Kerry Breitenbach game 4.
Val Nieman — a college professor and writer from Greensboro, North Carolina
Harry Hall — a systems manager from Cleveland, Ohio
Kerry Breitenbach — a marketing analyst from South Euclid, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $55,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kerry | $1,200 | $5,200 | $17,200 |
$26,100
4-day champion: $81,700 |
$18,800
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Harry | $2,000 | $7,000 | $13,000 |
$6,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Val | $2,800 | $3,400 | $11,000 |
$12,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,000
18 R, 5 W |
| STATE CAPITALS | I'LL BE YOUR WAITER | THEY PASSED | REIGN CHECK | AMERICANA | "ROLL" CALL |
|
$200
[1]
Nebraska Wesleyan University is in this state capital
Lincoln
Kerry
Val
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$200
[19]
We have an international flavor for this "of the day"--Cuban black bean or French onion
soup
Val
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$200
[24]
Some say she made a "Titanic" mistake saying no to "Shakespeare in Love" to make "Hideous Kinky"
Kate Winslet
Harry
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$200
[14]
After they killed themselves, she & Mark Antony were buried together, as both of them wished
Cleopatra
Kerry
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$200
[11]
The theme park once known as Silver Dollar City got a makeover & in '86 was renamed this, in honor of a famous blonde
Dollywood
Harry
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$200
[6]
This kitchen item with a short handle at each end could easily be the seventh clue murder weapon
a rolling pin
Kerry
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$400
[2]
(Hi, I'm Tim Russert of NBC's Meet the Press.) Before joining NBC News, I observed politics firsthand as a lawyer working in the N.Y. Governor's office in this state capital
Albany
Val
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$400
[20]
Sir, some fresh ground this spice, from Malabar, India, on your salad? No? Too late
pepper
Kerry
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$400
[25]
Kate Jackson was originally Dustin Hoffman's Mrs. Kramer but this TV show she was on couldn't make the schedule work
Charlie's Angels
Harry
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$400
[15]
Around 1000 A.D. Olof Skotkonung became the first Christian king of this Scandinavian country
Sweden
Harry
Val
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$400
[12]
New Mexico's state song, "O, Fair New Mexico", was written by the daughter of this man who killed Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett
Val
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$400
[7]
You'll flip for this heavy steel transverse item in the form of an inverted U on a vehicle
a roll bar
Harry
|
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$600
[3]
This state capital is home to one of the armed forces academies
Annapolis
Val
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$600
[21]
Ah, the pouilly-fuisse, a lovely choice from this region also called Bourgogne
Burgundy
Harry
Val
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$800
[27]
"American Beauty" might've been a little different if this "Fletch" star hadn't turned down the Kevin Spacey role
Chevy Chase
Harry
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$600
[16]
During WWII this Dutch monarch became the first reigning Queen to address the U.S. congress
Queen Wilhelmina
Val
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$600
[13]
George Gershwin prepared to write this opera by studying Southern black culture on an island off the Carolina coast
Porgy & Bess
Kerry
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$600
[8]
Random House defines it as "a small gravity railroad"
a roller coaster
|
|
$800
[4]
(Hi, I'm Tucker Carlson of CNN's Crossfire.) One of my first jobs in journalism was as a staff writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in this state capital
Little Rock
Harry
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$800
[22]
Even if you're not all related, we serve our portions this "style", so get used to sharing
family style
Kerry
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$1,000
[28]
Jack Nicholson won an Oscar replacing this man who quit "Terms of Endearment" to make "Stroker Ace"
Burt Reynolds
Val
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$800
[17]
This pair succeeded James II, the last Catholic king of Britain
William & Mary
Kerry
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$800
[29]
At the Cabildo in New Orleans, you can see the death mask of this ruler who ceded New Orleans to the U.S.
