Vijay Balse game 4.
Shelby Sadler — an editor and writer from Rockville, Maryland
Becki Norris — a science and math teacher from Quincy, Massachusetts
Vijay Balse — a chemical engineer originally from Bombay, India (whose 3-day cash winnings total $70,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vijay | $1,600 | $2,200 | $18,000 |
$11,599
4-day champion: $82,400 |
$18,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Becki | $1,600 | $4,800 | $3,200 |
$6,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,200
13 R, 5 W |
| Shelby | $5,400 | $7,000 | $12,200 |
$5,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| GOVERNORS | SONG STANDARDS | ALSO AN AIRLINE | WHERE'S RALPH WALDO? | DANCE, I SAY! | ON THE ____ |
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$200
[11]
In 1780 he signed on as Massachusetts' first governor
John Hancock
Shelby
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$200
[26]
Catchy "Fiddler on the Roof" song that goes, "Daidle, deedle, daidle, digguh, digguh, deedle, daidle, dum"
"If I Were A Rich Man"
Shelby
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$200
[6]
Like Mom & apple pie
American
Vijay
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$200
[16]
As we all should, Ralph Waldo Emerson remembersthisU.S. landmark
the Alamo
Becki
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$200
[21]
In NATO's phonetic alphabet, this dance represents the letter "T"
tango
Becki
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$200
[1]
Abstaining from alcohol
on the wagon
Becki
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$400
[12]
From 1999 to 2007 Bob Taft, great-grandson of President Taft, was the governor of this state
Ohio
Shelby
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$400
[27]
"Pull out the stopper, let's have a whopper, but get me to" this "on time"
the church
Shelby
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$400
[7]
11th, 12th, 13th letters
KLM
Vijay
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$400
[17]
Emerson feels transcendent when he learns parts of this landmark are 35 feet high
the Great Wall of China
Shelby
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$400
[22]
It's a vigorous dance of the 1920s & also a seaport in South Carolina
the Charleston
Becki
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$400
[2]
Neutral or undecided, perhaps about the guy who sells the stolen goods
on the fence
Becki
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$600
[13]
He's the first African-American governor of New York, as well as the first to be legally blind
(David) Paterson
Shelby
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$600
[28]
Frank Sinatra despised this 1966 hit, calling it the worst song he'd ever heard..."Doo-be-doo-be-doo"
"Strangers In The Night"
Becki
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$600
[8]
"Chaste" ocean on the USA's East Coast
Virgin Atlantic
Becki
Shelby
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$600
[18]
Ralph reminisces at the state reservation at this landmark, where a pal of his lived from 1845 to 1847
Walden Pond
Vijay
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$600
[23]
The name of this ballroom dance can be used as a verb to mean "to move breezily or casually"
the waltz
Shelby
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$600
[3]
It sounds like riding young sheep, but running from the police is sometimes called being this
on the lam
Becki
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$800
[14]
In January 1932 he stepped down as Louisiana governor to assume his duties as a senator
Huey Long
Shelby
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$800
[29]
The teller of this song was "Goin' to Lou'siana", but it served as a theme for Forty-niners headin' to California
"Oh! Susanna"
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$1,000
[10]
Cobalt plane
JetBlue
Shelby
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$800
[19]
Emerson is in this city during the festival of San Fermin--man, you better get moving, Ralph
Pamplona
Becki
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$800
[24]
This swing dance is mentioned in "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
the jitterbug
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$800
[4]
Receiving payment from the government, not a pineapple seller
on the dole
Shelby
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$1,000
[15]
Before he ran for president, Adlai Stevenson served a term as governor of this state
Illinois
Vijay
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$1,000
[30]
This 1917 song's title was borrowed from the last line in "Shine On Harvest Moon"
"For Me And My Gal"
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DD
$1,400
[9]
This model was Lincoln's first front-wheel drive car
Continental
Shelby
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$1,000
[20]
Emerson is mystically in four states at once atthis2-word location
Four Corners
Becki
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$1,000
[25]
It's a lively French social dance or the ball at which debutantes are presented
a cotillion
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$1,000
[5]
"On the" this word means recovering from ill health
mend
Becki
