“JEOPARDY!” 9/14/07
Challengers:
Matt Caporaletti (Westwood, NJ): Advertising account supervisor
Cle Holly (NSH): Singer/songwriter
JR:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CATS
CHILDREN’S AUTHORS
JUDY
ANGEL
THAT’S MY “MA”
$200 New York:
Completed in 1931 this structure required 10M bricks; a true Stairmaster would climb its 1860 steps.
Rick: “What is the Empire State Building?”
$400 New York:
Fughedaboudit! Now a borough it was incorporated as a village in 1816 w/ roughly 4K residents.
Rick: “What is Staten Island?” (-$200)
Cle: “What is Brooklyn?”
$600 New York:
In 1754 King’s College was founded in NYC; today it’s known as this Ivy League university.
Cle: “What is Columbia?” ($1K)
$800 New York:
In 1776 after the battle of this area shown here the British retook NYC & held the city until the war’s end in 1783.
Rick: “What is Long Island?” ($600)
$1K New York:
In 1765 congress met in New York to protest unfair taxes levied under this act.
Matt: “What is the Stamp Act?”
$200 Cats:
The Korat breed from Thailand is usually this color of some Olympic medals.
Rick: “What is bronze?” ($400)
Matt: “What is silver?” ($1200)
$400 Cats:
The mass killing of cats in the 14th century helped spread this disease carried by rat fleas.
Rick: “What is bubonic plague?” ($800)
$200 Children’s Authors:
This California First Lady’s What’s Heaven? was inspired by the death of her grandma Rose Kennedy.
Rick: “Who is Maria Shriver?” ($1K)
$400 Children’s Authors:
This Wizard of Oz author wrote books for girls under the penname Mrs. Edith van Dyne.
Matt: “Who is L(yman) Frank Baum?” ($1600)
$600 Children’s Authors:
In addition to the Goosebumps series, he also wrote the Fear Street series for older kids.
Rick: “Who is R(obert) L (awrence) Stine?” ($1600)
$800 Children’s Authors:
The answer there was the 1st DD of this game.
His widow Felicity said he would’ve loved the new “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” movie- he hated the old 1.
“Who is Roald Dahl?” it was to double to $3200.
$1K Children’s Authors:
Among her famous characters were Ramona Quimby & Henry Huggins.
Matt: “Who is Beverly Cleary?” ($2600)
$600 Cats:
The fact a cat can land upon its feet w/o injury gave rise to this numerical concept.
Cle: “What is 9 lives?” ($1600)
$800 Cats:
Shorthaired cats were derived from the caffre cat, which was domesticated by this ancient civilization.
Rick: “What is Egypt?” ($4K)
$1K Cats:
This Asian-named cat’s produced by mating Siamese and longhairs & then selectively breeding ’em.
Cle: “What is Pekingese?” ($600)
TS: Himalayan
$200 Judy:
Her losing the OSCAR for ’54’s “A Star is Born” was called “the biggest robbery since BRINKS”.
Rick: “Who is Judy Garland?” ($4200)
$400 Judy:
As Judy, this ’80 title character, Goldie Hawn said “And I mean look at this place, the army couldn’t afford drapes?”.
Rick: “What is ‘Private Benjamin’?” ($4600)
$600 Judy:
Judy Reyes was on staff at Sacred Heart Hospital as nurse Carla Espinosa on this Zach Braff sitcom.
Rick: “What is ‘Scrubs’?” ($5200)
$800 Judy:
From ’84-’92 Judith Light & Tony Danza struggled over this sitcom title question.
Rick: “What is ‘Who’s the Boss?’?” ($6K)
$1K Judy:
She hit the top 40 in 1975 & ’77 w/ “Send in the Clowns”.
Rick: “Who is Judy Collins?” ($7K)- RAN
$200 Angel:
Capelli D’Angelo is an Italian food term for a type of this.
