Christine Whelchel game 4.
Ellen Pratt — a strategic projects director from Boston, Massachusetts
Joe Choo — a student from Las Vegas, Nevada
Christine Whelchel — a piano teacher and church organist from Spring Hill, Tennessee (whose 3-day cash winnings total $59,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine | $2,200 | $8,400 | $11,800 |
$14,001
4-day champion: $73,602 |
$14,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joe | $200 | $200 | $-1,400 |
$-1,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-1,400
6 R, 5 W |
| Ellen | $2,000 | $2,600 | $7,000 |
$1,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| AMERICAN HISTORY | SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS | SMALL ADJECTIVES | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES | KICKIN' IT | OLD SCHOOL |
|
$200
[1]
During this period that began in 1920, keg parties weren't for drinking but for thedumpingof liquor
Prohibition
Christine
|
$200
[5]
The Naismith Awards
(college) basketball
Christine
Ellen
|
$200
[20]
As an adjective it means lesser in importance; as a noun, it means a child not yet of legal age
minor
Christine
|
$200
[7]
"'Oh no, he isn't grown up', Wendy assured her confidently, 'and he is just my size"'; "he" is also the title of the book
Peter Pan
Ellen
|
$200
[26]
You want to cease a foul habit abruptly? Time to "kick it" this "fowl" way
cold turkey
Christine
|
$200
[14]
One of several of its colleges, Merton College was founded in 1264 without one Rhodes scholar (as that was a 1902 thing)
Oxford
Christine
|
|
$600
[3]
The tracks of the Central Pacific & this railroad met in Utah in 1869
the Union Pacific
Christine
|
$400
[8]
The Gold Glove & Silver Slugger Awards (both sound like it could be boxing, but it's not)
baseball
Ellen
|
$400
[21]
In nursery rhyme land, it describes Willie Winkie
wee
Christine
|
$400
[10]
Like the autobiographical hero of this novel, just after WWII William Styron was a young southerner living in Brooklyn
Sophie's Choice
|
$400
[27]
A dance kick where you change legs in the air, or a swimming kick used as part of the sidestroke
a scissors kick
|
$400
[15]
Established in 1505, theuniversityof this Spanish city now uses what was Europe's first tobacco factory as Carmen would know
Seville
|
|
$800
[4]
The "separate but equal" doctrine in the case of Plessy v. this judge upheld racial segregation for almost 60 years
Ferguson
Joe
|
$600
[9]
The Slammy Awards
WWE
Joe
Ellen
|
$600
[22]
Of limited breadth, like an alley you can barely pass through or a mind that won't admit new ideas
narrow
Christine
|
$600
[13]
In this William Goldman novel, a graduate student must flee a Nazi & his henchmen
Marathon Man
|
$600
[28]
During a 25-year NFL career, Morten Andersen missed just 10 of 859 of these kicks that follow a successful play
an extra point
Christine
|
$600
[17]
Known for its work in medicine, this university dates back to 1876 & was originally in downtown Baltimore
Johns Hopkins
Christine
|
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
5 years before his famous ride, Paul Revere made a print depicting this bloody March 5, 1770 event
the Boston Massacre
Christine
|
$800
[11]
The Dinah Shore Trophy Award
(women's college) golf
|
$800
[23]
Physically similar to one of Santa's helpers
elfin
Christine
|
$800
[16]
Something is happening here in the barn in this 1945 anti-utopian satire but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?
Animal Farm
Ellen
|
$800
[29]
Also called mawashi geri, this "domicile" kick swings a leg in a semi-circular motion to strike with the foot
a roundhouse
Ellen
|
$800
[18]
One of the 7 Sisters colleges, it was founded in 1879 as the Harvard Annex
Radcliffe
Christine
|
|
$1,000
[6]
At the first Thanksgiving in 1621, the Pilgrims shared afeast with these native people of Massachusetts
the Wampanoag
|
$1,000
[12]
The Ballon d'Or
soccer
Ellen
|
$1,000
[24]
From a word meaning immeasurably big comes this adjective meaning immeasurably small
infinitesimal
Joe
|
$1,000
[25]
Balnibarbi is a continent & Glumdalclitch, a person, in this 18th century work
Gulliver's Travels
Joe
|
$1,000
[30]
Dean Martin sang, "How lucky can one guy be? I kissed her & she kissed me, like the fella once said, ain't that" this?
