Ken Jennings game 3.(Jimmy: During the Depression, some people were very busy beavers building theHoover Dam. We'll tell you about it, coming up next onJeopardy!)
Dane Petersen — a public relations and marketing manager from Arlington, Virginia
Neil Thom — an attorney from Columbus, Georgia
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 2-day cash winnings total $59,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $6,200 | $10,200 | $33,600 |
$37,000
3-day champion: $96,201 |
$30,600
36 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Neil | $1,000 | $4,600 | $12,200 |
$10,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,200
13 R, 2 W |
| Dane | $600 | $2,600 | $5,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
9 R, 1 W |
| AUTHORS | SPORTS QUOTES | "E"OGRAPHY | IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT... | BUSINESSMEN | NUMERICAL HOMOPHONES |
|
$200
[8]
During the War of 1812 this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of naval commanders
(Washington) Irving
Ken
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$200
[2]
Before winning the World Heavyweight title, he said he wasn't "the greatest; I'm the double greatest"
Ali
Ken
|
$200
[1]
It's the northernmost & smallest of the 3 Baltic nations
Estonia
Dane
|
$200
[18]
As a Swiss Guard, today you are responsible for the safety of this one person
John Paul II (the Pope)
Ken
|
$200
[23]
His partnership with Alvah Roebuck began when he placed a classified ad looking for a watchmaker
(Richard) Sears
Neil
|
$200
[13]
Was victorious
won
Ken
|
|
$400
[9]
His father was also a count; his mother was Princess Volkonskaya
Leo Tolstoy
Ken
|
$400
[4]
Of baseball, this Yankees Hall of Fame catcher remarked, "Ninety percent of the game is half mental"
Yogi Berra
Ken
|
$400
[3]
Get all your shots before you canoe down this small Congo river with the same name as a deadly hemorrhagic virus
Ebola
Dane
|
$400
[19]
To score 2 points at once in pro football, the offense has a 2-point conversion & the defense has this
a safety
Neil
|
$400
[24]
On Business Week's 2003 list of the 50 most generous philanthropists, he & wife Melinda ranked first
Bill Gates
Ken
|
$400
[14]
Completes the title of Jeffrey Steingarten's book "It Must Have Been Something I..."
Ate
Neil
|
|
$600
[10]
At one time this author owned his own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock, in which he published "Barnaby Rudge"
Dickens
Ken
|
$600
[28]
This Chicago Bears defensive tackle nicknamed "Refrigerator" said that "Even when I was little, I was big"
Willam Perry
Dane
|
$600
[5]
Napoleon could tell you it's the largest island in Italy's Tuscan Archipelago
Elba
Ken
|
$600
[20]
To know the truth of the Matrix, take this color pill
the red pill
Ken
Dane
|
$600
[25]
In the 1890s he stopped selling baking powder to concentrate on a freebie he'd been giving away--chewing gum!
(William) Wrigley
Ken
|
$600
[15]
A negative, in Neuburg
nein
Neil
|
|
$800
[11]
In 1882, at age 16, he found work as sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, India
Kipling
Ken
|
$800
[29]
Asked about his golf game after leaving the White House, this 34th Pres. said that "a lot more people beat me now"
Eisenhower
Dane
|
$800
[6]
In the 9th & 10th centuries, Danish Norsemen controlled a region called the Danelaw in this country
England
Ken
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$800
[21]
You mix, then heat, lime, silica, alumina & iron oxide with gypsum to create the Portland type of this
cement
Ken
|
$800
[26]
Jeff Bezos, CEO of this giant online retailer, was Time's Person of the Year for 1999
Amazon.com
Ken
|
$800
[16]
It means "toward the bow", you landlubber
fore
Ken
|
|
$1,000
[12]
This author of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" served as U.S. consul in Germany & Scotland between 1878 & 1885
Bret Harte
Ken
|
$1,000
[30]
Vince Lombardi declared that "Winning isn't everything, it's" this
the only thing
Neil
|
$1,000
[7]
Cast in a battle scene in "Lord of the Rings", NZ's army had to back out to keep peace in this Indonesian province
East Timor
Ken
|
$1,000
[22]
To read the Mahabharata in its original language you have to know this one
Sanskrit
Neil
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
In 1913 he spent some of those nickels & dimes to build in NYC what was then the world's tallest building
Woolworth
Ken
|
$1,000
[17]
Unleashes a dog to attack
