Show #4580 2004-07-02 (taped 2004-03-09) Regular

Ken Jennings game 23.

Contestants

Mary Ann Eitler — a geologist from Alexandria, Virginia

Judy MacLeod Reardon — a music store manager from Canton, Georgia

Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 22-day cash winnings total $737,760)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ken $5,400 $4,800 $18,800 $17,600
23-day champion: $755,360
$22,400
35 R (including 1 DD), 8 W (including 1 DD)
Judy $0 $1,800 $-200 $-200
3rd place: $1,000
$-200
3 R, 1 W
Mary Ann $0 $2,600 $6,800 $13,600
2nd place: $2,000
$5,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS AMERICANS IN A MUSICAL MOOD 20th CENTURY FOOD DID WE PLANET THAT WAY? JULY 4
$200 [11]
By age 13 this Microsoft co-founder had read the entire World Book Encyclopedia through volume P
Gates
Ken
$200 [16]
It's the royal composition heard here, my lord
"Greensleeves"
Ken
$200 [21]
In 1926 Hormel's innovation was selling its flavor-sealed ham in these containers
cans
Ken
$200 [26]
Not much was known about this innermost planet until 1974 when Mariner 10 took some pictures
Mercury
Ken
$200 [1]
This industrialist came off the assembly line July 30, 1863
Henry Ford
Ken
$200 [6]
"Seasonal" quartet in the lyrics of "You've Got A Friend"
winter, spring, summer & fall
Ken
$400 [12]
In 2002 he became the first non-black inductee to the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame
Clinton
Ken
$400 [17]
Written for the movie "Chasing Rainbows", this hit became a campaign song in 1932
"Happy Days Are Here Again"
Mary Ann
$400 [22]
In '71 housewives could stretch a pound of ground beef into a meal for 5 with this new product from General Mills
Hamburger Helper
Judy
$400 [28]
This seventh planet from the Sun was the first to be discovered by telescope
Uranus
Ken Mary Ann
$400 [2]
Being born July 7, 1940 made him the senior member of the Beatles (& he's older than July-born Mick Jagger, too)
Ringo
Ken
$400 [7]
Dressy term for hearts, spades, diamonds or clubs
a suit
Ken
$600 [13]
In 1998 he was awarded posthumously a special Pulitzer Prize; his brother Ira won a Pulitzer in 1932
George Gershwin
Ken
$600 [18]
A 1972 No. 1 hit, this song would be great hold music for an eye doctor
"I Can See Clearly Now"
Mary Ann
$600 [23]
This superpremium ice cream with a fake Danish name was introduced in the 1920s by a man in the Bronx
Häagen-Dazs
Ken
$600 [27]
Some scientists want to reclassify this planet as a wayward moon
Pluto
Judy
$600 [3]
July 24, 1802 & July 27, 1824 are the birthdays of the pere & fils authors who share this name
Alexandre Dumas
Ken
$600 [8]
(I'm Tim Brown of the NFL.) I'm the only Raider to ever score a touchdown in all 4 of these ways
rushing, pass receiving, punt return & kickoff return
Ken
$800 [14]
A statue of this man assassinated in 1935 represents Louisiana in National Statuary Hall
Huey Long
Ken
$800 [19]
It's this Russian composer's Piano Concerto No. 1 you're listening to here
Tchaikovsky
Ken Judy
$800 [24]
This new brand of solid hydrogenated vegetable shortening was introduced in 1911
Crisco
Ken
DD $3,600 [29]
The root of this planet's name means "god-father"
Jupiter
Ken
$800 [4]
Born alone July 12, 1895, he later partnered with Jerome Kern & Richard Rogers
Hammerstein
Ken
$800 [9]
To complete a foursome, mathematician Herman Minkowski added this to length, width & height
time
Ken
$1,000 [15]
His newspaper column "On the Right" is syndicated to more than 300 papers
William F. Buckley, Jr.
$1,000 [20]
The thrill of an expected return is recounted in this favorite
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
Mary Ann
$1,000 [25]
In 1940 this company acquired the name Hungry Jack for pancake flour
Pillsbury
Mary Ann
$1,000 [5]
This Italian sonneteer who wrote poems to Laura was born in July 1304
Petrarch
Ken
$1,000 [10]
In the organizational logo seen here, the 4 words that the letters in the clover stand for
head, heart, health & hands
Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

RONALD REAGAN "SUMMER" FUN STRICTLY BUSINESS NEGATIVE THOUGHTS AROUND NEW YORK IN THE DICTIONARY
$400 [6]
Reagan wrote that his first day in the Oval Office felt pretty much like this old job of his
governor of California
Ken Mary Ann
$400 [21]
After Stockholm hosted these in 1912, Sweden's Hugo Wieslander was awarded a disputed gold in the decathlon
the Summer Olympics
Mary Ann
$400 [26]
A discount is deducted from the price before purchase; this is money sent to the buyer after the purchase
a rebate
Mary Ann
$400 [11]
John Donne tells Death this because "One short sleep past, we wake eternally"
be not proud
Ken
$400 [1]
Visit the boardwalk & ride the over 80-year-old Wonder Wheel at this nostalgic amusement resort
Coney Island
Ken
$400 [12]
As a noun, it can mean a series of objects; as a verb, to propel a boat with oars
row
Ken
$800 [7]
In 1954 Reagan began hosting a TV show for this company & making speeches to its workers
General Electric
Mary Ann
$800 [22]
'60s summers seemed oh, so romantic when we danced to this theme heard here
the "Theme From A Summer Place "
Ken
$1,200 [29]
Collective term for the "costs" involved in transferring real estate from a seller to a buyer
closing costs
Ken
$800 [17]
The phrase "Ask no" this "and give none" refers to mercy, not a coin
quarter
Ken
$800 [2]
This New York neighborhood is home to the National Black Theater as well as the famed Apollo
Harlem
Mary Ann
$800 [13]
It'll probably take more than a buck to buy a jumbuck, an Australian term for one of these animals
a sheep
Ken Mary Ann
$1,200 [8]
Like George W. Bush, Reagan sought peace at this type of property, called Del Cielo or "in the sky"
a ranch
Mary Ann
$1,200 [23]
Sebastian Venable's summer fun was no picnic; in fact, he became a picnic in this one-act Tennessee Williams play
Suddenly Last Summer
Ken
$1,600 [28]
Business people shouldn't infringe on patents, trademarks or these, covered by a 1952 universal convention
copyrights
Ken
$1,200 [18]
King Lear says of the dead Cordelia, "Thou'lt come no more," this, this, this, this, this
never
$1,200 [3]
Built in 1902, this distinctive-looking building is one of New York's oldest & most famous skyscrapers
the Flatiron Building
Ken
$1,200 [14]
The Latin words for "moving" & "place" are combined to form this word for a self-propelled railroad vehicle
a locomotive
Mary Ann
$2,000 [10]
Reagan called this 1942 film in which he played an amputee the best one he ever made
Kings Row
Ken Mary Ann
$1,600 [24]
Cowabunga! 2 surfers travel the world looking for the perfect wave in this 1966 documentary
The Endless Summer
Ken
$2,000 [27]
When businesses restructure following a bankruptcy they use this section of U.S. federal code
Chapter 11
Ken
$1,600 [19]
Winston Churchill told inquiring reporters, "I think" this 2-word phrase "is a splendid expression"
no comment
Ken Mary Ann
$1,600 [4]
Popular name for the area along Seventh Avenue, south of 42nd Street, with stores full of notions & fabrics
the Garment District
Ken
$1,600 [15]
Meaning crudely indecent, it refers to the every day form of Latin spoken by the ancient Romans
vulgar
Ken
DD $3,000 [9]
The first of Reagan's several historic meetings with this man came in Geneva in 1985
Gorbachev
Mary Ann
$2,000 [25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Caffe Florian in Venice, Italy.) It was right here at Caffe Florianin Venice where Katharine Hepburn met Rosanno Brazzi in this classic 1955 film
Summertime
Ken
$2,000 [20]
F. Scott Fitzgerald theatrically observed, "There are no" these "in American lives"
second acts
Ken
DD $2,000 [5]
You don't have to be a monk to visit this branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that's devoted to Medieval art
the Cloisters
Ken
$2,000 [16]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew fences with Cheryl of the Clue Crew.) The name of this answering attack also refers to a quick verbal response
riposte
Ken Judy Mary Ann

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS HEROES

Born in January 1919, the month Teddy Roosevelt died, he was given the middle name Roosevelt

Jackie Robinson

Mary Ann "Who is Jackie Robinson?" — wagered $6,800
Ken "Who is Ted Williams?" — wagered $1,200

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