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Challengers:
Erica Eaton (NY): Social worker & grad student
Tana Sibilio (Stamford): Caregiver

JR:
THE GOOD BOOK
DOORS SONGS IN OTHER WORDS
FOOD & DRINK BRANDS
ISLAND HOPPING
MURDERS & ACQUISITIONS
“LET”‘S END THIS

$200 Good Book:

God told him his project would be 50 cubits in breadth & 30 cubits high.

Wayne: “Who is Noah?”

$400 Good Book:

In Exodus 2:10 a woman “called his name” this “and she said, because I drew him out of the water”.

Tana: “Who is ‘Moses’?”

$600 Good Book:

In Revelation 18 earth bewailed this mighty city’s destruction (gardens & all, we assume).

Erica: “What is Babylon?”

$200 Food & Drink Brand:

This brand of grape juice was created in 1869 & was billed as unfermented wine.

Wayne: “What is Welch’s?” ($400)

$800 Good Book:

Belshazzar saw the handwriting & this man interpreted the handwriting.

TS: Daniel

$1K Good Book:

Chapter 6 of his book concerned his deep anguish; in chapter 10 he questioned his oppression.

Wayne: “Who is Job?” ($1400)

$400 Food & Drink Brand:

That’s Dorothy Hope Smith’s unfinished sketch of a neighbor’s baby on the labels of this brand.

Tana: “What is Gerber’s?” ($800)

$200 Murders & Acquisitions:

These were certainly “a girl’s best friend” for notorious British jewel thief Joan Hannington.

Erica: “What are diamonds?” ($800)

$600 Food & Drink Brand:

Answer: DD.

The sight of a balloon-filled sky filled a baking co. V-P w/ a sense of this, hence the name of their bread.

“What is Hope?” was wrong, which sent her to -$200; that’s Wonder.

$800 Food & Drink Brand:

This brand gives you “that frosty mug sensation”.

Erica: “What is Mug Root Beer?” (-$1K)
Wayne: “What is A&W Root Beer?” ($2200)

$1K Food & Drink Brand:

The Dorsa bros. borrowed $35 to buy a waffle iron & this frozen brand was born.

Tana: “What is Eggo?” ($1800)

$400 Murders & Acquisitions:

The USA’s 1st of these robberies netting $245K was on Wall St. in 1831.

Wayne: “What is a bank robbery?” ($2600)

$600 Murders & Acquistions:

Gunned down himself in 1957 Albert Anastasia had the Gilbert & Sullivan-inspired title “Lord High” this.

Tana: “What is ‘Executioner’?” ($2400)

$800 Murders & Acquisitions:

This Tom Jones author also wrote Jonathan Wild, about a real-life thief & extortionist hanged in 1725.

Wayne: “Who is (Henry) Fielding?” ($3400)

$1K Murders & Acquisitions:

Fritz Haarmann was sort of the Jeffrey Dahmer of the chaotic post-WWI era in Germany named for this republic.

Wayne: “What is Weimar?” ($4400)

$200 “Let”:

In Dec. 1776 Thomas Paine began The Crisis, a series of this 8-letter type of publication.

Wayne: “What is a pamphlet?” ($4600)

$400 “Let”:

A Denver or western 1 of these incl. minced onions, minced green peppers & diced ham.

Wayne: “What is omelet?” ($5K)

$600 “Let”:

Jonathan Livingston could tell you it’s the throat or the esophagus.

Wayne: “What is the gullet?” ($5600)

$800 “Let”:

In 1909 Wisconsin chose the wood species of this as its state flower.

TS #2: Violet

$1K “Let”:

While in his mother’s sitting room this play character stabbed & killed an old man through a curtain.

Tana: “Who is ‘Hamlet’?” ($3400)

$200 Doors Song in Other Words:

“Ignite the Blaze Belonging to Me”

Erica: “What is ‘Light My Fire’?” (-$800)

$400 Doors Song in Other Words:

“Jockeys of a Tornado”

Wayne: “What’s ‘Riders on a Storm’?” ($5200)
Erica: “What is ‘Riders on the Storm’?” (-$400)

$600 Doors Song in Other Words:

“Greetings, Great Affection for Thee Wells Up Within Me”

Erica: “What is ‘Hello, I Love You’?” ($200)

$800 Doors Song in Other Words:

“Humans Tend Toward Weirdness”

Tana: “What is ‘People Are Strange’?” ($4200)

$1K Doors Song in Other Words:

“Make Contact with Moi”

Tana: “What is ‘Touch Me, Babe’?” ($3200)
Wayne: “What is ‘Touch Me’?” ($6200)

$200 Island Hopping:

The Dodecanese Islands of this nation incl. Karpathos, Kos & Rhodes.

Wayne: “What is Greece?” ($6400)

$400 Island Hopping:

Little dots of nothing called the Shag Rocks lie about 700 miles east of these islands, subject of a 1980s conflict.

Tana: “What are the Falklands?” ($3600)

$600 Island Hopping:

At about 43K square miles it’s the largest independent island nation in the western hemisphere.

Wayne: “What is Cuba?” ($7K)

$800 Island Hopping:

This South Carolina site serves as the major east coast training base for the Marine Corps.

Erica: “What is Pollock Island?” (-$600)

TS #3: Parris Island

$1K Island Hopping:

Ownership of the Kuril islands has been in dispute between Russia & this country.

Tana: “What is Japan?” ($4600)

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $800 (Island Hopping)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $1600
TOTAL LT: $2400

CS:
Wayne: $7K/Tana: $4600/Erica: -$600

DJ!:
A GOOD BOOK
“MUSIC & LYRICS” (clues read by Drew Barrymore)
FORBES 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN
SCIENCE
IT HAPPENED ON GROUNDHOG DAY
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE

$400 Middle of the State:

This 1’s powered by 1 “amp”.

