2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 5, game 1.
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
Brad Rutter — a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Jerome Vered — a writer from Los Angeles, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerome | $1,600 | $3,200 | $12,400 | $16,400 |
$12,400
12 R, 0 W |
| Brad | $600 | $2,200 | $14,200 | $18,400 |
$14,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ken | $4,600 | $8,200 | $13,000 | $16,000 |
$12,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| THE SMART SET | EGGHEADS | SHEER GENIUS! | SHREW-ED | HIGH INTELLIGENCE | "BRIL"-LIANT! |
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$200
[1]
As co-editor of the influential magazine The Smart Set, this Baltimorean attacked the "booboisie"
(H.L.) Mencken
Ken
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$200
[11]
As "The Absent-Minded Professor", Fred MacMurray reached new heights after discovering this magical substance
flubber
Brad
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$200
[26]
Among his 355 patents is an 1887 one for ballistite, or smokeless powder
(Alfred) Nobel
Jerome
Ken
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$200
[21]
Continent where you'd find the shrews Crocidura nigeriae & Crocidura tansaniana
Africa
Jerome
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$200
[16]
In 2004 he replaced George Tenet as the permanent head of the CIA
Porter Goss
Ken
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$200
[6]
A rapid chaotic beating of the heart muscles in a nonsynchronous way
fibrillation
Brad
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$400
[2]
His first U.S. publication, in the May 1915 Smart Set, was 2 stories about Dubliners
James Joyce
Brad
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$400
[12]
Since 1963 this British title character has traveled through time & space in a device called the TARDIS
Doctor Who
Ken
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$400
[27]
In 1884 Ottmar Mergenthaler invented this machine that eliminated setting type by hand
the linotype machine
Jerome
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$400
[22]
Canadian province where you'll most likely spot Trowbridge's shrew, which enjoys Douglas fir seeds
British Columbia
Ken
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$400
[17]
The name of this intelligence service established in 1951 is from the Hebrew for "institution"
Mossad
Ken
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$400
[7]
1964buildingblocksfor awacky Warholwork
Brillo
Ken
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$600
[3]
In 1919 The Smart Set ran his first paid story, "Babes in the Woods"; in 1922, the classic "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ken
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$600
[13]
In the '60s he played Egghead, a super-smart villain on TV's "Batman"
Vincent Price
Jerome
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$600
[28]
The difference engine, a computing device he designed in the 1820s, was built in 1991 from his plans & it worked!
(Charles) Babbage
Ken
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$600
[23]
The Southeastern shrew inhabits the marshy U.S. region that got this uninviting name from Col. William Byrd
the Great Dismal Swamp
Ken
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$600
[18]
John Thurloe was this English leader's intelligence chief in the 1650s, gathering info on royalist plots
(Oliver) Cromwell
Ken
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$600
[8]
A crude cart used to carry the condemned to the guillotine during the French Revolution
a tumbril
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DD
$1,000
[4]
This ex-sailor published 3 early sea plays in the magazine, including "The Long Voyage Home"
Eugene O'Neill
Ken
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$800
[14]
The head of the house on this sitcom was alien egghead/physics professor Dick Solomon
3rd Rock from the Sun
Brad
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$800
[29]
In 1837 Brits Cooke & Wheatstone designed an electric one; later that year, an American painter perfected it
the telegraph
Brad
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$800
[24]
The Mt. Malindang shrew & the Palawan tree shrew are native to this country
the Philippines
Brad
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$800
[19]
During World War II Gen. Bill Donovan ran this forerunner of the CIA
the OSS (Office of Strategic Services)
Jerome
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$800
[9]
Miles Franklin was only a teenager when she penned this bestseller about growing up in Australia's outback
My Brilliant Career
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$1,000
[5]
His 1st published story, "The Parthian Shot", ran in The Smart Set in 1922, before he began doing his spadework
Dashiell Hammett
Brad
Ken
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$1,000
[15]
In this screwball comedy, stuffy paleontologist Cary Grant had a few bones to pick with Katharine Hepburn
Bringing Up Baby
Ken
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$1,000
[30]
Named for its American inventor, this electrostatic generator is used to accelerate particles
a Van de Graaff generator
Ken
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$1,000
[25]
It would be "serendip"itous to see a Kelaart's long-clawed shrew, as it lives only on this island
Sri Lanka
Ken
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$1,000
[20]
Sanskrit for "learned man", this term was used for natives recruited into intelligence gathering in British India
