Battle of the Decades: The 2000s game 4.
Vinita Kailasanath — an attorney from Washington, D.C.
Ken Jennings — a writer from Seattle, Washington
Michael Falk — a junior high school math teacher from West Allis, Wisconsin
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | $1,400 | $400 | $4,800 |
$2,400
2nd place: $5,000 |
$10,000
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ken | $4,200 | $10,400 | $26,800 |
$23,600
Quarterfinalist |
$16,200
24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Vinita | $2,400 | $3,600 | $3,600 |
$1,600
3rd place: $5,000 |
$3,600
10 R, 2 W |
| THE LONG & THE SHORT OF IT | FAIRLY RECENT NEWS | PHILOSOPHERS | MUSIC OF THE 2000s | small state capitals | OUR OLD PAL WATSON |
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$200
[24]
This word for "small" often describes certain hours of the morning
wee
Ken
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$200
[26]
Here's the official portrait of the christening of this little fella
(Prince) George
Vinita
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$200
[28]
This saint's written output was more than 8 million words--& he died around age 50
(Thomas) Aquinas
Michael
Ken
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$200
[6]
This No. 1 hit mentions "the taste of her cherry Chapstick"
"I Kissed a Girl"
Ken
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$200
[30]
It's the only state capital that's home to a U.S. military service academy
Annapolis
Michael
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$200
[1]
In 1974 this Stanford grad won his first pro tournament, the Western Open
Tom Watson
Ken
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$400
[23]
A small dress size chez Sears; en francais, s'il vous plait!
petite
Vinita
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$400
[25]
In 2014 he returned for a second stint heading the NYPD; he headed the LAPD in between
William Bratton
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$400
[27]
"God remains dead!" he wrote, "How can we console ourselves, the murderers of all murderers!"
Nietzsche
Michael
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$400
[7]
Brandon Flowers is the frontman of this group that rose to prominence with "Mr. Brightside"
The Killers
Ken
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$400
[29]
Many of the state government offices in this capital are housed in the Harry S Truman state office building
Jefferson City
Michael
|
$400
[2]
Donald Watson, who coined this word for a strict diet & founded its society, died aged 95 in 2005
vegan
Ken
|
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$600
[19]
This verb meaning to lengthen is found in the name of a math instrument
protract
Ken
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$600
[17]
When not saving constituents from burning buildings (literally!), this ex-Newark mayor found time to win a Senate seat
Cory Booker
Vinita
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$600
[15]
This Geneva-born guy wrote "The Social Contract" & inspired the leaders of the French Revolution
(Jean-Jacques) Rousseau
Michael
|
$600
[8]
The video for this 2005 song is bananas, featuring Harajuku Girls & the Fountain Valley High School marching band
"Hollaback Girl"
Vinita
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$600
[11]
Its Buffalo Trace bourbon distillery claims to be the USA's oldest distillery in continuous operation
Frankfort
Ken
|
$600
[3]
On film, she's Hermione Granger
Emma Watson
Ken
|
|
$800
[18]
Not much time--so I'll be this word with 3 C's
succinct
Michael
Ken
|
$800
[16]
In offstage drama, a member of this Russian cultural institution was convicted for an acid attack on the artistic director
the Bolshoi
Ken
|
$800
[14]
"Wherever law ends, tyranny begins", wrote this English philosopher who influenced the Founding Fathers
John Locke
Ken
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$800
[9]
In 2001 this guy, real name Matthew Shafer, had a "relatively" big hit with "Follow Me"
Uncle Kracker
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$800
[10]
It got its name in 1765 to signify the peaceful settlement of a dispute
Concord
Michael
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$800
[4]
Dr. John B. Watson advanced this psychological -ism that focuses on human response to stimuli
behaviorism
Vinita
|
|
$1,000
[21]
Vinyl-wise, it's the "E" in EP
extended
Ken
|
DD
$3,600
[20]
After this leader's death in 2013, Citgo facilities across the U.S. flew their flags at half-staff
Hugo Chávez
Ken
|
$1,000
[22]
This German, the "philosopher of pessimism", had such a gloomy outlook that even his own mother disliked him
Schopenhauer
Michael
Ken
|
$1,000
[13]
In her first Top 40 hit, she asked, "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?"
