Michael Falk game 1.(Alex: TheSesame Streetgang will teach us all about nutrition on today'sJeopardy!Right, Oscar?)(Oscar: Yeah. They'll be wasting their time, too.)
Lizard Hogge — a welder originally from Anderson, Indiana
Michael Falk — a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Craig Mobley — a switchboard manager from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig | $1,000 | $1,000 | $1,800 |
$3,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,800
9 R, 3 W |
| Michael | $2,600 | $3,400 | $16,200 |
$17,401
New champion: $17,401 |
$17,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lizard | $1,200 | $3,000 | $16,800 |
$3,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| THE DAYS OF WORLD WAR II | GEOGRAPHIC CINEMA | CHICK LIT | SESAME STREETEATS | WHO'S CRYING NOW? | "S"PAÑOL |
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$200
[2]
This North American country declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939
Canada
Michael
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$200
[11]
1979:"The ____ Horror"
Amityville
Craig
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$200
[26]
This 1813 novel about the Bennet sisters has been called a chick lit classic
Pride and Prejudice
Craig
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$200
[21]
(Alex chats with Elmo on Sesame Street.)"Elmo, did you know that kiwis are an excellent source of vitamin C, which is also known as this acid?""Well, Elmo love kiwis!""Good!"
ascorbic acid
Lizard
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$200
[16]
In this 1987 film Holly Hunter's tears are real but William Hurt's are not
Broadcast News
Craig
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$200
[1]
Celia Cruz, who passed away in 2003, was long hailed as the "Queen of" this style of music
salsa
Michael
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$400
[3]
On May 27, 1941 this German battleship was sunk in the East Atlantic
the Bismarck
Lizard
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$400
[12]
1957:"The Spirit of ____"
St. Louis
Lizard
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$400
[27]
Becky, who can't stop buying stuff, was introduced in "Confessions of" this pathological type
a Shopaholic
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$400
[22]
(Alex visits Oscar the Grouch's aluminum abode on Sesame Street.)"You know what, Oscar? On my pizza, I'm one of those people who really likes this calcium-rich herring relative. What about you?""Well, I like 'em in my milkshakes.""What? You're not serious.""Heh heh."
anchovies
Michael
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$400
[17]
"Let not women's weapons, water drops, stain my man's cheeks", says this title Shakespeare guy to daughter Regan
King Lear
Craig
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$400
[7]
Better not miss this one--it's Spanish for "miss", as in an unmarried woman
señorita
Michael
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|
$600
[4]
On April 28, 1945 Clara Petacci died alongside this man, her lover for more than a decade
Mussolini
Craig
Michael
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$600
[13]
1987:"Born in ___"
East L.A.
Craig
Lizard
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$600
[28]
Cate longs for love while in multiple weddings in Whitney Lyles' "Always" one of these
a Bridesmaid
Michael
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$600
[23]
(Alex habla con Rosita en Sesame Street.)"Rosita is very familiar with this word, naranja.""And Alex knows that naranja means this."
orange
Michael
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$600
[18]
I defy you not to lose it when Travis Coates has to shoot this 1957 movie dog
Old Yeller
Lizard
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$600
[8]
Referring to mountains with a saw-toothed appearance, it precedes Madre & Nevada
sierra
Michael
|
|
$800
[5]
This battle & German counterattack began on December 16, 1944
the Battle of the Bulge
Michael
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$800
[14]
1931:"Sidewalks of ___"
New York
Craig
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$800
[29]
Samantha longs for love on Capitol Hill in "Sammy's Hill" by Kristin, daughter of this politician
Al Gore
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$800
[24]
(This next clue is brought to you by the letter P.)"Hey, Big Bird, isn't it true that good nutrition is one of the special themes on 'Sesame Street' this year?""Oh, yes, it is, & did you know that eggs are incredibly rich in this?"[Alex opens the egg carton, to the eggs' delight.]"Yayyy! Yayyy!""Quiet, you guys, quiet!"
protein
Michael
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$800
[19]
He went from front-runner for the '72 Democratic nomination back to simply senator after reportedly crying in N.H.
