Show #4631 2004-10-25 (taped 2004-08-17) Regular

Ken Jennings game 59.Ken breaks the $2 million mark.

Contestants

Nathan Gordon — a bar manager from New Orleans, Louisiana

Jennifer Harriss — a community counselor from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 58-day cash winnings total $1,976,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ken $5,800 $10,400 $27,200 $30,000
59-day champion: $2,006,300
$27,800
33 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jennifer $-200 $800 $5,600 $600
3rd place: $1,000
$5,600
7 R, 2 W
Nathan $2,400 $3,800 $11,500 $11,201
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE MOST POPULOUS NATION SPORTS TERMS GARDENS SHIPS EMILY POST-ER CHILD SEARCH: LIGHT
$200 [6]
Nigeria, Nepal, Norway
Nigeria
Ken
$200 [16]
"Ribby" refers to this baseball stat
runs batted in
Jennifer
$200 [17]
Archaeologists found the remains of walls near the Euphrates that may have belonged to this famous project
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Ken
$200 [1]
Charles Darwin once wrote, "The voyage of" this ship "has been by far the most important event in my life"
the Beagle
Ken
$200 [11]
These are meant to be used regularly during the meal (just in case you have a milk mustache or something...)
napkins
Nathan
$200 [23]
Thistype of photoelectric cell converts sunlight to energy
solar
Ken
$400 [7]
Spain, Mexico, Argentina
Mexico
Nathan
$400 [18]
(I'm Troy Vincent of the NFL.) Along with 2 safeties, 2 players at this position of mine normally make up the secondary
cornerbacks
Ken Nathan
$400 [22]
Thissite has seen more than its share of historic & ceremonial occasions
the Rose Garden (at the White House)
Ken
$400 [2]
Neither this man nor his flagship the Trinidad completed the circumnavigation of the world in the 1520s
Magellan
Ken
$400 [12]
These "are still the 'magic' words they've always been", & you should insist your child use them
please & thank you
Nathan
$400 [24]
Thistype of light can drill holes in diamonds or carry information over long distances
laser
Ken
$600 [8]
Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg
the Netherlands
Ken
$600 [19]
"Around the world" is a round of golf with this score, an allusion to a certain novel
80
Jennifer
$600 [28]
Term given the home vegetable gardens planted by patriotic Americans during WWII
victory gardens
Ken
$600 [3]
The Mary Rose, a warship built for this British king, sank in 1545 & was raised in 1982
Henry VIII
Ken
$600 [13]
Post goes on for over a page on the "the validity of" this 2-letter word, a kid's earliest must-learn concept
no
Nathan
$600 [25]
A bulb gives off light from this which comes from the resistance of the filament to the electric current
heat
Ken
$800 [9]
East Timor, North Korea, South Africa
South Africa
Nathan
$800 [20]
In basketball, this position that can be either "small" or "power" is sometimes called "cornerman"
forward
Ken
$800 [29]
Not the Golden Gate, but the gate seen here, gets you into this garden
the Japanese Tea Garden (in San Francisco)
Jennifer
$800 [4]
In 1787 the great cabin of this ship once called the Berthia was converted to house pots to hold breadfruit
the Bounty
Ken
$800 [14]
Children should learn not to interrupt others' conversations except in the case of one of these
an emergency
Jennifer
$800 [26]
Light can be have like a particle or, when it bends, like one of these
wave
Ken
$1,000 [10]
The Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Bahamas
the Dominican Republic
Ken Jennifer Nathan
$1,000 [21]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew comes to a quick stop on the slopes.) A sharp turn perpendicular to the hill is this kind of stop, named for the game played by Brendan Shanahan
hockey
Jennifer
$1,000 [30]
It's a garden in which plants are grown for scientific & educational purposes; Brooklyn has one
a botanical garden
Nathan
DD $2,000 [5]
3 torpedoes fired from the British cruiser Dorsetshire helped sink this battleship on May 27, 1941
the Bismarck
Ken
$1,000 [15]
On formal correspondence, you may address a boy under 7 years old by this title
Master
Nathan
$1,000 [27]
The photon, a light particle, has momentum & energy but no electric charge or this
mass
Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

