Show #4 2020-01-08 Greatest of All Time

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

Contestants

Brad Rutter — the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California (subtotal of 14,400)

Ken Jennings — the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington (subtotal of 40,000)

James Holzhauer — the setter of 20Jeopardy!records from Las Vegas, Nevada (subtotal of 44,314)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
James $6,400 $22,800 $38,100 $16,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Ken $6,800 $21,200 $17,400 $21,200
26 R, 1 W
Brad $3,800 $-3,600 $-3,600 $200
8 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MOZART THE ____ OF ____ THIS WILL TIE YOUR ROOM TOGETHER THEY'RE BACK! NAME THE DECADE GOATS
$200 [30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Mozart Birthplace in Salzburg, Austria.) On January 27, 1756 Anna Mozart gave birth in this room to a son they named Wolfgang; his middle name was Theophilus, or "beloved of God", but we know it better as this Latin name meaning the same
Amadeus
Ken
$200 [29]
On the Moon, it's where the Eagle landed July 20, 1969
the Sea of Tranquility
Ken
$200 [28]
In Islam, many prayer rugs have an arch-shaped design called a mihrab, which the user faces toward this city before kneeling
Mecca
Brad
$200 [27]
Submitted for your approval, Jordan Peele as host & narrator of the reboot of this anthology series
The Twilight Zone
Ken
$200 [26]
Christopher Columbus makes his last transatlantic trip: the first decade of this century
the 1500s (or the 16th)
Brad
$200 [25]
"The Field Guide to Goats" says to be sure to discourage aggression, as a goat doing this to you with his head can break a bone
butting
James
$400 [20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Mozart Residence in Salzburg, Austria.) In 1783 Mozart visited his hometown for the last time, staying with his dad & working on his "Mass in C minor", which like his famous "Requiem", was left in this condition
unfinished
Ken
$400 [18]
In the '60s & in a song from "Hair", it was the "dawning of" this
the Age of Aquarius
Ken
$400 [21]
These Native American people who call themselves Dine are known for their patterned rugs
the Navajo
Ken
$400 [22]
The reboot of this soapy series about the wealthy Carrington & Colby families changed the setting from Denver to Atlanta
Dynasty
James
$400 [23]
The Erie Canal is completed & opens for business
the 1820s
James
$400 [24]
Unlike cow milk, goat milk is naturally this, with emulsified fats & non-separated cream
homogenized
James
$600 [16]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Mozart Birthplace in Salzburg, Austria.) Salzburg craftsman Andreas Mayr made a child's violin that Mozart would receive in 1762; Wolfgang would go on to compose five of these works for violin & orchestra
concerto
James
$600 [17]
In the news in 1961, Bahía de Cochinos is better known to us as this
Bay of Pigs
James
$600 [15]
Sisal rugs are made from the fibers of this succulent that's also used to make beer & other alcoholic beverages
agave
Ken
$600 [7]
In 2019 this detective was back on the case, working with her dad to solve cases in Neptune, California
Veronica Mars
James
$600 [5]
The Salem witch trials
the 1690s
James
$600 [19]
Since 1900 the mascot of this institute of higher learning has been "Bill the Goat"
the Naval Academy
Brad
$800 [2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Mozart Residence in Salzburg, Austria.) Young Mozart dedicated the work "Dream of Scipio" to his Salzburg patron Prince-Archbishop Colloredo, a strict man guided by this "bright" intellectual movement of the times
the Enlightenment
James
$800 [10]
Here's how one artist envisioned this ancient wonder
the Colossus of Rhodes
Ken
$800 [14]
Bijar carpets & Sanandaj rugs are products of this countryless people who live in an area ranging from Syria to Iran
the Kurds
Ken
$800 [1]
This reboot made the divorced mom & her family Cuban American & moved the setting from Indianapolis to Los Angeles
One Day at a Time
James
$800 [3]
The Black Death starts; the Battle of Crécy
the 1340s
Brad
$800 [11]
Goat cheese is commonly called this, the French word for "goat"
chèvre
Ken
$1,000 [12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Mozart Birthplace in Salzburg, Austria.) One of the most famous images of Mozart is this painting in his birthplace, in which a seven-year-old Mozart is wearing the outfit given to him by this Holy Roman Empress at the Viennese court
Maria Theresa
James
$1,000 [9]
This bloody period of the French Revolution ended with the execution of Robespierre
the Reign of Terror
James
$1,000 [13]
Table coverings he painted in 16th century portraits, like the one of amerchant here, led to a rug being named for this artist "the Younger"
(Hans) Holbein (the Younger)
James Brad
$1,000 [8]
Candace Cameron Bure stars as a grown-up, raising kids of her own, on this reboot
Fuller House
Ken
DD $1,000 [4]
The Tudor line begins its 5-monarch rule of England
the 1480s
Brad
$1,000 [6]
Mountain goats are genus Oreamnos; other goats, this genus, same as a filmmaking genius
Capra
Ken

