Brian Weikle game 5.(Sarah: Come on, the curtain's about to rise!Theatre cluesnext, onJeopardy!)
Vicki Deniston Reed — a high school teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
Russell Redder — a civil engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
Brian Weikle — a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 4-day cash winnings total $123,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian | $5,600 | $11,600 | $25,600 |
$26,000
5-day champion: $149,200 |
$24,600
35 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Russell | $1,800 | $3,200 | $11,400 |
$10,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Vicki | $600 | $1,000 | $1,400 |
$2,700
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,400
7 R, 4 W |
| BRITISH LIT | POP MUSIC PAIRINGS | THEATRE TALK | INVENTIONS | ON THE PHONE | POTLUCK |
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$200
[17]
He wrote the verse "Hush, hush, whisper who dares, Christopher Robin is saying his prayers"
A. A. Milne
Brian
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$200
[1]
...& the Gang
Kool
Brian
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$200
[26]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the set of The Producers.) According to the cast of "The Producers", actors say this three-word phrase, instead of "Good luck"
"Break a leg"
Brian
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$200
[11]
On April 10, 1849 Walter Hunt received a patent for this cloth diaper fastener
a safety pin
Brian
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$200
[12]
In Sweden, if you hear funny noises in your home or in your chest, dial 112 instead of this U.S. equivalent
911
Brian
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$200
[6]
It's the year in which the last U.S. Census was taken
2000
Brian
|
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$400
[18]
This author's "Lord of the Flies" has been turned into films directed by Peter Brook & Harry Hook
(William) Golding
Russell
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$400
[2]
...& the Miami Sound Machine
Gloria Estefan
Brian
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$400
[27]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from backstage at the Gershwin Theatre.) These are the areas just offstage, & actors wait in them to make their entrances
the wings
Brian
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$400
[22]
In 1825 Hannah Montague, tired of washing her husband's shirts because this was soiled, invented a detachable one
a collar
Russell
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$400
[13]
The British may call home by "reversing the charges", which we know as calling this way
collect
Vicki
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$400
[7]
It's a big lie, or a big burger from Burger King
a Whopper
Brian
|
|
$600
[19]
Near the end of this novel, Madame Defarge is killed with her own gun during a struggle with Miss Pross
A Tale of Two Cities
Vicki
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$600
[3]
...& the Blackhearts
Joan Jett
Brian
Vicki
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$600
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew has snuck into the dressing room of Hairspray.) It's considered bad luck to mention the name of this play in the dressing room; actors call it "The Scottish Play"
Macbeth
Russell
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$600
[23]
Eli Whitney's model for this was stolen & manufactured by competitors before he received his patent in 1794
the cotton gin
Brian
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$600
[14]
By our informal estimate, this question from the "Scooby-Doo" theme song also begins 70% of cell phone calls
"Where are you?"
Brian
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$600
[8]
The name of this dark brownish red comes from the French word for "chestnut"
maroon
|
|
$800
[20]
The traveller in this 1895 tale finds himself in the year A.D. 802,701
The Time Machine
Brian
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$800
[4]
...& the Funky Bunch
Marky Mark
Russell
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$800
[29]
(Oooooooklahoma! Where Sofia's standing on the set.) It's the term for raising or lowering scenery above the stage; it's also what Mary Martin did in "Peter Pan"
fly
Vicki
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$800
[24]
His father Robert attempted to build a mechanical reaper but failed; he succeeded & became quite wealthy
(Cyrus) McCormick
Brian
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$800
[15]
Including a transmitter & a receiver, the part of a telephone you pick up has this "manual" name
a handset
Vicki
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$800
[9]
It's the answer to the Sphinx' riddle: "What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon, and 3 in the evening?"
