Show #4656 2004-11-29 (taped 2004-09-07) Regular

Ken Jennings game 74.

Contestants

Kathi Fry — a physician from Scottsdale, Arizona

Rob Kimbro — a theater director and stay-at-home dad from Princeton, New Jersey

Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 73-day cash winnings total $2,491,700)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ken	$6,000	$9,200	$23,200	$29,000 74-day champion: $2,520,700	$22,600 27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Rob	$-600	$1,400	$8,400	$900 2nd place: $2,000	$14,600 24 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Kathi	$0	$-400	$400	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$400 1 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

1804	COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME	HOW CAPITAL!	CHAIRS	TAKING STOCK	SHOOT SOME "POOL"
$200 [7] This inventor's Feb. 7, 1804 birth made William & Sarah his plowed, er, proud parents John Deere Ken Rob	$200 [13] A popular exhibit at the Hall of Fame is the actual cornfield used on this "corny" TV show Hee Haw Rob	$200 [1] If you know that El Castillo del Morro looms over this city's harbor, have a cigar Havana Ken	$200 [26] Sip some port while lounging on the port side of a ship in one of these chairs named for part of a ship a deck chair Ken	$200 [21] Babies' bottoms can rest a little easier with Balmex, a diaper rash ointment made by "JNJ", this company Johnson & Johnson Ken	$200 [6] A group of commuters traveling together in one vehicle a carpool Rob
$400 [8] In 1804 Rhode Island College was renamed this Brown Ken	$400 [14] Before getting "On The Road Again", he donated a blue bandana & a pair of sneakers to the Hall Willie Nelson Ken	$400 [2] (Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN.) A few years after I graduated from Yale, I spent 5 months studying Vietnamese at the University of this world capital Hanoi Ken	$400 [27] If you want to be crowned King of England, this rock has to be in your coronation chair the Stone of Scone Rob Kathi	$400 [22] Let's see... I need a new hot tub, insulation, a belt sander & some 2x4s; time to head over to "HD", this company Home Depot Ken	$400 [12] A rapidly rotating current of water whirlpool Rob
$600 [9] Napoleon, who once remarked, "It is with baubles that men are led", presided over the first presentation of this in 1804 Legion of Honor Rob	$600 [15] This inductee and one-time San Quentin inmate has his pardon from Governor Reagan displayed at the Hall Merle Haggard Ken Rob	$600 [3] There are many places to buy pesos in this capital's Benito Juarez Airport Mexico City Rob	$600 [28] A Montgolfier is a Louis XVI chair with a back often shaped like one of these a balloon Rob	$600 [23] If you enjoy squeezing its Charmin, you can thank this company, "PG" Procter & Gamble Rob	$600 [16] An underground container for sewage cesspool Ken
$800 [10] A 2004 biography of this president born November 23, 1804 is subtitled "New Hampshire's Favorite Son" Franklin Pierce Ken	$800 [18] The Country Music Hall of Fame has a dress made & worn by this Kentucky-born singer as a 14-year-old newlywed Loretta Lynn Ken	$800 [4] It's difficult, but try picturing George Bernard Shaw as a baby when you visit his birthplace in this world capital Dublin Ken	—	$800 [24] Don't "DIS" this company, though shareholders did just that when 43% voted against its CEO at the '04 annual meeting Disney Rob	$800 [17] English port city on the Mersey River Liverpool Rob
DD $1,600 [11] This British chemist took his last breath of oxygen Feb. 6, 1804 (Joseph) Priestley Ken	$1,000 [19] This "Singing Brakeman" was in the first group of performers inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame Jimmie Rodgers	$1,000 [5] This city on Honshu Island was once the capital of Japan, & its name means "capital city" Kyoto Ken Rob	—	$1,000 [25] IBM (stock symbol IBM) is short for this International Business Machines Ken Rob	$1,000 [20] A military installation's centrally managed group of vehicles intended for the use of personnel the motor pool Rob

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS	BRITISH FOOD WORDS	WEAPONS OF THE 2nd MILLENNIUM	WORKS OF THE BARD	B, M, W	THE ULTIMATE DIVING MACHINE
$400 [1] Around 1915 Debussy composed 12 etudes in memory of this Polish-French composer Chopin Ken	$400 [19] The starch in a British meal might be a "jacket", or baked, one of these a potato Rob	$400 [8] Around 1550 the British called the Spanish arquebuses "calivers", a corruption of this word caliber Rob Kathi	$400 [3] In a real spoiler, the prologue of this play says that "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life" Romeo and Juliet Ken	$400 [13] Double feature companion to the main attraction a B movie Ken	$400 [22] He designed a steam-powered submarine as well as the steam-powered Clermont Fulton Rob
$800 [2] Beethoven's father tried to promote him as a child prodigy, like this Salzburg-born genius Mozart Rob	$800 [30] Jack the Ripper is Cockney rhyming slang for this breakfast favorite kippers Rob	$800 [9] In the 19th century Sir William Congreve turned a pyrotechnic device into one of these red-glaring weapons a rocket Ken	$800 [4] This tragic title character's first words are "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" Macbeth Rob	$800 [14] Cobalamine or pyridoxine or riboflavin vitamin B Ken	$1,200 [24] The U.S. Naval Submarine School is located in Groton in this state Connecticut Kathi
$1,200 [10] "The Tender Land" is a 1954 opera by this "Appalachian Spring" composer Copland Ken	$1,200 [29] "Digestive biscuits" is British for these crackers we named after an American Graham crackers Rob	$1,200 [16] Introduced in World War I, the Mills bomb was actually one of these flung weapons a grenade Ken	$1,200 [5] Caius Marcius, a Roman general, receives this name after capturing the city of Corioli Coriolanus Rob	$1,200 [15] Symbol for 1.094 yards m (for meter) Rob	$1,600 [25] The historical claim to fame of the German submarine known as U-20 was this action on May 7, 1915 sinking the Lusitania Rob
$1,600 [11] This Austrian composer's Symphony No. 8 is known as the "Symphony of a Thousand" (Gustav) Mahler Ken	$1,600 [28] John Bull uses maize flour; Uncle Sam, this 8-letter word cornmeal Ken	$2,000 [21] The name of this short-barreled cannon goes back to the Czech houfnice, "slingshot" a howitzer Rob	$1,600 [6] The Bard's version of this Trojan prince's death in "Troilus and Cressida" has him killed by the Myrmidons Hector Rob	$1,600 [17] International vehicle I.D. for you & your car if you're both Walloons B (for Belgium) Ken	$2,000 [26] For his work in developing nuclear-powered subs, this admiral was known as the "Father of the Atomic Submarine" Hyman Rickover Rob
$2,000 [12] He supervised a 1907 phonograph recording of his own "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo Ken	$2,000 [27] A fruit's seeds become these in Britain, like Sherlock Holmes' case of the "Five Orange" ones pips Rob	DD $7,800 [20] A British weapon during WWI had a cover name of "water-closet for Russia", which became water-this, then just this tank Rob	$2,000 [7] Shylock asks Bassanio, "What news on" this commercial heart of Venice? the Rialto	$2,000 [18] Subatomic particle referred to as an intermediate vector boson a W boson Ken	DD $2,400 [23] This first lady christened the first U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus Mamie Eisenhower Rob

Final Jeopardy!

BABY NAMES

Of the Social Security Administration's top 10 boys' names in 2000, the 2, ending in the same letter, on a list of the 12 Apostles

Matthew & Andrew

Kathi "What are John & Simon" — wagered $400

Rob "What are Thomas + Judas" — wagered $7,500

Ken "What are Matthew & Andrew?" — wagered $5,800

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