Ken Jennings game 14.
Scheri Mullins — an administrative assistant from Louisville, Kentucky
Matt Ottinger — a telecommunications coordinator from Okemos, Michigan
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 13-day cash winnings total $440,158)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $2,400 | $8,000 | $28,400 |
$31,601
14-day champion: $471,759 |
$24,000
29 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Matt | $4,600 | $10,400 | $15,600 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Scheri | $400 | $400 | $-1,800 |
$-1,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$400
3 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| NONFICTION | MUSICAL SETTINGS | INSECT, ARACHNID OR GASTROPOD | BOMB THE "BAN" | WHAT'S NEW? | ARE YOU ADDRESSING ME? |
|
$200
[6]
Seymour Hersh's "The Dark Side of Camelot" examines this president's administration & private life
JFK
Matt
|
$200
[11]
In an ever-popular musical, Mr. Mushnik's flower shop becomes this title place
Little Shop of Horrors
Matt
|
$200
[21]
The scorpion
arachnid
Matt
|
$200
[1]
"My Golden Bengal" is this country's national anthem
Bangladesh
Ken
|
$200
[26]
A malihini is a newcomer to this state
Hawaii
Ken
|
$200
[16]
The personal pronoun of the second person in the nominative case; people often act holier than it
thou
Matt
|
|
$400
[7]
This radio personality bared all in his 1993 book "Private Parts"
Howard Stern
Matt
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$400
[12]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the Broadway set of Cabaret.) Life is a cabaret here on the set of "Cabaret" at the Kit Kat Klub, a tawdry nightclub in this city
Berlin
Matt
|
$400
[22]
The daddy longlegs
arachnid
Ken
Matt
|
$400
[2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from a boxing ring at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, NY.) This term for small chickens & boxers between 112 & 118 pounds is believed to come from a town on the island of Java
bantamweight (bantams & bantam accepted)
Ken
Matt
Scheri
|
$400
[27]
In 2003 Edith Grossman served up a new translation of this Cervantes work
Don Quixote
Matt
|
$400
[17]
A surgeon in England is simply addressed as this, not Dr.
Mr.
Ken
|
|
$600
[8]
No question about it, after 30 years this "Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers" is still flying high
What Color Is Your Parachute?
Matt
|
$600
[13]
In this show's first scene, "It's a typical day in Dogpatch, U.S.A."
Li'l Abner
Ken
Matt
|
$600
[23]
The aphid
insect
Ken
|
$600
[3]
Including Zulu & Xhosa, it's an African language group of over 500 languages
Bantu
Ken
|
$600
[28]
Experts say the smell in a new one of these is from the phthalate plasticizers used in PVC, not leather
a (new) car
Ken
|
$600
[18]
Miss came from the first syllable of this word & mrs. is a shortened form of it
mistress
Ken
|
|
$800
[9]
2003's "I Am a Soldier, Too" tells her story, including that of her capture & rescue
(Jessica) Lynch
Matt
|
$1,000
[15]
At the beginning of this show, it's 6 a.m. in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
On the Town
Ken
|
$800
[24]
The earwig
an insect
Ken
|
$800
[4]
In Shakespeare, this close friend of Macbeth's is with him when he encounters the 3 witches
Banquo
Ken
|
$800
[29]
Developed in Australia, the Sugarbaby & the Crimson Glow are new breeds of this shortcake fruit
strawberry
Matt
|
$800
[19]
From the Arabic for "old man", it's the head of a family, tribe or village
sheik
|
|
$1,000
[10]
In 1957 E.B. White was called in to edit this professor's "The Elements of Style"
(William) Strunk
Matt
|
DD
$4,600
[14]
What a drag! This Jerry Herman musical is set in part at the St. Tropez nightclub of the same name
La Cage aux Folles
Matt
|
$1,000
[25]
The limpet
gastropod
Ken
|
$1,000
[5]
The name of this mythical female spirit comes from the Old Irish for "woman of the fairy realm"
a banshee
Ken
|
$1,000
[30]
This Smithsonian museum has new digs at Dulles International Airport
