Show #4637 2004-11-03 (taped 2004-08-18) Regular

Ken Jennings game 65. Ken breaks Kevin Olmstead's record for most money won on a television game show.U.S. presidential election coverage bumped this game's airing by one day. Affiliates with no election coverage aired the "4,000th Episode" special (#4088) on 2004-11-02.

Contestants

Rob Perry — a graphic designer from Brooklyn, New York

Denise Tanyol — a student and adjunct writing instructor from Norristown, Pennsylvania

Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 64-day cash winnings total $2,151,901)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ken	$4,200	$11,200	$37,600	$45,099 65-day champion: $2,197,000	$31,800 37 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W
Denise	$1,000	$1,800	$3,800	$6,001 2nd place: $2,000	$3,800 4 R, 0 W
Rob	$1,200	$3,200	$6,800	$2,999 3rd place: $1,000	$6,800 13 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

BRINGING HOME THE BACON	BEFORE I WAS ELECTED	BASEBALL IN THE '60s	IT'S ELEMENTAL	STUPID ANSWERS	FOREIGN ANIMAL NOISES
$200 [30] Served hot or cold, this "European" style of potato salad is made with vinegar & bacon German Rob	$200 [7] A regular rocket scientist, U.S. Representative Rush Holt of this "Garden State" was a nuclear physicist New Jersey Ken	$200 [16] This Braves slugger hit 375 of his 755 career home runs in the 1960s Hank Aaron Ken	$200 [1] The Sanskrit juel, "to shine", was transmuted into this 4-letter element by Anglo-Saxons gold Rob	$200 [20] This large Swiss city is on the western end of Lake Geneva Geneva Ken	$200 [6] To the Germans & Vietnamese, these say wau wau when chasing a postman or a cat a dog Rob
$400 [29] Spaghetti a la this has a sauce made with eggs, cream, Parmesan cheese & Italian bacon carbonara Ken	$400 [8] Congressman Tom Osborne used to coach a little football at this Big 12 school, going 255-49-3 Nebraska Rob	$400 [17] On May 8, 1968 this "fishy" Oakland A's pitcher threw the only A.L. perfect game of the 1960s Catfish Hunter Ken	$400 [2] With 1 as its atomic number, this gas heads up the periodic table hydrogen Ken	$400 [21] Surely you know this was the first name of author Evelyn Waugh's first wife Evelyn Ken	$400 [12] It will wake you up with kokekokko in Japan & kykeliky in Norway a rooster Rob
$600 [28] Oui! This thick, round cut of lean beef tenderloin is popularly served with a bacon strip wrap around it filet mignon Ken	$600 [9] Don't "procrastinate"; tell us the name of this house majority leader & ex-exterminator from Houston Tom DeLay Ken	$600 [18] In 1968 this Cincinnati Reds player became the first catcher ever named Rookie of the Year Johnny Bench Ken	$600 [3] In the electronics industry, this element symbolized Si, is made into N- & P-types of semiconductors silicon Ken	$600 [22] In 2004 publisher David Carey announced that more Californians than New Yorkers subscribed to this magazine The New Yorker Ken	$600 [13] Albanian ones say hunk hunk; maybe it's the smell that makes French ones saygroin groinwhile truffle hunting pigs Ken
$800 [27] Named for a French region, it's a brunch dish of eggs, crumbled bacon & often Swiss cheese in a pastry shell Quiche Lorraine Ken	$800 [10] Congressman Don Young of this state can list "Fort Yukon Riverboat Captain" on his resume Alaska Ken	$800 [19] This St. Louis Cardinals pitcher was named MVP of the 1964 & 1967 World Series (Bob) Gibson Rob	DD $1,000 [4] Its symbol Hg comes from the Latin hydrargyrum, "watery silver" mercury Ken	$800 [23] (Hi, I'm Ari Fleischer.) Now named for James Brady, this room in the White House is where the briefing of the press takes place the briefing room Ken	$800 [14] In Argentina they berp; Swedish ones kvack while hopping frogs Denise
