Show #6088 2011-02-16 (taped 2011-01-14) IBM Challenge

The IBM Challenge game 2.

Contestants

Brad Rutter — a $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California (subtotal of $10,400)

Watson — a deep question answering system from IBM (subtotal of $35,734)

Ken Jennings — a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington (subtotal of $4,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ken $3,400 $8,600 $18,200 $19,200 $15,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Watson $4,200 $4,800 $23,440 $41,413 $26,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Brad $600 $2,400 $5,600 $11,200 $5,600
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

EU, THE EUROPEAN UNION ACTORS WHO DIRECT DIALING FOR DIALECTS BREAKING NEWS ONE BUCK OR LESS ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS
$200 [1]
Each year the EU selects capitals of culture; one of the 2010 cities was this Turkish "meeting place of cultures"
Istanbul
Watson
$200 [23]
"Rocky II", "III" & "IV"
Sylvester Stallone
Brad
$200 [30]
Sprechen Sie Plattdeutsch? If you do, you speak the Low variety of this language
German
Watson
$200 [16]
Before this hotel mogul's elbow broke through it, a Picasso he owned was worth $139 million; after, $85 million
Steve Wynn
Watson
$200 [17]
On December 8, 2008 this national newspaper raised its newsstand price by 25 cents to $1
USA Today
Ken
$200 [22]
Proverbially, it's "where the heart is"
home
Brad
$400 [25]
The Schengen Agreement removes any controls at these between most EU neighbors
national borders
Ken
$400 [24]
"Million Dollar Baby" &"Unforgiven"
Clint Eastwood
Brad
$400 [26]
Dialects of this language include Wu, Yue & Hakka
Chinese
Ken
$400 [28]
It was 103 degrees in July 2010 & Con Ed's command center in this N.Y. borough showed 12,963 megawatts consumed at 1 time
Manhattan
Brad
$400 [29]
The USPS cost for mailing this, a minimum of 3 1/2 x 5 inches, is 28 cents; wish you were here!
a postcard
Ken
$400 [27]
A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders to below the waist
a shift
Ken Watson
$600 [21]
A controversial EU subsidy program is called CAP, short for "Common" this "Policy"
Agricultural
Watson
$600 [11]
"The Pledge" &"Into the Wild"
Sean Penn
Ken
$600 [15]
Vedic, dating back at least 4,000 years, is the earliest dialect of this classical language of India
Sanskrit
Watson
$800 [6]
Gambler Charles Wells is believed to have inspired the song "The Man Who" did this "At Monte Carlo"
"Broke The Bank"
Watson
$600 [19]
In 2002 Eminem signed this rapper to a 7-figure deal, obviously worth a lot more than his name implies
50 Cent
Ken
$600 [20]
Football position that can be split or tight
an end
Brad
$800 [2]
Elected every 5 years, it has 736 members from 7 parties
Parliament
Watson
$800 [10]
"The Great Debaters"
Denzel Washington
Ken
$800 [4]
While Maltese borrows many words from Italian, it developed from a dialect of this Semitic language
Arabic
Watson
$1,000 [7]
Nearly 10 million YouTubers saw Dave Carroll's clip called this "friendly skies" airline "Breaks Guitars"
United Airlines
Watson
$800 [8]
99 cents got me a 4-pack of Ytterlig coasters from this Swedish chain
IKEA
Brad
$800 [13]
It's an abbreviation for Grand Prix auto racing
F1
Brad
$1,000 [3]
As of 2010, Croatia & Macedonia are candidates but this is the only former Yugoslav republic in the EU
Slovenia
Watson Brad
$1,000 [9]
"A Bronx Tale"
Robert De Niro
Brad
$1,000 [5]
Aeolic, spoken in ancient times, was a dialect of this
Ancient Greek
Watson
DD $3,600 [18]
Senator Obama attended the 2006 groundbreaking for this man's memorial, 1/2 mile from Lincoln's
Martin Luther King
Ken
$1,000 [12]
A 15-ounce V05 Moisture Milks conditioner from this manufacturer averages a buck online
Alberto
Ken
$1,000 [14]
An additional section placed within the folds of a newspaper
an insert
Ken Brad

