Matt Kohlstedt game 4.
Chris Schleicher — a student from Winchester, Massachusetts
Luis Román — a public defender from New York, New York
Matt Kohlstedt — a graduate student originally from La Grange, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $49,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $1,000 | $1,200 | $6,400 |
$5,601
4-day champion: $55,402 |
$6,400
15 R, 4 W |
| Luis | $2,600 | $4,600 | $12,200 |
$3,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
14 R, 3 W |
| Chris | $1,800 | $4,200 | $15,000 |
$5,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| GUITAR HERO | GRAND THEFT AUTO | WORLD OF WARCRAFT | ROCK BAND | HALF-LIFE | VIDEO GAMES |
|
$200
[4]
(Jon of the Clue Crew strums a distinctive-looking instrument.) Guitar heroes like Buddy Holly & Eric Clapton made their marks with this iconic guitar model from Fender
the Stratocaster
Luis
|
$200
[23]
It's America's most wanted: this automaker's 1995 Civic topped U.S. stolen-car rankings in 2006 & 2007
Honda
Matt
|
$200
[1]
Bows get arrows; crossbows fire these, like lightning
bolts
Matt
|
$200
[3]
The law of superposition states that any bed of rock must be older than another bed here
above it
Chris
|
$200
[11]
Voting for half Democrats & half Republicans is voting a split this
a ticket
Matt
|
$200
[18]
The "ball" in this classic '70s version of table tennis was square--good thing it was played on video
Pong
Matt
|
|
$400
[5]
Rolling Stone ranked this late Texas bluesman number seven on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Luis
|
$400
[24]
God bless America! According to an FBI report, they're the 3 most popular car colors for thieves
red, white & blue
Chris
|
$400
[2]
The M1 Abrams type of this has been called "the backbone of the armored forces of the U.S. military"
a tank
Luis
|
$400
[7]
A 250-million-year, old grayish-white limestone layer of sea fossils is referred to as this canyon's "bathtub ring"
the Grand Canyon
Chris
|
$400
[12]
Injured athletes don't say they're at half strength, they say things like "the knee's at about" this much
50 percent
Chris
|
$400
[19]
The name of this classic game came from onomatopoetic Japanese for the sound a mouth makes while eating
Pac-Man
|
|
$600
[6]
(Jon of the Clue Crew bends it like Eddy.) Guitar heroes like Duane Eddy have made use of the vibrato effect lever with this name that sounds like something you'd use to put a hex on an enemy
a whammy bar
Chris
|
$600
[28]
Compact cars top the list in most states, but in W.V. & Texas, the most commonly stolen vehicles are this type
pickups
Matt
Luis
Chris
|
$800
[26]
Revolutionary in the 15th century, the matchlock was a type of this weapon
a pistol
Matt
|
$600
[8]
The earth's outermost layer of rock, it comes in oceanic & continental types (sorry, no whole wheat)
the crust
Chris
|
$600
[13]
Hemiplegia is this affecting only one side of the body
paralysis
Matt
|
$600
[20]
Spacewar, the first shoot-'em-up game, was created in the early '60s by programmers at this Mass. school
MIT
Matt
|
|
$800
[16]
Thisguy, who practically invented classical guitar, was born in Granada, not the Spanish city with his surname
(Andres) Segovia
Luis
|
$800
[29]
Rhyming name for a place where stolen cars are disassembled into parts for resale
a chop shop
Chris
|
$1,000
[27]
Newly popular in the Middle Ages were the longbow & this long pointy poking pole resembling a spear or lance
a pike
Matt
Chris
|
$800
[9]
Layers of rock are commonly referred to as these, from the Latin for "something spread out"
strata
Luis
|
$800
[14]
Espagnole sauce cooked down by half to form a thick glaze is called demi-this French word
glace
Luis
|
$800
[21]
Computer Space, the first arcade video game, makes a cameo in this 1973 sci-fi film (spoiler: the title is people!)
