Ken Jennings game 4.
Clinton Wieden — a college student from Fairview, Oklahoma
Josh Hornik — a product manager from Santa Monica, California
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 3-day cash winnings total $96,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $2,600 | $7,600 | $24,800 |
$30,000
4-day champion: $126,201 |
$24,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Josh | $800 | $2,400 | $8,400 |
$13,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,400
18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Clinton | $3,000 | $2,400 | $1,800 |
$3,599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,600
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| GEOGRAPHIC SAINTS | '60s SITCOMS | I DID IT! | TREATIES | KING, QUEEN OR JACK | CROSSWORD CLUES "S" |
|
$200
[16]
After its 1980 eruption, this volcano in the American Northwest lost over 1,200 feet in height
Mount St. Helens
Ken
|
$200
[2]
Senior Counselor Spiffy at Camp Runamuck, Dave Ketchum was also Agent 13 on this show
Get Smart
Clinton
|
$200
[11]
Florence Chadwick was the first woman to swim this in both directions; Gertrude Ederle swam it one way
the English Channel
Ken
|
$200
[26]
Due to the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, Portugal gained possession of this country in the New World
Brazil
Ken
|
$200
[19]
In checkers, the dark squares farthest from a player form this row
king
Josh
|
$200
[1]
Waldorf or Caesar(5)
salad
Josh
|
|
$400
[17]
This city's metro area includes Universal City, Castle Hills & Alamo Heights
San Antonio
Clinton
|
$400
[3]
In 1967 the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series went to this show
The Monkees
Ken
|
$400
[12]
13-year-old Rebecca Sealfon won it in 1997 by knowing euonym, E-U-O-N-Y-M
the National Spelling Bee
Ken
|
$400
[27]
Pinckney's Treaty ended disputes between the U.S. & Spain over Florida's borders & access to this river's mouth
the Mississippi
Josh
|
$400
[20]
In its first Top 20 hit, Queen sang about a "Killer" one
Queen
Ken
|
$400
[7]
City by the Bay(3, 9)
San Francisco
Clinton
|
|
$600
[18]
Exceeded only by the Mackenzie, it's Canada's second-longest river if you include the seaway
St. Lawrence
Josh
|
$600
[4]
The 1962 TV drama "Seven Against the Sea" with Ernest Borgnine became this sitcom a few years later
McHale's Navy
Clinton
|
$600
[13]
Check it out! In 1972 he became the first American chess player to win the world championship
Bobby Fischer
Ken
|
$600
[28]
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919 in this hall at the Palace of Versailles
the Hall of Mirrors
Ken
|
$600
[21]
The one not mentioned in the title of the TV series starring Kevin James
jack
Josh
|
$600
[8]
Teacher's long vacation(10)
sabbatical
Josh
|
|
$800
[24]
The Diavolezza & the Piz Corvatsch are famous ski areas near this Swiss resort
St. Moritz
Ken
|
$800
[5]
One book calls this character "unctuous & oily to adults ('Good evening Mr. & Mrs. Cleaver') but a bully to... kids"
Eddie Haskell
Clinton
|
$800
[14]
In 1957 this future astronaut set a speed record flying from L.A. to NYC in 3 hrs., 23 min., 8.4 sec.
