Ken Jennings game 26.(Sarah: We'll go beyond the burrito to show you someMexican delicaciestoday onJeopardy!)(Sofia:¡Buen provecho!)
Vanessa Osborne — a graduate student from Woodland Hills, California
Michael Vance — an information security analyst from Fishers, Indiana
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 25-day cash winnings total $788,960)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $3,600 | $9,800 | $34,000 |
$40,000
26-day champion: $828,960 |
$27,400
33 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Michael | $3,200 | $5,200 | $13,200 |
$16,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
17 R, 0 W |
| Vanessa | $1,800 | $2,200 | $5,000 |
$300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
5 R, 0 W |
| PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES | INDEPENDENT FILMS | MEXICAN FOOD & DRINK | WHAT'S THE NEXT LINE? | SMART CHOICES | BROWN |
|
$200
[21]
Dedicated on June 30, 1941, his presidential library was the first planned while a president was still in office
FDR
Ken
|
$200
[1]
This Coen Brothers tale from 1996 is "A homespun murder story"
Fargo
Ken
|
$200
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew sits down to a meal in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.) Here in the Yucatan, this tasty bundle is wrapped & cooked in banana leaves rather than the usual corn husks
a tamale
Michael
|
$200
[6]
"Oh my darling, oh my darling..."
"...oh my darling Clementine"
Ken
|
$200
[16]
After hitting .202 in the minors in '94, he went back to his day job of all-universe NBA star
(Michael) Jordan
Ken
|
$200
[26]
Usual meal you're headed to when "brown bagging" it
lunch
Michael
|
|
$400
[22]
His recently won Nobel Peace Prize is now on display at his presidential library
Jimmy Carter
Ken
Michael
|
$400
[2]
Reverse in told was film Nolan Christopher 2001 this
Memento
Michael
|
$400
[12]
Top a crisp tortilla with refried beans, meat, lettuce, tomatoes & cheese & you've got this Mexican salad
a tostada
Michael
|
$400
[7]
"Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag..."
"...and smile, smile, smile"
|
$400
[17]
When God told him to get a-buildin' in Genesis 6:14, he was smart enough to say yes
Noah
Ken
|
$400
[27]
The Rolling Stones asked, "How come you taste so good?"
Brown Sugar
Vanessa
|
|
$600
[23]
His library is located on the Columbia Point Promontory in Boston
JFK
Ken
|
$600
[3]
Robert Duvall wrote, directed & played a preacher in this 1997 film
The Apostle
Ken
|
$600
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew follows her meal with a chaser in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.) By Mexican law, this potent potable must be made with at least 51% agave; the rest is often sugar cane
tequila
Michael
|
$600
[8]
"Roll out the barrel..."
"...and we'll have a barrel of fun"
Michael
|
$600
[18]
In 1989 the people at Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts were smart cookies to acquire RJR this
Nabisco
Ken
|
$600
[28]
Rudbeckia triloba is this "Brown-Eyed" plant, less well known than the Black-Eyed one
Susan
Michael
|
|
$800
[24]
The complex of buildings at this library in Abilene, Kansas includes a nondenominational chapel where the president is buried
Eisenhower
|
$800
[4]
Title job of Dante & Randal in a 1994 Kevin Smith film
clerks
Vanessa
|
$800
[14]
Translated as "little meats", it's shredded pork eaten with salsa or used as a filling for tacos
carnitas
Ken
|
$800
[9]
"Yes we have no bananas..."
"...We have no bananas today"
Ken
|
$800
[19]
He married Catherine Zeta-Jones
Michael Douglas
Michael
|
$800
[29]
The Brown Hornet was the favorite superhero of this 1970s animated TV group of pals
Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
Ken
|
|
DD
$1,800
[25]
Along with his papers, his library contains a large mural by Thomas Hart Benton
Harry Truman
Ken
|
$1,000
[5]
An Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature went to this '50s-style melodrama with Julianne Moore & Dennis Quaid
Far from Heaven
Ken
|
$1,000
[15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew has seconds at Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.) One of my favorite Mexican dishes is this one--raw seafood marinated in lime juice, garnished with onions & tomatoes
ceviche
Vanessa
|
$1,000
[10]
"Go tell it on the mountain..."
