Russ Schumacher game 4.
Gina Ash — an artist and administrative assistant from Gainesville, Virginia
Dick Fernberg — a geologist from Daytona Beach, Florida
Russ Schumacher — a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado (whose 3-day cash winnings total $47,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russ | $5,200 | $12,100 | $21,300 |
$17,300
4-day champion: $64,800 |
$19,400
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Dick | $2,600 | $2,800 | $5,200 |
$879
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,200
15 R, 2 W |
| Gina | $0 | $1,200 | $300 |
$300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,200
7 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| OPERA | A TOM CRUISE FILM FESTIVAL | BODIES OF WATER | OCCUPATION HAZARDS | PLANT PARENTHOOD | PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME |
|
$200
[13]
Stationed in Seville, Don Jose is bewitched by a gypsy girl in this Bizet opera
Carmen
Russ
|
$200
[11]
"I lost the Number 1 draft pick the night before the draft!"
Jerry Maguire
Russ
|
$200
[6]
In 1975 the United Kingdom began piping oil from this sea to its shores
the North Sea
Dick
|
$200
[23]
Chafing from chaps, rope burns from lassos & that saddle horn--watch where you sit if you're one of these
cowboy
Dick
|
$200
[21]
Named for the Virgin Mary, these carnivorous little red beetles can help rid your garden of aphids & other insects
ladybugs
Russ
|
$200
[1]
Ulysses' trousers
Grant's pants
Russ
|
|
$400
[17]
Like many of his works, this composer's "Tannhauser" is based on Germanic legends
(Richard) Wagner
Russ
|
$400
[12]
"What I wouldn't give for a drop of good old-fashioned Creole blood"
Interview with the Vampire
Dick
|
$400
[7]
The St. Mary's River connects Lake Superior to this second-largest Great Lake
Lake Huron
Russ
Dick
|
$400
[24]
If this is you're job you'd be fired if this clue go t by you uncorected
copy editor (or proofreader)
Russ
|
$400
[22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in the laboratory) Any glass or plastic container can be used to build one of these self-contained indoor gardens
terrariums
Gina
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$400
[2]
Arthur's school terms
Chester's semesters
Dick
|
|
$800
[19]
Musetta has her very own waltz in Act II of this Puccini opera
La boheme
|
$600
[14]
"I am a Vietnam veteran! I fought for my country!"
Born on the Fourth of July
Russ
|
$600
[8]
12,500' above sea level, this South American lake bordering Bolivia & Peru is the world's most navigable lake
Lake Titicaca
Dick
|
$600
[25]
In this job aiding a medical professional, Angie might get a finger nipped by little Billy while X-raying his molar
dental hygienist
Russ
|
$600
[28]
Juniper & maple are good trees to use in this cultivating art whose name means "plant in a tray" in Japanese
bonsai
Gina
|
$600
[3]
Zachary's wardens
Taylor's jailers
Dick
|
|
$1,000
[20]
At 35 he decided for the first time to sit right down & write himself an opera; he produced "Fidelio"
(Ludwig van) Beethoven
Russ
|
$800
[15]
"I'm gonna let ya in on a little secret, Ray. K-mart sucks"
Rain Man
Russ
|
$800
[9]
At Khartoum, Sudan these colorful branches meet to form the Nile River
the Blue Nile & the White Nile
Russ
|
$800
[26]
He has to listen to his wheels going round, round, round all day & may get a paper cut from a transfer
bus driver
Gina
|
$800
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew in the laboratory) A must for any gardener, a soil testing kit is used to take a reading of this level, a measure of acidity
pH level
Russ
|
$800
[4]
James' egg parts
Polk's yolks
Russ
|
|
DD
$2,500
[18]
Mozart opera in which the count tries to thwart & postpone his valet's wedding
The Marriage of Figaro
Russ
|
$1,000
[16]
"They're dead...my team is dead...they knew we were coming"
Mission: Impossible
|
$1,000
[10]
After a 1,750-mile trip from Germany, this river breaks into 3 branches in Romania before emptying into the Black Sea
the Danube
Russ
|
$1,000
[27]