John Glenn
|
$800
[29]
This conflict ended in 1902 with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging, a town just south of Johannesburg
the Boer War
Josh
|
$800
[22]
You don't have to call that salmon a Chinook, you can call it this
king
Ken
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
"Baby" bird(5)
stork
Josh
|
|
$1,000
[25]
This largest island in the U.S. Virgin Islands was earlier owned by the Dutch, English, Spanish, French & Danes
Saint Croix
Josh
|
$1,000
[6]
Jackie Coogan's most famous TV role was this electrifying character on "The Addams Family"
Uncle Fester
Clinton
|
$1,000
[15]
In 1884, the year of his death, he published the memoir "30 Years a Detective"
(Allan) Pinkerton
Ken
|
$1,000
[30]
Turkey regained control of these 2 straits by the Montreux Convention of 1936
the Dardanelles & the Bosporus
Ken
Clinton
|
$1,000
[23]
The one flown on the bow of a British ship
jack
Ken
|
$1,000
[10]
Before energy or plexus(5)
solar
Josh
|
| RUSSIAN WRITERS | THE WINTER OLYMPICS | FOOD ACROSS AMERICA | BLOODSUCKERS | SECRETARIES OF STATE | "HOME" DEPOT |
|
$400
[5]
Perhaps best known for his plays, such as "Uncle Vanya", he was also a famed short-story writer
Chekhov
Ken
|
$400
[1]
1 of only 2 Americans to win the men's figure skating gold medal since 1960
Scott Hamilton (or Brian Boitano)
Josh
|
$400
[10]
A 13-foot-tall one of these stands on the highway near the city limits of Plains, Georgia
a peanut
Ken
|
$400
[26]
In "The African Queen", Humphrey Bogart called these bloodsucking worms "filthy little devils"
leeches
Josh
|
$400
[14]
She was the first female Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright
Josh
|
$400
[15]
The last section of a racecourse
the home stretch
Clinton
|
|
$800
[6]
After winning the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Doctor Zhivago", he was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union
Pasternak
Josh
|
$800
[2]
In 1998, the first Olympics in which it was held, Italy's Gian Simmen won the men's halfpipe in this sport
snowboarding
Josh
|
$800
[11]
These off the state tree of Illinois were ground, leached & cooked by Indians for food
acorns
|
$800
[27]
The Culex species of this insect may transmit encephalitis & certain kinds of parasitic worms
mosquito
|
$800
[20]
George Washington picked this future president to be his first Secretary of State
Jefferson
Clinton
|
$800
[16]
School study of household management
home economics
Josh
|
|
$1,200
[7]
His novella "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" was based on his own struggles in a Siberian labor camp
Solzhenitsyn
Ken
Josh
|
$1,200
[3]
Lydia Skoblikova has a record 6 gold medals in speed skating; this American woman is second with 5
Bonnie Blair
Josh
|
$1,200
[12]
New Yorkers claim their bagels are best, because this ingredient is best in New York
the water
Josh
|
$1,200
[30]
The teeth of this bloodsucking cave dweller are so sharp that victims may not even feel the bite
the vampire bat
Josh
|
$1,600
[22]
This silver-tongued orator & publisher of "The Commoner" resigned as Secretary in 1915
(William Jennings) Bryan
Ken
|
$1,200
[17]
Civilian activities in support of a war waged overseas
the home front
Ken
|
|
$1,600
[8]
One of this poet's great-grandfathers was a Black Ethiopian courtier to Peter the Great
(Alexander) Pushkin
Ken
|
$1,600
[4]
In 1992 Kjetil Aamodt set the Olympic record at 1 min., 13.04 sec. in the Super G, short for super giant this
slalom
Ken
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
Bill Rosenberg opened the first shop in this chain in 1950 in Quincy, Ma. (we don't know when the cops came)
Dunkin' Donuts
Ken
|
$1,600
[29]
All of the species of this parasite-carrying fly in the genus Glossina live in sub-Saharan Africa
a tsetse fly
Ken
|
DD
$1,800
[21]
Dwight Eisenhower & JFK both attended the 1962 dedication of the airport named for him
John Foster Dulles
Clinton
|
$1,600
[18]
In this 1978 film Jane Fonda becomes involved with a paraplegic war veteran played by Jon Voight
Coming Home
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[9]
Novelist & short-story writer Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov used this pseudonym
(Maxim) Gorky
Ken
|
$2,000
[13]
The Winter Olympics have been held in Austria twice, both times in this city
Innsbruck
Josh
|
$2,000
[25]
Famous for its seafood, this "Old Original" restaurant in Philly is a premier reading, er, dining spot
Bookbinder's
|
$2,000
[28]
When this eel-like fish bites & attaches itself to another fish, an anticoagulating fluid keeps the wound open
a lamprey (eel)
Josh
|
$2,000
[23]
In 1842 this silver-tongued orator negotiated a treaty with Lord Ashburton which settled the Maine boundary dispute
(Daniel) Webster
Ken
|
$2,000
[19]
Equilibrium
homeostasis
|
Once slang for brain, this 2-word phrase now means the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institution
a think tank