2002 Million Dollar Masters semifinal game 2.
India Cooper — an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
Leslie Frates — a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
Brad Rutter — a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brad | $4,600 | $9,600 | $19,600 |
$39,200
Finalist |
$19,600
33 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Leslie | $1,400 | $4,200 | $20,400 |
$20,400
2nd place: $25,000 |
$13,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| India | $2,200 | $600 | $3,800 |
$3,800
3rd place: $25,000 |
$5,800
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| LESSER-KNOWN NAMES | POP MUSIC | U.S. BODIES OF WATER | "P"s & "Q"s | SAINTS | SINNERS |
|
$200
[6]
When Apollo 11 reached the Moon, Lawrence Knutson was the voice of Mission Control in this city
Houston
Leslie
|
$200
[1]
This band's 2001 CD "Weathered" spent 8 consecutive weeks atop the Billboard album chart
Creed
Brad
|
$200
[9]
Chicago & Waukegan are Illinois' busiest ports on this lake
Lake Michigan
Brad
|
$200
[15]
The Dionnes, born in 1934, were famous ones
quintuplets
Leslie
|
$200
[26]
Along with St. Andrew's & St. Patrick's, his cross appears on Britain's Union Jack
St. George
Brad
|
$200
[21]
Holiday in 1929 on which Chicago gangster Bugs Moran lost several members of his gang
St. Valentine's Day
Brad
|
|
$400
[7]
23-year-old Donald Turnupseed was the other driver in this 24-year-old actor's fatal crash
James Dean
Brad
|
$400
[2]
'70s classic heard here"Plucked her eyebrows on the way /Shaved her legs and then he was a she /She says, 'Hey babe'"
"Walk On The Wild Side"
Brad
|
$400
[12]
It's referred to in the song heard here"Old man river /He just keeps rolling /Along"
the Mississippi
Brad
|
$400
[17]
It's the ship in Melville's famous whale tale
the Pequod
Brad
|
$400
[27]
T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" deals with the murder of this saint
Thomas à Becket
India
|
$400
[22]
Born in Brooklyn in 1899, this gangster got his nickname from a knife cut to his cheek
Al Capone ("Scarface")
Brad
|
|
$600
[8]
James Blake was driving the bus in this city on the night when Rosa Parks wouldn't stand up
Montgomery (Alabama)
India
|
$600
[3]
Aaron Lewis is the lead singer of this "It's Been Awhile" alterna-band
Staind
Brad
|
$600
[13]
This state is home to Penobscot Bay, Penobscot Lake & Penobscot River
Maine
Brad
|
$600
[18]
Like "Tommy", this '70s rock opera by The Who was also made into a movie
Quadrophenia
Brad
|
$800
[29]
He's the "beloved physician" of Colossians
Luke
Leslie
|
$600
[23]
It was long thought that this gangster, seen here, got his nickname from his careful grooming habits
"Pretty Boy" Floyd
Brad
|
|
$800
[10]
Clint Hartung & Whitey Lockman were on base when this N.Y. Giant won the 1951 pennant with a home run
Bobby Thomson
India
|
$800
[4]
This group heardheregets its name from a hockey penalty"I'm more than a bird /I'm more than a plane /I'm more than some pretty face /Beside a train"
Five for Fighting
Brad
|
$800
[14]
New Jersey's western boundary is formed by this river
the Delaware
India
|
$800
[19]
It's Latin for any 4-footed mammal
a quadruped
Brad
|
$1,000
[30]
A follower of St. Francis, this "poor" saint is the patroness of television
Clare
Leslie
|
$800
[24]
Despite the nickname, this man said to have coined the term "G-men" reportedly never fired a shot during a crime
"Machine Gun" Kelly
Brad
|
|
$1,000
[11]
Albert Smith, mayor of this suburb, helped stop American Nazis from marching there in the late 1970s
Skokie (Illinois)
Leslie
|
$1,000
[5]
Footage from a concert at the Fillmore is included in his video for "Babylon"
David Gray
Brad
|
$1,000
[16]
This river that flows out of Lake Tahoe is named for an Indian guide, not a big rig
the Truckee
Leslie
|
$1,000
[20]
In Mexico the juice of certain agaves is used to make this milky fermented drink
pulque
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
