Ken Jennings game 10.
David Steinhardt — a writer from Quarry Hill, Vermont
Karen Gasperino — an administrative assistant from Las Vegas, Nevada
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 9-day cash winnings total $291,158)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $6,400 | $10,400 | $35,000 |
$50,000
10-day champion: $341,158 |
$32,600
40 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Karen | $800 | $1,600 | $2,000 |
$3,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,000
5 R, 1 W |
| David | $600 | $2,200 | $5,800 |
$5,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,800
9 R, 2 W |
| NATION"Z" | HOME, SWEET TELEVISION HOME | FASHION | CELEBRITY AILMENTS | THE NAME GAME | 3-LETTER WORDS |
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$200
[1]
This country has numerous national parks including Fiordland, Tongariro & Abel Tasman
New Zealand
Ken
|
$200
[6]
Send mail to this critter c/o the Ranger's Station, Jellystone Park
Yogi Bear
Ken
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$200
[26]
The lowest button of this sleeveless part of a 3-piece suit is left open, which some trace to Edward VII's large royal gut
the vest
Ken
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$200
[14]
In the 1960s Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a disease named for this famous athlete
Lou Gehrig
Ken
|
$200
[11]
"Gilligan's Island" resident who is Barbie's little sister
Skipper
Ken
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$200
[17]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew punches in from Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn.) Terms for boxing punches include uppercut, hook & this 3-letter word
jab
Ken
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$400
[2]
South America's largest known petroleum deposits lie in this country's Maracaibo Basin
Venezuela
Karen
David
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$400
[7]
Sometime in the 23rd century & somewhere in the Alpha Quadrant, Lt. Uhura makes her home on this vessel
the Enterprise
David
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$400
[27]
Style.com reports some of these shown by Gaultier "were short enough to be belts"
miniskirts
Ken
|
$400
[22]
(I'm Jerome Bettis of the NFL.) As a sufferer from this condition, I've testified on Capitol Hill about the need to keep inhalers on the market
asthma
Ken
|
$400
[12]
Stooge name of Elizabeth Taylor's last husband
Larry
Karen
|
$400
[18]
It's the elongated core in which the grains of an ear of corn are embedded
cob
Ken
|
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$600
[3]
Its Latin name, Helvetia, appears on its coins & stamps
Switzerland
Ken
|
$600
[8]
Micky, Mike, Davy & Pete all lived together at 1334 N. Beechwood Dr. in Los Angeles on this show
The Monkees
Ken
|
$800
[29]
In the 1800s the height of these posed a storage problem until Antoine Gibus made them collapsible
top hats
David
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$600
[23]
Hepatitis C is not named for this sufferer, the C in the singing group CSN
David Crosby
Ken
|
$600
[13]
Santa's reindeer promoted by Josephine the Plumber
Comet
David
|
$600
[19]
These 23-letter words form the name of a synonym for rap music
hip hop
Ken
|
|
$800
[4]
It was once known as Portuguese East Africa
Mozambique
Ken
|
$800
[9]
A lavish gadget-laden railroad car called the "Nimrod" housed & transported this show's heroes
The Wild Wild West
Ken
|
$1,000
[30]
Thisclassic pattern with a dental name always comes back into fashion
houndstooth
Ken
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$800
[24]
Musician Michael Wolff suffers from this, inspiring his wife Polly Draper to write the film "The Tic Code"
Tourette's syndrome
Karen
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$800
[15]
Dumas Musketeer who got his own fragrance in 1964
Aramis
Ken
|
$800
[20]
A confused & noisy clamor
din
David
|
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$1,000
[5]
The Baykonur Cosmodrome, Russia's space-launch facility, is actually in this nation
Kazakhstan
Ken
|
$1,000
[10]
A Depression-era family live on their own mountain in Jefferson County, Virginia on this show
The Waltons
Ken
|
DD
$1,800
[28]
Some people mentally add "L-Y" to this brand of super-comfy Australian sheepskin boots
Ugg
Ken
|
$1,000
[25]
Kathleen Turner is a sufferer of & spokesperson about R.A., short for this
rheumatoid arthritis
|
$1,000
[16]
'N Sync member or an illiterate 6th century Byzantine Emperor who had to use a stencil to sign his name
