Ken Jennings game 9.
Joe Riley — a bartender from Reisterstown, Maryland
Carla DenHartog — a technical writer from Burlington, Vermont
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 8-day cash winnings total $266,158)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $5,400 | $6,800 | $22,000 |
$25,000
9-day champion: $291,158 |
$26,400
29 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Carla | $1,200 | $5,000 | $8,200 |
$8,801
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joe | $1,400 | $800 | $4,400 |
$600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,400
9 R, 4 W |
| WORLD WAR I | NAME THAT MOVIE | MIDDLE NAMES | SPOT THE KITTY | MEMORIALS | ADD A LETTER |
|
$200
[22]
On May 8, 1915 the New York Times headline read: this British liner "Sunk by a Submarine"
the Lusitania
Ken
Joe
|
$200
[6]
1991:"Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?"
The Silence of the Lambs
Joe
|
$200
[1]
Actor Christopher Kutcher uses this middle name as his first
Ashton
Ken
|
$200
[21]
The Iranian, the Persian, the Zoroastrian
the Persian
Joe
|
$200
[16]
The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial stands near the north gate of this Virginia site
Arlington National Cemetery
Ken
Joe
|
$200
[11]
Add this letter to rim & it becomes the rim of a hat
a B (for b rim)
Ken
|
|
$400
[23]
In 1918 the U.S. military revived this newspaper which originated in the Civil War
the Stars and Stripes
Ken
|
$400
[7]
1961:"When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way!"
West Side Story
Joe
|
$400
[2]
We should see a light bulb above your head if you know that this man's middle name was Alva
(Thomas Alva) Edison
Carla
|
$400
[27]
The Wight, the Manx, the Orkney
the Manx
Carla
|
$400
[17]
Fort Caroline is a memorial to this country's 16th c. attempt to establish a permanent colony in what's now Fla.
France
Carla
Joe
|
$400
[12]
When is a surgeon like a fish?--When you add this letter to it
a T (for s t urgeon)
Ken
|
|
$600
[24]
The Germans invaded this country on Aug. 4, 1914 & were soon accused of atrocities there
Belgium
|
$600
[8]
2003:"If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me..."
Cold Mountain
Ken
|
$600
[3]
John F. Kennedy's middle name was Fitzgerald & Robert F. Kennedy's was this
Francis
Ken
|
$600
[28]
The Vietnamese, the Cambodian, the Burmese
the Burmese
Carla
|
$600
[18]
On April 15, 1962 memorials were held in remembrance of this tragic event's 50th anniversary
sinking of the Titanic
Ken
|
$600
[13]
Add this letter to crate & it becomes a big bowl-shaped depression
an R (for crate r )
Ken
|
|
$800
[25]
In the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia gave up a lot of territory to Germany, including these 3 Baltic states
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
Carla
|
$800
[9]
1977:"Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid"
Star Wars
Joe
|
$800
[4]
This artist's middle names were Abbott McNeill; just ask his mother
(James) Whistler
Carla
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$800
[29]
The Russian green, the Russian black, the Russian blue
Russian blue
Carla
|
$800
[19]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew provides the clue from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.) The Pearl Harbor memorial I'mvisitingspans the hull of this battleship that was sunk December 7, 1941
the Arizona
Carla
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$800
[14]
This letter turns a pony into a flower
an E (for p e ony)
Ken
|
|
$1,000
[26]
In Sept. 1914, in the Battle of this river near Paris, French reinforcements were sped to the front in taxicabs
the Marne
|
$1,000
[10]
1944:"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow"
To Have and Have Not
Ken
|
$1,000
[5]
It's what the middle initial "E" stood for in Robert E. Lee's name
Edward
|
$1,000
[30]
The Himalayan, the Caucasian, the Uralian
the Himalayan
Carla
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
