Jared Hall game 4.
Tova Meyer — a graduate student in education from Princeton, New Jersey
Melissa Jurgens — a lawyer from Arlington, Virginia
Jared Hall — a graduate student in global policy studies from Austin, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $88,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jared | $1,600 | $6,000 | $32,000 |
$42,000
4-day champion: $130,401 |
$24,200
28 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Melissa | $3,400 | $4,600 | $6,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
14 R, 3 W |
| Tova | $1,400 | $5,400 | $9,400 |
$5,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,400
11 R, 0 W |
| ISLANDS | NAME-DROPPING SONGS | JUST CURIOUS | POTENT POTABLES | DIRECT FROM THE DICTIONARY | OP-EDS |
|
$200
[1]
There are more than 600 giganticstone figureson this island
Easter Island
Melissa
|
$200
[2]
A classic:"Good Golly, Miss ____"
Molly
Jared
|
$200
[8]
He first appeared in a kids' book called "Raffy and the Nine Monkeys" before headlining his own series
Curious George
Jared
|
$200
[10]
(Kathie Lee and Hoda give the clue.) As Nick Charles says in "The Thin Man", it's all about the rhythm in the shaking--you shake a Manhattan to fox trot time but you use waltz time to shake a dry one of these gin drinks
a martini
Jared
|
$200
[17]
"Aseptic", or "incapable of producing offspring"
sterile
Melissa
Tova
|
$200
[16]
In a 2011 op-ed, Neil Armstrong asked if President Obama was grounding this other president's dreams of space
JFK
Tova
|
|
$400
[3]
In 1833 British forces expelled Argentine officials from these islands without firing a shot
the Falklands
Melissa
|
$400
[4]
We've got her number:"867-5309/____"
Jenny
Melissa
|
$400
[13]
"Curiously strong" is a trademark of this brand of mints
Altoids
Melissa
|
$400
[14]
(Kathie Lee and Hoda give the clue.) After you swirl the wine, look for the rivulets that slide down the inside of the glass; they're called tears or these, which usually mean the wine is full-bodied
legs
Melissa
|
$400
[20]
"The partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other"
an eclipse
Tova
|
$400
[19]
Resurfacing in 2012 was Mitt Romney's 2008 anti-auto bailout op-ed "Let" this city "Go Bankrupt"
Detroit
Tova
|
|
$600
[9]
A breed of horse & a breed of dog are named for these Scottish islands
the Shetland Islands
Tova
|
$600
[5]
Put on your Plain White T's:"Hey There ____"
Delilah
Melissa
|
$600
[27]
After eating the cake that had "Eat me" spelled out in currants, she said, "Curiouser and curiouser!"
Alice
Jared
|
$600
[15]
(Kathie Lee and Hoda give the clue.) We tried a month of on-air sobriety, but as it turns out, antioxidants in red wine may help prevent heart disease by raising the HDL or the good type of this & lowering the bad type
cholesterol
Jared
|
$600
[21]
"A flock of geese when not flying"
a gaggle
Melissa
|
$600
[23]
A 2005 op-ed was titled "The 'I' Word", namely this process that Ralph Nader felt Bush & Cheney might deserve
impeachment
Jared
|
|
DD
$1,000
[11]
A poet described this divided island as a "golden green leaf thrown into" the Mediterranean Sea
Cyprus
Jared
|
$800
[6]
Put your flat feet on the ground:"Mustang ____"
Sally
Tova
|
$800
[29]
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was one of his "Tales of the Jazz Age"
Fitzgerald
Tova
|
$800
[18]
(Kathie Lee and Hoda give the clue.) A magnum of wine equals 2 standard bottles of wine; yes but you can really have a party with the size named for this Babylonian king--by the way, it's the equivalent of 20 standard bottles
Nebuchadnezzar
Jared
|
$800
[26]
"Fruitless", or "showing excessive pride in one's appearance"
vain
Melissa
|
$800
[24]
In 2013 Charles Krauthammer wrote "In Defense of" the use of these controversial aircraft
drones
Jared
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Amelia Earhart was lost near Howland Island after making her last stop at Lae on this Pacific island
New Guinea
|
$1,000
[7]
A Michael Jackson No. 1 hit:"Dirty ____"
Diana
Melissa
|
$1,000
[30]
This Conde Nast Digital site is "for people who love to eat"
Epicurious
Jared
Tova
|
$1,000
[22]
(Kathie Lee and Hoda give the clue.) French scientists say the best method of pouring champagne is down the side of the glass, which preserves up to twice as much of this gas, keeping the fizz in your bubbly