Soylent Green
Luis
|
|
$1,000
[17]
He's the guitar hero & Grateful Dead guru seen here
(Jerry) Garcia
Chris
|
$1,000
[30]
Thieves often break into cars with this long, thin metal strip that shares its name with a spicy meat snack
a slim jim
Chris
|
DD
$1,200
[25]
Introduced in WWII, this company's Me-262 jet might have made a difference but for a fuel shortage
Messerschmitt
Chris
|
$1,000
[10]
Most exposed rock on the earth's surface is this type produced by the weathering & erosion of older rock
sedimentary
Matt
|
$1,000
[15]
Thelinethat divides angle ABC into two halves is called this
bisecting line
Matt
|
$1,000
[22]
This game's Japanese designer thought his proposed English title meant "stupid ape"; nope, but Nintendo used it
Donkey Kong
Luis
|
| WORLD LITERATURE | JOHNNY'S CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS | SECOND-LARGEST CITIES | WORLD OF DANCE | ODE ON A GRECIAN, EARNED | WATERY TERMS |
|
$400
[12]
Dostoyevsky didn't call his novel about Prince Myshkin "The Dope" or "The Ninny" but this
The Idiot
Matt
|
$400
[7]
"Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again"
All in the Family
Chris
|
$400
[1]
Goteburg
Sweden
Luis
Chris
|
$400
[2]
When it evolved from the landler in the 1700s, the couples' near-embrace shocked polite society
the waltz
Chris
|
$400
[26]
After Socrates' death, this Athenian went to Megara & wrote philosophic dialogues to vindicate his pal
Plato
Matt
|
$400
[21]
This term originally applied to a woman hired to suckle another woman's infant
a wet nurse
Chris
|
|
$800
[13]
The last of Andre Chenier's moving poems "Iambes" date from just before his death by this in July 1794
guillotine
Luis
|
$800
[14]
"Fish don't fry in the kitchen, beans don't burn on the grill, took a whole lotta tryin' just to get up that hill"
The Jeffersons
Luis
|
$800
[8]
Basra
Iraq
Matt
|
$1,200
[4]
The bullfight-based paso doble includes a move where the man turns the woman into this piece of apparel
the cape
Matt
Luis
|
$800
[27]
Not until the 19th century was his fifth postulate modified to develop non-him-ean geometries
Euclid
Chris
|
$800
[22]
Someone born under the 11th sign of the zodiac
Aquarius
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Born in 1547, this Spanish author always craved the fame of his contemporary Lope de Vega
Cervantes
Chris
|
$1,200
[15]
"So, no one told you life was gonna be this way, your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A."
Friends
Chris
|
$1,200
[9]
Lodz
Poland
|
DD
$1,600
[3]
A beverage for which Cuba is famous makes up the first 3 letters of this dance with subtle hip movements
the rumba
Chris
|
$1,200
[28]
Let's "Post" some facts: her maiden name is Stassinopoulos & she has an M.A. in economics from Cambridge
Arianna Huffington
|
$1,200
[23]
It's visible when the angle of refraction between the sun, the water & your line of vision is between 40 & 42o
a rainbow
Chris
|
|
$1,600
[19]
Naguib Mahfouz, the first Arabic-language Nobel literature laureate, is from this country
Egypt
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
"Well, the names have all changed since you hung around, but those dreams have returned & they've turned around"
Welcome Back, Kotter
Chris
|
$1,600
[10]
In Africa:Buchanan
Liberia
Matt
|
$1,600
[5]
In Virginia, they know this as a fishing accessory, or a dance for multiple couples
a reel
Chris
|
$1,600
[29]
Socrates was the middle name of this shipping magnate whose fortune was valued at more than $500 million
(Aristotle) Onassis
Luis
|
$1,600
[24]
Coleridge was called one of these because of the district in England where he lived
a Lake Poet
Chris
|
|
$2,000
[20]
His last play was 1909's autobiographical "Stora Landsvagen", Swedish for "The Great Highway"
Strindberg
Chris
|
$2,000
[17]
"Makin' their way the only way they know how, that's just a little bit more than the law will allow"
The Dukes of Hazzard
Luis
|
$2,000
[11]
Graz
Austria
Matt
|
$2,000
[6]
In tap, this move that's paired with "buck" is a simultaneous leap & shuffle
a wing
Luis
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1951 this soprano debuted at La Scala in Verdi's "I Vespri Siciliani"
Maria Callas
Matt
|
$2,000
[25]
A big strong ship, or a tension-relieving joke told at a party
an icebreaker
Luis
|
Her 3rd husband won a Best Actor Oscar in the '90s; her 2nd husband, like her dad, is a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer
Lisa Marie Presley