Dan McShane game 4.
Vinayak Thiagarajan — a strategy consultant from Chicago, Illinois
Katy Stigers — a college soccer coach from Bristol, Tennessee
Dan McShane — a baseball game logger from West Islip, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $40,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| Dan | $3,400 | $7,200 | $25,800 |
$21,600
4-day champion: $62,001 |
$23,000
30 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Katy | $1,800 | $2,200 | $5,800 |
$3,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,800
9 R, 3 W |
| Vinayak | $2,200 | $5,000 | $3,200 |
$599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,200
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| ART & ARTISTS | TRAVEL | CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES | CATHOLIC PRIESTS | TITLE 9 | COME "IN" |
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$200
[21]
In 1956 Time magazine dubbed this abstract expressionist "Jack the Dripper"
Pollock
Katy
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$200
[6]
This Rome landmark is 620 feet long by 513 wide--plenty of room to run away from a wild beast
the Colosseum
Vinayak
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$200
[1]
The L. in Samuel L. Jackson stands for this, like a certain bad, bad Mr. Brown of song
Leroy
Dan
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$200
[11]
Served by priests, it may not exceed 18% alcohol
communion wine
Dan
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$200
[24]
Daniel Okrent:"Nine ____: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game"
Innings
Vinayak
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$200
[16]
A new design or creation; necessity is often the mother of it
invention
Vinayak
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$400
[22]
This Dutch master served as chairman of the Delft Artists' Guild from 1662-63 & 1670-71
Jan Vermeer
Vinayak
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$400
[7]
Gamblers will love to know that the Hotel Yak & Yeti in this Nepalese capital houses the 2-story Casino Royale
Kathmandu
Dan
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$400
[2]
Feel free to sing out this middle name of Martin Scorsese; it's the same as Pavarotti's first
Luciano
Dan
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$400
[12]
Title of any priest's immediate boss; the U.S. has 270 of them
bishop
Dan
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$400
[25]
John Buchan, filmed by Hitchcock:"The Thirty-Nine ____"
Steps
Dan
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$400
[17]
Be it a stick or cone, strawberry & sandalwood are popular fragrances of this
incense
Vinayak
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$600
[23]
Aquarelle is a transparent, rather than opaque, type of this painting, as seen in Paul Klee's work "Quarry"
watercolor
Katy
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$800
[9]
Beautiful Margaret Island in this river has been a Budapest park for more than 100 years
the Danube
Dan
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$600
[3]
Author Hawthorne would approve of this middle name of Ralph Fiennes
Nathaniel
Vinayak
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$600
[13]
The priest's duty to keep your sins secret is traditionally protected by "the sanctity of" this booth
the confessional
Vinayak
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$600
[26]
Elizabeth McNeill:"Nine and a Half ____"
Weeks
Dan
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$600
[18]
A military badge of rank or qualification
insignia
Vinayak
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$800
[29]
Andre Breton anagrammed this surrealist's name as "Avida Dollars"
Salvador Dalí
Katy
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$1,000
[10]
You can buy samples of this fossilized resin at a museum devoted to it in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
amber
Dan
Katy
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$800
[4]
Her middle name is Louise; her last name at birth: Ciccone
Madonna
Vinayak
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$800
[14]
Parish priests have their own one of these, John Vianney
patron saint
Katy
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$800
[27]
Jeffrey Toobin:"The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the ____ ____"
Supreme Court
Dan
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$800
[19]
Each Latin verb has 6 of these, including the perfect passive one, like optatus esse, "to have been desired"
infinitive
Vinayak
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$1,000
[30]
This American female Impressionist modeled for many of Degas' works, including "At the Milliner's"
(Mary) Cassatt
Dan
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DD
$2,000
[8]
This island's Mataveri Intl. Airport, the world's most remote, is serviced only by Chile's LAN Airlines
Easter Island
Dan
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$1,000
[5]
This middle name of actress Mary Masterson makes us wonder if she was named for Mary, Queen of Scots
Stuart
Dan
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$1,000
[15]
This spiritual "director" doesn't arrange your holiday, he helps young men pursue their calling to the priesthood
a vocation director
Dan
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$1,000
[28]
J.D. Salinger:"Nine ____"
Stories
Dan
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$1,000
[20]
Paul Apak Angilirq was a producer as Canada's IBC, this Broadcasting Corporation
Inuit
Vinayak
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| WANT ADS | GO "SOUTH" | I KNOW THAT WORD BACKWARDS & FORWARDS | MESOPOTAMIA | THE DE NIRO CODE | AT THE CLEVELAND CLINIC |
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$400
