J! Round Categories:
SOLVE FOR x
IN 1867...
WHICH PART OF SPEECH?
YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THIS
TV CV
WITTY LINES
Kate's going first; Colby's at the middle podium.
First Which Part of Speech:
Fabio won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Fabio.
Michael: "What is a noun?"- CORRECT ($200)
First Witty Line:
When asked how many husbands she's had, this Gabor sister said "You mean apart from my own?".
Colby: "Who is Zsa Zsa Gabor?"- CORRECT ($200)
$400 Part of Speech:
A German's germs are not germane to a conversation abut Jermaine Jackson: Germane (w/ a G).
Kate: "What is an adjective?"- YES ($400)
$600:
The golf tourney was a success despite the trampling incident: despite.
Kate: "What is a preposition?"- RIGHT ($1K)
$800:
Which of these Lederhosen brings out my eyes?: which.
Kate: "What is a pronoun?"- RIGHT ($1,800)
$1K:
Neither rain nor snow or sleet shall keep me from my appointed rounds, but locusts? I'm out: nor.
Kate: "What is a conjuction?"- RIGHT ($2,800)
$400 Witty Line:
In one of their shorts, a judge cries for order, to which Curly says "I'll take a ham sandwich".
Michael: "Who are The Three Stooges?"- RIGHT ($600)
$600:
This fraternal funnyman quipped "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read".
Michael: "Who is Groucho Marx?"- RIGHT ($1,200)
$800:
This comic deadpanned "I stayed up one night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house & 4 people died".
Colby: "Who is (Steven) Wright?"- YUP ($1K)
$1K:
Noel Coward punned in a telegram "Coughing myself" into a this, the Italian name for Florence.
Kate: "What is Firenze?"- CORRECT ($3,800)
First Solve for x Problem:
25x = the number of U.S. Senate members.
Michael: "What is four?"- SCORE ($1,400)
$400:
99 - x = the number of keys on a standard piano.
Colby: "What is 11?"- RIGHT ($1,400)
$600:
105/x = Blackjack!
Colby: "What is five?"- YOU BET ($2K)
$800:
20 - x = days in a fortnight.
Kate: "What is six?"- RIGHT ($4,600)
Last Such Math Problem:
30 + x = Douglas Adams' ultimate answer to...well, everything.
Michael: "What is 13?"- INCORRECT ($400)
Colby: "What is 12?"- THAT'S IT ($3K)
$800 In 1867:
August von Hofmann discovered this fluid; 25 years later, it could've been used to embalm him.
Michael: "What is formaldehyde?"- RIGHT ($1,200)
$200 You'll Be Tested on This:
The Snellen Chart tests these body parts; the top line's 20/400.
Michael: "What are the eyes?"- THEY HAVE IT ($1,400)
$400:
The Stanford-Binet V tests this in students.
Colby: "What's intelligence?"- RIGHT ($3,400)
$600 In 1867:
The fame of this scout was spread by a Harper's article that went "wild" over his "exquisite manly proportions".
Michael: "Who is Teddy Roosevelt?"- NO ($800)
FIRST TS: Wild Bill Hickock
$400:
In 1867, he published the play Peer Gynt & obviously spent some time on his facial hair.
Colby: "Who is (Henrik) Ibsen?"- YES INDEED ($3,800)
$600 You'll Be Tested on This:
In a Monty Python film, the test for identifying one of these is whether she weighs as much as a duck.
Kate: "What is a witch?"- RIGHT ($5,200)
$800:
Lichens provide the coloring for this, also a term for a crucial, revealing test.
Michael: "What is a litmus test?"- DOUBLE ($1,600)
$1K:
Testing of blood serum helps diagnose this tick-borne ailment named for a range of peaks.
Kate: "What is lung disease?"- NO ($4,200)
Michael: "What is Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?"- RIGHT ($2,600)
$200 TV CV:
"Friends" (Rachel), "Dirt" (Tina Harrod)
Michael: "Who is (Jennifer) Aniston?"- RIGHT ($2,800)
$400:
"Monk", "The X-Files" (Dr. Chester Ray Banton)
Colby: "Who is (Tony) Shaloub?"- YUP ($4,200)
$1K In 1867:
DAILY DOUBLE! For face value & the outright lead:
She wed a doomed physician suffering from alcoholism, perhaps contributing to her violent hatred of booze.
"Who is Carrie Nation?"...he got her!
Closing the 1867 Clues Out:
This dual monarchy w/ a population of about 50M was formed; it lasted until 1918.
Kate: "What is Austria-Hungary?"- CORRECT ($4,400)
$800 TV CV:
"Arrested Development" (Michael Bluth), "Valerie's Family" (David Hogan)
Colby: "Who is (Jason) Bateman?"- RIGHT ($6K)
$600:
"Family Guy" (Meg), "That '70s Show" (Jackie)
Colby: "Who is (Mila) Kunis?"- YEAH ($6,600)
FINAL CLUE THIS ROUND:
"Homicide" (Detective Frank Pembleton), "Last Resort" (Captain Marcus Chaplin)
Michael: "Who is (Andre) Braugher?"- YES ($3,800)
Double J! Board:
HERB & SPICE HISTORY
CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES
AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN
"PRO"S & "CON"S
GEOLOGY
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES
First Whittier Line:
In a nature poem, Whittier rhymed "The winding water's sounding rush, the long note of" this bird.
Colby: "What's a thrush?"- RIGHT ($7K)
$400 Geology:
For the metal nickel, the mineral pentlandite is a major one of these sources.
Michael: "What is an oar?"- YES ($4,200)
$400 "Pro"s & "Con"s:
This working model of a new product's usually built to full-scale.
