Ken Jennings game 30.Ken breaks the $1 million mark.
Max Corrick — an attorney from Las Vegas, Nevada
Irene Lawrence — an enrolled agent from Palo Alto, California
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 29-day cash winnings total $972,960)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $6,200 | $12,600 | $46,000 |
$32,000
30-day champion: $1,004,960 |
$37,200
43 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Irene | $1,600 | $3,200 | $6,400 |
$2,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,400
7 R, 1 W |
| Max | $400 | $1,000 | $1,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,400
7 R, 3 W |
| FOLLOW THE LEADER | IN-FLIGHT MOVIES | FOREIGN ANIMALS | JOURNALISM | A DEVILISH CATEGORY | A CHORUS OF ANGELS |
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$200
[21]
Dating from around 300 B.C., the silver tetradrachma coin depicts this Macedonian leader
Alexander the Great
Ken
|
$200
[1]
Gary Oldman hijacks the President's plane in this 1997 thriller
Air Force One
Ken
|
$200
[16]
This, an orzel in Poland, is seen on some of our coins
an eagle
Ken
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$200
[26]
A young reporter may have to work in this section updating life stories, just in case
obituaries
Max
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$200
[6]
Among this famous literary detective's exploits is the "Adventure of the Devil's Foot"
Sherlock Holmes
Ken
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$200
[11]
Admiral Chester Nimitz formed this group during World War II to showcase naval aviation
the Blue Angels
Ken
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$400
[22]
Following the lead of Germany, this man declared war on Britain & France in June 1940
Mussolini
Ken
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$400
[2]
A crop-dusting plane nearly makes dust out of Cary Grant in this Hitchcock thriller
North by Northwest
Ken
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$400
[17]
In Swahili, this familiar sight in the Sahara is a ngamia
a camel
Max
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$400
[27]
An uncritical piece is called this & is as hard-hitting as the pastry of the same name
a puff piece
Max
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$400
[7]
Tartini's sonata "The Devil's Trill" came to him in a dream in which the devil played this stringed instrument
the violin
Max
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$400
[12]
One of the bestselling paperbacks of 2003 was "Angels and Demons" by this author of "The Da Vinci Code"
(Dan) Brown
Ken
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|
$600
[23]
In 2002 Helen Clark won election to a second term as this Down Under country's prime minister
New Zealand
Ken
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$600
[3]
William Wellman, who'd served in the Lafayette Escadrille Flying Corps, directed this first Best Picture winner
Wings
Irene
|
$600
[18]
In Dijon a homard is a lobster & a canard is one of these (if someone throws a homard at you, canard)
a duck
Max
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$600
[30]
It's the 7-letter term for the text under the photo that goes with the article; it can be a quote from the story
a caption
Ken
|
$600
[8]
One of this "Robinson Crusoe" author's final works was "The Political History of the Devil"
Daniel Defoe
Ken
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$600
[13]
No Goofy or Mickey Mouse players on the Anaheim Angels, even though it was owned by this company until 2003
Disney
Ken
|
|
$1,000
[25]
A former foreign minister, Fernando Cardoso became president of this large South American country in 1995
Brazil
Ken
|
$800
[4]
Bruce Willis is waiting for his wife's plane to land at Dulles when trouble begins in this 1990 sequel
Die Hard 2
Ken
|
$800
[19]
As Lowe is German for this animal, it sounds like Loews Cinemas should only show MGM movies
a lion
Irene
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$800
[28]
These freelance reporters not completely "tied" to the paper but working part-time were once paid by the column inch
stringers
Irene
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$800
[9]
Goethe & Mann used an anonymous 1587 tale about this devilish doctor as a basis for tales of their own
Faust (or Faustus)
Max
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$800
[14]
In 1997 this company introduced its Angels line of lingerie
Victoria's Secret
Ken
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|
DD
$1,400
[24]
It's the military rank of the head of state of Libya
Colonel
Ken
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$1,000
[5]
The Jailbird is the prisoner transport plane in this 1997 Nicolas Cage flick
Con Air
Ken
|
$1,000
[20]
You'll find atum, this fish, sandwiched inside Portuguese dictionaries
tuna
Ken
|
$1,000
[29]
These 2 "line"s tell readers where & when a story originated & who wrote it
the byline & the dateline
Ken
Max
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$1,000
[10]
In a Stephen Vincent Benet work, this man defends Jabez Stone before the devil's jury of villains
