Challengers:
Bonnie Humphrey (Tuxedo Park, NY): Attorney
Dave Dye (Torrance): Import specialist
JR:
PTOLEMY…WHY NOT TAKE PTOLEMY?
TV LAND’S TOP QUOTES
WHERE THE STREETS HAVE SOME NAME
EARLS! EARLS! EARLS!
FOOD
CROSSWORD HELPER
$200 Streets:
In Waukesha, WI you can actually live on this- a 2-word phrase for a life of comfort & security.
Jesse: “What is Easy Street?”
$400 Streets:
Swing down to the intersection of Count & Basie in this capital of Virginia.
Bonnie: “What is Richmond?”
$600 Streets:
You can clean up on Dirty Ankle Road in Lawndale, located in this “Tar Heel State”.
Jesse: “What is North Carolina?” ($800)
$800 Streets:
Traverse to Traverse City, MI & go nuts a la Anthony Perkins, for you’ll find this Path there.
Dave: “What is Psycho?”
$200 Crossword Helper:
Ara: 1 of these star groups between Triangulum Australe & Scorpius.
Dave: “What is a constellation?” ($1K)
$200 Food:
Food used in many Thai dishes & also mentioned in “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”.
Bonnie: “What are peanuts?” ($600)
$400 Food:
Munich’s traditional Weisswurst, a veal sausage, is naked w/o Senf- German for this.
Dave: “What is skin?” ($600)
Jesse: “What is sauerkraut?” ($400)
TS: Mustard
$600 Food:
At his 1st news conference George W. Bush compared Iraq sanctions to this dairy food.
TS #2: Swiss cheese
$800 Food:
The main ingredients of ratatouille are tomatoes, onions, peppers, zucchini & this veggie bigger than those.
Bonnie: “What is eggplant?” ($1400)
$1K Food:
Meat on a stick sounds better if you use the French term- “en” this.
Bonnie: “What is brochette?” ($2400)
$200 Quote:
“I’m not a crook.”
Jesse: “Who is Nixon?” ($600)
$400 Quote:
“Heeere’s Johnny!”
Dave: “What is ‘The Tonight Show’?” ($200)
Jesse: “Who is Ed McMahon?” ($1K)
$600 Quote:
“You’re fired.”
Jesse: “Who is Trump?” ($1600)
$800 Quote:
“Baby, you’re the greatest.”
Bonnie: “Who are Jackie Gleason & Ralph Kramden?” ($3200)
$1K Quote:
“Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?”
Jesse: X ($600)
Bonnie: “Who is Gary Coleman?” ($4200)
$1K Streets:
Fittingly Bakersfield, CA has car dealers on this alley that’s also the name of a comic strip.
Jesse: “What is Gasoline Alley?” ($1600)
$200 Ptolemy:
Ptolemy XII, Egypt’s king for nearly 30yrs, used bribery to prevent this empire from annexing the country.
Jesse: “What is Babylon?” ($1400)
TS #3: Roman
$400 Ptolemy:
Her dad was Ptolemy XII; lucky XIII, 10yrs old at the time, became her co-ruler & husband.
Dave: “Who is Cleopatra?” ($600)
$600 Ptolemy:
Fire was an important part of this structure, 1 of the 7 ancient wonders- finished during Ptolemy II’s reign.
Jesse: “What is the Lighthouse at Alexandria?” ($2K)
$800 Ptolemy:
Ptolemy’s system of astronomy held up until 1543 when this Polish astronomer went heliocentric.
Bonnie: “Who is Copernicus?” ($5K)
$400 Crossword Helper:
Gam or pod: a herd of these large mammals.
Bonnie: “What are whales?” ($5400)
$600 Crossword Helper:
Ria: a narrow inlet of the sea formed by this type of valley that’s been partly submerged.
Jesse: “What is a fjord?” ($1400)
TS #4: River
$800 Crossword Helper:
Eft: the land dwelling form of this type of salamander.
Dave: “What is a newt?” ($1400)
$1K Ptolemy:
Ptolemy V’s decree pardoning prisoners was inscribed on this block of basalt discovered in 1799.
Jesse: “What is the Rosetta Stone?” ($2400)
$200 Earl:
The “Architect Earl” of Pembroke laid the 1st stone in the 1st Westminster Bridge over this river.
Dave: “What is the Thames?” ($1600)
$400 Earl:
In 1595 Hugh O’Neill, “the Great Earl” of Tyrone, led a revolt against British rule here.
Jesse: “What is Ireland?” ($2800)
$600 Earl:
Finally- the answer was the DD in the rd.
The Earl of Carnarvon gave up racehorses for archaeology & financed the 1922 discovery of this.
“What is King Tutankhamen’s tomb?”…correct for another $800.
$800 Earl:
Earl “Citizen” Stanhope chaired a society to promote this the yr before the French 1.
Dave: “What is a revolution?” ($2400)
$1K Earl:
In 1348 the Earl of Salisbury found his feminine side as 1 of the original knights of this.
Dave: “What is the garter?” ($3400)
$1K Crossword Helper:
Til: this type of plant; the seeds are used to make tahini.
TS #5: Sesame
ATTEMPTED LT: $1200
UNATTEMPTED LT: $1600
TOTAL LT: $2800
CS:
Jesse: $3600/Dave: $3400/Bonnie: $5400
DJ!:
PHYSICS
COLD MOVIES
HERE COMES UKRAINE AGAIN
ALSO A GUM BRAND
EVERYONE’S A CRITIC
“MAN” ALIVE
$400 Physics:
Relativity theory assumes the effect of acceleration on an object equals the effect of this force.
