Maria Wenglinsky game 6.(Jon: Talk about elbow room! Only five people and some buffalo per square mile. Clues on the wide-open spaces ofWyoming, next on Jeopardy!)
Jeff Cuffee — an accelerator operator from Los Alamos, New Mexico
Michael Cramer — a graduate student from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Maria Wenglinsky — a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 5-day cash winnings total $122,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maria | $6,200 | $7,800 | $11,000 |
$22,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Michael | $1,000 | $3,800 | $14,600 |
$22,600
New champion: $22,600 |
$13,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Jeff | $1,600 | $5,400 | $14,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,200
18 R, 1 W |
| KNIGHTS & KNIGHTHOOD | PUGILISTS | FOOD | LITERARY LINGO | AMERICANA | "EEK" CITY |
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$200
[1]
An ideal knight of this "Canterbury Tales" author was valorous but "prudent and as meek as a maid of his bearing"
Chaucer
Maria
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$200
[6]
This boxer liked his nickname "Marvelous Marvin" so much that he had his name legally changed
Marvin Hagler
Jeff
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$200
[8]
The first new variety of Eggo waffle Kellogg's made was one with this fruit in 1972
blueberries
Jeff
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$200
[11]
Often employing animals, this type of short tale, like "The Fox and the Grapes", teaches moral lessons
a fable
Jeff
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$200
[21]
It opened its doors as an immigration station on January 1, 1892
Ellis Island
Maria
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$200
[27]
The title of an Irving Berlin song, it's how a famous pair danced in the film "Top Hat"
"Cheek To Cheek"
Maria
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$400
[2]
Patches of plate armor were added to unprotected areas of this flexible garment of interlocked metal rings
chain mail
Maria
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$400
[7]
In a 27-year ring career, Archie Moore set a record by winning the most bouts, 141, in this way
a knockout
Maria
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$400
[10]
Poutine, a Montreal treat, is covered with gravy & this solid element of cheese
the curd
Michael
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$400
[16]
Some novels have this added section about characters' later lives; the one in Ellison's "Invisible Man" is called this
an epilogue
Jeff
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$400
[22]
This missionary nurseryman did most of his work in Ohio & Indiana, where he died in 1845
Johnny Appleseed
Jeff
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$400
[28]
A shallow or intermittent tributary
a creek
Michael
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$600
[3]
The name of this part of a knight's armor comes from an old French word meaning "glove"
gauntlet
Michael
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$600
[9]
3 Rays have won Olympic gold medals in boxing for the U.S.: Ray Mercer, Ray Seales & this "sweet" guy
Sugar Ray Leonard
Maria
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$800
[14]
Holishkes is one of the many names for leaves of this vegetable stuffed with meat
cabbage
Maria
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$600
[18]
This 3-letter term is inserted after a correctly quoted word or phrase that's misspelled or inaccurate
sic
Michael
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$600
[23]
Eli Bridge builds amusement rides like this one that's been making the rounds since 1893
a ferris wheel
Maria
Jeff
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$600
[29]
To give off a strong, unpleasant smell
reek
Jeff
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$800
[4]
A dummy target called a quintain was used in practice tilts in preparation for this sport
jousting
Maria
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$800
[12]
This bare-knuckles heavyweight champ was known as "The Great John L."
