Mark Wales game 4.
Gabriel Lyon — a technical services representative from Madison, Wisconsin
Cheryl Grothaus — a computer programmer from New York, New York
Mark Wales — a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $81,402)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark | $2,200 | $7,400 | $15,000 |
$23,601
4-day champion: $105,003 |
$12,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Cheryl | $1,000 | $2,800 | $5,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,600
14 R, 6 W |
| Gabriel | $2,000 | $5,000 | $11,800 |
$800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
15 R, 4 W |
| GEOLOGY | PUTTIN' OUT THE WELCOME MATT | FINANCIAL PLANNING | IT'S AN ETHNIC THING | O BEFORE E | EXCEPT AFTER SEA |
|
$200
[11]
An earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude on this scale releases about 32 times as much energy as a 6.0
the Richter scale
Cheryl
|
$200
[24]
This "Friends" star lost the tip of his right middle finger in a childhood accident (It's not LeBlanc)
Matthew Perry
Mark
Cheryl
Gabriel
|
$200
[21]
A type of bank account, or the accumulated simoleons you've put aside
a savings
Mark
|
$200
[4]
Puzzle & checkers
Chinese
Mark
|
$200
[1]
This watercraft is usually made of aluminum or fiberglass; you don't see many dug-out logs these days
a canoe
Mark
|
$200
[16]
Moses knowses the summer water surface temperature of this 175,000-sq. mile sea averages about 85 degrees
the Red Sea
Cheryl
|
|
$400
[12]
Generations of tourists have uplift & erosion on this "stately" plateau to thank for the Grand Canyon
the Colorado Plateau
Gabriel
|
$400
[25]
On June 24, 2005, this Matt, Matt, Mattinterviewed Tom Cruise on NBC
Matt Lauer
Cheryl
|
$400
[22]
With a 529 plan, you can give up to $270,000 to a beneficiary for this purpose
a college education
Gabriel
|
$400
[7]
Roulette & wolfhound
Russian
Gabriel
|
$400
[2]
Pucker up; it's the holiday itemseen here
mistletoe
Mark
|
$400
[17]
This sea named for an explorer is the northern part of the Pacific between Siberia & Alaska
the Bering Sea
Mark
|
|
$600
[13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gazes at Sugarloaf in Brazil.) Sugarloaf is one hugeslabof rock rising 1300 ft. above its base; geologically, it's a granite one of these, from the Greek for "one stone"
a monolith
Mark
|
$600
[26]
12 years after taking a "Day Off", he played Dr. Niko Tatopoulos in 1998's "Godzilla"
Matthew Broderick
Mark
|
$600
[23]
These U.S. Government securities whose term is 30 years are risk free, but they also pay the least interest
treasury bonds (savings bonds accepted)
Cheryl
|
$600
[8]
Rhapsodies & goulash
Hungary
Gabriel
|
$600
[3]
In this game you hurl metal objects at a spike 30 to 40 feet away & hopefully never yell "fore!"
horseshoes
Gabriel
|
$800
[19]
Delos, a small island of the Cyclades, is in this sea east of Greece
the Aegean Sea
Cheryl
|
|
$800
[14]
This radioactive isotope is used to date rocks from 100 to 50,000 years old
carbon-14
Mark
|
$800
[27]
He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a cop in "Crash"
Matt Dillon
Mark
|
$800
[29]
Sounds like an auto mishap, but it's a type of IRA whose funds come from another retirement plan
rollover
Gabriel
|
$800
[9]
Linen & Republican Army
Irish
Cheryl
|
$800
[5]
Double the reed, double the fun; it's the instrument seen here
an oboe
Gabriel
|
$1,000
[20]
Seen here is this sea here. See?
