Lisa Schlitt game 4.
Amanda Harvey — an arts administrator from Newton, Massachusetts
Julie Bradlow — a corporate tax attorney from Charlotte, North Carolina
Lisa Schlitt — a microbiologist from Berwyn, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $64,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa | $4,400 | $8,800 | $14,200 |
$20,800
4-day champion: $85,000 |
$15,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Julie | $1,800 | $4,200 | $1,400 |
$2,798
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,400
11 R, 3 W |
| Amanda | $2,800 | $4,200 | $10,300 |
$2,801
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM | COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | ANIMALS IN FRENCH | WRITING | ANNUAL EVENTS | "BOO"! |
|
$200
[21]
Local Reporting, 2012: the Patriot-News of this state capital for coverage of Penn State
Harrisburg
Julie
|
$200
[26]
His "Ropin' The Wind" was 1991's top album, remaining at No. 1 for 18 weeks
Garth Brooks
Amanda
|
$200
[1]
Raining or not, the French names of these 2 animals are chat et chien
cat and dog
Amanda
|
$200
[16]
Directionally speaking, Hebrew, Arabic & most other Semitic languages are written this way
right-to-left
Lisa
|
$200
[11]
It was created in 1970 as a "national teach-in on the environment"
Earth Day
Amanda
|
$200
[6]
Don't be this rude & unrefined person
a boor
Julie
|
|
$400
[22]
Intl. Reporting, 2015: The New York Times staff, for "courageous front-line reporting" on this African epidemic
Ebola
Lisa
|
$400
[27]
In 1978 this "Red-Headed Stranger" released "Stardust", an album of pop standards
Willie Nelson
Amanda
|
$400
[2]
Le loup is this carnivore
the wolf
Julie
|
$400
[17]
The Latin "currere", meaning "to run", gives us the name of this type of handwriting
cursive
Lisa
|
$400
[12]
To promote heart health for women, National Wear Red Day, whose logo is seen here, is the first Friday of this month
February
Julie
|
$400
[7]
Shake shake shake these spoils of war
booty
Amanda
|
|
$600
[23]
Photography, 1945: Joe Rosenthal, for this image of Marines doing this on Mount Suribachi
the flag raising of Iwo Jima
Lisa
|
$600
[28]
In 1975 a double album was released combining 2 previous LPs featuring Johnny Cash at these 2 penitentiaries
San Quentin and Folsom
Julie
|
$600
[3]
Le canard is this; someone pass the orange sauce
duck
Amanda
|
$600
[18]
Majuscule is an uppercase letter; this is the term for a lowercase one
minuscule
Julie
|
$600
[13]
The inedible one is celebrated March 14; the edible one is January 23, as in "1-2-3, as easy as..."
pie
Amanda
|
$600
[8]
The NCAA calls them "representatives of the institution's athletic interests"
boosters
Lisa
|
|
$800
[24]
Editorial, 1929: The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot for "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery", about this form of race-based murder
lynching
Amanda
|
$800
[29]
In May 2005 she won "American Idol"; 6 months later, her debut album "Some Hearts" was released
Carrie Underwood
Amanda
|
$800
[4]
Down on a French farm, this is le mouton
a sheep
Lisa
|
$800
[19]
Perhaps to thwart those who would steal his ideas, Leonardo da Vinci used a backwards shorthand named for this object
a mirror
Lisa
|
$800
[14]
First Night, an arts festival in Boston, is held on this celebratory night
New Year's Eve
Julie
|
$800
[9]
Grant me this gift or favor
a boon
Amanda
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Feature, 2016: The New Yorker's Kathryn Schulz, making Oregonians quake with a piece on the Cascadia this earth feature
the subduction earthquake fault
Lisa
|
$1,000
[30]
This 2000 movie soundtrack album featured Alison Krauss on 3 tracks including "Down To The River To Pray"
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Julie
|
$1,000
[5]
This subject of songs, seen here, is le merle
a blackbird
Lisa
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
Created by Daniel Britton, the font seenheretries to emulate what people with this condition see when trying to read
dyslexia
Lisa
|
$1,000
[15]
The story of the Jewish holiday Purim is told in the Biblical book of her
Esther
Lisa
|
$1,000
[10]