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| BOND, ATOMIC BOND | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES | THE BRITISH NOBILITY LADDER | LITERARY LETTER DROP | HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD... | ...DIES BY THE "S" WORD |
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[1]
Liquid ammonia has a high boiling point because it's held together by the strong bond named for hydrogen, atomic number this
one
Vijay
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$400
[22]
Seth Rogen voiced a mantis & Dustin Hoffman a small red panda in this 2008 movie
Kung Fu Panda
Becki
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$400
[16]
At the top:Prince Andrew is the one of York
duke
Becki
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[5]
Jules Verne title trip that's undergone a letter drop & been shortened by 90%
Around the World in Eight Days
Vijay
Becki
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$400
[17]
Legend says Attila the Hun wielded the sword of this Roman war god
Mars
Shelby
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$400
[6]
Ordinarily, this hyphenated type of murder involves the lack of premeditation
second-degree murder
Becki
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$800
[2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Hydrogen & oxygen atoms bind tightly together to create water molecules by sharing electrons in this type of bond, from the Latin for "strong together"
covalent
Vijay
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$800
[23]
Voiced by John Cleese, King Harold of "Shrek" fame was originally one of these small creatures
a frog
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$800
[18]
No. 2:Boxing fan John Sholto Douglas was one of Queensberry
a marquess
Vijay
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$800
[12]
Dickens parable about the beer in Paris & London
An Ale of Two Cities
Vijay
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$800
[30]
This 8th & 9th c. ruler's supposed sword, Joyeuse, is kept in the Louvre
Charlemagne
Vijay
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$800
[7]
Of the 1,500 species of these arachnids with curved tails & venomous stingers, only 50 are dangerous to humans
scorpions
Becki
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$1,200
[3]
Nitrogen molecules are linked by 2 bonds called this, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
pi
Vijay
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$1,200
[24]
Chemicals turn Lily Tomlin into this title "Woman" in a 1981 Joel Schumacher film
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Becki
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$1,200
[19]
No. 3:His wife is a countess (don't say count)
earl
Shelby
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$1,200
[13]
Epic trilogy about Sauron, supreme master of oil derricks
Lord of the Rigs
Vijay
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DD
$1,000
[27]
In an old poem, Unferth gives this title hero the sword called Hrunting
Beowulf
Vijay
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$1,200
[8]
From the Latin for "choke" & "throat" comes this word meaning "to impede the respiration of"
suffocate
Vijay
Becki
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$1,600
[4]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When sodium donates an electron to chlorine, it creates this type of stable bond that holds salt molecules together; the bond shares its name with an order of architecture
an ionic bond
Shelby
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$1,600
[25]
The return of 2 kidnapped fairies played by Emi & Yumi Ito caused this winged creature to stop destroying Tokyo
Mothra
Shelby
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$1,600
[20]
No. 4: It has a silent consonant
viscount
Shelby
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[14]
This Flaubert heroine just can't stop making eggs
Madame Ovary
Shelby
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$1,600
[29]
William Wallace likely used one of these large swords that shares a name with a type of land mine
a claymore
Shelby
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$1,600
[9]
This poisonous substance that has a number in its name comes from a type of nightshade
strychnine
Shelby
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$2,000
[11]
Some compounds with nice smells, like benzene, have bonds called this, a term used to describe perfume
aromatic
Vijay
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$2,000
[26]
This 1987 film finds Dennis Quaid as a shrunken test pilot mistakenly injected into Martin Short's body
Innerspace
Vijay
Shelby
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DD
$2,000
[21]
No. 5:The first of the 5 alphabetically
baron
Shelby
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$2,000
[15]
This ghostly Henry James story refers to a vase designed to hold threaded fasteners
The Urn of the Screw
Vijay
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$2,000
[28]
I'll come clean & tell you this early English king's sword Curtana had no point & was dubbed the Sword of Mercy
Edward the Confessor
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$2,000
[10]
It's another Japanese word for hara-kiri
seppuku
Vijay
Shelby
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Words regularly censored out of Chinese blogs include minzhu, which means this, from the Greek for "people"
democracy