Seth Alcorn game 4.
Carol Curtis — a human resources manager from Troy, Michigan
Matt McPherson — a recent MBA graduate from San Francisco, California
Seth Alcorn — a bookseller from Placentia, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $106,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seth | $3,200 | $6,600 | $12,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,600
17 R, 0 W |
| Matt | $2,800 | $3,800 | $12,600 |
$25,200
New champion: $25,200 |
$15,600
20 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Carol | $200 | $800 | $4,400 |
$8,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
9 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| HISTORY | U.S. IMPORTS | A TRIP TO THE TOWER OF LONDON | KELLY GIRLS | LINE 'EM UP | A "COCK"-EYED CATEGORY |
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$200
[2]
On December 2, 1804 this man crowned himself emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte
Matt
|
$200
[7]
For peat's sake, 99% of the peat imported by the U.S. comes from this neighbor
Canada
Carol
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$200
[1]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew) Ranulf Flambard, the first prisoner at the Tower, escaped using this, smuggled to him in a wine casket
rope
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$200
[13]
She could title her autobiography "I Married a Sweathog" as she is Mrs. John Travolta
Kelly Preston
Seth
|
$200
[24]
From largest in area to smallest:Australia, United States, Russia
Russia, United States, Australia
Seth
Matt
|
$200
[14]
A Bloody Mary, for example
cocktail
Seth
|
|
$400
[3]
Around 600 B.C. some Phoenicians claimed to have sailed around this continent, 2,000 years before the Portuguese
Africa
Matt
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$400
[8]
Washington growers of these complained in 2000 that the Chinese were flooding the U.S. market with their juice
apples
Seth
|
$400
[9]
The first polar bear on English soil lived at the Tower of London in the 13th century & fished for its meals in this river
Thames
Matt
|
$400
[16]
As runner-up in the first edition of this show, Kelly Wiglesworth won $100,000
Survivor
|
$400
[25]
From farthest away to closest to the Earth:Uranus, Mars, Pluto
Pluto, Uranus, Mars
Seth
|
$400
[15]
A staged battle between 2 roosters
cockfight
Matt
|
|
$600
[4]
The Sonderbund was an 1845 confederation of 7 cantons in what's now this country
Switzerland
Seth
|
$600
[17]
Mexico & Madagascar are a couple of our sources for this mineral found in pencils & brake linings
graphite
Seth
|
$600
[10]
The first ghost seen at the Tower, in the 13th century, was that of this archbishop who was murdered in Canterbury
Thomas Becket
Matt
|
$600
[23]
Former "Baywatch" lifeguard Kelly Packard joined Dean Cain on this TBS series
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
|
$600
[26]
From earliest movie to most recent:"The Birds", "Birdman of Alcatraz", "The Birdcage"
Birdman of Alcatraz , The Birds , The Birdcage
Matt
Carol
|
$600
[18]
"Mad Dogs & Englishmen" was a film about this man's 1970 U.S. tour
Joe Cocker
Seth
|
|
$800
[5]
A tsar from age 16, during his despotic reign Russia got its first printing press in 1563
Ivan the Terrible
Matt
|
DD
$1,000
[21]
This "black gold" from Iran can sell for $60 to over $100 an ounce
caviar
Matt
|
$800
[11]
According to legend, there's buried treasure at the Tower, & this famous diarist born in 1633 tried to find it
Samuel Pepys
Seth
|
$800
[27]
Hayley Vaughan Cortlandt McIntyre Santos Santos on "All My Children", she now has a talk show gig
Kelly Ripa
Seth
|
$800
[28]
From longest river to shortest:The Volga, The Nile, The Po
Nile, Volga, Po
Matt
|
$800
[19]
A ridiculous story used as an excuse
cock and bull story
Seth
|
|
$1,000
[6]
In 1993 this Israeli P.M. said, "You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies"
Yitzhak Rabin
Matt
|
$1,000
[22]
The U.S. imports not 90, but 100% of this element, Sr
strontium
|
$1,000
[12]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew) One of the last prisoners at the Tower of London was this Nazi, imprisoned here after parachuting into Scotland in 1941
Rudolf Hess
Seth
Matt
|
$1,000
[30]
She's best known for her role as Matt Dillon's wife in "Drugstore Cowboy"
Kelly Lynch
|
$1,000
[29]
From north to south:Warsaw, Pretoria, Helsinki
Helsinki, Warsaw, Pretoria
Matt
|
$1,000
[20]
There are about 17 species of cockatoo but just one of this small Australian parrot
cockatiel
Matt
|
| I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN | ANYTHING GOES | WHERE, OH WHERE? | MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE | YOU'RE THE "TOP" |
|
$400
[15]
The roof of the mouth, it consists of hard & soft parts
palate
Carol
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$400
[21]
Naval engineer Richard James invented this classic toy after watching a spring fall from a table
Slinky
Matt
|
$400
[10]
Cole Porter loved this city "in the springtime" & in every other season as well
Paris
Carol
|
$400
[26]
Showbiz father & daughter seen here
Joel & Jennifer Grey
Carol
|
$400
[3]
He's the character who rhapsodizes, "It is my lady; O, it is my love! O, that she knew she were!"