St. Paul shares his June 29 feast day with this man whom he rebukes in Galatians
St. Peter
India
|
$1,000
[25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from a building on an infamous island.) This "Birdman of Alcatraz" raised canaries at Leavenworth, but wasn't permitted birdsherein his cell at Alcatraz
(Robert) Stroud
Brad
|
| CHEMISTRY | ANAGRAMMED NAMES | SWITZERLAND | MILLION | DOLLAR | MASTERS |
|
$400
[2]
As you'd expect, radon gas is collected out of the radioactive decay of this element, symbol Ra
radium
Brad
|
$400
[26]
Funicello & Fabray
Annette & Nanette
India
|
$400
[11]
If you're in top physical condition, you can climb this 14,691-foot peak also known as Monte Cervino
the Matterhorn
Brad
|
$400
[1]
This physician born in 1903 has been called "The man who reared 50 million kids"
(Dr.) Spock
Brad
|
$400
[21]
He died in 1969 but popped up on a U.S. dollar coin 2 years later
Eisenhower
India
|
$400
[16]
His portrait subjects include Ginevra de' Benci & Lisa del Giocondo
da Vinci
Brad
|
|
$800
[3]
In an exception to the norm, Co, cobalt, atomic number 27, is heavier than this element, Ni, atomic number 28
nickel
Leslie
|
$800
[27]
Lincoln & Arthur
Abe & Bea
Brad
|
$800
[12]
Swiss banks store heaps of gold in vaults below the Bahnhofstrasse, an elegant street in this city
Zurich
Brad
|
$800
[6]
Thomas Wolfe described this island as a "million-footed, tower-masted, and sky-soaring citadel"
Manhattan
Brad
India
|
$800
[22]
The word thaler, which became dollar, is from Joachimsthal, site of a mine for this metal
silver
Leslie
India
|
$800
[17]
When he was born on Crete around 1540, Crete belonged to Venice, so he could have been El Veneto
El Greco
Brad
|
|
$1,200
[4]
It's the valence number of the oxygen atom in a molecule of water
2
Brad
|
$1,200
[28]
Banks & Dunne
Irene & Ernie
Leslie
|
$1,200
[13]
Schwyz, one of the 23 states called these that make up Switzerland today, was one of the original 3
cantons
Brad
|
$1,200
[7]
The "3 Million Bill" passed by Congress in 1847 appropriated $3 million for the purchase of land from this country
Mexico
Leslie
India
|
$1,200
[23]
2-word term for a golf score of 3 under par on a hole, or the old $20 coin it might have won you
double eagle
Brad
|
$1,200
[18]
In 1883 Claude Monet settled in this hamlet 50 miles from Paris, often seen in his later works
Giverny
Leslie
|
|
$1,600
[5]
4-letter word for the intrinsic angular momentum of an elementary particle
spin
India
|
$1,600
[29]
Campion & Chretien
Jane & Jean
Brad
|
$1,600
[14]
This 16th century Dutch scholar is buried in Basel
Erasmus
Brad
|
$1,600
[8]
Of the 10 million slaves sent to the Americas over 3 1/2 centuries, almost 40 percent went to this Latin American country
Brazil
Brad
|
$1,600
[24]
A "Benjamin" from it would have meant a $2 note, which showed its Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin
the Confederacy
Brad
|
$2,000
[20]
Ms. Gentileschi, the painter, rape victim, & movie subject whose work is seen here, had this first name
Artemisia
India
|
|
$2,000
[9]
This "point" doesn't mean someone's being judgmental--it's where liquid & gaseous phases become identical
the critical point
Brad
|
$2,000
[30]
Baxter & Buffett
Warner & Warren
Brad
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
A period of the Mesozoic era was named for this mountain range that straddles the Swiss-French border
the Jura
Brad
|
$2,000
[10]
Led by a man from Popowo, in 1981 it had 10 million members
Solidarity
Leslie
|
$2,000
[25]
This revolutionary year (not the one you might think) appears on the front of all U.S. dollar bills
1789
Brad
|
DD
$9,000
[19]
Van Gogh & Kandinsky were in this modern art "show" named for the NYC military building where it was held in 1913
the Armory Show
Leslie
|
One of its title studies is Sen. Edmund Ross' 1868 vote against convicting President Andrew Johnson
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