Ken Jennings game 21.
Sue Richman — a certified public accountant from Oak Park, California
Ryan McClarren — a graduate student from Lake Orion, Michigan
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 20-day cash winnings total $662,760)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $6,000 | $8,400 | $30,400 |
$35,000
21-day champion: $697,760 |
$28,400
36 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Ryan | $1,800 | $4,000 | $3,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Sue | $600 | $1,000 | $10,600 |
$10,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
11 R, 3 W |
| THE BLUE & THE GRAY | BROWN | BLACK & WHITE TV | GREENLAND | PURPLE HAZE | "YELLOW" FEVER |
|
$200
[9]
After Bull Run, General McClellan reorganized the Union Army which was then called the Army of this river
the Potomac
Ryan
|
$200
[16]
Brown belongs to this group of 8 colleges & universities known for their academic & social prestige
the Ivy League
Ken
|
$200
[1]
Sunset Strip address of detectives Stu Bailey & Jeff Spencer
77
Ken
|
$200
[3]
The closest country to Greenland is this one, a mere 16 miles away
Canada
Ken
Ryan
|
$200
[21]
In 1893 Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain" in this song
"America The Beautiful"
Ken
|
$200
[26]
The business section of the phone directory
the yellow pages
Ken
|
|
$600
[11]
On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered in this settlement in a house owned by a farmer named Wilmer McLean
Appomattox
Ken
|
$400
[17]
Famous Brown alumni include Charles Evans Hughes, Mary Chapin Carpenter & this Penn State football coach
Joe Paterno
Ken
|
$400
[2]
This CBS game show that first hit the air in 1955 gave away $1,000,000 in its first 17 months
The $64,000 Question
Ryan
|
$400
[4]
Fully two-thirds of Greenland lies within this boundary at latitude 66 degrees 30 minutes north
the Arctic Circle
Ken
|
$400
[22]
The current Purple Heart medal has a portrait of this man on it
George Washington
Sue
|
$400
[27]
It's joined to the Yangtze by the Grand Canal
the Yellow River
Ken
|
|
$800
[14]
On Jan. 21, 1861 he bade farewell to the U.S. Senate; 28 days later he was sworn in as president of the Confederacy
Jeff Davis
Ken
|
$600
[18]
Brown's John Hay Library has one of the world's most renowned collections of writings about & by this 16th pres.
Abe Lincoln
Ryan
|
$600
[8]
For years "Gunsmoke" & this Western about folks headin' west were the No. 1 & 2 shows on TV
Wagon Train
Sue
|
$600
[5]
Greenland's major physical feature is its massive ice sheet, which is second in size only to one found here
Antarctica
Ken
|
$600
[23]
This alliterative phrase refers to overly florid writing that tries to enlist a reader's sympathies
purple prose
Ken
|
$600
[28]
Ground-nesting member of the Vespidae family seen here
a yellowjacket
Ken
|
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
On Aug. 5, 1864 this hero lost an ironclad, but his wooden flagship the Hartford survived the battle
(David) Farragut
Ryan
|
$800
[19]
Brown was closed during this war when it served as a barracks for troops
the Revolutionary War
Ryan
|
$800
[12]
In 1951 this Danish pianist with a sense of the absurd had his own show on NBC
Victor Borge
Ken
|
$800
[6]
Greenland is an autonomous dependency of this nation
Denmark
Ken
|
$800
[24]
In the '60s & '70s, this football team's defensive line members were known as the Purple People Eaters
the Vikings
Ken
|
$800
[29]
It's used by a soccer referee to caution a player against further rough play
a yellow card
Ryan
|
|
$1,000
[15]
After Antietam, Lee withdrew into Virginia & whupped Burnside at this Dec. 13, 1862 battle
the Battle of Fredericksburg
|
$1,000
[20]
Brown was founded by members of this religious group, now the largest U.S. Protestant denomination
the Baptists
Ken
Ryan
Sue
|
$1,000
[13]
It's not an Italian white wine, it's a cute Italian mouse often featured on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
Topo Gigio
Ken
|
$1,000
[7]
The site of a U.S. Air Force base, it follows "Ultima" in a phrase meaning a distant place