the Baltic Sea
Gabriel
|
|
$1,000
[15]
The explosion of a volcanic cone followed by the cone's collapse creates this bowl-shaped crater
a caldera
Cheryl
|
$1,000
[28]
He played the "Private Ryan" Tom Hanks was trying to save
Matt Damon
Mark
|
$1,000
[30]
Also called a unit trust, it's an entity that invests the money of a pool of people in various securities
a mutual fund
Gabriel
|
$1,000
[10]
Towel & taffy
Turkish
Cheryl
Gabriel
|
$1,000
[6]
Leaves of this 2-word species yield a juice used in skin lotions
Aloe vera (aloe accepted)
Gabriel
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
This sea has Georgia on its mind (well, its eastern side, anyway) & Bulgaria on its west
the Black Sea
Mark
|
| U.S. PRESIDENTS | BIOPICS | BALLET BASICS | STORIED HOTELS | MYTHOLOGY & ART | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" |
|
$400
[2]
His presidential library's website credits him with saving 77 lives as a lifeguard in Dixon, Illinois
Ronald Reagan
Cheryl
|
$400
[9]
In 1938 Gary Cooper discovered spaghetti & gunpowder as this adventurer in the East
Marco Polo
Mark
|
DD
$200
[28]
The name of this classic ballet pose is derived from the name of a peninsula
arabesque
Mark
|
$400
[23]
The demolition of Finbar's Hotel in this capital inspired 7 Irish authors to write a book of tales set in it
Dublin
Gabriel
|
$400
[1]
The Frick Collection boasts a firedog topped with a sculpture of this greatest Roman god in all his glory
Jupiter
Mark
|
$400
[18]
U.S. Constitutional preface(8)
preamble
Mark
|
|
$800
[5]
This inventive president invented a "mouldboard of least resistance" for a plow
Jefferson
Mark
|
$800
[10]
"Alexander" features Christopher Plummer as Aristotle & this actor in the title role
Colin Farrell
Mark
|
$400
[14]
If the arms are en couronne, they're held in a curve here
above the head
Gabriel
|
$800
[24]
She often stayed at Brown's Hotel in London, & it's said that it inspired her mystery novel "At Bertram's Hotel"
Agatha Christie
Mark
|
$800
[3]
Gustave Moreau's vaguely eroticpaintingof Oedipus and this creature poses a riddle of its own
the Sphinx
Cheryl
|
$800
[19]
One-ounce liquor glass(4)
pony
|
|
$1,200
[6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.) One of Ford's biggest foreign crises was the capture of the U.S. ship Mayaguezby this Asian country in 1975
Cambodia
Mark
Cheryl
|
$1,200
[11]
Marion Cotillard transformed herself into this chanteuse in "La Vie en Rose"
Edith Piaf
Cheryl
|
$800
[17]
This ordinal ballet position traditionally has both arms extended outward
2nd position
Gabriel
|
$1,200
[25]
Tragedy strikes a high school student staying at the Waldorf in this Nebraska woman's 1905 story "Paul's Case"
Willa Cather
Gabriel
|
$1,200
[4]
Giorgione never finished his painting of this Roman love goddess sleeping, so Titian did it for him
Venus
Mark
|
$1,200
[20]
Arctic bird aka the sea parrot(6)
puffin
Mark
|
|
$1,600
[7]
JFK played golf with Bing Crosby during his 1961 Easter vacation at the Kennedy family's home in this Florida town
Palm Beach
Cheryl
|
$1,600
[15]
2007's "Control" is the story of Ian Curtis, the troubled singer of this U.K. rock band
Joy Division
Cheryl
|
$1,600
[29]
The name of this ballet move is from the Old French for "spinning top"
pirouette
Cheryl
|
$1,600
[26]
Hemingway wrote "Across the River and into the Trees" while living in this city's Gritti Palace, & part of the book is set there
Venice
Gabriel
|
$1,600
[12]
Near nudity, not high heels & swimsuits, is on display in Cranach the Elder'spaintingof this beauty contest
The Judgment of Paris
Cheryl
|
$1,600
[21]
Cricket field's central part(5)
pitch
Cheryl
|
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
Warren Harding chose this future president as his Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Mark
|
$2,000
[16]
In a 1970 film, Mick Jagger played this Robin Hood-like Australian outlaw on the big screen
Ned Kelly
Cheryl
|
$2,000
[30]
This ballet move with a 4-letter name is a jump forward, backward or to the side
jeté
Mark
Gabriel
|
$2,000
[27]
Daphne du Maurier fans love to stay at this Cornwall "Inn" with a Caribbean name; it inspired one of her novels
Jamaica Inn
Mark
|
$2,000
[13]
A marble statue of Dirce being tied to a wild one of these once stood in the Farnese Palace
a bull
Cheryl
|
$2,000
[22]
Plants' food-conducting tissue(6)
phloem
Gabriel
|
Though 1863's Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the Confederacy, this Union state, one of the original 13, ended slavery November 1, 1864
Maryland