(Avril) Lavigne
Vinita
|
$1,000
[12]
This capital on the Kennebec River traces its founding to 1628
Augusta (Maine)
Ken
|
$1,000
[5]
James Watson & Francis Crick deciphered DNA at this Cambridge lab founded in 1874
the Cavendish Laboratory
|
| ISOTOPES | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY | I'M JUST PLUM CRAZY! | 10-LETTER WORDS | IN THE BOOKSTORE | THE AUSSIE POSSE |
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$400
[2]
The most common isotope of this element is called protium because its nucleus is only one proton
hydrogen
Michael
|
$400
[15]
On Feb. 29, 1704 in this queen's war, the French & Indians burned Deerfield, Massachusetts
Queen Anne
Michael
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$400
[1]
In Spain, this board game's Professor Plum is called Dr. Mandarino
Clue
Vinita
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$400
[21]
One devoted to one mate at a time
monogamist
Michael
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$400
[7]
Piper Kerman played on a cliche about fashion trends for this title of her memoir of her time in jail
Orange Is the New Black
Ken
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$400
[26]
In 2008 he had a big year: he was tapped to host the Oscars & was named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive
(Hugh) Jackman
Vinita
|
|
$800
[11]
Isotope 90 of this element, atomic number 38, is a dangerous product of nuclear fallout
strontium
Michael
|
$800
[16]
In 1638 Wilmington became the first permanent settlement in this colony then called New Sweden
Delaware
Vinita
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$800
[3]
Plum sauce is also called this after a main dish it's served with, ya in Chinese
duck sauce
|
$800
[22]
A Latin prefix for "good" gives us this term for one apt to give endowments to schools
benefactor
Michael
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$1,200
[9]
This 2013 novel by Kate Atkinson wonders, what if you could live again & again, until you got it right?
Life After Life
|
$800
[27]
It's the last name of the Aussie actor brothers seen here
Hemsworth
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[12]
In 2006 the 210 isotope of this was slipped into the tea of ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko, with deadly results
polonium
|
$1,200
[17]
This settlement was founded in 1625 by Willem Verhulst & soon became the capital of New Netherland
New Amsterdam
Ken
|
$1,200
[4]
Around five years before he died in 1883, he painted a youngwomanand her plum in a Frenchcafé
(Édouard) Manet
Ken
Vinita
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$1,200
[23]
Johnny Mercer said to do this to "the positive"
accentuate
Ken
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$1,600
[10]
"The Lowland" is the second novel by this acclaimed author of "Interpreter of Maladies"
(Jhumpa) Lahiri
Vinita
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$1,200
[28]
In 1992 this man from Queensland tried his luck in Nashville--it was good
(Keith) Urban
Michael
|
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$1,600
[13]
99% of all carbon on Earth is this isotope, not 14
carbon-12
Michael
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$1,600
[18]
Benjamin Harris of Boston published the Colonies' first newspaper as well as this book that taught millions to read
The New England Primer
Ken
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$1,600
[5]
Along with peaches & cherries, plums are this type of fleshy fruit that have a pit or stone
drupes
Ken
|
$1,600
[24]
Any medieval lyric poet of France
troubadour
Ken
|
$2,000
[20]
His books include "The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" & "A Short History of Nearly Everything"
Bill Bryson
Michael
|
$1,600
[29]
While filming her role as Princess Diana for a 2013 biopic, she said she felt Diana's presence
Naomi Watts
Ken
|
|
DD
$5,200
[14]
The 60 isotope of this element has replaced radium in cancer treatment because it's safer
cobalt
Michael
|
$2,000
[19]
Not Independence Hall but this Philadelphia hall was the site of the first meetings of the Continental Congress in 1774
Carpenters’ Hall
Vinita
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$2,000
[6]
Down in the dumps, Slobodan? This colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans will pick you right up
slivovitz
Michael
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$2,000
[25]
A women's magazine, or the mistress of a castle
chatelaine
|
DD
$8,800
[8]
"The Bully Pulpit" is about the golden age of journalism & the relationship of these 2 presidents
Theodore Roosevelt & (William Howard) Taft
Ken
|
$2,000
[30]
This Tasmanian swashbuckler claimed descent from an aide to mutineer Fletcher Christian
Errol Flynn
Ken
|
In 1884 George Pillsbury became mayor of this city
Minneapolis