Michael Bilow game 1.
Eric Swanson — a Ph.D. student in experimental pathology from Charlottesville, Virginia
Michael Bilow — a Ph.D. student in computer science originally from Chicago, Illinois
Jacqueline Hawkins — an English professor from Louisville, Kentucky (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,101)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacqueline | $2,400 | $1,800 | $6,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
11 R, 3 W |
| Michael | $2,000 | $9,200 | $28,600 |
$12,401
New champion: $12,401 |
$23,000
26 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Eric | $3,200 | $6,200 | $20,800 |
$6,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| ROUGH WORDS IN NATIONAL ANTHEMS | THE FILM-TO-TV ROLE | REMEMBER 2014? | "-EY" MAN | FONTS | OF INFORMATION |
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$200
[26]
Tough times in Budapest? This country's anthem includes "the tears of slavery burn, which the eyes of orphans shed"
Hungary
Eric
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$200
[1]
Matthew Broderick had every day off once Charlie Schlatter became this teen (& Jennifer Aniston, his sister Jeannie)
Ferris Bueller
Jacqueline
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$200
[7]
Gerrie Nel was the combative prosecutor in this man's trial in Pretoria
(Oscar) Pistorius
Michael
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$200
[3]
This type of man can follow "shock" or "disc"
jockey
Eric
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$200
[12]
Updated from inscriptions in this empire, Trajan became common on movie posters
the Roman Empire
Michael
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$200
[14]
At 71 deg., 8 min. north latitude, this country's Cape Nordkinn is the northernmost point on the European mainland
Norway
Michael
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$400
[27]
"They come right to our arms to slit the throats of our sons, our friends!" is from this anthem of France
"La Marseillaise"
Michael
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$400
[2]
Chris Vance sat in Jason Statham's seat behind the Audi's steering wheel when this movie series hit the small screen
the Transporter
Michael
Eric
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$600
[9]
Ashraf Ghani, who has his nationality in his name, became this country's president
Afghanistan
Jacqueline
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$400
[16]
A servile follower, or major league pitcher John
a lackey
Jacqueline
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$400
[13]
Business News Daily named Calibri one of the best fonts for this document--now go update yours
a résumé
Eric
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$400
[15]
Grizabella & Macavity are characters in this musical
Cats
Eric
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$600
[28]
Romanians would get along with New Hampshirites, as they sing of being "either" this "or dead"
free
Michael
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$600
[4]
Ellen Burstyn turned over this Oscar-winning waitress role to Linda Lavin
Alice
Eric
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$800
[10]
8 sweet rides at Kentucky's National Corvette Museum were almost lost to this
a sinkhole
Jacqueline
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$600
[17]
Term for a native of London's East End
Cockney
Eric
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$600
[23]
OCR-A was designed in 1968 so machines could read it: OCR is short for this "character recognition"
optical
Michael
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$600
[20]
Button & cremini are common types of these
mushrooms
Eric
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$800
[29]
"May your fields be watered with blood, may they leave their foot-prints in blood", sing Oaxacans in this country
Mexico
Michael
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$800
[5]
Goldie Hawn, having bemoaned the lack of drapes in her barracks in this role, gave way to Lorna Patterson
Private Benjamin
Jacqueline
|
DD
$1,000
[8]
The Supreme Court ruled that police need a warrant to search these, now "a pervasive and insistent part of daily life"
cell phones
Michael
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$800
[18]
An "old" one of these men is conservative & dull by nature
a fogey
Michael
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$800
[24]
The recently trendy font this "Sans" was inspired by this type of "book"
Comic
Eric
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$800
[21]
In 1876, this Impressionist painted "A Girl with a Watering Can"
Renoir
Eric
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$1,000
[30]
The anthem of this North African land that battled to get rid of the French mentions "streams of generous blood"
Algeria
Michael
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$1,000
[6]
After Linda Hamilton got done trying to save the world from the future, Lena Headey took over as her
Sarah Connor
Eric
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$1,000
[11]
1 of the 3 countries from which the midyear surge of kids arriving at the Mexico-U.S. border mainly came
Guatemala (or El Salvador or Honduras)
Eric
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$1,000
[19]
2-word "primate" nickname for a mechanic
a grease monkey
Michael
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$1,000
[25]
It was designed by a member of this German movement for "art & technology, a new unity"
Bauhaus
Michael
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$1,000
[22]
Until 1971 a British pound equaled 20 of these
a shilling
Jacqueline
Michael
