Michael Falk game 3.
Peggy Till — a teacher from Arlington, Texas
Stacy McKnight — a nanny from Fairfax, Virginia
Michael Falk — a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin (whose 2-day cash winnings total $36,602)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | $3,200 | $8,800 | $16,800 |
$22,801
3-day champion: $59,403 |
$20,600
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Stacy | $600 | $3,000 | $8,700 |
$700
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Peggy | $1,800 | $5,000 | $11,400 |
$15,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,400
12 R, 1 W |
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$200
[1]
This country is the invadee in the 1990 headline seen here
Kuwait
Michael
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$200
[17]
"The Twilight Zone","Twin Peaks","20/20"
The Twilight Zone
Peggy
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$200
[7]
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, this venue sheltered nearly 25,000 evacuees
the Superdome
Michael
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$200
[6]
The meaty-clawed Maine type of this crustacean is also called the American type
a lobster
Michael
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$200
[22]
In a 12th century French tale of this knight, he rides humbly on a cart in pursuit of Guinevere
Lancelot
Michael
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$200
[12]
"Toward"; or, one point up in a tennis game
ad
Peggy
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$400
[2]
It's the capital city on the losing end of a 1971headline
Taipei
Michael
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$400
[18]
"The Drew Carey Show","The Bob Newhart Show","The Bernie Mac Show"
The Bob Newhart Show
Michael
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$400
[8]
These enormous cargo ships can hold over 300,000 tons of oil
supertankers
Michael
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$400
[13]
A rich filling called ganache is often used in these chocolates made to look like fancy fungi
truffles
Michael
|
$400
[23]
Dickens novel in which Sydney Carton finds himself riding in one of the "death-carts"
A Tale of Two Cities
Michael
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$400
[27]
"After"; or, to station, as a sentry
post
Stacy
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$600
[3]
This man's 1986 travel itinerary made thefront page
Ferdinand Marcos
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$600
[19]
"Reba","Seinfeld","Maude"
Maude
Stacy
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$600
[9]
When a massive star dies out, it may explode & become one of these, billions of times as bright as the Sun
a supernova
Michael
|
$600
[14]
Delectably fatty toro, from the belly of this fish, is a sushi delicacy
tuna
Stacy
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$800
[25]
The line in "Hamlet" "Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round" refers to this god's chariot
Apollo
Stacy
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$600
[28]
"One"; or, the pre-1958 way to listen to recorded music
mono
Stacy
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|
$800
[4]
Last name of the 1953 headline pair seen here
Rosenberg
Peggy
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$800
[20]
"Saturday Night Live","Monday Night Football","60 Minutes Wednesday"
Monday Night Football
Michael
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$800
[10]
It's what Freud called the conscience or moral part of the personality
a superego
Michael
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$800
[15]
It's the Italian name for the salad green seen here also called roquette
arugula
Peggy
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$1,000
[26]
In a bit of optimism at the end of his "Return of the Native", newlyweds Diggory & Thomasin ride off in a dogcart
Thomas Hardy
Peggy
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$800
[29]
"Different"; or, someone who's not gay
hetero
Michael
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$1,000
[5]
In headlines from1912&'13, respectively, very different fates befall these twomen
Scott & Amundsen
Michael
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$1,000
[21]
"CSI: NY","CSI: Miami","NCIS"
CSI: Miami
Peggy
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$1,000
[11]
Seymour Cray was hailed as "the father of" this
the supercomputer
Michael
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$1,000
[16]
The name of this beef cut next to the rib implies that it melts in your mouth
tenderloin
Peggy
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
Appropriately, Dr. Watson gets a ride in a dogcart in this novel
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Michael
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$1,000
[30]
"Against"; specifically, one fighting against Nicaragua's Sandinistas
