Ken Jennings game 71.Ken sets a new second-highest single-day cash winnings record of $55,099.
Dan Ford — an editor from Arlington, Virginia
Lisa Buckhout — a research associate originally from Niagara Falls, New York
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 70-day cash winnings total $2,355,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $6,600 | $15,000 | $44,800 |
$55,099
71-day champion: $2,410,100 |
$36,200
43 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lisa | $1,400 | $3,400 | $1,400 |
$1,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,400
4 R, 1 W |
| Dan | $1,000 | $1,800 | $2,600 |
$1,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,600
7 R, 1 W |
| ANTHROPOLOGY | HIT TV THEME SONGS | RHYMES WITH FOUR | THE NEW TESTAMENT | THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE | TAKE ME HOME, ALEX |
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$200
[26]
The snake dance of the Hopi is a petition to the gods to bring this
rain
Dan
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$200
[16]
The theme song for "The Beverly Hillbillies", "The Ballad of" this man, went to No. 44 in 1962
Jed Clampett
Ken
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$200
[6]
A wild hog
a boar
Dan
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$200
[1]
Matthew was a publican, meaning he collected these
taxes
Ken
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$200
[21]
"Lion on the Links" is the subtitle of a biography of him
Tiger Woods
Dan
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$200
[11]
This PM had a swimming pool built at his home Chartwell, in Kent, where he spent the last 40 years of his life
Churchill
Ken
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$400
[27]
Johann Blumenback determined from his collection of these body parts that there were 5 races of humans
skulls
Dan
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$400
[17]
Whatcha gonna do? This "Cops" theme song by Inner Circle peaked at No. 8 in 1993
"Bad Boys"
Ken
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$400
[7]
Represented Tennessee in the Senate, 1985 to 1993
Gore
Ken
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$400
[2]
This author of Corinthans is very proud of the fact he's multilingual
Paul
Ken
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$400
[22]
The same firm did the beading on Dorothy's ruby slippers for "The Wizard of Oz" & this man's famous sequined glove
Jacko (Michael Jackson)
Ken
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$400
[12]
This 1920s matinee idol is said to haunt Falcon Lair, his Hollywood home
Valentino
Lisa
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$600
[28]
From the name of the ancient Greek city of Pergamum we get this word for an old material to write on
parchment
Ken
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$600
[18]
Heard here, the theme to this TV show hit the charts 3 different times
Peter Gunn
Ken
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$600
[8]
20 years
a score
Ken
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$600
[3]
Acts reports that John & he were arrested under suspicion of promoting resurrection of the dead
Peter
Ken
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$600
[23]
This Halloween favorite that has bands of white, orange & yellow dates back to the 1880s
candy corn
Ken
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$600
[13]
Prefabricated & shipped by steamboat to Hannibal, Mo., Pilaster House is a childhood home of this author
Mark Twain
Ken
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$1,000
[30]
"The Book of Knowledge" refers to these New Mexico Indian dwellings as large apartment houses
pueblos
Lisa
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$800
[19]
Climbing to No. 25 in 1976, "Making Our Dreams Come True" was the hit theme song for this TV show
Laverne & Shirley
Ken
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$800
[9]
Return a painting or a piece of furniture to its original condition
restore
Dan
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$800
[4]
Acts & this Gospel are credited to the same author
Luke
Ken
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$800
[24]
The use of steel girders in construction inspired A.C. Gilbert to invent this classic toy
an erector set
Ken
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$800
[14]
After the deaths of his Uncle George & Aunt Martha, Bushrod Washington moved into this home
Mount Vernon
Ken
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|
DD
$4,000
[29]
To a Yurok Indian of the Pacific NW, the scalps of these birds that eat insects in trees were a form of wealth
woodpeckers
Ken
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$1,000
[20]
Appropriately, his 1976 No. 1 hit "Welcome Back" was the theme song to "Welcome Back, Kotter"
John Sebastian
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$1,000
[10]
Pakistan's second most populous city
Lahore
Ken
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$1,000
[5]
Object opened in Revelation 8, or a Bergman film that opened in 1957
the Seventh Seal
Ken
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$1,000
[25]
Sit-N-Snooze & Slack-Back were suggested names for what became this brand of reclining lounge chairs
La-Z-Boy
Lisa
