Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Timematch 3, 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 | — | $7,600 | $13,600 | $27,200 |
$13,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Ken | — | $6,000 | $25,600 | $51,200 |
$18,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Brad | — | $3,400 | $8,800 | $17,600 |
$12,200
11 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| A MILLION BUCKS AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE | COMEDIANS | THE ALPS | I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS | PREQUELS & SEQUELS | BUY A VOWEL |
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$200
[30]
With a million bucks you could have seen 20 million movies at one of these early 1900s theaters, as the name told you
a nickelodeon
James
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$200
[29]
(Conan O'Brien delivers the clue.) Strange but true:this comedian from Worcester, Massachusetts is my cousin, & when he came on my show he told me he's often mistaken for other celebrities, like Willem Dafoe & Jane Lynch
Denis Leary
James
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$200
[26]
The peak known as the Mönch ("monk") stands between the Jungfrau ("maiden") & the Eiger, this type of creature in English
ogre
James
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$200
[27]
The name of this ancient garment from a single piece of cloth is related to the Latin word for "to cover"
a toga
Ken
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$200
[21]
After becoming heir to a chocolate factory, Charlie goes on another adventure, this time in a "Great Glass" one of these
an elevator
James
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$200
[28]
Add a vowel to what brevity is the soul of & get a verb meaning to cool your heels
wit & wait
Ken
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$400
[23]
In the first sale of a diamond for a mil, in 1969, the parent co. of this French jeweler outbid Richard Burton, then sold it to him
Cartier
Ken
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$400
[24]
Played by this man, salesman-manager David Brent returned in 2016, trying to get his rock band off the ground
Ricky Gervais
James
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$400
[25]
The Alps are often treeless at the tops, butforestsbelow are full of larch, beech &these conifers related to pines
spruce
James
Ken
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$400
[19]
In the 17th century the belted plaid developed into this garment
a kilt
Ken
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$400
[20]
Set for release in 2020 is Suzanne Collins' "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", a prequel to this series
The Hunger Games
James
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$400
[22]
A thing's physical magnitude adds a vowel & becomes a verb meaning to snatch
size & seize
Brad
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$600
[12]
In 1957 a million bucks would have paid for a helluva baseball team; this man, No. 24 for the Giants, made $50,000
Willie Mays
Brad
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$600
[6]
She does stand-up definitely for adults but voiced Vanellope von Schweetz in the kids' movie "Wreck-It Ralph"
Sarah Silverman
James
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$600
[2]
Forming part of France's frontier with Italy, it's the highest peak in the Alps
Mont Blanc
Ken
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$600
[18]
Basically a belt plus a front flap, it was a simple garment for men in ancient Egypt; Tarzan makes one from deerskin
a loincloth
Brad
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$600
[3]
Elmore Leonard brought back former loan shark Chili Palmer in "Be Cool", his sequel to this bestseller
Get Shorty
Ken
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$600
[17]
A word meaning to move quickly afoot adds a vowel & becomes to wreck or destroy
run & ruin
Ken
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$800
[13]
In 1938 this first Superman comic cost a dime; now a million bucks will get you a third of one copy
Action Comics
Brad
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$800
[10]
Seen here, this Brit played a high school director in "Hamlet 2" & got blown to bits as a director in "Tropic Thunder"
Steve Coogan
James
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$800
[1]
The Alps are the source of many major rivers including the Rhine, the Rhone & this 405-mile waterway that flows to the Adriatic
the Po
James
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$800
[9]
Worn by men & women, the chiton was a long tunic dating back to this ancient Greek period, also a word for "outmoded"
archaic
Ken
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$800
[4]
Edited by the author's son Christopher & published in 1977, it's a history of Middle-earth before "Lord of the Rings"
The Silmarillion
Ken
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$800
[16]
A fluid for writing adds a vowel & becomes this barnyard clamor
ink & oink
Ken
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$1,000
[14]
Probably the USA's only millionaire in 1799 was Elias Derby, who sent the 1st ship from New Eng. to Guangzhou, then called this
Canton
James
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$1,000
[11]
In "Dolemite Is My Name", Eddie Murphy tells the story of this entertainer who had a stand-up act of his own back in the day
Rudy Ray Moore
Brad
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DD
$1,400
[7]
Thought to be 5,300 years old, a mummified Neolithic "Iceman" given this first name was found in the Alps in 1991
Ötzi
James
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$1,000
[8]
Here's this early 17th century British monarch, wearing a trim doublet jacket with matching skirt & hose
James I
James
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$1,000
[5]
In 1847 Herman Melville published this sequel to "Typee" subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas"
Omoo
Ken
