Show #4594 2004-07-22 (taped 2004-03-17) Regular

Ken Jennings game 37.

Contestants

Denele Hamada — a compensation analyst from Honolulu, Hawaii

Michael Jaeger — a freelance director from Los Angeles, California

Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 36-day cash winnings total $1,194,660)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ken	$4,800	$16,000	$42,000	$52,000 37-day champion: $1,246,660	$30,200 39 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W
Michael	$1,800	$2,000	$5,200	$4,001 2nd place: $2,000	$5,200 8 R, 1 W
Denele	$0	$0	$2,000	$1,200 3rd place: $1,000	$2,000 3 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

DRUGS IN THE MOVIES	STUPID ANSWERS	THE 1870s	POTPOURRI	RELIGIOUS HOMOPHONES	SEDIMENTARY ROCK
$200 [1] 1983: starring Al Pacino as a drug-crazed & murderous Miami kingpin Scarface Ken	$200 [6] "Sidney Sheldon's Windmills of the Gods" was a 1988 TV movie based on his book Sidney Sheldon Ken	$200 [13] Due to growing responsibilities of the Attorney General, Congress established this Cabinet dept. on June 22, 1870 Justice Ken	$200 [21] The Acme Thunderer is one of these used by many sports referees a whistle Michael	$200 [11] Mother Teresa knew that this was the answer to the math problem of what 2 minus 2 equals none (nun) Ken	$400 [26] Thanks to the way sedimentary rocks form, we have the science of stratigraphy, the study of strata, which are these layers of rock Ken
$400 [2] 1978: Cheech & Chong in their first silly big screen comedy Up In Smoke Michael	$400 [7] Traditionally, use 2 oz. gin, 5 oz. tonic water & 1 lime wedge to make this drink a gin and tonic Ken	$400 [16] It's the T in the WCTU, founded in Cleveland in 1874 with Annie Wittenmyer as its first president temperance Ken	$400 [22] The potage this Biblical character sold his birthright for was made from lentils Esau Ken	$400 [12] The bottom part of your foot, or a flatfish which may or may not go to heaven sole (soul) Michael	$800 [28] Alabaster is a variety of this rock (that would make a good law partner for Cheatum) Gypsum Michael
$600 [3] 1955: Frank Sinatra as dope addict Frankie Machine The Man With The Golden Arm Ken	$600 [8] Ozzy Osbourne was a no-show at this festival's Auburn, Washington stop July 12, 2003 Ozzfest Ken	$600 [18] On October 5, 1877 this Nez Perce chief surrendered to general Nelson Miles about 30 miles from the Canadian border Chief Joseph Ken	$600 [23] North Dakota's state song is "North Dakota Hymn"; this state uses "The Old North State" North Carolina Ken	$600 [14] Minuteman & peacekeeper are versions of these, with or without hymns scrawled on them missile (missal) Ken	$1,000 [29] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew dissolves a piece of rock in a chemistry experiment.) With diluted hydrochloric acid, you can test for this rock; the acid reacts with the calcite to form CO2 limestone Ken
$800 [4] 1989: Matt Dillon as a junkie who with his crew robs pharmacies to support their habits Drugstore Cowboy Ken	$800 [9] It seems like all things under the sun are considered on this radio program with Robert Siegel All Things Considered Ken	$800 [19] This state's 2nd black U.S. senator, Blanche K. Bruce was the first black senator to serve a full term, 1875-1881 Mississippi	$800 [24] His frenzied female devotees were called maenads, or, from his other name, Bacchus, bacchantes Dionysus Ken	$800 [15] The type of "ego" Bruce Wayne is, you know, the guy who always sacrifices alter (altar) Michael	DD $3,200 [27] Single-family homes in Manhattan were built with & named for this local sedimentary stone brownstone Ken
$1,000 [5] 1991: Jason Patric & Jennifer Jason Leigh as undercover narcs who get hooked on drugs Rush Michael	$1,000 [10] Beer lovers rejoiced when he invented Pasteurization in 1864 Louis Pasteur Ken	$1,000 [20] He purchased the St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 in 1878 & soon merged it with the St. Louis Post Joseph Pulitzer Ken	$1,000 [25] Located about 8,500 feet up in the Andes is this judicial capital of Bolivia Sucre Ken	$1,000 [17] Try not to talk about this vessel in which incense is burned during holy ceremonies censer (censor) Ken	—

