Elliot Yates game 4.
Nathan Tsoi — a program analyst from Arlington, Virginia
Rebecca Speas — a theater artist originally from Greensboro, North Carolina
Elliot Yates — an opera producer from New York, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $50,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elliot | $3,200 | $4,400 | $13,000 |
$15,000
4-day champion: $65,000 |
$14,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rebecca | $2,400 | $3,000 | $5,400 |
$10,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,400
14 R, 5 W |
| Nathan | $2,200 | $2,600 | $3,800 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE $1 BILL | TV ADJECTIVES | SPANISH CLASS | THE NOVEL'S TITLE CHARACTER | "15" YEARS | OF THE NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS |
|
$200
[13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) At the top of each bill are the words "this note is..." this two-word phrase "...for all debts public and private"
legal tender
Nathan
|
$200
[1]
It's the "S" in "Law & Order: SVU"
Special
Rebecca
|
$200
[3]
Whew! Just made it to class ahead of la campana, this
the bell
Elliot
|
$200
[6]
John Irving wrote, "But in the world according to" him, "we are all terminal cases"
Garp
Rebecca
|
$200
[23]
The Arch of Constantine is dedicated near the Colosseum in Rome
315
Elliot
Nathan
|
$600
[28]
Designs by 2014 Lifetime Achievement winners Ivan Chermayeff & Tom Geismar includeonefor this L.A. museum
MOCA (the Museum of Contemporary Art)
Nathan
|
|
$400
[17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) The back of every dollar bears the front & reverse of the image designed in part by Ben Franklin & known by this two-word name
the Great Seal
Elliot
|
$400
[2]
The president of Cinnabon did an episode:"____ Boss"
Undercover
Rebecca
Nathan
|
$400
[5]
Quiet down, here comes la maestra, this person
teacher
Rebecca
|
$400
[7]
This Swedish girl's "hair, the color of a carrot, was braided in two tight braids that stuck straight out"
Pippi Longstocking
Rebecca
|
$400
[22]
The Magna Carta grants new liberties
1215
Elliot
|
$800
[26]
Syd Mead won a special jury award for visualizing the future in movies like "Tron", "Aliens" & this 1982 Harrison Ford film
Blade Runner
Elliot
|
|
$600
[24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) At the end of the 19th century, the U.S. issued a $1 bill featuringher, the only woman ever to appear on a U.S. currency note
Martha Washington
Rebecca
|
$600
[4]
Referring to animated CIA agent Stan Smith:"____ Dad!"
American
Nathan
|
$600
[14]
Help! My pluma is out of tinta, this
ink
Elliot
|
$600
[8]
Hey, this Thomas Hardy character "opened the book... which Mr. Phillotson had bestowed on him as a parting gift"
Jude
Elliot
|
$600
[20]
King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years
1715
Elliot
|
$1,000
[25]
For works like the one seen here, this Canadian-born architect won the first Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000
Frank Gehry
|
|
$800
[27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) The letter inside the circle indicates which one of the 12 Federal Reserve banks issued the dollar, from "A" for Boston all the way to "L" for the bank in this West Coast city
San Francisco
|
$800
[9]
Someone's in the kitchen with Ina (Garten):"____ Contessa"
Barefoot
Rebecca
|
$800
[15]
I've got una computadora, a computer, un raton, a mouse & this, un teclado
a keyboard
Rebecca
|
$800
[10]
This Austen girl: "Dear Mrs Weston, do not take to match-making... Jane Fairfax mistress of the Abbey!--Oh! no, no"
Emma
Elliot
|
$800
[19]
Havana, Cuba is founded by conquistador Diego Velazquez de Cuellar
1515
Elliot
|
— |
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) On the front of each dollar are the signatures of the two people in these two similar-sounding jobs
the Secretary of the Treasury & the Treasurer of the United States
Elliot
|
$1,000
[12]
Mike Rowe tried all kinds of these "Jobs", including roadkill collector
Dirty
Nathan
|
$1,000
[16]
Arts & Crafts day, yay! Hand me these, las tijeras
scissors
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[11]
