Show #3 2020-01-08 Greatest of All Time

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

Contestants

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

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
James $9,600 $32,400 $44,314 $20,400
28 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Ken $3,200 $22,000 $40,000 $15,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Brad $1,200 $7,200 $14,400 $7,200
10 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE CROWN CHARITIES LITERALLY STUPID ANSWERS SHORT STORY SYLLABUS COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AFTER THE GAME THE "GOLD", "BERG"s
$200 [30]
In a Season 1 episode, Elizabethpreparesfor this June 2, 1953 event"It's not as easy as it looks.""It's exactly what the King said.""I remember."
her coronation
Ken
$200 [29]
300 volunteers came together in 1971 to create this world-spanning charity also called Médecins Sans Frontieres
Doctors Without Borders
Ken
$200 [28]
Shortly after "imbalance" in the dictionary is this noun denoting one who is stupid & inane
an imbecile
Ken
$200 [27]
"The Lone Ranger &" this man "Fistfight in Heaven" is the title story of a collection by Native American author Sherman Alexie
Tonto
Ken
$200 [26]
In 2004 an NCAA award was established in the name of this center on the 1933 Michigan team & future politician
Gerald Ford
James
$200 [25]
This man from Medford, Massachusetts was the 108th mayor of New York City
Bloomberg
James
$400 [12]
In a dramatic moment, Elizabethconfrontsthis uncle & rejects his bid to regain a royal role"But when the truth finally came out, the truth... it makes a mockery of even the central tenets of Christianity."
the Duke of Windsor
James
$400 [20]
A charity named for this actor who was paralyzed in 1995 aims to better the lives of those with spinal cord injuries
Christopher Reeve
Ken
$400 [17]
It was also called a fool's cap
a dunce cap
James
$400 [6]
A Dostoyevsky story is titled these, the daylit evenings of St. Petersburg in summertime
"White Nights"
James
$400 [10]
Before starring on a 4-letter TV drama, Mark Harmon starred for this 4-letter school as a QB, averaging 7.2 yards a carry in '73
UCLA
Brad
$400 [24]
He wrote the screenplay for "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" & adapted his own novel "Marathon Man" for the movies
William Goldman
Ken
$600 [11]
A 1961visitto Britain by this American gives the queen something to think about"It's really one of the great paradoxes of being in a position where I have to talk to great many people. But deep down, I'm happiest with animals.""Makes two of us."
Jackie Kennedy
James
$600 [19]
"Those who work for the good are those who do the good" saidthisTV star & founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Danny Thomas
James
$600 [16]
Archie Bunker called Edith this, also an ornamental typographical character
dingbat
James
$800 [3]
"Cathedral" is the title story of a 1983 collection by this American realist & onetime janitor
(Raymond) Carver
James
$600 [9]
Nickname of the team that was led to an undefeated 1958 season by future brigadier general Pete Dawkins
Black Knights
James
$600 [23]
"The Good Earth", released in 1937 after his death, was the first film with the name of this MGM production head in the credits
(Irving) Thalberg
James Ken
$800 [1]
Looking for love in Season 2, Princess Margaretfindsa kindred spirit in this photographer"Not we've met.""We have.""Where have we met?""Perhaps it'll come to you."
Lord Snowdon (or Antony Armstrong-Jones)
Brad
$800 [18]
To fight excessive punishment along racial lines, lawyer Bryan Stevenson founded this initiative, EJI for short
Equal Justice
James
$800 [15]
Synonyms for this one-word rhyme include lamebrain, dodo, yo-yo & dum-dum
nitwit
DD $1,000 [4]
W.W. Jacobs came up with pretty much the opposite of a lucky rabbit's foot with this story of a dad, a son & 3 wishes gone bad
"The Monkey's Paw"
James
$800 [8]
In 1998 football fans debated who was the NCAA's best QB: Peyton Manning or this WSU Cougar; their pro careers went opposite ways
Ryan Leaf
James
$800 [22]
In 1998 this former GOP presidential candidate went to Paradise... Valley's Christ Church of the Ascension memorial garden in Arizona
Goldwater
James
$1,000 [2]
In Season 3 Buckingham Palace is not thrilled about this Labour politician, prime minister for most of the 1960s"Over half his cabinet would be made up of rabid anti-monarchists, who want our heads on spikes. Vive la révolution, except I doubt they speak French in Halifax."
(Harold) Wilson
Brad
$1,000 [13]
Last name of Evangeline, elected general of the Salvation Army in 1934, the third in her family to hold the position
Booth
Ken
$1,000 [14]
Lucy was quite fond of deriding Charlie Brown with this 9-letter term for a less-than-intelligent person
blockhead
James
$1,000 [5]
This 19th century French short story master is noted for twist endings, as in "The Necklace"
Guy de Maupassant
Ken
$1,000 [7]
Steve Largent went on from this university to a HOF pro career, then returned home to represent the area in Congress
the University of Tulsa
Ken Brad
$1,000 [21]
Missile launches are part of the mission of the California Air Force base named for this general
Vandenberg
James