If this is your job you might get brine in your eye after dropping the cucumber in the barrel
pickler
Gina
|
$1,000
[30]
The 3 elements most commonly found in garden fertilizers are phosphorus, potassium & this element
nitrogen
Russ
|
$1,000
[5]
Tyler's conducting sticks
John's batons
Russ
|
| THE ROYALS | THE TIGERS | THE GIANTS | THE REDS | THE "A"s | BASEBALL HISTORY |
|
$400
[11]
She was the Virgin Queen or Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Gina
|
$400
[15]
Founded by Claire Chennault, these aviators shot down hundreds of Japanese planes during World War II
the Flying Tigers
Dick
|
$400
[19]
1 Samuel 17 informs us that the Philistine city of Gath was the home of this giant
Goliath
Dick
|
$400
[24]
This man's most avid supporters during the Cultural Revolution were students mobilized as "Red Guards"
Mao Tse-tung
Dick
|
$400
[1]
Winston Churchill said that this weapon "brought peace, but man alone can keep that peace"
the atomic bomb
Russ
|
$400
[6]
In a June 19, 1846 game, J.W. Davis of the N.Y. Nine was fined 6 cents for swearing at this person
the umpire
Dick
|
|
DD
$400
[14]
Charles Edward Stuart could have worn a T.Y.P. necklace for "The Young Pretender" or a B.P.C. one for this nickname
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Gina
|
DD
$500
[23]
The autobiography written by this famous Nepalese was titled "Tiger of the Snows"
Tenzing Norgay
Gina
|
$800
[20]
In Lilliput he's a giant
Gulliver
Dick
|
$800
[25]
In the Catholic Church, they wear red hats
cardinals
Dick
|
$800
[2]
Some scientists believe the dinosaurs died out when one of these interstellar objects struck the Earth
an asteroid
Russ
|
$800
[7]
To injure opposing players, Ty Cobb was said to sharpen these
his spikes
Russ
|
|
$800
[12]
Louis VI of France was known as this; as a child he must have shopped in le husky department
Louis the Fat
Russ
|
$800
[16]
Now endangered, this largest variety of tiger bears the name of a large Russian region
the Siberian tiger
Gina
|
$1,200
[21]
Jett Rink, a poor ranch hand, becomes an oil millionaire in her novel "Giant"
Edna Ferber
Gina
|
$1,200
[26]
It's the world-famous "colorful" area seen here in the 1950s
Red Square
Dick
|
$1,200
[3]
Whether for a sorcerer or a craft guild, one serves time as one of these before becoming a journeyman
apprentice
Russ
|
$1,200
[8]
Topps' 1952 series No. 311 was this player's first card & is a holy grail among collectors
Mickey Mantle
Dick
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Russia's first ruler with this name was called Kalita, meaning "moneybags"; not so terrible
Ivan
Gina
|
$1,200
[17]
Genus sphyraena, this long, thin predatory fish with protruding jaws & teeth is known as the "tiger of the sea"
barracuda
Dick
|
$1,600
[22]
"Giants in the Earth" is Ole Rolvaag's novel about immigrants from this country adjusting to life on the prairie
Norway
|
$1,600
[27]
About 1,200 miles long, it has a maximum depth of almost 10,000 feet
the Red Sea
Russ
|
$1,600
[4]
This "Khan" is the spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect of Muslims
the Aga Khan
|
$1,600
[9]
2 of the 5 cities that had both National League & American League teams in 1903
(2 of 5) Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, or St. Louis
Russ
|
|
$2,000
[29]
This first king of Poland was alliteratively nicknamed "the Brave"
Boleslaw
|
$1,600
[18]
One of this man's most famous poems begins, "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, in the forests of the night"
William Blake
Gina
|
$2,000
[30]
Odysseus incurs the wrath of Poseidon by blinding this giant Cyclops
Polyphemus
Russ
|
$2,000
[28]
The flag of this U.K. division features an impressive red dragon with a forked tongue & tail
Wales
Gina
|
$2,000
[5]
In 1841 ex-president John Quincy Adams represented the mutineers of this ship before the Supreme Court
the Amistad
Russ
|
$2,000
[10]
During his 22-year career he walked a then-record 2,056 times
Babe Ruth
Russ
Dick
|
Einstein said of him, "Generations to come will scarcely believe" one such as he "walked the Earth in flesh & blood"
Mohandas Gandhi