Daniel Webster
Irene
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$1,000
[15]
The natural feature called Salto Angel in Spanish is the world's highest uninterrupted one of these
a waterfall
Ken
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| HISTORIC GROUPS | A LITTLE BIT OF COUNTRY | WORLD CAPITAL BURIAL PLACES | HOBBY TIME | EDUCATION | "V" SHALL OVERCOME |
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$400
[11]
The 16th century corsairs of Northern Africa were known collectively as these pirates
the Barbary pirates
Ken
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$400
[26]
In 2001 she played Annie Oakley in a Broadway revival of "Annie Get Your Gun"; she now stars in her own sitcom on the WB
Reba McEntire
Ken
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$400
[6]
General Benedict Arnold
London
Ken
|
$400
[16]
Find out if Great Aunt Agatha was really a spy when you take up this hobby, the study of family lineage
genealogy
Irene
|
$400
[21]
2 past presidents of the National Education Association lead an effort to reduce this to improve learning
class size
Ken
Irene
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$400
[1]
On this 1970s TV series, a private investigator has his office in the Desert Inn
Vega$
Max
|
|
$800
[12]
Group in the '60s who were the first "S" in the SDS
Students
Ken
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$800
[27]
(Hi, I'm Mark Wills.) In my hit, "Nineteen Something", I sang, "My first love was" this 'Dukes of Hazzard' character "in them cut off jeans"
Daisy Duke
Ken
|
$800
[7]
Pop music star Falco
Vienna
Ken
|
$800
[17]
People who study & collect these like to call themselves conchologists
seashells
Ken
|
$800
[22]
This government program for preschoolers began as a summer project in LBJ's War on Poverty
Head Start
Ken
|
$800
[2]
The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder falls under the scope of this U.S. govt. department
VA (Veterans Affairs)
Ken
|
|
$1,600
[14]
The Jacobins were a party in France in 1789; 100 years earlier the Jacobites were supporters of this family in England
the Stuarts
Ken
|
$1,200
[28]
In 2003 this late great entertainer won 3 CMA Awards, including Single of the Year for "Hurt"
Johnny Cash
Ken
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$1,200
[8]
Writer Christy Brown
Dublin
Ken
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$1,200
[18]
This show that was just 7 minutes long when it debuted in 1994 has inspired many to take up Irish step-dancing
Riverdance
Ken
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$1,200
[23]
This university leads the U.S. in the market value of its endowment assets; Yale is No. 2
Harvard University
Ken
|
$1,200
[3]
Forced into exile in 1955, Emperor Bao Dai was this country's last ruling monarch
Vietnam
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Term for the natives of India who served in the British army; they mutinied in 1857
the Sepoys
Ken
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$1,600
[29]
(Hi. I'm Lorrie Morgan.) In a 1993 hit I asked, "What part of" this "don't you understand, to put it plain and simple I'm not into one night stands"
"No"
Ken
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$1,600
[9]
Playwright Samuel Beckett
Paris
Ken
|
$1,600
[19]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew sticks a flower step in a shallow pot.) Moribana is a natural style of this timeless Japanese art of flower arranging
ikebana
Irene
|
$2,000
[25]
Richard W. Riley, who served under this president, is the only Secretary of Education to serve a full 8 years
Bill Clinton
Ken
|
$1,600
[4]
During the 5th century, this Teutonic tribe conquered part of North Africa & ruled there for 100 years
the Vandals
Irene
|
|
DD
$5,200
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew displays some artifacts at the Nat'l Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA.) Now National Archives properties, the Watergate tools were used by members of this committee, known as CREEP
the Committee to Re-Elect the President
Ken
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$2,000
[30]
Toby Keith & this country great recently served up a hit called "Beer For My Horses"
Willie Nelson
Max
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$2,000
[10]
"The Liberator" Simon Bolivar
Caracas
Ken
Max
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$2,000
[20]
You might become a "wrap artist"--not like Coolio, but like this man who wrapped the Reichstag in fabric
Christo
Ken
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DD
$5,800
[24]
This numerical portion of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibited sex discrimination in athletics
Title IX
Ken
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$2,000
[5]
Named for the British logician who created it, it's a representational diagram of sets
a Venn diagram
Ken
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The first 2 New York Times headlines set in 96-point type were in these 2 years, 5 years apart
1969 & 1974