Ken Jennings game 49.First regular play game of Season 21 to be recorded after the summer hiatus.
Beth Salkind — a paralegal from Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
Jeff Suchard — a toxicologist from Placentia, California
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 48-day cash winnings total $1,635,061)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $1,200 | $7,600 | $19,700 |
$29,601
49-day champion: $1,664,662 |
$17,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jeff | $2,400 | $2,400 | $14,800 |
$9,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,800
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Beth | $800 | $800 | $-800 |
$-800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-800
3 R, 2 W |
| SCIENCE & NATURE | SPORTS VENUES | 2 PICTURES SAY 1 WORD | CHAT ROOM LINGO | AARON BURR | GOT MILK? |
|
$200
[1]
Hunting & forest clearing (not a luxury automaker) have endangered this largest wild cat of the Americas
the jaguar
Ken
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$200
[26]
A stadium with the world’s largest roof was built in 1972 for the Olympic games in this city
Munich
Jeff
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$200
[21]
There's plenty of roomherefor your groceries
a pantry
Ken
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$200
[6]
"CAD" stands for these 3 computer keys (often used together)
Ctrl+Alt+Delete
Ken
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$200
[13]
The man he tied with 73 electoral votes in 1800
Jefferson
Jeff
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$200
[8]
AKA "America’s Dairyland", it’s one of the leading U.S. states in milk production
Wisconsin
Jeff
|
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$400
[2]
Like an escargot, the abalone is an edible one of these gastropods
a snail
Beth
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$400
[27]
On March 14, 1997 Scott Hamilton became the first figure skater inducted into this NYC sports arena’s Walk of Fame
Madison Square Garden
Ken
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$400
[22]
Thisis your John Hancock
your autograph
Ken
|
$400
[7]
Don’t wait around if you read "DHYB"; it means “don’t hold” this
your breath
Jeff
|
$400
[14]
The New Jersey college he graduated from at age 16
Princeton
Ken
|
$400
[9]
1 of this unit of milk weighs about 8 pounds
a gallon
Jeff
|
|
$600
[3]
It's the branch of physics that deals with the nature & properties of light
optics
Jeff
|
$600
[28]
Built in 1912, this American League park is Major League Baseball's oldest & smallest in capacity
Fenway
Ken
|
$600
[23]
Thisis right
starboard
Ken
|
$600
[15]
"ESO" is the insulting "equipment smarter than" this person
the operator
Ken
Beth
|
$600
[17]
The man he went to New Jersey to meet on July 11, 1804
Hamilton
Ken
|
$600
[10]
A Frenchman created this process that kills microorganisms in milk by heating it
pasteurization
Jeff
|
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
Hermann Muller won a 1946 Nobel Prize for proving that the use of these can cause mutations
X rays
Jeff
|
$800
[29]
This Big 12 school plays its home basketball games at the Bob Devaney Sports Center
the University of Nebraska
|
$800
[24]
Thisis your history
your background
Ken
|
$800
[16]
"CD-ROM" also stands for "consumer device rendered" this "in months"
obsolete
Jeff
|
$800
[18]
The man he introduced the widow Dolley Todd to in 1794
James Madison
Ken
|
$800
[11]
This type of sugar that's less sweet than sucrose is found only in milk
lactose
Ken
|
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$1,000
[5]
The flowers on this type of myrtle tree resemble the crinkly paper of the same name
crepe
Jeff
|
$1,000
[30]
(I'm Moe Williams from the NFL.) The Minnesota Vikings play their home games in a domed stadium named for this former U.S. vice president
Humphrey
Ken
|
$1,000
[25]
Someonewho's very middle-of-the-road
centrist
Jeff
|
$1,000
[20]
"AIAMU" means "and I'm a" this, expressing astonishment
monkey's uncle
|
$1,000
[19]
The Chief Justice who presided over his treason trial
John Marshall
Ken
|
$1,000
[12]
In 1856 Gail Borden received a patent for his process to do this to milk
condense it
Ken
Beth
|
| THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE | JACKS OR BETTER | AVIATION | SHE SELLS SEYCHELLES | HOMOPHONIC NAMES | ENDS IN "GHT" |
