Preliminaries: Meloni/Shearer/Malina
December 17
Last time on the Million Dollar Celebrity
Invitational, it was ladies night, as Jane Kaczmarek took down her opponents to
win $50,000 for the Clothes Off Our Back and to move one step closer to the
Million Dollar Tournament Week in May, joining Michael McKean and Andy Richter.
We still need six more semifinalists, though, so
today, and every third Thursday of every month,
another winner will be crowed and will move one step closer to winning the top
prize of $1 million for the charity of his or her choice.
The player who wins this game (and the
five to follow) will donate at least $50,000 to their charity. The
runners-up will take away $25,000. Any and all monies will be determined
by how far up the ladder a player goes.
This month's stars are...
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Christopher Meloni
"Law & Order: SVU"
Smile Train |
Harry Shearer
"The Simpsons"
Common Ground Relief |
Joshua Malina
"In Plain Sight"
Archer School for Girls |
Jeopardy! round..
THEATRE |
CELEBRITY
HEADACHES |
HAPPY
FEDERAL
HOLIDAY! |
NAME THAT
LANGUAGE |
IN PLAIN
SIGHT |
LIMERICK
TIME |
Daily Double: $600 Happy
Federal Holiday! Harry and Chris are tied for the
lead with $1600 to Josh's $1000. Harry fronts $400
on this: in 1792 NYC honored the 300th anniversary
of a famous arrival with the first major US
celebration of this holiday. "What is Columbus Day?"
Correct for $2000!
$5,200 |
$5,000 |
$3,400 |
Chris |
Harry |
Josh |
Double Jeopardy! categories:
SCIENCE |
THE
FOLKSMEN |
IN A GOOD
CAUSE |
PEOPLE
BOOKS |
STABLER |
"ARG"!!! |
Daily Double #1: $2000 People
Books. Josh has ground to make up with $6200 to Harry's $13,400 and Chris's
$12,800. Josh bets only $3300 on this: "Not Harry but the next best thing" said
people of this woman's "The Tales of Beedle the Bard". "Who is JK Rowling?"
That... would've been right, but Josh loses on this, leaving him with $2900.
Daily Double #2: $1200 Science. Josh
has another chance with $4500, while the others are topping off at $13,000. He
bets $3000 on this: fructose is a monosaccharide, a simple one of these. "What
is a sugar?" Correct for $7500!
At the end of Double Jeopardy!...
$13,200 |
$13,000 |
$7,900 |
Chris |
Harry |
Josh |
J-Archive.com calls this a
4/5 scenario.
- Josh wins if... Chris and Harry
bet against each other and lose, while he bets no more than $7499 and no less
than $5101
- Harry wins if... he bets between $2801 and $5099 and is right, while Chris
bets against his double and is wrong.
- Chris wins if... he bets $12,801 and is right.
Final Jeopardy! category:
FADS
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IT WAS INSPIRED BY A PIECE OF
AUSTRALIAN PHYS. ED. EQUIPMENT & 100 MILLION WERE SOLD WORLDWIDE IN 1958 |
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Correct response: what is the hula
hoop?
Josh's response: what is the boomerang? WRONG. Wager:
$7899. Total: $1.
Harry's response: what is the hula hoop? CORRECT. Wager: $4000. Total:
$17,000.
Chris's response: what is a Nautilus mahine? WRONG. Wager doesn't matter.
SEMI-FINALIST:
Harry Shearer
The Final decides it again.
Chris rallied. Harry rallied back. This was your typical two-man race,
and if Harry did this well with little effort from a Daily Double,
imagine what would happen had he found one.
Three new stars next month, January
21.
To read all about the tournament,
the stars, and their charities, go to
www.jeopardy.com.
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