Suggest correction - #7939 - 2019-02-28
Show #7939 - Thursday, February 28, 2019
2019 All-Star Games wildcard match, game 1.
Contestants
Team Austin
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Roger Craig, a machine learning consultant from Newark, Delaware
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Leonard Cooper, a graduate student at Brown University from Little Rock, Arkansas
Team Colby
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Colby Burnett, a college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Alan Lin, a software engineer from Riverside, California
Team Buzzy
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Alex Jacob, a freelance trivia writer from Greensboro, North Carolina
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Jennifer Giles, a third grade teacher from Longmont, Colorado
Jeopardy! Round
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FROM THE "PEN" OF WEBSTER'S THIRD |
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An octant is 1/8 of a circle & equal to this many degrees |
45
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The famous "shores of" this African capital city are on the Mediterranean |
Tripoli
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"Next to the last" (this "chapter of a book") |
penultimate
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He appeared a record 18 times in NBA All-Star games, and 4 times on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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This other term for military exercises is also the title of a 1983 film |
War Games
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Walter Matthau & Neil Simon both won 1965 Tonys for this play |
The Odd Couple
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One cable length from shore is equal to 100 fathoms, this many feet |
600
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This Texas city that celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2018 got its name on a saint's feast day even before its official founding |
(Pam: What is Corpus Christi?)
San Antonio
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"A dwelling built on a roof", fancy or not |
a penthouse
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Vince Lombardi was furious after these NFL champs lost a 1963 exhibition game to a team of college all-stars |
the Green Bay Packers
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By definition a contest in which 1 player's $5 gain must mean another player's $5 loss is this type of game |
zero-sum
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In 2007 this play about a real-life interviewer & a president starred Sheen/Langhella (Michael & Frank) |
Frost/Nixon
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This measure sounds like weight but is capacity in cubic feet divided by 100; for the giant ship Mol Tribute it's 211,000 |
tonnage
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Discovery Drive, Exploration Drive & Genoa Place are streets in this state capital |
(Roger: What is Tallahassee?)
Columbus, Ohio
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Type of "scale of five tones in which the octave is reached at the sixth tone" |
pentatonic
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At the 2001 MLB All-Star game, Alex Rodriguez insisted that this retiring Oriole replace him as starting A.L. shortstop |
(Cal) Ripken
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Shakespeare used "the game is afoot" but it's more associated with this author who put it in a 1904 story |
(Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle
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At Circle in the Square in 1975, George C. Scott earned raves as this Arthur Miller character |
(Willy) Loman
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Cutting down on the zeroes, electric companies usually bill you in these "hours" |
kilowatt hours
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Take a stroll down the Molo Audace in Trieste & you can dip your feet in this 500-mile-long sea |
the Adriatic
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"Prudent only in small matters" |
pennywise
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Playing for the East, Bob Cousy had home-court advantage at the first NBA All-Star game, held in 1951 at this venue |
Boston Garden
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Paul Schrader has said this French director's "The Rules of the Game" represents all that film can be |
Renoir
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This actor also had "The Right Stuff" to write plays such as "Fool for Love" |
(Sam) Shepard
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In 1965 Kodak introduced the "Super" type of this film format, which brought moviemaking to the masses |
Super 8 (or 8 millimeter)
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The resort city of Baguio was once the summer capital of this island nation |
the Philippines
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"The shaded region surrounding the dark central portion of a sunspot" |
penumbra
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Starting in 1948 this "Mr. Hockey" was named to a record 21 NHL All-Star teams |
(Alex Trebek: My hero.)
(Gordie) Howe
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This title of Stephen Potter's book on "Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" entered the English language |
(Alex Trebek: And that title was [*]. Back to you, Roger.) (Roger: There's been a lot of that.)