LAW REVIEW OLD SONGS HOPE YOU'RE WELL READ... CROSSWORD CLUES "C" HURRY UP!!! WHAT'S THE RUSHMORE?
$400 [21]
On "The Practice" Rebecca started at this job, not a lawyer but one authorized to use legal skills
a paralegal
Nathan
$400 [30]
"This Land Is Your Land" is a famous song written by this man, a major influence on folk & rock
Woody Guthrie
Ken
$400 [6]
In this 1903 book, Buck, a dog in California, is stolen & taken to the Klondike
The Call of the Wild
Ken
$400 [1]
Lively high-kicking dance(6)
can-can
Ken
$400 [16]
The Sixth Amendment guarantees your right to a speedy & public one
a trial
Nathan
$400 [11]
A depiction of Mount Rushmore appears on this state's official license plates
South Dakota
Ken
$800 [22]
In 1817 the first U.S. university law school was established near the Charles River at this school
Harvard
Nathan
$800 [29]
Fred Astaire's sister Adele introduced this Gershwin tune
"The Man I Love"
$800 [7]
In 1798 he wrote several poems, including "France: An Ode" & "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Coleridge
Ken
$800 [2]
Picasso's "square" style(6)
Cubism
Ken
$800 [17]
"I feel the need... the need for speed!" is a line from this high-octane Tom Cruise movie
Top Gun
Nathan
$800 [12]
It's the "dark" mountainous region where you'll find Mount Rushmore
the Black Hills
Nathan
$1,200 [23]
This voluntary organization of over 350,000 lawyers was founded in 1878 by 75 of them
the ABA (American Bar Association)
Ken
$1,200 [26]
In this song standard, Otto Harbach wrote, "Someday you'll find all who love are blind"
"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"
Ken
$1,200 [8]
Gloria Naylor took home a 1983 National Book Award for "The Women of" this "Place"
Brewster Place
Jennifer
$1,200 [3]
An exact duplicate(6, 4)
carbon copy
Ken
$1,200 [18]
In France, the TGV is a high-speed one of these
a train
Ken
$1,600 [14]
Of the 4 men immortalized on Mount Rushmore, the one who was born last
Teddy Roosevelt
Ken
$1,600 [24]
In the plea known by this 2-word Latin phrase, the defendant doesn't admit or deny the charges
nolo contendere
Ken
$1,600 [27]
There was a rush to record this big hit of 1948
"You Call Everybody Darlin'"
$1,600 [9]
A 1980 Mordecai Richler novel told about this character "Then and Now"
Joshua
Ken
$1,600 [4]
Cranky lawn weed(9)
crabgrass
Jennifer
$1,600 [19]
When going after prey, this chameleon part can top speeds of 16 1/2 feet per second
its tongue
Ken
$2,000 [15]
He's the ambitious & visionary sculptor who designed & oversaw the massive Mount Rushmore project
(Gutzon) Borglum
Nathan
$2,000 [25]
If a lawyer talks to a judge about a case without opposing counsel present, it's this Latin phrase for "on one side only"
ex parte
DD $1,600 [28]
The 1925 tune about this instrumental female begins, "I saw the splendor of the moonlight on Honolulu Bay"
"Ukulele Lady"
Ken
$2,000 [10]
With his Mommy Dearest, this Frances Hodgson Burnett title character moves to England & inherits a title
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Ken
$2,000 [5]
Dental tartar, or branch of math(8)
calculus
Jennifer
$2,000 [20]
Cyclotrons & synchrotrons are 2 types of these machines used to increase the speeds of subatomic nuclei
particle accelerators
Ken
DD $2,500 [13]
Of the 4 men on Mount Rushmore, the 2 who were lawyers
Lincoln & Jefferson
Nathan

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC FIRSTS

The brother of this leader is believed to be the first known European to have died in the Americas

Leif Ericson

Jennifer "Who was Penn?" — wagered $5,000
Nathan "Who was/is Columbus (Chris)" — wagered $299
Ken "Who is Leif Ericson?" — wagered $2,800

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