Sarah Jett Rayburn game 4.
Anastasia Plakas — an investigator from Flushing, New York
Alwin Hui — a consultant from Washington, D.C.
Sarah Jett Rayburn — a writer and stay-at-home mom from Hutto, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $54,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah | $2,200 | $1,800 | $17,400 |
$34,400
4-day champion: $89,300 |
$17,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Alwin | $200 | $3,000 | $16,400 |
$10,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Anastasia | $3,600 | $7,400 | $11,000 |
$22,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS | WE'D LIKE TO MAKE A CORRECTION | WELL-SEASONED VOCABULARY | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS | SPINELESS JELLYFISH |
|
$200
[10]
Hosting the Billboard Music Awards for the first time in 2018, sheperformed a medley of Top 100 hits"Sit down, be humble /Sit down, I said, be humble..."
Kelly Clarkson
Anastasia
|
$200
[13]
Jay Leno noted a newspaper's error when it "reported ...band mate Eric Lyday was on drugs"; he was actually on this instrument
drums
Alwin
|
$200
[8]
This tasty verb precedes "favor" when you are using flattery as a means of advancement
curry
|
$200
[1]
Louisa Alcott
May
Alwin
|
$200
[16]
To seep out in a gradual way
ooze
Sarah
Alwin
|
$400
[28]
Common predators of ocean jellyfish include these reptiles; the leatherback really goes to town
a turtle
Alwin
|
|
$400
[11]
With his 27th win in 2019, this rapper/actor surpassed Taylor Swift to become the artist with the most Billboard wins"To win my award here is incredible, but to win this award is just unbelievable. It's surreal."
Drake
Anastasia
|
$400
[15]
Dear Abby stated, "Charlie's hiccups were cured... through the use of carbon monoxide. It should have read" this--so close!
carbon dioxide
|
$400
[24]
As a verb, this seasoning means to hit rapidly & repeatedly or to pelt with questions
to pepper
Alwin
|
$400
[4]
Poet & dramatist William Yeats
Butler
Anastasia
|
$400
[17]
Said of a room that's open & well-ventilated
airy
Sarah
|
$600
[27]
The upside-down jellyfish will sit inverted to expose zooxanthellae, these plant-like organisms, to sunlight
algae
Alwin
|
|
$600
[12]
Named Top New Artist in 2017, Zaynwas formerly a member of this group that won the award in 2013
One Direction
Sarah
|
$800
[3]
"Karol Wojtyla was referred to in (a) credo column as 'the first non-Catholic pope for 450 years'. This should...have read 'non-"' this
Italian
Sarah
|
$600
[23]
The brown coloring of the coat of the animal seenheregives it this spicy name
a cinnamon bear
|
$600
[7]
Oz creator Lyman Baum
Frank
Anastasia
|
$600
[2]
Your invisible glow
aura
Alwin
|
$800
[26]
In 2016 scientists exploring more than 10,000' down near this 1,600-mile-long ocean trench discovered a new species of jellyfish
the Mariana Trench
Alwin
|
|
$800
[14]
As the recipient of the 2018 Icon Award, she took "Control" & took to the stage inherfirst live TV performance in nearly a decade"Nasty, nasty boys, lemme see your nasty body move /Oh, you nasty boys..."
Janet Jackson
Sarah
Alwin
|
$1,000
[22]
Time's early version of "The 100 Most-Read Female Writers in College" included this "Brideshead Revisited" author, "who was a man"
Evelyn Waugh
Anastasia
|
$800
[20]
The name of this piquant bud also means a crime or an antic
caper
Anastasia
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
Cecil Forester & Francis Fitzgerald
Scott
Anastasia
|
$800
[18]
The itty-bitty ninth letter of the Greek alphabet
iota
Alwin
|
$1,000
[25]
Call it the king of sea beasts; it's the two-word feline hair name of this, the largest species of jellyfish
the lion's mane
|
|
$1,000
[21]
Among this band's many awards are Top Rock Artist 2014, 2018, 2019, & Top Rock Song for "Believer""My life, my love, my drive, it came from... pain! /You made me a, you made me a believer, believer..."