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$1,000
[15]
An eisteddfod winner adds a vowel & becomes a long, flat piece of pine
bard & board
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| WHAT'S IN YOUR BRAIN? | TV GREEN THUMB | GOVERNMENT IN CRISIS | CHARACTERS ON STAGE | WORD ORIGINS | ROAD TRIP! |
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$400
[30]
Sulci are grooves on the brain surface; this German pathologist noted wide sulci in a 1906 autopsy of a dementia patient
Alzheimer
James
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$400
[29]
This TV comedy wasn't about pesky garden plants, but rather about Mary-Louise Parker's budding pot business
Weeds
Ken
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$400
[23]
Following the 2011 ouster of this longtime president, Egypt's armed forces suspended its constitution
Mubarak
James
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$400
[25]
In "Our Town", this role sounds like part of the crew, but it's the narrator
the Stage Manager
James
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$400
[27]
Greek for "sacred" & "carving" gives us this word for a writing system
hieroglyphics
James
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$400
[28]
You're nearing the eastern end of I-44 when you enter St. Louis & see this 630-foot-tall thing
the Gateway Arch
James
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$800
[20]
The main parts of a neuron are the cell body, an axon & these, branching out to receive input
the dendrites
Ken
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$800
[21]
The plants on either side of the host & guests on this web series, also a 2019 TV movie, are the Boston, or sword, variety
Between Two Ferns
Brad
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$800
[22]
Last name of the man who dismissed Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in August 1953, with some outside help
Pahlavi (the Shah)
James
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$800
[24]
(Glenn Close delivers the clue.) 35 years before "The Greatest Showman", I sang down the house as Chairy, the wife of this man--but I did it for hundreds of performances on Broadway
(P.T.) Barnum
James
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$800
[26]
This word for any pose in hatha yoga is from the Sanskrit
āsana
Ken
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$800
[16]
We'll stop in Butler, Penn. & Florham Park, N.J. to go back to childhood of yore in attractions called "Little Red" this
schoolhouses
James
Brad
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$1,200
[19]
Look at me! This "in the back of the head" brain lobe is responsible for processing visual information
occipital
James
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$1,200
[8]
On "The Handmaid's Tale", this wife of Commander Waterford has some pivotal scenes in her greenhouse
Serena
James
Ken
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$1,200
[5]
Parliament gained supremacy over the president in an 1877 crisis early in this ordinal French republic
the Third Republic
Ken
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$1,200
[18]
A very long-titled play by Peter Weiss features the Marquis de Sade & this murdered French revolutionary
Marat
Ken
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$1,200
[17]
This sled drawn by 3 horses has a Russian name
a troika
Ken
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$1,200
[15]
Dad, dry your eyes & get in the car--it's time to hit I-5 & road-trip your youngest to this southernmost U. of California campus
UCSD (San Diego)
James
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$1,600
[12]
This pea-sized gland secretes a hormone regulating sleep; science has not confirmed Descartes' belief that it's the seat of the soul
the pineal
James
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$1,600
[9]
Played by Carolyn Jones in the '60s, she loved to cut the heads off her roses & rejoiced when her thorns came in sharp
Morticia Addams
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$2,000
[7]
In November 2019 Jeanine Áñez Chávez declared herself Bolivia's president, replacing this man who had resigned under pressure
Evo Morales
Ken
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$1,600
[3]
(Glenn Close delivers the clue.) I kept the costumes from the first time I performed on Broadway in "Sunset Boulevard" & I brought them back with me when I returned to play this iconic role in the 2017 revival
Norma Desmond
Brad
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$2,000
[2]
This fancy word for a scar is actually just Latin for "scar"
cicatrix
Ken
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$1,600
[14]
Forget Route 66! We're going north to south on this numerical highway that turns into the "Blues Highway" down south
61
James
Brad
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$2,000
[11]
From a Latin word for "edge", this primitive "system" of nerves helps run basic behavior like feeding, fighting & fleeing
the limbic system
Brad
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$2,000
[10]
Jean-Luc Picard once helped Boothby, played by this onetime TV Martian, toreplantsome flowers at Starfleet Academy
Ray Walston
Ken
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DD
$9,200
[6]
This 1832-33 crisis ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law
Nullification
Ken
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$2,000
[4]
In the last line of "Waiting for Godot", he tells Vladimir, "Yes, let's go"
Estragon
James
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DD
$3,400
[1]
This condition was thought to arise from an excess of black bile, the origin of its name
melancholia
Brad
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$2,000
[13]
An "On the Road" trip will take you to Larimer Street in this city where Sal hangs with Dean before heading for the coast
Denver
Brad
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These 2 now-defunct parties each gave the U.S. 4 presidents in the 19th century
Democratic-Republican & Whig