Ken Jennings game 60.
Mary Carpenter — an engineer from Bear, Delaware
Jeff Matthews — a managing copy editor from Los Angeles, California
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 59-day cash winnings total $2,006,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $2,200 | $5,400 | $18,200 |
$25,000
60-day champion: $2,031,300 |
$17,400
25 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Jeff | $1,600 | $1,600 | $10,800 |
$5,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,800
14 R, 3 W |
| Mary | $0 | $400 | $-2,400 |
$-2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-1,400
5 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| NONFICTION | WOMEN IN SPORTS | "B"EOPLE | 1959 | ARTS & CRAFTS | PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING |
|
$200
[19]
"My Life", his hotly anticipated memoir, was released June 22, 2004
Bill Clinton
Jeff
|
$200
[26]
In June 2002 they became the first sisters to be ranked No. 1 & 2 in tennis at the same time
Venus & Serena Williams
Ken
|
$200
[11]
He joined "60 Minutes" during the 1981-'82 season
Ed Bradley
Ken
|
$200
[1]
The FDA seized over 254,000 lbs. of cranberries contaminated by pesticides just before this holiday
Thanksgiving
Jeff
|
$200
[16]
Also a geographic term, to quilters it's the equivalent of a picture frame
a border
Ken
|
$200
[2]
It's when "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love"
spring
Ken
|
|
$400
[22]
(Hi. I'm Bob Woodward.) In 1976 Carl Bernstein & I published "The Final Days" about his last days in office
Nixon
Jeff
|
$400
[27]
The first woman to have a Nike basketball shoe named for her, she was the WNBA's MVP in 2000 & 2003
Sheryl Swoopes
|
$400
[12]
Former NFL great Esiason
Boomer
Mary
|
$400
[3]
In October Sam Rayburn started a drive to get this Senate Majority Leader, & fellow Texan, the presidency
LBJ
Ken
|
$400
[17]
Patton knew nobody "ever won a war by" doing this craft, the tinting of fabrics, "for his country"
dyeing
Mary
|
$400
[7]
It "makes the heart grow fonder"
absence
Jeff
|
|
$600
[23]
"Greek Fire" is "The Story of Maria Callas and" him
Onassis
Ken
|
$600
[28]
Briefly in the '80s, this ice skater was married to Dean Martin's son
Dorothy Hamill
Jeff
|
$800
[14]
Seen here, he's a Delaware Democrat & the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Joe Biden
Mary
|
$600
[4]
Valerie Harper is one of the chorus girls in this 1959 movie musical set in Dogpatch
Li'l Abner
Ken
|
$600
[18]
Thistypeof picture takes its name from a medieval term for decorations of shrines to the muses
a mosaic
Ken
|
$600
[8]
"A new" one of these "sweeps clean"
a broom
Mary
|
|
$800
[24]
Dr. Spock's classic was originally titled "The Common Sense Book of" this
Baby and Child Care
Ken
Jeff
|
$800
[29]
It's Juli Inkster's sport
golf
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
On June 1, 2000 this governor stayed an execution for the first time; he had let over 130 go off normally
George W. Bush (when he was governor of Texas)
Mary
|
$800
[5]
In 1959 the first garment to be made of this new rubber-like material was a girdle
Lycra
Mary
|
$800
[20]
Make your own Johnny Gilbert T-shirt using this artistic process where ink is forced through stretched fabric
silkscreening
Ken
Jeff
|
$800
[9]
In "Julius Caesar", Shakespeare wrote that they "die many times before their deaths"
cowards
Ken
|
|
$1,000
[25]
He had a 2004 bestseller with "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror"
Richard Clarke
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1996, on an injured ankle, she did a final vault that helped the U.S. gymnastics team win the Olympic gold
Kerri Strug
Ken
|
$1,000
[15]
With 82% of the vote, she was elected Chicago's first female mayor in 1979 & led the city for 4 years
Jane Byrne
|
$1,000
[6]
His first novel was 1959's "Die Blechtrommel", "The Tin Drum"
(Günter) Grass
Jeff
|
$1,000
[21]
It's the word for the alloy that's heated to join the lead strips surrounding pieces of stained glass