Double Jeopardy! Round

I JUST TOOK A DNA TEST POP CULTURE PEOPLE AUDIBLE "G"EOGRAPHY 20-LETTER WORDS GOATS (GREATEST OF ALL TIME)
$400 [22]
DNA tests can tell you if you are this 7-letter holder of recessive genes for a genetic disease
a carrier
James
$400 [30]
Check out the clue while my DJ revolves it! This '90s rapper actually had a 2nd Top 40 hit: "Play That Funky Music"; still waitin' on 3
Vanilla Ice
Brad
$400 [29]
He simply titled his 2019 memoir "Me"I knew that Taron Egerton was the right man to play me when I heard him sing "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"--he managed to get through it without threatening to murder anyone or screaming about Engelbert Humperdinck
Elton John
James
$400 [28]
Lambeau knows this 118-mile-long inlet that receives the waters of the Fox River
Green Bay
James
$400 [26]
It's the adjective used to describe a work only partially based on the writer's life
semiautobiographical
James
$400 [27]
In this year, Alfred Eisenstaedt captured what becameoneof the most iconicphotosof all time
1945
Ken
$800 [21]
(Glenn Close delivers the clue.) I'm a co-founder of Bring Change to Mind, an organization working to end stigma & normalize conversations around mental health; we are changing attitudes & behavior through science- & evidence-based high school club programs which are expanding across the country. Because I love science, I had this, my full set of chromosomes, sequenced to better understand my family's history of mental illness
a genome
James
$800 [23]
In 1987, 7'2" Kevin Peter Hall played Harry, who hung with the Hendersons, & this film title guy who was not as friendly with Arnold
Predator
Ken
$800 [24]
Big Oil & Gas are the subject of a 2019 nonfiction bestseller by this TV personality In fact, it could be argued, the oil business as we know it today was the invention of one particular American, John D. Rockefeller
Rachel Maddow
Ken
$800 [19]
Apotgan & Dededo are major towns on this island, an unincorporated territory of the U.S. since 1898
Guam
Ken
$800 [12]
EEG for short, it's a record of some of the brain's activity
an electroencephalogram
James Ken
$800 [25]
These 2 Agatha Christie characters made a list of "The 30 Greatest Literary Detectives of All Time"
Hercule Poirot & Jane Marple
Ken
$1,200 [20]
For info on great-great-grandma, genetic data passed on from your mother can be used in the mtDNA test, named for this organelle
mitochondria
James
$1,200 [11]
Her post-"Friends" career includes the role of actress Valerie Cherish, trying to make "The Comeback" happen
Lisa Kudrow
Ken
$1,200 [18]
Naturally, Colin Farrell read this novel by a fellow countryman Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named Baby Tuckoo
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ken
$1,200 [5]
Founded in 1531, this capital of a Mexican state bears the name of a province of Spain
Guadalajara
Ken Brad
$1,200 [8]
It's a gathering of protesters to express opposition to the aims of another group of protesters
a counterdemonstration
Ken
$1,200 [15]
Performances like his 1979 "Live in Concert" film made Rolling Stone list him as the greatest stand-up comedian of all time
Richard Pryor
Brad
$2,000 [2]
DNA is composed of nucleotides, which contain 4 nitrogenous bases represented by these 4 letters
A, C, G & T
James
$1,600 [10]
Feeling regenerated in "Doctor Who", this actress confessed, "Sorry, half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman"
(Jodie) Whittaker
James
$1,600 [17]
Frances McDormand introduces us to a beloved character in this first book in a series by Armistead Maupin Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time
Tales of the City
Ken
$2,000 [4]
(Jimmy Kimmel delivers the clue.) One of my hobbies is fly-fishing & I've done some on this Montana river near Bozeman where most of the fishing scenes in "A River Runs Through It" were filmed
the Gallatin
$1,600 [6]
This "-tion" is the attribution of human qualities to something that is not human
anthropomorphization
Ken
$1,600 [14]
Among the greatest scientific discoveries are electricity, penicillin & this German's quantum theory
Planck
James
DD $3,800 [1]
You can learn your ethnicity using DNA in your autosomes, non-sex chromosomes; most people have this many sets of autosomes
22
Brad
$2,000 [9]
"Pretty Baby, You Look So Heavenly" is a chapter title in "Face It", the 2019 memoir by this singing star
Debbie Harry
$2,000 [16]
Colin Firth reads the line that gives a novel by this British author its title But that wasn't what Sarah had said, and sitting there beside Henry in the Victoria Gardens, watching the day die, I remembered the end of the whole "affair"
Graham Greene
Ken
DD $8,400 [3]
Rhino tracking at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve is something to try on a visit to this capital city
Gaborone
James
$2,000 [7]
This adverb means in a manner not typical of a particular person
uncharacteristically
Ken Brad
$2,000 [13]
In a 2010 poll this Nobel Peace Prize winner & politician ranked as Ireland's greatest person
John Hume
Ken Brad

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY LEADERS

Tall, lanky Joel Barlow was an ambassador carrying messages between these 2 world leaders, both mocked for being short

Napoleon & Madison

Ken "Who are Napoleon and Monroe?" — wagered $3,800
James "Who are Napoleon & Madison?" — wagered $15,300

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