noted this 17th c. title trio's return to the big screen in 2011 with "All for one, and then maybe a sequel"
the Three Musketeers
Clarence
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$1,600
[12]
A congressman:"The Mustache of Justice"
Henry Waxman
Chuck
|
$1,600
[19]
A longshot who wins, or a "Star Wars" comic book publisher
a dark horse
Chuck
|
DD
$3,000
[27]
He was emperor when Japan's "The emperor... shall not have powers related to government" was written
Hirohito
Chuck
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$1,600
[25]
Also meaning a dopey person, it's from the Yiddish for "to haul", as in "for this I ____ed those books all the way here?"
schlep
Clarence
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DD
$2,200
[8]
A phone-hacking scandal forced this British tabloid to close in 2011
News of the World
Chuck
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$2,000
[15]
Manohla Dargis titled the review of this 2011 drama "Finding the Humanity in the F.B.I.'s Feared Enforcer"
J. Edgar
Clarence
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$2,000
[13]
A 19th century senator:"The Great Compromiser"
Henry Clay
Lewis
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$2,000
[20]
It's the Turkish straitseen here
the Dardanelles
Lewis
|
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$2,000
[29]
"I presume" Chuma & Susi were the bearers who hauled this missionary around Africa, both alive & dead
Dr. Livingstone
Clarence
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First held in May 1875, it is the oldest continuously held major sporting event in the United States
the Kentucky Derby