a kick in the head
Christine
|
$1,000
[19]
2 very different things, plexiglass & the artificial blood cell, were invented at this Montreal university founded in 1821
McGill
Christine
Ellen
|
| COLORS IN NATURE | AROUND THE WORLD | THE PICKLE BARREL | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE | BACKING BANDS | HOMOPHONE TO THE LETTER |
|
$400
[1]
Somewhere over in Australia is this variety of lorikeet, named for its array of colors
rainbow
Joe
|
$400
[2]
Italy's longest river, the Po flows about 400 miles from the Alps into this arm of the Mediterranean
the Adriatic
Christine
|
$400
[9]
A basic recipe for pickles calls for a brine of equal parts water & this acidic liquid, along with salt & seasonings
vinegar
Christine
|
$400
[12]
To his brother Orion, Mark Twain wrote of & employed a "new-fangled" one of these made by Remington
a typewriter
Ellen
|
$400
[26]
2 saxophonists & a trombonist were some of the J.B.'s, who backed up this legend with the same initials
(James) Brown
Joe
|
$400
[19]
To exist, in the singular
be
Christine
|
|
$800
[5]
If it's red & it's a corundum, it's this gem
a ruby
Ellen
|
$800
[4]
The flag of this Southeast Asian nation of 103 million is seen here
Vietnam
Joe
|
$800
[10]
Musing on history, Ralph Waldo Emerson wondered why the New World must bear the name of this thieving pickle-dealer
(Amerigo) Vespucci
Christine
|
$800
[13]
After introducing rude Charlotte Braun into his comic strip, he let one reader know by letter she wouldn't be around for long
Charles Schulz
|
$800
[27]
Not exactly a stupid answer, this group originally known as the Hawks took some of "The Weight" off Dylan in the 1960s
The Band
Christine
Ellen
|
$800
[20]
To use your peepers
see
Joe
|
|
$1,200
[6]
"Red touch yellow, kill a fellow", so stay clear of the eastern this venomous snake seen here
an eastern coral snake
Joe
|
$1,200
[3]
Norway's main Antarctic research station bears the name of this mythic creature of Scandinavian folklore
a troll
Joe
Ellen
|
$1,200
[14]
At the 1893 World's Fair, this pickle-maker from Pittsburgh offered souvenir pickle charms to those who visited his booth
H.J. Heinz
Christine
Ellen
|
$1,600
[15]
"Never doubt the faithfullest heart", he wrote to his "Immortal Beloved" in an 1812 note
Beethoven
Christine
|
$1,200
[28]
The Tennessee Three, the longtime backers for this man, famously went to prison with him in 1968
Cash
Christine
|
$1,200
[21]
The, en Español
el
Ellen
|
|
$1,600
[24]
This colorful Atlantic type of tuna is the largest type, weighing as much as 1,500 pounds
bluefin
Joe
Ellen
|
DD
$1,600
[7]
11,200-foot Mount Koussi in northern Chad is the highest summit in this area of more than 3 million square miles
the Sahara Desert
Ellen
|
$1,600
[17]
The cute little pickles seenherego by this French name, meaning "little horns"
cornichon
Ellen
|
$2,000
[16]
Georgia O'Keeffe wrote often to this photographer whom she called "Dearest Duck"
Alfred Stieglitz
|
$1,600
[29]
Despite the name, this group that backed up Frank Zappa was made up of men, not moms
the Mothers of Invention
|
$1,600
[22]
4-legged palindromic female flock member
ewe
Christine
|
|
$2,000
[25]
"J" is for this tree that brings a burst of purple to the neighborhood but also a mess
jacaranda trees
|
$2,000
[8]
Founded around 636 A.D., Iraq's chief port city is this one at the southeast end of the country
Basra
Ellen
|
$2,000
[18]
In this Shakespeare play, Trinculo tells King Alonso, "I have been in such a pickle" (meaning drunk) "since I saw you last"
The Tempest
Christine
|
DD
$3,000
[11]
This Irish poet's great love Maud Gonne addressed him in letters as "My dear Willie"
William Butler Yeats
Christine
|
$2,000
[30]
Stevie Ray Vaughan had this rhyming rhythm section
Double Trouble
|
$2,000
[23]
Charles Kingsley wrote of "The Sands of" this English river
Dee
|
Called the longest siege of a capital in modern history, the assault on this city lasted from 1992 to 1996
Sarajevo