Ken Jennings game 50.
Jay Wolman — an attorney and mediator from Washington, D.C.
Pat Greene — a homemaker from Mountain View, California
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 49-day cash winnings total $1,664,662)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $2,400 | $5,200 | $28,600 |
$35,038
50-day champion: $1,699,700 |
$28,800
34 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Pat | $2,000 | $4,600 | $9,000 |
$13,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
12 R, 1 W |
| Jay | $2,000 | $2,600 | $2,200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,200
7 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| IN THE SMITHSONIAN | THE DONALD | PLANETARY DISTINCTIONS | JOE THE FARMER | MEDALS & DECORATIONS | WORD ORIGINS |
|
$200
[16]
The Smithsonian has one of these (with 6 little bells) that John Hancock gave his baby son
a rattle
Ken
Jay
|
$200
[26]
These 3 nephews of Donald Duck are the sons of his sister Dumbella
Huey, Dewey & Louie
Ken
|
$200
[5]
The heaviest
Jupiter
Pat
|
$200
[21]
Joe's wife worries he'll fall out of this fodder storage area in the top of the barn
the (hay) loft
Pat
|
$200
[11]
This animal is depicted on Great Britain's Victoria Cross
the lion
Ken
|
$200
[1]
A masterful conductor is often called this, Italian for "master"
maestro
Ken
|
|
$400
[17]
Winchester, one of these that belonged to Gen. Sheridan, is on display--all 16 hands of him
a horse
Jay
|
$400
[27]
Donald's pet name for her was Toots
Daisy
Ken
|
$400
[6]
The most distant one known to the ancients
Saturn
Ken
|
$400
[22]
Joe's dream vacation is a tour of this company's Technology Center in Moline, Illinois
John Deere
Pat
|
$400
[12]
The St. Helena Medal, for French soldiers & sailors who took part in the wars between 1792 & 1815, bears his likeness
Napoleon
Ken
|
$400
[2]
The name of this bird is from the French version of Peter
parrot
Jay
|
|
$600
[18]
In 1933 Miss Mary McCabe donated the compass this pair used between 1804 & 1806
Lewis & Clark
Pat
|
$600
[28]
Donald's flute solo in "The Band Concert" enraged this co-star who was appearing in his first Technicolor toon
Mickey
Pat
|
$600
[7]
The hottest, on average
Venus
Ken
Jay
|
$600
[23]
After Joe's Uncle Lou went a bit loopy, Joe put him "out to" here, with the grazing sheep
a pasture
Ken
|
$600
[13]
In 1977 this Yankee center fielder of the 1940s & early 1950s received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
DiMaggio
Pat
|
$600
[3]
Make no bones about it, it's from a Greek expression for "dried-up body"
skeleton
Pat
|
|
$800
[19]
The Pulsar was the first all-electronic one of these, & in 1972 it would have set you back $2,100
a (wrist)watch
Ken
Pat
|
$800
[29]
On Sept. 24, 1961 this professor uncle of Donald was introduced on "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color"
Ludwig Von Drake
Ken
|
$800
[8]
The one named by an 11-year-old
Pluto
Jay
|
$800
[24]
After Joe found Joe Jr. joyriding in the tractor, he locked him in this round tower that usually holds grain
a silo
Ken
|
$800
[14]
Bolivia's highest award is the National Order of this vulture of the Andes
a condor
Ken
|
$800
[4]
This Austrian physicist's name is now synonymous with a measurement of the speed of sound
(Ernst) Mach
Pat
|
|
$1,000
[20]
From the late '60s there is a "blowout kit for the natural" from this hair care line by Johnson Products
Afro Sheen
|
$1,000
[30]
It's Donald Duck's home town
Duckburg
Ken
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
The farthest from the Sun from 1979 to 1999
Neptune
Jay
|
$1,000
[25]
Joe likes to ask other farmers, "got" this cereal grain? When they say yes, he says, "You better see a periodontist!"
sorghum
|
$1,000
[15]
This country's National Order of the Cedar is awarded for exceptional service or acts of extreme courage
Lebanon
Pat
|
$1,000
[10]
This 3-letter slang term for forbid or veto comes to us from the German for "nothing"
nix
Ken
|
| HISPANIC HERITAGE | A BYZANTINE CATEGORY | THEATRICAL ANGELS | VASES & URNS | ROD STEWART | DO YA THINK I'M "SEX"Y? |
|
$400
[11]
He began his labor organizing career in a San Jose, Calif, barrio called Sal si Puedes, "get out if you can"
Cesar Chavez
Ken
|
$400
[26]
At over 4 miles in length, a wall built in the 400s kept this capital safe for a thousand years
Constantinople
Ken
|
$400
[6]
"Times Square Angel" by Charles Busch spoofs "It's a Wonderful Life" & also this Dickens holiday classic
A Christmas Carol
Ken
|
$400
[16]
The name of this dynasty of 1368 to 1644 often comes between "priceless" & "vase"
Ming
Ken
|
$400
[21]
His 12 nominations include Best Male Rock Vocal for "Young Turks", but Rod has never won one of these awards
a Grammy
Jay
|
$400
[1]
This 6-letter term means designed for both men & women
unisex
Ken
|
|
$800
[12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks through a sparsely furnished bedroom in Mission San Diego de Alcala.) Aroomat Mission San Diego de Alcala is named for this man, who founded the mission & was beatified in 1988
Junipero Serra
Ken
|
$800
[27]
Byzantine jurists helped Emperor Justinian assemble what's known as the Justinian one of these
a code
Ken
|
$800
[7]
This hard-boiled detective musical set in 1940s L.A. appeared several years before the unrelated Meg Ryan film
City of Angels
Ken
|
$800
[17]
A samovar is a large urn traditionally used to make this
tea
Ken
|
$800
[22]
In 1994 Rod took "All For Love" to No. 1 for 3 weeks with Bryan Adams & this Police-man
Sting
Pat
|
$800
[2]
People magazine bestowed this honor on Nick Nolte in 1992; 2 years later, no one on the planet qualified
Sexiest Man Alive
Ken
|
|
DD
$800
[15]
In 1808 this formerly Spanish city had the USA's first newspaper in Spanish, fittingly titled El Misisipi
New Orleans
Ken
|
$1,600
[29]
A Lombard invasion in the 500s ended Byzantine control in what's now this country
Italy
Ken
|
$1,200
[8]
The original Broadway cast of this play based on a Thomas Wolfe novel featured Tony Perkins as Eugene Gant
Look Homeward, Angel
Ken
|
$1,200
[18]
The Grecian urn Keats admired displayed a youth about to do this to a maiden
kiss her
Ken
|
$1,200
[23]
In 1972 Rod hit the Top 40 (No. 40, actually) with "Angel", written by this legend who played like his guitar was on fire
Jimi Hendrix
Jay
|
$1,200
[3]
Term for reproduction, as budding or fission, not involving the union of gametes
asexual
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Nuyorican is a literary style that began in the '60s, or the name of a nightspot in the old part of this Puerto Rican city
San Juan
Ken
|
$2,000
[30]
The inhabitants of the Empire didn't call themselves "Byzantines" but these imperial people
Romans
Pat
|
$1,600
[9]
The angel of the water statue in Central Parkseenhereis featured in this play that won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize
Angels in America
Ken
|
$1,600
[19]
This American designer developed the opulent Favrile glass for his Art Nouveau vases
Tiffany
Pat
|
$1,600
[24]
"I think I've got something to say to you" & it's that Rod hit No. 1 in 1971 with this tune
"Maggie May"
Ken
|
$1,600
[4]
An official of a church charged with taking care of the edifice & its contents
sexton
Ken
|
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1981 exiles from this nation founded the organization whose symbol is seen here
Cuba
Ken
|
DD
$2,200
[28]
In the 1370s these people got Gallipoli from the Byzantine Empire; later they got the whole Empire
the Ottomans (or Ottoman Turks)
Ken
|
$2,000
[10]
The medical fad of monkey glands inspired the 1919 show "Angel Face", with music by this "Babes in Toyland" composer
Victor Herbert
|
$2,000
[20]
Thisvasein the British Museum was broken in 1845, repaired and then re-repaired in 1988
the Portland Vase
|
$2,000
[25]
This New Zealand supermodel joined the rather lengthy list of blondes on Rod's dating resume & married him in 1990
Rachel Hunter
Ken
|
$2,000
[5]
A borough in New Jersey, or a former English county now part of Greater London
Middlesex
Ken
Jay
|
This Monsanto product was developed as a covering to turn asphalt lots in urban areas into playgrounds
AstroTurf