Bob Mesko game 1.
Bob Mesko — an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
Cynthia Pearson — a curatorial assistant from Los Angeles, California
Marcus Jackson — a software engineer from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus | $1,200 | $4,000 | $10,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Cynthia | $400 | $1,400 | $6,200 |
$2,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
8 R, 1 W |
| Bob | $5,800 | $7,400 | $15,000 |
$8,799
New champion: $8,799 |
$15,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... | FILMOGRAPHIES | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES | CAPITAL "K"s | TEXTILES | THE SHORT FORM |
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$200
[6]
the U.S. Senate rejected the Versailles Treaty
Wilson
Bob
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$200
[16]
"Little Women","A Place in the Sun","The Sandpiper"
Elizabeth Taylor
|
$200
[1]
June 17 is Bunker Hill Day in this state's Suffolk County
Massachusetts
Marcus
|
$200
[11]
Freed from the Taliban, in 2001 men in this capital lined up for their first shaves in 5 years
Kabul
Bob
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$200
[26]
A certain rabbit could tell you this medium-weight fabric whose name comes from "velet" gives the look of velvet
velveteen
Bob
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$200
[21]
"Dis" is short for this, what you show someone if you dis him
disrespect
Marcus
|
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$400
[7]
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union
Buchanan
Bob
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$400
[17]
"Inherit the Wind","Anchors Aweigh","An American in Paris"
Gene Kelly
Cynthia
Bob
|
$400
[2]
In Sweden the Julbord is the smorgasbord for this holiday
Christmas
Cynthia
|
$400
[12]
Though it's in a valley, this Nepalese city is still 4,300 freet above sea level
Kathmandu
Marcus
|
$400
[27]
In the 400s B.C. Herodotus told the Greeks that India had plants that bear fleece--he meant this
cotton
Marcus
|
$400
[22]
"Fan", as in "a rabid sports fan", comes from this word
fanatic
Marcus
|
|
$600
[8]
Joe DiMaggio hit safely in a record 56 straight games
FDR
Bob
|
$600
[18]
"Tortilla Flat","Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo","The Old Man and the Sea"
Spencer Tracy
Bob
|
$600
[3]
This holiday is the night before All Saints' Day
Halloween
Marcus
|
$600
[13]
This present Malaysian capital replaced Klang as a regional capital in the late 1800s & began a growth spurt
Kuala Lumpur
Bob
|
$600
[28]
Now often used in scarves, cashmere was originally associated with this outer wrap for women
a shawl
Cynthia
|
$600
[23]
Don't believe the hype, but believe that "hype" partly comes from shortening this word
hyperbole (hyperbolic accepted)
Bob
|
|
$800
[9]
Lindbergh first flew the Atlantic solo
Coolidge
|
$800
[19]
"Dark Victory","Of Human Bondage","The Petrified Forest"
Bette Davis
Bob
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$800
[4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew waxes eloquent in front of Lenin's tomb in Moscow, Russia.) Soviet leaders reviewed a parade of military hardware from Lenin's tomb each year on this day, a Socialist holiday since 1889
May Day
Bob
|
$800
[14]
In the movie with the same name as this city, Olivier says, "The Nile must taste of blood for a thousand miles"
Khartoum
Bob
|
$800
[29]
Delicate Foulard textiles, used for ties & handkerchiefs, were originally this fabric
silk
Marcus
|
$800
[24]
To sum up, "recap" is a short form of this word
recapitulate
Cynthia
|
|
$1,000
[10]
The U.S. Battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor
McKinley
Bob
|
$1,000
[20]
"Double Indemnity","The Apartment","The Shaggy Dog"
Fred MacMurray
|
$1,000
[5]
It's the palindromic name for the Vietnamese New Year
Tet
Bob
|
DD
$1,400
[15]
A Caribbean capital or the first capital of the State of New York
Kingston
Bob
|
$1,000
[30]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the goods from the NC State University's College of Textiles.) This 2004 model loom still uses a method ofcontrolling individual yarnsbased on the one developed in 1804 by this French loom inventor
Jacquard
Marcus
|
$1,000
[25]
"Pan", a camera move, comes from this longer word
panorama (or panoramic)
Bob
|
| MEDICAL PIONEERS | RIGHT ON "Q" | A LITTLE DICKENS | TEXAS | CHAIN STORE | MASSACRE |
|
$400
[11]
Life-changing & yummy too, the oral polio vaccine was developed by this University of Cincinnati researcher
Albert Sabin
Bob
|
$400
[5]
Mai oui, this province produces more maple syrup than all the U.S. states combined
Quebec
Marcus
|
$400
[1]
In "Oliver Twist", Bill Sikes' girl, Nancy, is a member of this man's gang of pickpockets
Fagin
Cynthia
Bob
|
$400
[15]
Texas' King Ranch developed the Santa Gertrudis, the Western Hemisphere's first new breed of this
cattle
Cynthia
|
$400
[26]
It sounds like a sailors' surplus store, but this clothing store chain is a branch of GAP, Inc.
