Alex Jacob game 4.
Becky Hammer — an environmental lawyer from Alexandria, Virginia
Doug Butler — a graduate student in medieval history from Columbia, Missouri
Alex Jacob — a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $72,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | $2,800 | $9,800 | $20,700 |
$37,201
4-day champion: $109,401 |
$22,200
27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Doug | $200 | $400 | $1,600 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,600
5 R, 3 W |
| Becky | $4,400 | $5,600 | $18,600 |
$16,499
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,600
17 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| WOMEN ON A PEDESTAL | RIVER BANK ON IT | A MIXED BAG OF MIXED BAGS | "UBE" JOB | THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | DIE FLEDERMAUS |
|
$200
[26]
It's no mystery--this novelist is honored in London's West End
(Agatha) Christie
Alex
|
$200
[27]
Palestine's West Bank is named for its location along this river
the Jordan
Becky
|
$200
[12]
A subject of abuse, or something you can really lay into at the boxing gym
a punching bag
Alex
|
$200
[28]
Math whizzes know that for 2, it's 8
the cube
Alex
|
$200
[29]
A sixth-round pick in the 2000 draft, this QB told owner Robert Kraft, "I'm the best decision" the team "ever made"
Tom Brady
Becky
|
$400
[22]
Calling it the king of all wines, a rousing song to this beverage ends Act II
champagne
Alex
|
|
$400
[25]
Holding apropeller, she's immortalized in North Hollywood, California
(Amelia) Earhart
Alex
|
$400
[6]
It turns so sharply on its trip through Paris that its west bank becomes its east, so locals say Right & Left Bank instead
the Seine
Alex
|
$400
[9]
Colorful term for bringing your own lunch to work
brown-bagging
Alex
|
$400
[24]
A son of Jacob & a forefather of one of the tribes of Israel
Reuben
|
$400
[20]
"The Daily Show" dealt with "PSI: New England" after the Pats won the AFC title game in 2015 against this "luck"y team
the (Indianapolis) Colts
Alex
|
$600
[21]
A 1955 film version featured the acting & singing of Michael, patriarch of this British acting family
Redgrave
Alex
|
|
$600
[2]
In 1996, Hillary Clinton was in Riverside Park for the dedication of them onumentof this fellow First Lady
(Eleanor) Roosevelt
Alex
Doug
|
$600
[5]
To beat your feet on its mud, visit places on its bank like Davenport, Iowa
the Mississippi
Alex
Doug
|
$800
[10]
Seal your lunch in the polyethylene of these S.C. Johnson sandwich bags
Ziploc bags
Becky
|
$600
[23]
This adjective means relating to a state executive, not relating to peanuts
gubernatorial
Alex
|
$600
[16]
2 Patriot losses in the Super Bowl came against this team, & both times near-miracle catches were involved
the (New York) Giants
Alex
|
$800
[18]
The part of Prince Orlofsky is usually played by a woman in men's garb singing in this "middle" range
mezzo-soprano
Alex
Doug
|
|
$800
[1]
D.C. is the suffragette city to see Stanton, Mott&this woman, carved from an 8-ton block of marble
(Susan B.) Anthony
Alex
|
$800
[4]
Cleopatra's Needle & Paul's Walk are on its north bank
the Thames
Doug
Becky
|
$1,000
[11]
Mothers know that this temporary part of the body is sometimes called the "bag of waters"
the amniotic sac
Doug
|
$800
[14]
This 19th century song composer's "Serenade" is heard here"Leise flehen meine Liede..."
(Franz) Schubert
Alex
|
$800
[15]
Not to be confused with "I am Groot", this exuberant tight end could declare, "I am Gronk"
Gronkowski
Becky
|
$1,000
[17]
Fledermaus means this winged creature; Doctor Falke was humiliated when he was dressed as one for a party
a bat
Alex
|
|
$1,000
[3]
This Washington, D.C. university has astatueof a deaf girl, Alice Cogswell, sitting with the school'snamesake
Gallaudet
Alex
|
$1,000
[7]
It's an ancient custom to cremate the dead along this river's banks at Varanasi
the Ganges
Becky
|
DD
$1,800
[8]
The subject of the cartoon seenhereis one of these, named for hisluggage
a carpetbagger
Becky
|
$1,000
[13]
Oh, joy! We all love people with this overabundance of unrestrained enthusiasm, don't we?