Senator Edmund Muskie
Craig
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
At a fiesta, you might raise a glass of sangria & make a toast using this word that means "health"
salud
Michael
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$1,000
[6]
At 8:15 A.M. on the 6th of this month in 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
August
Michael
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$1,000
[15]
1960:"Sunrise at ____"
Campobello
Lizard
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$1,000
[30]
This HBO series originated with Candace Bushnell's newspaper column
Sex and the City
Lizard
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$1,000
[25]
(Alex visits Oscar once more.)"You know, Trebek, I don't know why people throw away perfectly good apple peels.""I don't either, Oscar, because they're a great source of this material, also called bulk, which is really needed for digestion.""Hmm."
fiber
Michael
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$1,000
[20]
This head coach shed a few public tears as he led the Rams to a Super Bowl win in 2000
Dick Vermeil
Michael
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$1,000
[10]
If you see this word on a door, you've found the exit
salida
Michael
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| "M"EDICINE | GETTING ATTACHED | OPERA | LAYING THINGS N TO N | HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN SPAULDING! | THE AFRICAN EXPLORER |
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$400
[6]
This childhood disease is caused by a paramyxovirus that causes the parotid glands to swell up
mumps
Michael
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$400
[11]
If a girl gets a small charm, she'll most likely wear it attached to this piece of wristwear
a bracelet
Lizard
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$400
[1]
Tenor Leo Slezak covered a staging mistake in "Lohengrin" by ad-libbing, "What time is the next" this graceful bird
swan
Craig
|
$400
[16]
In book titles, it follows "Prozac" & "Fast Food"
Nation
Lizard
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$400
[26]
Groucho Marx played Captain Spaulding in this 1930 film adapted from a hit Broadway show of the same name
Animal Crackers
|
$400
[21]
Before beginning his famous search, this Welsh-born journalist covered the Indian campaigns in the American West
Stanley
Lizard
|
|
$800
[7]
This disease caused by a parasitic protozoan was once thought to be caused by swamp exhalations
malaria
Lizard
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$800
[12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from horseback in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.) On the Western saddle, a cowboy can attach his lariat to the high one of these parts, also called the horn
a pommel
Lizard
|
$800
[2]
His new "Tosca" was the toasta Roma in 1900
Puccini
Craig
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$800
[17]
An early motion-picture theater, or a present-day cable network
nickelodeon
Lizard
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$800
[27]
In the 1950s the song "Hooray For Captain Spaulding" was the theme song for this Groucho Marx TV show
You Bet Your Life
Michael
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$800
[22]
On seeing one of these Paul du Chaillu wrote, "He was not afraid of us. He stood there, and beat his breast..."
a gorilla
Lizard
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|
$1,200
[8]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a laboratory at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.) Anartificial retinadeveloped with the aid of North Carolina State University engineers may cure this type of degeneration named for a spot at the center of a retina
macular
Michael
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$1,200
[13]
The calcaneofibular one of these bands of tissue attaches your fibula to your heel bone
a ligament
Michael
Lizard
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$1,200
[3]
Verdi's first comic opera was a flop; it was 50 years before he wrote his second, about this Shakespeare character
Falstaff
Craig
|
$1,600
[19]
This university's address is 633 Clark Street, Evanston
Northwestern
Michael
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$1,200
[28]
While in character as the African explorer Captain Spaulding, Groucho wore this type of distinctive helmet
a pith helmet
Lizard
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$1,200
[23]
In 1849 missionary Ludwig Krapf sighted the 2 snow-capped peaks of this "national" mountain but did not climb it
Mount Kenya
Lizard
|
|
$1,600
[9]
The lower portion of the brain stem, its name means "long marrow" in Latin
medulla oblongata
Craig
Michael
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$1,600
[14]
Fountains of Wayne sang of "working all day for a mean little man with" this kind of tie "and a rub-on tan"
a clip-on tie
Michael
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$1,600
[4]
This Mozart opera opens with the title character on the prowl for Donna Anna
Don Giovanni
Michael
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$2,000
[20]
This university's address is 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Northeastern
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$1,600
[29]
At the center of the Captain's antics is a quest for one of these expensive items that has been stolen
painting
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$1,600
[24]
Between 1420 & 1432 this prince sponsored many expeditions to round Cape Bojador; the 14th succeeded
Henry the Navigator
Lizard
|
|
$2,000
[10]
This heart valve connects the left atrium & the left ventricle
mitral (valve)
Lizard
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$2,000
[15]
Actors attach false beards with this "ghostly" substance
spirit gum
Michael
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DD
$2,000
[5]
Fragments of the "Ode to Joy" appear in the libretto of this 1805 opera, the composer's only one
Fidelio
Michael
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DD
$7,000
[18]
Vitamin B3
niacin
Lizard
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$2,000
[30]
Groucho's line that he'll "try to make her" was cut from the final film following demands by this censorship office
the Hays Office
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$2,000
[25]
On July 21, 1796 Mungo Park became the first European to sight this long West African river
the Niger
Michael
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He famously remarked, "We are all the President's men", giving Woodward & Bernstein their title
Henry Kissinger