Suggest correction - #7942 - 2019-03-05
Show #7942 - Tuesday, March 5, 2019
2019 All-Star Games final match, game 2.
Contestants
Team Colby (subtotal of $8,000)
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Alan Lin, a software engineer from Riverside, California
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Colby Burnett, a college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
Team Brad (subtotal of $36,000)
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
Team Ken (subtotal of $32,500)
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Monica Thieu, a Ph.D. student in psychology from New York, New York
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Matt Jackson, a digital fundraising professional from Washington, D.C.
Jeopardy! Round
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Gaelic for "water of life" gave us this word for a drink you might have with a little water |
whiskey
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Professor Steven Levitt looks at his field a bit differently, so the podcast he's on isn't "Economics" but this |
Freakonomics
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An observatory in Switzerland has the name Urania, the muse of this scientific pursuit |
astronomy
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On the NASDAQ you can find this state in front of Capital Bancshares, Roadhouse & Instruments |
Texas
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When this man entreated the Lord, the plague of flies departed from Egypt |
Moses
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At the beginning of the 13th century, this Mongol leader established a postal service to link his domains |
Genghis Khan
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You can thank Ottoman imports for the name of this bird that was once confused with the guinea fowl |
turkey
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It's fitting that WBEZ in this city produced the biographical podcast "Making Obama" |
Chicago
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Orpheus' song saved sailors from the singing of these sea nymphs whose mother was one of the muses |
the sirens
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This car company has a facility called Gigafactory 1, designed to reduce battery cell costs in a big way |
Tesla
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He was the director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013 |
(Robert) Mueller
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Though expelled from the area in 1912, China continued to consider this region part of its domain & invaded in 1950 |
Tibet
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It was originally a string, perhaps to help find your way in a labyrinth; then it was a piece of evidence that helps solve a crime |
(Monica: What's a golden thread?)
a clue
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This former HLN host takes on the misdeeds of the day on her "Crime Stories" podcast |
Nancy Grace
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In Rome Polymnia was the goddess of this--a form of theatrical farce, not a guy in whiteface "trapped" in a "box" |
mime
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It's time to get alphanumerically lubricated with this company that in its early days fought rust on Atlas missiles |
WD-40
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Without his famous partner, he published an "Investigation of Sexual Regeneration in Elderly Women" |
(William) Masters
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It's the country-code top-level internet domain for Putin's domain |
.ru
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The word "companion" refers to anyone with whom you'd eat this food item, literally |
bread
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This conference series also has a podcast of talks between smart people & its head honcho Chris Anderson |
TED
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Thalia, the muse of bucolic poetry, carries the staff of these workers |
shepherds
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The French Toast Slugger is on the menu of this NASDAQ-listed diner chain |
(Monica: What is IHOP?)
Denny's
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2 of her 14 books are the Man Booker prize-winning "Wolf Hall" & its sequel in her Thomas Cromwell series |
(Hilary) Mantel
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Marie-Therese renounced her father's lands on marrying Louis XIV, but Louis said some were his because this wasn't paid |
a dowry
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A borrowing from the French gave us this -ism, the concern for the welfare of others, as opposed to egoism |
altruism
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No rainbow, but this PBS host & "Roots" actor reads short fiction on his podcast |
(LeVar) Burton
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This muse whose name is also a musical instrument was eldest & preeminent among the muses |
Calliope
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In 2002, less than 3 years after this JFK-based airline began operations, it had an IPO on NASDAQ & was worth $1.8 billion |
JetBlue
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Attorney General in the 1980s, in 2015 he was still enraging liberals with attacks on Obamacare |
Edwin Meese
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His first whupping of a Persian army, at the Granicus River, let him expand his domain into Asia Minor |
Alexander the Great
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$3,200 |
$4,400 |
$1,800 |
Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$3,800 |
$7,400 |
$4,000 |
Double Jeopardy! Round
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POP MUSIC ACROSS THE DECADES |
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Lindsay Starck writes of a minister & his spouse who face a flood of Biblical proportions in this man's "Wife" |
Noah
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A 1682 law in this colony guaranteed freedom of worship; not just for Quakers |
(Brad: What is [*]?) (Alex: Yes, and--) (Brad: They would have never let me live that one down.)
