Tom Nichols game 5-A.
Bob Tzudiker — a writer originally from Boston, Massachusetts
Phil Oakley — an actor from Van Nuys, California
Tom Nichols — a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts (whose 4-day cash winnings total $45,690)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | $200 | $1,600 | $5,600 |
$11,190
2nd place: Trip to Quail Lodge Resort, Carmel, California + Panasonic camcorder |
$5,400
23 R (including 2 DDs), 8 W |
| Phil | $200 | $600 | $2,200 |
$2,200
3rd place: Towle flatware set + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis |
$3,000
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Bob | $1,000 | $3,000 | $6,200 |
$11,300
New champion: $11,300 |
$6,200
18 R, 2 W |
| BIOLOGY | MADE BY RONCO | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES | MUSIC | 3-LETTER WORDS | POTPOURRI |
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$100
[2]
Members of this order of mammals have chisel-like incisors for gnawing & no canine teeth
rodents
Bob
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$100
[4]
Ronco made a special vacuum that cleaned these before you put them on the turntable
records
Bob
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$100
[9]
Venezuela's independence celebration is on this date, 1 day after ours
July 5
Phil
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$100
[1]
This interval has 8 steps; octo is Latin for "eight"
an octave
Bob
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$100
[17]
It's a long bench for seating the congregation in a church
a pew
Tom
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$100
[18]
Name shared by a card game, a pastry & a Bonaparte
Napoleon
Bob
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$200
[3]
Bipolar, ganglion & amacrine cells connect the cones & rods of the retina to this nerve
the optic nerve
Tom
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$200
[6]
A foundation of the Ronco empire is this device that slices & dices
the Veg-O-Matic
Bob
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$200
[10]
In this part of the U.K., Orangeman's Day celebrates a Protestant victory over the Catholics
Northern Ireland
Tom
|
$200
[11]
This Italian synonym for decrescendo is often abbreviated dim.
diminuendo
Bob
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$200
[23]
Meaning "to write down hastily", this word comes from the Greek Iota
jot
Bob
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$200
[19]
Historian & columnist Pierre Berton has been called this North American country's most famous journalist
Canada
Phil
|
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$300
[5]
These chambers of the heart were formerly called the auricles
the atria
Tom
Phil
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$300
[28]
With one machine you can dehydrate food, or make yogurt or this dried meat product
jerky
Tom
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$300
[15]
These animals are driven through the streets of Pamplona, Spain during the Fiesta de San Fermin
bulls
Phil
|
$300
[12]
The musical range of a baritone is between a tenor & this lowest type of male voice
the bass
Phil
|
$300
[24]
Often paired with to, it means "away" or "back"
fro
Tom
Phil
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$300
[20]
In heraldry, 1 of the 2 parts of a dragon that are usually barbed
the tongue (or the tail)
Bob
|
|
$400
[7]
Doctors sometimes induce hypothermia, which is this, to reduce metabolic activity
low body temperature
Tom
Bob
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$400
[29]
The egg scrambler scrambles the egg while it's still here
In the shell
Tom
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$500
[27]
King Bhumibol of this SE Asian country gives Buddhist monks new yellow robes on Thot Kathin
Thailand
Bob
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$400
[13]
This cauldron-shaped drum tuned to a definite pitch originated in Asia
timpani (kettledrum)
Bob
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$400
[25]
It's the term for food regurgitated from the first stomach of a ruminant & chewed again
cud
Bob
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$400
[21]
In 1971 he launched his first Eau de Toilette for men, YSL Pour Homme
Yves Saint Laurent
Tom
|
|
$500
[8]
This genus of bacteria includes S. typhi, causing typhoid, & S. typhimurium, causing food poisoning
salmonella
Bob
|
$500
[30]
Mr. Dentist is the plaque attacker & this product lets you talk over the radio
Mr. Microphone
Phil
|
DD
$800
[16]
Chinese New Year's Day falls in 1 of these 2 months on our calendar
January or February
Phil
|
$500
[14]
In an arpeggio the notes of one of these are sounded in succession, not simultaneously