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLASSIC MOVIE QUOTES NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES ART & ARTISTS AROUND THE WORLD THE GREATEST OF ALL MINDS TAKE AN "IQ" TEST
$400 [26]
It's the romantic quote heard next"I love you. You...complete me. And I just had--""Shut up. Just shut up."
"You had me at hello."
James
$400 [27]
Julia Child ended her shows with this phrase, also the name of a food magazine
bon appétit
Brad
$400 [28]
This American pop artist used a comic book style in paintings like "Whaam!" & "Drowning Girl"
Lichtenstein
James
$400 [29]
One of the largest temples of this religion spreads over 156 acres at Srirangam in Tamil Nadu state
Hinduism
Brad
$400 [30]
Destined for greatness, Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942, the 300th anniversary of this famed astronomer's death
Galileo
James
$400 [22]
Morally objectionable behavior, sometimes in a den of it
iniquity
Brad
$800 [25]
A cab gets too close in "Midnight Cowboy" & Dustin Hoffman lets loose with this outburst
"I'm walking here!"
Ken
$800 [24]
(Alex reports from the Harvard Lampoon Library in Cambridge, MA.) The very first volume of "The Harvard Lampoon" appeared in February 1876 & was modeled on this British humor magazine
Punch
James
$800 [23]
This 1863 Manet masterpiece caused a scandal, as one of the women picnicking in what may be the Bois de Boulogne is nude
The Luncheon on the Grass
Ken
$800 [10]
Here's this Venezuelan landmark named for the American pilot who spotted it in 1933
Angel Falls
James
$800 [12]
In January 1943 this inventor received an official state funeral under the auspices of the Yugoslav government in exile
Tesla
Ken
$800 [21]
To convert an asset into cash
liquidate
James
$1,200 [16]
This quote became instantly famous"Jenny... I'm sorry.""Don't."
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Brad
$1,200 [17]
This Japanese business paper shares its name with a Japanese stock index
The Nikkei
James
$1,200 [1]
Born in Rotterdam in 1904, he entered the U.S. as a stowaway & painted houses before becoming an abstract expressionist
(Willem) de Kooning
James Ken
$1,200 [9]
By a 2018 treaty this large body into which the Volga flows was deemed neither a lake nor a sea, but a body with special legal status
the Caspian
James
$1,200 [8]
Compiled by future generations of disciples, the sayings of Confucius were collected in a work called this, derived from Greek
Analects
James
$1,200 [20]
"Invasion of the Boy Snatchers" is a book in a young adult series named for this type of social group
a clique
James
$1,600 [5]
It's the no-nonsense message that comes after the following"We've never lost an American in space; we're sure as hell not going to lose one on my watch."
"Failure is not an option."
Brad
$1,600 [15]
This French daily paper began in 1944, when the German army had left Paris & France had need of an independent voice
Le Monde
Brad
$1,600 [2]
This English engraver is known for his 1730s series called "The Rake's Progress"
(William) Hogarth
Ken
$1,600 [4]
One place that's a cut above to see then or the rn lightsis this capital of Canada's Northwest Territories
Yellowknife
Brad
$1,600 [7]
A rationalist, this Dutch philosopher answered to the first names Bento, Benedictus & the Hebrew Baruch
Spinoza
Ken
$1,600 [19]
One-word term for an expert on old things
an antiquarian
Ken
$2,000 [6]
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka: "You stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks!... so you get nothing! You lose!" This 3-word farewell
"Good day, sir!"
$2,000 [14]
To the delight of crossword constructors, Eric with this last name founded a reader in 1984
Utne
Ken
$2,000 [3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a pair of paintings on the monitor.) Van Gogh drew a famous portrait of this homeopathic physician, whom he called "sicker than I am"; Cezanne, also a friend, chose to paint asceneof his house at Auvers
Dr. Gachet
James
DD $13,600 [11]
This second-largest port of France once had a longer name that included "de Grâce"
Le Havre
James
DD $8,400 [13]
This German developed calculus independent of another wise guy
Leibniz
Ken
$2,000 [18]
Edward Kingsford first used scrap lumber from carmaking to produce these
charcoal briquettes
Brad

Final Jeopardy!

INFLUENTIAL WRITING

Its second line is "All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope & Czar, Metternich & Guizot..."

The Communist Manifesto

Brad "What is The Communist Manifesto?" — wagered $7,200
Ken "What is The Communist Manifesto? [hammer and sickle drawing]" — wagered $18,000
James "What is The Communist Manifesto?" — wagered $11,914

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