Maria Wenglinsky game 4.
Jim Gilcreast — a printing salesman from North Providence, Rhode Island
Kingslea Bueltel — a student and freelance bartender from Denton, Texas
Maria Wenglinsky — a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 3-day cash winnings total $81,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maria | $4,400 | $8,700 | $37,900 |
$30,000
4-day champion: $111,700 |
$27,800
29 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Kingslea | $1,000 | $2,400 | $3,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,400
8 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jim | $1,800 | $2,200 | $7,000 |
$6,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,000
11 R, 3 W |
| HERE'S THE PREZ | BASKETBALL | COMPANY SYMBOLS | REALLY TOUGHWHEEL OF FORTUNEPUZZLES | GERMAN RIVERS | A LA "CART" |
|
$200
[21]
Despite this prez's efforts, he couldn't get over his Depression
Hoover
Maria
|
$200
[6]
In 2000 this ex-Chicago Bull became president of the Wizards
(Michael) Jordan
Maria
|
$200
[12]
In 1946 Chicago maitre d' Frank Brown posed for this rice brand's trademark picture
Uncle Ben's
Maria
|
$200
[26]
ON THE MENU: I'll take a "G", Pat & solve the puzzle... it's an Italian dish of tiny dumplings made from potatoes or flour
gnocchi
Kingslea
|
$200
[7]
A major waterway of western Germany, the Weser river flows 273 miles to this sea
the North Sea
Maria
|
$200
[1]
Proverbially, don't ruin plans & "upset" this fruit-delivery mechanism
the apple cart
Maria
|
|
$400
[22]
Hewas Mr. Big when he occupied the White House
Taft
Kingslea
|
$400
[14]
(Hi. I'm Bill Walton.) In 1974 this team that now plays its home games in the Rose Garden made me the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft
the Portland Trail Blazers
|
$400
[13]
This mustachioed yachtsman not only founded a great tea company, he affixed his own portrait to the packages
(Sir Thomas) Lipton
Jim
|
$400
[27]
THING: It's the cavity or tube that connects the oral & nasal passages with the esophagus & larynx
pharynx
|
$400
[8]
The Breg & the Brigach unite at Donaueschingen, Germany to form this second-longest river in Europe
the Danube
Maria
Jim
|
$400
[2]
Yeesh! Random House defines this body part as "gristle"
cartilage
Kingslea
|
|
$600
[23]
Died inhisfirst term
Harding
Jim
|
$600
[15]
Averaging 21 points per game, this team's Chauncey Billups was named MVP of the 2004 NBA Finals
the Detroit Pistons
|
$600
[18]
In the '20s the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Assn. added an Indian maiden to this butter brand logo
Land o' Lakes
Maria
|
$600
[28]
ON THE MAP: This country whose capital is Astana became a republic of the USSR in 1936
Kazakhstan
|
$600
[9]
The Neckar river of SW Germany begins its 228-mile course near Schwenningen in this region aka the Schwarzwald
the Black Forest
Maria
|
$600
[3]
Literally "blank document", it's the 2-word French term for unconditional authority
carte blanche
Kingslea
|
|
$800
[24]
Oneof the first four
John Adams
Jim
|
$800
[16]
This Warrior had 6 NBA games in which he scored 70 or more points, including a 100-point game in 1962
Wilt Chamberlain
Jim
|
$1,000
[20]
In the '30s Sinclair Oil used this Brontosaurus in its ads; inflatable toys & other promotions followed
Dino
|
$800
[29]
BEFORE & AFTER: French action movie & Peta Wilson TV show that became a world leader in 1958
La Femme Nikita Khrushchev
Kingslea
|
$800
[10]
The Pegnitz & the Rednitz join to form the Regnitz River just NW of this German city famous for its trials & rallies
Nuremberg
Maria
|
$800
[4]
One of the best-known examples of this 6-letter term is OPEC
a cartel
Maria
|
|
$1,000
[25]
He's the big Whig seen here
Zachary Taylor
|
$1,000
[17]
He's won 6 NBA championship rings: 1 as a player, 1 as an asst. coach & 4 as head coach of the Lakers in the 1980s
Pat Riley
Jim
|
DD
$2,500
[19]
This polishing soap's baby chick was created in the late 1890s; it still "hasn't scratched yet"
Bon Ami
Maria
|
$1,000
[30]
PERSON: A total of 3 Zs are in the first & last names of this national security adviser under Carter
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Maria
|
$1,000
[11]
The 339-mile Moselle River forms part of the boundary between Germany & this duchy
