Kevin Marshall game 5.
Chris Casper — an attorney from Tampa, Florida
Merle Capello — an HR consultant from Westbury, New York
Kevin Marshall — a student from Metairie, Louisiana (whose 4-day cash winnings total $73,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin | $1,000 | $2,600 | $11,400 |
$16,801
5-day champion: $90,202 |
$12,000
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Merle | $1,800 | $4,000 | $-1,400 |
$-1,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,600
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chris | $800 | $4,400 | $8,400 |
$10,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES | SCI-FI MOVIES BY CHARACTER | STOP, THIEF! | TWAIN TWIP | INITIALLY YOURS | FAMILIAR PHRASES |
|
$200
[2]
In 1866 Mary Ellen Pleasant, "Mother of Civil Rights in California", sued & won after being thrown off this city's streetcar
San Francisco
Kevin
|
$200
[1]
1999:Agent Smith, Morpheus, Cypher
The Matrix
Merle
|
$200
[8]
In 2001 thieves in Birmingham, Eng. stole 23 of these animals--which flew back to their domicile a short time later
homing pigeons (carrier pigeons accepted)
Chris
|
$200
[9]
Mark Twain was born in Florida--Florida, Missouri that is--& moved with his family to this town in 1839
Hannibal
Kevin
|
$200
[23]
In 2000 he gave kids more "Goosebumps" with a new series of books called "The Nightmare Room"
R.L. Stine
Kevin
|
$200
[18]
"Loose Lips" do this was a WWII catch phrase about defense plant workers watching their tongues
sink ships
Merle
|
|
$400
[3]
Now a congressman, John Lewis was a featured speaker at this August 1963 event when he was just 23
the March on Washington
Kevin
Merle
|
$400
[7]
1968:Taylor, Cornelius, Dr. Zaius
Planet of the Apes
Merle
|
$400
[11]
Born in New York City in 1859, this notorious killer, seen here, specialized in cattle rustling
Billy the Kid
Merle
|
$400
[10]
In the titles of 2 of Twain's travel books, it follows "The Innocents" & "A Tramp"
Abroad
Merle
|
$400
[24]
With 67, he has more Indy car victories as a driver than anyone else in history
A.J. Foyt
Merle
|
$400
[19]
2,000 years ago, the Roman Sextus Propertius said "absence" does this
makes the heart grow fonder
Chris
|
|
$600
[4]
As counsel to this organization, Charles Houston devised the legal strategy that led to school desegregation
NAACP
Kevin
|
$600
[12]
1984:Kyle Reese, Sarah Connor, Dr. Peter Silberman
The Terminator
Chris
|
$600
[28]
Stolen in 1911, this painting was returned to the Louvre in Jan. 1914 after a 2-month tour of Italy
the Mona Lisa
Kevin
|
$600
[14]
Twain once defined this type of book (& he wrote several) as one "which people praise and don't read"
a classic
|
$600
[25]
At Ezra Pound's suggestion, he pared down his "Waste Land" to a mere 434 lines
T.S. Eliot
Chris
|
$600
[20]
In several games of pool, it's unlucky to have your cue ball "behind" it
the eight ball
Chris
|
|
DD
$600
[5]
In 1963 George Olden became the first black designer of a U.S. stamp, one issued for the centennial of this event
the Emancipation Proclamation
Kevin
|
$800
[13]
1968:Astronauts Frank Poole, Heywood Floyd &Dave Bowman
2001: A Space Odyssey
|
— |
$800
[16]
As he predicted he would, Twain died in 1910, a year in which this appeared, just as it did in 1835 when he was born
Halley's Comet
Merle
|
$800
[26]
After a 1907 panic, this financier who helped organize U.S. Steel led the effort to keep banks afloat
J.P. Morgan
Kevin
|
$800
[21]
It completes the old maxim "Speech is silvern..."
