Mark Eckard game 4.
Jessica Finkelberg — a talent backer from Jersey City, New Jersey
Jason Blankenship — a public defender from Keene, New Hampshire
Mark Eckard — a software engineer from Bedford, Massachusetts (whose 3-day cash winnings total $38,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark | $1,600 | $3,000 | $9,200 |
$17,200
4-day champion: $55,500 |
$8,300
25 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W |
| Jason | $600 | $2,700 | $8,500 |
$100
2nd place: Forever Resorts Houseboat Vacation in Nevada |
$8,500
19 R, 1 W |
| Jessica | $2,400 | $3,400 | $4,000 |
$1
3rd place: Pinseeker Golf Clubs |
$4,000
14 R, 1 W |
| GEORGE W. - THE GUBERNATORIAL YEARS | OUT OF THE "BLUE" | LAST NAME'S THE SAME | BOOK REVIEWS | LET'S CELEBRATE! | THE JOY OF SAX |
|
$100
[26]
A bill signed by Bush allowed Texans to carry these for the first time since the 1870s
handguns
Jason
|
$100
[1]
It's generally a high-priced stock with a long history of growth, like G.E. or AT&T
blue chip
Mark
|
$100
[16]
Dave, Clarence, Marlo
Thomas
Jessica
|
$100
[6]
One review called this Robert James Waller tale of a photographer's affair with a farmwife "Yuppie women's porn"
The Bridges of Madison County
Jessica
|
$100
[11]
The people of Monroe in this state have been celebrating "Cheese Days" since 1914 (They must be tired!)
Wisconsin
Jason
|
$100
[21]
David Sandborn doesn't do "Stupid Sax Tricks" when he sits in with Paul & the band on this man's show
David Letterman
Mark
|
|
$200
[27]
In '97 Bush got one of these worth $1 billion; in 2001 he asked for one worth more than $1 trillion
a tax cut
Jessica
|
$200
[2]
In a famous jingle, "Everything's better with" this kind of margarine "on it"
Blue Bonnet
Mark
|
$200
[17]
James Earl, Tommy Lee, Rickie Lee
Jones
Mark
|
$200
[7]
"Dr. Seuss took 220 words, rhymed them, and turned out" this "volume of absurdity that worked like a karate chop"
The Cat in the Hat
Jessica
|
$200
[12]
French for "good journey", it's the kind of party thrown to celebrate setting off on a cruise
Bon Voyage
Mark
|
$200
[22]
Office held at the time by the man in the 1992 clip seen here
Governor of Arkansas
Jason
|
|
$300
[28]
It's the Y in TYC, the commission whose funding doubled under Bush to combat juvenile crime
Youth
Mark
|
$300
[3]
Before holding court on "Judging Amy", Amy Brenneman played a cop on this drama
NYPD Blue
Jessica
|
$300
[18]
Rita, Martha, Calvin
Coolidge
Jessica
|
$300
[8]
One reviewer said "Wondrous beasts and scientific possibilities" made this Michael Crichton novel "alluring"
Jurassic Park
Mark
|
$300
[13]
This festival officially opens when the mayor of Munich taps the first barrel & shouts, "O'zapft Is!"
