Ken Jennings game 12.
Deirdre Basile — a stay-at-home mom from Ridgefield, Connecticut
Steve DiGiulio — a senior account executive from Washington Township, New Jersey
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 11-day cash winnings total $376,158)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $6,800 | $10,400 | $37,000 |
$34,000
12-day champion: $410,158 |
$33,200
39 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Steve | $0 | $600 | $5,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
9 R, 2 W |
| Deirdre | $-200 | $3,600 | $9,000 |
$12,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| PLAINS | THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS | MYTHOLOGICAL WOMEN | FLEX YOUR "AB"S | I HAVE SPOKANE | JEOPARDY! OF FORTUNE |
|
$200
[23]
Including lots of prairie, they cover about 18% of Canada's territory & 15% of U.S. territory
the Great Plains
Deirdre
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$200
[6]
Dominance by "LOTR" caused this host to quip, "People are moving to New Zealand just to be thanked"
Billy Crystal
Ken
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$200
[1]
Of the 3 Gorgons, she was the only mortal
Medusa
Ken
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$200
[16]
Standing side by side & facing the front
abreast
Ken
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$200
[11]
Spokane is 18 miles west of Washington's border with this state
Idaho
Ken
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$200
[21]
Microsoft Head Honcho
Bill Gates
Ken
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|
$400
[24]
As its name implies, Nullarbor Plain in Australia is a 400-mile-long plateau where none of these grow
trees
Steve
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$400
[7]
He took home the little bald guy for the first time in 4 tries, winning Best Actor for "Mystic River"
Sean Penn
Ken
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$400
[2]
Just like their sisters the Pleiades, the Hyades were changed into a cluster of these
stars
Ken
|
$400
[17]
Half of a legendary comedy duo, he was born in New Jersey in 1895
Bud Abbott
Deirdre
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$400
[12]
He's the longtime Spokane resident & one-time law student seen here
Bing Crosby
Ken
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$400
[22]
Current Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist
Ken
Steve
Deirdre
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|
$600
[25]
This plain of Tanzania is the place in Africa where vast land migrations of animals still take place
the Serengeti
Ken
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$600
[8]
She had a "Monster" night, taking home Best Actress Honors
Charlize Theron
Ken
|
$600
[3]
This 6-headed sea monster who ate sailors lived in a cave opposite the whirlpool Charybdis
Scylla
Ken
|
$600
[18]
Burning strongly
ablaze
Ken
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$600
[13]
Spokane takes its name from the Spokane Indians, whose name means "children of" this heavenly body
the Sun
Ken
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$600
[26]
The Oracle of Omaha
Warren Buffett
Ken
Steve
|
|
$800
[29]
Israel's Plain of Jezreel is said to be the site of this future biblical battle
Armageddon
Ken
|
$800
[9]
Part of this Best Animated Feature took place in an Australian dentist's office
Finding Nemo
Deirdre
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$1,000
[5]
After a weaving contest, Athena turned this maiden into a spider so that she'd spend the rest of her life spinning
Arachne
Ken
Deirdre
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$800
[19]
Sin is in, sweetie, on this hilarious Brit-com starring Jennifer Saunders & Joanna Lumley
Ab Fab ( Absolutely Fabulous )
Deirdre
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$800
[14]
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Reservoir was created by this "Grand" dam just northwest of Spokane
the Grand Coulee
Ken
|
$800
[27]
K in DreamWorks SKG
(Jeffrey) Katzenberg
Ken
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|
$1,000
[30]
It's thought that construction of Stonehenge was begun on this southwestern British plain as early as 2900 B.C.