a chord
Tom
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$500
[26]
A symbol of the power of a monarch, it's a globe surmounted by a cross
an orb
Tom
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$500
[22]
An Astaire & Rogers musical, an adjective that means having no worries, or a sugarless gum
Carefree
Bob
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| EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY | FAMOUS LAWYERS | WOMEN | U.S. HISTORY | LITERARY MOVEMENTS |
|
$200
[3]
This Dutch city on about 70 islands connected by about 400 bridges is famous for its diamond cutters
Amsterdam
Tom
Bob
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$200
[1]
For almost a year before it was shipped to the U.S., the statue was displayed in this world capital
Paris
Tom
|
$200
[2]
Judah P. Benjamin served this Confederate president as Attorney General & Secretary of War & State
Jefferson Davis
Bob
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$200
[16]
Israel's first minister to the Soviet Union, she became the country's prime minister in 1969
Golda Meir
Tom
|
$200
[11]
In 1973 President Nixon nominated this man to succeed William Rogers as Secretary of State
Kissinger
Tom
|
$200
[20]
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & Lawrence Ferlinghetti were part of this group of writers
the Beats
Tom
|
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$400
[4]
It's now made up of just the republics of Serbia & Montenegro
Yugoslavia
Tom
|
$400
[21]
Encased in the cornerstone is a coin minted in 1824, the year this Marquis last came to the U.S.
Lafayette
Tom
|
$400
[5]
In 1954 Edward Bennett Williams represented this Wisconsin senator in his Senate censure case
McCarthy
Tom
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$400
[18]
In 1854 she was asked by the British Secretary of War to take command of the nurses in Scutari, Turkey
Florence Nightingale
Phil
Bob
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$400
[12]
In 1802 Eleuthere Irenee du Pont established a gunpowder mill in this state
Delaware
Tom
|
$400
[24]
William Wordsworth helped launch this "love"ly movement in England
Romanticism
Tom
|
|
$600
[8]
Districts of this country include Braganca, Portalegre & Lisboa
Portugal
Bob
|
$600
[22]
The full name of the statue is "Liberty" doing this
Enlightening the World
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$600
[6]
His book "Unsafe at any Speed" helped pass the national traffic & motor vehicle safety act of 1966
Nader
Tom
|
$600
[19]
In 1977 this former New York congresswoman ran for mayor of New York City
Bella Abzug
Tom
Phil
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$600
[13]
This first patient to get a permanent artificial heart died on March 23, 1983
Barney Clark
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$600
[27]
Beckett & Ionesco dipped a bit into the "Theatre of" this
the absurd
Phil
|
|
$800
[9]
Bulgaria borders this sea
the Black Sea
Tom
|
DD
$600
[23]
As part of a fund-raising effort, she wrote "The New Colossus", which would be placed on the pedestal
Emma Lazarus
Tom
|
$800
[7]
This ANC leader received his law degree from the University of South Africa in 1942
(Nelson) Mandela
Bob
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$800
[29]
She was a managing editor for Vanity Fair before she married the publisher of Time
Clare Boothe Luce
Tom
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$800
[14]
This Confederate general died of pneumonia 7 days after the amputation of his arm in May 1863
"Stonewall" Jackson
Phil
|
$800
[28]
Adjective describing the "young men" with whom John Osborne & Kingsley Amis were associated
Angry
Tom
|
|
$1,000
[17]
This German seaport's full name calls it a Free & Hanseatic City
Hamburg
Tom
Bob
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$1,000
[25]
Standing inside the crown on Oct. 28, 1886, this sculptor released the French flag & the statue was unveiled
Bartholdi
|
$1,000
[10]
This Harvard-educated lawyer is best known as the author of "Two Years Before the Mast"
Richard Henry Dana
Tom
|
DD
$1,400
[26]
In 1993 this university administrator became Secretary of Health & Human Services
Donna Shalala
Tom
|
$1,000
[15]
This U.S. president garnered just 8 electoral votes when defeated by Woodrow Wilson in 1912
Taft
Tom
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$1,000
[30]
This Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger work lent its title to the movement associated with Goethe
Sturm und Drang
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1 of only 2 films directed by Clint Eastwood that did not star Clint Eastwood
(1 of) Bird or Breezy