Double Jeopardy! Round

NONFICTION LEGAL "E"s WHAT TO WEAR? U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES MAGICAL MOUSE-TERY TOUR FAMILIAR SAYINGS
$400 [17]
In 2010 this former First Lady published the memoir "Spoken from the Heart"
Laura Bush
Watson
DD $367 [16]
This 2-word phrase means the power to take private property for public use; it's OK as long as there is just compensation
eminent domain
Watson
$400 [23]
This plain-weave, sheer fabric made with tightly twisted yarn is also used to describe a pie or cake
chiffon
Ken
$400 [25]
Cape Hatteras is known as this cemetery synonym "of the Atlantic"
a graveyard
Brad
$400 [27]
Itchy (the mouse) & Scratchy (the cat) starred in "Skinless in Seattle" on a show within this Fox show
The Simpsons
Watson
$400 [28]
Familiarity is said to breed this, from the Latin for "despise"
contempt
Watson
$800 [19]
This book by Michael Lewis subtitled "Evolution of a Game" focused on left tackle prodigy Michael Oher
The Blind Side
Brad
$400 [18]
In English law, it's a title above a gentleman & below a knight; in the U.S., it's usually added to the name of an attorney
esquire
Watson
$800 [24]
A bit longer than a cocktail dress, one hemmed to end at the shins is this beverage "length"
tea
Brad
$800 [26]
Appropriately enough, this New York metropolis is "Bison City"
Buffalo
Watson
$800 [29]
In 1939's cartoon "The Pointer", this guy got a new, more pear-shaped body & pupils were added to his eyes
Mickey (Mouse)
Watson
$800 [30]
Even a broken one of these on your wall is right twice a day
clock
Watson
$1,600 [4]
Dave Eggers not-so-modestly titled his memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of" this
Staggering Genius
Watson
$800 [21]
One definition of this is entering a private place with the intent of listening secretly to private conversations
eavesdropping
Ken
$1,200 [11]
Also the name of a rope for leading cattle, this women's backless top has a strap that loops around the neck
halter
Watson
$1,200 [10]
This town is known as "Sin City" & its downtown is "Glitter Gulch"
Las Vegas
Watson
$1,200 [9]
This 1959 Daniel Keyes novella about Charlie Gordon & a smarter-than-average lab mouse won a Hugo Award
Flowers for Algernon
Watson
$1,200 [1]
If you're one of these capable fellows, you're unfortunately "master of none"
a jack of all trades
Brad
$2,000 [20]
HBO's miniseries "John Adams" was based on this author's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography
David McCullough
Watson
$1,200 [15]
This person is appointed by a testator to carry out the directions & requests in his will
executor
Watson
$1,600 [6]
If you're wearing Wellingtons at Wimbledon, you're wearing these
rainboots (or galoshes)
Ken
$1,600 [7]
It's known as both "The Steel City" & "The Iron City"
Pittsburgh
Ken
$1,600 [8]
The samplefest "The Grey Album" & the band Gnarls Barkley are 2 projects of Brian Burton, aka this
Danger Mouse
Ken
$1,600 [2]
A camel is a horse designed by this
a committee
Ken
DD $2,127 [5]
The New Yorker's 1959 review of this said in its brevity & clarity it is "unlike most such manuals, a book as well as a tool"
The Elements of Style
Watson
$2,000 [22]
This clause in a union contract says that wages will rise or fall depending on a standard such as cost of living
escalator
Watson
$2,000 [13]
Throw on an outfit from the "Marc by" this designer line
Marc Jacobs
Watson
$2,000 [12]
"The Coyote State" is an unofficial nickname of this 75,885-square-mile state
South Dakota
Watson
$2,000 [14]
Maurice LaMarche found his inner Orson Welles to voice this rodent whose simple goal was to take over the world
the Brain
Ken
$2,000 [3]
It's a poor workman who blames these
tools
Watson

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY NOVELISTS

William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel

Bram Stoker

Brad "Who is Bram Stoker?" — wagered $5,600
Ken "Who is Stoker? (I for one welcome our new computer overlords)" — wagered $1,000
Watson "Who is Bram Stoker?" — wagered $17,973

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