Colby: "What is a prototype?"- CORRECT ($7,400)
First Celebrity Sibling Surname:
Producer/director Garry & comic actress/director Penny
Colby: "What is Marshall?"- CORRECT ($7,800)
$800:
Actors Dennis & Randy
Kate: "What is Quaid?"- CORRECT ($5,200)
$400 Around the Mediterranean:
Many Mediterranean cruises embark from this second-largest Spanish city & major port.
Michael: "What is Barcelona?"- RIGHT ($4,600)
$800 "Pro"s & "Con"s:
From the Latin for "to know", it's a person w/ expert knowledge or training.
TS #2: Conisseur
Middle clue:
In Marxist theory, members of this class of workers have no capital or property & must sell their labor to survive.
Kate: "What is the Proletariat?"- CORRECT ($6,400)
$1,600:
Smuggled goods.
Colby: "What is contraband?"- INDEED ($9,400)
$2K:
A poetic image w/ an outlandish comparison.
TS #3: Conceit
$1,200 Celebrity Sibling Surname:
Tennis champs John & Patrick
Michael: "What is McEnroe?"- OF COURSE ($5,800)
$800 Geology:
This commonest coarse-grained plutonic rock's desirable for countertops.
Michael: "What is granite?"- RIGHT ($6,600)
$1,200:
DD! For three thou additional & a $200 cushion:
Naturally, plenty of coal was formed in this geologic period, 360M-300M B.C.
"What is the Carboniferous Period?"...$9,600 & the lead!
$1,600:
In geology, it's a type of erosion; in business, it's reducing staff without layoffs.
TS #4: Attrition
$2K (Sarah):
NY State uses one trillion cubic feet of natural gas a yr.; there may be 500 trillion cubic ft. within this underground shale formation named for a village near Syracuse.
TS #5: Marcellus Shale
$800 Around the Mediterranean:
The deepest part of the Mediterranean, over 16K ft., is just south of this country, in the Ionian Basin.
Kate: "What is Italy?"- ISN'T RIGHT ($5,600)
Michael: "What is Greece?"- IS IT ($10,400)
Center box:
You'll need a passport to gamble in the 149-yr.-old "Casino de" this location; locals aren't allowed.
Colby: "What is Monaco?"- NO ($8,200)
TS #6: Monte Carlo
$1,600:
Rising above the Mediterranean Coast are these mountains that form the backbone of Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia.
Michael: "What are the Atlas Mountains?"- YES ($12K)
$2K:
OTHER DD! To put Michael at the $15K mark:
Balzac described it as "a French island basking in the Italian sun".
"What is Corsica?"...also the name of a defunct Chevy model, right!
Start of Herb & Spice History:
Today, we pick this leaf of the laurel tree out of our food, but legend says oracles chewed it to promote visions.
Kate: "What is the bay leaf?"- YEAH INDEED ($6K)
$800:
19th Century English pubs had containers of this spice from a root so that patrons could shake it into their ale.
Colby: "What is ginger?"- WOOF WOOF ($9K)
$1,600 Celebrity Sibling Surname:
Julianne & Derek of "dancing with the stars" fame
TS #7: Hough
$2K:
Celebrity offspring Kelly & Jack
Colby: "What is Osbourne?"- YEAH ($11K)
$800 Whittier Line:
When this Biblical king spares an ant hill, the queen of Sheba realizes she knows "the secret of thy worth and wisdom".
Colby: "Who's Solomon?"- RIGHT ($11,800)
$1,200:
In Snow-Bound, Whttier was "content to let" this "roar in baffled rage at pane and door".
Kate: "What is the wind?"- RIGHT ($7,200)
$1,200 Herb & Spice History:
To show remorse after murdering his wife, Nero may have burned a yr.'s supply of this spice that comes in quills.
Kate: "What is pepper?"- WRONG ($6K)
TS #8: Cinnamon
$1,600:
It was suggested in 1602 that this pod spice, then used in a drink w/ cacao beans, could be used alone as a flavoring.
Kate: "What is vanilla?"- GOT SOME MONEY BACK ($7,600)
Final clue there:
Jesus mentioned "mint and anise and" this spice used in chili powder & curry powder.
Kate: "What is coriander?"- NOPE ($5,600)
Michael: "What is turmeric?"- DITTO ($13K)
TS #9: Cumin
$1,600 Whittier Line:
Completes the line Whittier gave Barbara Frietchie: "Shoot, if you must this old grey head, but spare your country's..."
Kate: "What is 'flag instead'?"- NOT ACCEPTABLE ($4K)
TS #10: "...flag"
LAST DJ! ANSWER:
"Thou hast nerved the Afric's hand", wrote Whittier in a poem to this abolitionist who published The Liberator.
Kate: "Who is (William Lloyd) Garrison?"- GOT HIM ($6K)
ATTEMPTED LT: $6K
UNATTEMPTED LT: $8,400
TOTAL DJ! LT: $14,400
Post-DJ! Banks:
Kate: $6K
Colby: $11,800
Michael: $13K
CORYAT SCORES:
Kate: $6K
Colby: $11,800
Michael: $10,200
NIGHT 1 FINAL J! SUBJECT: European Authors.
amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million kindle e-books.
KATE:
Response: NO ONE
Final Day 1 Score: $3K
COLBY:
Response: "WHO WAS (MICHAEL) CHRICHTON?"
Final Day 1 Score: $10,600
MICHAEL:
Response: "WHO is J.K. Rowling?" (Correct: Who was Steig Larsson?)
Final Day 1 Score: $10K
