Melissa Klapper game 4.
Daisy Donohue — an actor and artist originally from St. Paul, Minnesota
Alec Chao — a management and program analyst from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Melissa Klapper — a professor from Merion Station, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $59,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa | $-600 | $3,200 | $6,800 |
$1,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Alec | $4,400 | $7,200 | $15,200 |
$15,505
New champion: $15,505 |
$15,200
26 R, 6 W |
| Daisy | $2,400 | $3,400 | $4,600 |
$2,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,600
7 R, 1 W |
| THAT'S COLD! | ON THE "J.V." SQUAD | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP | 5-LETTER LITERARY CHARACTERS | POST | APOCA-LIPSTICK |
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$200
[3]
This chilly word can precede shoulder, daiquiri or yogurt
frozen
Alec
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$200
[10]
This Navy SEAL later went into the wrestling ring, movies & Minnesota politics
Jesse Ventura
Alec
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$200
[16]
A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building
the U.S. Capitol
Melissa
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$200
[6]
In "The Maltese Falcon" his name is this. Sam this.
Spade
Alec
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$200
[28]
Originally a French cavalry call, the bugle song known as "Call To The Post" is commonly heard several times a day at one of these
a racetrack
Melissa
Alec
Daisy
|
$200
[29]
Blend in with the other rampaging monsters with Le Monster Lip Crayon, fittingly from this pop superstar
Lady Gaga
Alec
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$400
[20]
This word precedes "hare" in the name of the animalshown, or "Dreams" in the title of Barry Lopez's book that mentions the critter
Arctic
Alec
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$400
[19]
He played Dawson Leery on "Dawson's Creek" & his last name means "of the creek"
James Van Der Beek
Daisy
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$400
[7]
Philly's city hall is topped by a 37-foot tall statue of this colony founder; for a time no building there was built higher than his hat
William Penn
Melissa
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$400
[5]
Shakespeare's Goneril kills herself after poisoning this sister
Regan
Daisy
|
$400
[26]
In addition to her classic works on etiquette, she wrote the 1949 book "Motor Manners"
Emily Post
Melissa
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$400
[12]
As society crumbles around you, you'll look posh in the vice lipstick line from the edgy company called "Urban" this
Decay
Alec
|
|
$600
[4]
Outside, this tapered spike is formed by solid water; inside, one can be found on a Christmas tree
an icicle
Daisy
|
$600
[14]
Someone dropped a statue of this "Friday the 13th" slasher in a lake in Minnesota; not cool, man
Jason Voorhees
Alec
|
$600
[24]
The colossal Christ the Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado towers over this South American city
Rio de Janeiro
Melissa
|
$600
[1]
He teaches the wolf cubs & Mowgli the law of the jungle
Baloo
Alec
|
$600
[30]
John Rewald's book about this movement is subtitled "From van Gogh to Gauguin"
Post-Impressionism
Alec
|
$600
[11]
Did aliens cause the fuss? In that case, try this numeric lipstick shade whose name comes before "from Outer Space" in a 1957 film title
Plan 9
Alec
Daisy
|
|
$800
[21]
In 1998 Michael Keaton was nipping at your nose as this title guy, a dad brought back to life as a snowman
Jack Frost
Melissa
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$800
[17]
He's been nominated for 4 Oscars, winning for 1978's "Coming Home"
Jon Voight
Daisy
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
Commissioned by brewer Carl Jacobsen, a sculpture of this fairy-tale figure sits atop a rock in Copenhagen harbor
the Little Mermaid
Melissa
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$800
[8]
Last name of Edith Wharton's title farmer Ethan
Frome
Daisy
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$800
[2]
I do say, dear courier, please complete your task in this manner that ends with a word meaning speed
posthaste
Alec
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$800
[27]
You can still look good in the end times with the lipstick shade named this, the word young Danny repeats in "The Shining"
Redrum
Alec
|
|
$1,000
[13]
The purchase of Alaska was derided as "Seward's Folly" & "Seward's" this kitchen appliance
Icebox
Alec
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$1,000
[18]
Seen here off the mound, this downtown man eventually married an Upton girl
Justin Verlander
|
$1,000
[22]
A column topped by a 17-foot statue of this man is the centerpiece of London's Trafalgar Square
Nelson
Melissa
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$1,000
[9]
Unstable skipper of the minesweeper U.S.S. Caine who faces a mutiny
(Captain) Queeg