Sullivan
Maria
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$1,000
[15]
Italian for "angry", it describes a pasta sauce spiced up with plenty of chiles
arrabbiata
Maria
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$800
[19]
From the French for "untying", it unties the plot after the climax of a novel
denouement
Michael
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$800
[24]
In 1953 the Maryland Historical Society acquired an original 1814 manuscript of this for $26,400
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Maria
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$800
[30]
Onion relative that's a symbol of Wales
a leek
Jeff
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$1,000
[5]
In about 1119 in Jerusalem, knights Hugh de Payens & Godfrey of St. Omer founded this order of Christian knighthood
the Knights Templar
Jeff
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$1,000
[17]
1 of 2 men to whom Floyd Patterson lost the World Heavyweight title
Ingemar Johansson (or Sonny Liston)
|
DD
$1,200
[13]
This Thai food flavoring comes from a tropical plant named for its citrusy smell
lemon grass
Maria
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$1,000
[20]
This term for books printed before 1501 goes back to the Latin cunae, "a cradle"
incunabula
Maria
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$1,000
[25]
(Hi. I'm Larry King.) This New York governor was the guest on the first "Larry King Live" on CNN June 1, 1985
Mario Cuomo
Michael
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$1,000
[26]
It's the word that means happening once a fortnight
biweekly
Jeff
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| WELCOME TO WYOMING | "KING" OF THE TOP 40 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT | ADD A LETTER | TECHNOLOGY | REVOLUTIONS |
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$400
[6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is outstanding in his field, complete with dilapidated barn and mountain range, in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.) The Grand Tetons are an impressive part of the northern section of this much larger mountain chain
the Rockies
Maria
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$400
[1]
"It's Too Late" & "So Far Away" were 1971 hits for her
Carole King
Michael
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$400
[19]
In 2003 she became the first New York senator ever appointed to the Senate Armed Services Committee
Hillary Clinton
Michael
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$400
[26]
When this letter is added to comic, it becomes a whole lot bigger
S (takes it to cosmic)
Jeff
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$400
[11]
Until Matsushita & Sony marketed these devices, people had to race home to catch "Police Woman"
videotape recorders
Jeff
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$400
[13]
This leader's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976, eliminated political rivals & threw Chinese cities into chaos
Mao Zedong
Michael
|
|
$800
[7]
The scandalous Teapot Dome is part of the area that got Casper into this business in the 1890s
the oil business
Maria
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$800
[2]
This group's "Louie Louie" made 1963 very interesting
The Kingsmen
Michael
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DD
$1,000
[22]
(Hi, I'm Ari Fleischer.) In 1999, after this woman left the Red Cross, I was communcations director for her presidential campaign
Elizabeth Dole
Michael
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$800
[27]
Add this letter to moral & it becomes fatal
T (for mortal)
Jeff
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$800
[12]
A basic electronic calculator does multiplication by translating it into a series of this simpler operation
addition
Maria
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$800
[14]
His "New Diet Revolution" was on the mass-market paperback bestseller list over 2 years
Atkins
Michael
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$1,200
[8]
(Jon of the Clue Crew writhes his palm in a lovely pink raft in the Snake River, Bridger-Teton Nat'l Forest, Wyoming.) The Snake River may have gotten its name from a Shosone gesture, but it didn't mean "snake"; it meant the river was full of these
fish
Maria
Michael
Jeff
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$1,200
[3]
"Stand By Me" hit the charts for him in 1961 & 1986
Ben E. King
Michael
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$1,200
[23]
She was serving as New Jersey's 50th governor when George W. Bush tapped her to head the EPA
(Christie Todd) Whitman
Michael
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$1,200
[28]
Adding this letter to heritage gives you a nice, secluded retreat
M (for hermitage)
Michael
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$1,200
[17]
In 2003 Billboard magazine started this new chart; the first No. 1, "Crazy In Love", had a total of 1,500
music downloads
Maria
Michael
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$1,600
[16]
Economist Arnold Toynbee popularized this term to describe England's 18th & 19th c. economic development
the Industrial Revolution
Jeff
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$1,600
[9]
(Kelly reports from horse country, horse in hand, in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.) While living in Wyoming, Mary O'Hara created a classic equine literary character: "My Friend" this horse
Flicka
Jeff
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$1,600
[4]
"The Thrill Is Gone"--at least it was for him in 1970
B.B. King
Jeff
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$1,600
[24]
She's the governor picturedherein 1994 with her then-opponent
(Ann) Richards
Maria
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$1,600
[29]
Add this letter to sale & it becomes a type of rock
H (for shale)
Jeff
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$1,600
[20]
This machine for patients with faulty kidneys was developed during WWII; today some models fit under an airplane seat
a dialysis machine
Michael
|
DD
$1,800
[15]
From 1963 to 1978 this country had a "White Revolution": in 1979, partly as a backlash, it had an Islamic one
Iran
Michael
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$2,000
[10]
Wyoming's scenery has inspired many artists, so it's fitting that the state flower is the "Indian" this
paintbrush
Jeff
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$2,000
[5]
In 1979 this potent (potable) singer gave us "I Don't Know If It's Right"
Evelyn "Champagne" King
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$2,000
[25]
This playwright & Vanity Fair editor served in the House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947
Clare Booth Luce
Michael
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$2,000
[30]
In a raid, add this letter & it may describe the fury & rage that you feel
B (for rabid)
Michael
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$2,000
[21]
It's the basic geographic unit of wireless phone service
a cell
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$2,000
[18]
Leaders of the 1989 Czech revolution, given this fabric-ated name, also led a '99 antigovernment protest
the Velvet Revolution
Maria
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"He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines"
"Mending Wall" (by Robert Frost)