the Air and Space Museum
Ken
|
$1,000
[20]
As tovarishch means this, we guess you could be a tovarishch-in-arms
comrade
Ken
|
| WARTIME IMAGES | AFI's100 YEARS, 100 SONGS | LET'S VISIT AFRICA | PRESCRIPTION DRUGS | 20th CENTURY NICKNAMES | NUMBERS GAME |
|
$400
[6]
World War I German troops are seenherein one of these structures
a trench
Ken
|
$400
[1]
Sure to be "way up high" among the 100 songs is this Judy Garland standard from "The Wizard of Oz"
"Over The Rainbow"
Matt
|
$400
[26]
In 1855 Heinrich Barth compiled African vocabularies while crossing this 3.5 million-square-mile area
the Sahara
Matt
|
$400
[21]
Fiorinal with codeine (& aspirin, & caffeine) is mainly prescribed for the tension type of this
a headache
Matt
|
$400
[11]
It's the avuncular nickname of the man seen here
"Uncle Milty"
Matt
|
$400
[16]
Big number represented at the 1945 Yalta Conference
three
Ken
|
|
$800
[7]
The imageseenhereis from this conflict
the Korean War
Ken
|
$800
[2]
(Hi, I'm Clay Aiken.) One song I really hope made the list is "Unchained Melody", a favorite of mine, which was used as the love theme in this Demi Moore film
Ghost
Ken
|
$1,200
[27]
Ibadan, Abuja & Ogbomosho are all cities in this African nation of over 125 million
Nigeria
Ken
|
$800
[22]
This brand is the nasal-spray version of Fluticasone for those with allergies
Flonase
Scheri
|
$800
[12]
Based on his 1992 testimony against John Gotti, he could have been Sammy the Canary, not the Bull
Sammy Gravano
Ken
|
$800
[17]
It's the number of basic questions in journalism (don't forget the "H")
six
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Timothy O'Sullivan's 1863shotof its aftermath is titled "A Harvest of Death"
Gettysburg
Ken
Matt
|
$1,200
[3]
In terms of recent songs, perhaps this movie's "My Heart Will Go On" will go on the list
Titanic
Ken
|
$2,000
[29]
Nairobi's tallest building is the conference center named for this first prime minister & president of Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
Ken
|
$1,200
[23]
Nadolol is this class of drug; it fights hypertension by keeping neurotransmitters from binding with receptors
a beta blocker
Scheri
|
$1,200
[13]
(I'm NBA Hall of Famer Walt Frazier.) My clothing style got me this nickname after a '30s gangster featured in a 1967 movie
"Clyde"
Matt
|
$1,200
[18]
When "General Hospital" began in 1963 it was set on this floor of the hospital, also the dial position of ABC in L.A. & NYC
seven
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Seen here is a photo from the Battle of this, which lasted from about June 1940 to April 1941
Britain
|
$1,600
[4]
The world will always welcome great movie tunes like the one heard here, from this 1942 classic
Casablanca
Ken
|
DD
$6,000
[28]
The country of Namibia was once known as this, & that's also where it is on the map
South West Africa
Ken
|
$2,000
[25]
"I feel that others would be better off if I were dead" is part of a self-test on this Eli Lilly drug's website
Prozac
Scheri
|
$1,600
[14]
For his brilliant but minority Supreme Court opinions, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was "The Great" this
Dissenter
Ken
|
$1,600
[19]
If you are the very model of a U.S. Major General, you wear this many stars
two
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Bridge seenherein 1775; an Emerson hymn called it "the rude bridge that arched the flood"
Concord Bridge
Ken
|
$2,000
[5]
The movie "Bright Eyes" gave us this sweet little song that mentions bon bons & a chocolate bar
"The Good Ship Lollipop"
Matt
|
— |
DD
$2,200
[24]
This term for a popular type of cholesterol-lowering drug sounds like a New York island
a statin
Scheri
|
$2,000
[15]
Richard Nixon's aides Haldeman & Erlichman were sometimes called these comic-strip "Kids"
Katzenjammer
Ken
Matt
|
$2,000
[20]
The Red Cross says you should wait this many weeks between whole blood donations
eight
|
Josephine Cochrane's 1886 version of this consisted of a copper boiler, wire baskets & a pump
a dishwasher