Bill MacDonald game 2.
Scott Zimmerman — a high school director from West Grove, Pennsylvania
Beth Chalecki — a Ph.D. student from Medford, Massachusetts
Bill MacDonald — an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill | $3,800 | $3,000 | $12,600 |
$5,200
2-day champion: $23,399 |
$12,600
22 R, 7 W |
| Beth | $400 | $1,400 | $-3,300 |
$-3,300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-1,800
8 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Scott | $1,000 | $4,000 | $800 |
$800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| CITY SEALS | A BROADWAY MUSICAL QUIZ | SOLD! | GUNS | DEPARTMENT "S" | HIDDEN INSTRUMENTS |
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$200
[12]
The street depicted on its seal is Fremont Street, not the Strip
Las Vegas
Beth
|
$200
[14]
"Imagine" 9 different actors playing this man & singing his songs & you've got the 2005 musical named for him
(John) Lennon
Bill
|
$200
[6]
In 2004 it was high "time" Delaware's Winterhur Museum paid $1.65 million for a 9-foot-tall one of these
a grandfather clock
Beth
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$200
[26]
Accurate to 750 yards, the M21 was used in Vietnam by this type of concealed, sharpshooting soldier
a sniper
Bill
|
$200
[7]
In 1954 the U.S.S. Nautilus became the first of these vessels powered by nuclear energy
submarine
Bill
|
$200
[1]
Cancel long periods praciticing with this string instrument or your fingers will get tired
cello (in Can cel lo ng)
Bill
|
|
$400
[13]
Diamond Head adorns the left side of its seal
Honolulu
Scott
|
$400
[16]
This "Frasier" co-star is appearing knight-ly as Sir Robin in "Monty Python's Spamalot"
David Hyde Pierce
Beth
|
$400
[20]
In 2002 McTear's, founded in this country in 1842, sold a bottle of 62-year-old Dalmore whiskey for over $40,000
Scotland
Scott
|
$400
[27]
In 1934, as the rat-at-at of these filled the streets, Congress passed a law whose full title specifically restricted them
machine guns
Beth
|
$400
[8]
This protest technique became common in 1960 when black students wouldn't leave a N.C. lunch counter
sit-in
Bill
|
$400
[2]
When told he'd be playing these drums with the band, Tim panicked
timpani (in Tim pani cked)
Bill
|
|
$600
[15]
The portrait on this state capital's seal resembles the one on the penny
Lincoln
Bill
Scott
|
$600
[17]
"The Light in the Piazza" features a Tony-winning score by Adam Guettel, grandson of this "Carousel" composer
Richard Rodgers
|
$600
[21]
Hawthorne burned the manuscript, but a set of proofs of this work was auctioned in 2004 for $545,000
The Scarlet Letter
Bill
Beth
Scott
|
$600
[28]
Shotgun pellets are generally divided into 2 animal terms: buckshot for big ones & this for small ones
birdshot
Bill
|
$600
[9]
Roh Moo-hyun is its president
South Korea
Bill
|
$600
[3]
Barabas soon learned this Western instrument was like nothing he had ever seen before
bassoon (in bara bas soon )
Bill
|
|
$800
[18]
Menlo Park is part of this New Jersey township whose seal features a tower with a light bulb at the top
Edison
Beth
|
$1,000
[25]
(Hi. I'm Andrew Lloyd Webber.) My new musical is called "The Woman in White" and it's based on a 19th century novel by this author of "The Moonstone"
(Wilkie) Collins
Bill
|
$800
[22]
In May 2002 a Brancusi brought $18 million, then a record auction price for one of these
a sculpture
|
$800
[29]
In the 1880s a windmill company started giving promotional BB guns to farmers; it's now this airgun company
the Daisy Company
|
$800
[10]
This city-state is found a mere 85 miles north of the equator
Singapore
|
$800
[4]
Carefully replace the strings on this ancient instrument
lyre (in careful ly re place)
Bill
|
|
$1,000
[19]
New York City's seal features an American eagle, a sailor & an Indian representing this tribe
the Manhattan Indians
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
Albin sings "A Little More Mascara" while transforming himself into Zaza in this Jerry Herman musical
La Cage aux Folles
Scott
|
$1,000
[23]
"The Inverted Jenny", a stamp that shows an upside-down one of these, recently sold for over $500,000
an airplane
Bill