Oktoberfest
Mark
|
$300
[23]
Before taking some letters off his last name, Gorelick, this soprano sax man's first paid gig was with Barry White
Kenny G
Mark
|
|
$400
[29]
On June 1, 2000, Gov. Bush postponed one of these for the first time in over 130 chances
an execution
Jessica
|
$400
[4]
It begins, "Well it's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go cat go"
"Blue Suede Shoes"
Jessica
|
$400
[19]
Norma, Robert, Calvin
Klein
Jason
|
DD
$500
[9]
One review said that this 1977 horror novel "can burn its images--such as room 217--into your brain"
The Shining
Mark
|
$400
[14]
In September the San Gennaro Festival turns this "small" ethnic area of Manhattan into a street fair
Little Italy
Jessica
|
$400
[24]
Dizzy Gillespie & this alto sax man known as "Bird" helped popularize bebop in the '40s
Charlie Parker
Jason
|
|
$500
[30]
One of Bush's first initiatives was tort reform to stop what he called the "junk" type of these
lawsuits
Mark
|
$500
[5]
They're the bad guys whom the Beatles battled in the movie "Yellow Submarine"
Blue Meanies
Jessica
|
$500
[20]
Graham, Clarence, Ogden
Nash
Jason
|
$500
[10]
His "tales of failure are his successes, and 'An American Tragedy', in which failure is unalleviated, is his greatest success"
Theodore Dreiser
Jessica
|
$500
[15]
(Hi, I'm Jodie Foster.) When my friend Mel Gibson won 2 Oscars for this film, I hired a bagpiper to follow him around at the parties
Braveheart
Jason
|
$500
[25]
Some of "My Favorite Things" by this sax genius are "Giant Steps" & "Equinox"
John Coltrane
Jason
|
| BIG OLD ISLANDS | LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR | FONTS OF INFORMATION | GENERALLY SPEAKING | EDIBLE TV | THE JOY OF SIX |
|
$200
[1]
In 1856 those little devils on Van Diemen's Land changed its name to this
Tasmania
Jason
|
$200
[26]
Of 1/3 & 1/5
15
Mark
Jason
|
$200
[21]
The name of this font also belongs to ancient Teutonic people & a style of architecture
Gothic
Mark
Jason
|
$200
[7]
George C. Scott won an Oscar for his portrayal of this general
George S. Patton
Mark
|
$200
[4]
Dean Martin hosted several of these, in which celebrities were insulted by their peers
roasts
Mark
|
$200
[16]
"Sing a song of" this & some reasonably priced blackbirds baked in a pie
sixpence
Mark
|
|
$400
[2]
Darwin & the Beagle stopped by this island named by Magellan off the tip of South America
Tierra del Fuego
Jason
|
$400
[27]
Of 1/4 & 1/6
12
Jessica
|
$400
[22]
This font is called Big Top or by the name of this 19th century big top showman
(P.T.) Barnum
Mark
|
$400
[8]
2 years before Little Bighorn, he published "My Life on the Plains"
George Custer
Jason
|
$400
[12]
A short-lived '80s cartoon featured a fat husband named Meatballs & his thin wife named this
Spaghetti
Mark
|
$400
[17]
Michael Douglas' wife should know it's the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet
Zeta
Mark
|
|
$600
[3]
The westernmost of Indonesia's Sunda Islands, it also starts with "Su"
Sumatra
Jessica
|
$600
[28]
Of 1/6, 1/8 & 1/12
24
Mark
|
$600
[23]
The font seen here:10, 9, 8, 7...
Countdown
Mark
|
$600
[9]
In 2000 this Desert Storm general received the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award
Norman Schwarzkopf
Mark
|
$600
[13]
In a show adapted from a film, Tom Mason was Freebie & Hector Elizondo played him
The Bean
Jessica
|
$600
[18]
The "Six Counties" of the northern part of this island include Armagh, Antrim & Derry
Ireland
Mark
|
|
$1,000
[6]
It's the largest island of the Nunavut Territory, as well as of its country
Baffin Island (Canada)
Mark
Jason
|
$800
[29]
Of 1/9 & 1/15
45
Jason
|
$800
[24]
This typeface was inspired by & named for this 1920s German design school
Bauhaus
Jason
|
$1,000
[11]
Before Powell, 1 of 2 4-star generals who went on to become Secretary of State
Alexander Haig or George Marshall
|
$800
[14]
"The Ed Sullivan Show" was originally called this "of the Town"
Toast of the Town
Mark
|
$800
[19]
Numerical proverb used when there's no good choice between 2 propositions
"Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other"
Mark
Jason
|
|
DD
$1,200
[5]
Encarta notes shoe manufacturing is a big industry on this largest of the islands once ruled by Marcos
Luzon (in the Philippines)
Mark
|
$1,000
[30]
Of 1/2, 1/5, 1/10 & 1/12
60
Jason
|
$1,000
[25]
Neither snow, nor rain, etc. stays this font from the swift completion of its appointed rounds
Courier
Jason
Jessica
|
DD
$1,200
[10]
This Civil War hero was originally named for a Shawnee Indian chief, William was added later
William Tecumseh Sherman
Mark
|
$1,000
[15]
A 1989 game show of TV trivia, or the kind of people who did well on it
Couch Potatoes
Mark
|
$1,000
[20]
In '77 this Lou Gramm-led group was hot when they hit No. 6 with "Cold As Ice"
Foreigner
Jason
|
In 1939 he helped Roger Hill prepare the "Mercury Shakespeare", a series of editions for actors
Orson Welles