silence is golden
Merle
|
|
$1,000
[6]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Pentagon.) The service of these aviators honoredherewas a factor in leading President Truman to desegregate the military
the Tuskegee Airmen
Kevin
|
$1,000
[15]
1951:Professor Jacob Barnhardt, Gort, Klaatu
The Day the Earth Stood Still
|
— |
$1,000
[17]
Twain wrote of how the "Maid of the Mist descends the fearful rapids" in a piece called "A Visit to" this place
Niagara Falls
|
$1,000
[27]
Married to Marjorie Merriweather Post, he founded the brokerage company that used to talk & people listened
E.F. Hutton
Chris
|
$1,000
[22]
Meaning simple & basic, this 4-word phrase was never actually said by Sherlock Holmes in any of the Conan Doyle tales
Elementary, my dear Watson
Chris
|
| BODIES OF WATER | SISTER ACT | GROVER CLEVELAND ROCKS | MYTHIC OBITS | "THE" BEGINNING | OF THE END |
|
$400
[1]
The lake James Fenimore Cooper called Horicon is now called this, after the second British king of that name
Lake George
Merle
|
$400
[2]
Courteney Cox' famous in-laws include these 2 acting sisters
Patricia & Rosanna Arquette
Merle
|
$400
[16]
Grover dedicated this 152-foot monument on October 28, 1886
the Statue of Liberty
Kevin
Chris
|
$400
[26]
Decapitated by Perseus; survived by 2 immortal sisters
Medusa
Chris
|
$400
[8]
Roget is so synonmous with this term that his name is entry meaning it in the OED
a thesaurus
Merle
|
$400
[21]
He was about to turn 78 when his final presidential term ended
Ronald Reagan
Chris
|
|
$800
[4]
Created by the Aswan High Dam, the artificial reservoir Lake Nasser is shared by these 2 countries
Egypt & Sudan
Kevin
|
$800
[3]
She played Celia on "7th Heaven"; sister Jessica played Daisy in "The Dukes of Hazzard" movie
Ashlee Simpson
Chris
|
$800
[17]
Candy bar lovers might know this name of Grover's daughter, born October 3, 1891
Ruth
Chris
|
$800
[27]
Wasted away staring at his own reflection
Narcissus
Kevin
|
$800
[9]
A form of government by priests who claim divine authority
theocracy
Kevin
|
$800
[22]
In 1862 O.W. Norton helped compose this as a substitute for the bugle call "To Extinguish Lights"
"Taps"
Chris
|
|
$1,200
[5]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls a scenic walkway by a riverbank at Gorky Park.) Famous as the setting of a book & a movie, Gorky Park lies on the right bank of this river
the Moscow River
|
$1,600
[14]
The 2002 movie "Crossroads" featured these 2 sisters who played the same character at different ages
Britney Spears & Jamie Lynn Spears
Kevin
|
$1,200
[18]
Grover was known as "The Hangman" of this city--not the most warm & cuddly nickname
Buffalo
|
$1,200
[28]
Musician torn apart by the love-crazed women of Thrace
Orpheus
|
$1,200
[10]
A subject for a composition; I'll finish mine & get my master's degree any year now
a thesis
Kevin
|
$1,200
[23]
The "Companion" book for this game says it ends "when all players are bankrupt, save one. That player wins. Period"
Monopoly
Chris
|
|
$1,600
[6]
This lake lies behind the Parker Dam on the border of Arizona & California
Lake Havasu
Kevin
|
$2,000
[15]
What a stretch--these twin sisters played twin sisters on the '90s sitcom "Sister, Sister"
Tia & Tamera Mowry
Kevin
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
In this year Grover won the presidential election with 58 more electoral votes than he'd won with in 1884
1892
Chris
|
$1,600
[29]
Son of the sun god, he took dad's chariot for a fatal joy ride
Phaeton
Merle
Chris
|
$1,600
[11]
From the Greek for "to attend", this adjective means curative; you might find answreing the clue to be quite...
therapeutic
Chris
|
$1,600
[24]
In 2001 Russia announced that it was closing its eavesdropping station on this Western Hemisphere island
Cuba
Kevin
|
|
$2,000
[7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a marina in Greece.) The island of Aegina is in what the Greeks call Saronikos Kolpos, or what we call the Saronic this
the Saronic Gulf
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
These 2 British sisters played sisters in a 1991 TV movie of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
the Redgrave sisters
Merle
|
$2,000
[20]
Born there in 1837, Grover is the only president native to this state
New Jersey
Merle
Chris
|
— |
$2,000
[12]
The first law of this states that energy in a system cannot be created or destroyed
thermodynamics
Merle
|
$2,000
[25]
When it ended in 1806, its last emperor, Francis II, continued to rule Austria
the Holy Roman Empire
Kevin
Merle
|
In I Kings 8 there was nothing inside it except 2 tablets put there by Moses
the Ark of the Covenant