Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Timematch 3, game 2.
Brad Rutter — the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California (subtotal of 17,600)
Ken Jennings — the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington (subtotal of 51,200)
James Holzhauer — the setter of 20Jeopardy!records from Las Vegas, Nevada (subtotal of 27,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | — | $4,200 | $7,400 | $6,492 |
$12,400
22 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ken | — | $6,000 | $17,600 | $16,400 |
$17,600
22 R, 1 W |
| Brad | — | $600 | $10,000 | $5,867 |
$8,600
10 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| JANUARY IN HISTORY | CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING | GEMSTONES! MEET THE GEMSTONES! | CYBERSECURITY | JUST THE FACTS | AN "OK" CATEGORY |
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$200
[21]
It says that on the 1st of January 1863 "all persons held as slaves... shall be then, then ceforward, and forever free"
the Emancipation Proclamation
James
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$200
[22]
(Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In 2012 at age 82 I became the oldest winner of a competitive acting Oscar; the record for a male actor had stood for 36 years, since this beloved 80-year-old comedian took the honors in 1976 for "The Sunshine Boys"
(George) Burns
James
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$200
[30]
Don't be deceived by this, a compound of sulfur & iron whose name comes from the Greek for "fire"
pyrite
Ken
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$200
[29]
This type of hacker referred to by a colorful bit of headwear helpfully tests computer systems for vulnerability
white-hat
James
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$200
[27]
Of the 4 main blood groups, this one is the most common; that group negative is the universal donor
O
Ken
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$200
[25]
Your matching percentage on this dating site is determined by a complicated algorithm
OkCupid
Ken
|
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$400
[20]
In 1914 this motor company instituted a wage of $5 per day & shortened the work day to 8 hours
Ford
James
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$400
[19]
(Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) I've played King Lear, Hamlet, Oedipus, Pizarro; but perhaps my most challenging role, if you could believe it, was in this 1965 movie that for a while was the top-grossing film of all time
The Sound of Music
Ken
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$400
[23]
Thisvariety of beryl shares its name with a 10-letter color
aquamarine
Ken
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$400
[28]
A website with a site certificate is one that uses encryption; this letter after http is one sign of it
s
James
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$400
[26]
Real vanilla flavoring comes from certain climbing species of this tropical plant
orchid
James
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$400
[24]
A 2019 New York Times article says this 2-word phrase "marks the end of friendly generational relations"
"OK boomer"
Ken
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$600
[3]
In Jan. 1900 he got out of Siberian exile; in Jan. 1918 he abolished Russia's assembly & established a dictatorship
Lenin
James
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$600
[14]
(Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In 1968 I loaned this fellow Canadian the money for a plane ticket from London to L.A. so he could audition for the movie role that would change his life; the movie was "M*A*S*H"--& I got my money back
Donald Sutherland
Ken
|
$800
[5]
We quote the ancient Wang Chung: "Take your baby by the wrist, & in her mouth" this purple quartz variety & February birthstone
amethyst
James
|
$600
[18]
Companies consider cybersecurity when instructing employees with a policy on BYOD, short for this
bring your own device
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$600
[15]
Chinese & Portuguese are the official languages of this special administrative region of China
Macau
Brad
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$600
[12]
"Subterranean Homesick Alien" is on this Radiohead album
OK Computer
James
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$800
[2]
The January 1870 cartoon "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" was this man's first use of a donkey to symbolize Democrats
Nast
James
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$800
[17]
(Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) My dearest friend was this late actor; we often appeared onstage together & he won 2 consecutive Oscars in the 1970s, the first for playing newspaperman Ben Bradlee
Jason Robards
Ken
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$1,000
[4]
Let's get sanguine about this mineral AKA heliotrope, prized in the Middle Ages
bloodstone
James
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$800
[6]
A ransomware attack that encrypted 3,800 City of Atlanta computers demanded 6 of these digital items to unfreeze them
Bitcoins
James
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$800
[13]
This largest moon of Pluto is about half the dwarf planet's size
Charon
Ken
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$800
[11]
This group was at one point the house band for "This American Life" on public radio
OK Go
James
|
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$1,000
[1]
Angered at the U.N.'s support of Malaysia, this Indonesian president withdrew his country from the U.N. in January 1965
Sukarno
James
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$1,000
[16]
(Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In the film "The Last Station" I play this Russian author caught between his worshipers & family; the title refers to the setting of my death scene
Tolstoy
Ken
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DD
$5,000
[7]
This birthstone is used in abrasives for polishing & grinding; the color pairs with gold as an official one for Florida State