[1]
Numbers cruncher needed! Must be member of AICPA, the American Institute of these
Certified Public Accountants
Vinayak
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$400
[6]
...to 90 degrees south latitude & you'll find yourself here
the South Pole
Dan
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$400
[22]
Anatomy-wise, the subscapularis is a muscle in this "cuff"
rotator
Katy
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$400
[16]
After centuries of rule by the Ottoman Empire, Mesopotamia mostly became part of this new nation in 1932
Iraq
Dan
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$400
[7]
As Al Capone in this 1987 film: "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word"
The Untouchables
Dan
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$400
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.) The Cleveland Clinic pioneered group practice as opposed to private; the founding doctors had worked as a team in the first AEF unit in France during this war
World War I
Dan
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$800
[2]
Walk the Max Planck! We're Stephen Hawking a new position to be this type of scientist, like those guys
physicist
Katy
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$800
[12]
...to this Indiana college town that was originally called Big St. Joseph Station
South Bend
Dan
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$800
[23]
To make an allusion to something
refer
Vinayak
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$800
[17]
Mesopotamia stretched from the Taurus Mountains in the north to this gulf in the south
the Persian
Dan
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$800
[8]
In this 1976 movie: "Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum"
Taxi Driver
Dan
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$800
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Cleveland Clinic.) "M.I." stands for myocardial infarction, or heart attack; "M.I." also stands for this innovative type of heart surgery with tiny instruments that can reduce trauma & complications
minimally invasive
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$1,200
[3]
They're out there! We need you to go get 'em! Channel your inner Boba Fett or "Dog" Chapman in this 2-word job
a bounty hunter
Dan
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$1,200
[13]
...to Juba, capital of this new nation
South Sudan
Dan
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$1,200
[24]
Reza Khan, born in Iran in 1878, & his son were these for a combined 54 years
shahs
Dan
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$1,200
[18]
The epic poem of this Sumerian king includes an account of a great flood
Gilgamesh
Katy
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$1,200
[9]
To Billy Crystal in this film: "I was gonna whack you. But I was real conflicted about it"
Analyze This
Dan
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$1,200
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Cleveland Clinic.) Single-port surgery is an advanced method that mainly uses just one entry point; the Cleveland Clinic was the first hospital to extract one of these paired organs via the umbilicus
a kidney
Dan
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$1,600
[4]
In the June 3, 2011 paper: this country wants new president after bomb explodes in Ali Saleh's presidential palace
Yemen
Katy
Vinayak
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$1,600
[14]
...to this body of water that includes the Gulf of Tonkin & the Gulf of Thailand
the South China Sea
Katy
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$1,600
[25]
Coloring something more rubicund makes it this
redder
Katy
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$2,000
[20]
From the Assyrian for "height", this stepped structure was used as a temple by Mesopotamian cultures
ziggurat
Dan
Katy
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$1,600
[10]
In Italian, in this sequel: "Do me this favor... ask your friends... about me. They'll tell you I know how to return a favor"
The Godfather: Part II
Dan
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$1,600
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Cleveland Clinic.) These files are fading into the past, as the clinic is on the forefront of "EMR", short for these, which are available to authorize doctors & personnel anytime, anywhere in the world
electronic medical records
Vinayak
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$2,000
[5]
We have a primary need for this hyphenated job in our fancy French kitchen; only the head guy is your superior
sous-chef
Vinayak
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$2,000
[15]
...to here, where you'll find the cities of Christchurch & Dunedin
the South Island (of New Zealand)
Dan
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$2,000
[26]
Exalted to the rank of a god
deified
Dan
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DD
$3,000
[19]
Transcribed in the 1800s, the Behistun Inscription is the Rosetta Stone for this type of writing developed in Mesopotamia
cuneiform
Dan
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$2,000
[11]
"Goodfellas": "The two greatest things in life" are "never rat on" these "and always keep your mouth shut"
your friends
Dan
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DD
$5,000
[30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Cleveland Clinic.) Robin Williams thanked the Cleveland Clinic team for his heart surgery, saying, after getting a replacement one of these from a cow, "the grazing's been fun"
a valve
Vinayak
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Keith Downey developed rapeseed into this cooking product, now a huge cash crop for farmers in Saskatchewan
canola