Show #4624 2004-10-14 (taped 2004-08-10) Regular

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?)

Contestants

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)

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

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

Double Jeopardy! Round

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

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS AMERICANS

After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941

Charles Lindbergh

K.C. "Who is NO CLUE" — wagered $6,600
Graham "Who is Mitchell" — wagered $6,401
Ken "Who is Lindbergh?" — wagered $5,100

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