Bob Mesko game 4-A.
Glenn Barnes — a nonprofit development director from Watertown, Massachusetts
Miranda Schwartz — a copy editor from New York, New York
Bob Mesko — an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado (whose 3-day cash winnings total $42,399)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $2,600 | $6,800 | $5,400 |
$10,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Miranda | $200 | $3,800 | $15,000 |
$16,801
New champion: $16,801 |
$15,000
23 R, 3 W |
| Glenn | $1,000 | $800 | $8,400 |
$13,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
8 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| A DATE WITH HISTORY | "SONG"S | I NEED A VACATION | BREAKFAST CEREALS | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS | STUPID ANSWERS |
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$200
[6]
The radio message Marconi transmitted overseas March 27, 1899 was in this code
Morse (code)
Miranda
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$200
[1]
Paul McCartney said "Some people wanna fill the world with" these "and what's wrong with that?"
"Silly Love Songs"
Bob
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$200
[14]
I'd like to go to this country, the No. 1 tourist destination, for the food; I hope they sell freedom toast
France
Bob
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$200
[19]
It's still "The Breakfast of Champions"
Wheaties
Miranda
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$200
[11]
Said to grooms & graduates, it's from the Latin for "rejoice with"
congratulations
Glenn
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$200
[26]
You can read a variety of articles all about all aspects of show business in this trade paper established in 1905
Variety
Miranda
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$400
[7]
The S.S. Ancon made the first complete trip through this, August 15, 1914
the Panama Canal
Miranda
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$400
[2]
The title of this 1976 No. 1 hit by Barry Manilow completes the line "I am music and..."
"I Write The Songs"
Bob
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$400
[15]
My daughter's excited to see the monarch butterfly flocks at Morelia in this country, the No. 8 destination
Mexico
Miranda
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$400
[20]
"They're gr-r-reat!"
Frosted Flakes
Miranda
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$400
[12]
An extreme conservative, especially if he obeys Newton's third law of motion
reactionary
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$400
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands underneath a fountain in St. Petersburg, Russia.) Be careful of the umbrella fountain here in Peterov--if you step under it, this will happen
you'll get wet (it will rain accepted)
Miranda
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$600
[8]
This general defeated Chief Tecumseh at the Battle of Tippecanoe on November 7, 1811
William Henry Harrison
Bob
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$600
[3]
According to Neil Diamond, "Everybody knows one"
"Song Sung Blue"
Bob
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$600
[16]
I'll head to this country, the No. 5 destination, so my son can study Wushu martial arts and I can drink pijiu, its beer
China
Bob
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$600
[21]
"Silly Rabbit!" These "are for kids!"
Trix
Miranda
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$600
[13]
It's an affirmation of a person's character, or a type of dinner held to do the affirming
testimonial
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$600
[28]
This Conrad work ends, "The... waterway... seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness"
Heart of Darkness
Miranda
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$800
[9]
On Jan. 1, 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed this current nation independent
Haiti
Bob
Miranda
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$800
[4]
Elton John told us, "When all hope is gone", these "say so much"
"Sad Songs"
Glenn
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$800
[17]
I'll have to go to this country, the No. 7 destination, on Sunday to see a famous choir at the Imperial Palace chapel
Austria
Miranda
Glenn
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$800
[22]
"They're magically delicious"
Lucky Charms
Bob
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DD
$1,000
[24]
Having many sides, like diplomatic talks among more than 2 parties
multilateral
Bob
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$800
[29]
(Jon of the Clue Crew stands in front of an old log cabin in the Wyoming mountains.) Towering over Jackson Hole, Wyoming at a lofty 13,766 feet is this mountain, the largest in the Grand Teton range
Grand Teton
Bob
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$1,000
[10]
On March 9, 1820 his daughter Maria became the first president's daughter married in the White House
James Monroe
Bob
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$1,000
[5]
This Roberta Flack hit about hearing Don McLean sing "American Pie" won 3 Grammys in 1973
"Killing Me Softly With His Song"
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$1,000
[18]
My wife would kill me if we didn't go to this country, the No. 4 destination, to visit the Missoni & Krizia showrooms
Italy
Miranda
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$1,000
[23]
Finicky 4-year-old Mikey likes it
Life
Bob