Gamesmanship
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When you write clever comedies like 1672's "Les Femmes Savantes", you too can go by one name like he did |
Moliere
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$6,400 |
$2,600 |
$2,800 |
Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$8,800 |
$2,600 |
$5,600 |
Double Jeopardy! Round
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Thutmose III may be the real king who unfairly refused to free the Hebrews, but it's this pharaoh in "The Ten Commandments" |
Ramses
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"You're born naked & the rest is drag" says this drag star |
RuPaul
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Sheep & goats are also members of this family along with cattle |
(Austin: What are ungulates?)
bovines
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Physically or figuratively, you can come to this utensil where an important choice must be made |
(Buzzy: What's [*]?) (Alex: [Overlapping with Buzzy] Fork in the road, yes.) (Buzzy: Fork in the road.)
a fork (in the road)
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This composer's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premiered in 1790 |
Mozart
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Collective name for Pavarotti, Carreras, Domingo |
The Three Tenors
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It looks suspicious that Ay became pharaoh upon the mysterious death of this teenage monarch |
Tutankhamen
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Sam Heughan & Caitriona Balfe play time-crossed lovers on this TV series |
Outlander
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Aristotle divided animals into 3 main groups according to how they moved: those that walk, those that swim & those that do this |
fly
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You're in charge if you're said to be occupying this place in a car |
the driver's seat
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A simile compares white skin to this ceramic material first made in China that has hard- & soft-paste types |
porcelain
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The law of inertia, F=ma, & the law of action & reaction |
(Buzzy: What are Newton's Laws?) (Alex: Be more--) (Buzzy: [*].)
Newton's Three Laws of Motion
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Legend says Psamtik III sacrificed his kingdom rather than fight when his foes brought these sacred animals, maus, into battle |
cats
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In an ad for this candy bar, a hungry Elton John fares poorly in a rap battle |
Snickers
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Taxonomically, this variety of oak tree is Quercus alba |
(Buzzy: What is English oak?) ... (Alex: Yes. "Alba".) (Colby: "Alba", yeah. Didn't have any real knowledge on that.) [Laughter]
a white oak
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Raally upset? You're "mad as" this moistened fowl |
(Alex: You're as mad as [*], aren't you?) (Colby: No, I'm actually feeling okay right now.)
a wet hen
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In 1957's "Square Dance", this New York City Ballet founder combined classical technique with square dance calls |
George Balanchine
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This rock band: Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce |
Cream
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The Bible says Pharaoh Shishak raided Jersualem & the temple, taking the gold shields this king had made |
(Colby: This king, so the temple, so I'm gonna say who is [*]?)
Solomon
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He's Mr. Sarah Michelle Gellar |
Freddie Prinze Jr.
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Term for a large taxonomic group like Fungi or Plantae |
kingdom
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If the victory was easy, you won this 2-word way, originally referring to a jockey so far ahead he could drop his reins |
hands down
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This trumpeter composed "Blood on the Fields", a 1994 oratorio incorporating jazz rhythms |
Wynton Marsalis
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Submerged in China: Qutang, Wu & Xiling |
(Colby: Submerged... so what are [*]?)
the Three Gorges of Three Gorges Dam
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Also known as Amenhotep IV, this pharaoh downplayed Egypt's traditional polytheism & instituted a single solar god |
Akhenaton
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She directed Kirsten Dunst in "The Virgin Suicides", "Marie Antoinette" & "The Beguiled" |
(Buzzy: Who is Coppola--[*]?)
Sofia Coppola
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The largest animal grouping is this phylum of "jointed feet" creatures |
arthropods
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In bridge, if the lead plays a heart, the others must as well; hence this idiom meaning "to do the same" |
follow suit
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Handel wrote a piece to celebrate this patron saint of music; maybe it's also her in the Paul Simon song |
St. Cecilia
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An Arkansas trio championed in the documentary "Paradise Lost": Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley |
the West Memphis 3
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$17,200 |
$19,600 |
$15,600 |
Final Jeopardy! Round
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A chapter of "The Jungle Book" has this double-talk title, echoing the opening line of a Brit's poem some 100 years prior |
(Alex: [To Alan] The correct response referred to William Blake's poem "The Tyger". And the line--the chapter was [*].) | | $0 | Jennifer | What is king king | $17,200 | Alan | What is | $12,000 | "Tiger! Tiger!" |
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Final scores:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$0 |
$7,600 |
$5,200 |
Game dynamics:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$15,200 |
$16,200 |
$15,600 |
Alex |
Pam |
Roger |
$6,800 |
$2,600 |
$5,600 |
Buzzy |
Colby |
Austin |
$8,400 |
$13,600 |
$10,000 |
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