Ken Jennings game 6.(Jimmy: If you can't run away and join the circus, the next best thing is clues aboutCirque du Soleil--next onJeopardy!)
Anne Fritz — an executive director from Memphis, Tennessee
Kevin Stanley — a writer and poet from Decatur, Georgia
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 5-day cash winnings total $156,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $4,400 | $12,600 | $18,800 |
$25,000
6-day champion: $181,000 |
$23,400
34 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kevin | $0 | $2,800 | $4,400 |
$8,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,800
9 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Anne | $2,000 | $2,400 | $1,200 |
$2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,200
9 R, 4 W |
| AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN | MOVIE ROLES | MUSEUMS | A GREEN CATEGORY | 1969 | GOING "SOFT" ON US, EH? |
|
$200
[12]
After her husband's death in 1968, she founded a center in Atlanta, Georgia for nonviolent social change
Coretta Scott King
Ken
|
$200
[1]
Yeah, baby! Mike Myers has played this groovy secret agent in 3 films
Austin Powers
Ken
|
$200
[23]
You can take the Powell-Mason line of these to a museum of them in San Francisco
the cable cars
Ken
|
$200
[21]
Britt Reid was the secret identity of this comic book hero
the Green Hornet
Ken
|
$200
[4]
He was officially presented to the Welsh people on July 1
Prince Charles
Ken
|
$200
[11]
A 3-minute egg
a soft-boiled egg
Anne
|
|
$400
[13]
Her on-air 50th birthday bash included guests Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner &, of course, Stedman
Oprah
Ken
|
$400
[2]
In a 2003 movie he played the bitter, foul-mouthed "Bad Santa"
Billy Bob Thornton
Ken
|
$400
[27]
The National Civil Rights Museum has an exhibit about the enrollment of James Meredith at this school in 1962
(the University of) Mississippi
Ken
|
$400
[22]
This company began issuing the first green stamps in the 1890s
S&H
Anne
|
$400
[7]
This supersonic airliner took off March 2, 1969
the Concorde
Anne
|
$400
[17]
Its 2 main types are slow pitch & fast pitch
softball
Ken
|
|
$600
[14]
While Shirley Chisholm represented N.Y. in Congress, Barbara Jordan represented this state
Texas
Kevin
|
$600
[3]
Robin Williams danced with a vacuum cleaner to the song "Dude Looks Like A Lady" in this 1993 comedy
Mrs. Doubtfire
Anne
|
$600
[28]
A museum in Springer, New Mexico bears the name of this Old West trail that opened in 1821
the Santa Fe Trail
Anne
|
$600
[24]
The green variety of this sticky-footed creature is seen here
a tree frog
Ken
Anne
|
$600
[8]
She became Prime Minister of Israel
Golda Meir
Ken
|
$600
[18]
Applications & programs for computers
software
Ken
|
|
$800
[15]
Before becoming an advisor to President Bush, she served 6 years as provost of Stanford Univ.
