Show #4642 2004-11-09 (taped 2004-08-25) Regular

Ken Jennings game 70.

Contestants

Dave Oosterhuis — a graduate student from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jeff Hoppes — a graduate student from El Cerrito, California

Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 69-day cash winnings total $2,325,001)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ken	$3,000	$3,200	$26,800	$30,000 70-day champion: $2,355,001	$24,400 28 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Jeff	$1,400	$8,600	$11,400	$22,800 2nd place: $2,000	$9,200 12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Dave	$4,400	$5,800	$3,400	$6,800 3rd place: $1,000	$13,400 16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

REMEMBER 1995?	FIRST NAME'S THE SAME	ORGANIZATIONS	ART SCHOOL	EITHER/OR	TO PHRASE A COIN
$200 [6] Not even the president of Belarus spoke Belarussian, so Belarus made this a state language too Russian Ken	$200 [1] Wagner, Holmes, Couric Katie Ken	$200 [22] Explorer Scouts form units; Boy Scouts form troops & Cub Scouts form these packs Ken	$200 [16] The most common one used by artists is probably the X-Acto a knife Ken	$200 [30] This question about grocery bags could also apply to how you're paying for those groceries Paper or plastic? Dave	$200 [11] Powerful brakes enable you to accomplish this idiomatic phrase stop on a dime Ken Dave
$400 [7] This pop star of the '60s posed for Playboy in a 1995 pictorial titled "These Boots Are Back" Nancy Sinatra Ken	$400 [2] Blair, Evans, Ellerbee Linda Dave	$400 [29] Founded in 1881, it serves veterans of the armed forces, helps disaster victims & runs blood centers in the U.S. the American Red Cross Ken	$400 [17] Turning tools are used to shape the clay on one of these a potter's wheel Ken	$400 [28] It's the first choice the visiting team's captain always has at midfield right before kickoff of an NFL game Heads or tails? Ken Jeff	$400 [12] You'd have to be quite unobservant to need the warning "don't take any" of these false coins wooden nickels Jeff
$600 [8] Charlemagne was elected mayor of this Haitian capital (by the way, that was Manno Charlemagne the folk singer) Port-au-Prince Ken	$600 [3] Rostenkowski, Rather, Marino Dan Dave	$600 [21] Group founded in 1868 whose full name includes the adjectives benevolent & protective the Elks Dave	$600 [18] A halftone screen breaks up a solid image into a pattern of these dots Jeff	$600 [27] It's the basic choice at KFC of what kind of chicken texture to have Original Recipe or Extra Crispy? Ken Jeff Dave	$600 [13] From 1864 to 1873, if you wanted to put your this "in", you could use a U.S. coin of that amount two cents Dave
$800 [9] Unlike the other new cadets at this school, Shannon Faulkner was not required to get her head shaved the Citadel Ken	$800 [4] Harry, Kerr, Norville Deborah Dave	$800 [23] Since 1851, it's helped people get where they're going Travelers Aid	$800 [19] Traditionally in drypoint, you use a steel needle to scratch your drawing into a plate of this metal copper Jeff	$1,000 [26] This title of an 1882 short story refers to a choice faced by a man before 2 doors "The Lady, or the Tiger?" Jeff	$800 [14] Completes the beat associated with rock pioneer Bo Diddley, "shave and a haircut..." two bits Dave
$1,000 [10] Opera fans said, "Bravo!" when "Master Class", a play about this diva, debuted in Philadelphia in 1995 Maria Callas Dave	$1,000 [5] Goldwyn, Adams, Beckett Samuel Ken	$1,000 [24] The UN's WHO, World Health Org., deals with medicine; its WMO, short for this, deals with weather World Meteorological Organization Jeff	$1,000 [20] When a sculptor is doing this he isn't fishing, but using the lost wax method to make a mold casting Jeff	DD $3,000 [25] On radio, Jack Benny responded to this question from a robber with a long pause & "I'm thinking" Your money or your life? Jeff	$1,000 [15] Proverbially, it means careful about small sums & reckless with large ones penny wise and pound foolish Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVELTY SONGS	HELLO MOTHER	HELLO FODDER	HERE I AM AT...	"CAMP"	GRANADA