|
$400
[11]
Bush-Cheney called Edwards Kerry's second choice, meaning this Republican was his first
John McCain
Beth
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$400
[3]
In the 19th century a new breed of terrier was named for this clergyman
Jack Russell
Ken
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$400
[14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls through an unfinished airplane cabin at the Boeing Everett Factory in Seattle, WA.) I'm walking through this main body of the airplane, which gets its name from the Old French for "spindle"
the fuselage
Jeff
|
$400
[20]
One of the principal exports of Seychelles is copra, the dried white flesh of this fruit
coconut
Jeff
|
$400
[26]
A tree that's a national symbol of Slovenia, or a Texan U.S. president's first name
linden (or Lyndon)
Ken
Jeff
|
$400
[1]
On October 26, 1881 this took place at Tombstone's OK Corral
gunfight
Ken
|
|
$800
[12]
George W. Bush won 91% of the vote in Massachusetts (unfortunately for him it was in this contest)
the Republican primary
|
$800
[7]
In "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" this author wrote, "I believe there is an unseen world all around us"
Stephen King
Ken
|
$800
[15]
In chemistry, it maintains a mixture resistant to change; when flying it controls the pitch of an aircraft
the stabilizer
Ken
|
$800
[21]
From about 1500 to 1750 the Seychelles served mainly as a hiding place for these people
pirates
Jeff
|
$800
[27]
Loudly, raucously sound out George Orwell's original last name
blare (or Blair)
Ken
|
$800
[2]
William Congreve wrote, "Women are like tricks by" this "of hand, which, to admire, we should not understand"
sleight
Jeff
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Most of the over 50,000 signatures he submitted to try to get on the Michigan ballot were collected by the GOP
(Ralph) Nader
Jeff
|
$1,200
[8]
In 1999 this rapper-turned-actress turned talk show host
Queen Latifah
Ken
|
$1,200
[16]
This 3-digit number, popular in Vegas slot machines, is Boeing's & the world's largest family of twinjet
777
Ken
|
$1,200
[22]
The Seychelles uses this unit of currency, which is also used in Pakistan, Nepal & Sri Lanka
the rupee
Ken
|
$1,200
[30]
A critiquer of pure reason who died in 1804, or a response indicating you're unable to grasp his philosophy
Kant (or can't)
Jeff
|
$1,200
[4]
As a noun, it's a zero; as a pronoun, it's nothing
naught
Ken
|
|
DD
$1,700
[17]
In a July 23 speech to this league, the President asked if the Democrats take black voters for granted
the National Urban League
Ken
|
$1,600
[9]
Columbia chief Harry Cohn advised this actor to change his last name to avoid negative review puns
Jack Lemmon
|
$1,600
[19]
Greater than supersonic, it's the term for a speed 5 times faster than the speed of sound
hypersonic (Mach 5 accepted)
Ken
Jeff
|
$1,600
[23]
Seychelles is an example of this grouping of a large number of islands on a vast sheet of sea
an archipelago
Jeff
|
$1,600
[29]
In "A hymn to God the Father", this metaphysical poet makes punning use of this synonym for "finished"
Donne (or done)
Ken
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$2,000
[6]
Abbreviated dwt., it's equal to 24 grains, or 1/20 of a troy ounce
a pennyweight
Beth
|
|
$2,000
[18]
This Florida senator was the first Democratic candidate to drop out of the race
(Bob) Graham
Ken
|
$2,000
[10]
An ad in a 1973 paper brought this lead guitarist together with Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley & Peter Criss
Ace Frehley
|
$2,000
[25]
"Air"y name of the curved top & flat bottom shape that airplane (& bird) wings have to give them lift
an airfoil
Jeff
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$2,000
[24]
This Portuguese navigator, the first European to reach India by sea, discovered the Seychelles in 1502
Vasco da Gama
Ken
|
$2,000
[28]
Sadly for him, the 17th century gunpowder plotter wasn't quite as sly as the animal
Fawkes (or fox)
Jeff
|
DD
$5,400
[5]
Samuel F.B. Morse could have told you that it's a past tense & a past participle of work
wrought
Ken
|
Called the 2 most innovative 19th century American poets, one didn't read the other after being "told that he was disgraceful"
Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman