Ken Jennings game 52.
Jennifer Lord — a teacher from Wilmington, Delaware
Steve Kornya — a courier from Baltimore, Maryland
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 51-day cash winnings total $1,738,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $7,600 | $9,400 | $33,600 |
$40,000
52-day champion: $1,778,100 |
$27,800
36 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Steve | $0 | $5,000 | $10,600 |
$7,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Jennifer | $1,400 | $2,200 | $7,000 |
$3,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,000
9 R, 0 W |
| THE OLYMPICS | TRACK & FIELD | CYCLING | "LONG" JUMP | POLL VAULT | JIM-NASTICS |
|
$200
[26]
At the 1912 Stockholm Games Gustav V told this U.S. athlete, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world"
Jim Thorpe
Steve
|
$200
[19]
This West Coast city's Market Street once featured 4 sets of streetcar tracks
San Francisco
Jennifer
|
$200
[16]
Parts of its cycle are full, new & quarter phases
the moon
Jennifer
|
$200
[11]
In "Treasure Island", he's originally hired as a cook
Long John Silver
Ken
|
$200
[6]
A 1951 survey of the U.S. Armed Forces found this milk & grain concoction their least favorite dessert
rice pudding
Ken
|
$200
[1]
Jimmy Carter's day job from 1971 to 1975
governor of Georgia
Ken
|
|
$400
[27]
Bjorn Daehlie of this country has won a record 12 Winter Olympic medals, all for cross-country skiing
Norway
Ken
Jennifer
|
$400
[22]
In 1989 this country removed Imre Nagy's remains from a potter's field & reburied them with honors
Hungary
Steve
|
$400
[17]
It's the botanical term for a plant whose life cycle transpires within one year
an annual
Ken
|
$400
[12]
The Great Gatsby lived there
Long Island
Ken
|
$400
[7]
In a 1945 poll this advertising symbol ranked as the best-known woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt
Betty Crocker
Ken
|
$400
[2]
From 1957 to 1971 Jimmy Hoffa was their president
the Teamsters
Jennifer
|
|
$600
[28]
For men in the Olympics, this is 115 centimeters high & has a couple of handles on top
the pommel horse
Ken
Steve
|
$600
[23]
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs 800 miles from the oil fields near Prudhoe Bay to this now-famous port city
Valdez
Ken
|
$600
[18]
Back in force since 2004, it has the longest developmental cycle of any insect, 17 years
a cicada
Steve
|
$600
[13]
His namesake bridge spans the Mississippi in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Huey Long
Ken
|
$600
[8]
Voted the ugliest Las Vegas building in one poll, this tower resembles a diamond in a really tall setting
the Stratosphere
Ken
|
$600
[3]
He's the "nosy" entertainer seen here
(Jimmy) Durante
Ken
|
|
$1,000
[30]
The youngest competitor at the 1992 Barcelona games was an 11-year-old who did this job in a shell
coxswain
Steve
|
$800
[24]
When Yeager broke the sound barrier there, this California Air Force Base was known as Muroc Field
Edwards
Steve
|
$800
[20]
Observed for centuries, they seem to have about an 11-year cycle & possess powerful solar magnetic fields
sunspots
Ken
|
$800
[14]
Its greatest use as a military weapon was during the Hundred Years' War; just ask the French at Crecy
the longbow
Ken
|
$800
[9]
A 2003 online poll by Smart Travel rated this Russian airline the world's worst
Aeroflot
Ken
|
$800
[4]
Jim Morrison's reptilian nickname
the Lizard King
Ken
|
|
DD
$2,400
[29]
One difference between this hyphenated sport & freestyle is that opponents can't grasp or use the legs in a fall
Greco-Roman wrestling
Steve
|
$1,000
[25]
Last name of brothers John & Henry, who leased out land to build the Kentucky Derby race track in the 1870s
Churchill
Steve
|
$1,000
[21]
Three key stages in this cycle are evaporation, precipitation & runoff
the water cycle
Ken
|
$1,000
[15]
A sextant is used to determine yours
longitude
Ken
|
$1,000
[10]
A U.S. News & World Report survey of the nation's best hospitals lists this Baltimore facility No. 1
Johns Hopkins
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[5]
William Travis & this man were in command at the Alamo during the famous siege
Jim Bowie
