Ken Jennings game 24.
Nick Aretakis — a bookseller from New Haven, Connecticut
Lucinda Sabino — a housewife and writer from Rochester, Michigan
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 23-day cash winnings total $755,360)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $4,600 | $7,800 | $24,800 |
$19,600
24-day champion: $774,960 |
$19,000
32 R (including 3 DDs), 6 W |
| Lucinda | $2,000 | $3,000 | $1,000 |
$100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$1,000
10 R, 3 W |
| Nick | $800 | $2,200 | $-4,600 |
$-4,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-4,600
6 R, 7 W |
| CLEOPATRA | TV FAMILY ROLL CALL | CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON | SEA CREATURES | INITIALLY YOURS | TAKE THIS |
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$200
[26]
Her last husband
Marc Antony
Ken
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$200
[11]
Mike, Carol, their son Greg & his 5 other siblings
The Brady Bunch
Lucinda
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$200
[16]
When George Washington was sworn in on April 30, 1789, he was wearing one of these weapons
a sword
Lucinda
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$200
[8]
The angel shark is so-named because its pectoral fins are shaped like these
wings
Lucinda
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$200
[1]
In 1920 he celebrated the birth of his only child, Christopher Robin
A.A. Milne
Ken
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$200
[6]
Take this dessert & you're surprising or unusual
the cake
Ken
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$400
[27]
The critter that ended her life
an asp
Ken
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$400
[15]
Ross, his sister Monica, his ex-wife Carol, his ex-wife Emily &his ex-wife Rachel
Friends
Lucinda
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$400
[17]
This South American weapon consists of a hollow reed & a dart
a blowpipe (or blowgun)
Ken
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$400
[9]
Britannica says that the pygmy sperm type of this creature "is of no commercial value" (probably a blessing)
a whale
Ken
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$400
[2]
After developing his Maine hunting shoe in 1911, he opened a mail order business
Bean
Ken
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$400
[7]
Suffer a heavy financial loss & you take one of these; & there are no bubbles
a bath
Lucinda
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$600
[28]
The city where she died in 30 B.C.
Alexandria
Nick
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$600
[18]
Ray, Debra, their 3 kids, Robert, Marie & Frank
Everybody Loves Raymond
Ken
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$600
[22]
From an imitative Czech word for "whistle", it's any small gun held & fired with one hand
a pistol
Ken
|
$600
[12]
(Hi, I'm Jeff Probst [in Thailand].) Several species of these migratory sea creatures, including green & hawksbill, lay their eggs on Tarutao's beaches
a turtle
Ken
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$800
[4]
He's the singer heardherein one of his biggest hits"Raindrops keep fallin' on my head /And just like the guy whose feet are too big..."
B.J. Thomas
Ken
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$600
[10]
To leave hurriedly is to take one of these, so have a puff ready
a powder
Nick
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|
$800
[29]
About 70 feet high each, one of these obelisks is in Central Park, another by the Thames River
Cleopatra's Needle
Lucinda
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$800
[19]
Rev. Eric, Annie & their 7 wholesome children
7th Heaven
Ken
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$800
[24]
The 16th c. Swiss turned their foes into Swiss cheese with this metal-tipped spear similar to a lance
a pike
|
$800
[13]
The male of this "musical" species uses its large claw to attract females
a fiddler crab
Lucinda
Nick
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DD
$1,000
[3]
He designed the Richelieu Wing of the Louvre, as well as the pyramidal glass entrance
I.M. Pei
Ken
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$800
[21]
When a congressman gets up to make a formal address he takes this part of the room
the floor
Ken
Nick
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$1,000
[30]
Name shared by the 2 brothers with whom Cleo co-ruled Egypt
Ptolemy
Nick
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$1,000
[20]
Hank, Peggy, Bobby & Luanne
King of the Hill
Ken
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$1,000
[25]
This company that brought us the microwave oven also gave us the Patriot missile
Raytheon
Ken
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$1,000
[14]
The "Beast" that terrified Bermuda in a 1991 Peter Benchley novel was a giant one of these
a squid
Ken
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$1,000
[5]
By the time she was 17, she'd published her first novel, "The Outsiders"
S.E. Hinton
Nick
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$1,000
