Ken Jennings game 54.(Cheryl: Go to outer space without leaving your couch. Clues from Chicago'sAdler Planetarium, next onJeopardy!)
Tristan Mabry — a Ph.D. student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sunny Schomaker — an events coordinator from Madison, Wisconsin
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 53-day cash winnings total $1,808,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $6,200 | $9,600 | $26,000 |
$35,000
54-day champion: $1,843,100 |
$26,000
34 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Sunny | $800 | $1,400 | $2,400 |
$4,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,000
4 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Tristan | $400 | $2,400 | $4,000 |
$4,801
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE VIKINGS | WHICH TV SHOW CAME FIRST? | BRAND NAMES | CATHOLICISM | NURSERY RHYMES | "CC" ME ON THAT |
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$200
[21]
In the late 900s his wife Thjodhild built the first church in Greenland at Brattahlid
Erik the Red
Ken
Sunny
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$200
[16]
"I Spy","I Dream of Jeannie","I Love Lucy"
I Love Lucy
Ken
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$200
[26]
It "takes a licking and keeps on ticking"
a Timex
Tristan
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$200
[6]
The Catholic League describes itself as this 3-letter type of organization, meaning non-clerical
lay
Tristan
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$200
[10]
Illustrators often showed her sitting on a 3-legged stool as there was no such thing as a tuffet
Miss Muffet
Ken
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$200
[1]
This 1883 character's nose grew every time he lied (insert political joke here)
Pinocchio
Ken
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$400
[22]
The Vikings enhanced the seaworthiness of their ships by adding this stabilizer to the underside
a keel
Tristan
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$400
[17]
"Batman","The Amazing Spider-Man","The Adventures of Superman"
The Adventures of Superman
Ken
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$400
[27]
When Anheuser-Busch introduced this beer in the 1870s, it was fermented twice & pasteurized
Budweiser
Tristan
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$400
[7]
Canon Law 333 says there is neither appeal nor recourse against his decree (& it's not God)
the pope
Ken
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$400
[12]
It's what Mary's little lamb did even though it was against the rules
followed her to school one day
Ken
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$400
[2]
Hit the gas to speed up
accelerate
Tristan
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$600
[23]
In 1066 this great-great-grandson of Rollo made what some call the last Viking invasion of England
William the Conqueror
Ken
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$600
[18]
"My So-called Life","My Mother the Car","My Sister Sam"
My Mother the Car
Ken
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$600
[28]
Kraft makes hot cereals called Cream of Rice & Cream of this
Wheat
Ken
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$600
[8]
The name given to a child at this sacrament is traditionally that of a saint
baptism
Ken
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$600
[13]
She went to the baker's to buy her dog some bread; "When she came back the poor dog was dead"
Old Mother Hubbard
Ken
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$600
[3]
A pirate, or an NFL player from Tampa Bay
a buccaneer
Tristan
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$800
[24]
In 930 the Vikings set up the Althing, considered the world's oldest parliament, in this country
Iceland
Ken
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$800
[19]
"Green Acres","NYPD Blue","The White Shadow"
Green Acres
Tristan
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$800
[29]
Founded in 1914, the American Pop Corn Company makes this "happy" brand of popcorn, America's first
Jolly Time
Sunny
Tristan
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$800
[9]
Jews, who don't eat or drink at all on Yom Kippur, might envy the 1-meal Catholic "fast" on Ash Wednesday & this day
Good Friday
Sunny
Tristan
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$800
[14]
"Ding, dong, bell, the cat is in the well! Who put her in?" This "Little" guy
Little Johnny Green
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$800
[4]
This man whose given name is actually Lido is widely credited with saving Chrysler from bankruptcy
Lee Iacocca
Ken
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$1,000
[25]
A "thrall", from which we get the word "enthrall", was a person of this lowest social class
a serf (or a slave)
Tristan
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$1,000
[20]
"Cagney & Lacey","Starsky & Hutch","Mork & Mindy"
Starsky & Hutch
Ken
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$1,000
[30]
This fruit drink brand tells you to "Unleash the power of the sun"
Sunny Delight
Ken
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$1,000
[11]
A litany may address the Lamb of God, saying, "you take away" these
the sins of the world
Ken
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$1,000
[15]
Simple Simon thought he could not fail to catch this because he had "a little salt to put upon his tail"
a bird
Ken
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DD
$1,000
[5]
One of the "wisdom" books of the Old Testament
Ecclesiastes
Ken
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| THE ADLER PLANETARIUM | I NEED BACKUP | TENNESSEE | FOOD HISTORY | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER | WHILE YOU WERE "OUT" |