Condoleezza Rice
Kevin
|
$800
[5]
It's the film in which Audrey Hepburn played Holly Golightly
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Ken
|
$800
[29]
This 16th century English king is honored at the International Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame in St. Louis
Henry VIII
Ken
|
$800
[25]
For decades the Green Line was the buffer zone between the Greek & Turkish forces on this island
Cyprus
Ken
|
$800
[9]
He resigned as President of France
Charles De Gaulle
Anne
|
$800
[19]
It was pioneered around 1910 by dancer George Primrose when he kicked off his clogs
soft shoe
Ken
|
|
DD
$1,400
[16]
Arturo Toscanini once praised this contralto, saying she had a voice that comes "once in a hundred years"
Marian Anderson
Kevin
|
$1,000
[6]
Susan Sarandon as a would-be casino dealer befriended Burt Lancaster in this 1981 movie
Atlantic City
Ken
|
$1,000
[30]
Museo de Frida Kahlo is located in this world capital city
Mexico City
Ken
|
$1,000
[26]
The flag seenhereis the national banner of this north African nation
Libya
Ken
|
$1,000
[10]
On July 3, 1969 this British guitarist was found drowned in his swimming pool
Brian Jones
Ken
|
$1,000
[20]
Your uvula hangs down from this upper back part of the mouth
your soft palate
Ken
|
| SCOTLAND | CIRQUE DU SOLEIL | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK | SHOW TIME | SOUL FOOD | THE "L" WORD |
|
$400
[6]
This 3-letter prefix to Scottish names means "son of"
Mac
Ken
|
$400
[22]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, NV.) The 9-show Cirque du Soleil empire began with a bunch of street performers on stilts in Bay St. Paul in this province
Quebec
Ken
|
$400
[10]
About this city Pindar wrote, "O bright & violet-crowned and famed in song, bulwark of Greece"
Athens
Ken
|
$400
[1]
In 2004 this Kiefer Sutherland show won the Golden Globe Award for TV Drama Series
24
Ken
|
$400
[21]
When dining on red beans & rice, the beans are traditionally this variety
kidney beans
Kevin
Anne
|
$400
[11]
The daughter of a Duke or Earl puts this word before her name
Lady
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[8]
In March 1328, in the Treaty of Northampton, the English finally recognized him as King of the Scots
Robert the Bruce
Ken
|
$800
[27]
The Cirque got Thierry Mugler to design these for the new show "Zumanity"
costumes
Ken
|
$800
[17]
Hippocrates called this "the most distinguished of all the arts" but "by far the least esteemed"
medicine
Kevin
|
$800
[2]
The pilot for this sitcom was titled "Those Were the Days", just like the theme song
All in the Family
Ken
|
$800
[23]
For dessert how about a slice of pie--maybe buttermilk or one made with this orange tuber
a sweet potato
Kevin
|
$800
[12]
You're in a famous paradox if a Cretan tells you "All Cretans are these"
liars
Kevin
|
|
$1,600
[9]
This island group is the UK's northernmost part; most inhabitants are of Scandinavian ancestry
the Shetlands
Ken
Anne
|
$1,200
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, NV.) Cirque du Soleil performs in a theater here at Treasure Island. Touring shows are under thegrand chapiteau, or this
the big top
Ken
|
$1,600
[19]
In this work Plato wrote, "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"
The Republic
|
$1,200
[3]
His show on Showtime is described as "Single male rock star seeks normal life"
Chris Isaak
Ken
|
$1,200
[24]
These greens with the same botanical name as kale are often boiled with a chunk of pork
collard greens
Ken
|
$1,200
[13]
Zeiss' wide-angle Biogon, whose name indicates it captures life all around us, is one of these
lens
Kevin
Anne
|
|
$2,000
[16]
In the first century A.D. the Romans invaded the area that is now Scotland & called it this
Caledonia
Anne
|
$1,600
[29]
Cirque du Soleil first made bungee an art form in this show whose name is from Italian for "jump on the bench"
Saltimbanco
|
$2,000
[20]
He said he was "looking for an honest man"
Diogenes
Ken
|
$1,600
[4]
Following the "Late Show" with David Letterman is the "Late Late Show" with this man
Craig Kilborn
Kevin
|
$1,600
[25]
It's the common 8-letter term for a hog's innards, popularly fried or boiled
chitlins
Kevin
|
$1,600
[14]
This word for sutures used on blood vessels is from the Latin for "tie"
ligature
Kevin
|
|
DD
$4,600
[7]
In Scotland lochs are lakes & these are wide bays into which most of Scotland's rivers flow
firths
Ken
|
$2,000
[30]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, NV.) The aerial cube is featured in this big show with an enigmatic title
Mystere
|
DD
$2,800
[18]
Archimedes' line "Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the Earth" referred to this simple machine
lever
Kevin
|
$2,000
[5]
Sort of documentary versions of "CSI" include A&E's "Cold Case Files" & Court TV's show These "Files"
forensic
Anne
|
$2,000
[26]
When coated in cornmeal & fried, these green gumbo pods lose much of their sliminess
okra
Kevin
|
$2,000
[15]
Autumn, seen here, is a popular china pattern from this company
Lenox
Ken
Anne
|
In a last-minute change in his manuscript, Charles Dickens renamed Little Fred this
Tiny Tim