garnet
James
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$1,000
[8]
Beware of these types of programs that track every stroke you make while typing in an effort to glean your password
keylogging programs
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$1,000
[9]
Tornadoes are rated from EF0 to EF5, the "E" standing for "enhanced" & the "F", for this Japanese-American meteorologist
Fujita
James
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$1,000
[10]
The best of the 4 possible positions used in transactional analysis is the title of this 1960s self-help book
I'm OK – You're OK
Ken
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| PLANE SCIENCE | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER | IT COMES THIRD | MUSIC & LEGEND | "I" WROTE | THE DAM BILL |
|
$400
[30]
A ramp is one of these simple machines
inclined plane
James
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$400
[29]
Those with a "fast" one of these tend to burn calories pretty quickly
metabolism
Ken
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$400
[28]
At equestrian 3-day events, the first day is for dressage, second for endurance riding & third for "stadium show" this
jumping
Brad
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$400
[27]
Grieg was displeased with his own "In the Hall of" this monarch from "Peer Gynt", writing, "It reeks of cow-turds & super-Norwegianism"
the Mountain King
Ken
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$400
[26]
The security at this author's "Hotel New Hampshire" is Susie, a woman in an animal costume
John Irving
Brad
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$400
[25]
In May 1938 Congress authorized building the Kentucky Dam, soon the largest dam run by this New Deal agency
the TVA
Brad
|
|
$800
[18]
An earthquake happens when a slip occurs along this type of plane
a fault
Ken
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$800
[20]
The toast slainte literally means this
health
Brad
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$800
[21]
The Third Amendment is about this activity, a word actually from the Latin for "fourth"
quartering of troops
Brad
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$800
[22]
Philip Glass wrote an opera to be played as the soundtrack of Jean Cocteau's movie of this girl-&-monster tale
La Belle et la Bête ( Beauty and the Beast )
Ken
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$800
[23]
Doctor Stockmann is the crusading title character in this playwright's "An Enemy of the People"
Ibsen
Ken
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$800
[24]
The Carey Act & the Reclamation Act helped this Wild West showman build Shoshone Dam, later named for him
Buffalo Bill
James
|
|
$1,200
[17]
Light waves with electric fields that vibrate in only a single plane have been this
polarized
James
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$1,200
[3]
A resident of Najaf or Kirkuk
Iraqi
James
Ken
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$1,200
[6]
Beethoven was going to dedicate his3rd symphonyto Napoleon; instead he called it this, for "the memory of a great man"
Eroica
James
Ken
|
$1,200
[19]
She's the title character singing in a Purcell opera after Aeneas has left her
Dido
Brad
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$1,200
[9]
"Berlin Stories" grew out of this British author's time in Germany during the Weimar Republic
(Christopher) Isherwood
James
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$1,200
[10]
Construction began on Oroville Dam before it was fully funded by the Burns-Porter Act, a ballot initiative in this state
California
Ken
|
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$1,600
[16]
Plane trigonometry employs the law of these ratios between the side of a triangle opposite an angle & its hypotenuse
sines
James
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$1,600
[2]
This word for extreme malice was also the name of Jabba's nasty beast that Luke killed in "Return of the Jedi"
rancor
Ken
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$1,600
[4]
Of the 7 countries that make up Central America, this one is alphabetically third
El Salvador
James
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$2,000
[13]
"Asturias" by this grade-"A" Spanish composer has the subtitle "Leyenda", meaning "legend"
Albéniz
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$1,600
[8]
Books on Ben Franklin & Leonardo da Vinci are included in this author's "The Genius Biographies" box set
Walter Isaacson
Brad
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$1,600
[7]
A 1973 act of Congress approved funding for a replacement dam at American Falls on this river in the Northwest
the Snake
James
Ken
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$2,000
[15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) All the planets orbit the Sun within seven degrees of this plane, whose name comes from an astronomical event
the ecliptic
James
Ken
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$2,000
[1]
It's a Hollywood term for a long prose synopsis of a screenplay
treatment
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$2,000
[5]
"Arrow of God", about a Nigerian priest dealing with missionaries, is the last book he wrote in what's called his "African Trilogy"
(Chinua) Achebe
Ken
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
A pas de deux based on music by Samuel Barber premiered in 1975 with Baryshnikov as Jason & Carla Fracci as her
Medea
Brad
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$2,000
[11]
"Who Let the Dogs In?" is about the many outrageous politicians encountered by this witty Texas columnist
Molly Ivins
Brad
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DD
$2,000
[12]
The 1935 bill authorizing this humongous concrete dam mentions the Columbia Basin Compact
the Grand Coulee Dam
Brad
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These 2 foreign-born directors have each won 2 Best Director Oscars, but none of their films has won Best Picture
Ang Lee & Alfonso Cuarón