contra
Michael
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| APRIL | THE ELEMENTS | FICTIONAL MOVIES | WHO "R" YOU? | GEOGRAPHIC HORSE RACE | IN THE DICTIONARY |
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$400
[9]
In April 1952 the president seized these mills to help the Korean War effort; then the Supreme Court said he couldn't
steel
Michael
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$400
[10]
This liquid metal is also called quicksilver
mercury
Stacy
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$400
[4]
"The Dueling Cavalier" was the silent film being turned into a musical in this 1952 Gene Kelly favorite
Singin' in the Rain
Michael
Peggy
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$400
[15]
His clever military tactics during WWII earned him the nickname "The Desert Fox"
Rommel
Stacy
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$400
[22]
& they're off... "Holy Roller" from this 109-acre country breaks fast & its 921 residents pray for a win
Vatican City
Michael
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$400
[1]
It's a scholar or an eye part
a pupil
|
|
$800
[20]
In April 2003 World Com, Inc. changed its brand name to this 3-letter one
MCI
Stacy
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$800
[11]
When exercising, be sure to replace this element you sweat out, or you risk hyponatremia
sodium
Michael
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$800
[5]
A docu-comedy called "Yankee Doodle Doctor" was made by the wacky medical staff on this 1950s-set sitcom
M*A*S*H
Peggy
|
$800
[16]
French cardinal who said, "Give me 6 lines written by the most honest man, (&) I'll find something in them to hang him"
Richelieu
Michael
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$800
[23]
This country that built a 20-mi.-long dike in 1932 to add a new province, Flevoland, goes wild as "Dikes R Us" makes a move!
the Netherlands
Michael
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$1,200
[3]
Home buying is scary: this loan agreement comes from the Old French for "dead" & "pledge"
mortgage
Peggy
|
|
$1,200
[21]
In April 1972 the U.S. bombed this Vietnamese port city; more recently Seattle became its sister city
Haiphong
|
$1,200
[12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports with some textiles from NC State University in Raleigh, NC.) North Carolina State University is developing shirts lined with transmitters made of this element, symbol Ag, that may one day monitor your vital signs
silver
Stacy
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$1,200
[6]
"Jaws 19" is playing at a movie theater in the first sequel of this Michael J. Fox time-traveling comedy
Back to the Future
Michael
|
$1,200
[17]
"Dutch" & "The Role of a Lifetime" are books about him
Reagan
Michael
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$1,200
[24]
At the turn, it's "Rhine River Principality" by a length... & actually, it's greatest length is about 17 miles!
Liechtenstein
Peggy
|
$1,600
[27]
This type of letter gets its name from being stored in the bottom of 2 trays used by compositors
lowercase
|
|
$1,600
[29]
In this theatre April 14, 1865 the play "Our American Cousin" celebrated its 1,000th performance
Ford's Theatre
Peggy
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$1,600
[13]
The name of this metal comes from the Latin cyprian
copper
Michael
|
$1,600
[7]
"Three Weeks in a Helicopter" is an interactive "feely" film in this Aldous Huxley novel
Brave New World
Michael
|
$1,600
[18]
In 1947 he became head of the Naval Reactors branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Admiral Hyman Rickover
|
$1,600
[25]
On the rail it's "Famished" from this Eur. country that lost 2/3 of its land after WWI but regained its independence
Hungary
Stacy
|
$2,000
[28]
(Jon of the Clue Crew measures what looks to be a small pipe or shell in the Jeopardy!science lab.) These 2 words, 1 derived from the other, refer to the instrument I'm using & themeasurementI'm taking
calipers & caliber (calipers & calibration accepted)
Michael
|
|
$2,000
[30]
In April 1988 this state made Evan Mecham its ex-governor
Arizona
Peggy
|
DD
$5,200
[14]
The Venus' flytrap catches & digests insects mainly to absorb this element
nitrogen
Michael
|
$2,000
[8]
The mobsters turned filmmakers were trying to get the movie "Mr. Lovejoy" made in this John Travolta film
Get Shorty
Stacy
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$2,000
[19]
In 1960 he resigned as president of South Korea & fled to Hawaii
Syngman Rhee
|
$2,000
[26]
At the wire it's "Titano's Pride" from this country, some say the oldest republic in the world
San Marino
Michael
|
DD
$2,500
[2]
This military rank comes from a French phrase for "place holding"
lieutenant
Stacy
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On July 16, 1995 this company made its first sale, a science textbook
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