Ken Jennings game 68.U.S. presidential election coverage on 2004-11-02 bumped airdates for games this week by one day, resulting in a Saturday airdate for an original episode.
Leo Wolpert — a college student from Fairfax, Virginia
Ryan Cook — a graduate student originally from Eveleth, Minnesota
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 67-day cash winnings total $2,272,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $5,000 | $5,000 | $27,600 |
$33,201
68-day champion: $2,305,801 |
$26,600
31 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ryan | $1,800 | $5,800 | $16,600 |
$29,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,600
21 R, 2 W |
| Leo | $200 | $1,400 | $200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$200
4 R, 2 W |
| THE MIDDLE AGES | WOMEN ON TV | I'M A PEPPER, YOU'RE A PEPPER | ODD ANIMAL FACTS | I WANT MY SUV | TANGLED UP IN "BLUE" |
|
$200
[2]
In the late 11th century this peninsula contained the kingdoms of Leon, Castile, Navarre & Aragon
Iberia
Ken
|
$200
[1]
Holland Taylor plays mom to Jon Cryer & Charlie Sheen on this sitcom
Two and a Half Men
Ryan
|
$200
[11]
In a nursery rhyme, he "picked a peck of pickled peppers"
Peter Piper
Leo
|
$200
[26]
Most of a shark's brain is devoted to this sense
smell
Ryan
|
$200
[21]
Explorer
Ford
Ryan
|
$200
[16]
Legend has it Gershwin had to write this famous piece in 3 weeks because he forgot about a deadline
Rhapsody in Blue
Ken
|
|
$400
[7]
This city-state began electing its own doges in 727 after gaining its independence from the Byzantine Empire
Venice
Ken
|
$400
[3]
This woman who makes being a CIA officer exciting on TV recorded a recruitment video for the agency
Jennifer Garner
Ken
|
$400
[12]
Christopher Columbus may have grown up on the salami with white peppercorns named for this hometown of his
Genoa
Ken
|
$400
[27]
Don't book any chipmunks for a recordings session during this season of the year; they're sleeping
winter
Leo
|
$400
[22]
Grand Cherokee
Jeep
Ken
|
$400
[17]
Music-hating enemies of the denizens of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine"
the Blue Meanies
Ryan
|
|
$600
[8]
One of the 63 articles in this 1215 document granted the English Church freedom from royal interference
the Magna Carta
Ken
|
$600
[4]
Ming-Na plays Dr. Jing-Mei (Deb) Chen on this drama
ER
Ken
|
$600
[13]
The annual sombrero festival in Brownsville, Texas includes a contest of eating these peppers; that's hot!!!!!
jalapeños
Ken
|
$600
[28]
Swifts use this thick and gummy substance to hold their nests together
saliva
Ryan
|
$600
[23]
Blazer
Chevrolet
Leo
|
$600
[18]
Murzim, Hadar & Acrux are these astronomical "behemoths"
blue giants
Ken
|
|
$800
[9]
In 1291 leaders of 3 cantons signed the Perpetual Covenant, the beginning of what became this nation
Switzerland
Ryan
|
$800
[5]
S. Epatha Merkerson played Reba, the mail lady, on this Saturday morning series starring Paul Reubens
Pee-wee's Playhouse
Ryan
|
$800
[14]
This pungent herb's scientific name is Mentha piperita
peppermint
Ken
|
$800
[29]
These black & white Chinese "bears" don't usually roar like grizzly bears, but sort of bleat
giant pandas
Ken
|
$800
[24]
Xterra
Nissan
Ryan
Leo
|
$800
[19]
They're the geological formations mentioned in John Denver's "Take Me Home Country Roads"
the Blue Ridge Mountains
Ryan
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, this city's Pazzi Chapel was one of the first buildings in the Renaissance style
Florence
Ryan
|
$1,000
[6]
She played Ida Morgenstern & Rosie, fan of Bounty paper towels
Nancy Walker
Ken
|
$1,000
[15]
The name of this German rabbit stew literally means "peppered hare"
Hasenpfeffer
Ryan
|
DD
$2,000
[30]
Male lions are the only cats to have them & they darken as they grow
manes
Ken
|
$1,000
[25]
Montero
Mitsubishi
Ryan
|
$1,000
[20]
Legend has it that this breed descended from the royal cat of the czars
the Russian blue
Leo
|
| MATH & SCIENCE | "DON'T" FORGET THIS SONG | LAND O' LAKES | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB | OFFICIAL STATE FOOD & DRINK | FAMILIAR PHRASES |