Ken
|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | THIS MOVIE IS "DEAD" | CLASSICAL MUSIC | MRS. LINCOLN | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS | WHITE HOUSE BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$400
[16]
A library stands on the old site of Stagg Field; aptly, as in 1939 the University dropped this sport to focus on academics
football
Jennifer
|
$400
[6]
1968:7 people barricade themselves in a house & fight off flesheaters
Night of the Living Dead
Ken
|
$400
[22]
Kochel No. 1 is the G major minuet & trio he composed when he was about 5
Mozart
Ken
|
$400
[21]
Mary wrote that if Congress gave women the right to do this, their behavior would make the process absurd
vote
Ken
|
$400
[1]
Her lover called her "my serpent of old Nile"
Cleopatra
Ken
|
$400
[11]
43rd president of the U.S. who flies supplies to remote Alaskan villages every week
George W. Bush pilot
Ken
|
|
$800
[17]
Writers & editors couldn't do without the University Press' "Chicago Manual of" this, now in its 15th edition
Style
Ken
|
$800
[7]
1982:Steve Martin innovatively interacts with clips from classic film noir movies
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Jennifer
|
$800
[23]
The well-traveled Felix Mendelssohn wrote "Italian" & "Scottish" ones
symphonies
Ken
|
$800
[27]
In 1882 Mary died in this Illinois city in which she & Abe had married
Springfield
Ken
|
$800
[2]
Goneril is the eldest of his 3 daughters
Lear
Ken
|
$800
[12]
National Security Advisor who Snaps, Crackles & Pops
Condi Rice Krispies
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[18]
What was once the Institute for Nuclear Studies is now named after this pile driver of a physicist
(Enrico) Fermi
Ken
|
$1,200
[8]
1988:Dirty Harry investigates a mysterious series of celebrity deaths
The Dead Pool
Steve
|
$1,200
[24]
Born near Prague in 1841, he composedthe followingin 1863
Antonin Dvorák
Ken
|
$1,600
[29]
During the Civil War, clotheshorse Mary ran up $27,000 in debts, while this was set at $25,000
her husband's salary
Ken
|
$1,200
[3]
This king of Scotland was Macbeth's cousin
Duncan
Ken
|
$1,600
[14]
Nothing can succeed in this White House office where the president meets with his war council
No-Win Situation Room
|
|
$1,600
[19]
University of Chicago's Adler & Hutchins used this 2-word phrase for a program of classic works on which to base a curriculum
Great Books
Steve
|
$1,600
[9]
1991:Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson play reincarnated lovers in Los Angeles
Dead Again
Ken
|
$1,600
[25]
Ironically, one of the last works Franz Schubert heard was this type of mass, by his brother Ferdinand
a requiem
Jennifer
|
DD
$1,800
[28]
On the spelling of this, Abe said he reckoned that one "D" was good enough for God
Todd
Ken
|
$1,600
[4]
For much of the play, this title character is known simply as Gloucester
Richard III
Ken
|
$2,000
[15]
Traditional Southern "jumping" dish of black-eyed peas that became Attorney General of the U.S. in 2001
Hoppin' John Ashcroft
Steve
|
|
$2,000
[20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in the nave of a chapel at the University of Chicago.)Thischapel here on campus is named for him, of whom students sang, "Wonderful man is he / Gives all his spare change to the U. of C."
John D. Rockefeller (Rockefeller Chapel accepted)
Steve
|
$2,000
[10]
1989:A married couple is terrorized on the high seas after picking up a stranger
Dead Calm
Ken
|
$2,000
[26]
This Strauss waltz heardherecommemorated a meeting between Franz Joseph I & Wilhelm II
"The Emperor Waltz" ("The Emperors Waltz" accepted)
Steve
|
$2,000
[30]
Fortunately this actress still had 2 good legs when she saved Mary from falling down stairs on a ship from France
Sarah Bernhardt
Ken
|
$2,000
[5]
About this queen, Hamlet says, "Frailty, thy name is woman"
(Queen) Gertrude
Jennifer
|
DD
$6,400
[13]
"The Day of the Locust" author who works in the White House area for which a TV drama is named
Nathanael West Wing
Ken
|
The last thing visitors see in the exhibit area of the Salem Witch Museum is a huge photo of this politician
(Sen.) Joseph McCarthy