Melissa
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$1,000
[15]
In 2017 the Washington Post adopted the slogan this "dies in darkness"
Democracy
Alec
|
$1,000
[25]
Hail Cthulhu, this tattoo artist & model may have opened up a portal to another dimension with her lipstick shade Lovecraft
Kat Von D
Alec
|
| HISTORIC NAMES | SCIENCE | PULITZER PRIZES | TV SHOW LINGO | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY |
|
$400
[7]
For his services in fighting this fleet, British explorer Martin Frobisher was knighted in 1588
the Spanish Armada
Alec
|
$400
[30]
The mass of gas around a planet, this word is also used as the unit of air pressure equal to 14.7 psi at sea level
1 atmosphere
|
$400
[28]
Seen here, he was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism, doing so in 1975
Ebert
Alec
|
$400
[11]
Plinko was unveiled on this game show in 1983
The Price is Right
Alec
|
$400
[29]
When Don Quixote says, "He owes you nothing", he uses this as the last word
nada
Alec
|
$400
[13]
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) The Lincoln Highway, which starts at Times Square, originally included a ferry across this river
the Hudson River
Alec
|
|
$800
[6]
While in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he became the first European to sight New Zealand & the Fiji islands
Abel Tasman
Melissa
|
$800
[3]
There are more than 3,000 species of this insect in 3 main genera; genus Culex carries encephalitis
mosquitoes
Alec
|
$800
[21]
In 1947 a special Pulitzer went to this university's graduate school of journalism, for its administration of the Pulitzer prizes
Columbia
Melissa
Alec
|
$800
[16]
This Roy family epic taught us "prekend", starting Thursday after lunch
Succession
Melissa
|
$800
[26]
Coup de foudre, literally "stroke of lightning", is the French equivalent of this 4-word phrase for instantaneous romance
love at first sight
Melissa
Alec
|
$800
[8]
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) Figuring prominently in my novel is a 1948Studebaker Land Cruiser, a car manufactured in this Lincoln Highway Indiana city, which is also home to students attending Notre Dame
South Bend
Melissa
Alec
|
|
$1,200
[1]
As queen of the Netherlands, she saw her country through both World Wars
Wilhelmina
Melissa
|
$1,200
[14]
Sulfur dioxide & nitrogen oxides react with other elements to create this harmful precipitation
acid rain
Daisy
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$1,200
[9]
Thishistorian, noted for his biographies of John Adams & Harry Truman, won 2 Pulitzers
McCullough
Melissa
|
$1,200
[4]
Marshall, played by him on "How I Met Your Mother", coined "Revertigo"
(Jason) Segel
Melissa
|
$1,200
[12]
Italian for what you say when squeezing past someone in a theater, it rhymes with "juicy"
scusi
Alec
|
$1,200
[27]
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) Near the end of the book, Emmett & Billy finally set out for the Western Terminusof the highway, which is still at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in this city
San Francisco
Alec
|
|
$1,600
[2]
After his troops captured the Alamo, this Mexican general was captured after the Battle of San Jacinto
Santa Anna
Alec
|
$1,600
[24]
Of the 3 main types of rock, it's what shale is
sedimentary
Melissa
Alec
|
$1,600
[10]
In 2014 Jason Szep & Andrew R.C. Marshall shared a Pulitzer for reporting on the violent persecution of this Muslim minority in Myanmar
the Rohingya
Alec
|
$1,600
[15]
This substance powers spaceships on "Star Trek"
dilithium (crystals)
|
$2,000
[20]
It comes before "Ukraini" to mean "glory to Ukraine"; it's also a common nickname
Slava
Alec
|
$1,600
[25]
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) In Pennsylvania, the Lincoln Highwayfollows the route of the Lancaster, one of these toll roads which back in its day was also an innovative long-distance highway
a turnpike
Alec
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Before he got the boot for good in 41 A.D., this emperor wanted a statue of himself placed in the Temple in Jerusalem
Caligula
|
DD
$4,000
[22]
Atomic number 87, this element named for a country by Marguerite Perey is the heaviest of the alkali metals
francium
Melissa
|
$2,000
[18]
Early in his career, this playwright won 3 Obies; he also won a Pulitzer for his play "Buried Child"
Sam Shepard
|
$2,000
[17]
In the '60s this comedy mishmash from Dan Rowan & Dick Martin introduced bippy, as in "You bet your sweet..."
Laugh-In
Melissa
|
DD
$4,000
[19]
An Architectural Digest headline said this term "dictated the layout of" a "light-filled residence in Beijing"
feng shui
Melissa
|
$2,000
[23]
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) The setting for my novel's first chapter & also for Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", where I got my epigraph, is in this state, which happens to be the midpoint of the Lincoln Highway
Nebraska
Melissa
|
Monty Norman, the composer of this character's theme, said the staccato riff conveyed sexiness, mystery & ruthlessness
(James) Bond