Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Timematch 1, game 1.
Brad Rutter — the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California
Ken Jennings — the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
James Holzhauer — the setter of 20Jeopardy!records from Las Vegas, Nevada
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| James | — | $7,800 | $16,600 | $33,200 |
$16,600
20 R, 0 W |
| Ken | — | $7,000 | $33,200 | $45,000 |
$25,800
29 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Brad | — | $4,000 | $5,200 | $10,400 |
$8,400
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF THE NATIONAL PARKS | THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY, & I QUOTE... | SCHOOL DAYS | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | THE TOTALLY RAD 1980s | THE OSCARS |
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$200
[29]
Here's aviewof this Utah national park through one of the sandstone features for which it is named
Arches
Ken
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$200
[22]
Tybalt, Act I, scene v:"Uncle"
Romeo and Juliet
Ken
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$200
[20]
(Norman Lear delivers the clue.) From the Latin for "citizen", it's the study of the rights & duties of citizens; I took it at P.S. 67 in New York & it would help our country if more kids studied it now
civics
Brad
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$200
[30]
Sackbut is an old name for this instrument that has a slide & a bell
a trombone
Brad
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$200
[26]
Hey, babe! I made you a bitchin' mixtape to play on this Sony item that dominated the '80s & began in the U.S. as the "Soundabout"
a Walkman
Ken
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$200
[24]
Nearly 44 million people were watching the Oscars on ABC in 2014 when this film about Solomon Northup won Best Picture
12 Years a Slave
Ken
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$400
[28]
Thisnational park in New Mexico is home to large colonies of bats, as seen here
Carlsbad Caverns
James
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$400
[21]
Ariel, Act I, scene ii:"No"
The Tempest
Ken
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$400
[19]
Adam Sandler's song "Lunchlady Land" says, "Yesterday's meatloaf is today's"this
sloppy joe
James
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$400
[27]
These paired rattles of Latin America are traditionally made using gourds filled with beads or seeds
maracas
Ken
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$400
[25]
Duuuude! You were a massive Spicoli wearing this brand's checkered slip-on sneakers!
Vans
James
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$400
[23]
On Oscar night 2016 Best Animated Short went to "Bear Story"; this other bear story won Best Actor & Best Director
The Revenant
James
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$600
[5]
The name of this waterfallon the Merced River in Yosemite means "occurring in spring", also the time to see it at its peak
Vernal
James
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$600
[2]
Mustardseed, Act III, scene i:"Mustardseed"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ken
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$600
[16]
The 2-word title of a 1972 George Carlin album, it's what George probably was at Corpus Christi Grammar School
Class Clown
Ken
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$600
[14]
Vivaldi wrote a piece for strings &this instrument that's often associated with beginner musicians
recorder
Brad
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$600
[1]
I thought this movie about Olympic runners would be grody to the max but not even! It won Best Pic, & everyone loves Vangelis!
Chariots of Fire
Brad
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$600
[8]
This half of a sibling duo runs the gamut from "There's Something About Mary" to "Green Book", for which he won 2 Oscars
Peter Farrelly
Brad
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$800
[4]
Head to Sequoia National Parkto salute thetreenamed this, the world's largest by volume
the General Sherman
James
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$800
[11]
Christopher Sly, Act I, scene i:"Yes"
The Taming of the Shrew
Ken
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$800
[17]
High school math! These equations that don't use exponents are so named because of the way they can be graphed
linear equations
Ken
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$800
[13]
The score of the movie "The Third Man" was performed by Anton Karas, playing this stringed instrument
a zither
Ken
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$800
[3]
I was so stoked when this Team USA hockey captain scored the winning goal against the Soviets in 1980's "Miracle on Ice"!
Eruzione
James
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$800
[9]
The second, third & fourth Oscars for Best Actress went to Canadian-born women, starting with her, "America's Sweetheart"
Pickford
Ken
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$1,000
[6]
A great place for boating, Glen Canyon National Recreation Areais home to this second-largestmanmade lakein the United States
Lake Powell
James
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$1,000
[12]
Achilles, Act II, scene i:"What? What?"