Imagine Dragons
Anastasia
|
— |
$1,000
[9]
Thisarchitectural style was popular for houses in Colonial New England
the saltbox style
|
$1,000
[6]
Borrowing his middle name from his grandfather, an artist, Ford Ford
Madox
Anastasia
|
$1,000
[19]
A blunted dueling sword for competition
an epee
Sarah
Anastasia
|
— |
| THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE | LAYING THINGS N TO N | PREQUELS | 1917 | THE GOLD BURGS | I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY |
|
$400
[1]
Born on the foam of the sea, this "mighty" goddess had a magic girdle that made the wearer amazingly desirable, as girdles do
Aphrodite
Anastasia
|
$400
[18]
It's the "pact" nations sign to say they won't attack one another
nonaggression
Anastasia
|
$400
[12]
Tracee Ellis Ross narrates "mixed-ish" , a prequel to this ABC sitcom
black-ish
Anastasia
|
$400
[6]
The Battle of Cambrai marked the 1st large-scale use of this motorized weapon, with more than 350 British Mark IVs deployed
tanks
Anastasia
|
$400
[26]
This big burg was founded in 1886 following the discovery of gold in the Transvaal
Johannesburg
|
$400
[27]
One of FDR's closest advisors, Harry Hopkins helped shape this "novel" umbrella program of economic relief & stimulus
the New Deal
Sarah
Alwin
|
|
$800
[2]
This Olympian goddess of wisdom was big in agriculture, too, teaching man how to yoke oxen
Athena
Anastasia
|
$800
[19]
It's the science of plotting the course of a plane
navigation
Sarah
|
$800
[13]
This "Breaking Bad" prequel shows us how Jimmy McGill becomes Saul Goodman
Better Call Saul
Alwin
|
$800
[11]
Led by Eddie Collins & Shoeless Joe Jackson, this team won baseball's World Series; they wouldn't win again until 2005
the White Sox
Anastasia
|
$800
[25]
Bodie, Calif. once had a population of 10,000; when the local mine's gold ran out, the people did too, & now it's one of these sites
a ghost town
Alwin
|
$800
[30]
In England the bestseller "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is known as "Harry Potter and" this stone
the Philosopher's Stone
Anastasia
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Her marriage to the king of Sparta went kinda sideways after her abduction but some stories have the 2 reconciling later
Helen of Troy
Sarah
|
$1,200
[20]
Oui, it's a puff pastry with custard filling
a Napoleon
Sarah
|
$1,200
[15]
"Age of Resistance", a TV prequel to "The Dark Crystal", was produced by Lisa, daughter of this man who directed the original film
Jim Henson
Sarah
|
$1,200
[9]
"The Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming" in this popular song of the day written by George M. Cohan
"Over There"
Sarah
|
$1,600
[23]
The 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush gave birth to this city, which merged with Auraria in 1860
Denver
Alwin
|
$1,200
[7]
From 2007 to 2015 he was the U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid
Alwin
|
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
An early snowbird, this daughter of Zeus had to spend a few months a year in Hades after an unfortunate food choice
Persephone
Sarah
|
$1,600
[14]
It's the type of figure seen here with a whole bunch of sides
a nonagon
Sarah
|
$1,600
[16]
A prequel to this TV series, "Caprica" showed what life was like in the 12 colonies before the Cylons messed everything up
Battlestar Galactica
Anastasia
|
$1,600
[8]
After 245 years, the colony called the Danish this directional name ceased to exist, becoming the U.S. Virgin Islands
the West Indies
Alwin
|
$2,000
[22]
This Alaskan city named for a senator & vice president boomed thanks to a 1902 gold rush
Fairbanks
Alwin
|
$1,600
[29]
This late character actor played "Repo Man" Bud & Molly Ringwald's dad in "Pretty in Pink"
Harry Dean Stanton
|
|
$2,000
[5]
She's seenherehelping guide her blind father Oedipusinto exile
Antigone
Sarah
Anastasia
|
$2,000
[21]
10-letter term for a substance such as cobra venom
a neurotoxin
Alwin
|
$2,000
[17]
The title Autobot chooses to hide as a Volkswagen Beetle in this 2018 "Transformers" prequel film
Bumblebee
Sarah
|
$2,000
[10]
Named for a British foreign minister, this declaration said the British government supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine
the Balfour Declaration
|
DD
$3,800
[24]
In 1855 a California mining town wisely changed its name from Mud Springs to this, a Spanish name for a legendary gold country
El Dorado
Alwin
|
$2,000
[28]
Known as "The King of Diamonds", he founded his jewelry house in 1932
Harry Winston
Sarah
|
Its first line ends, "the period was so far like the present period... for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only"
A Tale of Two Cities