Battle of the Decades: The 2000s game 1.
Tom Nissley — a writer from Seattle, Washington
Celeste DiNucci — a manager of corporate and foundation relations at a music school from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Colby Burnett — an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colby | $1,600 | $5,600 | $16,400 |
$16,201
Quarterfinalist |
$16,400
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Celeste | $-400 | $1,200 | $16,200 |
$14,801
2nd place: $5,000 |
$12,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Tom | $2,000 | $2,600 | $7,400 |
$13,400
3rd place: $5,000 |
$7,400
11 R, 2 W |
| ACCESSORIES | NBA FINALS MVPs | RETRONYMS | A LITERARY "B" | 2001 | A SPACE ODDITY |
|
$200
[16]
Keep your iPhone from dying with a Jonathan Adler Stepped Diamonds one of these
a (re)charger
Colby
Celeste
|
$200
[1]
1983:This big man lived up to his name & led the Sixers to the promised land
Moses Malone
Tom
|
$200
[18]
Since the advent of liquid & gel soaps, this 3-letter word has come before "soap" when it comes in cake form
bar
Celeste
|
$200
[6]
The young girl in this 1958 Truman Capote work is described as having "a face beyond childhood"
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Tom
|
$200
[11]
The new century put encyclopedia salesmen out of a job as January saw the arrival of this "free encyclopedia"
Wikipedia
Celeste
|
$200
[26]
The surface of Jupiter's moon Io is continually re-formed by flows of this, hotter than the same stuff on Earth
lava
Colby
|
|
$400
[17]
Si, ich bin tres continental, I carry a murse, short for this
a man purse
Celeste
|
$400
[2]
1988:This Tar Heel proved his merit for the Lakers
(James) Worthy
Colby
|
$400
[19]
It's a 6-letter retronymic type of transmission in a car
manual
Colby
Celeste
|
$400
[7]
In 1834 Charles Dickens began using this pseudonym, a joking nickname for his youngest brother
Boz
Colby
|
$400
[12]
Robert Hanssen, one of its agents, was charged with spying for the KGB for 20 years
the FBI
Celeste
|
$400
[27]
When real, this phenomenon is caused by atmospheric dust; when part of a metaphor, it refers to a rarity
a blue moon
Tom
|
|
$600
[13]
Rommy Revson patented this elastic hair band
the scrunchy
Celeste
|
$600
[3]
2007:He was the first European-born MVP
Tony Parker
|
$600
[20]
This scriptural work is also called the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh
the Old Testament
Celeste
Tom
|
$600
[8]
This utopian farm in West Roxbury, Mass. counted among its members Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brook Farm
Tom
|
$600
[23]
A U.S.-led coalition invaded Afghanistan on October 7, under the banner "Operation Enduring" this
Freedom
Colby
|
$600
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The pale bluedotoff in the distance that is dwarfed by Saturn's rings is actually Earth,& the photo was taken from this orbiter with an Italian name
Cassini
Celeste
|
|
$800
[14]
In 1937, long before its instant cameras, Polaroid began making these
sunglasses
Celeste
Tom
|
$800
[4]
1969:This Laker had a few logo-worthy performances
(Jerry) West
Tom
|
$1,000
[22]
Giving off both heat & light, your old-school everyday light bulb is this type, from the Latin for "to glow"
incandescent
Celeste
|
$800
[9]
Jack London wrote that he "was neither house-dog nor kennel-dog. The whole realm was his"
Buck
Colby
|
$800
[24]
Over Catholic Church opposition, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize medically assisted this
suicide
Colby
Celeste
|
$800
[29]
Astronaut Chris Hadfield revealed they don't do laundry in space, they eject old clothes & this happens to them
they burn on re-entry
Tom
|
|
$1,000
[15]
8-letter word for a scarf that forms a closed loop
an infinity scarf
|
$1,000
[5]
1976:He thought he was a loner but got back as the Finals MVP
Jo Jo White
|
DD
$1,200
[21]
The arrival of SiriusXM means the good old dial in your Ford Falcon now plays this Earth-bound type of radio
terrestrial
Colby
|
$1,000
[10]
This 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel is subtitled "The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder"
