Ken Jennings game 11.
Josh Thorpe — an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
Patricia Davis — a writer and editor from Encinitas, California
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 10-day cash winnings total $341,158)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $3,000 | $10,000 | $32,200 |
$35,000
11-day champion: $376,158 |
$28,400
38 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Patricia | $1,600 | $1,400 | $5,000 |
$3,300
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,000
6 R, 1 W |
| Josh | $2,000 | $3,400 | $6,600 |
$3,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE | WHO'S YOUR DADDY? | MIAMI NICE | FRUIT | CHARADES | "BO"-POURRI |
|
$200
[6]
Just weeks after leaving office, he & son Kermit left on a year-long African hunting expedition
Teddy Roosevelt
Josh
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$200
[1]
TV & film star Kiefer
Donald Sutherland
Josh
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$200
[26]
It's the nickname of the sports teams at the University of Miami
the Hurricanes
Ken
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$200
[21]
Harwich, Mass. celebrates the harvest of this berry about 2 months before it's needed at Thanksgiving
the cranberry
Ken
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$200
[16]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew makes a small "C" with her fingers.) The gesture here means "small word", like this word followed by "the Good Old Summertime"
in
Ken
|
$200
[8]
In a nursery rhyme, she loses her sheep
Little Bo-Peep
Ken
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$400
[7]
In July 2003 he returned to the White House for a special dinner in honor of his 90th birthday
Ford
Ken
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$400
[2]
Latin heartthrob singer Enrique
Julio Iglesias
Ken
|
$400
[27]
A '60s TV variety show filmed in Miami featured skits using characters from this Jackie Gleason sitcom
The Honeymooners
Ken
|
$400
[22]
Gala & Cortland are types of this
an apple
Ken
|
$400
[17]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew tugs on her ear lobe.) If you're stuck with a word you can't act out, you may want to resort to this sign
sounds like
Ken
|
$400
[12]
One of the few condemned English royals not axe-cuted, in 1536 she was done in with a sword
Anne Boleyn
Ken
|
|
$600
[9]
Though not in the best of health, in 1840 he went to New Orleans to celebrate his battle victory's 25th anniversary
Andrew Jackson
Ken
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$600
[3]
Oscar-winning screenwriter Sofia
Francis Ford Coppola
Patricia
|
$600
[28]
It began as SIN, the Spanish Int'l. Network, & its production facilities are headquartered in Miami
Univision
Ken
Josh
|
$800
[24]
Ribier & Thompson Seedless are among the bestselling kinds of these
grapes
Josh
|
$600
[18]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds up seven fingers.) If it's an Indiana Jones movie, it has to be this big screen adventure
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Ken
|
$600
[13]
Capital city situated on a plateau in the eastern Andes
Bogotá
Josh
|
|
$800
[10]
On his 80th birthday, May 8, 1964, he became the first former president to address a regular Senate session
Harry Truman
Ken
|
$800
[4]
"Lord of the Rings" co-star Liv
Steven Tyler
Ken
|
$800
[29]
Called "America's Riviera", Miami's South Beach is home to 800 buildings built in this early 20th century style
Art Deco
Patricia
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$1,000
[25]
A symbol of fertility in mythology, it's been called "Nature's most labor-intensive fruit"
the pomegranate
Ken
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$800
[19]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew makes a streching motion with her fingers.) Someone guessed "dark", so I'm trying to get them to this word in an Arthur Koestler title
darkness
Ken
|
$800
[14]
Sherlock Holmes faced "A Scandal in" this former Central European kingdom
Bohemia
Ken
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|
$1,000
[11]
In February 1930 illness forced him to resign as U.S. Chief Justice; he died a month later
Taft
Josh
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$1,000
[5]
Jewelry designer Paloma
Pablo Picasso
Ken
|
$1,000
[30]
The Fontainebleau Hotel was the HQ for this political event that took place in Miami in early August 1968
the Republican National Convention
Ken
Patricia
|
DD
$1,400
[23]
Its name refers to the resemblance of its blossom end to a human umbilicus
a navel orange
Ken
|
$1,000
