Ken Jennings game 56.
Larry Bellinger — a journalist from Washington, D.C.
Marielle Poss — a senior production controller from Brooklyn, New York
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 55-day cash winnings total $1,878,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $3,200 | $7,800 | $28,200 |
$28,300
56-day champion: $1,906,400 |
$23,600
34 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Marielle | $2,000 | $2,400 | $14,000 |
$3,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Larry | $1,600 | $2,400 | $1,200 |
$2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,200
6 R, 3 W |
| THE TOOTH OF THE MATTER | 4X4 | DUMB CRIMINALS | LYRICS FROM MUSICALS | BYE BYE BIRDIE | WE LOVE YOU CONRAD |
|
$200
[26]
What?Himworry?
Alfred E. Neuman
Ken
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$200
[21]
Take an archaic version of a second person pronoun & add beach grains to make this number
thousand
Ken
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$200
[16]
A woman altered the numbers on one of these to win $20; dumb move, it was already a $5,000 winner
a lottery ticket
Larry
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$200
[11]
"Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun"
Annie
Larry
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$200
[4]
Pigs were among the creatures that killed off this bird on Mauritius in the 1600s
the dodo
Ken
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$200
[1]
In a Joseph Conrad work, Marlow heads into the Congo & finds the "Heart of" this
Darkness
Ken
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$400
[27]
You'd be smiling like this man if you had helped build another house for Habitat for Humanity
Jimmy Carter
Ken
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$400
[22]
Take being actively engaged & add the physical structure of a person to make a meddlesome person
busybody
Ken
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$400
[17]
A vending machine thief had a hard time claiming innocence after paying $400 bail in this currency with Washington on it
quarters
Ken
Marielle
Larry
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$400
[12]
"Give 'em the old razzle dazzle, razzle dazzle 'em"
Chicago
Marielle
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$400
[7]
The Puerto Rican plain one is endangered; the passenger one has already passed on
a pigeon
Ken
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$400
[2]
This novel was adapted into the film seen here"You must let me free the lifeboats!""Why? So you can abandon us?""You believe that?"
Lord Jim
Ken
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$600
[28]
Even the teeth of this politician seem to have muscles
Governor Schwarzenegger
Ken
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$600
[23]
Take the opposite of front & add someone who has been legally placed under a court's care to make reverse
backward
Ken
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$600
[18]
A Georgia woman was surprised to find they don't take $1 million bills at this chain co-founded by Sam Walton in 1962
Wal-Mart
Ken
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$600
[13]
"I dreamed I met a Galilean, a most amazing man"
Jesus Christ Superstar
Marielle
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$600
[8]
This city's Bishop Museum has a princess' pa'u (skirt) made from feathers of the extinct mamo & 'o'o
Honolulu
Ken
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$600
[3]
The young Conrad apparently attempted suicide, though he claimed the wound came in one of these confrontations
a duel
Larry
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$800
[24]
Take a partly ground husk of wheat & add a serving plate to do this, like waving a sword
brandish
Marielle
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$800
[19]
A counterfeiter found out the hard way they don't take $16 bills in this city, Kansas' most populous
Wichita
Larry
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$800
[14]
"A lady doesn't wander all over the room and blow on some other guy's dice"
Guys and Dolls
Larry
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$800
[9]
The last known Mariana mallard died in 1981 at this San Diego adventure park
Sea World
Larry
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$800
[5]
In a 1903 work, this title type of storm hits the Nan-Shan on its way to China
a typhoon
Ken
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$1,000
[25]
Take a group & add a large wild cat to make a cluster of nerve cells
ganglion
Ken
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$1,000
[20]
Robert Ligon got 15 months for repacking these as "low fat" when each had 530 calories--as Homer says, Mmm, these
donuts
Ken
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$1,000
[15]
"That carriage ride--You walked me home--You lost a glove--I lost a comb"
Gigi
Larry
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$1,000
[10]
Like the ostrich, which it resembled, the 10-foot moa of this country defended itself by kicking
New Zealand
Ken
Marielle
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DD
$1,600
[6]
Joseph Conrad was introduced to English at age 8 when his dad was translating Shakespeare into this language