Romeo
Seth
|
$400
[1]
It's a synonym for circus
big top
Carol
|
|
$800
[16]
The mitral & tricuspid valves are parts of this organ
heart
Carol
|
$800
[22]
Appropriately, Bacchus is often depicted in art holding this fruit
grapes
Matt
|
$1,200
[13]
This eastern European nation is divided into 6 provinces, including Hrodna, Brest & Minsk
Belarus
|
$800
[27]
Peter Fonda named this actress daughter after an old flame
Bridget Fonda
Seth
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$800
[4]
When this title character asks, "Saw you the weird sisters?" Lennox replies, "No, my lord"
Macbeth
Matt
|
$800
[2]
He's the funnyman seen here
Carrot Top
Seth
|
|
$1,200
[17]
Lymph fluid contains these protective blood cells
white blood cells
Matt
|
$1,200
[23]
Young Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird" was inspired by this author of "In Cold Blood"
Truman Capote
Matt
|
DD
$1,600
[12]
This Canadian prairie province was named for a daughter of Queen Victoria
Alberta
Carol
|
$1,200
[28]
(Hi, I'm Pam Tillis) My album "It's All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis" is a tribute to this country great, my father
Mel Tillis
Carol
|
$1,200
[5]
"Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?" is one of Goneril's lines in this play
King Lear
Matt
|
$1,200
[8]
A "Dick Tracy" character, or a type of crew cut
Flattop
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[19]
It's the anatomical name for the windpipe
trachea
Matt
|
$1,600
[24]
In 1962 he became the first Australian to win the Grand Slam of tennis; he won it again in 1969
Rod Laver
Carol
|
$1,600
[14]
Cape Blanc in this country is Africa's northernmost mainland point
Tunisia
Matt
|
$1,600
[29]
His father, John, was in "The Grapes of Wrath" & his daughter is actress Martha Plimpton
Keith Carradine
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
Near the end of the play named for him, he says, "In this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, to tell my story"
Hamlet
Matt
|
$1,600
[9]
In 1901 Texas saw its first big oil strike at this oil field near Beaumont
Spindletop
|
|
$2,000
[20]
From the Greek for "all flesh", it acts as both an endocrine gland & a digestive organ
pancreas
Seth
|
$2,000
[25]
In 2002 this South American country's Varig Airlines celebrated its 75th anniversary
Brazil
Matt
|
$2,000
[18]
The waterfront of this Omani capital is dominated by the palace of Sultan Qaboos Bin Said
Muscat
|
$2,000
[30]
This famous daughter wrote her senior thesis at Stanford on the peace process in Northern Ireland
Chelsea Clinton
Matt
|
$2,000
[7]
In a poem by Shakespeare, Venus calls this handsome hunk "Thrice fairer than myself"
Adonis
Seth
|
$2,000
[11]
In 1995 scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab announced the discovery of this subatomic particle
top quark
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Term for an opinion or edict issued by a mufti or 'ulama; a famous one was issued in 1989
fatwa