Named for a mathematician, it's the type of internet search using "and", "or" & "not"
Boolean
Lisa
|
| GOOD FELLERS | CAPE FEAR | THE KING OF COMEDY | HEAT | CASINO | DE NERO |
|
$400
[18]
The engraving of this young man and his father is entitled "Father, I Can Not Tell a Lie: I Cut the Tree"
George Washington
Lisa
|
$400
[11]
This notoriously deadly cape at the bottom of South America juts into the Drake Passage
Cape Horn
Lisa
Amanda
|
$400
[16]
He "Report"-ed, "There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good"
Colbert
Amanda
|
$400
[3]
Guys who can't wait to start firing idiomatically go in "with guns" this hot way
guns blazing
Lisa
|
$400
[1]
One of the oldest casinos in the world was opened in 1863 in this principality
Monaco
Julie
|
$400
[9]
After Rome burned, Nero shifted the blame from himself to this sect, making sport of them in the circus
Christians
Lisa
|
|
$800
[19]
This legendary logger dug Lake Michigan as a watering hole for his blue ox Babe
Paul Bunyan
Amanda
|
$800
[12]
Jutting into the "Graveyard of the Atlantic", Cape Fear is a dangerous cape on the coast of this U.S. state
North Carolina
Lisa
|
$800
[17]
"Lunacy packaged in pathos" was one description used of this late "Willy Wonka" comic actor
Gene Wilder
Lisa
|
$800
[4]
One hot summer day in 2016, the Boston Globe punningly wrote, "Gimme" this, a likely homage to the Stones
gimme swelter
Lisa
|
$800
[2]
This "boss" is in charge of a group of casino table games
the pit boss
Lisa
|
$800
[15]
Around 60 A.D. Nero gave his first public performance with this harp-like instrument
a lyre
Lisa
|
|
$1,600
[21]
This poor woodcutter of fable watches 40 thieves hide their plunder in a cave
Ali Baba
Lisa
|
$1,200
[13]
The name of Africa's Cape Agulhas, dominated by sharp rocks that have wrecked many a ship, means these sewing tools
needles
Amanda
|
$1,200
[23]
In "Coming to America", this actor has a simple request: "From this moment on, I command you not to obey me"
Eddie Murphy
Lisa
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
Meaning "caused by heat", it's found before "spring" or "underwear"
thermal
Lisa
|
$1,200
[8]
Quad Cities is a Midwestern gaming hub with casinos in Bettendorf & this other trisyllabic Iowa city
Davenport
|
$1,200
[27]
Having had enough of Nero's antics, this august political body decreed his death; he fled
the Senate
Julie
|
|
$2,000
[22]
In "The Green Hills of Africa" from 1935, he engages in tree removal while on safari with second wife Pauline Pfeiffer
Ernest Hemingway
|
$1,600
[14]
Known to natives as an owl hunting spot, this Alaskan point was where Wiley Post & Will Rogers died in a 1935 crash
Point Barrow
|
$1,600
[24]
This standup who passed away in 2008: "No one can ever know for sure what a deserted area looks like"
George Carlin
Lisa
Julie
|
$1,600
[6]
One of Dan Patrick's catchphrases at ESPN was this, Spanish for "on fire"
en fuego
Amanda
|
$1,600
[10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew lays out cards in Texas Hold 'Em.) Texas Hold 'Em dealers discard a single card before the flop comes; that card gets this hot term and is used to deter cheaters
the burn
|
$1,600
[28]
At 16, Nero was proclaimed emperor by this military group, the household guard of the emperors
the Praetorians
Lisa
|
|
DD
$2,500
[20]
In a 1900 work his tree cutting is stuck mid-chop & he asks for someone to "oil my joints"
the Tin Man
Amanda
|
$2,000
[29]
Meaning "father of danger" in Arabic, Cape Abu Khatar is a reef-lined stretch of coast of this western territory
the Western Sahara
Lisa
|
$2,000
[25]
His zany antics from movies like "The Bellboy" weren't on view when he co-starred with De Niro in "The King of Comedy"
Jerry Lewis
|
$2,000
[7]
7-letter medical adjective that means "running a temperature"
fevered (or febrile)
Julie
Amanda
|
$2,000
[26]
Table on which you'd find horn & field options; some casinos even offer 5x or 10x odds too!
the craps tables
Julie
|
$2,000
[30]
This statesman, tragedian & tutor to Nero was later forced by Nero to commit suicide
Seneca
Julie
Amanda
|
In 1812 the U.S. endured a literal one of these 2-word terms & beginning in 1964 enjoyed a musical one
a British invasion