Show #2 2020-01-07 Greatest of All Time

Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Timematch 1, game 2.

Contestants

Brad Rutter — the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California (subtotal of 10,400)

Ken Jennings — the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington (subtotal of 45,000)

James Holzhauer — the setter of 20Jeopardy!records from Las Vegas, Nevada (subtotal of 33,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
James $8,200 $15,000 $30,000 $15,000
19 R, 2 W
Ken $7,000 $12,200 $18,400 $10,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Brad $3,800 $10,000 $0 $16,600
18 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN IDOLS TOY STORY GEO-VERSE NOT AN ARMCHAIR EXPERT TRIPLE RHYME TIME GREATEST OF ALL TIME TRAVELERS
$200 [28]
(Lionel Richie delivers the clue.) In 2012 I had the honor of singing for my idol, Muhammad Ali, at a benefit for his center that fights this disease--we helped raise $9.1 million that night
Parkinson's
James
$200 [26]
In 1939 Sawyer's Inc. introduced this, a slide stereoscope
the View-Master
Ken
$200 [29]
"U" is this nation, "The" is not required; Kuchma was leader, but he's long retired
Ukraine
Brad
$200 [30]
(Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, who may have inspired the character of Indiana Jones, discovered the first of these objects that never got to hatch
a dinosaur egg
James
$200 [23]
Sacred place for your most exceptional bottle of Bordeaux
a fine wine shrine
Ken
$200 [22]
In Stephen King's "11/22/63", Jake Epping travels back in time to prevent this event from ever happening
the Kennedy assassination
James
$400 [27]
(Katy Perry delivers the clue.) I will always love this country star, & in 2016 I got to present her with the Tex Ritter Film Award for her "Coat of Many Colors" TV movie
Dolly Parton
Ken
$400 [25]
The Christmas fad of 1983 was this doll, featured on the cover of Newsweek in December of that year
the Cabbage Patch doll
James
$400 [19]
"M" is this mountain on Switzerland's fence; Walt Disney built one, but not as immense
the Matterhorn
Ken
$400 [24]
(Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) The pioneering polymer chemist Wallace Carothersdeveloped not only nylon but neoprene, the first successful artificial rubber, while working for this Delaware company
DuPont
Ken
$400 [20]
A sedate date tree that's the subject of a biblical poem
a calm psalm palm
Brad
$400 [21]
In this Audrey Niffenegger novel, Clare is married to Henry, who suffers from Chrono-Displacement Disorder
The Time Traveler's Wife
James
$600 [17]
(Ryan Seacrest delivers the clue.) The legendary Dick Clarkwas an idol of mine growing up; we both started out as D.J.s, me in Los Angeles & Dick in this city where he first hosted "American Bandstand"
Philadelphia
James
$600 [14]
Thisanimated girl has a doctor's bag & your kids can have a toy version of it
Doc McStuffins
Brad
$600 [18]
"P" is this forest, you'd go if you could; it's a national park full of agatized wood
Petrified Forest
James
$600 [10]
(Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) A.J.P. Taylor, who taught Michael Palin at Oxford, was a model for the famous historian who's suddenly killed by a knight on horseback in this comedy film
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ken
$600 [2]
A flexible & enormous customer
a pliant giant client
Ken
$800 [6]
In this 1969 classic Tralfamadorians abduct the protagonist who has unfortunately become "unstuck in time"
Slaughterhouse-Five
Brad
$800 [16]
(Luke Bryan delivers the clue.) I've been inspired by this idol since I was 4 years old singing "See See Rider", the first song he performed on his "Aloha from Hawaii" TV special
Elvis
James Ken
$800 [13]
An iconic red frame, a magic screen & 2 white knobs are integral to this classic toy
Etch A Sketch
Ken
$800 [11]
"A" is this desert, dry & horrific; it was the prize in the War of the Pacific
the Atacama
Brad
$800 [9]
(Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) William Maples was an expert in forensic anthropology, working on the bodies of the Romanovs, the Elephant Man &thisU.S. president whose mysterious death in 1850 turned out to be less from arsenic & more from too many cherries
(Zachary) Taylor
James
$800 [1]
A congenial game bird under glass as a gift
a pleasant pheasant present
Ken
$1,000 [7]
"Kindred", about an African-American woman transported back to a plantation in antebellum Maryland, is a novel by this author
(Octavia) Butler
James
$1,000 [15]
(Ryan Seacrest delivers the clue.) I admired Frank Sinatra's spirit & style, especially how he broke with tradition to create his own label, called this, with records people would "play & play again"
Reprise
Brad
$1,000 [12]
A technique to interlock wood pieces inspired John Lloyd Wright to create these in 1916
Lincoln Logs
James
$1,000 [4]
"M" is this river, to see it, go forth; it's Canada's longest, so, of course, it flows north
the Mackenzie
Ken
$1,000 [8]
(Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) Around 1912thisman then working in Manchester, England was the leading expert on nuclear physics; in fact he was the only expert on it, since he'd discovered the atomic nucleus & established the nuclear model of the atom