Pennsylvania
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In the double star Cygnus X-1, a blue supergiant orbits one of these, which is eating it alive |
a black hole
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Now you try... & you try... & you try...& you try to name this Rolling Stones song that was No. 1 for 4 weeks in 1965 |
(Brad: What is [*]?) (Alex: That is right.) (Pam: You can hear the parentheses.)
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
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This kind of "sketch" can be a snapshot in words |
a thumbnail
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Very cold weather descends on 2 WASPy New England families in the 1970s in this Rick Moody novel |
Ice Storm
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7 years was usually the maximum length of this period of learning one's trade from a craftsman |
apprenticeship
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The most distant star ever seen is for some reason named for this boy who got too close to the sun |
Icarus
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In 1984 this band scored a Top 10 with "New Moon On Monday"; now test your re-fle-fle-fle-flexes |
(Alex: I probably put one too many "fle" in there.) [Laughter]
Duran Duran
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With close to 130, including Cheboygan Crib & Isle Royale, this state has the most lighthouses |
Michigan
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3-word term for a rough guideline |
a rule of thumb
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In a Melville story a salesman tries to sell a copper type of this title item in the middle of a thunderstorm |
a lightning rod
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The New England Company changed its name to this & founded a colony in 1630 |
the Massachusetts Bay Company
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The sun's absolute this, its brightness if viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs, is 4.8 |
magnitude
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In a 1999 smash, this letter-perfect group didn't want "your number", didn't want "to meet you" & didn't want no scrubs |
TLC
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The Portland Head Light in this state is said to be the most photographed lighthouse in the United States |
Maine
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Numeric dual approval from Siskel & Ebert |
two thumbs up
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In a Poe story a fisherman is pulled into this Norwegian whirlpool by a hurricane |
the maelstrom
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The 1764 Sugar Act taxed molasses imports to help pay for this recently concluded war |
the French and Indian War
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Appropriately, the name of this nearest star to the sun is from the Latin for "nearest" |
Proxima Centauri
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This punk band's 1976 self-titled debut album included "Blitzkrieg Bop" |
the Ramones
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The ancient lighthouse on this island was so well known that the island's name became a synonym for lighthouse |
Pharos
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I'll talk! No need to tighten these torture devices |
thumbscrews
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The first novel by this "Burr" & "Lincoln" author is called "Williwaw", after a windstorm off Alaska |
(Gore) Vidal
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Evangelist George Whitefield was one of the rousing figures of the "Great" this |
Awakening
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Merope & Sterope are sister stars in M45, this Greek-named cluster |
the Pleiades
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Time to get your grunge on with this band whose tunes include "Man In The Box", "Rooster" & "Would?" |
Alice in Chains
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The iconic lighthouse seen here is in the fishing village of Peggy's Cove in this Atlantic province of Canada |
Nova Scotia
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In "Macbeth" these 6 words precede "something wicked this way comes" |
"by the pricking of my thumbs"
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$16,200 |
$34,000 |
$9,600 |
Final Jeopardy! Round
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT MATH |
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Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition |
(Alex: [To Colby] It's a very significant number for those of us here at Jeopardy!, because this tournament was our way of celebrating our [*]th anniversary.) [Applause] (Alex: The 1st, the 13th and the 21st Amendment.) ... (Colby: [After Team Colby's two-day total is revealed] Do you hear the people sing?) (Alex: Wasn't that Jean Valjean's number in Les Misérables?) [Laughter] (Alex: Oh.) (Colby: It was but a loaf of bread.)Matt | What is (1 + 13 + 21 =) 35 | $0 | | | $0 | Larissa | What is 35? | $0 | 35 |
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Final scores:
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$16,200 |
$34,000 |
$16,601 |
Cumulative scores:
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$48,700 |
$70,000 |
$24,601 |
Game dynamics:
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$16,200 |
$22,000 |
$9,600 |
Monica |
David |
Alan |
$3,800 |
$7,200 |
$4,000 |
Ken |
Brad |
Pam |
$12,400 |
$14,800 |
$5,600 |
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