[23]
Assume a secondary position, maybe in the car
take a backseat
Ken
Nick
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| BUILDING BRIDGES | CELEBRITY TRIVIA | ON THE "M"AP | WE'RE IN BUSINESS | THE GOD SQUAD | 9-LETTER WORDS |
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$400
[19]
Its construction over the Thames between 1176 & 1209 reportedly cost the lives of 150 workmen
London Bridge
Ken
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$400
[1]
He owns the last letter ever written by George Harrison, which complimented him & asked for a Mini-Me doll
Mike Myers
Ken
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$400
[11]
Most Moroccan rivers flow into the Atlantic or disappear in the Sahara, but the Moulouya flows into this sea
the Mediterranean
Ken
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$400
[16]
AAmerican AAirlines offers this, the oldest frequent flyer program
AAdvantage
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$400
[24]
With his exposed bones & skull-like head, Ah Puch is unmistakable as the Mayan god of this
death
Lucinda
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$400
[6]
A children's game, it can also serve as a verb meaning to move around making irregular jumps
hopscotch
Ken
|
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$1,200
[21]
The famed Howrah Bridge over the Hooghly in this country was completed in 1943, near the end of the Raj
India
Lucinda
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$800
[2]
He worked as a professional carpenter before starring in movies like "Witness" & "Patriot Games"
Harrison Ford
Ken
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$800
[12]
A 2003 movie directed by Clint Eastwood was named for this river that flows into Boston Harbor
Mystic
Ken
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$800
[17]
This van lines company moved Ronald Reagan to Washington & Elvis into Graceland
Allied Van Lines
Lucinda
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$800
[25]
A son of either Hermes or Dionysus, Priapus was a fertility god of this civilization
Ancient Greece
Ken
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$800
[7]
This British dependency is one of the southernmost points on the Iberian Peninsula
Gibraltar
Lucinda
|
|
$2,000
[28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Brooklyn Bridge.) It's the last name of thefather-&-son engineerswho were instrumental in building the Brooklyn Bridge
Roebling
Ken
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$1,200
[3]
Born in Smyrna, Ga., she dated Jason Patric, Benjamin Bratt, Matthew Perry, Liam Neeson & Daniel Day-Lewis
Julia Roberts
Ken
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$1,200
[13]
It's the capital of the Lombardy region
Milan
Ken
Nick
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$1,200
[18]
For its U.S. HQ in Wake Forest, N.C. this socially conscious cosmetics company "recycled" an existing building
The Body Shop
Nick
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$1,600
[27]
Izanagi & Izanami are male & female creator gods from this island nation of Asia
Japan
Ken
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$1,200
[8]
It's from a Latin word meaning "sword"; Russell Crowe played one in an Oscar-winning movie
gladiator
Ken
|
|
DD
$4,200
[20]
In Thailand a sound & light show depicts the bombing of this bridge built by P.O.W.s
the bridge on the River Kwai
Ken
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$1,600
[4]
Pepsi dropped Madonna after the release of this song's video showed her kissing a saint in a church
"Like A Prayer"
Ken
Nick
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$1,600
[14]
It's the collective name for Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands & others
Melanesia
Ken
Lucinda
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$1,600
[22]
This current Ford CEO has appeared in ads for the family business
Bill Ford (William Clay Ford, Jr.)
Ken
Nick
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$2,000
[26]
Neil Baldwin's 1998 book "Legends of the Plumed Serpent" is a "Biography of" this Mexican god
Quetzlcoatl
Ken
|
$1,600
[9]
A flesh-eater
a carnivore
Ken
Nick
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$2,000
[5]
A 2-time Oscar winner, he was a roommate of funnyman Wally Cox during his theatrical training in NYC
Marlon Brando
Ken
Lucinda
|
$2,000
[15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew flies over a glacier in Alaska.) This glacier, 13 miles from downtown Juneau, was called Auk Glacier by naturalist John Muir; the name was changed in 1892
the Mendenhall Glacier
Nick
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$2,000
[23]
Starting as a New York Regents Exam tutor, he built an empire on standardized test preparation
Stanley Kaplan
|
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DD
$4,000
[10]
A descendant of 17th century Dutch settlers in South Africa
Afrikaner
Ken
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Its 1st broadcast, February 24, 1942, said, "The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth"
Voice of America