Jason Shore game 1.
Todd Federman — a professor and education consultant from Livingston, New Jersey
Jason Shore — a medical student from Plano, Texas
Lucas Peterson — an actor originally from Oak Park, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucas | $1,800 | $5,000 | $11,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,400
19 R, 7 W |
| Jason | $2,000 | $5,000 | $22,900 |
$22,878
New champion: $22,878 |
$20,200
23 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Todd | $800 | $800 | $3,600 |
$2,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,600
8 R, 2 W |
| THE OAKLAND "B"s | BEASTLY MOVIE TITLES | A LIFE IN BRIEF | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES | TUESDAYS | WITH MAORI |
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$200
[1]
In November 1936 it began carrying traffic between San Francisco & Oakland across the water it's named for
the Bay Bridge
Lucas
Todd
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$200
[3]
Starring Jane Fonda:"____ Ballou"
Cat
Lucas
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$200
[8]
Minted in 1767, he did enough to get his mug on our $20 bill
Andrew Jackson
Jason
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$200
[14]
Placed on top of a pillar, a herm is a bust of this god for whom it's named
Hermes
Lucas
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$200
[17]
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Tuesdays are dedicated to this man who foreshadowed the arrival of Jesus
John the Baptist
Jason
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$200
[22]
Waka taua are these boats that can be more than 100 feet long & hold 80 paddlers
canoes
Lucas
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$400
[2]
In between stints as California's governor, he served 2 terms as Oakland's mayor
Jerry Brown
Todd
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$400
[5]
A movie with "true grit":"____ Cogburn"
Rooster
Lucas
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$400
[9]
Met life in 1879, wrote 6 books & never met a man he didn't like
Will Rogers
Lucas
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$400
[15]
An oceanspongeknown for its lattice-likeskeletonis called this love goddess'flower basket
Venus
Lucas
Jason
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$400
[24]
On "Black Tuesday", Oct. 29 of this year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed & lost 23% of its value
1929
Jason
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$400
[23]
Maori ceremonial cloaks called korowai are made with the feathers of a rare albino variety of this flightless bird
a kiwi
Lucas
Jason
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$600
[4]
What's now East Oakland was once a city called this, like a borough southeast of Manhattan
Brooklyn
Lucas
Jason
Todd
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$600
[13]
Technology tracks & controls Shia LaBeouf:"____ Eye"
Eagle
Jason
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$600
[10]
Born in Simbirsk in 1870, founded the Comintern with comrades
Lenin
Jason
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$600
[16]
A Phrygian king is the source for this 2-word phrase for the talent for making wealth out of any business endeavor
the Midas touch
Lucas
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$600
[25]
In rhyme "Tuesday's child is full of" this
grace
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
Seen before rugby games, a haka is one of these & is performed "so that the whole body should speak"
a dance
Jason
|
|
$800
[6]
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded this radical party in Oakland in 1966
the Black Panthers
Lucas
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$800
[20]
A fantasy film by Tim Burton:"Big ____"
Fish
Lucas
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$800
[11]
Born in England but moved left to the U.S. (& right politically), told us about it in "Hitch-22"
Christopher Hitchens
Jason
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$800
[18]
A source of unforeseen troubles, it's derived from a container that held all the world's evils
Pandora's box
Lucas
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$800
[26]
Every 4 years a politically important day is dubbed this; in 2012 it was March 6
Super Tuesday
Lucas
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$1,000
[7]
Francis Smith, the 19th c. "king" of this mineral soap additive, helped build Oakland's streetcar system
borax
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$1,000
[21]
Based on a true Australian story:"____-Proof Fence"
Rabbit
Lucas
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$1,000
[12]
Born in 1892, military man, into Spain management, still dead since 1975
(Francisco) Franco
Lucas
|
$1,000
[19]
A project that is, by design, never finished is called the web of this woman, Ulysses' wife
Penelope
Lucas
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$1,000
[27]
For Greeks, Tuesday is considered unlucky; it was the day of the week this city fell in 1453