Brideshead Revisited
Tom
|
$1,000
[25]
Economic riots forced successive presidents of this South American nation to resign in December 2001
Argentina
Colby
|
$1,000
[30]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) A pillar was formed by radiation and charged particles from stars within the Carina one of these
a nebula
Celeste
|
| ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY | RING "TONE"s | IT HAPPENED IN THE PAST | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY | ELEVEN |
|
$400
[6]
The Minotaur's mother was Pasiphae, the Queen of Crete, & his father was this animal with whom she fell in love
a bull
Colby
|
$400
[26]
An unchanging way of speaking without variations in pitch or inflection
a monotone
Celeste
|
$400
[11]
His arguments for accepting his unjust death sentence were noted in Plato's "Crito"
Socrates
Colby
|
$400
[5]
Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry"
Hilary Swank
Celeste
|
$400
[16]
The island of Socotra, 200 miles south of the coast, is part of this Arabian Peninsula nation
Yemen
Colby
|
$400
[21]
This 11-pointed Canadian national symbol got official status from Elizabeth II in 1965
the maple leaf
Celeste
|
|
$800
[7]
About once every 500 years, it builds a funeral pyre & allows itself to be consumed by the flames
the phoenix
Celeste
|
$800
[27]
A vocal range one deeper than tenor
baritone
Celeste
|
$800
[12]
In 1494 he called Jamaica "the fairest isle that eyes have beheld"
Columbus
Celeste
|
$800
[1]
Josephine & Daphne in "Some Like It Hot"
Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis
Celeste
|
$800
[17]
There's the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea & this national body of water indicated here
the Gulf of Oman
Celeste
|
$800
[22]
This pit stop offers "Brazilian dark roast" coffee that's "guaranteed fresh"
7-Eleven
Tom
|
|
$1,200
[8]
In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr is this type of rodent that scurries up & down Yggdrasil, the World Tree
a squirrel
Colby
|
$1,200
[28]
Penance for doing wrong
atonement
Celeste
|
$1,200
[13]
An accident on Nov. 5, 1909 put the U.S. military's entire supply of these out of commission
airplanes
|
$1,200
[2]
Jill Sadelstein in "Jack and Jill"
(Adam) Sandler
Colby
|
$1,200
[18]
Indicatedhereis the location of this almost-17,000-foot peak
Mount Ararat
Tom
|
$1,200
[23]
From the 1950s, it was the first movie to win 11 Oscars
Ben-Hur
Tom
|
|
DD
$1,200
[9]
This creature killed by Hercules during his second labor was the offspring of the 100-headed Typhon
the hydra
Colby
|
$1,600
[29]
I love your dress; 18-5424 TCX in this color system really brings out your eyes
Pantone
Tom
|
$2,000
[15]
IOC headquarters were moved from Paris to Lausanne in 1915 by this baron who founded the modern Olympics
Baron de Coubertin
Colby
|
$1,600
[3]
Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously"
Linda Hunt
Celeste
|
$1,600
[19]
Recently damaged in the civil war, this city had been its nation's business capital & was once the end of the Silk Road
Aleppo
|
$1,600
[24]
Ele Ven is a clothing line from this female athlete/designer
Venus Williams
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Represented as this canine, Anubis was gatekeeper of the underworld; statues of him often guarded tombs
a jackal
Colby
|
$2,000
[30]
A high-protein diet can lead to the formation of these compounds that raise the risk of kidney stones
ketones
Celeste
|
DD
$5,000
[14]
An Italian bid for empire was ended by defeat at the 1896 Battle of Adwa in this African country
Ethiopia
Celeste
|
$2,000
[4]
Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There"
Cate Blanchett
Celeste
|
$2,000
[20]
In June of 1942, Erwin Rommel captured this port city from the British, who took it back in November
Tobruk
Celeste
|
$2,000
[25]
11 cards are dealt to each player in this South American game that uses a 108-card deck
canasta
Colby
|
An aria in this Shakespeare-based opera says, "Di Scozia a te promettono le profetesse il trono... Che tardi?"
Macbeth