"...over the hills and everywhere"
Michael
|
$1,000
[20]
In a prudent move, he ran for the vice presidency & his Senate seat in 2000
Joe Lieberman
Ken
|
$1,000
[30]
Because of the way she was conceived, Louise Brown is known as this alliterative type of baby
test tube
Ken
|
| THE VICTORIANS | MARVEL COMICSHEROES | SUBWAY STOPS | PHARM TEAM | MILITARY MATTERS | 5 IN A "ROW" |
|
$400
[12]
The Queen ispicturedherein the elaborate Mausoleum built for this man
(Prince) Albert
Ken
|
$400
[2]
"The Incredible"
the Hulk
Ken
|
$400
[17]
Get off at Sportivnaya in this city to see the venue for much of the 1980 Summer Olympics
Moscow
Ken
|
$400
[1]
An Internet site about this product from Bayer can be found at wonderdrug.com
aspirin
Ken
|
$400
[26]
During China's Sung Dynasty tea was cultivated & this powder was first used militarily
gunpowder
Michael
|
$400
[7]
It's a narrow groove made in the ground by a plow, or a deep wrinkle on the face
a furrow
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[14]
In 1877, long before Margaret Sanger, Annie Besant was prosecuted for a pamphlet on this
birth control
Ken
|
$800
[3]
"The Amazing"
Spider-Man
Ken
|
$800
[18]
This word follows "Oxford" & "Piccadilly" in tube stop names
Circus
Vanessa
|
$800
[22]
Brands of these self-administered tests include Clearblue Easy & First Response
a pregnancy test
Michael
|
DD
$600
[28]
A popular German hit song during WWII was these tanks "Are Rolling In Africa"
Panzers
Ken
|
$800
[8]
The Book of Proverbs tells us that this person "is servant to the lender"
the borrower
Ken
|
|
$1,600
[15]
In this 1850s war, Roger Fenton took the first extensive war photos, though he spared viewers the gore
the Crimean War
Ken
|
$1,200
[4]
"The Uncanny"
the X-Men
Ken
|
$1,200
[19]
If you're on NYC's A train, get off at Howard Beach in this borough to go to JFK Airport
Queens
Michael
|
$1,200
[23]
Sadly, in a Chinese pharmacy, this bile-producing organ from a brown bear can fetch as much as $150
the gallbladder
Ken
Michael
|
$800
[27]
Seen here, it's awarded by the U.S. military for meritorious achievement in ground combat
a Bronze Star
Ken
|
$1,200
[9]
After agreeing to purchase a home, funds go "into" this, until all the conditions of the sale are met
escrow
Michael
|
|
$2,000
[16]
"Merlin"is by this 1890s artist, some of whose work was too graphic for the Victorians (or our viewers)
Aubrey Beardsley
Vanessa
|
$1,600
[5]
"The Man Without Fear"
Daredevil
Ken
|
$1,600
[20]
The Metro stop for Montreal's Olympic stadium is Pie-IX, named for this 19th century religious figure
Pope Pius IX
Ken
|
$1,600
[24]
Ulcer sufferers at the end of their ropes go to the end of the alphabet for this, aka ranitidine hydrochloride
Zantac
Michael
|
$1,600
[29]
In the 1920s Marine Corps General Smedley Butler turned this temporary camp in Virginia into a permanent base
Quantico
Michael
|
$1,600
[10]
Alumni of this school include Winston Churchill, Sir Robert Peel & Lord Byron
Harrow
|
|
DD
$7,200
[13]
By its etymology, this Victorian room seenherewas an early chat room
a parlor
Ken
|
$2,000
[6]
"The Invincible"
Iron Man
Ken
|
$2,000
[21]
The major hub of the Washington Metro is the stop named for this French planner
(Pierre Charles) L'Enfant
|
$2,000
[25]
A chemical found in a Norwegian fungus became this immuno-suppressant drug that made organ transplants safer
cyclosporine
|
$2,000
[30]
This medieval order of knights was aka "the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ & the Temple of Solomon"
the Knights Templar
Ken
|
$2,000
[11]
A descendant of Alfred the Great, she ends up marrying Ivanhoe
(the Lady) Rowena
Ken
|
Born in 1564, he was employed by Elizabeth I's Secretary of State to uncover Catholic plots against her reign
(Christopher) Marlowe