Ken Jennings game 8.Ken breaks Tom Walsh's win streak record.
Ethan Culbreth — an orchid specialist from Hollywood, California
Al Arsenault — a computer security engineer from Ellicott City, Maryland
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 7-day cash winnings total $231,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $4,800 | $12,800 | $38,600 |
$35,158
8-day champion: $266,158 |
$35,400
41 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W |
| Al | $4,200 | $5,000 | $11,800 |
$20,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
14 R, 1 W |
| Ethan | $0 | $600 | $1,000 |
$1,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,000
4 R, 3 W |
| '60s POTPOURRI | COLLEGE BASKETBALL | FOR THE KID IN YOU | MEDICAL ABBREV. | CULINARY QUOTES | "TOUCH" ME |
|
$200
[1]
This "Funny Girl" was just 19 when she made her Broadway debut in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" in 1962
Streisand
Ken
|
$200
[5]
(Hi, I'm James Worthy.) In 1982 I led this school, the Tar Heels, to the NCAA title & was named MVP of the Final Four
the University of North Carolina
Al
|
$200
[8]
At Six Flags Over Texas, you must be 3'6" to ride in these, 4'6" to drive one
the bumper cars
Ken
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$200
[26]
It occurs during sleep:REM
rapid eye movement
Ethan
|
$200
[21]
Fran Lebowitz jokingly said, "My favorite animal is" this, but she didn't specify Porterhouse or T-bone
steak
Ken
|
$200
[16]
A landing made by an aircraft or a space vehicle
a touchdown
Ken
Al
|
|
$400
[2]
Sleep-eze mogul (& movie fan) Allen Parkinson founded this state's Movieland Wax Museum in 1962
California
Ken
|
$400
[6]
The dames from this Indiana university won the women's NCAA basketball title in 2001
Notre Dame
Ken
|
$400
[9]
The laser type of this game was inspired by "Star Wars" & popularized in the 1980s
(laser) tag
Ken
|
$400
[27]
Pertaining to childbirth:L&D
labor & delivery
Ken
|
$400
[22]
This breakfast goody has been described as "an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis"
a bagel
Ken
Ethan
|
$400
[17]
Eliot Ness' team of lawmen
the Untouchables
Al
|
|
$600
[3]
In 1969 this Surrealist created the logo for Chupa Chups, a Spanish brand of lollipops
Dalí
Ken
|
$600
[12]
(Hi, I'm Sue Bird.) Before joining the WNBA, I led this university's Huskies to the NCAA championships in 2000 & 2002
the University of Connecticut (UConn)
Al
|
$600
[10]
Nabisco says that consumers chose the koala as the newest member of this menagerie
animal crackers
Ken
|
$600
[28]
Referring to the stomach & part of the digestive tract:GI
gastrointestinal
Ken
|
$600
[23]
Mark Twain said that cauliflower "is nothing but" this vegetable "with a college education"
cabbage
Ken
|
$600
[18]
Named for a Phrygian king, someone has this if he's got the ability to make lots of money with little effort
the Midas touch
Al
|
|
$800
[4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew walks through a TV room times three at Graceland in Memphis, TN.) Elvis probably got the idea to put 3 TVs in a row from this president, who was famous for watching 3 news shows at once
Johnson
Al
|
$800
[13]
Later a coach, she was the first basketball player at USC to have a jersey number retired
Cheryl Miller
Al
|
$800
[11]
A party here, "Where a kid can be a kid", goes:playtime--pizza--performance--cake--open gifts--90 minutes are up
Chuck E. Cheese's
Al
|
$800
[29]
Cardiac operation:OHS
open heart surgery
Ken
|
$800
[24]
Woody Allen says he won't eat this shellfish because "I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded, dead"
oysters
Ken
|
$800
[19]
The ability to appeal to the interests & sensibilities of the ordinary person
the common touch (or the human touch)
Ken
Ethan
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Claude Brown called his autobiographical 1965 novel about growing up in Harlem "Manchild in" this place
The Promised Land
Ken
|
$1,000
[14]
(I'm Jalen Rose of the NBA.) I was part of this school's "Fab Five" that played in 2 NCAA finals in the '90s