(Ernest) Rutherford
James
$1,000 [3]
In Papeete & the rest of the isle, a signed agreement to quit spray-painting
a Tahiti graffiti treaty
James
DD $2,400 [5]
In Chapter 16 of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", Hank meets this woman whose first name is the same as his surname
Morgan le Fay
Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE ALL IN THE FAMILY: GOVERNMENT EDITION FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES PHILOSOPHERS POTPOURRI
$400 [25]
Julia Morgan designed this 68,500-square-foot home in San Simeon, California in the Mediterranean Revival style
Hearst Castle
Ken Brad
$400 [26]
Thelonious Monk really gets going "'Round" this title hour
midnight
Brad
$400 [27]
He took over for his brother Fidel & became acting president of Cuba in 2006; he dropped the "acting" 2 years later
Raúl Castro
James Ken
$400 [28]
In 2012 the French govt. ended official use of this word for an unmarried woman, deemed sexist since there's no male equivalent
mademoiselle
Brad
$400 [29]
German philosopher Hegel saw history as progression toward this Declaration of Independence value
liberty
James
$400 [30]
Arlington has the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; the Brits have the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, found in this building's nave
Westminster Abbey
Ken
$800 [19]
It's the iconic piece of furniture seen here
an Eames chair
Ken
$800 [20]
A song called this fruit "Man" became a classic for Herbie Hancock & a movie title for Melvin Van Peebles
Watermelon
Ken
$800 [21]
This family included a secretary of war under Grant, a president & a senator (from Ohio) nicknamed "Mr. Republican"
Taft
Ken
$800 [22]
To sing "Happy Birthday", use this phrase "a ti" in Mexico, but reverse the phrase in Chile
feliz cumpleaños
James Brad
$800 [23]
In the 18th c., Hume opined on morality, "'tis impossible, that the distinction betwixt" these 2 4-letter words "can be made by reason"
good & evil
James
$800 [24]
When she said she was leaving "Star Trek", MLK asked her to stay, saying, "through you, we see ourselves and what can be"
Nichelle Nichols
Brad
$1,200 [18]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Residenzplatz in Salzburg, Austria.) Salzburg's Residenzplatz has one of the largest Baroque fountains outside of Italy; theupper sectionis a replica of this Baroque master's Triton Fountain in Rome
Bernini
Brad
$1,200 [17]
This man's quartet experiments with time: "Take Five" is in 5/4 meter & "Blue Rondo A La Turk" is in 9/8
Dave Brubeck
James
$1,200 [4]
In 2006, Lech Kaczyński, president of this country, appointed histwin brother Jarosław prime minister
Poland
Brad
$1,200 [15]
If God wills, you know this Arabic expression for "if God wills"; T.E. Lawrence was an early adopter
inshallah
Brad
$1,200 [16]
In 1934 A.J. Ayer set out to show "the Impossibility of" this, a plural noun for the study of the nature of the universe
metaphysics
Ken Brad
$1,200 [14]
In the 1920s several elderly men who had worked digging the Big Bend railroad tunnel remembered this hero as a real person
John Henry
Ken
$1,600 [3]
Frank Gehry not only designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall, but also this instrument at the rear of the stage
the organ
Ken
$2,000 [2]
When he wasn't scoring TV's "Peanuts" specials, this man recorded favorites like "Cast Your Fate To The Wind"
(Vince) Guaraldi
Ken
$1,600 [6]
Last name of John, who held a Michigan House seat from 1955 to 2015, & of his wife Debbie, who succeeded him
Dingell
Brad
$1,600 [12]
This Latin phrase for an essential item is literally "without which not"
sine qua non
Brad
$1,600 [5]
He published 1843's "Fear and Trembling" under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio
Kierkegaard
James
$1,600 [11]
The world's first of these began as a way for Cambridge U. computer scientists to know if the coffeepot in another room was full
a webcam
Ken
$2,000 [8]
This Boston-born architect designed the Massachusetts State House & from 1818 to 1829 served as architect of the U.S. Capitol
Bulfinch
James Ken
DD $3,800 [1]
Born in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong performed songs named for these 2 local "B" streets
Bourbon & Basin
Brad
$2,000 [9]
She succeeded her husband George Wallace as governor of Alabama but died 2 years after winning the office
Lurleen
James
$2,000 [10]
From words for "self" & "publishing", it was writing circulated in secret in the Soviet Union
samizdat
Brad
DD $2,800 [7]
This double-first-name philosopher born in 1842 said that the value of a concept is in its practical consequences
William James
Brad
$2,000 [13]
This mother of Alexander the Great was in the cult of Dionysus & liked to sleep with snakes
Olympias

Final Jeopardy!

ASTRONOMERS

This man's name was given to a comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994; he's the only human whose remains lie on the Moon

Shoemaker

Brad "Who is Hale?" — wagered $10,000
Ken "Who is Shoemaker?" — wagered $6,200
James "Who is Shoemaker?" — wagered $15,000

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