Wayne: “What is New Hampshire?” ($7400)

$800 Middle of the State:

Have some “gin” in the middle of these 2 states.

Tana: “What are West Virginia & Virginia?” ($5400)

$1200 Middle of the State:

It’s a good place to get a “tan” (OK, not really).

Erica: “What is Montana?” ($600)

$1600 Middle of the State:

This state has a big “ego”.

Erica: “What is Oregon?” ($2200)

$2K Middle of the State:

Should I wear a “bra” there? I think not.

Erica: “What is Nebraska?” ($4200)

$400 “Music & Lyrics”:

“‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ when I hear the song of that name written by this famous pair.”

Wayne: “Who are John Lennon & Paul McCartney?” ($7800)

$800 “Music & Lyrics”:

“‘The Sound of Music’ just wouldn’t be the same without the sound of this Broadway duo’s music & lyrics.”

Wayne: “Who are (Richard) Rogers & (Oscar) Hammerstein (II)?” ($8600)

$1200 “Music & Lyrics”:

“‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose?’ Then you’ll know that Hal David wrote the lyrics but this composer wrote the music.”

Erica: “Who is Burt Bacharach?” ($5400)

$1600 “Music & Lyrics”:

“‘Jailhouse Rock’ & ‘Love Potion No. 9’ are just 2 of the rock & roll classics by Jerry Leiber & this partner.”

Tana: “Who is (Mike) Stoller?” ($7K)

$2K “Music & Lyrics”:

“‘For the Good Times’, hits by this legend from Brownsville, Texas ‘Help Me Make It Through the Night’.”

Tana: “Who is Willie Nelson?” ($5K)

TS: Kris Kristofferson

$400 Powerful Woman:

At #18 she was the only senator on the list.

Erica: “Who is Hillary Clinton?” ($5800)

$800 Powerful Woman:

Do an msn search & you’ll find this foundation co-founder & director was #12.

Tana: “Who is Melissa Gates?” ($4200)

TS #2: Melinda Gates

$1200 Powerful Woman:

On my honor this Supreme Court justice was #32.

Erica: “Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?” ($7K)

$1600 Powerful Woman:

We’re happy to report this Chief International Correspondent for CNN made the list at #79.

Erica: “Who is Christiane Amanpour?” ($8600)

$2K Powerful Woman:

Acc. to Forbes the most powerful woman in the world was this German chancellor.

TS #3: Angela Merkel

$400 Good Book:

E.B. White began this novel about a “mouse” for his 6-yr-old niece; she was grown & reading Hemingway by its finish.

Wayne: “Who is Stuart Little?” ($9K)

$800 Good Book:

“If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old” this title guy “would give my soul”.

Wayne: “Who is Dorian Gray?” (The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde)($9800)

$1200 Good Book:

A line from this book said “She killed Miles. And I’ve got…a black statuette that all that hell was about”.

Tana: “What is The Maltese Falcon?” (by Dashiell Hammett)($5400)

$1600 Good Book:

Chapter 8 of this 1860s novel was “Jo Meets Apollyon”.

Tana: “What is Little Women?” ($7K)

$2K Good Book:

The last answer in that column was DD #1– $5K was bet.

Dean said “Think of it, Sal. I’ve never been to Chicago in all my life, never stopped” in this 1957 classic.

“What is Catcher in the Rye?”…uh, no- what was On the Road by Jack Kerouac?

$400 Groundhog Day:

1882: This influential writer & master of the English language was born in a Dublin suburb.

Wayne: “Who is James Joyce?” ($10,200)

$800 Groundhog Day:

1940: This legendary singer debuted w/ the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.

Tana: “Who is Frank Sinatra?” ($2800)

$1200 Groundhog Day:

1653: This city, later renamed New York City, was incorporated.

Wayne: “What is New Amsterdam?” ($11,400)

$1600 Groundhog Day:

1848: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending this war.

Wayne: “What is the Spanish-American War?” ($9800)
Tana: “What is the Mexican-American War?” ($4400)

$2K Groundhog Day:

1971: This man began a 7yr reign as dictator of Uganda.

Erica: “Who is Adi Amin?” ($10,600)

$400 Science:

Into the 20th century it was thought the universe was 1 big galaxy- this 1.

Wayne: “What is the Milky Way?” ($10,200)

$800 Science:

Answer there: the final DD of the wk; he risked $2K on this read by Jon.

“It’s a term for a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. We’ve turned a motor into 1 by making it light up the bulb.”

“What is an electromagnet?”…not what’s it called- what is a generator?

$1200 Science:

Vauquelin found Beryllium in 1798, the yr after he found this, symbol Cr.

Wayne: “What is chromium?” ($9400)

$1600 Science (Jimmy):

“You can take a simple nail, coil wire around it, connect it to a battery & turn it into this attractive 13-letter term.”

Wayne: “What is an electromagnet?” ($11K)

$2K Science:

Predicted in 1928 the 1st known antiparticle was the anti-this, also called the positron.

Wayne: “What is the antielectron?” ($13K)

ATTEMPTED LT: $2800
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: $2K (Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women)
TOTAL DJ! LT: $4800

Pre-Final S:
Wayne: $13K/Tana: $4400/Erica: $10,600

CORYAT SCORES:
Wayne: $15K/Tana: $9400/Erica: $11,600

FJ!: FAMOUS AMERICANS

In part, using donated French tanks, he formed the U.S. Army’s 1st tank training school in 1917.

TANA: “Who is George Patton?” (DOUBLE) = $8800
ERICA: “Who is Patton?” ($10,001) = $20,601
WAYNE: EXACTLY THE SAME AS TANA = $21,201