David Madden game 4.
Matt Barakat — a reporter from Falls Church, Virginia
Kate Morrical — a structural engineer from Silver Spring, Maryland
David Madden — a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $69,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | $5,000 | $9,600 | $21,700 |
$25,000
4-day champion: $94,400 |
$22,000
26 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kate | $1,400 | $2,000 | $1,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,200
7 R, 2 W |
| Matt | $200 | $2,200 | $5,400 |
$2,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,400
15 R, 5 W |
| DEATH OF A PRESIDENT | BONDS | THE FIRST WORD | HENRY | THE EIGHTH | I NEED A NEW "QUEEN" |
|
$200
[4]
He died on Independence Day in 1826 at his beloved Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
David
|
$200
[24]
Despite their name, these partly tax-exempt bonds aren't just issued by cities & towns but by hospitals & colleges too
municipal bonds
Matt
|
$200
[7]
In our Constitution's preamble
We
David
|
$200
[17]
In 1957 he produced & starred in the landmark drama "12 Angry Men"
Henry Fonda
David
|
$200
[30]
In music, it's also called a quaver
an eighth note
Matt
|
$200
[23]
Head to this franchise for a Brownie Earthquake
Dairy Queen
Kate
|
|
$400
[11]
He died on Independence Day in 1826 in Quincy, Massachusetts
John Adams
Kate
|
$400
[25]
In 1998 Californians OK'd a $9.2-billion bond measure to help these; seemed like a lot to borrow back then
schools
Matt
|
$400
[12]
In Melville's "Moby Dick"
Call
Matt
|
$400
[18]
Flowery poems by Henry Gibson were often featured on this wacky 1960s sketch-comedy show
Laugh-In
Matt
|
$400
[29]
In 1948 Citation became the eighth to win this, & the last for 25 years
the Triple Crown
Kate
|
$400
[22]
This fictional detective solved his first mystery in 1929
Ellery Queen
David
|
|
$600
[3]
Pneumonia claimed this president's life on April 4, 1841
William Henry Harrison
Matt
|
$600
[26]
This term refers to bonds issued in U.S. dollars from foreign issuers, not to bonds issued by George Steinbrenner
Yankee bonds
Matt
|
$600
[13]
In Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
Marley
Matt
|
$600
[19]
King Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn's head chopped off so he could take up with this lady-in-waiting, his next wife
Jane Seymour
David
Matt
|
$600
[10]
This eighth book of the Old Testament is named for a Moabite woman
Ruth
Matt
|
$600
[21]
"O Canada" is Canada's national anthem; this song is its royal anthem
"God Save The Queen"
David
|
|
$800
[1]
His March 8, 1930 death occured a month after he resigned as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court due to heart trouble
(William) Taft
David
|
$800
[27]
The Treasury's post-9/11 "Patriot Bond" is considered this type, last seen in the U.S. in the 1940s
war bonds
Matt
|
$800
[14]
In Bulwer-Lytton's novel "Paul Clifford"
It
David
|
DD
$800
[16]
Nominated for 18 Oscars, one of his first jobs was composing music for an Abbott & Costello movie
Mancini
David
|
$800
[8]
Louis IX of France died during the eighth of these campaigns
crusades
David
|
$800
[5]
At the time of its construction, this span over the East River was the longest cantilever bridge in the U.S.
