This is a reality TV puzzle using the full names of participants on CBS-TV's reality shows: Survivor, Big Brother, and The Amazing Race. This is clued by the flavortext "reality" and "eye" (for CBS). The trivia questions all concern sports, politics and entertainment--the essential elements of reality TV.
The first set of trivia questions clues first names. You take the first name of your answer. The first set will also give you the order (i.e., don't reorder them).
The second set clues the last names. You take the last name of these answers and match them up with the first names, retaining the order from the first set. (Several answers, given in bold, are left over when you do this).
Winner of the 2000 silver medal in the 76kg class Olympic freestyle wrestling | BRANDON Slay |
Norwegian beauty who made competitive figure skating a popular spectator sport | SONJA Henie |
Elizabeth Berkley's character on "Saved By the Bell" | JESSIE Spano |
Cairo, Georgia native who is the most decorated basketball player in Olympic history | TERESA Edwards |
Man who named his band after his grandmother's jelly | EDDIE Vedder |
New York city councilwoman from Manhattan district 2 who is the city's first openly lesbian Puerto Rican councilor | MARGARITA Lopez |
Musician who fronted the Pacemakers | GERRY Marsden |
Winner of the Holt medallion in 1995 and 1999 | JENNA McKnight |
Incumbent who dropped out of the 2002 NJ Senate race due to ethics violations | ROBERT Torricelli |
Musician who defined the 1960's Chicago sound in hits like "Gypsy Woman." | CURTIS Mayfield |
New York Power forward who moved over from defense midway through the 2002 season | TAMMY Pearman |
"Mod Squad" babe whose daughter is a "Boston Public" star | PEGGY Lipton |
Republican who unseated an incumbent to take the 1998 Illinois Senate race | PETER Fitzgerald |
Actress whose character on Dawson's Creek fell off a dock and drowned | MONICA Keena |
Athlete who testified against 3 men charged with stabbing him in a nightclub | PAUL Pierce |
Champion high jumper who appeared on the cover of Vogue in the spring of 2000 | AMY Acuff |
Widow appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the seat won by her posthumously elected husband | JEAN Carnahan |
Driver of car #24 on NASCAR's racing circuit | JEFF Gordon |
South Carolinian Desert Storm veteran elected to the House during the 1994 Gingrich revolution | LINDSEY Graham |
Character actor whose identical twin brother appeared on "90210" | MITCHELL Laurence |
Man who has represented the Bremerton/Tacoma area in Congress since 1976 | NORM Dicks |
Boxing champ most famous for chomping Holyfield's ear during a 1997 match | MIKE Tyson |
Pitcher who went to the Florida Marlins as the #2 overall selection in the 1999 draft | JOSH Beckett |
Beloved children's book character played by Sarah Polley in the PBS series | RAMONA Quimby |
Third-party candidate in the 1980 Presidential election | JOHN Anderson |
Woman who sued Bill Cosby, claiming to be his illegitimate daughter | AUTUMN Jackson |
Real-life son of TV's Jason Seaver and singer Gloria Loring | BRENNAN Thicke |
NHL veteran Right Wing nicknamed the "Little Ball of Hate" | PAT Verbeek |
Democrat who represents Contra Costa and Solano counties in the U.S. House | GEORGE Miller |
NFL QB who won the 1996 Heisman trophy | DANNY Wuerffel |
Candidate whose presidential campaign imploded after the Monkey Business | GARY Hart |
14th President of the United States | Franklin PIERCE |
315 lb. Guard currently playing his 5th NFL season in Tennessee | Benji OLSON |
1970s politician who resigned his cabinet post to protest the handling of the Iranian hostage crisis | Cyrus VANCE |
Actor who earned an Oscar nomination for Frank Capra's "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" | Gary COOPER |
Actress selected for the title character in Adrian Lyne's Lolita after a nationwide casting search | Dominique SWAIN |
Athlete featured as "Catch-22" in recent Visa commercial | Emmitt SMITH |
Bucksport Republican representing District 113 in the Maine state legislature | Richard ROSEN |
Children's author and illustrator whose works include Caldecott Honor Books "Truck" and "Freight Train" | Donald CREWS |
Classic soul singer whose singles include "You Left the Water Running", "Tear Stained Face", and "One Woman Man" | Don VARNER |
Current Colorado Rockies relief pitcher traded from St. Louis after an outstanding rookie season in 1999 | Jose JIMENEZ |
Democrat from Riverdale, Georgia elected to serve District SH 093 in the State House of Representatives | Frank BAILEY Jr. |
Documentary producer and cinematographer whose feature directorial debut was 2001's "My Sister's Wedding" | David W. LEITNER |