|
$1,000
[30]
Napoleon was the first to mass artillery in a "Grande" or "Big" one of these; we're positive it was a negative for the enemy
a battery
Bill
|
$1,000
[11]
This semimetallic element is the second-most common element on Earth after oxygen
silicon
Bill
|
$1,000
[5]
Neither Bilbo nor Gandalf knew any cool tunes on this
organ (in n or gan dalf)
|
| 1945 | BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM | FICTIONAL BATTLES & WARS | CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUMS | VENOMOUS ARTHROPODS | IT'S A "CIN" |
|
$400
[15]
In 1945 Grand Rapids, Mich. & Newburgh, N.Y. became the first 2 cities to add this chemical to the water supply
fluoride
Scott
|
$400
[21]
2003:"The Barbarian Invasions"
Canada
|
$400
[6]
The war between the Big-Endians and the Small-Endians is described in this character's "Travels"
Gulliver
Scott
|
$400
[25]
One of the largest contemp. art orgs., N.Y.'s P.S. 1, uses a building that began as this type of institution
a (public) school
Scott
|
$400
[10]
Some scientists include this stinger in the family Apidae, others in its own family, Bombidae
a bumblebee
Bill
|
$400
[1]
French term for a documentary film style that avoids directorial control over its subject
cinéma vérité
Bill
|
|
$800
[16]
"I have a terrific headache" were reportedly his final words, spoken on April 12
FDR
Bill
|
$800
[22]
1949:"The Bicycle Thief"
Italy
Bill
|
$800
[7]
The battle of Helm's Deep figures in this second book of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy
The Two Towers
Beth
|
$800
[26]
Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art exhibited this woman's art, including her Bed-In for Peace photos
(Yoko) Ono
Bill
|
$800
[11]
This arachnid is responsible for 1,000 deaths a year in Mexico
scorpion
Bill
Beth
|
$800
[2]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew tightens a horse saddle in a stable.) The strap I'm tightening is called latigo, Spanish for "gird", or this word that means it's easily done
a cinch
Beth
|
|
$1,200
[17]
Les Brown earned some renown for this tune popularized in 1945
"Sentimental Journey"
Bill
|
$1,200
[23]
2000:"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
Taiwan
Bill
Beth
|
DD
$1,500
[8]
The Battle of the Cowshed & the Battle of the Windmill are waged in this 1945 work
Animal Farm
Beth
|
$1,200
[28]
Thismuseum'sductsare color coded, blue for air, green for fluids, yellow for electrical, & red for movement
Le Centre Pompidou
Scott
|
$1,200
[12]
The potter, a solitary species of this insect, hunts only caterpillars
wasp
Bill
|
$1,200
[3]
This is a mixture of ashes & slag
cinders
Beth
|
|
$1,600
[18]
In October this man who had declared himself "Norway's Martyr" died by firing squad
Quisling
Bill
|
$1,600
[24]
1981:"Mephisto"
Hungary
Scott
|
$1,600
[9]
Juan Rico joins the mobile infantry to fight in the war against the invading alien "bugs" in this Heinlein novel
Starship Troopers
Bill
|
$1,600
[29]
This influential artist said of some Aboriginal art in Sydney's museum, "This is what I have been trying to achieve"
Pablo Picasso
|
$1,600
[13]
The scientific name of this venomous arthropod is Loxosceles reclusa
the brown recluse
Bill
|
$1,600
[4]
It's a tragedy that this 17th century French author is known for "Britannicus" & "Berenice"
Jean Racine
|
|
$2,000
[19]
Arrested near Genoa in May, this American poet would be declared insane & mentally unfit in December
(Ezra) Pound
Scott
|
$2,000
[27]
1996:"Kolya"
the Czech Republic
Beth
|
$2,000
[20]
A battle for this planet between Paul Atreides' forces & those of the Emperor is at the heart of the "Dune" books
Arrakis
Bill
|
DD
$6,000
[30]
Founded in 1939, this city's Contemporary Arts Center was at the center of a 1990s 1st Amendment case
Cincinnati
Scott
|
$2,000
[14]
The blister species of this secretes an irritating substance called cantharidin that was once used in love potions
beetle
|
$2,000
[5]
A synthetic hormone preparation that stimulates contractions during childbirth
pitocin
Beth
|
In 1994, after a 20-year absence, this country's delegation was allowed to be seated in the U.N. General Assembly
South Africa