Napoleon (I)
|
$800
[9]
A return to a lower level in prices
a rollback
Val
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$1,000
[5]
It's the state capital whose major newspaper is a "Bee"
Sacramento
Harry
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$1,000
[23]
We serve only Angus beef, known for this quality of having white flecks of juicy fat
marbling
Kerry
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
Tired of wearing a leather jacket for his ABC-TV day job, he passed on the lead in the movie "Grease"
Henry Winkler
Harry
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$1,000
[18]
Kings of this North African country have included Muhammad V & Hassan II
Morocco
Kerry
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$1,000
[30]
(Hi, I'm Gretchen Carlson of the CBSSaturday Early Show.) As a former Miss Minnesota, I know that the Minnesota state motto is "L'Etoile du Nord", or this "of the North"
star
Harry
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$1,000
[10]
Appropriate 7-letter term for the first public showing of an aircraft
rollout
Val
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| WELCOME TO STRATFORD | A BEFORE E | THEY FOUND MORE THAN ONE ELEMENT | LEGEND SAYS... | JOE MAMA | ROLE CALL |
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$400
[21]
Traveling players were hired by Shakespeare's father, who was Stratford's bailiff, what we would call this
mayor
Harry
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$400
[14]
Precedes Dukakis, Graves, or "Row the boat ashore"
Michael
Kerry
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$400
[23]
Make no bones about it, Sir Humphry Davy discovered calcium, Ca, Sodium, Na, & this, K
Potassium
Val
|
$400
[1]
He defied Austrian authority & was forced at 80 paces to shoot an apple off his son's head
William Tell
Val
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$400
[5]
An American icon, the first of her 4 sons, Joseph Jr., was born in 1915; the last, Edward, in 1932
Rose Kennedy
Harry
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$400
[6]
Bronco Billy, Thunderbolt Doherty, Harry Callahan
Clint Eastwood
Val
|
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$800
[22]
The play's the thing in a theatre named for this bird to which Ben Jonson compared Shakespeare
the swan
Val
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$800
[15]
We dig this scientific study of prehistoric people by analysis of their artifacts
archaeology
Val
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$800
[24]
Ramsey & Travers must have been into sci-fi--they found xenon & this element, No. 36
Krypton
Val
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$800
[2]
The Haleakala Volcano on Maui was once home to this goddess of fire
Pele
Kerry
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$800
[8]
On Dec. 21, 1879 near Tbilisi, Georgia, Ekaterina Djugashvili gave birth to the future leader who went by this name
Joseph Stalin
Kerry
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$800
[7]
Terl, Vincent Vega, Chili Palmer
John Travolta
Kerry
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|
DD
$1,000
[29]
Locals will snicker (as will I) if you pronounce the second W in this "Shire" that Stratford's in
Warwickshire
Kerry
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$1,200
[17]
These chlorophyll-containing organisms include the pyrrophyta & rhodophyta
algae
Val
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DD
$1,000
[27]
Klaproth, who found cerium, also found this element that's last on the alphabetical list
zirconium
Kerry
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$1,200
[3]
Legend says while this famous animal was gallivanting, its footprints created Minnesota's 10,000 lakes
Babe the Blue Ox
Val
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$1,200
[9]
Jacob could've sung "I'll Be There For You" when she gave birth to Joseph in Genesis 30
Rachel
Kerry
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$1,200
[11]
Reggie Dunlop, Lew Harper, Rocky Graziano
Paul Newman
|
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$1,200
[28]
Sarah from the Clue Crew: William Shakespeare is buriedherein Holy Trinity Church near the remains of his wife, this woman
Anne Hathaway
Kerry
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$1,600
[18]
Wax nostalgic & name this Athenian craftsman, father of Icarus
Daedalus
Kerry
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$1,200
[25]
The industrious Berzelius ferreted out thorium & selenium & was the first to see Si, this
Silicon
Val
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$1,600
[4]
With the Spanish Armada closing in on England, this British vice-admiral calmly continued his game of bowls
Sir Francis Drake
Kerry
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$1,600
[10]
His mother Marcia was 85 and still living in Stamford, Connecticut when he ran for nationwide office in 2000
Joseph Lieberman
Harry
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$1,600
[12]
Reggie Love, Annie Savoy, Helen Prejean
Susan Sarandon
Harry
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Shakespeare'sbirth homeis in the style called half-this, alluding to the amount of wood used
timber
Kerry
Val
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$2,000
[19]
Sponsorship, or Zeus' breastplate with a Gorgon's head at its center
Aegis
Harry
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$1,600
[26]
Scheele helped discover every element whose name ends in "Orine", these two
chlorine and fluorine
Kerry
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$2,000
[16]
This pope was dragged out of Rome & stoned to death after she gave birth
Pope Joan (or Pope John VII)
|
$2,000
[20]
Fuhgeddaboudit! This Brooklyn-born writer, Lena's boy, flew 60 combat missions as a WWII bombardier
Joseph Heller
Val
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$2,000
[13]
Trevor McKinney, Cole Sear, Forrest Gump, Jr.
Haley Joel Osment
Kerry
Val
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A poor couple window-shopping a diamond bracelet at this store inspired the song "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"
Tiffany's