Troilus and Cressida
James
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$1,000
[18]
The first state law allowing these more autonomous publicly funded schools passed in 1991; today over 40 states allow them
charter schools
James
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DD
$1,800
[15]
Last name of Robert, inventor of an electronic music synthesizer; the instrument was on The Doors album "Strange Days"
Moog
Brad
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$1,000
[7]
I'm so sure I had, like, so many pieces on my wall of the work of this '80s artist, a lot like the one seen here
(Patrick) Nagel
Ken
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$1,000
[10]
The Oscar-winning song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" was by this hip-hop group
Three 6 Mafia
James
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| DANCING WITH THE CZARS | DAVID MUIR COVERS THE WORLD | THE "SAT"s | POP CULTURE BOOKSHELF | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER | CHEMISTS |
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$400
[22]
17th century czar Fyodor III of this dynasty was highly educated & reform minded but died young
Romanov
James
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$400
[30]
(David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2019 I traveled to Afghanistan to speak with the top U.S. commander General Scott Miller, who said that not just military might but a political settlement with this group might be a necessary part of any endgame in America's longest war
the Taliban
Ken
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$400
[29]
A small unit of a large entity, like a campus apart from the main branch of a university
a satellite
Ken
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$400
[28]
Ernest Cline's "Armada" finds Zack preparing against a perceived attack from aliens hailing from Europa, a moon of this planet
Jupiter
James
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$400
[19]
Oscar-nominated "South Park" song that soars in a V formation, with a 1970s Yankee closer
"Blame Canada" Goose Gossage
Ken
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$400
[27]
(Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) Auguste Laurent & Jean-Baptiste Dumas hated each other, but they worked together to pioneer this branch of chemistry that focuses on carbon & the carbon compounds found in living things
organic
James
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$800
[21]
In 1855 Czar Alexander II came to the throne at the height of this conflict
the Crimean War
James
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$800
[23]
(David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2016 I got a rare look inside this controversial detention facility &watchedthrough one-way glass as some of its remaining inmatesengagedin the call to prayer
Guantánamo Bay
Ken
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$800
[24]
Colors can be precisely specified by their brightness & this, their degree of intensity
saturation
Ken
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$800
[25]
In her memoir "Inside Out", this actress says "St. Elmo's Fire" saved her life: she had to go to rehab to keep her role in the film
Demi Moore
Ken
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$800
[17]
Margaret Wise Brown's bunny bids adieu to Ray Charles' "Sunshine State" song & the only NFL team with a perfect season
Goodnight Moon "Over Miami" Dolphins
James
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$800
[26]
(Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) Visitors at Paris' Bibliothèque Nationale must wear protective gear & sign a liability waiver to studyhernotebooks, which are stored in heavily shielded boxes
Marie Curie
James
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$1,200
[15]
As czar from 1547 to 1584, he waged drawn-out wars against Sweden & Poland & also against the nobility of his own country
Ivan the Terrible
Brad
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$1,200
[14]
In Ethiopia, David saw an $11 procedure give sight to people stricken with these, a major cause of preventable blindness worldwide
cataracts
James
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$1,200
[10]
There's a planet in this word meaning an orgy or a wild celebration
a saturnalia
Ken
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$1,200
[13]
(Kevin Hart delivers the clue.) There's desert & snow & now, it's Danny Glovertaking overmy avatar in "Jumanji: The Next Level", the most recent film inspired by a book written & illustrated by this man
Van Allsburg
Ken
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$1,600
[5]
Tootie, Blair, Jo & Natalie show up in the third "Hitchhiker's Guide" book with boiled & baked Jewish rolls with all the fixins
The Facts of Life, the Universe and Everything Bagel
Brad
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$1,200
[16]
(Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) Many folks weren't happy with the Nobel Committee's decision to give the 1918 Chemistry Prize to ammonia synthesizer Fritz Haber, as he had also overseen Germany's production & use of this on World War I's Western Front
mustard gas (or poison gas)
Ken
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$2,000
[2]
This 1831 work by Pushkin dramatized the fate of the title czar whose reign ended in 1605
Boris Godunov
James
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$1,600
[3]
(David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2019 I got an exclusive first look at restoration efforts inside Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral after its devastating fire; amazingly, the huge 13th centuryrose windowssurvived, despite fears that the intense heat might have melted this metal in the frame that supports the stained glass
lead
Ken
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$1,600
[8]
It's a kind of mandarin orange
a satsuma
Ken
Brad
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$1,600
[12]
Appearing in mask & with sword on the cover of "As You Wish", this British actor gives insight on the making of "The Princess Bride"
Cary Elwes
Ken
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$2,000
[6]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems to an "Iberian" jellyfish relative, now heroic in Don Cheadle's supersuit
Sonnets from the Portuguese Man o' War Machine
James
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$1,600
[18]
(Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) The Russian Academy of Sciences rejected this great man's 1880 nomination for membership--maybe because of his progressive political leanings, & maybe because he proposed to a much younger woman while he was still married to his first wife
Mendeleev
Ken
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DD
$4,000
[1]
"We understood each other... & let the others prattle", said Catherine the Great of this longtime adviser & less longtime lover
Grigory Potemkin
Brad
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$2,000
[7]
(David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2019 Ireportedon the hunt for ISIS fighters in the desert of this westernmost province of Iraq on the border with Syria
Anbar Province
Brad
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$2,000
[9]
Zen Buddhists hope to reach this state of sudden enlightenment
satori
Ken
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$2,000
[11]
In "You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)", this"queen of the geeks" tells of her rise to stardom
Felicia Day
Ken
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DD
$8,600
[4]
Louisiana Purchase explorers, joined by LBJ's secretary of defense & a "Golden Boy" dramatist
Lewis & Clark Clifford Odets
Ken
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$2,000
[20]
(Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) Real-life scientists whose names came up on "Breaking Bad" included, of course, Heisenberg, & also this Frenchman guillotined at age 50 after making chemistry a modern science
Lavoisier
Brad
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"Silent" Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated in 1925 on a Bible open to this 6-word first line of the Gospel According to John
"In the beginning was the Word"