TS: Gravity
$400 Everyone’s a Critic:
In the Republic he criticized the job of painter as just a “creator of appearances…what he creates is untrue”.
Dave: “Who is Plato?” ($3800)
$800 Everyone’s a Critic:
This film critic became a leading director of the French New Wave w/ “The 400 Blows” & “Shoot the Piano Player”.
Jesse: “Who is Jean Genet?” ($2800)
TS #2: Francois Truffaut
$1200 Everyone’s a Critic:
He wrote Lyrical Ballads w/ Wordsworth & his Biographia Literaria was the best of English romantic criticism.
TS #3: Coleridge
$400 Also a Gum Brand:
A shoulder-held weapon firing armor-piercing rockets
Dave: “What is a bazooka?” ($4200)
$800 Also a Gum Brand:
To walk w/ long steps (you may “hit” yours or “take things in” it)
Jesse: “What is a stride?” ($3600)
$800 Physics:
This positively charged nuclear particle has almost 2K times the mass of the negatively charged electron.
Jesse: “What is a proton?” ($4400)
$1200 Physics:
Answer: DD #1.
In wave motion, period, the time 1 complete cycle takes, is the reciprocal of this- the # of cycles in a given time.
“What is a hertz?”…they had to deduct $1400 from him- what’s frequency?
$1600 Physics:
An object on a table & a compressed spring both have this type of energy- 1 gravitational, 1 elastic.
Jesse: “What is potential?” ($4600)
$2K Physics:
Term for the distance from the center of a lens to the pt where parallel rays that pass through it converge.
Dave: “What is an aperture?” ($2200)
TS #4: Focal length
$400 Ukraine:
Born in Ukraine in 1894 he became the undisputed leader of the USSR in ’58.
Bonnie: “Who is Khrushchev?” ($5800)
$400 “Man”:
The unlawful killing of another but w/o malice aforethought
Dave: “What is manslaughter?” ($2600)
$800 “Man”:
Marvelously meticulous medieval monks would methodically “illuminate” ’em.
Jesse: “What is a manuscript?” ($5400)
$1200 “Man”:
The name of these handcuffs came from the Latin for “little hand”.
Bonnie: “What are manacles?” ($7K)
$1600 “Man”:
Perhaps the world’s 1st industrial city was this 1 later home to the British band Oasis.
Jesse: “What is Manchester?” ($7K)
$2K “Man”:
After they invaded China & captured Beijing in 1644 they established the Ching dynasty.
Jesse: “Who are the Manchus?” ($9K)
$800 Ukraine:
Called “Mother of Cities” this Ukranian capital was heavily damaged in WWII & not fully rebuilt until around 1960.
Jesse: “What is Kiev?” ($9800)
$1200 Ukraine:
Ukraine prospered for several centuries in the Middle Ages until its 1240 conquest by these forces from the east.
Dave: “Who are the Mongols?” ($3800)
$1600 Ukraine:
1st name shared by both the PM & president of Ukraine.
Dave: “What is Vladimir?” ($2200)
TS #5: Viktor
$2K Ukraine:
Following the breakup of the Soviet Union Ukraine joined Russia & Belarus in joining this- the CIS.
Jesse: “What is the Commonwealth of Independent States?” ($11,800)
$1600 Everyone’s a Critic:
The Sacred Wood was the 1st book of criticism by this Missouri-born “Four Quartets” poet.
Jesse: “Who is T.S. Eliot?” ($13,400)
$2K Everyone’s a Critic:
Her 1991 book said “the undeclared war against American women” was the “backlash against the women’s movement”.
Bonnie: “Who is Susan Faludi?” ($9K)
$400 Cold Movie:
Peter Billingsley watched Flick get triple-dog-dared into sticking his tongue to a flagpole in this film.
Jesse: “What is ‘A Christmas Story’?” ($13,800)
$800 Cold Movie:
In the ’70s he was a hockey player in “Slap Shot” & faced a future ice age in “Quintet”.
TS #6: Paul Newman
$1200 Cold Movie:
The answer there was the other DD.
This sequel started on the icy planet of Hoth.
“What is ‘The Empire Strikes Back’?”…it was a “STAR WARS” film & Jesse got the right 1 for $1800.
$1600 Cold Movie:
The Uruguayan rugby team had a bad day & not enough seasoning in this ’93 Ethan Hawke film.
Jesse: “What is ‘Stranded’?” ($14K)
TS #7: “Alive”
$2K Cold Movie:
The end of this John Carpenter South Pole-set film found Keith David & Kurt Russell shivering & paranoid.
Jesse: “What is ‘The Thing’?” ($16K)
$1200 Also a Gum Brand:
A special edition of a newspaper
Dave: “What is extra?” ($3400)
$1600 Also a Gum Brand:
The lunar kind means the light of the Moon’s obscured because the Earth’s between the Moon & the Sun.
Bonnie: “What is an eclipse?” ($10,600)
$2K Also a Gum Brand:
W/o worry
Jesse: “What is carefree?” ($18K)
ATTEMPTED LT: $6K
UNATTEMPTED LT: $2400
TOTAL DJ! LT: $8400
Pre-Final S:
Jesse: $18K/Dave: $3400 (NON-FACTOR)/Bonnie: $10,600
JESSE’S CORYAT: $18,600
FJ!: LITERATURE
In 1852 his story The Dandy Frightening the Squatter appeared in The Carpet-Bag– a humorous paper.
DAVE: “Who was Twain?” ($0)
BONNIE: “Who was Charles Dickens?” ($3K) = $7600
JESSE: “Who is Dickens?” ($7K) = $11K
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