exuberance
Alex
|
$1,000
[19]
This Hall of Fame head coach led the Pats to the 1997 Super Bowl, then left to go fly with the Jets
Bill Parcells
Doug
|
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| COMPOUND WORDS | YES, PRIME MINISTER | HIT SONGS | ASTROPHYSICS WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON | CHAPTER TITLES INMOBY-DICK | "IN" BUSINESS |
|
$400
[26]
A garden or field decoy made of straw
scarecrow
Doug
|
$400
[23]
From 1993 to 2003 this country's PM was Jean Chretien, active since the age of 12 in the Liberal Party
Canada
Becky
|
$400
[21]
In 1984 "Dancing In The Dark" was the first of several hits off his "Born in the U.S.A."
Springsteen
Alex
|
$800
[27]
(Dr. Tyson delivers the clue.) We started getting hate mail at the Hayden Planetarium in 2001, 5 years before the official reclassification of Pluto to this 2-word status
dwarf planet
Alex
|
DD
$100
[10]
Chapter 32:This study of whales
Cetology
Alex
|
$800
[24]
For Amalgamated Button, it means all their buttons or the buttons' value
inventory
|
|
$800
[25]
Open space within an apartment complex
courtyard
Doug
|
$800
[8]
1830 to 1834 was tea time in the U.K. with this earl
Earl Grey
Alex
|
$800
[20]
I'm sensing a theme here... in 2014 "Sunshine & Whiskey" & "Drunk On A Plane" were hits in this genre
country music
Becky
|
$1,600
[14]
(Dr. Tyson delivers the clue.) The existence on Earth of heavy elements like gold, silver & iron confirms that our solar system was formed from the debris of one of these enormous cataclysmic explosions
supernova
Alex
|
$800
[22]
Chapter 14:This Massachusetts island
Nantucket
Becky
|
$1,200
[11]
Governments encourage businesses to expand & hire with an ITC, this type of tax credit
investment
Becky
|
|
$1,200
[7]
A waitress at a drive-in restaurant
carhop
|
$1,200
[4]
Despite losing an election in 2010, he was in power in Iraq from 2006 through 2014
al-Maliki
Becky
|
$1,200
[1]
In 2014 this British band showed us "A Sky Full Of Stars"
Coldplay
Becky
|
$2,000
[19]
(Dr. Tyson delivers the clue.) If you divide the velocity of galaxies receding from our Milky Way by their distance from us you get this "constant" named for an Americanastronomerthat helps us to determine the 13.8-billion-year old age of the universe
Hubble
Alex
|
$1,200
[9]
Chapter 128:This ship "Meets the Rachel"
the Pequod
Alex
|
$1,600
[17]
This state of being unable to pay creditors often leads to a bankruptcy filing
insolvency
Becky
|
|
$1,600
[12]
A region draining into a river, or a critical point that marks a division or change of course
watershed
Becky
|
$1,600
[5]
In 2014 Tony Abbott of this Commonwealth country said he'd "shirt-front" Vladimir Putin over Ukraine
Australia
Becky
|
$1,600
[2]
In 2014 Sir Mix-a-Lot admitted this singer-actress inspired "Baby Got Back"
J.Lo (Jennifer Lopez)
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
(Dr. Tyson delivers the clue.) I got my undergrad & graduate degrees at other Ivy League schools, but I did have the inspirational privilege of meeting this man who taught astronomy at Cornell for almost 3 decades
Carl Sagan
Becky
|
$2,000
[16]
Chapter 92:This substance from sperm whales used in perfume
ambergris
Alex
|
$2,000
[18]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) A big U.S. company merges with a smaller foreign company then relocates its headquarters to that country in order to avoid some U.S. taxes in this controversial practice
inversion
|
|
$2,000
[15]
A ship's cockpit is this enclosed area on the bridge, from which the captain controls the vessel
wheelhouse
|
$2,000
[6]
This Yitzhak, who both followed & preceded Rabin in Israel, saw a lot in his 96 years
Shamir
Alex
|
$2,000
[3]
This group! got "Rude" & presto! had a hit in 2014!
Magic!
Becky
|
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When spelled out as words in English, 2 of the 3 longest Greek letters
(2 of) epsilon, upsilon & omicron