Suggest correction - #7940 - 2019-03-01
Show #7940 - Friday, March 1, 2019
2019 All-Star Games wildcard match, game 2.
Contestants
Team Austin (subtotal of $5,200)
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Leonard Cooper, a graduate student at Brown University from Little Rock, Arkansas
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Roger Craig, a machine learning consultant from Newark, Delaware
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York
Team Colby (subtotal of $7,600)
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 Buzzy (subtotal of $0)
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Jennifer Giles, a third grade teacher from Longmont, Colorado
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Alex Jacob, a freelance trivia writer from Greensboro, North Carolina
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California
Jeopardy! Round
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THEIR IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATER |
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This tuna character first appeared in a Starkist commercial in 1961 |
Charlie
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The concept of a "whisperer" who calms animals was popularized by this Nicholas Evans novel |
The Horse Whisperer
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Teddy Roosevelt & John F. Kennedy |
Harvard
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In 1959 there were more than 25 shows in this genre on TV, including "Rawhide" |
a western
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Beginning with 4 vowels, Ueueteotl is one spelling for the fire god of these people |
the Aztecs
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Nicolas-Jacque Conté mixed graphite & clay to make this writing tool easily produceable for the masses |
(Leonard: What is chalk?) (Alan: What's a crayon?) [Alan's response was originally ruled incorrect, but ruled correct before the second Daily Double of the Double Jeopardy! Round.]
a pencil (or a crayon)
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It's bigger than the yellowfin & in 2013 a 490-pound one of these colorful tuna sold at auction in Tokyo for $1.8 million |
(Leonard: What is yellowtail?)
bluefin
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1916's "Mr. Britling Sees It Through" by this author tried to make sense of the madness of WWI; no time travel involved |
H.G. Wells
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Emma Watson & John F. Kennedy Jr.--this "colorful" school |
(Leonard: What is [*]?) [Laughter] (Alex: You got it.) (Leonard: Go Bruno!)
Brown University
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Currently on TBS, he's been on late night TV since 1993, hosting 3 different shows |
Conan O'Brien
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Long words using only the same vowel include numbskull, paragraph & this job of keeping things pretty at Pebble Beach |
greenskeeper
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This German was working in Manchester, England when he made a device to count alpha particles |
(Hans) Geiger
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"Join the Crew" & "Fishin' Friction" are episode titles of this TV show on the National Geographic Channel |
Wicked Tuna
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The disaster movie genre really took off when this 1968 novel about Trans America flight No. 2 out of Chicago came to the screen |
Airport
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Brooke Shields (class of '87 with honors) & F. Scott Fitzgerald |
(Leonard: What is Columbia?)
Princeton
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This creator of "Mad Men" brought us 2018's "The Romanoffs" |
Matthew Weiner
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There are 4 consonants in a row in this word for combining 2 vowels in the same syllable, as in "coin" or "loud" |
diphthong
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British sea captain John Ward made one of these in the 1850s by combining blocks of cork on a vest |
a life jacket
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AKA the aku, it's named for the way it launches itself out of the water |
a skipjack
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This Edith Hull bestseller about forbidden love in the desert became a 1921 film starring Rudolph Valentino |
(Leonard: What is The Thief of Bagdad?)