Constantinople
Jason
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| ITALIAN ART | THE LANE! THE LANE! | MORTAL MATTERS | AMERICAN LITERATURE | THE ERA OF ERAS | "TIC" "TAC" "TOE" |
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$400
[25]
One version of Botticelli's "Adoration of the Magi" was painted with portraits of this Florentine family, his patrons
the Medicis
Todd
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$400
[14]
Look! Down on the ground! It's not a bird! It's not a plane! It's this Daily Planet reporter
Lois Lane
Todd
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$400
[8]
This word for "burial" is sometimes confused with a similar word for forced confinement
inter
Todd
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$400
[3]
Langston Hughes called this Harriet Beecher Stowe novel "the most cussed & discussed book of its time"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Jason
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$400
[12]
The first 2 decades of the 20th century are called the "heroic era" of exploration of this continent
Antarctica
Lucas
|
$400
[2]
Kiss-inducing Christmastime shrub
mistletoe
Lucas
|
|
$800
[26]
Tintoretto's "Miracle of St. Mark" was done for the Scuola di San Marco in this city protected by that saint
Venice
Lucas
|
$800
[15]
Croydon Avenue & Dovedale Road intersect Penny Lane in this city
Liverpool
Lucas
Todd
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$800
[1]
A musical composition written for a mass for the dead; Mozart's is heard here
a requiem
Jason
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$800
[13]
This Mark Twain book contains such chapters as "The Ogre's Castle" & "Merlin's Tower"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Todd
|
$800
[20]
This period in Europe that came right after the Middle Ages was marked by a rebirth of interest in classical learning
the Renaissance
Jason
|
$800
[4]
Adjective for a non-electric musical instrument
acoustic
Jason
|
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$1,200
[29]
Lino Tagliapietra "blew" his future when he dropped out at 11 to work in this medium; he's one of the modern masters in it
glassblowing
Jason
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$1,200
[16]
He got a Golden Globe nomination for his role of Albert in "The Birdcage"
Nathan Lane
Lucas
|
$1,200
[9]
6 is the traditional number of these, though more can be used if the casket is heavy
pallbearers
Jason
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$1,200
[18]
Mess officer Milo Minderbinder profits by working both sides during World War II in this 1961 novel
Catch-22
Todd
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$1,200
[21]
The Boston Columbian Centinel coined this term for the mood of the U.S., widely used to describe Monroe's 2 terms
the Era of Good Feelings
Lucas
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$1,200
[5]
To step lightly
tiptoe
Lucas
Todd
|
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$2,000
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Caravaggio's "Deposition from the Cross" illustrates this technique that uses light & shadow to create 3-D effects; its name is from the Italian for "clear and dark"
chiaroscuro
Lucas
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$1,600
[17]
In 2008 Diane Lane spent some "Nights in Rodanthe" with Paul, played by this leading man
Richard Gere
|
$1,600
[10]
To stay awake watching over the deceased is to keep one of these, from the Latin for "awake"
a vigil
Jason
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$1,600
[19]
His 1949 collection of stories "Knight's Gambit" features Gavin Stevens, a county attorney from Yoknapatawpha
Faulkner
Jason
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
In the 1890s this era of economic, political & social reform in the U.S. began moving forward, as it name says
the Progressive Era
Jason
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$1,600
[6]
Spectacles substitutes
contact lenses (contacts)
Lucas
|
|
DD
$3,500
[30]
From the spring of 1508 until October 1512, he painted on a scaffold with his "beard turned up to heaven"
Michelangelo
Jason
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$2,000
[27]
"Oh, do you know the muffin man?" Well, in the kids' song, this street is where the man lives
Drury Lane
Jason
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$2,000
[11]
French term for a long queue of people & cars taking part in a funeral procession
a cortege
Jason
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$2,000
[22]
In this Ray Bradbury tale, the title character has tattoos that move & change, each telling a story
The Illustrated Man
Jason
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$2,000
[24]
Trilobites lived throughout this era, from the Cambrian to Permian periods
the Paleozoic Era
|
$2,000
[7]
To assault
attack
Jason
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It was created in the early 1700s from 2 counties purchased by an Austrian prince; he named the nation for his family
Liechtenstein