Suggest correction - #7941 - 2019-03-04
Show #7941 - Monday, March 4, 2019
2019 All-Star Games final match, game 1.
Contestants
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 Brad
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
Team Ken
Playing the Jeopardy! Round: Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
Playing the Double Jeopardy! Round: Matt Jackson, a digital fundraising professional from Washington, D.C.
Playing the Final Jeopardy! Round: Monica Thieu, a Ph.D. student in psychology from New York, New York
Jeopardy! Round
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MEANINGS OF CELEBRITY NAMES |
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Canada's national tree, it's used in making food, guitars, bowling alleys & more |
the maple
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Joan Didion has a book of essays called this, also the nickname for The Beatles' 1968 double LP |
The White Album
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This "You Oughta Know" singer has an Irish first name meaning "beautiful"; also, her dad is Alan |
(Ken: Who is Morissette?) (Alex: No.) (Ken: Alanis!) ... (Alex: I can't let you make the same mistake twice.)
Alanis Morissette
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The origins of this popular Hasbro board game go back to 1904's The Landlord's Game |
Monopoly
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Philip V of Spain built the palace of La Granja in imitation of this one outside of Paris |
Versailles
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Someone exercising to get rid of strong feelings does it; so does a boiling tea kettle |
let off steam
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Rustic reclaimed oak is a big seller at this flooring specialist, stock symbol LL |
Lumber Liquidators
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Some have called "Villette", not "Jane Eyre", her finest novel |
Charlotte Brontë
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Arabic for "loving" gives us the first name of this actor who played Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
Rami Malek
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Collecting coins can be lucrative if you have one from 44 B.C. minted by Marcus Mettius showing this Roman |
Julius Caesar
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In 1976, after the parliament of this nation said having less than 5 grams of cannabis was legal, it was off to the "coffee shop" |
the Netherlands
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Officers wear them on their shoulders |
epaulets
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Known for its smooth white bark, paper is one species of this tree; gray & river are others |
birch
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Her "Gone Girl" was turned into a movie & her debut novel "Sharp Objects" was turned into a 2018 limited series on HBO |
Gillian Flynn
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Greek for "pure" is the origin of the first name of this actress, whose work is pure joy to watch |
(Pam: Who... is... oh, no.) (Ken: Who is Catherine?) (Alex: We need the first and last.) (Ken: Oh, Keener.) (Alex: Thank you.) (Ken: Thank you, Alex.)
Catherine Keener
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Gardeners know spring is a good time to plant holly bushes & this flower, holly + 4 letters |
a hollyhock
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On March 1, 2007 170 Swiss troops accidentally wandered into & "invaded" this 62-sq-mi. nation--it was dark, OK?! |
Liechtenstein
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In a Grimm tale the king's son makes this plea to a maiden locked in a tower |
"let down your hair"
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Canada & the U.S. have a longstanding trade dispute over this, a word for wood from any conifer |
softwood
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The films "Strangers on a Train" & "The Talented Mr. Ripley" were based on novels by her |
(Ken: Who is the talented [*]?)
Patricia Highsmith
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"United Shades of America" is hosted by this comedian, who says "quiet warrior" is the meaning of his name |
Kamau Bell
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Try a racquet sport like this one originally called poona in India & taken to the U.K. by the Brits |
badminton
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In 1932 Italy issued a series of stamps honoring this hero of unification on the 50th anniversary of his death |
Garibaldi
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A protective charm |
an amulet
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Pernambuco wood is today largely used for these, held in Itzhak Perlman's right hand |
a violin bow
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Before her death at age 56, she wrote several bestsellers, including "Valley of the Dolls" |
(Jacqueline) Susann
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Do not fear the reaper, from which the first name of this "Creed" actress is derived |
Tessa Thompson
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This type of jumping is an acronym for the 4 types of fixed structures from which participants leap |
BASE jumping
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Acting on his own, this Nazi deputy parachuted into Scotland in 1941 & spent the last 46 years of his life a prisoner |
Hess
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They're on the tips of your shoelaces |
(Ken: What are [*]?) (Alex: [*].) (Brad: I was going to say that!)
