Ken Jennings game 58.
José Ruiz Jr. — a high school teacher from Silver Spring, Maryland
Josh Rosenfeld — a graduate student from Torrance, California
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 57-day cash winnings total $1,936,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $1,800 | $11,200 | $34,600 |
$40,000
58-day champion: $1,976,300 |
$29,400
36 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Josh | $-1,000 | $-1,200 | $7,000 |
$4,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| José | $800 | $2,200 | $4,600 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,600
6 R, 2 W |
| ORGANIZED RELIGION | ACTRESSES | LICENSE PLATE SLOGANS | OCEANIA | RANCH DRESSING | "D" FACTO |
|
$200
[1]
B'nai B'rith, Anti-Defamation League
Judaism
Josh
|
$200
[2]
Born in 1975, she hosted "Saturday Night Live" in 1982 & is still its youngest host ever
Drew Barrymore
Ken
José
|
$200
[3]
"OK!"'Nuff said
Oklahoma
Ken
|
$200
[21]
When this nation gained independence in 1962, it had "Western" in its name
Samoa
Ken
|
$200
[26]
These "jingle jangle jingle as I go riding merrily along"
spurs
Ken
|
$200
[14]
A scandal about a necklace made from these was disastrous for the popularity of Marie Antoinette
diamonds
Ken
|
|
$400
[8]
Knights of Columbus
Catholicism
José
|
$400
[4]
This Spanish beauty seenherehas starred in "All the Pretty Horses" & "Blow"
Penelope Cruz
Ken
|
$400
[9]
It has used "Empire State" & the more formal "The Empire State"
New York
Ken
|
$400
[22]
In the Solomons, you can tour Olasana Island, where this future U.S. president was rescued in August 1943
JFK
Ken
|
$400
[27]
A slang term for a cemetery in a Western town came from a gunfighter's wish to die with these on
boots
Ken
|
$400
[17]
This member of the Rat Pack became a Vaudeville performer at age 3
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Ken
José
|
|
$600
[13]
Alharamain, King Faisal Foundation
Islam
José
|
$600
[5]
Shevampired it up in "Underworld" & "Van Helsing"
Kate Beckinsale
Ken
|
$600
[10]
Iowa has had "The Corn State", Kentucky has had "Bluegrass State", & it has had "The Wheat State"
Kansas
Ken
|
$600
[23]
There's a museum on Tahiti devoted to this artist who spent 12 years there
(Paul) Gauguin
Ken
|
$600
[28]
A bandito could wear this handkerchief as a scarf, a neckerchief or a mask
a bandana
Ken
|
$600
[18]
In January 1959 he assumed the presidency of France's Fifth Republic
De Gaulle
Josh
|
|
$800
[15]
Sakyadhita, Prison Dharma Network
Buddhism
Ken
Josh
|
$800
[6]
Late actress seenherein the same year she worked with her biggest co-star"Mm! Very tasty, my good man, very tasty."
Fay Wray
Ken
|
$800
[11]
Alabama's plate has this organ in its slogan
the heart
Josh
|
$1,000
[25]
The largest city in Oceania outside Hawaii & New Zealand is Port Moresby in this nation
Papua New Guinea
Ken
Josh
|
$800
[29]
The name of these protective leggings comes from a word for a dense growth of shrubs
chaps
José
|
$800
[19]
You can drive past the grassy knoll in this Dallas, Texas plaza
Dealey Plaza
Ken
|
|
$1,000
[16]
American/International Gita Society, Sanskrit Religions Institute
Hinduism
Ken
|
$1,000
[7]
Winning an Oscar at age 72 for "Rosemary's Baby", she said, "I can't tell you how encouraging... this is"
Ruth Gordon
Ken
Josh
|
$1,000
[12]
Idaho has been the "Vacation" this, Oregon the "Pacific" this, & Michigan the "Water-Winter" this
"Wonderland"
Ken
Josh
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
It's the isolated island where you'll find Adamstown, Point Christian & Bounty Bay
Pitcairn Island
Ken
|
$1,000
[30]
Also called a shoelace tie, it's a thin cord fastened in front with an ornamental clasp
a bolo tie
Josh
|
$1,000
[20]
American forces crossed this on Christmas Night 1776 to launch their surprise attack on the Hessians