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$1,000
[15]
Once home to a prosperous NYC merchant who went bankrupt, it's now the mayor's official residence
Gracie Mansion
Lisa
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| PHILOSOPHY | FILMED IN HAWAII | U.S. "S"ITIES | ASTRONOMY | WHO WAS THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN... | NAMES FROM THE GERMAN |
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$400
[1]
Anti-civilization philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau advocated man's "Return to" this
Nature
Ken
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$400
[6]
Kauai filled in for South America in this first Indiana Jones film
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ken
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$400
[11]
It's California's capital as well as the "Almond Capital of the World"
Sacramento
Ken
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$400
[16]
This planet closest to the sun features a crater, the Caloris basin, which is about the size of Texas
Mercury
Ken
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$400
[21]
...the Tet Offensive was launched
Elizabeth II
Ken
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$400
[30]
You'll know it's from the German for "rule" & "army" if you just do the Matthau
Walter
Ken
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$800
[2]
This ancient philosopher wrote about a theory of forms in his "Republic"
Plato
Ken
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$800
[7]
Part of this 1961 Elvis movie was filmed at the Hilton Hawaiian village, also the birthplace of the colorful cocktail
Blue Hawaii
Ken
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$800
[12]
They're Washington State's 2 largest "s"ities
Seattle & Spokane
Ken
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$800
[17]
Triton, this planet's largest satellite, has a surface temperature of about -390 degrees F.
Neptune
Ken
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$800
[22]
...the Spanish Armada was destroyed
Elizabeth I
Ken
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$800
[29]
It's German for "strong ruler", like a lion-heart, we guess
Richard
Ken
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$1,200
[3]
Kierkegaard said that God telling Abraham to do this in Genesis 22 is an example of absurdity in religion
sacrifice his son (kill Isaac)
Dan
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$1,200
[8]
We assume that Jessica Lange was impressed by the size of her co-star in this 1976 remake filmed partly in Hawaii
King Kong
Ken
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$1,200
[13]
You can score some points right now if you know that this city is "The Birthplace of Basketball"
Springfield (Mass.)
Dan
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$1,200
[18]
Jupiter's feature called this is really a windstorm raging at around 250 mph & large enough to cover 2 Earths
the Great Red Spot
Ken
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$1,200
[23]
...the U.S. ended its Civil War
Victoria
Ken
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$1,600
[27]
This name we spell with a G or a J may be from the German Gaufrid, "land-peace" or Gisfrid, "pledge-peace"
Jeffrey
Ken
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$1,600
[4]
Ancient Greek philosopher from Samos whose school promoted pleasure & let women & slaves join, too
Epicurus
Ken
Dan
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$1,600
[9]
Danny DeVito scampered off to Kauai to murder Billy Crystal's wife in this 1987 comedy caper
Throw Momma from the Train
Ken
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$1,600
[14]
The first Olympics held in the U.S. were in this Midwest city in 1904
St. Louis
Ken
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$1,600
[19]
Meteors, also known as shooting stars, may be debris left by these icy bodies traveling around the sun
comets
Ken
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$2,000
[25]
...the Union Jack was first used
James I
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$2,000
[28]
Halmric, "home-power", became this in English, a powerful name of a '70s Secretary of State
Henry
Ken
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$2,000
[5]
This Scot wanted to change the course of philosophy with his 1739-1740 "A Treatise of Human Nature"
David Hume
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$2,000
[10]
In a John Ford movie filmed on Kauai, John Wayne played "Guns" Donovan, the owner of this title bar
Donovan's Reef
Ken
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$2,000
[15]
Until 1867 it was the capital of Russian America
Sitka
Ken
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$2,000
[20]
Part of this astronomer's "belt" theory says small chunks of matter are the building blocks of planets
Gerard Kuiper
Lisa
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DD
$6,600
[24]
...Napoleon lost at Waterloo
George III
Ken
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DD
$13,200
[26]
In English it means "truthful"; in German it's "Frenchman"
Frank
Ken
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Aptly, his middle name contained the word "rich"
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller