Ken Jennings game 57.(Tie Domi: Hi, I'm Tie Domi of the Toronto Maple Leafs. WatchJeopardy!or you're gonna have todrop the gloveswith me.)(Alex: Come on. You want a piece of this, huh?)
K.C. Backer — a graduate student from Bloomington, Indiana
Graham House — a musician from Lincoln, Nebraska
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 56-day cash winnings total $1,906,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $7,500 | $11,300 | $24,800 |
$29,900
57-day champion: $1,936,300 |
$22,400
35 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Graham | $600 | $1,600 | $6,800 |
$399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,800
8 R, 1 W |
| K.C. | $200 | $1,800 | $6,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
8 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| PRESIDENTS BY KIDS | HOCKEY | FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD | HUMANITARIAN LADIES | NICKNAMES | "ICK"Y WORDS |
|
$200
[1]
Abigail, John Q., Charles
John Adams
Ken
|
$200
[26]
(Alex and Tie Domi of the Toronto Maple Leafs are both suited up and on the ice to play some hockey.) If Tie Domi crosses the blue line before I get the puck to him, we'll be guilty of this infraction
offsides
Ken
|
$200
[9]
Created by C.W. Post in 1897, this breakfast cereal does not contain either of the two components in its name
Grape-Nuts
K.C.
|
$200
[16]
Her parents chose Anne Sullivan as her private teacher on the advice of Alexander Graham Bell
Helen Keller
K.C.
|
$200
[6]
This famous nickname of Ty Cobb sounds like a state fruit
the "Georgia Peach"
Ken
|
$200
[21]
This pivoted device supports a bicycle or motorcycle when not in use
a kickstand
Ken
|
|
$400
[2]
John, Calvin
Calvin Coolidge
Ken
|
$400
[27]
To figure out how many points a player has, simply add these 2 totals
goals and assists
Ken
|
$400
[10]
Macadamias were originally native to this continent
Australia
Ken
|
$400
[17]
Throughout the 1930s, she taught geography at St. Mary's High School in Eastern India
Mother Teresa
Graham
|
$400
[7]
Abraham Lincoln earned this nickname from his skill in chopping wood in half to make fences
"the Rail-splitter"
Ken
|
$400
[22]
For years, advertisers have asked us to do this to "your Bic" lighter
flick
K.C.
|
|
$600
[3]
Lynda, Luci
LBJ
Ken
|
$600
[28]
(Tie Domi and Alex Trebek pose together on the ice.) Any player who messes with me will deal with Tie Domi, who has this job--also the name of a "Dirty Harry" film
enforcer
Graham
|
$600
[13]
The Red Delicious apple was originally called the Hawkeye apple; it was developed in an orchard in this state
Iowa
Ken
|
$600
[18]
In 1881 she established the first American Red Cross chapter, in Dansville, New York
Clara Barton
Ken
|
$600
[8]
Emily Dickinson was "the Belle of" & later "the Nun of" this Massachusetts town
Amherst
Graham
|
$600
[23]
Last name of the golfing great who was the first to twice win the British Open, Masters, PGA & U.S. Open
(Jack) Nicklaus
Ken
|
|
$800
[4]
Fanny, Manning, Birchard
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ken
|
$800
[29]
Bryan Trottier sparked this team to 4 Stanley Cup championships from 1980 through 1983
the New York Islanders
Ken
|
$1,000
[15]
Texas grows a Texas-sized amount of blue corn, often used to make these unleavened flat breads
tortillas
Ken
|
$800
[19]
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women full suffrage was nicknamed for her
Susan B. Anthony
Ken
|
$800
[11]
General Patton's toughness on his enemies & his own men earned him the nickname "Old" this
"Blood and Guts"
Ken
|
$800
[24]
It's a billy club carried by a policeman
a nightstick
Ken
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Abraham, Martin, John
Martin Van Buren
|
$1,000
[30]
(Alex shuffles his hockey stick back and forth on the ice.) It's the 13-letter word for the skill I was just demonstrating (Mario Lemieux doesn't have to worry)
stickhandling
|
DD
$2,100
[14]
The name of these sugar, egg white & coconut cookies comes from the same root word as a pasta
macaroons
Ken
|
$1,000
[20]
Among this pacifist's books were "Newer Ideals of Peace" & "Twenty Years at Hull House"
Jane Addams
K.C.
