Show #4633 2004-10-27 (taped 2004-08-17) Regular

Ken Jennings game 61.

Contestants

Merritt Hamilton Allen — a director of communications originally from Silver City, New Mexico

Adam Villani — an engineer from Long Beach, California

Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 60-day cash winnings total $2,031,300)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ken	$3,400	$9,400	$25,200	$34,001 61-day champion: $2,065,301	$22,200 32 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Adam	$2,800	$4,600	$17,000	$24,401 2nd place: $2,000	$17,000 17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Merritt	$800	$2,000	$12,200	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$8,400 10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY	FAMILIAL SONG TITLES	RED ALERT!	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS	BUMPER STICKERS?	"J" WALKING
$200 [1] Louisiana's lowest point is 8 feet below sea level in this city New Orleans Merritt	$200 [11] He was asked, "Can you spare a dime?" Brother Ken	$200 [22] Red-tailed hawks are mentioned in the journals of these men on their overland transcontinental 19th c. journey Lewis & Clark Ken	$200 [6] A button warned: this man "in 64 hot-water in 65" Barry Goldwater Ken	$200 [21] This ex-NRA president:"Get yer stinkin' paws of my gun, you dirty ape!" Charlton Heston Adam	$200 [16] In medieval times this country was known as Cipango Japan Adam
$400 [2] The Wrigley family owns much of this resort island 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles Catalina Ken	$400 [12] They "Are Doin' It For Themselves" Sisters Ken	$400 [27] It's the variety of red pepper most often used to stuff a green olive a pimento Merritt	$400 [7] Champions of this governor running for president in 1928 included the New York Yankees (Al) Smith Ken	$400 [23] A "V.I.P." celeb:"Warning--I brake for rock stars, especially Tommy Lee, Kid Rock, Bret Michaels..." Pamela Anderson Ken	$400 [17] Kick out these door supports & your transoms will fall down the jambs Ken
$600 [3] This island, a NYC Borough, is separated from New Jersey by 2 narrow channels: the Kill Van Kull & the Arthur Kill Staten Island Ken	$600 [13] Unfortunately, she "Got Run Over By A Reindeer" Grandma Merritt	$600 [28] In May 1987 German pilot Mathias Rust landed his small private plane at this location Red Square Ken	$600 [8] In 1921 Harding commuted the sentence of this candidate whose campaign used a bust of him in prison garb Eugene Debs Ken	$600 [24] The mom of this theoretical physicist, in 1966:"My child is a Cambridge doctoral candidate" (Stephen) Hawking Ken	$600 [18] (Hi, I'm Tim Russert of NBC's Meet the Press.) In 1985 I supervised a broadcast from Rome featuring a live interview with this man, a first for American television Pope John Paul II Adam
$800 [4] The western part of this state's panhandle is the high plains, or llano estacado, "staked plains" Texas Adam	$800 [14] He "Was A Rollin' Stone" Papa Ken	$800 [29] The 1999 Smithsonian symposium "Red, White, & American" was on the U.S. history of this beverage wine Merritt	$800 [9] He was called the poor man's candidate in 1896; a campaign button quoted his "Cross of Gold" speech William Jennings Bryan Ken	$800 [25] For this North American member of the family iguanidaeseen here:"Honk if you're corneus" horned lizard (or horned toad) Ken	$800 [19] On the eastern end of I-10 is this city, home to the Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Florida Adam
DD $1,000 [5] This river joins the Columbia near Pasco, Washington, a little more than 1,000 miles from its source in Wyoming the Snake River Adam	$1,000 [15] The Judds asked him to "Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days" Grandpa Ken	$1,000 [30] Record books list the largest of these red objects as the 6,465-carat Eminent Star a ruby Ken	$1,000 [10] State where the concession speech seenherewas made in 2004 Iowa Adam	$1,000 [26] This ex-AOL Time Warner vice chairman & sports team owner:"I'd rather be sailing" Ted Turner Ken	$1,000 [20] This psychoanalyst once wrote, "The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense" (Carl Gustav) Jung Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