Cle: “What is pasta?” ($800)
$400 Angel:
That every soul has 1 of these is not an article of faith but St. Jerome said, “It is the mind of the Church”.
Cle: “What is a guardian angel?” ($1200)
$600 Angel:
The song w/ this 1st line noted “Peace on Earth and mercy mild”.
Matt: “What is ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’?” ($3200)
$800 Angel:
“Pie Jesu” sung by this young Welsh lass w/ the “voice of an angel” has sold millions worldwide.
Cle: “Who is Charlotte Church?” ($2K)
$1K Angel:
It was the title of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer-winning play.
Matt: “What is ‘Angels in America’?” ($4200)
$200 “Ma”:
It’s the type of fish seen here.
Rick: “What is a marlin?” ($7200)
$400 “Ma”:
In 1758 Ben Franklin issued his last publication of this annual.
Rick: “What is Poor Richard’s Almanack?” ($7600)
$600 “Ma”:
A doctor who specializes in the treatment of skin diseases.
Rick: “What is a dermatologist?” ($8200)
$800 “Ma”:
A puzzling occurrence or a German-built enciphering machine
Matt: “What is an enigma?” ($5K)
$1K “Ma”:
6-letter term for respect or reverence paid or rendered
Rick: “What is homage?” ($9200)
SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $1K (Cats)
CS:
Rick: $9200/Cle: $2K/Matt: $5K
DJ!:
RIVERS
SITCOM SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
DE GAULLE OF DAT GUY!
ELECTRONICA (video clues from the SONY headquarters in Tokyo)
TITLE BALLET WOMEN
CROSSWORD CLUES “C”
$400 Crossword Clue “C”:
Delaware or Virginia in the 1760s (6)
Matt: “What is a colony?” ($5400)
$800 Crossword Clue “C”:
Hooded cape for a monk (4)
Rick: “What is cowl?” ($10K)
$400 Sitcom Supporting Characters:
Rock me Ann B. Davis! Ms. D played housekeeper Alice Nelson on this sitcom from ’69-’74.
Rick: “What is ‘The Brady Bunch’?” ($10,400)
$800 Sitcom Supporting Characters:
On this sitcom Oscar Nunez was Oscar, Creed Bratton was Creed, Angela Kinsey was Angela & Rainn Wilson was…Dwight.
Cle: “What is ‘The Office’?” ($2800)
$1200 Sitcom Supporting Characters:
This sitcom’s Niles: “I have a session with my multiple personality…if I’m late, he can just talk amongst himself.”
Rick: “What is ‘FRASIER’?” ($11,600)
$1600 Sitcom Supporting Characters:
Enjoy Randy, Crabman & even Willie the 1-Eyed Mailman on this NBC show.
Cle: “What is ‘My Name is Earl’?” ($4400)
$2K Sitcom Supporting Characters:
1 of the many supporting folks on this animated show, student Ralph Wiggum said “Me fail English? That’s unpossible”.
Matt: “What is ‘THE SIMPSONS’?” ($7400)
$400 Rivers:
Its upper part runs clear; it clouds up near Great Falls, MT & gets muddier from there.
TS: Missouri
$800 Rivers:
It’s fed by the Hasbani River in Lebanon & by the Baniyas in Syria.
Matt: “What is the Jordan?” ($8200)
$1200 Rivers:
GE acknowledged in the 20th century it dumped PCBs into this river around Troy.
TS #2: Hudson
$1600 Rivers:
3-letter name of the British river on which Oxford’s rival university is located.
TS #3: Cam
$2K Rivers:
Candido Rondon found the River of Doubt, now the Rio Roosevelt, which flows in this country’s Amazonas State.
Matt: “What is Brazil?” ($10,200)
$400 De Gaulle:
“V” was for this Feb.-to-Dec. 1916 battle begun by a surprise attack in which Charles De Gaulle fought.
Matt: “What is Verdun?” ($10,600)
$800 De Gaulle:
In ’65 De Gaulle won the presidency by defeating this socialist, later France’s leader from 1981-95.