solder
Ken
|
$1,000
[10]
It "is the poor man's bread" but one "who lives by" it "will die by hunger"
hope
|
| ISLANDS | A HIT TWICE | U.S. MILITARY MEN | BEER BRANDS | AROUND THE BODY | O FOR A |
|
$400
[16]
(Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Vanuatu, location of Survivor 9.) Using vines tied around their ankles, the land divers of Pentecost Island may have inspired this sport
bungee jumping
Ken
|
$400
[21]
In 1979 this comic duo resurrected Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" & it became their biggest hit
The Blues Brothers
Ken
|
$400
[30]
From July 1950 to April 1951 he served as U.N. Commander in Korea
MacArthur
Ken
|
$400
[1]
This beer started using the slogan "Brewed with pure Rocky Mountain spring water" in the 1930s
Coors
Ken
|
$400
[11]
The superior colliculus in the brain controls this action you try to avoid in a staring contest
blinking
Jeff
|
$400
[6]
Shed feathers for germinated grain used in brewing
molt for malt
Ken
|
|
$800
[17]
Asia's two smallest countries in area are the Maldives & this island nation at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula
Singapore
Ken
|
$800
[26]
At No. 3, this Jose Feliciano hit "couldn't get much higher", but it had when the Doors took it to No. 1
"Light My Fire"
Jeff
|
$800
[22]
Eisenhower wrote an "In case of failure" message for this historic date; luckily, he didn't have to use it
D-Day
Ken
|
DD
$400
[4]
This popular Japanese beer shares its name with the city that hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics
Sapporo
Ken
|
$800
[12]
You'll find the lingual nerve on the floor of this part of the body
the mouth
Ken
|
$800
[7]
A vague idea for any country
a notion for a nation
Jeff
|
|
$1,200
[18]
This island whose capital is Oranjestad is a self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Aruba
Ken
Mary
|
$1,200
[27]
In 1977 Meco topped the charts with the "Star Wars" theme; this composer of the theme could only reach No. 10
John Williams
Jeff
|
$1,200
[23]
In July 2003 this 4-star general retired from active duty after commanding Allied forces during the Iraq war
Tommy Franks
Ken
|
$800
[2]
The name of this Mexican beer is Spanish for "crown"
Corona
Ken
Jeff
|
$1,200
[13]
Christmas & Von Willebrand's are 2 less common forms of this disease that keeps blood from clotting
hemophilia
Jeff
|
$1,200
[8]
Change from a liquid to a gaseous state for a payment to get out of jail
boil for bail
Mary
|
|
$1,600
[19]
Although New Providence is this country's most populous island, Andros is the largest in area
the Bahamas
|
$1,600
[28]
Both Bobby Day & Michael Jackson peaked at No. 2 with this "Rockin'" single
"Rockin' Robin"
|
$1,600
[24]
19 years before commanding the AEF in WWI, he charged up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War
Pershing
Ken
|
$1,200
[3]
young man named Gerard started this brand in Amsterdam in the 1860s
Heineken
Mary
|
$1,600
[14]
In the hand, these are in self-lubricating sheaths to protect them from friction against the bones
tendons
Ken
Mary
|
$1,600
[9]
The price for the group of actors in a play
the cost for the cast
Jeff
|
|
$2,000
[20]
Finland's Aland Islands are considered the dividing line between the Baltic Sea & this huge gulf
the Gulf of Bothnia
Ken
|
$2,000
[29]
The 2 acts which had No. 1 hits with "Please Mr. Postman"--one (a Motown group) in 1961, the other (not) in 1975
The Marvelettes & The Carpenters
|
DD
$4,000
[25]
This future president gained national fame after defeating Santa Anna at Buena Vista, Mexico in 1847
Zachary Taylor
Ken
|
$2,000
[5]
The label of this brand is seen here
St. Pauli Girl
Jeff
|
$2,000
[15]
Latin for "bridge", it arches over the medulla oblongata with which it makes up the brain stem
the pons
Ken
|
$2,000
[10]
Completely humble yourself for small stones & pebbles
grovel for gravel
Jeff
|
After several decades off it, works by this man seenherereturned to the New York Times Bestseller list in 2003
J.R.R. Tolkien