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$400
[6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside the dome of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.) Weighing over a half ton, this visitor probably broke off from an asteroid before reaching earth 50,000 years ago
a meteorite
Tristan
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$400
[21]
Claire Torry is a backup singer but her vocals were up front for Pink Floyd's song "Great Gig in the Sky" on this album
The Dark Side of the Moon
Ken
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$400
[16]
Capt. William Driver, who gave this 2-word nickname to the U.S. flag, is buried in Nashville's City Cemetery
Old Glory
Ken
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$400
[26]
Strub's Pickles were originally sold out of barrels at, of course, this price per pickle
a nickel (a pickle)
Ken
Tristan
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$400
[1]
After tackling the meat-packing industry in "The Jungle", he battled religious hypocrisy in "Elmer Gantry"
Upton Sinclair Lewis
Ken
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$400
[11]
Baseball players warm the bench in here
the dugout
Ken
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$800
[7]
In the dynamic gallery theater, visitors can experience a 3-D tour of this, our home galaxy
the Milky Way
Ken
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$800
[22]
Before he stepped out front for "Love Power", Luther Vandross sang backup for this artist on "Young Americans"
David Bowie
Tristan
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$800
[17]
(This is Alison Krauss.) In 1993 I joined the cast of this Nashville institution & was its youngest member at that time
the Grand Ole Opry
Tristan
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$800
[27]
Louis XIV, "The Sun King", liked this fruit so much he had a grove of them at Versailles, so he always had days with sunshine
oranges
Ken
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$800
[2]
Author whose "Portrait of a Lady" was followed by his "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Henry James Joyce
Ken
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$800
[12]
This term from French cooking refers to a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish & sometimes vegetables
a ragout
Ken
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$1,200
[8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside the dome of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.) The first modern planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, the Adler, opened in 1930, about the time of this planet's discovery
Pluto
Ken
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$1,200
[23]
Merry Clayton's stylings on "Gimme Shelter" are just "A Kiss Away" from perfection on this 1969 Stones album
Let it Bleed
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$1,200
[18]
Dollywood, Dolly Parton's theme park in Pigeon Forge, is "The Entertainment Capital of" these mountains
the Smokies
Ken
Sunny
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
Delmonico's in New York City is credited with inventing this dish in honor of an 1867 U.S. purchase
Baked Alaska
Sunny
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$1,200
[3]
"Fern Hill" poet who won the 1929 Nobel Prize after writing "Death in Venice"
Dylan Thomas Mann
Ken
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$1,200
[13]
This portable gasoline engine with a propeller & tiller is clamped onto the stern of a boat
an outboard
Tristan
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$1,600
[9]
Included in the Adler's collection is a model of Uraniborg, the home & workplace of this Danish astronomer
Tycho Brahe
Ken
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$1,600
[24]
Sandy Dennis provided the backing vocals on "Battle Of Evermore" for this legendary group
Led Zeppelin
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is in this city, a railroad center
Chattanooga
Tristan
|
$1,200
[28]
The Romans shaped these by putting them in baskets called forma, hence the Italian formaggio
cheese
Sunny
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$1,600
[4]
Late TV host & "How to Be Funny" author who helped pioneer the Beat Generation with his "Howl"
Steve Allen Ginsberg
Ken
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$1,600
[14]
She narrates "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Scout Finch
Ken
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$2,000
[10]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands behind a large metal cylinder in the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.) This telescope was made by William Herschel & may be the actual one he used to discover this planet in 1781
Uranus
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$2,000
[25]
She lent her voice to Neil Young's "Comes a Time" LP before making his "Lotta Love" her own
Nicolette Larson
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$2,000
[20]
The Battle of Stones River is also known as the Battle of this city, once Tennessee's capital
Murfreesboro
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$2,000
[30]
Miners in San Francisco used Lactobacillus sanfrancisco in the air to make this
sourdough (bread)
Ken
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$2,000
[5]
Crime novelist who wrote "The Big Bounce", composed "Suzanne" & penned "Beautiful Losers"
Elmore Leonard Cohen
Ken
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$2,000
[15]
Daniel Webster was a member of its class of 1801
Dartmouth
Ken
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Legend says this musical was inspired by Lunt & Fontanne's backstage bickering during a Shakespeare play
Kiss Me, Kate