carbon dioxide
Jared
|
$1,000
[28]
"An animal having four feet... usu. used of mammals"
quadruped
Jared
|
$1,000
[25]
A George Will April 2013 op-ed praised the "Vigorous Virtues" of this late world leader
(Margaret) Thatcher
Tova
|
| ANATOMY | CONSTITUTION DAY | AMERICANA | "OP" ENDS | I MADE UP YOUR MIND | BALLET DANCERS IN THE CINEMA |
|
$400
[11]
One medical dictionary calls it "a wormlike intestinal diverticulum extending from the... cecum"
the appendix
Jared
|
$400
[6]
When it comes to civil rights, the 14th Amendment gets the job done, granting due process & this "of the laws"
equal protection
Jared
|
$400
[16]
From 1916 to 1963, he painted more than 300 covers for the Saturday Evening Post
Norman Rockwell
Jared
|
$400
[1]
Fabulous Greek fabulist
Aesop
Melissa
|
$800
[26]
Victor Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Jared
|
$800
[28]
Zizi Jeanmaire played Doro, Danny Kaye's love interest, in a 1952 musical about this Danish storyteller
Hans Christian Andersen
Melissa
|
|
$800
[12]
This triangular muscle helps form the roundness of the shoulder
the deltoid
Jared
|
$800
[7]
The Constitution says everyone accused is entitled to a "speedy & public" one of these
a trial
Melissa
|
$800
[17]
Architect Richard Morris Hunt put this 111' lady on a pedestal (that he designed from 1882 to 1884)
the Statue of Liberty
Jared
|
$800
[2]
Slang meaning to agree to a plea
cop a plea
Melissa
|
$1,200
[25]
Dr. Henry Jekyll
Robert Louis Stevenson
|
$1,200
[27]
Alexander Godunov played Amish farmer Daniel Hochleitner in this 1985 Harrison Ford film
Witness
Jared
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Follicular cells in this gland secrete a hormone called thyroxine
the thyroid
Jared
|
$1,200
[8]
Both the 15th & the 19th Amendment give U.S. citizens this right
the right to vote
Jared
|
$1,600
[19]
(Vice President Biden reads the clue.) While the President has "Hail To The Chief" as his official song, the Veep has "Hail" this, once a poetic name for the United States; until the 1890s, it also served as de facto national anthem for America
Columbia
Jared
|
$1,200
[3]
Max Roach's drumming helped create this style around 1940
bebop
Melissa
|
$1,600
[24]
Brilliant but troubled Lisbeth Salander
Stieg Larsson
Jared
|
$1,600
[22]
He made his feature film debut in 1977's "The Turning Point" & followed it up with a starring role in "White Nights"
Baryshnikov
Jared
|
|
$2,000
[15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the abdominal nerves on the monitor.) One of the largest masses of nerve cells in the body sits behind the stomach in this network of nerves, which is why a blow there can be so disabling
the solar plexus
Jared
|
$1,600
[9]
In 2013 an ACLU lawyer convinced the Supreme Court blood tests for alcohol require a warrant or consent under this amendment
the 4th Amendment
Melissa
|
$2,000
[20]
In Philly for New Year's Day? Check out this parade with costumed entertainers, an official city event since 1900
the Mummers
Tova
|
$1,600
[4]
Provisions for porkers
slop
Jared
|
$2,000
[23]
Felix Hoenikker, father of ice-nine & the atom bomb
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
|
$2,000
[21]
This Native American ballerina who died in 2013 played Anna Pavlova in Esther Williams' "Million Dollar Mermaid"
Maria Tallchief
Melissa
Tova
|
|
DD
$5,000
[13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of arm bones on the monitor.) Ligaments connect one bone to another; muscle is connected to a bone by one of these, which pulls the bone when a muscle contracts
a tendon
Jared
|
$2,000
[10]
The last bit of the First Amendment gives us the right to do this, request "the government for a redress of grievances"
petition
Jared
|
DD
$5,000
[18]
When this stone split asunder in 1774, it was said to be an omen of America's split from the British Empire
Plymouth Rock
Jared
|
$2,000
[5]
A concession, perhaps to Cerberus
a sop
Jared
|
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A logo on this town's website includes its incorporation date, 1981, as well as the historic date December 17, 1903
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina