Jerry Slowik game 4.
Reggie Austin — an actor from Culver City, California
Alyson Murray — a server from Boston, Massachusetts
Jerry Slowik — a writer from Arlington Heights, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $71,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerry | $1,400 | $1,400 | $16,400 |
$26,900
4-day champion: $98,800 |
$15,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Alyson | $1,400 | $3,600 | $13,400 |
$6,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Reggie | $2,200 | $0 | $2,800 |
$5
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,600
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES | IT'S A GAS... GIANT | MY NAME IS MY BRAND | I'M IN... | "DE" | NILE |
|
$200
[1]
(I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) The longer I am in television, the more I like this feature film comedy with Will Ferrell as a San Diego newsman, & I'm really looking forward to the sequel
Anchorman(: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
Alyson
|
$200
[14]
It's the giantest gas giant planet
Jupiter
Jerry
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$200
[19]
He got rich running a fertilizer co. before becoming a bowtie-wearing popcorn king (& it's not Samuel Jiffypop)
Orville Redenbacher
Alyson
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$200
[24]
This, failure perhaps due to bleeding or a heart-attack to get blood to all the tissues; I feel cold
shock
Jerry
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$200
[6]
Scattered detritus, litter, trash
debris
|
$200
[11]
They're the Nile's 2 "colorful" main tributaries
the blue (Nile) and white (Nile)
Jerry
Reggie
|
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$400
[2]
(Here with the clue are Mike & Mike of ESPN Radio.) My favorite sports movie is "Field of Dreams"--it's got everything: mystery, romance & baseball......I can beat that--my favorite is this laughter on the links that co-starred Bill Murray as a crazy gopher exterminator
Caddyshack
Reggie
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$400
[15]
Nereid is the third largest of its 13 moons
Neptune
Reggie
|
$400
[20]
Last name of Dr. William, inventor of more than 1,000 foot-care products
Scholl
Jerry
Alyson
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$400
[25]
This type of "custody", to make sure the mob doesn't get me before I testify
protective
Jerry
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$400
[7]
The French phrase for "of good disposition" gives us this synonym for suave
debonair
Reggie
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$400
[12]
A 1959 agreement divided the Nile's water between Egypt & this country
the Sudan
Jerry
|
|
$600
[3]
(I'm Dana Perino of Fox News.) Hugh Grant played a convincing prime minister in this film that depicts amorous hopefuls from all walks of London life
Love Actually
Jerry
|
$600
[16]
It's named for the Roman god of agriculture
Saturn
Reggie
|
$600
[21]
Last name of Louis-Eugene, who sold his French thermal spring with naturally carbonated water in 1903
Perrier
Alyson
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— |
$600
[8]
The IRS offers "Six facts about choosing the standard or itemized" these
deductions
Alyson
|
$600
[13]
Exodus says that Moses' mother put him in a basket made of these grasslike plants & put him in the Nile
reeds (or bulrushes)
Alyson
|
|
$800
[4]
(Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) The Cuban missile crisis was still fresh in viewers' minds when Stanley Kubrick played the situation for laughs in this 1964 classic
Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Jerry
Reggie
|
$800
[17]
Its ring system was discovered in 1977, nearly 200 years after it was
Uranus
|
$800
[22]
A 1975 law ending fixed stockbroker commissions helped boost the discount brokerage he founded in 1971
Charles Schwab
Reggie
|
— |
$800
[9]
The proofreaders mark seenheremeans this
delete
Reggie
|
— |
|
$1,000
[5]
(Hi, I'm Elizabeth Perkins.) He directed, co-wrote & starred in "Lost in America", which eviscerated the materialistic culture of the 1980s