aglets
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$4,200 |
$3,800 |
-$200 |
Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$8,000 |
$7,200 |
$1,600 |
Double Jeopardy! Round
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Projecting into the Mediterranean, Catalonia's Cap de Creus is the eastern mainland limit of this country |
Spain
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She spins the tales of "One Thousand and One Nights" for her husband, King Shahryar |
Scheherazade
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The parody this language "With Dick and Jane" explains words like plotz, shnorrer & ibbledick |
Yiddish
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Adrienne Barbeau played Rizzo in this '70s musical set 2 decades earlier |
Grease
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Syntax, logic & runtime are the 3 basic types of these programming boo-boos, also a baseball term |
errors
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In the Civil War the Army of the Potomac had several corps split into 3 of these units |
divisions
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The southern tip of Greenland ends in this "dogged" sea |
Labrador
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The name of Spike Lee's production company refers to a promise made to freed slaves & includes this number |
40
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In German if it's Dienstag, it must be this |
Tuesday
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In 1900 Sarah Bernhardt played this Shakespeare guy; in 2018 Janet McTeer played Sarah playing this Shakespeare guy |
Hamlet
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256-bit, referring to the length of the key, is a type of this, scrambling data for security |
encryption
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A comet is made up of a coma; usually 2 tails; & this in the center |
the nucleus
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Oman's southern coast is along this sea that shares its name with a peninsula |
Arabian
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Created by Congress in 1996, this 3-digit plan, AKA the Qualified Tuition Program, can be used to help pay for college |
529
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2-word French term for a young person who comes from abroad to help out a family with childcare in return for room & board |
an au pair
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Jessie Mueller & Joshua Henry sang "If I Loved You" in the 2018 revival of this musical |
Carousel
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In programming, these symbols "are standing by" to represent actions; in C++ some are =, * & of course ++ |
operators
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From 1836 to 1852 this U.S. city was split into 3 municipalities: 2 for Francophones & 1 for English speakers |
(Colby: What's [*]?) (Alex: Absolutely.) (Colby: That makes sense.)
New Orleans
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The northernmost part of this island nation ends in the Sea of Okhotsk |
Japan
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Smaller than pica, this 12-character-per-inch type sounds like it's the best |
Elite
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Hygge, from this language, refers to a cozy, soothing lifestyle |
Danish
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Bryan Cranston was mad as hell as Howard Beale in the stage version of this 1976 film |
Network
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It's the basic unit of information in the powerful machines called quantum computers |
a qubit
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The Mesozoic Era is broken down into Cretaceous, Jurassic & this period |
the Triassic
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The north coast of this island nation lies on the Gulf of Mexico & the Atlantic; the south coast is on the Caribbean |
Cuba
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In 1920 an influential bunch of Canadian landscape painters called itself the "Group of" this number |
Seven
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In Latin if something is happening "januis clausis", it's happening here |
behind closed doors
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58 years after she was on Broadway with partner Mike Nichols, this comic actress starred in "The Waverly Gallery" |
Elaine May
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The traditional setup with separate program & data was this man's creation, so computers built differently are called non-von |
von Neumann
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Alan Ayckbourn's play trilogy about Norman & his successful womanizing is titled "The Norman" these |
conquests
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$25,000 |
$22,800 |
$4,000 |
Final Jeopardy! Round
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Its principles still used today, this treatise has chapters called "Weak Points & Strong" & "Tactical Dispositions" |
[Alan is grinning before his response is revealed.] (Alex: [To Alan] Oh, Alan, I'll give you some advice. Never go to Las Vegas and play poker.) ... (Alex: [To Alan] By Sun Tzu.) ... (Alex: [To Monica] I have a feeling some of you practiced some of the precepts from that book in this tournament.) | | $0 | David | What is The Art of War? | $13,200 | Monica | What is the Art of War | $7,500 | The Art of War |
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Final scores:
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$32,500 |
$36,000 |
$8,000 |
Game dynamics:
Team Ken |
Team Brad |
Team Colby |
$22,800 |
$19,600 |
$4,000 |
Ken |
Brad |
Pam |
$8,000 |
$6,800 |
$1,600 |
Matt |
Larissa |
Colby |
$14,800 |
$12,800 |
$2,400 |
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