man
Brian
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|
$1,000
[21]
It's J.G. Ballard's saga of a British boy separated from his parents & interned in a Japanese prison camp during WWII
Empire of the Sun
Vicki
|
$1,000
[5]
...& the Range
Bruce Hornsby
Brian
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$1,000
[30]
(Jimmy and the rest of the Clue Crew, on stage at the St. James Theatre.) It's the two-word term for the event after a play when the actorsappearto take their bows
a curtain call
Brian
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DD
$2,000
[25]
His 1769 patent was for "a new invented method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines"
James Watt
Brian
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$1,000
[16]
Dude, your mobile phone is, like, so bad; call me back on this alliterative term
a land line
Brian
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$1,000
[10]
By definition, orogeny is the geologic process by which these are formed on Earth
mountains
Russell
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| HOLIDAY HISTORY | 2001: A CATEGORY ODYSSEY | MONDO GEO | TEXTILES | OH, NURSE! | "POT" LUCK |
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$400
[9]
Richard Nixon's Checkers speech said that his wife was named Patricia Ryan & born on this holiday; neither was true
St. Patrick's Day
Brian
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$400
[14]
He wrote the short story "The Sentinel" on which the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" was based
Arthur C. Clarke
Brian
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$400
[23]
You'll find the island of Madagascar in this ocean
the Indian Ocean
Brian
|
$400
[1]
This ribbed cotton fabric can be wide-wale or pin-wale depending on the width of the ribs
corduroy
Vicki
|
$400
[8]
Britain's National Army Museum says she used the lantern seen here, not the glass one she's usually pictured with
Florence Nightingale
Brian
|
$400
[3]
A public burial ground for poor or unidentified people
a potter's field
Russell
|
|
$800
[10]
Mexicans under Gen. Zaragoza won a great victory on this date in 1862, celebrated with a fiesta on L.A.'s Olvera Street
the fifth of May (Cinco de Mayo)
Russell
|
$800
[15]
I'm sorry, Dave, Douglas Rain provided the voice of this ultimately murderous computer
HAL
Brian
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$800
[24]
Bermuda's capital city, it shares its name with the last name of a man on U.S. currency
Hamilton
Brian
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$800
[2]
The Federal Trade Commission classifies wool that is new, pure & unrecycled as this
virgin
Brian
|
$800
[16]
A volunteer nurse for the Union, this little woman published her wartime letters in 1863's "Hospital Sketches"
Louisa May Alcott
Brian
Vicki
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$800
[4]
A wood or coal-burning stove with a rounded, bulbous body
a potbelly stove
Russell
|
|
$1,600
[12]
In 1970 this country moved Carnival from before Lent to late July
Cuba
Brian
Vicki
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$1,200
[28]
He directed "2001: A Space Odyssey" between "Dr. Strangelove" & "A Clockwork Orange"
Stanley Kubrick
Brian
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$1,200
[25]
Jagiello, Grand Duke of Lithuania, married Queen Jadwiga & became King Wladyslaw II of this country in 1386
Poland
Brian
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$1,200
[18]
This brocaded fabric uses gold or silver metallic threads; Elvis had a famous gold tuxedo made of it
lame
Vicki
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$1,200
[17]
Called the "Moses of Her People", she served as a cook & a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War
Harriet Tubman
Vicki
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$1,200
[5]
It's formed by the confluence of its North & South branches near Cumberland, Maryland
the Potomac
Brian
|
|
$2,000
[13]
Appropriately, this 1846 California "Revolt" began on Flag Day, June 14
the Bear Flag Revolt
Brian
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$1,600
[29]
Starring Roy Scheider, it's the sequel to "2001" filmed in 1984
2010
Russell
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$1,600
[26]
Communities on this "potent potable" island N. of Venezuela include Emmastad, Nieuwpoort & Julianadorp
Curaçao
Brian
|
$1,600
[19]
Before this can be made into linen, it must be retted, or partially decomposed, to separate the fibers
flax
Russell
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$2,000
[22]
This Australian nurse devised a method for treating polio
Sister Kenny
Brian
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$1,600
[6]
The Big 3's last meeting during World War II took place in July 1945 in this city near Berlin
Potsdam
Brian
|
|
DD
$3,000
[11]
On the festive day of April 5, 1722 Jakob Roggeveen visited this South Pacific island
Easter Island
Russell
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$2,000
[30]
This composer's tone poem "Thus Spake Zarathustra" has become virtually synonymous with the film
Richard Strauss
Brian
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$2,000
[27]
The Mosel is a tributary of this 820-mile-long European river
the Rhine
Russell
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$2,000
[20]
The name of this crinkled, striped fabric is from Persian for "milk sugar"; it's both smooth as milk & bumpy as sugar
seersucker
Brian
|
DD
$4,000
[21]
Trained as a nurse at White Plains hospital, she's credited with coining the term "birth control"
Margaret Sanger
Russell
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$2,000
[7]
In the Bible, he buys Joseph as a slave
Potiphar
Russell
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This 20th century U.S. president was the first to receive full-time protection from the Secret Service
Theodore Roosevelt