Salisbury
Deirdre
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$1,000
[10]
This Defense Secy.'s career was the subject of "The Fog of War", winner for Documentary Feature
Robert McNamara
Ken
|
DD
$1,200
[4]
Psychologist Carl Jung named a complex after this Greek woman famous for her attachment to Agamemnon
Electra
Ken
|
$1,000
[20]
Self-denial
abstinence (or abstention)
Ken
Steve
|
$1,000
[15]
Due to the efforts of Spokane resident Sonora Dodd, this holiday was first celebrated there, on June 19, 1910
Father's Day
Ken
Steve
Deirdre
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$1,000
[28]
Once husband of Ivana and Marla
Donald Trump
Ken
|
| SCIENCE POTPOURRI | SINGERS | MIND IF I LEAD? | A "LITTLE" LIT | HOW ABOUT HOWARD | ADVERBS |
|
$400
[21]
A large group of stars is called a cluster & a large cluster is called this
a galaxy
Ken
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$400
[1]
Glam rocker Paul Gadd recorded "Rock and Roll Part 2" under this "sparkly" name
Gary Glitter
Ken
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$400
[26]
Syngman Rhee of Korea & Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines had to find asylum in this U.S. state
Hawaii
Steve
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$400
[2]
Katharine Weber's retelling of this 19th c. novel features just 3 sisters, & Beth is a pet turtle who dies
Little Women
Ken
|
$400
[11]
You numbskull! It's this Stooge seen here
Moe (Howard)
Steve
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$400
[16]
It's a synonym of "certainly" & a homonym of a female first name (& don't call me that!)
surely
Ken
|
|
$800
[22]
Founded in 1889 as St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, today it's known as this
the Mayo Clinic
Ken
|
$800
[5]
This blue-eyed singer was set to star in the film "Carousel", but he walked out & was replaced by Gordon MacRae
Sinatra
Ken
|
$800
[27]
This former president returned to Chile March 3, 2000 & was stripped of immunity
Pinochet
Ken
|
$800
[3]
This synonym for Martians became the title of Christopher Buckley's novel romp about alien abduction
little green men
Ken
|
$800
[12]
This billionaire set many flying records, including an around-the-world mark of 3 days, 19 hrs., 14 mins.
Howard Hughes
Steve
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$800
[17]
Things that are going well aren't going skatingly or jumpingly but this athletic way
swimmingly
Steve
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|
$1,200
[23]
Gerty Theresa Cori won a Nobel Prize for finding an enzyme that helps the body turn this into sugar
starch
Ken
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$1,200
[8]
He's the member of the Jackson family whose sons Taryll, Taj & T.J. formed the trio 3T
Tito
Ken
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$1,200
[28]
Germany's longest-serving chancellor of the 20th century, he resigned as honorary party chairman in 2000
Helmut Kohl
Ken
|
$1,200
[4]
In a depressing play by William Inge, a woman named Lola waits for this title pet to "Come Back"
Little Sheba
Deirdre
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$1,200
[13]
This fifth wife of Henry VIII cheated on him in 1541; bad idea
Catherine Howard
Steve
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$1,200
[18]
This 5-letter word meaning to a sufficient or more than sufficient degree often precedes "rewarded"
amply
Deirdre
|
|
$1,600
[24]
In aerodynamics it's the vertical force acting on a plane due to flow of air over its airfoils
lift
Ken
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$1,600
[9]
This Broadway "Evita" was named for her great-great-aunt, coloratura soprano Adelina Patti
Patti LuPone
Steve
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$1,600
[29]
Impeached in 1992, this country's president Fernando Collor de Mello resigned as his trial was beginning
Brazil
|
$2,000
[7]
The diminutive title character of this Dickens novel has siblings named Tip & Fanny
Little Dorrit
Ken
|
$1,600
[14]
He's the Egyptologist who published the 3-volume work"The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen"
Howard Carter
Ken
|
$2,000
[20]
As a nautical adverb it means "completely", as when it precedes "a-starboard"
hard
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew burns one in from Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii.) Volcanic fumes can be hazardous to your health: they contain sulfuric acid, glass particles & this, HCl
hydrochloric acid
Ken
|
$2,000
[10]
His back-up singers, Lady Flash, had their own hit singing "Street Singin'" (of course, he wrote the song)
(Barry) Manilow
Ken
|
$2,000
[30]
In July 1985 a coup in Uganda booted out this Idi Amin rival whose regime was known for its human rights abuses
Milton Obote
|
DD
$5,000
[6]
In 2003 this beloved book about a small visitor from Asteroid B-612 celebrated its 60th anniversary
The Little Prince
Ken
|
$2,000
[15]
The last wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy was this University of Michigan player who won in 1991
Desmond Howard
Ken
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
According to Francis Scott Key, it's how the Stars & Stripes were streaming
gallantly
Deirdre
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In the NATO phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, etc.), the 2 that are title Shakespearean characters
Romeo & Juliet