the University of Michigan
Al
|
$1,000
[15]
In stories by Laura Lee Hope, it's the last name of twins Bert & Nan &Freddie & Flossie
Bobbsey
Ken
|
$1,000
[30]
A component of the blood:Hb
hemoglobin
Ken
|
DD
$1,200
[25]
Thackeray's "Ballad of" this dish calls it "A sort of soup or broth... or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes"
bouillabaisse
Ken
|
$1,000
[20]
An Orson Welles thriller
Touch of Evil
Ken
|
| AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS | LEADING MEN | SEATTLE'S SISTER CITIES | PUMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE | ART "C" | FIX THE SIMILE |
|
$400
[2]
Playwright Langston Hughes formed the Suitcase Theater in Harlem & the New Negro Theater in this Calif. city
L.A. (Los Angeles)
Ken
|
$400
[1]
The A&E "Biography" show on the man seenhereincludes his stint as mayor of this city
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Al
|
$400
[11]
In 1987 Seattle gave a sea otter to its oldest sister city, Kobe in this country
Japan
Ken
|
$400
[26]
Ride over a nail & you might need Schwinn's Airdriver, one of these
a tire pump
Ken
|
$400
[21]
This printer & lithographer joined forces with James Ives in the 1850s
Currier
Al
|
$400
[15]
Pit as a piddle
fit as a fiddle
Ken
|
|
$800
[3]
With its strong political message, Amiri Baraka's play "Dutchman" won one of these off-Broadway awards in 1964
an OBIE
Ken
|
$800
[7]
He plays Inman, who struggles to get home to Cold Mountain
Jude Law
Ethan
|
$800
[12]
With Seattle's coffee & this from sister city Perugia, Italy, they can make mocha
chocolate
Ken
Ethan
|
$800
[27]
If you're lucky & this is gushing in your back yard, call for one of Lufkin Industries' pumping units
oil
Al
|
$800
[22]
Some consider the paintingseenhereto be the first in this modern style
Cubism
Ken
|
$800
[17]
Call as a cree
tall as a tree
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[4]
This play about a family moving to the suburbs was the first Broadway play written & directed by African Americans
A Raisin in the Sun
Ken
|
$1,200
[8]
The first syllable ofhislast name rhymes with "mood", not "mud"
Billy Crudup
Ken
|
$1,200
[13]
Seattle can flaunt the fact, or maybe flute the fact, it's a sister to this Irish city
Galway
Ken
|
$1,200
[28]
Light bulb makers use a special pump to create this inside the bulb
a vacuum
Ken
|
$1,200
[23]
Degas portrayed this American woman & fellow Impressionist in several of his works
Mary Cassatt
Ken
|
$1,200
[18]
Lad as a larch hare
mad as a March hare
Ken
|
|
$1,600
[5]
James Baldwin loosely based his play "Blues for Mister Charlie" on the '55 murder of Emmitt Till in this southern state
Mississippi
Al
|
$1,600
[9]
This romantic actor appeared in "Marriage Italian Style", "Divorce Italian Style" & "Ghosts Italian Style"
Marcello Mastroianni
Ken
|
$1,600
[14]
This Norwegian sister city should be a favorite of Murphy Brown
Bergen
Al
Ethan
|
$1,600
[29]
To lift water, try this basic type of pump, a cylinder with a piston inside
a suction [or reciprocating] pump
|
$2,000
[25]
This Italian term meaning the balance of light & shade is often used of Rembrandt's paintings
chiaroscuro
Ken
|
$1,600
[19]
Rod as a boot
red as a beet
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[6]
This playwright of "Fences" & "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company
August Wilson
Ethan
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
Seen here near the end of his career, his last name is a synonym for "strength""I want only the strong, who can row 1500 miles to Africa and walk ashore alive!"
Tyrone Power
Ken
|
$2,000
[16]
A port city, Seattle is a sister to this port city of Kenya
Mombasa
|
$2,000
[30]
It's a pit or well where water collects; the pump named for it gets the water out
a sump
Al
|
DD
$3,600
[24]
This 19th century British landscape artist painted "Cloud Studies" & "The Haywain"
John Constable
Ken
|
$2,000
[20]
Gold as grass
bold as brass
Ken
|
In 1960 this new national leader made the longest speech in United Nations history, 4 hours & 29 minutes
Fidel Castro