$400 [1] His song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!" may have been based on the letters his son Robert sent from Camp Champlain Allan Sherman Ken	$400 [16] Proverbially, necessity is its mother invention Ken	$400 [26] The field of this in which Holden Caulfield imagined himself could have been grown for feed rye Ken	$400 [11] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew, in ski gear, reports from a snowy spot.) I'm on Mammoth Mountain, which, like a lot of great California skiing, is in this mountain range the Sierra Nevada Jeff	$400 [6] Presidential retreat once known as Shangri-La Camp David Dave	$400 [21] The Province of Granada borders Malaga, Murcia & this body of water the Mediterranean Ken
$800 [2] "She is afraid to come out of the water" because it's what "she wore for the first time today" an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini Ken	$800 [17] For its 20th anniversary edition in 1997, Christina Crawford added 100 pages to this memoir Mommie Dearest Ken	$800 [27] People from the North sow them in spring; Southerners sow them in fall; reckless youths sow wild ones oats Jeff	$800 [12] (Sarah of the Clue Crew leans against a corral fence in a high, green pasture.) I'm overlooking Paradise Valley in this state, with a nickname that encourages you to look up Montana Ken	$800 [7] Place a bet & name this classic heard here "Camptown Races" Ken	$800 [22] This group's nearly 800-year rule of Spain ended when Christian forces took Granada in 1492 the Moors Dave
$1,200 [3] This funky guy was "born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia" & "got a condo made a stone-a" King Tut Ken	$1,200 [18] In the Bible, this unfortunate man remarks, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb" Job Dave	$1,200 [28] Among plants whose seeds are found in these, peas are human food while vetch is fed to animals pods Ken	$1,200 [13] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands somewhere with a brightly-lit Eiffel Tower in the background.) I'm on the street called this, originally named by L.A. ex-cop Guy McAfee, who was reminded of Sunset Boulevard the Las Vegas Strip Ken	$1,200 [8] From the Italian for "bell", it's a type of bell tower campanile Ken	$1,200 [23] This great Spanish classical guitarist gave his first performance in Granada at the age of 16 Segovia Ken
$2,000 [5] This title guy said, "Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang" the witch doctor Ken	$1,600 [19] The painting of "Whistler's Mother" is owned by this French art museum that used to be a train station Musée d'Orsay Dave	$1,600 [29] Very young rabbits get the alfalfa type of this cut, dried fodder; then they graduate to timothy hay	$1,600 [14] (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands at the edge of an inviting, palm-enclosed lagoon lined with grass-capped umbrellas.) On the east coast of this Mexican peninsula, I'm actually due south of Florida the Yucatan Ken	$1,600 [9] In 1993 she became the first female director to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or (Jane) Campion Jeff	$1,600 [24] The "Court of the Lions" is the central fountain of this palace fortress found in Granada the Alhambra Dave
DD $4,000 [4] This 1920s novelty hit supposedly got its title from the confusing statement of a Greek fruit peddler "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Ken	$2,000 [20] In "The Conduct of Life", this transcendentalist reminded us, "Men are what their mothers made them" (Ralph Waldo) Emerson Ken	$2,000 [30] This legume that probably originated in Asia is the main source of protein supplements in livestock feed the soybean Ken	$2,000 [15] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls across a college campus.) I'm on the campus of this university, where over 25 Nobel Prize winners were educated, including Milton Friedman (the University of) Chicago Ken	$2,000 [10] Bill Moyers based "The Power of Myth" on his conversations with this man Joseph Campbell Dave	DD $10,000 [25] Granada is in this larger region from which the Spanish spoken in the Americas is largely descended Andalusia Dave

Final Jeopardy!

THEATRICAL PREMIERES

The "Playboy Riots" took place in this world capital in 1907 following a theatrical premiere

Dublin

Dave "What is Dublin?" — wagered $3,400

Jeff "What is Dublin?" — wagered $11,400

Ken "What is Dublin?" — wagered $3,200

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