$1,000 [26] Wrap bacon around a water chestnut & a piece of chicken liver & you've got this Asian-style appetizer rumaki	$1,000 [11] Senator Lincoln Chafee of this New England state spent 7 years as a blacksmith at racetracks in the U.S. & Canada Rhode Island Rob	$1,000 [25] In 1967 this Red Sox outfielder became the last Major Leaguer to win hitting's Triple Crown Yastrzemski Rob	$1,000 [5] Oxides of this silver-white metallic element are used in pigments to give some ceramics a vivid blue color cobalt Denise Rob	$1,000 [24] In 2004 Whistling Straits in Wisconsin hosted this PGA championship the PGA Championship Ken	$1,000 [15] They say piv while stealing havarti & squitt squitt if they get into the provolone mice Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRINGING HOME KEVIN BACON	OCEAN NOTIONS	A WORLD OF BOOKS	8-LETTER WORDS	"T"-HE	PLAQUES
$400 [14] Bring home this 1984 movie & you'll see Kevin kick off his Sunday shoes & dance up a storm Footloose Ken	$400 [20] Most of these in the Northern Hemisphere have broken off from Greenland icebergs Ken	$400 [1] "The Count of Monte Cristo" & "The Black Tulip" are a pere of his historical romances Dumas (pere) Ken	$400 [9] From the Greek for "to see", it's a wide & unobstructed view of an extensive area in all directions panorama Rob	$800 [28] He's the author of 1987's "The Art of the Deal" (Donald) Trump Ken	$800 [27] A plaque honoring the men who died building Hoover Dam reads, "They died to make" this type of area "bloom" the desert Ken
$800 [15] Recent film in which Kevin played a detective & childhood pal of grieving father Sean Penn Mystic River Ken	$800 [19] 1978's SEASAT, a companion to LANDSAT, was the first one of these dedicated to oceanography a satellite Denise	$800 [2] In 1973 the KGB confiscated a manuscript of this massive work & Solzhenitsyn soon published it in France The Gulag Archipelago Rob	$800 [10] A flag, a pedestal or a song often used in repertories standard Rob	$1,200 [21] His 1940 "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog" is semi-autobiographical Dylan Thomas Ken	$1,200 [24] A plaque at the Annapolis Docks honoring the arrival of this "Roots" slave was stolen within days of its dedication Kunta Kinte Ken
$1,200 [16] See Kevin in his film debut as a pledge for the rival Omega House in this comedy classic Animal House Denise	$1,200 [3] Sea otters & garibaldies are inhabitants of these "forests" kelp Rob	$1,200 [6] Detective Cordelia Gray debuted in this Englishwoman's "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" (P.D.) James Ken	$1,200 [13] The scientific name of this whale is Megaptera novaeangliae, or "Big-winged New Englander" the humpback Ken	$1,600 [22] He lost to Rutherford B. Hayes by one electoral vote Samuel J. Tilden Ken	$2,000 [26] This American Nobel Laureate is seen here with a plaque at the site of his discovery of plutonium Glenn Seaborg Rob
$1,600 [17] Kevin's role in this movie seenheremay have left him feeling a bit empty Hollow Man Ken Rob	$1,600 [4] This word means a school of fish or a shallow spot in the sea a shoal Ken	$1,600 [7] If you can't come up with this Japanese title of Tayama Katai's novel translated as "The Quilt", sleep on it Futon Ken	$1,600 [12] It's the death or decay of body tissue due to injury or failure of the blood supply gangrene Ken	DD $4,400 [23] Nat Turner led a slave revolt in the U.S. in 1831; he led a peasant revolt in England in 1381 Wat Tyler Ken	DD $4,800 [25] A plaque in the Louisiana state capitol marks the site of this violent event of Sept. 8, 1935 the assassination of Huey Long Ken
$2,000 [18] Kevin & Elizabeth Perkins share a little romance as well as opposing viewpoints in this 1991 film He Said, She Said Ken	$2,000 [5] The ocean crust sits or floats on the Earth's mantle & is composed mainly of this igneous rock basalt Ken	$2,000 [8] You can go back to medieval Norway by reading Sigrid Undset's novel about this woman & her father Lavrans Kristin Lavransdatter	$2,000 [11] The military term for weapons & ammunition, it can also describe the tools used to make them ordnance	—	—

Final Jeopardy!

ROYALTY

This king was the great-grandfather of France's King Louis XV

Louis XIV

Denise "Who is Louis XIV?" — wagered $2,201

Rob "Who is Henry 8th" — wagered $3,801

Ken "Who is Louis XIV?" — wagered $7,499

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