Matt: “Who is Francois Mitterrand?” ($11,400)
$1200 De Gaulle:
De Gaulle’s Jun. 18, 1940 broadcast in this city asking for France’s leadership led to a death sentence in a French court.
Rick: “What is Marseilles?” ($10,400)
TS #4: London
$1600 De Gaulle:
De Gaulle wanted a small mobile army vs. static theories like this defensive “line” named for a Minister of War.
Rick: “What is the Maginot Line?” ($12K)
$400 Electronica (Kelly):
“This prototype of SONY’s new OLED technology demonstrates that TVs can be made an eighth of an inch thick which is 3 of this metric unit.”
Rick: “What is a centimeter?” ($11,600)
Matt: “What is a millimeter?” ($11,800)
$800 Electronica (Alex):
“Brando won the OSCAR, the Dodgers won the World Series, Bill Haley & the Comets had a monster hit & SONY introduced the 1st transistor radio- all in this year.”
Rick: “What is 1955?” ($12,400)
$1200 Electronica (Jimmy):
“The 70-inch Bravia TV has LED backlighting, but the basic technology is LCD, short for this, providing a wider viewing angle than the plasma screens.”
Rick: “What is liquid crystal diode?” ($11,200)
Matt: “What is liquid crystal display?” ($13K)
$2K De Gaulle:
In 1925 De Gaulle was promoted to the staff of the Supreme War Council by this marshal.
Matt: “Who is Marshal Petain?” ($15K)
$1600 Electronica (Alex):
“Most DVD players use a red-light laser; to show true HD movies however this player uses a laser of this color which has a shorter wavelength.”
Cle: “What is blue?” ($6K)
$400 Title Ballet Women:
1949 saw the 1st ballet version of this operatic Georges Bizet work feat. Don Jose & a toreador.
Matt: “What is ‘Carmen’?” ($15,400)
$2K Electronica (Jimmy):
“PS3 makes games more realistic using computer power from this alliterative technology in which multiple core CPUs run at once.”
Matt: “What is peer-to-peer?” ($13,400)
TS #5: Parallel processing
$1200 Crossword Clue “C”:
Answer: DD #1.
A reddish-brown horse (8)
“What is a palomino?” didn’t qualify, immediately costing Matt $2K- what’s a chestnut?
$1600 Crossword Clue “C”:
Slide mountain’s range (9)
Cle: “What are the Cascades?” ($4400)
TS #6: Catskills
$2K Crossword Clue “C”:
The muse of history (4)
TS #7: Clio
$800 Title Ballet Women:
The evil priest Frollo wanted Esmeralda, but she was saved by him.
Rick: “Who is Quasimodo?” ($12K)
$1200 Title Ballet Women:
Margot Fonteyn was seen here resting her tootsies as Princess Aurora in this ballet.
Cle: “What is ‘Sleeping Beauty’?” ($5600)
$1600 Title Ballet Women:
Answer: there it was, the final DD of the 1st wk of S24- she bet $4200.
This Kenneth MacMillian ballet intrigued w/ the curious story of the last of the 4 daughters of Czar Nicholas II.
“What is Alexandria?”…not her- who was Anastasia?
$2K Title Ballet Women:
This Greek gal fell for her stepson Hippolytus in a ballet based on Racine’s tragedy.
TS #8: Phaedra
ATTEMPTED LT: $4800
UNATTEMPTED LT: $7200
TOTAL DJ! LT: $12K
Pre-Final S:
Rick: $12K/Cle: $1400/Matt: $11,400
RICK’S CORYAT: $11,200
FJ!: BREAD
Lacrosse spread the tale that after a 17th century triumph the victors ate this as a symbol of the beaten Muslims.
CLE: “What is a baguette?” (NADA)
MATT: “What is manna?” ($8.5K) = $2900
RICK: “What is pita?” (Correct: What were croissants/crescent rolls?) = $1199