This Edith Wharton title man, "throwing back his worn bearskin, made room for me in the sleigh at his side"
Ethan Frome
Elliot
|
$1,000
[18]
Henry V & his archers win the Battle of Agincourt
1415
Rebecca
|
— |
| NEW YORK GOVERNORS | LERNER & LOEWE SONGS | GREEN SCENE | BIOLOGY | LAKES | "BAD" CALL |
|
$400
[21]
When he left office after the 1994 election, he had served as New York governor longer than any Democrat in history
Mario Cuomo
Nathan
|
$400
[2]
"Early dawn was the time, she would pay for her crime, or would Lancelot reappear, come and rescue" her
Guinevere
Nathan
|
$400
[26]
Collective term for fuels like petroleum, referring to their formation millions of years ago
fossil fuels
Elliot
|
$400
[6]
The name of this 1-celled shape-shifting organism is from the Greek for "change"
an amoeba
Elliot
|
$400
[16]
Large rivers that enter this lake include the St. Joseph, Muskegon & Kalamazoo
Lake Michigan
Elliot
|
$400
[11]
5-letter, 2-word modern equivalent of mea culpa
my bad
Nathan
|
|
$800
[23]
Hetook New York into the 21st century
George Pataki
Elliot
|
$800
[8]
For "Gigi", L&L wrote of "The Night They Invented" this sparkling potable
champagne
Rebecca
|
$800
[27]
(I'm Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors.) By reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the use of electric vehicles like those being produced by Tesla Motors will go a long way towards reducing this individual measure of environmental impact first formulated in the 1990s
a carbon footprint
Rebecca
|
$800
[5]
A halophyte is defined as a plant that thrives in soil with high levels of this
salt
Nathan
|
$800
[17]
In 1990 colonies of marine life were found living in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of this Siberian lake
Lake Baikal
Rebecca
|
$800
[12]
8-letter, 2-word modern equivalent of mala fides
bad faith
Rebecca
Nathan
|
|
$1,600
[28]
Like his uncle George Clinton, he was elected New York governor multiple times
DeWitt Clinton
|
$1,200
[9]
Rex Harrison was singing about this character's face when he sang, "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face"
Eliza Doolittle
Elliot
|
$1,200
[25]
Run your water through this, like a Brita, instead of buying bottled water & adding to waste
a filter
Elliot
|
$1,200
[1]
A bird's crop is an expanded area of this muscular tube that serves as a temporary storage area for food
the esophagus
Rebecca
Nathan
|
$1,200
[18]
Bordered by 5 countries, this saltwater lake is also called the Khazar Sea & the Mazandaran Sea
the Caspian Sea
Rebecca
|
$1,200
[13]
LDL
bad cholesterol
Elliot
|
| — |
$1,600
[10]
"Thank heaven for" them; they "get bigger every day" & "grow up in the most delightful way"
little girls
Elliot
|
$1,600
[24]
Abbreviated PV, this type of solar power cell converts sunlight into electric energy
photovoltaic
Nathan
|
$1,600
[3]
In 1935 botanist Arthur Tansley coined this word for an environment as it functions with its organisms
ecosystem
Elliot
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[19]
This scenic lake in central Switzerland is also known as the Lake of the Four Forest Cantons
Lake Lucerne
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[14]
Timothy Leary wrote that "The Western world has been on" one of these
a bad trip
Rebecca
|
| — |
DD
$2,600
[7]
"The Heather on the Hill" was one of the featured songs in this 1947 Lerner & Loewe musical
Brigadoon
Elliot
|
$2,000
[22]
In 2009 Energy Sec. Steven Chu said doing this simple thing to roofs could reduce energy use & keep buildings cooler
paint them white
Nathan
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
Though jellyfish are spineless, they form a hydrostatic one of these structures when they take in water
a skeleton
Nathan
|
$2,000
[20]
Lake Balkhash in this largest "stan" by area is bizarre in that it's half freshwater, half saltwater
Kazakhstan
Elliot
|
$2,000
[15]
Brendan Behan said "there is no such thing as" this "except for your own obituary"
bad publicity
Nathan
|
In the Red Star in 1976, Capt. Yuri Gavrilov coined this nickname for a U.K. politician who had made a speech against the USSR
the "Iron Lady"