Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Timematch 2, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| THE CROWN | CHARITIES | LITERALLY STUPID ANSWERS | SHORT STORY SYLLABUS | COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AFTER THE GAME | THE "GOLD", "BERG"s |
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$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
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$200
[29]
300 volunteers came together in 1971 to create this world-spanning charity also called Médecins Sans Frontieres
Doctors Without Borders
Ken
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$200
[28]
Shortly after "imbalance" in the dictionary is this noun denoting one who is stupid & inane
an imbecile
Ken
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$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
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$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
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$200
[25]
This man from Medford, Massachusetts was the 108th mayor of New York City
Bloomberg
James
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$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
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$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
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$400
[17]
It was also called a fool's cap
a dunce cap
James
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$400
[6]
A Dostoyevsky story is titled these, the daylit evenings of St. Petersburg in summertime
"White Nights"
James
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$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
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$400
[24]
He wrote the screenplay for "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" & adapted his own novel "Marathon Man" for the movies
William Goldman
Ken
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$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
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$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
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$600
[16]
Archie Bunker called Edith this, also an ornamental typographical character
dingbat
James
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$800
[3]
"Cathedral" is the title story of a 1983 collection by this American realist & onetime janitor
(Raymond) Carver
James
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$600
[9]
Nickname of the team that was led to an undefeated 1958 season by future brigadier general Pete Dawkins
Black Knights
James
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$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
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$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
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$800
[18]
To fight excessive punishment along racial lines, lawyer Bryan Stevenson founded this initiative, EJI for short
Equal Justice
James
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$800
[15]
Synonyms for this one-word rhyme include lamebrain, dodo, yo-yo & dum-dum
nitwit
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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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$1,000
[14]
Lucy was quite fond of deriding Charlie Brown with this 9-letter term for a less-than-intelligent person
blockhead
James
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$1,000
[5]
This 19th century French short story master is noted for twist endings, as in "The Necklace"
Guy de Maupassant
Ken
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$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
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$1,000
[21]
Missile launches are part of the mission of the California Air Force base named for this general
Vandenberg
James
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| CLASSIC MOVIE QUOTES | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES | ART & ARTISTS | AROUND THE WORLD | THE GREATEST OF ALL MINDS | TAKE AN "IQ" TEST |
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$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
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$400
[27]
Julia Child ended her shows with this phrase, also the name of a food magazine
bon appétit
Brad
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$400
[28]
This American pop artist used a comic book style in paintings like "Whaam!" & "Drowning Girl"
Lichtenstein
James
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$400
[29]
One of the largest temples of this religion spreads over 156 acres at Srirangam in Tamil Nadu state
Hinduism
Brad
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$400
[30]
Destined for greatness, Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942, the 300th anniversary of this famed astronomer's death
Galileo
James
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$400
[22]
Morally objectionable behavior, sometimes in a den of it
iniquity
Brad
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$800
[25]
A cab gets too close in "Midnight Cowboy" & Dustin Hoffman lets loose with this outburst
"I'm walking here!"
Ken
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$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
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$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
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$800
[10]
Here's this Venezuelan landmark named for the American pilot who spotted it in 1933
Angel Falls
James
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$800
[12]
In January 1943 this inventor received an official state funeral under the auspices of the Yugoslav government in exile
Tesla
Ken
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$800
[21]
To convert an asset into cash
liquidate
James
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$1,200
[16]
This quote became instantly famous"Jenny... I'm sorry.""Don't."
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Brad
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$1,200
[17]
This Japanese business paper shares its name with a Japanese stock index
The Nikkei
James
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$1,600
[2]
This English engraver is known for his 1730s series called "The Rake's Progress"
(William) Hogarth
Ken
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$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
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$1,600
[7]
A rationalist, this Dutch philosopher answered to the first names Bento, Benedictus & the Hebrew Baruch
Spinoza
Ken
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$1,600
[19]
One-word term for an expert on old things
an antiquarian
Ken
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$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!"
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$2,000
[14]
To the delight of crossword constructors, Eric with this last name founded a reader in 1984
Utne
Ken
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$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
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DD
$13,600
[11]
This second-largest port of France once had a longer name that included "de Grâce"
Le Havre
James
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DD
$8,400
[13]
This German developed calculus independent of another wise guy
Leibniz
Ken
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$2,000
[18]
Edward Kingsford first used scrap lumber from carmaking to produce these
charcoal briquettes
Brad
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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