Dave Simpson game 4.
Kara Gavin — a science writer from Plymouth, Michigan
Kew Lee — a psychiatrist from San Francisco, California
Dave Simpson — a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $76,802)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave | $1,200 | $3,000 | $14,200 |
$12,099
4-day champion: $88,901 |
$14,200
18 R, 2 W |
| Kew | $4,500 | $7,900 | $16,300 |
$4,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,400
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Kara | $1,800 | $4,000 | $4,800 |
$800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,800
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| HERE'S THE STORY | OF A MAN NAMED BRADY | A BUNCH OF STUFF | MEN IN HISTORY | ON YOUR "OWN" | BUSY AS A BEE |
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$200
[26]
The narrator opens this 1851 tale (tail?) with a demand; leaves New Bedford; has some ocean trouble
Moby-Dick
Kew
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$200
[21]
In 2007 this Patriots QB from Michigan threw a single-season record 50 TD passes
Tom Brady
Kara
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$200
[12]
The name of this Mexican dish of a tortilla topped with fried eggs & salsa is sometimes translated as "country eggs"
huevos rancheros
Kew
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$200
[11]
This man died April 15, 1865 despite the desperate medical assistance of U.S. Surgeon General Joseph Barnes
Abraham Lincoln
Dave
Kew
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$200
[1]
Remember used cars? now dealers refer to those models as this type
pre-owned
Dave
Kew
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$200
[6]
This actor was busy in "Dr. Strangelove", playing 3 roles
Peter Sellers
Kew
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$400
[27]
An angler is 0-for-84 days, fish-wise, in this 1952 piece; gets harpoon happy; has some shark trouble
The Old Man and the Sea
Kew
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$400
[22]
In 2007 this Browns QB from Notre Dame did not throw 50 TD passes
Brady Quinn
Dave
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$400
[17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew performs a science experiment.) Milk is a colloid, meaning a liquid with solid particles spread throughout; using vinegar, you canseparatethe solids, called curd, from the liquid, which is called this
whey
Kew
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$400
[13]
In 1889 this "colossal" man's British South African Company received a charter to develop Malawi
(Cecil) Rhodes
Kew
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$400
[2]
9-letter term meaning produced in a particular region for local consumption
homegrown
Dave
Kew
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$400
[7]
This chain let us know it was "time to make the donuts" in ads featuring a mustachioed, portly worker
Dunkin' Donuts
Kew
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|
$600
[28]
A surgeon/sea captain sets sail on a quartet of voyages in this work; has some trouble with his Yahoo account
Gulliver's Travels
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$600
[23]
When he wasn't terrorizing Dave Chappelle, he won 2 Emmys for outstanding talk show host
Wayne Brady
Kew
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$600
[18]
A tornado that struck Rochester, Minnesota in 1883 inspired 3 doctors with this last name to open a clinic
Mayo
Dave
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$800
[15]
On Hitler's direct order, SS man Otto Skorzeny led the spectacular 1943 rescue of this man from an Italian prison
Benito Mussolini
|
$600
[3]
The Tomb of the American this, for a serviceman killed in WWI, was established in 1921
the Unknown Soldier
Dave
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$600
[8]
A 2001 Time article called this Bush strategist the "busiest man in the White House"
Karl Rove
Dave
|
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$800
[29]
A Gypsy loves Captain Phoebus in this story; guy really puts his shoulder into things
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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$800
[24]
By 1851 this photographer's failing eyesight had begun to hamper his work
Mathew Brady
Kew
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$800
[19]
This Maryland city's intl. airport is officially named for Thurgood Marshall, who was born there
Baltimore
Dave
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$1,000
[16]
Changing the electricity industry, this coil man advocated the use of alternating current
Tesla
Kew
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$800
[4]
To repudiate or renounce, especially one's heirs
disown
Kew
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$800
[9]
4 Dutch builders were busy in Leeuwarden before setting a record by toppling 4,079,381 of these in 2006
dominoes
Kara
|
| — |
$1,000
[25]
In the 1880s he made his fortune selling railroad cars for the Fox Pressed Steel Co. & got seriously into jewelry
Diamond Jim Brady
Kara
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$1,000
[20]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) Central Park has several impressive arches, like the one named for this shape, a design term for an ornamental 3-part leaf