Polish
Ken
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| THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | ____ AND ____ | small state capitals | LIVIN' IN THE '80s | 4-LETTER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | WHAT DO YOU "C"? |
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$400
[6]
16 months before his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, he participated in the Boston Tea Party
Paul Revere
Ken
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$400
[26]
Fans of "CI" & "SVU" know they're both spin-offs from this TV drama
Law & Order
Ken
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$400
[1]
This capital was once known as Frank's Ford after Stephen Ford who was killed by Indians nearby in 1780
Frankfort (Kentucky)
Marielle
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$400
[11]
This brand of artificial sweetener was introduced in a gumball in 1981
NutraSweet
Ken
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$400
[21]
It can be steel, conga or bongo
a drum
Ken
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$400
[16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through one of the terminals at O'Hare Airport in Chicago.) It's the large passage along which airport gates are located, like here at O'O'O'O'O'O'O'O'Hare
the concourse
Marielle
|
|
$800
[7]
During a 6-week cruise in 1776, this American naval commander captured 8 British ships & sank 8 others
John Paul Jones
Ken
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$800
[27]
James Taylor was just 22 when he first hit the charts in 1970 with this pop classic
"Fire And Rain"
Marielle
|
$800
[2]
The Johnson Victrola Museum in this Delaware capital tells the history of the Victor Talking Machine Company
Dover
Ken
|
$800
[12]
This "Big" movie of 1983 featured Kevin Costner... as a corpse!
The Big Chill
Marielle
|
$800
[22]
It's sounded by the strokes of a clapper
a bell
Marielle
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$800
[17]
One-word term for the small stall seen here
confessional
Ken
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$1,200
[8]
In late 1774 he declared, "The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph"
King George III
Ken
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$1,200
[28]
It's TV Guide's weekly section of praises & putdowns
"Cheers and Jeers"
Ken
|
$1,200
[3]
Named for a French city, this smallest state capital commands the main pass through the Green Mountains
Montpelier (Vermont)
Marielle
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$1,200
[13]
In 1984 he threw "The Pass" against the University of Miami to help Boston College win on the final play of the game
Doug Flutie
Ken
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$1,200
[23]
In the South, a "mouth" one of these is a harmonica
a harp
Marielle
Larry
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$1,200
[18]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a diagram.) In geometry, it's a segment that joins two points on a circle
a chord
Ken
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$1,600
[9]
3 days before his surrender at Yorktown, a storm prevented this British general's escape across the York River
Cornwallis
Ken
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$1,600
[29]
In 1956 Audrey Hepburn played Natasha Rostov in a nearly 3 1/2 hour film version of this book
War and Peace
Ken
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$2,000
[5]
The Missouri River lies about 10 miles to the east of this capital, the Continental Divide about 10 miles west
Helena (Montana)
Ken
Marielle
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$1,600
[14]
In 1982 he began a 16-year run as chancellor of West Germany
Helmut Kohl
Ken
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$1,600
[24]
The English horn, or cor anglais, is an alto form of this double-reed instrument
an oboe
Ken
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$1,600
[19]
According to the poem inscribed on it, the type of statue seen here
a colossus
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Not one shot was fired when Ethan Allen & Benedict Arnold seized this New York fort on May 10, 1775
Ticonderoga
Ken
Marielle
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$2,000
[30]
This 1985 miniseries focused on 2 families, the Mains & the Hazards, in the years leading up to the Civil War
North and South
Marielle
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DD
$4,000
[4]
This capital lies about halfway between the North Dakota & Nebraska borders
Pierre (South Dakota)
Marielle
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$2,000
[15]
In 1986 she published her "Mayflower Madam" memoir
(Sydney Biddle) Barrows
Ken
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DD
$6,000
[25]
When it has circular coiling, call it a helicon
a tuba
Ken
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$2,000
[20]
Thisluminous constellation has a daughter, Andromeda, placed near her in the heavens
Cassiopeia
Ken
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Last name of the Chicago cab fleet operator who started the "Drive-Ur-Self" rental system
Hertz