Albert Brooks
|
$1,000
[18]
Its axis of rotation is almost parallel to its orbital plane, so it spins more or less on its side
Uranus
Alyson
|
DD
$2,800
[23]
The copper products co. founded by this man in 1801 is still around today, but in Rome, New York, not Boston
Paul Revere
Reggie
|
— |
$1,000
[10]
Walnut & teak trees are classified as this, losing their leaves annually
deciduous
Jerry
|
— |
| SONGS FOR NEW YEAR'S | THE 15th CENTURY | THAT'S OUR ISLAND! | ARCHITECTURE | 3-LETTER WORDS | HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN |
|
$400
[16]
This Irish group's 1983 song "New Year's Day" was inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement
U2
Jerry
|
$400
[11]
This religious suppression began in earnest in 1481 with its first auto-da-fe punishments
the inquisition
Jerry
|
$400
[18]
Kangaroo Island
Australia
Jerry
|
$400
[1]
The demolition of this NYC train station in the early 1960s helped spur the city's preservationist movement
Penn Station
Reggie
|
$400
[6]
A solemn promise, perhaps to a bride
a vow
Reggie
|
$400
[26]
In this story "The great swans swam round the newcomer; and stroked his neck with their beaks"
The Ugly Duckling
Alyson
|
|
$800
[17]
This New Year's Eve staple was the Guy Lombardo orchestra's theme song
"Auld Lang Syne"
Alyson
|
$800
[12]
Already king of Hungary & Bohemia, Sigismund ascended to this imperial title in 1433
Holy Roman Emperor
Alyson
|
$800
[19]
Martinique
France
Jerry
|
$800
[2]
John Howells & Raymond Hood won a 1922 contest to design this city's Tribune Tower; Eliel Saarinen Finnished second
Chicago
|
$800
[7]
A certain dinosaur knows it's Latin for "King"
rex
Jerry
|
$800
[27]
In one story they consisted of trousers, a coat & a cloak that were "light as a cobweb"
The Emperor's New Clothes
Alyson
|
|
$1,200
[23]
In 1980 this Swedish hit machine of a group wished us "Happy New Year"
ABBA
Jerry
|
$1,200
[13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Ottoman Empire.) In 1462 the mighty Ottoman army retreated after a large massacre by this Wallachian prince and his forces
Vlad (Tepes, Count Dracula)
Jerry
|
$1,200
[20]
Minorca
Spain
Alyson
Reggie
|
$1,200
[3]
Said to gather all light & positive spirits, asorinis the nine-ringed spire placed atop this type of shrine seen here
a pagoda
Jerry
|
$1,200
[8]
You can pick it up at a restaurant or push it down as a keyboard button
tab
Jerry
|
$1,200
[28]
Andersen's visit to this "Oliver Twist" author's home in 1857 was no fairy tale; he overstayed his welcome by 3 weeks
Charles Dickens
Alyson
|
|
$1,600
[24]
This Wilson Pickett No. 1 R&B hit from 1965 will get us closer to the new year
"In The Midnight Hour"
|
$2,000
[15]
Hangulwas developed and made the official writing system of this peninsula
Korea
Jerry
|
$1,600
[21]
Phuket
Thailand
Jerry
|
$1,600
[4]
Lubeck's Marienkirche boasts that it has the world's highest brick ceiling that's this, meaning arched
vaulted
Jerry
|
$1,600
[9]
Bored-sounding 3-letter poetic word meaning "over there"
yon
Reggie
|
$2,000
[30]
Andersen's "The Nightingale" was a tribute to this Swedish soprano who never returned his love
Jenny Lind
Jerry
|
|
$2,000
[25]
13 million have YouTubed a clip of Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon-Levitt asking this in song about "New Year's Eve"
What are you doing New Year's Eve?
|
DD
$2,200
[14]
Losing the battle of Grunwald in 1410 in Poland led to the end of the military power of these knights
the Teutonic Knights
Jerry
|
$2,000
[22]
Isle of Youth (or Isla de la Juventud)
Cuba
|
$2,000
[5]
Oscar Niemeyer's first solo project was a 1941 plan for Pampulha in this country where he later designed the capital
Brazil
Jerry
|
$2,000
[10]
A member of an American Indian people of Colorado
Ute
Alyson
|
DD
$5,000
[29]
Her grandmother told her that when she was 15, she could rise out of the sea & sit on the rocks in the moonlight
The Little Mermaid
Alyson
|
Woodrow Wilson said this man had enough genius to be immortal & "unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous"
(Aaron) Burr