Double Jeopardy! Round

SENTIMENTAL ROCK	FICTIONAL CHARACTERS	PHOTOGRAPHY	FORMER CAPITALS	NOTABLE WOMEN	A BRAND NEW "YOU"
$400 [26] Bad English sang "When I See You Smile"; it was this group that had the hit "Feel Like Makin' Love" Bad Company	$400 [6] In a 24-book work Homer chronicled his journey home Odysseus Ken	$400 [16] He was responsible for photographing every pres. from J.Q. Adams to McKinley, except W.H. Harrison Mathew Brady Michael	$400 [11] This state didn't keepsie Poughkeepsie as its capital for very long New York Denele	$400 [1] Bertha von Suttner, the 2nd woman to win one of these, was the 1st woman to win in the Peace category a Nobel Prize Ken	$400 [21] It's the first right of the Miranda warning given to arrestees "you have the right to remain silent" Ken
$800 [27] It's the group heard here with a sentimental '80s hit"I've been waiting for a girl like you to come into my life..." Foreigner Michael	$800 [7] A plot twist in an Oscar Wilde play hinges on her fan Lady Windermere Ken	$800 [17] This mechanical device behind the lens opens & closes to let in light the shutter Ken	$800 [12] Opelousas, Donaldsonville & Shreveport are among the places that have been its capital Louisiana Ken	$800 [2] Clara Schumann taught this musical instrument at Frankfurt's Hoch Conservatory a piano Ken	$800 [22] In other words "regarding one ancient canine; no modern skill training potential" "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" Ken
$1,200 [28] 1 of the 2 No. 1 hits REO Speedwagon had in the '80s "Keep On Loving You" or "Can't Fight This Feeling"	$1,200 [8] Relationship of J.D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey siblings Ken	$1,600 [19] Digital photographs are made up of millions of these tiny squares pixels Ken	$1,200 [13] Figuring out the name of this capital of Alabama from 1826 to 1846 is like pulling teeth Tuscaloosa Ken	$1,200 [3] Born in Sebring, Ohio, she was the loyal secretary to Richard Nixon Rose Mary Woods Ken	$1,200 [23] 3-word title of the 1950s TV show hosted by Walter Cronkite that recreated history as news events You Are There Ken
$1,600 [29] Fronting this group, David Coverdale wondered, "Is This Love" Whitesnake	$1,600 [9] Sister of Stepan Oblonsky, she's a Tolstoy title lady Anna Karenina Denele	$2,000 [20] In 1936 she became a staff photographer at Life magazine & later produced photo essays of WWII Margaret Bourke-White Michael	$1,600 [14] Before Dover took over you had to carry your coals to this capital of Delaware Newcastle Ken	$1,600 [4] On May 3, 1933 this first woman governor of Wyoming became the first woman director of the U.S. Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross	$2,000 [25] This play won Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman a Pulitzer Prize in 1937 You Can't Take It With You Ken
—	$2,000 [10] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew manipulates some ball bearings in the palm of one hand.) He's the 1951 novel character whose constant habit I'm imitating Captain Queeg Ken	DD $6,000 [18] In the 1830s this Frenchman began producing photographs by exposing silver-coated copper plates Louis Daguerre Ken	$2,000 [15] Portland used to be a capital of Maine & Augusta used to be a capital of this state Georgia Denele	$2,000 [5] The last Englishwoman to win Wimbledon's women's singles, she won in 1977 Virginia Wade Denele	DD $6,000 [24] Thomas Wolfe's sequel to "The Web And The Rock" You Can't Go Home Again Ken

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS

The 2 U.S. presidents whose middle names are also the last names of 2 other presidents

Ronald Wilson Reagan & William Jefferson Clinton

Denele "Who" — wagered $800

Michael "Who are Clinton & Truman" — wagered $1,199

Ken "Who are Reagan and Clinton?" — wagered $10,000

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