Harrison Whitaker game 4.
Brent Steele — an environmental engineer from Sellersburg, Indiana
Sarah Khan — a graduate student originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Harrison Whitaker — a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $91,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison | $2,600 | $4,600 | $21,800 |
$24,799
4-day champion: $116,600 |
$22,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Sarah | $4,800 | $5,800 | $9,400 |
$14,001
2nd place: $3,000 |
$9,400
13 R, 1 W |
| Brent | $-200 | $2,200 | $7,000 |
$4,599
3rd place: $2,000 |
$7,000
15 R, 2 W |
| SOURCES | DUETS | CAKE | WORDS IN THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION | LIVRES EN FRANCAIS | NOTABLE WOMEN |
|
$200
[21]
Steven Wright deadpanned, "What's another word for" one of these books? Roget would know
a thesaurus
Brent
|
$200
[23]
She sang in Fleetwood Mac, put out solo records & joined Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers on "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
Stevie Nicks
Brent
|
$200
[25]
World War II rationing meant bakers used beetroot juice for this colorful cake that's now made with food coloring
red velvet cake
Brent
|
$200
[30]
Neil Armstrong set foot in a "Sea" of it in 1969
Tranquility
Brent
|
$200
[28]
Contains both French & Russian elements:"La guerre et la paix"
War and Peace
Sarah
|
$200
[29]
In 1971 Erin Pizzey founded the U.K.'s first shelter for women who were victims of this nightmare just where one should feel safe
domestic violence
Sarah
|
|
$400
[20]
On July 8, 1889 Charles Dow (of Dow Jones fame) began printing financial & business news in what became this newspaper
The Wall Street Journal
Brent
|
$400
[22]
In 1998 Brandy & Monica had a hit with this song that sounds as much like a duel as a duet
"The Boy Is Mine"
Brent
|
$400
[24]
Though it sounds European, the name of this cake refers to the brand of chocolate used, not its country of origin
German chocolate cake
Brent
|
$400
[26]
Hoops stars Sabrina Ionescu & Rebekah Gardner are with them in the Big Apple
the (New York) Liberty
Harrison
|
$400
[6]
Pure poetry from a Brooklyn bard:"Feuilles d'herbe"
Leaves of Grass
Harrison
|
$400
[18]
Following the death of this Shoshone woman, William Clark served as legal guardian of her children
Sacagawea
Brent
|
|
$600
[16]
On March 13, 2012 this venerable encyclopedia maker said the time had come to stop printing books & go all digital
Britannica
Sarah
|
$600
[19]
In 2025 Barbra Streisand sang "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" with this Irishman nearly 50 years her junior
Hozier
Harrison
|
$600
[14]
The spiral shape of the sponge cake & what it's filled with are big hints to the name of this treat
jelly roll
Sarah
|
$600
[11]
It can mean both the good fortune of a person & financial assistance to an individual by the government
welfare
Sarah
|
$600
[5]
Adventure in Africa: "Au coeur des ténèbres"
Heart of Darkness
Brent
|
$600
[9]
From 2006 to 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was this African nation's president
Liberia
Harrison
|
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Warren Buffett said it changed his life to read this biographical dictionary of notables "in America"
Who's Who
Harrison
|
$800
[10]
The 2014 Top 10 hit "Love Me Harder" is a duet between The Weeknd & this singer--they also collabed on "Save Your Tears"
Ariana Grande
|
$800
[15]
Jenny Åkerström created princess cake, which is covered with a green layer of this sweetened almond paste
marzipan
Harrison
|
$800
[12]
To make someone a priest
ordain
Sarah
Brent
|
$800
[1]
About a quest or quête:"L'épée dans la pierre"
The Sword in the Stone
Sarah
|
$800
[7]
"The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" was actually written by this other woman
Stein
Harrison
|
|
$1,000
[4]
CMOS is short for this reference, now in its 18th edition; it offers guidance on commas with quotations
The Chicago Manual of Style
Sarah
|
$1,000
[27]
In "Happy Gilmore" Adam Sandler unconvincingly tells Julie Bowen, "What? Friends listen to" this Ross-Richie duet "in the dark"
"Endless Love"
|
$1,000
[17]
Michel Bras was inspired by an après-ski hot cocoa when he invented his version of this cake with its signature ganache core
a lava cake (molten chocolate cake)
Harrison
|
$1,000
[13]
From the Latin for "later", it's a word referring to all future generations collectively
posterity
|
$1,000
[2]
Briony does bad:"Expiation"
Atonement
Harrison
|
$1,000
[8]
In the 1850s she began practicing medicine in New York City, hiring her sister Emily to work with her
Elizabeth Blackwell
Sarah
|