the Queensboro Bridge
David
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[2]
He died in his sleep on February 3, 1924, 6 months after Warren Harding
(Woodrow) Wilson
David
|
$1,000
[28]
In 1909 he started publishing letter ratings of the bonds of America's railroads
(John) Moody
David
|
$1,000
[15]
In Shakespeare's 18th sonnet
Shall
David
|
$1,000
[20]
Henry Pu Yi's last years as the ruler of China were the basis of this 1987 film
The Last Emperor
David
|
$1,000
[9]
The Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive bail & fines & these 2 kinds of punishment
cruel & unusual
David
|
$1,000
[6]
It was Anne Rice's second followup to "Interview with the Vampire"
Queen of the Damned
Kate
|
| LITERARY VENICE | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS | CAPITAL IDEAS | MAKING THE CUT | SCIENCE GUYS | "V" IS FOR... |
|
$400
[28]
This libidinous lord's Venetian exploits included an 1818 swim from the Lido "right to the end of the Grand Canal"
Lord Byron
David
|
$400
[17]
1989:Tom Hanks &a slobbering junkyard dog
Turner and Hooch
Matt
|
$400
[15]
Lucio Costa designed this South American city for 500,000 people; today the population is over 2 million
Brasilia
David
|
DD
$100
[27]
This cut's name derives from a N.Y. liquor establishment & contains the tenderloin & the top loin muscle
porterhouse
David
|
$400
[1]
This Pole died in 1543, days after receiving the first copy of his book "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies"
Copernicus
David
Kate
|
$400
[4]
...this, a boat, bowl or blood-carrier
vessel
Kate
|
|
$800
[16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a Venetian canal.) Much of this Shakespeare play is set here in the title city, including the trial where Shylock demands a pound of flesh
The Merchant of Venice
Matt
|
$800
[18]
1973:James Coburn &Kris Kristofferson
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
|
$800
[10]
The U.K. helped fund the design of this capital after Belize City was destroyed by a hurricane
Belmopan
David
|
$400
[30]
This steak is named for the letter-shaped hard substance separating the tenderloin from the top loin
T-bone
Kate
|
$800
[23]
Although known as the founder of microbiology, this French chemist's first discoveries were in crystallography
Pasteur
David
|
$800
[5]
...this style of house, a specialty of artist Debbie Patrick
Victorian
Kate
|
|
$1,200
[13]
This "Andrea del Sarto" poet spent his final days at Ca' Rezzonico, the palatial home of his son Pen, & died there in 1889
Robert Browning
David
|
$1,200
[19]
1989:Sylvester Stallone &Kurt Russell
Tango and Cash
|
$1,200
[9]
Punjab's capital Chandigarh was designed by this largely self-taught Swiss architect
Le Corbusier
Matt
|
$800
[29]
This rib roast is typically only rated as a "choice" cut, but its name signifies the highest-quality meat
prime rib
David
|
$1,200
[24]
While serving as secretary of the Geological Society of London, 1839-41, he wrote the "Journal of Researches"
Darwin
David
|
$1,200
[6]
...this material, what old phonograph records are made of
vinyl
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[11]
"Yes, this was Venice... half fairy-tale, half snare", wrote this author in "Death in Venice"
Thomas Mann
David
|
$1,600
[20]
1952:Katharine Hepburn &Spencer Tracy
Pat and Mike
|
$1,600
[3]
This architect served at Valley Forge before his appointment by Washington to design the new capital
L'Enfant
Matt
|
$1,600
[22]
This geometric-sounding section of the hind leg extends from the rump to the ankle
the round
Matt
|
DD
$1,400
[14]
In 1938 Mussolini let him travel to Sweden to receive his Nobel Prize for Physics; he then defected to the U.S.
(Enrico) Fermi
David
|
$1,600
[7]
...this uplifting Italian import heard here
"Volare"
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Caffe Florian in Venice, Italy.) I'm at Caffe Florian, a favorite spot of this U.S.-born author, who wrote about it in "The Wings of the Dove" & "The Aspern Papers"
Henry James
|
$2,000
[21]
1974:Clint Eastwood &Jeff Bridges
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
|
$2,000
[2]
This planned "City of Peace" includes the National Mosque as well as the Atomic Research Institute
Islamabad
David
|
$2,000
[26]
French for "between the ribs", this tender cut comes from the meat between the 9th & 11th ribs
entrecôte
Kate
Matt
|
$2,000
[25]
In the 1820s this British scientist discovered the laws of electrical induction forming the basis for the magneto & dynamo
Michael Faraday
|
$2,000
[8]
...this official who rules over a province or colony in the name of a king
viceroy
David
|
In 1960 European journalists gave her the nickname "La Gazzella"
Wilma Rudolph