The national memorial that commemorates this 1889 disaster preserves what's left of the South Fork Dam
the Johnstown Flood
Carla
|
$1,000
[15]
Add this letter to plant & it becomes easily bent
I (for pl i ant)
Ken
|
| PRESIDENTS | BROADWAY | WOMEN WRITERS | HEAVENS TO BETSY! | HITHER & YON | YOU'RE GOING TO "POT" |
|
$400
[11]
Though only 5'7", this Founding Father was called "The Colossus of Independence"
John Adams
Ken
Carla
Joe
|
$400
[1]
With puppets like Lucy the Vamp, the musical "Avenue Q" has been called "South Park" -meets-this show
Sesame Street
Carla
|
$400
[6]
A sonnet by this poet ends, "And, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ken
|
$400
[16]
If you can't visit her home at 239 Arch Street in Philadelphia, take a virtual tour of it on the web
Betsy Ross
Ken
|
$400
[26]
Both in size & population it's by far the largest city in Iraq
Baghdad
Joe
|
$400
[18]
Chinese dumpling steamed or fried
potstickers
Ken
|
|
$800
[12]
In 1921 this big wheel rode to his inauguration in a Packard Twin Six convertible
Harding
Ken
|
$800
[2]
Dule Hill of "The West Wing" tapped his way into the original Broadway cast of this "noisy" Savion Glover show
Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk
Carla
Joe
|
$800
[7]
"Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is a recent book by this Southern novelist & TV personality
Fannie Flagg
Ken
|
$800
[17]
Betsy Blair was nominated for a 1955 Oscar for playing Ernest Borgnine's shy girlfriend in this film
Marty
Joe
|
$800
[27]
This North American country's name may come from a word meaning "collection of huts"
Canada
Ken
|
$800
[22]
It killed about one million Irish in the 1840s
the Potato Famine
Joe
|
|
$1,200
[13]
A special luncheon at the 1901 Expo in Buffalo for this president's wife went on without her
McKinley
Ken
|
$1,200
[3]
Fresh from his Oscar nomination for "The Cooler", he warmed up Broadway in "Twentieth Century"
Alec Baldwin
Joe
|
$1,200
[8]
"The Window" & "Time Passes" are sections of her stream-of-consciousness novel "To the Lighthouse"
Virginia Woolf
Ken
Carla
|
$1,600
[20]
She was perhaps best-known as a game show panelist before she played Jason's mother in "Friday the 13th"
Betsy Palmer
|
$1,600
[29]
Under British protection until 1971, it's an island Emirate in the Persian Gulf
Bahrain
Ken
|
$1,200
[23]
Home furnishing store founded in 1949 that sounds like a good place to buy a 9th anniversary gift
Pottery Barn
Carla
|
|
$1,600
[14]
President in the 1850s, his name inspired a comic strip about a duck
Millard Fillmore
Ken
|
$1,600
[4]
This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "bloomed" again on Broadway in 2002, with Lea Salonga as Mei-Li
Flower Drum Song
Ken
|
$1,600
[9]
"Middlemarch" is one of her masterpieces
George Eliot
Ken
|
$2,000
[21]
A 19th century song tells the tale of this gal "who crossed the wide prairie with her lover Ike"
Betsy from Pike
Ken
|
DD
$1,800
[28]
For the first time since the ice age, this country has been joined to Western Europe by a 10-mile bridge to Malmo
Sweden
Ken
|
$1,600
[24]
Theodore Roosevelt Island is a 91-acre national wilderness park found in this river
the Potomac
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[15]
2004 is the bicentennial year of this president born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire
Franklin Pierce
Carla
|
$2,000
[5]
Jane Krakowski is seenheremaking a spectacular entrance in this show, based on Fellini's film, "8 1/2"
Nine
Carla
|
$2,000
[10]
Her 1899 book "The Awakening" shocked critics with its frankness about women's emotional lives
Kate Chopin
Ken
|
DD
$2,600
[19]
In the film "The Betsy", the Betsy is one of these that Laurence Olivier names for his great-granddaughter
a car
Ken
|
$2,000
[30]
You'll find the Sea of Azov between these 2 countries, comrade
Russia & Ukraine
|
$2,000
[25]
Its atomic number is 19
potassium
Ken
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The Chinese government, which controls all of these in the U.S., won't let a new one be named until it's 100 days old
giant pandas