Luxembourg
Maria
|
$1,000
[5]
Don't put this writer of 1644's "Principles of Philosophy" before the horse
Rene Descartes
Jim
|
| BACTERIOLOGY | NAME THAT MOVIE | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS | "GEO"PARDY! | MILITARY MATTERS | BASIC TRAIN-ING |
|
$400
[16]
AR stands for the problem of "antibiotic" this, when bacteria shrug off drugs that once would have killed them
resistance
Jim
|
$400
[17]
1995:"That'll do pig. That'll do"
Babe
Kingslea
|
$400
[6]
His first & middle names were Pelham Grenville, but his friends called him "Plum"
P.G. Wodehouse
Maria
|
$400
[11]
Word found after clay, passenger or stool
pigeon
Maria
|
$400
[1]
In 87 B.C. Gaius Marius & his pal Cinna captured this city
Rome
|
$400
[22]
In October, the Buckeye Central Railroad in this state offers Haunted Halloween trips
Ohio
Maria
|
|
$800
[27]
Helicobacter pylori has special defenses against this acid, which allow it to live in the stomach & cause ulcers
hydrochloric acid
Kingslea
|
$800
[18]
1969:"Kid, the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia"
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Jim
|
$800
[7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in the JFK Library & Museum.) The Kennedy Library has a fine collection of the papers & mementos of this writer, including an antelope that he shot on safari
Hemingway
Jim
|
$800
[12]
Comedian Steve Boyer said he was such a geek in H.S. that his characters in this 3-word fantasy game had asthma
Dungeons & Dragons
Maria
|
$800
[2]
From 1968 to 1971, President George W. Bush served in this military group
the Texas Air National Guard
Maria
|
$800
[23]
Inspired by the train in this 1941 film, the Casey Jr. Circus Train opened at Disneyland in its first year, 1955
Dumbo
Kingslea
|
|
$1,200
[28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds up a small vial from inside the Smithsonian Institution.) In 1943 Selman Waksman discovered in this soil sample this, the first drug effective against tuberculosis
streptomycin
|
$1,200
[19]
1931:"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make"
Dracula
Jim
|
$1,200
[8]
In his youth, this author of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" played the fiddle at weddings & dances
Thomas Hardy
Maria
|
$1,200
[13]
"My wife said, 'That's not going in the living room'", a man said in 2004 after spearing a 188-lb. one of these fish
a sturgeon
Maria
|
$1,200
[3]
Aiding the English win at Crecy were people collecting these off the battlefield for reuse after each French retreat
arrows
Maria
|
$1,200
[24]
Riding the Mount Washington Cog Railway has thrilled folks in this New England State since 1869
New Hampshire
Jim
|
|
DD
$1,400
[29]
Clostridium tetani typically affects the masseter muscle, which controls the movement of this body part
the jaw
Kingslea
|
$1,600
[20]
1984:"There are simply too many notes"
Amadeus
Maria
|
$1,600
[9]
This author of "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" spent his last years with the former proprietress of a Florida brothel
(Stephen) Crane
Maria
Jim
|
$2,000
[15]
This 1897 Kipling novel details a boy's coming of age on a fishing trawler
Captains Courageous
Maria
|
$1,600
[4]
Soldiers still practice this "drill" of marching in formation even though it's not used in battle
close order drill
Maria
|
$1,600
[25]
The California State Railroad Museum is in this city once at the western end of the Transcontinental RR
Sacramento
|
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$2,000
[21]
1958:"Help me! Help me!"
The Fly
Jim
|
$2,000
[10]
He was eventually buried in the Illinois cemetery that inspired his "Spoon River Anthology"
Edgar Lee Masters
Maria
|
DD
$10,000
[14]
A petty way of referring to a member of the middle class
a bourgeois
Maria
|
$2,000
[5]
Abbreviated SAS, this elite British military unit is similar to the USA's Delta Force
the Special Air Service
Maria
|
$2,000
[26]
The old Wakarusa Railroad offers a 1 1/2 mile ride over a hand-laid railway near Elkhart in this state
Indiana
Maria
|
Calling him a Revolutionary, in 2000 Fidel Castro dedicated a statue of this man on the 20th anniversary of his murder
John Lennon