the Delaware River
José
|
| THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE | MUSIC IN "C" | LITERARY ANALYSIS | SWEET SIXTEEN | STOP IT, YOU'RE KILLING ME! | VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME |
|
$400
[26]
In 1455 the Medici family had these in London, Avignon & Geneva as well as branches in Rome, Pisa & Venice
banks
Ken
|
$400
[16]
He was exposed to a wide range of music at the Florida State School for the Blind, 1937-1945
Ray Charles
Josh
|
$400
[11]
Exceedingly charming & cold-blooded; psychopathic; recommend isolation; oh yeah, he's a cannibal
Hannibal Lecter
Ken
|
$400
[1]
Enacted in 1913, the 16th Amendment gives Congress the power to lay and collect these taxes
income taxes
Josh
|
$400
[21]
March 15, 44 B.C.:Cassius & about 20 other guys take a stab
Julius Caesar
José
|
$400
[6]
Mondale's tables of worship
Walter's altars
Josh
|
|
$800
[27]
In 1479 Venice sent Gentile Bellini to this city after a request by Sultan Muhammad II for a good portraitist
Istanbul (or Constantinople)
Josh
|
$800
[17]
2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of this man from Aberdeen, Washington whose music touched the world
Kurt Cobain
Ken
|
$800
[12]
Delusional after her part in the king's murder, suffers from sleepwalking & obsessive "hand-washing"
Lady Macbeth
Ken
|
$800
[2]
Titan, this planet's largest moon, orbits it every 16 days
Saturn
Ken
|
$800
[22]
June 28, 1914:Gavrilo Princip jump-starts a world war
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Josh
|
$800
[7]
Al's portals
Gore's doors
Josh
|
|
$1,200
[28]
In December 1513 he wrote Francesco Vettori that he'd "composed a little work 'on princedoms'"
Machiavelli
Ken
|
$1,200
[18]
This song from "Abbey Road" originated as a campaign song for Timothy Leary
"Come Together"
|
$1,200
[13]
Rebellious in the ward; inducing other patients to gamble; grappling with Nurse Ratched; perhaps electro-shock?
McMurphy
Ken
|
$1,200
[3]
This royal family's restoration lasted 16 years under Louis XVIII & Charles X
Bourbon
Ken
|
$1,600
[24]
July 13, 1793:Charlotte Corday, in a Paris bathtub
Marat
Ken
|
$1,200
[8]
Aaron's mongrel dogs
Burr's curs
Ken
|
|
$1,600
[29]
A prosperous business was this trade which required the growing of mulberry trees
the silk trade
Ken
|
$1,600
[19]
Oh baby, it's the 1990 hit heard here"It burned like a ball of fire /When the rebel took a little child bride /To tease yeah /So go easy yeah"
"Cradle Of Love"
|
$1,600
[14]
Homicidal; believes he's God; lunacy perhaps caused by the African heat; must find out what he means by "The Horror"
(Col.) Kurtz (Mr. Kurtz accepted)
Ken
|
$1,600
[4]
A book begins with this "tall, slim girl, 'half-past sixteen'" sitting on a Prince Edward Island farm's doorstep
Anne Shirley (or Anne of Green Gables)
Ken
|
$2,000
[25]
July 20, 1923:Gunmen led by Mexican Congressman Jesus Salas Barraza
Pancho Villa
José
|
$1,600
[9]
Dan's humpbacks
Quayle's whales
Josh
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Her father, later Pope Alexander VI, arranged 3 marriages for her; the first was when she was 13
Lucrezia Borgia
Ken
|
$2,000
[20]
This eclectic American guitarist produced the album "Buena Vista Social Club"
Ry Cooder
Ken
|
DD
$5,000
[15]
"Ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings"; other "complaints"
Alexander Portnoy
Ken
|
$2,000
[5]
Thistypeof bassoon would be 16 feet long if you unfolded it all the way
double bassoon (or contrabassoon)
Ken
|
DD
$3,000
[23]
Around midnight on Dec. 29/30, 1916:Prince Felix Yusupov & pals, using poison, a gun, a club & drowning
Rasputin
Josh
|
$2,000
[10]
Colfax' accounting clerks
Schuyler's filers
Ken
|
They first teamed up in 1974; one a quiet Latin teacher & the other a former clown college student
Penn & Teller