The Sheik
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Bill & Hillary Clinton for law school, where they first met |
Yale
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On "Newhart" Larry was a rural fellow who had 2 brothers, both named this |
Darryl
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In "yes", Y is a consonant, in this 5-letter word for a final resting place, it's a vowel |
a crypt
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In 1907 James Spangler invented a portable vacuum cleaner--then sold the rights to this man |
(William) Hoover
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The FDA's not involved in rating, so tuna rated sushi grade or this raw fish grade is just what the seller thinks is good |
sashimi
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In a 1952 book a craftsman fashions "The Silver" this title drinking vessel to house the Holy Grail |
chalice
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Dr. Seuss, Shonda Rhimes & Mindy Kaling |
Dartmouth
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A game pie & charlotte russe were featured in a season 3 episode of this "Great" show from across the pond |
The Great British Bake Off
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This adjective meaning inappropriately humorous uses all 5 vowels in alphabetical order |
facetious
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Alois Senefelder used grease to draw an image onto limestone, inventing this printing technique in the 1790s |
lithography
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$1,600 |
$4,200 |
$4,200 |
Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$2,200 |
$6,000 |
$2,100 |
Double Jeopardy! Round
HISTORY WITH LESSER-KNOWN PAINTERS |
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Jean-Jacques Scherrer painted a 1429 event, "The Entrance of" this Frenchwoman "into Orleans" |
Joan of Arc
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1977: "Stayin' Alive", "More Than a Woman" |
Saturday Night Fever
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Collectors of these can learn their values from the Scott number, listed in an annual catalog |
stamps
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As a grad student, Gordon Gould coined "laser", which stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of this |
radiation
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A trip to this capital might include a visit to the ABBA Museum & to Skattkammaren, the royal treasury |
Stockholm
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Menlo Park is in this township in New Jersey |
Edison
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Robert Colescott expanded African Americans' role in history with works like this peanut scientist "Crossing the Delaware" |
George Washington Carver
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A 2005 adaptation: "Along Came Bialy", "Heil Myself" |
The Producers
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The deities in Facts on File's "Encyclopedia of Gods" include Nyakaya, a goddess in the form of this Nile beast |
crocodile
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Per the USPS, ZIP (as in ZIP code) stands for this "improvement plan" |
zone
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Check out one of the last great 19th century hotels, the colonial-style Raffles Hotel in this Asian island country |
Singapore
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A British monarch is the source of this adjective for the first decade of the 20th century |
Edwardian
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When Charles Schreyvogel won fame for a painting of this doomed lt. col., Frederic Remington said he got the horse wrong |
Custer
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A 1967 film: "Scarborough Fair", "April Come She Will" |
The Graduate
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Library Journal's best reference books of 2017 include these sites: "Walking the Trails of History", like at Chickamauga |
Civil War Battlefields
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You lie supine for this weightlifting exercise, BP |
bench press
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Seen here is an interior view of the main dome of this colorful Istanbul landmark |
(Pam: What is the Hagia Sophia?)
the Blue Mosque
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This eponymic line of cars debuted in 1957 & departed with its 1960 model |
the Edsel
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1994: "Son of a Preacher Man", "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" |
(Alex Jacob: What is... Pretty Woman?)
Pulp Fiction
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The first encyclopedia used by future Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was this one aimed at 9- to 18-year-olds |
(Pam: What is The Golden Book?)
World Book
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A way of accounting for inventory, LIFO stands for this |
last in, first out
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Named for a statesman, this largest national park in South Africa offers the chance to see amazing wildlife up close |
Kruger
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The plane truth is that this 2-word branch of math is named for a Greek who lived around 300 B.C. |
(Buzzy: [After Alex Jacob gets the Daily Double right] That's what I'm talking about!)
Euclidean geometry
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Adolph Menzel painted a concert with this great Prussian king on Flute & C.P.E. Bach at the keyboard |
Frederick the Great
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A 2018 sequel: "If I Could Turn Back Time", "Mutant Convoy" |
(Alex Jacob: What is Mamma Mia! Here I Go Again?) (Pam: What is Blade Runner?) (Roger: What is Blade Runner 2049?)
Deadpool 2
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This French Enlightenment man was the mind behind the Encyclopedie & edited it from 1747 to 1772 |
(Denis) Diderot
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In case of missiles from the Soviet Union, the U.S. & Canada had this, the DEW line for short |
Distant Early Warning
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December is a fun time to visit Scotland, especially during this New Year's festival that features torch parades & Vikings! |
Hogmanay
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$3,600 |
$7,600 |
$8,900 |
Final Jeopardy! Round
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEARS |
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Prior to 2016 it was the last election year in which the winning candidate had never held public elected office |
(Alex: [To Austin] The man was Dwight David Eisenhower, who was elected in [*].) | | $0 | Colby | What was 1956? | $101 | Austin | What is 1836? | $8,900 | 1952 |
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Final scores:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$0 |
$7,499 |
$0 |
Cumulative scores:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$0 |
$15,099 |
$5,200 |
Game dynamics:
Team Buzzy |
Team Colby |
Team Austin |
$13,400 |
$7,600 |
$11,400 |
Jennifer |
Alan |
Leonard |
$2,200 |
$6,000 |
$4,600 |
Alex |
Pam |
Roger |
$11,200 |
$1,600 |
$6,800 |
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