|
$1,000
[12]
(Hi there. I’m George Jones. You know,...) Early in my career, a deejay gave me this nickname because he thought I resembled a certain American marsupial
"Possum"
Ken
|
$1,000
[25]
These long bloomers were once worn by women & girls as underwear
knickers
|
| WORLD LIT | WHATEVER HAPPENED TO... | MATH | LAKE CITY | THE HOLE TRUTH | NOTHING "BUT" |
|
$400
[6]
Sir Walter Scott wrote the book about Scottish outlaw Robert MacGregor, better known as this
Rob Roy
Ken
|
$400
[1]
As of 2004 this "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" singer was living in Phoenix with his wife & kids
Glen Campbell
Ken
|
$400
[21]
It's the absolute value of negative 143
143
Ken
|
$400
[25]
Cleveland, Ohio
Lake Erie
Ken
Graham
|
$400
[16]
This disciple said he wouldn't believe in the resurrection until he saw & felt the nail holes in Jesus' hands
Thomas
Ken
|
$400
[11]
Examples include the two-tailed pasha & the zebra swallowtail
butterflies
K.C.
|
|
$800
[7]
13 years after Sartre wrote "L'etre et le neant", it was translated into "Being and" this
Nothingness
Ken
|
$800
[2]
The party was over for him after "Monday Night Football", but he did play himself on "King of the Hill"
"Dandy Don" Meredith
Graham
|
$800
[22]
A sexagesimal system is based on this number
60
Ken
|
$800
[26]
Toronto, Canada
Lake Ontario
Ken
|
$800
[17]
A "Judas Hole" is the term for the tiny viewing port in one of these; you can watch the man who betrayed you through it
a cell door
|
$800
[12]
These gothic architectural supports can be "clasping" or "flying"
buttresses
Graham
|
|
$1,200
[8]
His "Decameron" may "appear to have but a harsh and offensive beginning", but he hoped you'd read on
Boccaccio
Graham
|
$1,200
[3]
This polysyllabic '50s Italian sexpot had a one-woman exhibit of her sculpture in 2003
Gina Lollobrigida
Ken
K.C.
|
$1,200
[23]
Also a type of equation, it describes functions of the formf(x) = ax² + bx + c
quadratic
Ken
|
$1,600
[29]
Lausanne, Switzerland
Lake Geneva
Ken
|
$1,600
[19]
Silver Springs in northern Florida is one of the state's largest water-filled one of these holes
a sinkhole
Ken
K.C.
|
$1,200
[13]
He was Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon & Ford
Earl Butz
|
|
$1,600
[9]
This Utopian land of Samuel Butler's was located in New Zealand
Erewhon
Ken
|
$1,600
[4]
Ferdinand, who gained renown for doing this on May 3, 1986, was turned into Japanese pet food
winning the Kentucky Derby
Ken
|
$1,600
[24]
The area of a parallelogram equals b times h, short for these two measures
base and height
Graham
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Kampala, Uganda
Lake Victoria
K.C.
|
$2,000
[20]
The yellow-bellied variety of this woodpecker drills a series of small holes in tree bark to feed
a sapsucker
Ken
|
$1,600
[14]
Of the genus Ranunculus, this grassland wild plant has large yellow flowers
a buttercup
|
|
$2,000
[10]
There's no dialogue in this author's novel "The Painted Bird"
Jerzy Kosinski
Ken
|
$2,000
[5]
Once TV's Jennifer Keaton, she grew up to front a rock band called Jaded
Tina Yothers
Ken
|
$2,000
[27]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a diagram on the chalkboard.) In the ratio of s to r, this measure of an angle is similar to the word that the r stands for
radian
Ken
K.C.
|
$2,000
[30]
Aswan, Egypt
Lake Nasser
Ken
|
DD
$2,300
[18]
Asian location where a notoriously horrible event took place on the night of June 20, 1756
the Black Hole of Calcutta
Ken
|
$2,000
[15]
Romeo's 2-word interjection when Juliet appears at her window
but soft
Graham
|
After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941
Charles Lindbergh