Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Timematch 4, game 2.
Brad Rutter — the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California (subtotal of 0)
Ken Jennings — the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington (subtotal of 65,600)
James Holzhauer — the setter of 20Jeopardy!records from Las Vegas, Nevada (subtotal of 34,181)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | — | $8,200 | $44,000 | $0 |
$25,400
30 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Ken | — | $5,600 | $23,000 | $23,000 |
$21,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brad | — | $1,000 | $1,400 | $1,400 |
$1,400
4 R, 0 W |
| BROADWAY | NONSENSE WORDS | LITERARY TERMS & DEVICES | THE GREATEST CANADIANS OF ALL TIME | MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES | WELCOME BACK BOYS! |
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$200
[29]
In a biographical musical, Adrienne Warren portrays this pop icon singing one of her biggest songs"Big wheel keep on turning (turning) / Proud Mary keep on burning (burning) / Rolling, rolling..."
Tina Turner
Brad
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$200
[27]
This author gave us many nonsense words & was not afraid to use them in titles, as in "Bartholomew and the Oobleck"
Dr. Seuss
Ken
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$200
[30]
Italian for "stopping place" gives us this word for a part of a poem
stanza
Brad
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$200
[23]
(Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) With more than 40 books of poetry, fiction & essays to her name, this author has won the Booker Prize twice: for "The Blind Assassin" in 2000 & for "The Testaments" in 2019
(Margaret) Atwood
James
|
$200
[7]
800 + 250 to this architect of a D.C. landmark dedicated in 1982
Maya Lin
Ken
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$200
[21]
Inconsistently consistent, he took the oath of office on March 4, 1885 & was back for more on March 4, 1893
Grover Cleveland
James
|
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$400
[28]
Oscar winner Diablo Cody wrote the book for this show that gets its title & music from Alanis Morissette's hit 1995 album
Jagged Little Pill
James
Ken
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$400
[26]
In one episode of "The Big Bang Theory", Sheldon says, "You've fallen for one of my classic pranks" & then this word
Bazinga!
James
|
$400
[24]
It's the German word for a novel about the education & formative years of the protagonist; "The Catcher in the Rye" is one
a Bildungsroman
Ken
|
$400
[22]
(Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.)Thiseducator who thought the printed book was an institution that was fated to disappear gave us an aphorism that has not disappeared: "the medium is the message"
Marshall McLuhan
James
|
$400
[6]
The square root of 4,000,000 to this guy who hit more than 500 career home runs from 1986 to 2001
Mark McGwire
Ken
|
$400
[20]
He's the party hearty family member who returns home & gets a nifty meal in Luke 15
the Prodigal Son
James
|
|
$600
[13]
The 2019 musical "Hadestown" goes straight to Hell with Tony winner André de Shields as this Greek messenger god"The wage is nothing and the work is hard / It’s a graveyard in Hadestown""Way down Hadestown / Way down under the ground"
Hermes
James
|
$600
[25]
Created as the name of the "Lord High Everything Else" in "The Mikado", it now means an important or self-important person
a pooh-bah
Ken
|
$600
[8]
This concept of divine intervention to resolve the plot was used in the Sophocles play "Philoctetes"
deus ex machina
Ken
|
$600
[16]
(Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) With a performing style that was, ah, quirky--he'd hum & sway as he played--this pianist leaped into international acclaim with his 1955 recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations"
Glenn Gould
James
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$600
[5]
5% of 4,000 to this author of "The NUMA Files" books & other maritime thrillers
Clive Cussler
Brad
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$600
[19]
In 2019 this hard rock band led by Maynard James Keenan released its first album in 13 years & it went to No. 1
Tool
James
|
|
$800
[9]
"The Inheritance" reimagines this novelist's "Howards End" with 3 generations of gay men in 21st century New York City
Forster
James
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$800
[12]
In the film "Gone with the Wind", this word comes before "Ashley Wilkes told me he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite"
fiddle-dee-dee!
Ken
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$800
[1]
Greek for "exaggeration" gives us this device, an intentionally exaggerated figure of speech
hyperbole
James
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$800
[15]
(Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) After losing part of his right leg to cancer, heembarked on a Marathon of Hope, runningacross Canada to raise money to fight cancer; he ran almost a marathon a day for 143 days but stopped short of his goal when the cancer spread to his lungs
(Terry) Fox
Ken
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
(1,000 / 2) - 350 to this rock singer who was also a 1997 Golden Globe nominee
Courtney Love
Ken
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$800
[18]
In 1985 John Sculley & the tech company's board demoted this co-founder, but he was back in charge in 1997
Steve Jobs
James
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Based on the hit film, this 2019 musical set in Montmartre stars Aaron Tveit & Karen Olivo as the lovers Christian & Satine
Moulin Rouge!