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| PLACES IN SONG | TALK ABOUT THE CLIMATE | BIG WORDS | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS | ASIAN AMERICANS | WHAT?!... WHEN?! |
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$400
[1]
The Clash:"____ Calling"
London
Eric
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$400
[26]
An important climate component is the amount of water vapor in the air, or atmospheric this
humidity
Jacqueline
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$400
[13]
Yale University Library classifies books in excess of 27 cm in height or 19 cm in width as this big "O"
oversized
Jacqueline
Michael
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$400
[6]
The year he turned 32, William Blake published "Songs of" this; by 37 he "lost" his & made "Songs of Experience"
Innocence
Eric
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$400
[21]
Thai on his mom's side, he shot a 48 for 9 holes... at age 3! 12 years later, he was the U.S. Jr. Amateur champ
Tiger Woods
Jacqueline
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$400
[16]
In 1291 Acre, the last major Holy Land castle held by this group, fell to the Mamelukes
the Crusaders
Michael
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$800
[2]
Simon & Garfunkel:"Are you going to ____ Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme"
Scarborough
Jacqueline
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$800
[27]
The length of the day affects a region's climate; at this latitude, days are always a nice even 12 hours
0 (latitude)
Eric
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$800
[15]
When it comes before "esque", this outdoorsman's name means fantastically large
Paul Bunyan
Eric
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$800
[7]
While writing "Tropic of Cancer" in Paris, he served as a proofreader for the French edition of the Chicago Tribune
(Henry) Miller
Michael
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$800
[22]
Jerry Yang put an exclamation point on co-founding this web directory in 1994; these days, Jerry's worth about $2.2 billion
Yahoo!
Michael
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$800
[17]
The last czar of Russia abdicated in this year
1917
Jacqueline
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$1,200
[3]
George Strait:"All My Ex's Live In ____"
Texas
Michael
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$1,200
[28]
(Former Vice President Al Gore delivers the clue.) In 2007 the European Space Agency reported that polar ice hadmeltedto such an extent that this fabled shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific was fully navigable for the first time
the Northwest Passage
Eric
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$1,200
[11]
Webster says this word may be an "alteration of huge + monstrous"
humongous
Michael
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$1,200
[8]
Of the reaction to this novel, Upton Sinclair said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach"
The Jungle
Eric
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$1,200
[23]
The son of immigrants from India, this state governor got an Ivy League education at Brown University
Bobby Jindal
Michael
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$1,200
[18]
In this year, FDR started his third term
1941
Michael
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$1,600
[4]
Ian Hunter:"____ Rocks"
Cleveland
Eric
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$1,600
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a stormcloud moving over a mountain on the monitor.) Stormclouds tend to drop more precipitation on the windward side of a mountain range; when that happens, the dryer side is in what's called a "rain" one of these dark areas
a shadow
Jacqueline
Michael
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$1,600
[12]
From the Greek, it's a much larger than life-size statue, such as an ancient wonder
a colossus
Eric
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$2,000
[10]
Perhaps it was "An American Tragedy" that there was a ban on this author's semi-autobiographical "The 'Genius'"
(Theodore) Dreiser
Michael
Eric
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$1,600
[24]
Thisson of Chinese parents made his Carnegie Hall debut before his 17th birthday
Yo-Yo Ma
Eric
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$1,600
[19]
In 1828 he declared himself dictator of Gran Colombia, a region he had freed from Spanish rule
Simón Bolívar
Michael
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$2,000
[5]
Bob Dylan:"Stuck Inside Of ____ With The ____ Blues Again"(2 different cities, please)
Mobile & Memphis
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$2,000
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew uses the monitor to wrap up the category and round.) By exchanging heat between colder & warmer latitudes, ocean currents such as this one off the coast of South America have important effects on local climates
the Humboldt current (Chilean current accepted)
Jacqueline
|
DD
$7,000
[14]
This synonym for "gigantic" was in use more than 200 years before a 1912 event put a new spin on it
titanic
Michael
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DD
$5,000
[9]
O, by the way, Willa Cather took the title of this 1913 novel from a Walt Whitman poem
O Pioneers!
Eric
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$2,000
[25]
His resume includes first Asian-American 4-star general, Army Chief of Staff & Veterans Affairs Secretary
(Eric) Shinseki
Eric
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$2,000
[20]
On Oct. 14, 1066 this son of Godwine lost the Battle of Hastings
Harold II
Jacqueline
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Incorporated in 1948, this company chose its name from the book of the Hebrew prophet Hosea
El Al Airlines