RUSSIAN CULTURE	BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS	CHILDREN IN LITERATURE	POTENTATE POTABLES	ENTER & DESIGN IN, PLEASE	"RE"RUNS
$400 [1] Ivan Kramskoi paintedhimin 1873 with the author at the height of his powers (Leon) Tolstoy Ken Adam Merritt	$400 [9] "Lenny" Lenny Bruce Ken	$400 [6] Lewis Carroll created this heroine to amuse the daughter of his dean at Christ Church Alice Ken	$400 [16] Moet introduced this "Imperial" line of champagne in 1863 to honor this late emperor Napoleon Ken	$400 [30] The "gargoyles" on this NYC skyscraper were designed to look like auto radiator caps the Chrysler Building Adam	$400 [21] If preparations are going poorly, just remember, "bad" this, "good show" rehearsal Ken
$800 [2] Cirque du Soleil'saerial cubewas originated in Russia by members of this famed circus the Moscow Circus Ken	$800 [12] "Immortal Beloved" Beethoven Adam	$800 [7] This "parish boy" hero is born in a workhouse & becomes one of Fagin's thieves Oliver Twist Ken	$800 [17] The widget in this beer won a Queen's Award for technological advancement in 1991; stout work! Guinness Ken	$800 [29] Philo T. Farnsworth was 15 when he designed his first system for this medium TV Ken	$800 [22] (Sofia of the Clue Crew fires a shotgun out in the hills.) Newton's third law of motion explains why this 6-letter reaction happens after I discharge the gun recoil Adam
$1,200 [3] The paintingseenheredepicts these workers, also the subject of a Russian folk song Boatmen of the Volga (or Volga Boatmen) Merritt	$1,200 [13] "Born on the Fourth of July" Ron Kovic Ken	$1,200 [8] He wrote about fictional children Willie Mufferson, Joe Harper, & Sid Sawyer Mark Twain Adam	$1,200 [18] This Dutch-born English king introduced gin to England as the "pouring spirit" in the palace at Hampton Court William III Ken Adam Merritt	$1,600 [28] Introduced in 1941, Kenneth Parker's Parker 51, one of these, became a status symbol a pen Adam	$1,200 [25] Split-face concrete blocks & geo-grid reinforcement are used to build this wall at the edge of a terrace a retaining wall Ken Merritt
$1,600 [4] In Russian, these nesting dolls are called matryoshka, from a word meaning this person mother Merritt	$1,600 [14] "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo" Doolittle Adam	$1,600 [10] This author wrote for The New Yorker while penning books about Fern Arable & Stuart Little (E.B.) White Ken	$1,600 [19] Cheers to this Babylonian king who codified the use of beer for his people Hammurabi Adam	$2,000 [27] A painter & two architects designed the 1935 studio 42 model of one of these for Olivetti a typewriter Merritt	$1,600 [23] A quick verbal reply, or a closed laboratory vessel a retort Adam
$2,000 [5] Sergei Prokofiev scored this Eisenstein film about a historic hero on the Neva river Aleksandr Nevsky Ken	$2,000 [15] "A Beautiful Mind" (John) Nash Adam	DD $5,000 [11] "What is essential is invisible to the eye" is the secret the fox shares with this title character the Little Prince Ken	$2,000 [20] Prince Henry the Navigator planted vineyards for this drink named for an archipelago southwest of Portugal Madeira Ken	DD $5,000 [26] At age 15, after seeing a demo by Santos-Dumont, Raymond Loewy made a toy one of these powered by a rubber band a plane Merritt	$2,000 [24] T.S. Eliot wrote, "In a minute there is time for decisions and" these "which a minute will reverse" revisions Ken

Final Jeopardy!

POPULATIONS

With only about 425,000 people, it's South America's least populous independent mainland country

Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana)

Merritt "What is Bolivia?" — wagered $12,200

Adam "What is Suriname?" — wagered $7,401

Ken "What is Surinam" — wagered $8,801

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