Former Chicago Cub named NL Rookie Pitcher of the Year in 1990 | Mike HARKEY |
Former Conan sidekick who now controls the universe | Andy RICHTER |
Franklin Roosevelt appointee to the Supreme Court who served in the U.S. Senate from 1927-1937 | Hugo BLACK |
Head coach for Switzerland's national soccer team | Jakob KUHN |
Illinois Representative who has co-authored 3 books with his famous father | Jesse JACKSON Jr. |
Inconsistent yet powerful golfer who took a surprising victory at the 1991 PGA Championship | John DALY |
Inline street skater who won a gold medal in the 1997 X Games--on his sixteenth birthday | Aaron FEINBERG |
Jazz trumpeter whose releases include "Vice & Virtue", "Hissy Fit", and "This Against That" | Ralph ALESSI |
Late British character actor who appeared as a waiter in "A Hard Day's Night" | Eddie MALIN |
Louisiana gospel singer whose 2001 album wasLike the Seagull | Beryl QUINTON |
Malaysian badminton star who, in 1998, became the first non-Indonesian winner of the Indonesian Open title in 10 years | Yong Hock KIN |
Man sworn in as the 63rd Secretary of State on January 20, 1993 | Warren CHRISTOPHER |
Man who appeared as "Grampa Beefstake" in the 2000 feature "Red Lipstick" | Chris DECANIO |
Man who represents the 8th Senate District in the Kentucky Legislature | David BOSWELL |
Miami Heat Forward who played for the Fighting Irish | LaPhonso ELLIS |
Musician from The Call who appeared as John the Apostle in the Last Temptation of Christ | Mike BEEN |
Phillies pitcher who became the 3rd player in team history to have back-to-back 30-save seasons | Jose MESA |
Player who, having been with the L.A. Clippers and in the CBA, signed with the Timberwolves as a free agent in 2002 | Troy HUDSON |
Republican representing District 80 in the Louisiana House of Representatives | Charles LANCASTER |
Republican representing the 80th Assembly District in Wisconsin | Mike POWERS |
Singer whose eponymous band released the albumShine in 2000 | Pat MCGEE |
State legislator and career farmer representing Pennsylvania's 13th district since 1982 | Art HERSHEY |
Super Bowl XXXII's Most Valuable Player | Terrell DAVIS |
Texan who was the first black woman from the Deep South to be elected to the House of Representatives | Barbara JORDON |
The first African-American woman to star in her own weekly TV series | Diahann CARROLL |
Track and field superstar who won his 4th Olympic long jump in 1996 | Carl LEWIS |
TV comedian whose grandson is actor Jason Patric | Jackie GLEASON |
Woman who played J.R. Ewing's long-suffering wife | Linda GRAY |
World Boxing Council lightweight champion from 1985-1987 | Hector "Macho" CAMACHO |
Yale Divinity School honorary degree recipient 1997 and a former lieutenant governor | Eunice GROARK |
"Eliminate" and "ultimate fate" tell you what to do with the names you get: take the nth letter of each name where n is the position each was eliminated. Matching them up and taking letters gives:
First | Last | Show | Elimination order | Letter |
Brandon | Quinton | S3 | 9 | U |
Sonja | Christopher | S1 | 1 | S |
Jessie | Camacho | S3 | 2 | E |
Teresa | Cooper | S3 | 12 | R |
Eddie | Mcgee | BB1 | 10 | E |
Margarita | Mesa | AR1 | 10 | M |
Gerry | Lancaster | BB3 | 7 | A |
Jenna | Lewis | S1 | 9 | I |
Robert | Decanio | S5 | 11 | N |
Curtis | Kin | BB1 | 8 | I |
Tammy | Leitner | S4 | 10 | N |
Peggy | Kuhn | AR2 | 3 | G |
Peter | Harkey | S4 | 1 | P |
Monica | Bailey | BB2 | 10 | L |
Paul | Alessi | AR1 | 5 | A |
Amy | Crews | BB3 | 3 | Y |
Jean | Jordan | BB1 | 2 | E |
Jeff | Varner | S2 | 7 | R |
Lindsey | Richter | S3 | 6 | S |
Mitchell | Olson | S2 | 4 | C |
Norm | Davis | AR2 | 2 | O |
Mike | Malin | BB2 | 5 | M |
Josh | Feinberg | BB3 | 5 | F |
Ramona | Gray | S1 | 4 | O |
John | Carroll | S4 | 8 | R |
Autumn | Daly | BB2 | 3 | T |
Brennan | Swain | AR1 | 11 | I |
Pat | Pierce | AR1 | 3 | T |
George | Boswell | BB1 | 6 | E |
Danny | Jimenez | AR2 | 8 | M |
Gary | Rosen | AR2 | 7 | S |
or, "USE REMAINING PLAYERS' COMFORT ITEMS". Matching the remaining players and their "comfort items" (what they brought with them or what they said they'd miss most, taken from their CBS bios), you then take letters in the exact same way:
VANCE | S5 | 2 | bRush | R |
SMITH | AR1 | 2 | bEd | E |
BLACK | S3 | 7 | arMy camouflage paints | M |
JACKSON | S4 | 2 | lOcket of Arabian's tail | O |
ELLIS | S4 | 3 | naVy wings from grandfather | V |
BEEN | S1 | 5 | BiblE | E |
HUDSON | AR1 | 5 | cd plAyer | A |
POWERS | S3 | 11 | string neckLace | L |
HERSHEY | S2 | 3 | liPstick | P |
GLEASON | S2 | 2 | sHaving kit | H |
GROARK | AR1 | 4 | totAl bathroom facility | A |
and the answer is REMOVE ALPHA.