Justin
Ken
|
$1,000
[21]
From the Latin for "nothing", it's nothing, nada, zip, zero
nil
Ken
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| FAMOUS AMERICANS | HITS OF THE '60s | LAST WORDS | MIND YOUR SCIENCE "P"s & "Q"s | PHOTOGRAPHY | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS |
|
$400
[17]
He once promised, "As long as there is imagination left in the world" his theme park would never be completed
Walt Disney
Ken
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$400
[1]
In 1967 Aretha Franklin proved she could S-P-E-L-L with this song, one of the biggest solo hits of her career
"Respect" ("R-E-S-P-E-C-T" accepted)
Ken
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$400
[7]
According to his lawyer, Joe DiMaggio died with this woman's name on his lips
Marilyn Monroe
Ken
|
$400
[16]
It's nothing to write home about, but the hollow spines on a hedgehog are called these
quills
Karen
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$400
[28]
Use this device with telescoping legs when slow shutter speed requires a steady camera
tripod
Ken
|
$400
[3]
OXEN HIP
Phoenix
Ken
|
|
$800
[19]
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! They're the opposing minds seenhereduring the 1925 Scopes trial
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan
Ken
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$800
[2]
In 1963 Bobby Vinton had 2 consecutive top 3 hits with this color in the titles
blue
David
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$800
[12]
Book that ends, "...Aunt Sally, she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before"
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
David
|
$800
[18]
You may have noticed that this planet isn't on the same ecliptic plane as the others in the solar system
Pluto
David
|
$800
[29]
Popular in the 1800s, itwas produced on a sheet of metal, but not the one in its name
tintype
|
$800
[8]
IN SLANG
Lansing
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[20]
Helen Keller's "Miracle Worker", this teacher was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2003
Annie Sullivan
David
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$1,200
[4]
Producer Phil Spector played the guitar solo on this R&B vocal group's 1963 Top 10 hit "On Broadway"
The Drifters
|
$1,200
[13]
At the end of this 1960 Billy Wilder comedy, Shirley MacLaine settles down to a card game & says, "Shut up and deal!"
The Apartment
Ken
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$1,200
[23]
The eggs of the Japanese species of this small game bird were studied on the Mir Space Station
quail
Ken
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$1,600
[27]
A flaw in some pictures, here it's used for artistic effect above the subject's head
lens flare
Ken
|
$1,200
[9]
OILY MAP
Olympia
Ken
|
|
$1,600
[21]
California governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. went by the name Jerry; his father, also governor, went by this nickname
Pat
Ken
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$1,600
[5]
Its lyrics include "We always take my car 'cause it's never been beat, and we've never missed yet with the girls we meet"
"I Get Around"
Ken
|
DD
$1,600
[14]
This 1892 Leoncavallo opera ends with "La commedia e finita", or "The comedy is finished"
I Pagliacci
Ken
|
$1,600
[24]
The Titanic sank with its artifacts to 12,500 feet, where this is measured at about 380 atmospheres
pressure
Ken
|
$2,000
[26]
In darkroom chemicals, this one is used to arrest the action of the developer
a stop bath
Ken
Karen
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$1,600
[10]
ILL SHAVEN
Nashville
|
|
$2,000
[22]
In 1917 this Montanan became the first woman member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Jeannette Rankin
Ken
|
$2,000
[6]
In 1968 the Lemon Pipers asked us to "Listen while I play" this colorful title instrument
the green tambourine
Karen
|
$2,000
[15]
This president's last words referred to his wife: "I know that I am going where Lucy is"
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ken
David
|
$2,000
[25]
Sadly, James Joyce died before these hypothetical particles were named for a word he used in "Finnegans Wake"
a quark
David
|
DD
$5,400
[30]
He first took an interest in photography during a family trip to Yosemite in 1916
Ansel Adams
Ken
|
$2,000
[11]
MACK RIBS
Bismarck
Ken
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"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel
Frankenstein