sics
Neil
|
| GONE WITH THE WIND | FRANKLY | MY DEER | I DON'T | GIVE "A" | HOOVER DAM |
|
$400
[4]
Fans of the film love the museum devoted to it in this city, steps away from the home where the novel was written
Atlanta
Ken
|
$400
[18]
The successor of Charlemagne as king of the Franks was the first of 18 French kings with this name
Louis
Ken
|
$400
[23]
Known as the caribou in North America, this Arctic deer is domesticated in some polar regions
the reindeer
Ken
|
$400
[12]
Going further than vegetarians, I don't eat eggs or wear leather, because I'm one of these
a vegan
Neil
Dane
|
$400
[1]
A tale from "The Arabian Nights" tells the story of this person who releases a genie
Aladdin
Dane
|
$400
[11]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hoover Dam.) 2 purposes behind building Hoover Damwere to generate electricity & control flooding on this river
the Colorado
Ken
|
|
$800
[7]
When this actor's divorce came through during filming, he used one of his days off to elope with Carole Lombard
Gable
Ken
|
$800
[19]
Alaric II, King of these "goths", was killed in the decisive Battle of Vouille against the Franks in 507
the Visigoths
Ken
|
$800
[24]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) In spring & summer, an elk's antlers are covered with material called this, like a "crushed" fabric
velvet
Ken
|
$800
[13]
As this professional, from Greek for "mind" & "word", I don't prescribe drugs no matter how nuts you are
a psychologist
Neil
|
$800
[2]
It's the 18th century hymn heardherein an updated version
"Amazing Grace"
Dane
|
$800
[14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hoover Dam.) Between 1933 & '35, 4.4 million cubic yards of this were laid in the dam, enough to pave a highway from San Francisco to New York City
concrete
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Elizabeth McDuffie, who was Eleanor Roosevelt's maid at the White House, was tested for this role
Mammy
Ken
Dane
|
$1,600
[21]
This Frankish king earned his byname "The Hammer" by beating back the Muslim invasion of France at Poitiers in 732
Charles Martel
Ken
|
$1,200
[25]
The northern deer tick is a major carrier of this disease first seen in Connecticut
Lyme disease
Ken
|
$1,200
[15]
In this most traditional of the 3 main branches of U.S. Judaism, I don't travel on Saturday
Orthodox
Ken
|
$1,200
[3]
Italian hometown of the first Roman Catholic saint to receive the stigmata
Assisi
Neil
|
$1,200
[28]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Hoover Dam.) For much of its early history, Hoover Dam was called this, from a canyon where it was once going to be built
Boulder Dam
Neil
|
|
$1,600
[9]
This actor thought that he wasn't young & handsome enough to play Ashley, but he got the part anyway
Leslie Howard
Neil
|
$2,000
[22]
Don't call him "Short" Stuff--this king of the Franks founded the Carolingian dynasty in 751
Pepin (the Short)
Ken
|
$2,000
[27]
The male of this small deer is prized for an oily excretion that's used to scent perfumes & soaps
a musk deer
Ken
|
$1,600
[16]
I don't throw anything away, so I'm known as this creature seen here
a pack rat
Neil
|
$1,600
[5]
From Old French for "goods of weight", it's a measuring system based on the pound
avoirdupois
|
$1,600
[29]
(Jimmy of Clue Crew reports from inside Hoover Dam.) Hoover Dam generates over 2,000 megawatts of hydroelectric power using 17 main ones of these
turbines
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Long before he was TV's Superman, he played one of the Tarleton twins in the film's opening scene
George Reeves
Dane
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
In the 5th century Frankish king Clovis I was the ruler of this region conquered by Julius Caesar in 50 B.C.
Gaul
Ken
|
DD
$2,800
[26]
When running, this deer species seenhereshows off the feature for which it is named
a white-tail (deer)
Ken
|
$2,000
[17]
I hire barristers but don't argue High Court cases myself because I'm this type of British lawyer
a solicitor
Ken
|
$2,000
[6]
Found just north of Venezuela, this Caribbean nation's capital is St. John's
Antigua
Neil
|
$2,000
[30]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Hoover Dam.) In addition to its technological fame, Hoover Dam is known as a masterpiece ofthis1930s design style
Art Deco
Neil
|
Phoebe Snetsinger, she of the apropos first name, set a record for this activity, about 8,400 species
birdwatching