Buddy Wright game 4.
Gordon Purcell — a comic book artist from Plymouth, Minnesota
Jenna Strickland — a stay-at-home mom from Anacortes, Washington
Buddy Wright — an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $68,803)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buddy | $4,400 | $9,400 | $13,000 |
$20,001
4-day champion: $88,804 |
$14,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jenna | $1,600 | $3,600 | $10,000 |
$19,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
16 R, 2 W |
| Gordon | $200 | $3,000 | $3,000 |
$5,997
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,000
8 R, 4 W |
| U.S. BIZ | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | GAP | SEERS | QUAKER OATHS | 3M |
|
$200
[14]
The 747 reasons to buy from this company include the E-6 Tacamo & a little thing called Air Force One
Boeing
Buddy
|
$200
[19]
Born Caryn Johnson, she's the only host on "The View" to have won an Oscar
Whoopi Goldberg
Jenna
|
$200
[9]
Feel like a swim? The gap between Florida & this island nation of 11 million is about 90 miles
Cuba
Jenna
|
$200
[24]
Telemus, "the best of soothsayers", warned the Cyclops about this wandering man
Odysseus
Buddy
|
$200
[1]
Quaker John Love went to Rome to convert this man in 1658; when he couldn't, he was arrested & hanged
the Pope
Buddy
|
$200
[4]
Want to be one of these bandaged guys for Halloween? You should know their name is from the Persian for "wax"
a mummy
Gordon
|
|
$400
[15]
New releases from this co. include the $185 Jordan winterized Spiz'ike men's shoe; yeah, I said Spiz'ike--what what
Nike
Buddy
|
$400
[20]
A character played by him worked for the Metro Dade Organized Crime Bureau & had a pet alligator, Elvis
Don Johnson
Buddy
|
$400
[10]
In 1999 a bridge spanned the 10-mile gap between Denmark & this country for the first time since the last ice age
Sweden
Buddy
Jenna
|
$400
[25]
Ironically, the mythical seer Tiresias was stricken with this, a punishment from the gods
blindness
Gordon
|
$400
[2]
William Penn wrote "No Cross, No Crown", a testament of his Quaker beliefs, while in this British prison
the Tower of London
Buddy
|
$400
[5]
Some doctrines of this system advocate the revolution of the proletariat
communism
Jenna
|
|
$600
[16]
Stock up on shower curtains with this chain whose stock symbol is BBBY
Bed Bath & Beyond
Buddy
|
$600
[21]
The Crow Indians kill Robert Redford's family in this 1972 film & he's hell-bent on revenge
Jeremiah Johnson
Gordon
|
$600
[11]
Alaska's Little Diomede Island is a scant 2 1/2 miles away from this country
Russia
Buddy
|
$600
[26]
In this play, 3 seers show the title king 8 spectral kings followed by the ghost of Banquo
Macbeth
Buddy
|
$600
[3]
This Quaker & suffragist leader declared in 1873, "This government is not a democracy... it is an odious aristocracy"
Susan Anthony
Jenna
|
$600
[6]
Meaning huge, but not necessarily woolly
mammoth
Buddy
|
|
$800
[17]
The fiscal year 2009 sales of this Bentonville, Arkansas company were $401 billion
Walmart
Jenna
|
$800
[22]
In his wrestling days, beefy actor Dwayne Johnson went by this name
The Rock
Buddy
|
$800
[12]
In our solar system the gap between these 2 bodies ranges from about 225,000 miles to 251,000 miles
the Earth & the Moon
Buddy
|
$800
[27]
This seer wrote "Centuries" in 1555 & later cast horoscopes at the court of Catherine de Medicis
Nostradamus
Buddy
|
$800
[29]
Her oath of matrimony to our 4th president got her kicked out of the Quakers for marrying a nonmember
Dolley Madison
Gordon
|
$1,000
[8]
Impersonal American painting & sculpting style, developed as a response to abstract expressionism
minimalism
Buddy
|
|
$1,000
[18]
On its website this Freeport, Maine company offers rod & reel outfits & insect shield apparel
L.L.Bean
Gordon
|
$1,000
[23]
This gymnast won a 2009 ESPY for best female Olympian
Shawn Johnson
Jenna
|
$1,000
[13]
Meaning "Gate of Tears", the Bab el Mandeb is a 20-mile-wide strait allowing passage from the Gulf of Aden into this sea
the Red Sea
|
$1,000
[28]
Meaning "knowledge" in Sanskrit, these sacred texts are thought to be "heard" by gifted seers
Vedas
Buddy
|
— |
DD
$1,200
[7]
The highest class of the subphylum Vertebrata
Mammalia
Buddy
|
| PHYSICS | FILM"Z" | BOOK SMART | ALPHABETICALLY LAST | THIS IS A BUST! | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES |
|
$400
[17]
In a magnet flux lines converge at these points
the poles
Buddy
|
$400
[1]
2001:Male supermodel Ben Stiller is on the downside of his career
Zoolander
Jenna
|
$400
[6]
"The Smartest Guys in the Room" tells of the rise & fall of this Houston-based energy company
Enron
Jenna
|
$400
[22]
...of animals on exhibit at the L.A. Zoo
a zebra
Buddy
|
$400
[11]
Seen here are busts of the founders of this British luxury car company
Rolls-Royce
Buddy
|
$400
[16]
Ma'am, yes ma'am! In 2009 Teresa King became the first woman to command the army's school for these training taskmasters
drill sergeants
Buddy
|
|
$800
[18]
This Italian discovered the laws of the pendulum when he observed a hanging lamp swinging back & forth
Galileo
Buddy
Jenna
|
$800
[2]
1981:George Hamilton swashbuckles his way through 19th c. Spanish California as him, "the Gay Blade"
Zorro
Jenna
|
$800
[7]
His "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is subtitled "A Triumph"
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Jenna
Gordon
|
— |
$800
[12]
A bust of this rock icon atop his grave at Paris' Pere Lachaise cemetery was stolen in 1988
Jim Morrison
Jenna
|
$800
[19]
On modern looms, this measurement of cloth is 100 yards long & 45 or 60 inches wide
a bolt
Jenna
|
|
$1,200
[23]
This measure of pressure abbreviated atm. is equivalent to 14.7 pounds per square inch
atmospheric pressure
Buddy
|
$1,200
[3]
1946:Fred Astaire & Lucille Ball dance & sing their way into these title "Follies" of the 1920s
Ziegfeld
Jenna
Gordon
|
$1,200
[8]
Sylvia Nasar wrote this biography of math genius & Nobel laureate John Nash
A Beautiful Mind
Jenna
|
— |
$1,200
[13]
He's the Caesarest of Caesars seen here
Augustus
Jenna
|
$1,200
[20]
Single word meaning to disembark from an aircraft
deplane
|
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
This elementary particle has 6 types: 3 have 1/3 unit of negative charge & 3 have 2/3 unit of positive charge
a quark
Buddy
|
$1,600
[4]
1983:Woody Allen plays a human chameleon
Zelig
Gordon
|
$1,600
[9]
One of his follow-ups to "All Creatures Great and Small" was "All Things Wise and Wonderful"
James Herriot
Gordon
|
— |
$1,600
[14]
Appropriately, some of the busts of this German philosopher on sale at his house in Trier are red
(Karl) Marx
Buddy
|
$1,600
[21]
The members of an organization aside from its leaders are this 3-word term
rank and file
|
|
$2,000
[25]
From their location, protons & neutrons but not electrons are called these, also ending in -on
nucleons
Buddy
|
$2,000
[5]
1964:British forces keep a stiff upper lip fighting Africans at the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift
Zulu
Gordon
|
$2,000
[10]
Australia's Miles Franklin was just 16 when she wrote this "Career"-oriented book
My Brilliant Career
Gordon
|
— |
$2,000
[15]
The sun shines on the Quebec City bust of this French king
Louis XIV
Jenna
|
$2,000
[26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Pacific Research Labs, aka orthopedic model maker Sawbones.)Thisfoot shows normal anatomy; if tight shoes bend the little piggies, the result can be this condition, whose symptoms include corns, calluses & pain
hammer toe
Gordon
|
6 of the top 10 U.S. cities in population are found in these 2 states
California & Texas