|
$400
[1]
John Wheeler named this singularity in the late 1960s; the Russians called it a collapsar
a black hole
Ken
Ryan
|
$400
[16]
Julie Covington made a popular recording of this song from "Evita"
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina"
Ryan
|
$400
[6]
A memorial on an island in this Great Lake honors Oliver Hazard Perry's victory there during the War of 1812
Erie
Ken
|
$400
[11]
Hey, hey, hey--several of this comic's "Little Bill" books have made Oprah's list, including "The Best Way to Play"
(Bill) Cosby
Ken
|
$400
[21]
Concentrate & perhaps you can come up with this state beverage of Florida
orange juice
Ryan
|
$400
[23]
An old proverb says not to do this "till you come to it"
cross that bridge
Ryan
|
|
$800
[2]
On a map, this is denoted by 1 inch=3 miles, for example
scale
Ken
|
$800
[17]
In 1976 Elton John wrote & duetted with Kiki Dee on this world-conquering smash hit
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Ken
|
$800
[7]
Trasimeno, a large lake in this European country, was the site of a big Hannibal victory in 217 B.C.
Italy
Ryan
|
$800
[12]
In 2004 Oprah selected this Garcia Marquez novel, calling it "one of the greatest books of all times"
100 Years of Solitude
Ken
|
$800
[22]
With flavors like lemon-lime & black cherry, this official soft drink of Nebraska keeps the kids smiling
Kool-Aid
Ken
|
$800
[24]
Dan Quayle warped this line to "What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is very wasteful"
a mind is a terrible thing to waste
Ryan
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Adolphe Brongniart is called the father of this science that studies fossil plants
paleobotany
Ken
|
$1,200
[18]
The Grammys honored vocal virtuoso Bobby McFerrin for this 1988 song
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"
Ken
|
$1,200
[8]
About 116 square miles in area, Moosehead is the largest lake in this "Pine Tree State"
Maine
Ken
Leo
|
$1,200
[13]
"Sula", in 2002, was the fourth book by this author to be selected
Toni Morrison
Ryan
|
$1,200
[28]
A true delicacy, the morel is Minnesota's state one of these
a mushroom
Ryan
|
$1,200
[25]
A traditional prayer asked for deliverance "from the ghoulies and the ghosties... and the things that" do this
go bump in the night
Ken
|
|
$2,000
[5]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a strip of paper from the top secret Jeopardy!labs.) The Mobius stripis used in this field, the study of properties that don't change when a shape bends or twists
topology
Ryan
|
$1,600
[19]
This Cole Porter song says, "Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above"
"Don't Fence Me In"
Ken
|
$1,600
[9]
This lake holds 2 extreme world records: the saltiest & the lowest
the Dead Sea
Ken
|
$1,600
[14]
This coming-of-age story by Jane Hamilton about a small-town Illinois girl sounds like an Old Testament book
The Book of Ruth
Ken
|
$1,600
[29]
A variety of muscadine, the scuppernong type of this is North Carolina's state fruit
grape
Ken
|
$1,600
[26]
In "An Essay on Man", he wrote, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast"
Pope
Ken
|
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
Around 1850 George Boole devised a new take on this branch of math
algebra
Ken
|
$2,000
[20]
Journey's 1981 album "Escape" featured this hit that went to No. 9 on the charts
"Don't Stop Believing"
Ryan
|
$2,000
[10]
Bujumbura, capital of this land, sits on Lake Tanganyika
Burundi
Ryan
|
DD
$3,600
[15]
Oprah gave readers 2 shakes of this author's tales: "She's Come Undone" & "I Know This Much Is True"
Wally Lamb
Ken
|
$2,000
[30]
This alliterative state cookie of Massachusetts was invented there in the 1930s
the chocolate chip cookie
|
$2,000
[27]
This drinking instruction is the first line of Ben Jonson's "To Celia"
Drink to me only with thine eyes
Ken
|
Its solo female winner is awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish
Wimbledon