Lisa Schlitt game 3.
Doug Baker — a sustainability specialist from Tecumseh, Michigan
Ben Smolen — a writer from Los Angeles, California
Lisa Schlitt — a microbiologist from Berwyn, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $43,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa | $0 | $1,000 | $10,600 |
$21,200
3-day champion: $64,200 |
$11,600
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ben | $2,600 | $1,800 | $7,400 |
$10,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,400
13 R, 3 W |
| Doug | $2,000 | $3,000 | $12,000 |
$2,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| 18th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITIN' & SPEAKIN' | THEATER GLOSSARY | THE SPORT'S BOOK | COOL RHYMES | SYSTEMS PRIMED | TRAVEL & TOURISM |
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$200
[23]
In 1774 he said, "I am not a Virginian, but an American"; the liberty or death thing came later
Patrick Henry
Lisa
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$200
[7]
French term for a daytime performance of a show
a matinee
Lisa
|
$200
[2]
"Breakpoint" by William Brinkley
tennis
Ben
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$200
[1]
A cylinder around which wire or thread is wound
a spool
Ben
|
$200
[17]
You keep an eye on the scuba diver you're paired with & he does the same for you
the buddy system
Lisa
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$400
[29]
Every even year watch the world's top sailors in the Atlantic Cup, a 1,000-mile race from this S.C. port to Portland, Me.
Charleston
Lisa
Ben
|
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$400
[24]
A coded letter of his offers "a plan ...by which Sir Henry shall possess himself of West Point" for 20,000 pounds
Benedict Arnold
Lisa
|
$400
[8]
As 1 word, it sounds like you could eat it; as a hyphenated trademark, it's a type of stage makeup
Pan-Cake
Doug
|
$400
[3]
"Man on Spikes" by Eliot Asinof
baseball
|
$400
[12]
Directive to treat others the way you'd like them to treat you
the Golden Rule
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$400
[18]
000-099:general works;200-299:religion
the Dewey Decimal system
Doug
|
$600
[28]
One of the world's busiestairportsis built on an island off this Chinese administrative region to avoid all the tall buildings
Hong Kong
Ben
|
|
$600
[25]
Judith Sargent Murray began an essay, "How absurd is the practice of" settling scores with this custom
a duel
Lisa
|
$600
[9]
Used on stage, practicals are these that actually function, as distinguished from replicas
lights (or props)
Ben
|
$600
[4]
"Semi-Tough" by Dan Jenkins
football
Ben
|
$600
[13]
British seaport at the mouth of the Mersey River
Liverpool
Lisa
|
$600
[19]
Interferons, tonsils, macrophages
the immune system
Doug
|
$800
[22]
It's the French name of the Seine's Left Bank, home to the Sorbonne & intellectual life
the Rive Gauche
Lisa
|
|
DD
$1,000
[26]
On Dec. 19, 1776, with Washington's army verging on disintegration, Thomas Paine put out "The American" this
The American Crisis
Lisa
|
$800
[10]
Sounding like it only goes one direction, any stage curtain that can be raised or lowered is known as one of these
a drop
Lisa
|
$800
[5]
"Pistol", a biography by Mark Kriegel
basketball
Doug
|
$800
[14]
A private institution for girls preparing for entry into fashionable society
a finishing school
Doug
|
$800
[20]
Musicians Daron Malakian, John Dolmayan, Serj Tankian, Shavo Odadjian
System of a Down
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$1,000
[21]
The Ogoh-Ogoh parade is held on the eve of Nyepi, a Hindu holiday celebrated on this Indonesian island
Bali
Ben
Doug
|
|
$1,000
[27]
In the last line of the Dec. Of Indep., the signers pledged "to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred" this
honor
Doug
|
$1,000
[11]
It's the 4-letter word for an upright piece of painted scenery mounted on a frame
a flat
|
$1,000
[6]
"Fever Pitch" by Nick Hornby
soccer
Lisa
Ben
|
$1,000
[16]
An evil spirit originally from Arabic lore, or someone taking pleasure in a tragedy
a ghoul
Lisa
|
$1,000
[15]
Vaishyas, Shudras, Dalits
a caste system
Lisa
|
— |
| THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE | 14-LETTER WORDS | THE DRUMMER SINGS | JOHN DONNE | NO MAN | AN "I" LAND |
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$400
[8]
VY Canis Majoris will eventually go not just "super" but "hyper" this--that's gonna be one big bang!
