Show #4591 2004-07-19 (taped 2004-03-17) Regular

Ken Jennings game 34.

Contestants

Tim Crockett — a casino worker from Las Vegas, Nevada

Beverly Herter — a freelance editor, writer and reporter from Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 33-day cash winnings total $1,100,460)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ken	$4,000	$8,400	$27,800	$35,000 34-day champion: $1,135,460	$27,600 31 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Beverly	$0	$2,200	$7,800	$6,800 3rd place: $1,000	$7,800 9 R, 1 W
Tim	$4,600	$4,000	$8,000	$7,900 2nd place: $2,000	$7,600 15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

DUDE, WHERE'S MY CZAR?	LONI, DONNY OR YANNI	NAMED AFTER JFK	WHAT 4	LOOK OUT!	THE "SKY" IS FALLING
$200 [16] Czar means "emperor", & is derived from this Latin word, the formal title of several Roman rulers Caesar Ken	$200 [21] Once married to Burt Reynolds Loni Anderson Ken	$200 [1] Opened in 1971, the JFK Center for the Performing Arts stretches along this river the Potomac River Ken	$200 [6] It's the 5-sided base among a baseball field's 4 home plate Ken	$200 [24] In one of these dangerous events, the dry, powdery snow is traveling at 100 mph straight downhill toward you an avalanche Beverly	$200 [11] Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane skydiving Tim
$400 [17] One of those who killed this "mad monk" was a cousin of Nicholas II, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Rasputin Ken	$400 [22] Hit No. 1 on the charts with "Go Away Little Girl" Donny Osmond Ken	$400 [2] The John F. Kennedy National Historic Site, JFK's birthplace, is in Brookline, a suburb of this city Boston Tim	$400 [7] His third wife, Jiang Qing, was a member of the Gang of Four Mao (Zedong) Ken	$400 [30] Your sortie's getting dangerous--here comes some antiaircraft fire, better known by this 4-letter name flak Tim	$400 [12] America's first space station Skylab Ken
$600 [18] The first Russian to hold the title Czar, he was proclaimed Grand Prince of Moscow in 1533 Ivan the Terrible Ken	$600 [23] Wowed 'em at the Acropolis in September 1993 Yanni Tim	$800 [4] Located in Queens, it first opened to commercial traffic in July 1948 JFK Airport Ken	$600 [8] Of FDR's 4 inaugural addresses, the one which included the "fear itself" bit the first one Tim	$600 [25] The 16-ton weight featured in this '70s comedy series is poised above somebody & ready to.... Monty Python's Flying Circus Tim	$600 [13] A private VIP room at a sports stadium a skybox Tim
$800 [19] Maximilian Schell starred in an Emmy-winning 1986 mini-series about this reformist czar Peter the Great Ken	$800 [28] Receptionist for "WKRP in Cincinnati" Loni Anderson Ken	DD $1,000 [3] There is a John F. Kennedy prep school in this world capital where JFK made a famous visit in 1963 Berlin Tim	$800 [9] Leonard Bernstein's recording of this Vivaldi work begins with "Spring: Allegro" The Four Seasons Tim	$800 [26] Pilot error! Your flight path has you too close to a Caravan turboprop from this Kansas company Cessna	$800 [14] European high flyer seen here a skylark
$1,000 [20] Michael was the czar who ruled Russia from 1613 to 1645 & founded this dynasty the Romanov Beverly	$1,000 [29] Born in Kalamata in 1954 Yanni Ken	$1,000 [5] The Florida promontory now called this was named after JFK from 1963 to 1973 Cape Canaveral Tim	$1,000 [10] The tetragrammaton JHVH, the Hebrew name for God, gives us this word Jehovah Ken	$1,000 [27] A herd of these animals, Loxodonta africana, is stampeding your way in a wall of gray elephants Beverly Tim	$1,000 [15] Home to the Bluejays & Argonauts the Toronto SkyDome Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE STAMP ACT	ALL SPORTS	COMPUTER PROGRAMS	CROSSWORD CLUES "M"	GREAT MOMENTS IN TRAVEL	MAPS
$400 [6] The third Looney Tunes stamp featured this avian rival of the first Looney Tunes stamp Daffy Duck Beverly	$400 [1] In golf, next in line: double eagle, eagle... a birdie Tim	$400 [8] Word & Powerpoint are part of the Microsoft system named for this place Office Tim	$400 [16] Late-night hunger pangs (8) munchies Ken	$400 [30] Johannes Badrutt, a St. Moritz hotel keeper, first convinced summer guests you could visit this country in winter, too Switzerland Ken	$400 [28] In about 150 A.D. this Greek astronomer in Egypt published "Geography", an 8-volume guide to mapmaking Ptolemy Ken
$800 [7] The 4 sports featured in the "Xtreme Sports" stamps series were skateboarding, BMX biking, in-line skating & this one snowboarding Ken	$800 [2] A rock climber would know schist; a person in this sport would know schuss skiing Ken	$800 [9] Filemaker Pro is used for this type of application that stores & organizes information (like "Jeopardy!" clues) database Ken Beverly	$800 [17] Mr. Magoo's malady (6) myopia Ken	$800 [29] In the 1840s Ida Pfeiffer made this trip in 2 1/2 years; in 1889 Nellie Bly did it in 72 days Around The World Beverly	$800 [27] On topographic maps, contour lines are used to show this elevation Beverly
$1,200 [13] The centenary of the Graz opera in this country was celebrated with a 1999 stamp Austria Tim	$1,200 [3] Delivering a ball to a batsman in cricket isn't called "pitching", it's called this bowling Beverly	$1,200 [10] One type of this keeps flames from spreading; another keeps snoops out of a computer network a firewall Beverly	$1,200 [18] Tiny organism (7) microbe Ken	$1,200 [21] The word "posh" may have come from a ship's cabin designation: port out, this side home starboard Tim	$1,200 [22] In-vehicle navigation systems create maps using GPS, which stands for this global positioning system Ken
$1,600 [14] Issued in England in 1840, thefirst postage stampever has this colorful nickname penny black Ken	$1,600 [4] A Veronica is a movement done in this sport, popular in Mexico bullfighting Tim	$1,600 [11] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew drags a mustache back onto Alex.)Introducedin 1990, it's theprogramI'm using to create anunusual image Photoshop Ken	$1,600 [19] Palindromic form of address (4) ma'am Tim	$1,600 [23] The USA's first of these places for rambling young people to stay in opened in Northfield, Mass. in 1934 a hostel Ken	$2,000 [26] Not only can you buy maps of the Earth from the USGS, which stands for this, you can buy maps of Mars as well the United States Geological Survey Ken Tim
$2,000 [15] A series of Bulgarian stamps featuring types of these had one with a penny-farthing on it bicycles Ken	$2,000 [5] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew clutches higher up on a bat.) Inbaseball, you don't want to do this in a clutch, but it's okay todo itup on the bat choke Beverly	$2,000 [12] As a sort of e-mail post office, this program from Qualcomm is named for the author of "Why I Live at the P.O." Eudora Ken	$2,000 [20] Nero: my fault! (3, 5) mea culpa Tim	DD $5,000 [25] In the 1840s, this Englishman began running inexpensive "tours" by getting bulk discounts from railways Thomas Cook Ken	DD $6,800 [24] This table that accompanies a map explains what the symbols & colors represent the legend Ken

Final Jeopardy!

OPERA

The libretto for "William Tell" was in this language, the native tongue of neither the composer, Rossini, nor the subject

French

Beverly "What is German?" — wagered $1,000

Tim "What is Russian?" — wagered $100

Ken "What is French?" — wagered $7,200

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