[20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew makes "air quotes".) Next, I'll act out one of these, from the Latin for "word"--maybe "Murder will out" or "All rivers run into the sea"
a proverb
Ken
|
$1,000
[15]
Ancient British queen who fought the Romans
Boadicea
Patricia
|
| THE 60s | COOL PLACES TO GO | FOLK MUSIC | PETER | POLL | MARRIED |
|
$400
[6]
It's the oldest age you can be & still be a sexagenarian
69
Ken
|
$400
[11]
An American seal hunter named John Davis is believed to be the first person to set foot on this continent
Antarctica
Ken
|
$400
[26]
In 1961 The Highwaymen urged him to "row the boat ashore, hallelujah"
Michael
Ken
|
$400
[1]
Now making news in the lower 48, at age 9 he was the host of his own Canadian radio show
Peter Jennings
Patricia
|
$400
[16]
In a 2003 CNN poll, this former first lady was voted "The Most Admired Woman in America"
Hillary Clinton
Ken
Josh
|
$400
[21]
"He that is unmarried careth... how he may please the Lord; but he that is married careth... how he may please" her
his wife
Ken
Josh
|
|
$800
[7]
Mark McGwire's Sept. 8, 1998 homer, this record number for the season, went a paltry 341 feet
62
Ken
|
$800
[12]
Related to Old Norse, Islenska is the official language of this island country
Iceland
Josh
|
$800
[27]
Bob Dylan's first LP had 2 original songs: "Talking New York" & "Song to Woody", a tribute to this folk singer
Woody Guthrie
Ken
|
$800
[2]
Peter Shaffer's play "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" concerns Pizarro's conquest of this South American empire
the Inca
Ken
|
$800
[17]
Using faulty poll figures, Literary Digest predicted his defeat for President in 1936; the Digest folded in 1937
FDR
Ken
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$1,200
[23]
William Congreve wrote, "Grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure: married in haste, we may" do this
repent at leisure
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[8]
A TV anthology series was based on the book "What Really Happened to the Class of" this
'65
Josh
|
DD
$1,200
[13]
With temperatures as low as -94 F., Oymyakon in this large region is the world's coldest inhabited place
Siberia
Josh
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1968 she reached the Top 10 for the first & only time with "Both Sides Now", a song written by Joni Mitchell
Judy Collins
Ken
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$1,200
[3]
After retiring from medicine in 1840, he began work on his thesaurus in London
Peter Roget
Ken
|
$1,200
[18]
A recent "Youth Wired" poll by this online service revealed that nearly 20% of American kids go online every day
AOL
Ken
|
$1,600
[24]
In "The Rainbow", he wrote, "If I am to become an angel, it'll be my married soul, and not my single soul"
D.H. Lawrence
Ken
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Number of years in Queen Victoria's record reign or number of yards in Tom Dempsey's record NFL field goal kick
63
Ken
Josh
|
$1,600
[14]
The "Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run" is an annual event held in International Falls in this U.S. state
Minnesota
Ken
|
$1,600
[29]
This Calypso singer won 3 folk Grammys in the 1960s, including one for his 1965 album with Miriam Makeba
Harry Belafonte
Patricia
|
$1,600
[4]
In 1725 Peter the Great sent this Dane to explore the Pacific coast
Vitus Bering
Patricia
|
$1,600
[19]
The first of these held in the U.S. was in 1790 & revealed a total population of nearly 4 million
a census
Ken
|
$2,000
[25]
Shakespearean character speaking here"...the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live 'till I were married. Ah, here comes Beatrice. By this day, she's a fair lady!"
Benedick
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[10]
In music, it's also known as a hemidemisemiquaver
a 64th note
Ken
|
$2,000
[15]
The Gulf of Finland, which freezes over for several months during winter, is the easternmost arm of this sea
the Baltic
Josh
|
$2,000
[30]
Glenn Yarbrough, formerly with The Limeliters, had his only Top 40 hit with this title song of a 1965 Steve McQueen film
"Baby The Rain Must Fall"
|
$2,000
[5]
Seen here is "The Garden of Love" by this Flemish old master
(Peter Paul) Rubens
Ken
|
$2,000
[20]
A 2004 Gallup poll showed this East Asian country has the highest negative rating among Americans--83%
North Korea
Josh
|
DD
$3,800
[22]
19th c. humorist Artemus Ward called this Utahan "dreadfully married... the most married man I ever saw"
Brigham Young
Ken
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First designed as a surgical disinfectant, in 1895 it was available to dentists & by 1914 was sold OTC
Listerine