Old Navy
Marcus
|
$400
[21]
The greatest margin of victory in a Super Bowl came when this team stomped the Denver Broncos 55-10 in 1990
the San Francisco 49ers
Marcus
|
|
$800
[12]
In 1901 this army surgeon who later had a D.C. hospital named for him published "The Prevention of Yellow Fever"
Walter Reed
Marcus
|
$800
[6]
In 1965 Maarten Schmidt identified the most distant object then seen, one of these high-energy objects in outer space
a quasar
Marcus
|
$800
[2]
Uriah Heep had a heap of hate for this Dickens title character
David Copperfield
Bob
|
$800
[16]
On Sept. 24, 2005 the Gulf region was still recovering from Katrina when this hurricane slammed into Texas
Rita
Marcus
|
$800
[29]
The name of an inspirational body of water is part of the name of this national bookstore chain
Waldenbooks
Marcus
|
$800
[22]
In a career that ran from 1936 to 1963, Archie Moore scored an unprecedented 141 of these boxing decisions
knockouts
Cynthia
|
|
$1,200
[13]
This Italian anatomist's career went down the tubes in 1561 when he discovered the oviduct
Fallopius (or Gabriello Fallopio)
Marcus
|
$1,200
[7]
It's a Western Hemisphere national capital city of 1.4 million people
Quito
Bob
|
DD
$1,200
[3]
This Dickens work was first published on December 17, 1843
A Christmas Carol
Bob
|
$1,200
[17]
While in custody of the Dallas Police he was shot & killed November 24, 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald
Marcus
Cynthia
|
$1,200
[27]
John Madden & Connie Stevens have both been spokespeople for this supply shore
Ace Hardware
Marcus
|
$1,200
[23]
In 1991 this Ohio-based team trounced the Miami Heat 148-80 in the biggest NBA triumph ever
the Cleveland Cavaliers
|
|
$1,600
[14]
His 1543 landmark work on anatomy, "De Humani Corporis Fabrica", contained illustrations by Titian's studio
Vesalius
Marcus
|
$1,600
[8]
A term for any hunted animal, it comes from a Middle English word for "the entrails given to the hounds"
quarry
Marcus
|
$1,600
[4]
It's the specific type of prison where Charles Dickens' father suffered in 1824
debtor's prison
Marcus
|
$1,600
[18]
From the Spanish for "little armed one", it's the state small mammal of Texas
the armadillo
Marcus
|
DD
$1,400
[28]
The curly hair of founder Paul Orfalea gave this business-service chain its name
Kinko's
Marcus
|
$1,600
[24]
In the highest score ever in an int'l soccer game, Australia humbled this "American" territory 31-0 in 2001
American Samoa
Bob
|
|
$2,000
[20]
In 1949 the American Medical Women's Assoc. named an award for this pioneer who got her degree in 1849
Elizabeth Blackwell
Bob
|
$2,000
[9]
It's Latin for "something for something"; as in you do one thing for me, I'll do the same back for you
quid pro quo
Bob
|
$2,000
[10]
Little Paul is the "son" in this Dickens title business
Dombey and Son
|
$2,000
[19]
This West Texas city of about 600,000 sits on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
El Paso
Bob
|
$2,000
[30]
Appropriately, the "C" in the name of this department store chain named for its founder stands for "Cash"
J.C. Penney
Cynthia
|
$2,000
[25]
In a 1994 match between Durham & Warwickshire, Brian Lara scored 390 runs in a single day in this sport!
cricket
Marcus
|
In Greek myth this gem was "created" by tears of wine from Dionysus that stained the quartz statue of a maiden
the amethyst