hypernova
Ben
|
$400
[21]
On Sept. 12, 2001 Norman Mineta, secretary of this govt. department, announced the deployment of sky marshals
Transportation
Lisa
|
$400
[3]
In 1972 Don Henley dealt with a "Witchy Woman" singing lead for this group
the Eagles
Lisa
|
$400
[26]
A Donne sonnet says this, "Be not proud" for "one short sleep past, we wake eternally, and" this "shall be no more"
death
Ben
|
$400
[16]
This word for a person making negative statements sounds like it refers to a horse
a naysayer
Ben
|
$400
[1]
It produces more than 1,500 feature films in a good year
India
Lisa
|
|
$800
[10]
Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, one of these, will be swinging by Jupiter in 2037
a comet
Lisa
|
$800
[22]
Someone in his or her seventies
a septuagenarian
Doug
|
$800
[5]
"Beth", I hear you calling, but I hear Peter Criss singing that Top 10 hit for this group
Kiss
Lisa
|
DD
$600
[28]
In 1610 Donne criticized his former Catholic faith in "Pseudo-Martyr", which was dedicated to this king
James I
Doug
|
$800
[17]
Grover Cleveland holds the record for these in a single session of Congress with 212
a veto
Lisa
|
$800
[2]
Home to Europe's largest glacier by volume
Iceland
Ben
|
|
$1,200
[11]
In a few billion years, the sun will expand to 1.2 AU, these "units"--that's not good news for Earth
astronomical units
Doug
|
$1,200
[23]
Adjective for a speech given with no preparation or forethought
extemporaneous
Ben
Doug
|
$1,200
[9]
In 1975 Phil Collins decided to front (& back) this band after singer Peter Gabriel left
Genesis
Lisa
|
$800
[27]
On this day, 1613, while traveling to Wales, Donne wrote a poem imagining the crucified Christ on the cross
Good Friday
Doug
|
$1,200
[18]
For decades J. Edgar Hoover denied the existence of this 5-letter organization
the Mafia
|
$1,200
[4]
You can find the Negev Desert here
Israel
Ben
|
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
We "fear" that in 10 million years, this largest of Mars' moons will crash into the planet
Phobos
Doug
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$1,600
[24]
The name of these breeches was inspired by Washington Irving's 1809 work "A History of New York"
knickerbockers
Lisa
|
$1,600
[14]
Meg White stepped out from behind the kit to croon "In The Cold, Cold Night" for this duo
the White Stripes
Lisa
|
$1,600
[29]
The first biography of Donne was by this "Compleat Angler" author & appeared as a preface to Donne's "LXXX Sermons"
Izaak Walton
|
$1,600
[19]
Agricultural product boycotts led by this man included one in the 1980s he called "Wrath of Grapes"
Cesar Chavez
Ben
|
$1,600
[6]
Country with the most Shia Muslims
Iran
Lisa
|
|
$2,000
[13]
The Milky Way will one daycollide with this neighboring galaxy, M31--someone call Perseus
Andromeda
Doug
|
$2,000
[25]
Mais oui, it was the philosophy of the man who turned down the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature
existentialism
Ben
|
$2,000
[15]
A Prince protege, she led "The Glamorous Life" to a Top 10 position in 1984, but without love, it ain't much
Sheila E.
Doug
|
$2,000
[30]
The "No man is an island" passage continues, "Never send to know" this, later a book title
for whom the bell tolls
|
$2,000
[20]
Sir Richard Owen, who had been Mr. Biology in Britain, wrote a bitter, negative review of this seminal 1859 book
On the Origin of Species
Doug
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$2,000
[7]
Home to the Wicklow & Blue Stack Mountains
Ireland
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From 1959 to 1968, she made only 4 films but received Oscar nominations for Best Actress for all 4
Katharine Hepburn