Rani Peffer game 4.
Vimal Murthy — a burn and wound surgeon from Redondo Beach, California
Amanda DeMeola — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York
Rani Peffer — a corporate finance manager from Crittenden, Kentucky (whose 3-day cash winnings total $41,135)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rani | $3,000 | $6,200 | $7,800 |
$15,577
4-day champion: $56,712 |
$7,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Amanda | $1,200 | $3,800 | $10,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
13 R, 1 W |
| Vimal | $3,200 | $3,600 | $12,000 |
$3,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| AMERICAN POETRY | DEPARTMENT STORES | "LEAD" THE WAY | CARTOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE |
|
$200
[22]
Walt Whitman put this word in a book title & said it grows "among black folks as among white"
grass
|
$200
[17]
In the name of an upscale department store, it follows Bergdorf
Goodman
Rani
|
$200
[1]
Alliterative 2-word term for a star actress
leading lady
Rani
|
$200
[9]
ft. can stand for feet or for this type of structure
a fort
Amanda
|
$200
[16]
1987:Getting greedy as Gordon Gekko
Michael Douglas
Rani
|
$200
[3]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Warthogs are good fighters--butting heads & then using their tusks, which are actually these teeth also called cuspids in humans
canines (the eye teeth accepted)
Rani
|
|
$400
[23]
This politician was the subject of Vachel Lindsay's 1919 poem "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
William Jennings Bryan
Vimal
|
$400
[19]
The name of this chain tells you its flagship store is on Fifth Avenue
Saks Fifth Avenue
Rani
|
$400
[2]
The Derrick Dolls were the Houston Oilers' squad of these
cheerleaders
Vimal
|
$400
[10]
jc. stands for this; we're fond of the "Petticoat" & "Conjunction" locations
junction
Rani
|
$400
[24]
2008:For his brilliant & deranged Joker
Heath Ledger
Amanda
|
$400
[7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Giraffes are well adapted for tearing leaves & young shoots from trees, including a 20-inch grasping tongue that is classified as this, from the Latin for "to seize"
prehensile
Amanda
|
|
$600
[28]
He wrote about the USS Constitution, "The meteor of the ocean air shall sweep the clouds no more"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
|
$600
[20]
In September 2013 this upscale 2-named department store chain was sold to 2 private investors for $6 billion
Neiman Marcus
Rani
|
$600
[4]
Harry Reid, in the U.S. Senate
the Majority Leader
Amanda
|
$600
[11]
bsnhrefers to a basin collecting the runoff for these, the upper tributaries of a river
the headwaters
|
$600
[25]
1982:Her as refugee Sophie
Meryl Streep
Amanda
|
$600
[8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The shaggy-maned wildebeest got its name from its wild appearance, but it's also known by this shorter name imitative of the sound it makes
a gnu
Rani
|
|
DD
$800
[29]
In "Paul Revere's Ride", these 9 words precede "and I on the opposite shore will be"
"one if by land, and two if by sea"
Rani
|
$800
[18]
This Seattle-based department store was started by a Swedish immigrant
Nordstrom's
Amanda
|
$800
[5]
It's sold cheap to attract buyers to more expensive items
a loss leader
Rani
|
$800
[12]
AVO stands for the Alaska Observatory for these vents in the Earth's crust
volcanoes
Rani
|
$800
[26]
1996:As Rod Tidwell, he could've said, "Show me the Oscar!"