James
|
$1,000
[11]
In "Jabberwocky" "the vorpal blade went" this sibilant sound
snicker-snack
James
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$1,000
[4]
This metrical foot is 2 short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed one
anapest
James
Ken
|
$1,000
[14]
(Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) A career diplomat, hehelped create NATO & the United Nations, won the Nobel Peace Prize for solving the Suez Crisis in 1956 & as the prime minister of Canada, us here d in a little thing we call universal medicare
Lester Pearson
Ken
|
$1,000
[2]
102minus 10 to this Latin bandleader, "The Rumba King"
Xavier Cugat
Ken
|
$1,000
[17]
On Dec. 19, 1972 astronauts Cernan, Schmitt & Evans splashed down in the Pacific as this last manned Moon mission came to an end
Apollo 17
James
|
| ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD | VICE PRESIDENTS | SURPRISE ME, TREBEK | DISPUTED TERRITORIES | PURPLE REIGN | PHRASES & EXPRESSIONS |
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$400
[27]
This alliterative name for a hangout of Western movie extras made the news in 1940 when one cowboy gunned down another for real
Gower Gulch
|
$400
[25]
In the 1990s he was the answer to a famous "Got Milk?" commercial
Aaron Burr
Brad
|
$400
[1]
In July 2019 the approach of one of these was announced only hours before it passed within 45,000 miles of Earth
an asteroid
Ken
|
$400
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The ownership of Hans Island, located between Ellesmere Island & Greenland, is disputed; Canadastakes its claim by raising its flag there & leaving bottles of rye, while this other country puts up its flag & leaves bottles of aquavit
Denmark
Ken
|
$400
[29]
At its height in the 1920s & 1930s, the Purple Gang reigned over this large Midwestern city's underworld
Detroit
James
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$400
[30]
2 antonyms make up this phrase for a legal case with an obvious verdict
open and shut
James
|
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$800
[26]
The first Academy Awards, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in 1929, saw this war movie winning for "Outstanding Picture"
Wings
Ken
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$800
[24]
Before Mike Pence, he was the last vice president from the state of Indiana
Dan Quayle
James
|
$800
[23]
(Conan O'Brien delivers the clue.) 2 of you contestants will love this: the supercomputer Watson came on my show & irritated this sidekick so much, he took Watson to the roof & threw it off
Andy Richter
James
|
$800
[9]
Spain increased controls on its border with this territory after a 2013 dispute with Britain over fishing rights
Gibraltar
James
|
$800
[17]
Way back in the 19th century, the football team of this school that's now in the Big Ten was nicknamed "The Purple"
Northwestern
James
|
$800
[18]
5-word phrase said when turning down fatty food or folding a poker hand
too rich for my blood
James
|
|
$1,200
[6]
In 1992 Ava Gardner's bloomers & Madonna's bustier were stolen from this business' Lingerie Museum
Frederick's
James
|
$1,200
[3]
Pictured here is Theodore Roosevelt with this veep who gave his name to an Alaska city
Charles Fairbanks
Ken
|
$1,200
[22]
In a 1998 shocker, Jesse Ventura was elected Minnesota governor, becoming this party's first candidate to win statewide office
Reform
James
|
$1,200
[7]
This legendary birthplace of Aphrodite has been in dispute between its Greek & Turkish residents for decades now
Cyprus
Ken
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$1,200
[11]
It's the 4-letter title of the Deep Purple Top 10 hit with that "na-na-na-na" part
"Hush"
James
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$1,200
[12]
Thomas Carlyle described a leader as "soft of speech... yet with an inflexible rigor of command":this metaphor
an iron hand in a velvet glove
Ken
|
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$1,600
[2]
Tip your hat to this Vine Street restaurant where it's said Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard
the Brown Derby
James
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$1,600
[4]
Hubert H. Humphrey had the monogram H.H.H.; for this 19th century veep, it was H.H.
(Hannibal) Hamlin
Ken
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$2,000
[20]
A surprise attack at these plains in Quebec in 1759 led to the British gaining control of New France
the Plains of Abraham
Ken
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$1,600
[8]
A winter capital of its maharajas, this place is paired with Kashmir in the name of an Indian Union territory
Jammu
James
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$1,600
[14]
Porphyrogeniture is succession by the 1st son "born in the purple", while dad was king; this is succession by the 1st son born anytime
primogeniture
Ken
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$1,600
[13]
In a 1901 novel a girl is seized by a Frenchman & "perhaps carried off to" this dreadful destiny
a fate worse than death
|
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$2,000
[21]
In 1961 the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd. became the longtime home of this N.D.-born man & his orchestra
Lawrence Welk
|
DD
$5,000
[5]
In 1900, 3 years after leaving the vice presidency, he welcomed a grandson given the same name, later a candidate for president
Adlai Stevenson
Ken
|
DD
$20,200
[19]
This big landlocked African country was surprised to be added to the USA's 2017 travel ban, but was removed from the list in 2018
Chad
James
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$2,000
[10]
Russia recognizes Abkhazia's independence, declared in 1999, but this country, in which Abkhazia lies, does not
Georgia
Ken
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$2,000
[15]
AKA royal purple, the famed dye named for this Phoenician city was produced during the Bronze Age
Tyre
James
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$2,000
[16]
The fifth & probably smelliest of Hercules' Labors, it has come to mean any herculean task
the Augean Stables
James
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He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy
Iago