Thule
Ken
|
$1,000
[25]
A deficiency of this vitamin cuts down on your production of visual purple & may lead to night blindness
vitamin A
Ryan
|
$1,000
[30]
Founded in 1935, this city lies on the shores of the Northwest Territories' Great Slave Lake
Yellowknife
Sue
|
| COMPOSERS | MILITARY TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER | CHICKEN OR FISH? | THE EUROPEAN UNION | "P"EOPLE | 5, 5 |
|
$400
[2]
Supposedly Gustav Mahler's last word was the name of this Salzburg-born composer
Mozart
Ken
|
$400
[7]
Major Hochstetter, General Burkhalter, Colonel Klink
Hogan's Heroes
Ken
|
$400
[1]
Tonight's choices: baked stuffed chicken breast or this Chilean fish in a horseradish crust
sea bass
Ryan
|
$400
[16]
2 of the 4 countries that each have the maximum number of votes in the E.U. council (Malta has the fewest)
(2 of) France, Germany, Italy, & the UK
Ryan
|
$400
[21]
He was James Gamble's brother-in-law & business partner
(William) Procter
Ken
|
$400
[30]
You don't want this venomous spider to sit down beside ya
a black widow
Ken
|
|
$800
[3]
His "Goldberg Variations" were originally designed to help an insomniac nobleman sleep
J.S. Bach
Ken
Sue
|
$800
[8]
Captain Parmenter, Chief Wild Eagle, Corporal Agarn
F-Troop
Ken
|
$800
[10]
Would you care for barbecued chicken wings or this "orange" fish in a green sauce
a roughy
Ken
|
$800
[17]
The 2004 addition of 10 countries including this onebrings the E.U.'s population to 450 million
Poland
Ken
|
$800
[22]
In 2003 this would-be Detroit Lion, author & founder of The Paris Review passed away at 76
George Plimpton
Ken
|
$800
[26]
In Monopoly, you pay the owner of this property either 4 or 10 times the amount shown on the dice
Water Works
Ken
Ryan
|
|
$1,600
[5]
His 1888 symphonic suite "Scheherazade" was based on the tales of the "Arabian Nights"
Rimsky-Korsakov
Ken
|
$1,200
[9]
Lt. Cmdr. Harmon Rabb, Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie, Adm. A.J. Chegwidden
JAG
Sue
|
$1,200
[13]
I'm out of the halibut fillets in roasted butter, so you can have the chicken dish prepared in this "hunter's style"
cacciatore
Sue
|
$1,200
[18]
On Feb. 28, 2002 9 member nations ceased using their own national these
currency
Ryan
|
$1,200
[23]
If you know that this journalist was born in Mako, Hungary in 1847, you deserve a "Prize"
(Joseph) Pulitzer
Sue
|
$1,200
[27]
To keep a photographer up on developing events, he may look atoneof these
a proof sheet
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[6]
This Impressionist composer's only completed opera, "Pelleas et Melisande", premiered in Paris in 1902
Debussy
Ken
|
$1,600
[11]
Lt. Colleen McMurphy, Major Lila Garreau, Private Beckett
China Beach
Ken
|
$1,600
[14]
Whitefish on rice, or chicken dipped in egg & rolled in a breadcrumb mixture--the style of this northern Italian city
Milan
Sue
|
$1,600
[19]
From 1967 to 1993 it wasn't the European "Union" but the European this
Community
Ken
Ryan
Sue
|
$1,600
[24]
This advocate of a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet was the subject of a book, "The Man Who Healed America's Heart"
Pritikin
Sue
|
$1,600
[28]
It's documentary evidence left behind
a paper trail
Ken
|
|
DD
$2,400
[4]
A famous suite by this composer includes the piece heard here
(Ferde) Grofé
Ken
|
$2,000
[12]
Lt. Anderson, Lt. Pruitt, Major "Pappy" Boyington
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Ken
Sue
|
$2,000
[15]
On today's menu: lobster thermidor or this classic French-named fricassee that once made use of old roosters
coq au vin
Sue
|
$2,000
[20]
Conductor Herbert von Karajan made instrumental arrangements of this vocal ode, the E.U.'s anthem
"Ode To Joy"
Sue
|
$2,000
[25]
In 1961 this African-American soprano made her debut at the Met as Leonora in "Il trovatore"
(Leontyne) Price
Ken
|
DD
$2,800
[29]
It's the only Dickens novel that fits the category
Bleak House
Ken
|
In 1899 he was released from Devil's Island & pardoned for "treason under extenuating circumstances"
Captain Alfred Dreyfus