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Amanda
|
$800
[14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The hide on a Cape buffalo's neck can reach two inches in thickness, which help males against other aggressive bulls trying to assert this, a type of hierarchy
dominance
Vimal
|
| — |
$1,000
[21]
In 1923 a certain Mr. Pressman hocked his wife's engagement ring to start this New York department store
Barneys
|
$1,000
[6]
To supplicate
plead
Vimal
|
$1,000
[13]
ib is short for this line that connects points of equal barometric pressure
an isobar
Vimal
|
$1,000
[27]
1962:Atticus! Atticus! (Finch)
Gregory Peck
Rani
|
$1,000
[15]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The name "impala" comes from the language of these people, the single-largest ethnic group of South Africa
the Zulu
|
| THE SWEET 1600s | PANTSLESS TV | GLASS & GLASSMAKING | FILTHY 4-LETTER WORDS | IMMIGRANTS | FROM THE "OL" COUNTRY |
|
$400
[16]
The first representative Colonial Assembly in America was held in this Virginia settlement in 1619
Jamestown
Amanda
|
$400
[1]
Richard Hatch outlasted & outnuded his rivals on the island of Pulau Tiga to win the first $1 million prize on this show
Survivor
Rani
|
$400
[26]
Nature-produced glass includes fulgurites, slender tubes made by this discharge
lightning
Rani
Vimal
|
$400
[9]
As the saying goes, "Ashes to ashes", this to this
dust
Rani
|
$400
[21]
Born Ho Da-i in Taiwan, Dr. David Ho was Time's 1996 Man of the Year for research into this disease
AIDS
Vimal
|
$400
[2]
Catch some Zs in Szczecin, a port city in this country
Poland
Vimal
|
|
$800
[17]
In 1634 the island of Curacao was captured by this country
the Netherlands
Rani
|
$800
[7]
In the 1960s neither this Bedrock man nor his wife Willlllma! wore the pants in the family
Fred Flintstone
Amanda
|
$800
[27]
The Sabatini art gallery in Topeka is ready for Kansas winds--it has a collection of glass these for desktops
paperweights
Rani
|
$800
[10]
If you bought an item very inexpensively, you got it this-cheap
dirt
Vimal
|
$1,200
[24]
Jose Bosch, who ran this giant Cuban rum concern for 32 years, died in Coral Gables in 1994 at age 95
Bacardi
|
$800
[3]
It's bordered to the south by Namibia & to the west by the Atlantic
Angola
Vimal
|
|
$1,200
[18]
In 1619's "Harmonice Mundi", he proposed his third law of planetary motion
(Johannes) Kepler
Vimal
|
$1,200
[8]
In the '90s Dennis Franz used colorful language on this colorful ABC cop show (& also flashed his bare tush)
NYPD Blue
Rani
|
$1,600
[28]
This French city sounds like a lot of paper, but itscathedralhas some of the loveliestmedieval stained glass
Reims
Rani
|
$1,200
[11]
The Earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock & humus, it also means to sully or tarnish
soil
|
$1,600
[22]
Scientist Tetsuya Fujita who moved from Japan to Chicago was known as "Mr." this common Midwest wind event
Tornado
Vimal
|
$1,200
[4]
This Asian country has an average altitude of 5,200 feet above sea level
Mongolia
Vimal
|
|
$1,600
[19]
This explorer claimed the Louisiana Territory for France in 1682
De La Salle
Vimal
|
$1,600
[14]
Under enemy sniper fire, this man (Gary Burghoff) lost the towel covering his rear flank on "M*A*S*H"
Radar O'Reilly
Amanda
|
— |
$1,600
[12]
Investigative reporters of yore like Ida Tarbell were said to be these "rakers"
muck
Amanda
|
$2,000
[23]
Last name of winemaker Giuseppe, who came from Italy & had a few quarreling sons
Gallo
|
$1,600
[5]
We sing the song of this island country in the Pacific about 1,000 miles N.E. of Australia--actually, we won't
the Solomon Islands
|
|
$2,000
[20]
Nicknamed the "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street", it was founded in London in 1694
the Bank of England
Amanda
|
$2,000
[15]
In view of guests, a pantsless Basil jumps on Manuel in one episode of this classic Britcom
Fawlty Towers
Amanda
|
— |
$2,000
[13]
From the middle English for "to smoke", it means to smell strongly & unpleasantly; you totally this, man!
reek
Amanda
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
He was California's first foreign-born governor since Irishman John Downey, who left office in 1862
Schwarzenegger
Vimal
|
DD
$3,000
[6]
This South American country has coasts along both the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans
Colombia
Vimal
|
In London in 2012, judo & the 800m run included the first female Olympians ever from this Mideastern country
Saudi Arabia