| RESOURCES | HOW DID IT GET TO THE MUSEUM? | TRIOS | ACTOR-DIRECTOR PARTNERSHIPS | WESTERN EUROPE | ENDS WITH A DOUBLED CONSONANT |
|
$400
[20]
In 1859 captain N.C. Brooks claimed Midway Island for the U.S. under a law named for this bird-excreted resource
guano
Harrison
|
$400
[29]
Last name of Peggy, who bought a version of Magritte's "Empire of Light", now in her collection you can visit in Venice
Guggenheim
Harrison
|
$400
[28]
After defeating Pontus, a kingdom in what's now Turkey, Julius Caesar is said to have uttered "Veni, vidi, vici", meaning this
I came; I saw; I conquered
Brent
|
$400
[30]
Hector Elizondo was in 18 movies directed by Garry Marshall, including this one as manager of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Pretty Woman
Brent
|
$400
[26]
Cape Roca, mainland Europe's westernmost point, lies in this country
Portugal
Sarah
|
$400
[27]
Alexander Pope wrote that to do this "is human"
err
Brent
|
|
$800
[19]
Inspired by OPEC, in 1974 Latin American countries tried to get the U.S. over a bunch as UPEB, a cartel of exporters of these
bananas
Brent
|
$800
[23]
Van Gogh's "Roses" is one work bought by shipbuilder Kojiro Matsukata & now in Tokyo's NMWA, Nation Museum of this kind of art
Western Art
Harrison
|
$800
[24]
Focusing on the final defeat of Nazi Germany, 1945's conference at this Crimean city saw FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet
Yalta
Harrison
|
$800
[22]
(James Gunn presents the clue.) When I take the director's chair, I always seem to find myself working with Michael Rooker&this actor who is no "Rookie" to a Gunn film; he first appeared in my directorial debut, "Slither", & now rocks a bowl cut as Green Lantern in "Superman"
Nathan Fillion
Brent
|
$800
[21]
This nation on the slopes of Mount Titano is the smallest republic in Europe--just 8 miles across at its widest
San Marino
Harrison
|
$800
[25]
The police, or the fibrous covering of a peach
the fuzz
Sarah
|
|
$1,600
[8]
Climate change has led to devastation of timber resources by the many species of these alliterative insects
bark beetles
Sarah
|
$1,200
[17]
This Abiquiu artist's 8'x24' cloud painting toured to Chicago, was too big for its next stop & stayed at the Art Institute
Georgia O'Keeffe
|
$1,200
[4]
Matthew's gospel tells the story of the 3 wise men whom history has given the names Balthasar, Melchior & this guy
Caspar (Gaspar)
Harrison
|
$1,200
[5]
The year they were married, Jean-Luc Godarddirected Anna Karina in "Une femme est une femme", titled this in English
A Woman Is a Woman
Harrison
|
$1,600
[6]
Muckle Flugga, the name for a lighthouse & the rocky isle it sits on, is part of these islands, the U.K.'s northernmost point
the Shetland Islands
Harrison
|
$1,200
[15]
One of the 5 pillars of Islam, it refers to a pilgrimage each Muslim is supposed to take at least once in life
Hajj
Harrison
|
|
$2,000
[11]
The British turnover called a pasty is also named for this region & was the standard lunch of its tin miners
Cornwall
Sarah
|
$1,600
[7]
Seeking a home for this vast series, Monet considered the land where the Rodin Museum is now, but it ended up at the Orangerie Museum
Water Lilies
Harrison
|
$1,600
[1]
In Greek mythology, this trio spins the threads of human destiny, they were Clotho, Lachesis & Atropos
the Fates
Harrison
|
$1,600
[3]
Thislongtime star made four Hitchcock films but eight with Anthony Mann, starting with "Winchester '73"
Jimmy Stewart
Brent
|
$2,000
[12]
Spain's Pyrenees are often blasted by these winds whose name comes from the Arabic for "East"
sirocco
Harrison
Sarah
|
$1,600
[14]
As a noun it's a long, unbroken wave; as a verb, it means to grow in size or volume
swell
|
|
DD
$3,200
[18]
The U.S. has only one operating mine producing this battery & coin metal, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
nickel
Harrison
|
$2,000
[10]
This earl said he had an Ottoman OK to ship off Greek antiquities now in the British Museum, plus he was saving them from looters
Elgin
Harrison
|
$2,000
[16]
Borneo, the world's third-largest island, is shared by this trio of nations
Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei
Harrison
|
$2,000
[2]
Jeff Nichols says he owes is career to this man who's been in six of Jeff's films, including "The Bikeriders" & "Midnight Special"
(Michael) Shannon
Harrison
|
DD
$4,800
[9]
The cities of Paris, Brussels & Cologne form a triangle around this great forest area
the Ardennes
Harrison
|
$2,000
[13]
Beginning with a prefix meaning million, this unit of power is used to measure how much electricity is used in a large region
megawatt
Brent
|
Part 1 of this novel is Toronto & Pondicherry; Part 2 is the Pacific Ocean
Life of Pi