pundit
Ken
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$1,000
[10]
12-letter word for an oily men's hair cream to keep hair in place & make it look glossy
brilliantine
Jerome
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| LET'S GET BIBLICAL | TAKE ME TO THE RIVER | STATE THE CHEMICAL ELEMENT | MY CATEGORY WITH ANDRE | IT CHANGED THE WORLD | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER |
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$400
[21]
We're not lyin', most of the Book of Daniel takes place in this ancient kingdom
Babylon
Ken
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$400
[16]
Jean Renoir's film "The River" was shot on location in India along the banks of this river
the Ganges
Ken
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$400
[1]
Colorado
cobalt
Brad
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$400
[11]
Known as "The Hawk", this Chicago Cub was the 1987 National League MVP
Andre Dawson
Brad
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$400
[30]
His empire collapsed after he died of a fever in 323 B.C.; guess he forgot to feed a cold
Alexander the Great
Brad
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$400
[6]
On the body of water near Duluth, a place of justice employs this person for amusement
a Lake Superior Court Jester
Ken
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$800
[22]
On Purim it's a tradition to read from this Bible book with a woman's name
Esther
Jerome
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$800
[17]
The name of this Pennsylvania river is from the Dutch for "hidden channel"
the Schuylkill
Brad
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$800
[2]
California
calcium
Brad
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$1,200
[13]
We hope to guide you to the name of this man who developed detachable tires with his brother Edouard
(Andre) Michelin
Brad
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$800
[29]
In the Americas the 1521 conquest of this people was aided by their lack of resistance to measles & smallpox
the Aztecs
Brad
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$800
[7]
'60s dance craze in which you shout, "The sky is falling--at least Polaris' star group is!"
Funky Chicken Little Dipper
Ken
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$1,200
[23]
Abigail got this king to spare her husband Nabal's life; about 10 days later Nabal died & she wed the king
King David
Ken
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$1,200
[18]
Rising in the Cottian Alps, it's the longest river in Italy
the Po
Jerome
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$1,200
[3]
Georgia
gallium
Ken
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$1,600
[14]
Later French Minister of Culture, in 1923 he was arrested for removing some artifacts from a Cambodian temple
Andre Malraux
Jerome
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$1,200
[26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands before a portrait of George Marshall in the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.) George Marshall became Chief of Staffof a 200,000 man army on this date, when WWII began; by war's end, the number was 8 million
September 1, 1939
Ken
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$1,200
[8]
This place of pirates & Lost Boys adds Alaska's nickname & is home to the leader of jazz' Solar Arkestra
the Never Never Land of the Midnight Sun Ra
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$1,600
[24]
Jacob was shocked when he lifted the veil on his first bride & found her to be this woman
Leah
Jerome
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$1,600
[19]
These two rivers both start with "Dn" & flow into the Black Sea within 100 miles of Odessa
the Dnieper & the Dniester
Ken
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$1,600
[4]
South Carolina
scandium
Brad
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
This French Minister of War lent his name to an ineffective fortification on the border with Germany
(Andre) Maginot
Brad
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$1,600
[27]
The Bolsheviks took over Russia in the fall of 1917, removing this moderate socialist who had become P.M. in July
Kerensky
Brad
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$1,600
[9]
The Oscar-winning actor who freed the slaves & then became a muckraking journalist
F. Murray Abraham Lincoln Steffens
Brad
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$2,000
[25]
God asked him, "Should not I spare Nineveh... wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons"
Jonah
Ken
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$2,000
[20]
When visiting Argentina, visit the Cataratas, or falls of, this river, which include the Tres Mosqueteros
Iguazu
Jerome
Ken
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$2,000
[5]
Maryland
mendelevium
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$2,000
[15]
He's the avant-garde theater director who puts it all out on the table in the film "My Dinner with Andre"
Andre Gregory
Jerome
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DD
$1,600
[28]
The papers that revolutionized modern physics were published in 1905 by a clerk of this city's patent office
Bern
Brad
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$2,000
[10]
His efforts have included singing "I Want Your Sex", playing "The American President" & occupying Japan
George Michael Douglas MacArthur
Brad
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Citing John Winthrop, who said, "The eyes of all people are on us", Ronald Reagan liked to compare the U.S. to this
a shining city on a hill