a trefoil
Kara
|
DD
$1,500
[14]
During the Russo-Japanese War, Jack London worked as a reporter for this man's newspaper chain
(William Randolph) Hearst
Kew
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$1,000
[5]
An overheated engine can get this way; so can your mind, man, if you think how small we are, y'know, cosmically
blown
Kara
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$1,000
[10]
It was no "accident" that this 10th president had the most children--15
Tyler
Kew
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| SPACED OUT | A SPORTING CHANCE | ISLAND HOPPING | FOREIGN EXCHANGE | AFRICAN ANIMALS | CROSSWORD CLUES "L" |
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$400
[26]
The Spirit & Opportunity rovers found evidence that water once flowed on this planet
Mars
Dave
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$400
[1]
When 2 bowling pins are separated & you need to knock them down to get a spare, it's called one of these
a split
Kew
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$400
[21]
On June 14, 1982 Argentine forces surrendered to British forces on these islands
the Falklands
Kara
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$400
[16]
The watermark on Egypt's 10-piastre bill is a statue of this ancient boy king
Tutankhamun
Kara
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$400
[11]
The only birds taller than this 8-foot African bird were the now-extinct moas
ostriches
Dave
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$400
[2]
They top eyes & trash cans(4)
lids
Dave
|
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$800
[27]
In a single day, temperatures on this planet closest to the sun range from -280 degrees to 800 degrees
Mercury
Kara
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$800
[3]
Hewas NBA Coach of the Year 3 times in the 1990s with 3 different teams
(Pat) Riley
Kew
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$1,200
[23]
The Faroe Islands belong to this Scandinavian country
Denmark
Kara
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$800
[17]
Both Palau & the Marshall Islands use this as their basic monetary unit
the U.S. dollar
Dave
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$800
[12]
Most of these flightless birds live near Antarctica, but the jackass species is found off South Africa
penguins
Kew
|
$800
[4]
Female rent collector(8)
a landlady
Dave
Kew
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Part-time astronomer Christopher Wren made a model of this with surface relief & gave it to Charles II
the Moon
Dave
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$1,200
[7]
In 2008 Minnesota's final deadline for removing the shelters used in this activity was March 15
ice fishing
Dave
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$1,600
[24]
This 147-square-mile island where Queen Victoria had a seaside home is just off the Hampshire coast
the Isle of Wight
|
$1,200
[18]
In 1704 Peter the Great introduced the first regular minting of this currency in silver
the ruble
Dave
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$1,200
[13]
Even though they're striped, thousands of these can be spotted migrating with their gnu friends
zebras
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$1,200
[5]
Flower with its own yoga position(5)
a lotus
Dave
|
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$1,600
[29]
A telescope atop a 17-story building on an Arizona mountain is called the LBT; the "B" is this, meaning "using 2 eyes"
binocular
Dave
Kara
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$1,600
[8]
A coach for this Tallahassee-based college football team directed, "You guys line up alphabetically by height"
Florida State University
Dave
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$2,000
[25]
It's how Easter Island is known in its indigenous language
Rapa Nui
Kara
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$1,600
[19]
Most of Vietnam's dong currency features the smiling face of this Communist dictator of the 1950s & '60s
Ho Chi Minh
Kew
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$1,600
[14]
The Cape fur type of this breeds at colonies on the coast of South Africa
a seal
Kara
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$1,600
[6]
Name whispered by "every little breeze" in song(6)
Louise
|
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$2,000
[30]
Alpha Centauri is a star; this, 3 letters shorter, is the term for Aldebaran as the brightest star in its constellation
Alpha Tauri
|
$2,000
[9]
Peter Handke wrote a novel called this position's "Fear of the Penalty Kick"
goalkeeper (or goalie)
Dave
|
DD
$4,000
[22]
The site of a major American naval victory over Japan in June 1942, it's located 1,300 miles northwest of Hawaii
Midway
Kara
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
In 2001 the Netherlands issued its last coin in this currency in both gold & silver
the guilder
Kew
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$2,000
[15]
This giraffe relative is also called a forest giraffe
the okapi
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$2,000
[10]
Quiche kingdom(8)
Lorraine
Kew
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Registered in 1893, this product's trademark is written in the Spencerian script of bookkeeper Frank Robinson
Coca-Cola