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$1,000
[25]
Marlon Brando & Doris Day were born on the same day, April 3, 1924, making them exact these
contemporaries
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$1,000
[30]
The scientific name of this striped carnivore is Hyaena hyaena
striped hyena
Miranda
Glenn
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| POETS & POETRY | THEIR FINAL FILM ROLE | THE U.S. AIR FORCE | GRADUATE SCHOOL | A PENGUIN, A YAK & A KANGAROO | WALK INTO A "BAR" |
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$400
[1]
In a 1789 poem, he wrote "Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, the hills of the highlands for ever I love"
(Rabbie) Burns
Miranda
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$400
[6]
As Norman Thayer in "On Golden Pond"
Henry Fonda
Miranda
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$400
[23]
A vet who wears a little plane with an Army of Occupation medal helped resupply this city in 1948 & 1949
Berlin
Miranda
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$400
[16]
After course work, a grad student may take these very thorough exams known as comps
comprehensive exams
Bob
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$400
[21]
Though penguins nest in colonies numbering in the millions, they practice this, from the Greek meaning "one marriage"
monogamy
Miranda
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$400
[11]
It's been said life is this, old chum, a restaurant with music & often a floor show
a cabaret
Miranda
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$800
[2]
"Martin" is one of the other poems in his 1914 collection "Trees and Other Poems"
Joyce Kilmer
Bob
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$800
[7]
As aging gunfighter John Bernard Books in "The Shootist"
John Wayne
Bob
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$800
[27]
3-word name for the seriously reconfigured 747 with the Air Force designation VC-25
Air Force One
Bob
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$800
[17]
As in a courtroom a final oral exam on a Ph.D. dissertation is usually called this
a defense
Glenn
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$800
[22]
Only about 1 inch long at birth, a newborn kangaroo is called this, also British slang for a threepenny piece
a joey
Bob
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$800
[12]
A line drawn on a weather map that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same
an isobar
Miranda
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$1,200
[3]
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", begins this Allen Ginsberg poem
"Howl"
Glenn
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$1,200
[8]
As Rosalyn Taber in "The Misfits"
Marilyn Monroe
Miranda
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$1,200
[28]
During this war, Air Force pilots had a 10-1 margin of victory in "MiG Alley" on the Yalu River
the Korean War
Bob
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$1,600
[19]
Portraitist Chuck Close earned a "Master of" these from Yale in 1964; glass master Dale Chihuly, from RISD in 1968
fine arts
Miranda
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$1,200
[24]
Luc Jacquet hung around the South Pole for more than a year directing this 2005 documentary
March of the Penguins
Miranda
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$1,200
[13]
It's O-Tay to know this plant of the buckwheat family or that in slang, it's a term for quarrel
rhubarb
Bob
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$1,600
[4]
It's the sonnet written in 1883 that ends, "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
"The New Colossus"
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$1,600
[9]
As Warren Beatty's Aunt Ginny in "Love Affair"
Katharine Hepburn
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DD
$5,000
[29]
Fitting name of a unit between group & division, like the 509th Bomb one or 349th Air Mobility one
a wing
Bob
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DD
$2,000
[18]
These 2 institutes of technology are tied atop the latest U.S. News ranking of physics grad schools
Massachusetts Institute of Technology & California Institute of Technology (MIT & Caltech)
Glenn
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$1,600
[25]
Kangaroos have few enemies aside from man & this type of wild dog, made infamous in a 1988 film
a dingo
Miranda
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$1,600
[14]
A pier, wharf or landing place: San Francisco has a famous one
embarcadero
Glenn
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$2,000
[5]
Robert Frost ended his "Mending Wall" with this famous phrase about barriers
fences make good neighbors
Miranda
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$2,000
[10]
As the "grumpy old" father in "Hanging Up"
Walter Matthau
Miranda
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$2,000
[20]
It's the M in GMAT, the admission test that hundreds of MBA programs require applicants to take
management
Glenn
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$2,000
[26]
The domestic yak is often called a grunting this, a draft animal of the genus Bos
ox
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$2,000
[15]
It's the musical period following the Renaissance that lasted roughly from 1600 to 1750
the Baroque
Miranda
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On August 6, 2005 an Atlanta march supported extending the Voting Rights Act signed by this president
Lyndon Baines Johnson