Ken Jennings game 45.
Robert Quinn — a real estate manager and actor from Hoboken, New Jersey
Kate Duffy — a reporter from Lebanon, New Hampshire
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 44-day cash winnings total $1,477,461)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $5,000 | $11,200 | $31,000 |
$40,000
45-day champion: $1,517,461 |
$26,800
39 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Kate | $1,000 | $1,800 | $3,400 |
$3,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,800
7 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Robert | $0 | $200 | $1,400 |
$2,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,400
6 R, 2 W |
| NEW YORK CITY | SECONDS | OH, FOR PETE'S SAKE! | A PROVERBIAL MESS | OPERA | THE TALES OF HOFFMAN |
|
$200
[16]
Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond were contemporaries at Erasmus Hall High in this borough
Brooklyn
Robert
|
$200
[6]
Baltic Avenue is the second property after "Go" in this game
Monopoly
Ken
|
$200
[1]
He was the son of Czar Alexis by his second wife Natalya
Peter the Great
Ken
|
$200
[26]
Good one deserves another turn
one good turn deserves another
Ken
|
$200
[11]
The title role in "Boris Godunov" is for a singer in this vocal range
bass
Robert
|
$200
[21]
In this film Dustin Hoffman's character Raymond Babbitt habitually watches "Jeopardy!"
Rain Man
Ken
|
|
$400
[17]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew skates on the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, New York.) Though there was a depression on, Rockefeller Rink opened on this festive day in 1936
Christmas Day
Kate
|
$400
[7]
It's the second of the Harry Potter books
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Ken
|
$400
[2]
This man was the drummer for the Beatles before Ringo joined in 1962
Pete Best
Ken
|
$400
[27]
Boils never watched a pot
a watched pot never boils
Ken
|
$400
[12]
Peter Cornelius' opera "The Barber of Baghdad" was based on a tale in this collection
the Arabian Nights
Ken
|
$400
[22]
Frank Wills, the security guard who discovered the Watergate break-in, played himself in this Hoffman film
All the President's Men
Ken
|
|
$800
[19]
In honor of NYC's blaze-battlers, these 4 letters appeared on a lot of caps in 2001
FDNY
Ken
Kate
|
$600
[8]
On Dec. 12, 1787, this "Keystone State" became the second U.S. state to ratify the Constitution
Pennsylvania
Ken
|
$600
[3]
Gray Davis succeeded him as governor of California
Pete Wilson
Ken
|
$600
[28]
Dogs lie sleeping let
let sleeping dogs lie
Ken
|
$600
[13]
In Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Ivanhoe", "Ho, Jolly Jenkin" is an aria for this friar
Friar Tuck
Ken
|
$600
[23]
Posters for this 1982 film featured Hoffman in a red sequined dress
Tootsie
Ken
|
|
$1,000
[20]
This mental hospital is the primary teaching hospital for NYU's medical school
Bellevue
Ken
|
$800
[9]
"No graven images" is number 2 on this ancient list
the Ten Commandments
Ken
|
$800
[4]
In 2000 he won the Wimbledon men's singles, his 13th Grand Slam title
Pete Sampras
Ken
|
$800
[29]
Once twice shy bitten
once bitten twice shy
Ken
|
$800
[14]
Wagner didn't want "Parsifal" performed outside of this city that now holds Wagner Festivals
Bayreuth
Robert
|
$800
[24]
"Everybody's Talkin'" served as the theme to this 1969 film in which Hoffman played street hustler Ratso Rizzo
Midnight Cowboy
Ken
|
|
DD
$1,400
[18]
The heart of Little Italy is this street also found in a Dr. Seuss book title
Mulberry Street
Kate
|
$1,000
[10]
It's the second chemical element listed on the periodic table
helium
Ken
|
$1,000
[5]
Dutch colonial governor of New Amsterdam who bought it from the Indians
Peter Minuit
Kate
|
$1,000
[30]
A color different of a horse
a horse of a different color
Kate
|
$1,000
[15]
His "Elektra" in 1908 may have been electric, but it was his "Salome" 3 years earlier that was scandalous
Richard Strauss
Robert
|
$1,000
[25]
In this 1997 film a Washington spin doctor & a Hollywood producer team up to stage a phony war
Wag the Dog
Ken
|
| 19th CENTURY AMERICA | '80s SONGS | FLOWER POWER | RHYME TIME | CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS | LET'S CUT TO THE CHASE |
|
$400
[1]
Accepting the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in 1858, he said "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
Abraham Lincoln
Ken
|
$400
[14]
This duo dedicated a 1984 song to "All the girls who shared my life who are now someone else's wives"
Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias
Robert
|
$400
[21]
By dropping 2 letters in Osiris' name, you get this Greek goddess who shares her name with a flower
Iris
Ken
|
$400
[11]
In "Through the Looking Glass" he tells Alice there's no chance he'd ever fall off his wall
Humpty Dumpty
Ken
|
$400
[6]
In the mid-1880s, it was the capital of the Crown colony of Vancouver Island
Victoria
Ken
|
$400
[26]
Surrealist, Spanish, died in 1989, hello...
Dalí
Robert
|
|
$800
[2]
Completed in June 1854, the lighthouse on this island in San Francisco Bay was the West Coast's first active one
Alcatraz
Ken
|
$800
[15]
This 1980 No. 1 hit was the theme from the movie "American Gigolo"
"Call Me"
|
$800
[22]
I can't recall the last time that I saw one of these hyphenated perennials, from the Old French "Ne m'oubliez mie"
forget-me-not
Ken
|
$800
[12]
In "Through the Looking Glass" he tells Alice his horse has anklets to guard against shark bites
the White Knight
Ken
|
$800
[7]
It's the only provincial capital that lies on the shore of one of the Great Lakes
Toronto
Ken
|
$800
[27]
Finnish composer,"Valse triste", died in 1957
Sibelius
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[3]
In April 1824 the U.S. & this country agreed to 54 deg. 40 min. N. latitude as the southern limit of its west coast claims
Russia
Ken
Kate
Robert
|
$1,200
[16]
The video for this song, Toni Basil's only hit, featured cheerleaders
"Mickey"
Ken
Kate
|
$1,200
[23]
This computing term for a series of peripherals connected to a computer sounds like a school day flower bracelet
daisy chain
Ken
|
$1,200
[13]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew wears inappropriate attire that is too revealing.) Here's some advice--don't wear a St. Patty's Day shirt when working with this
a green screen
Kate
|
$1,200
[8]
Lying about 175 miles north of Calgary, it's known as the "Gateway to the North"
Edmonton
Ken
|
$1,200
[28]
"Lion of Judah", Ethiopian, died in 1975
Haile Selassie
Ken
|
|
$1,600
[4]
This 19th c. glass was named for the Massachusetts village where it was made, not for a club or a dagwood
Sandwich glass
|
$1,600
[17]
This Pat Benatar song says, "You come on like a flame, then you turn a cold shoulder"
"Fire And Ice"
Kate
|
$2,000
[25]
Type of "wine" mentioned in the title of a 1957 Ray Bradbury novel
dandelion wine
Ken
|
$1,600
[19]
Nickname of Irwin Allen, who produced "The Towering Inferno" & "The Poseidon Adventure"
the Master of Disaster
Ken
|
$2,000
[10]
It's the provincial capital closest to Europe
St. John's
Ken
|
$1,600
[29]
2-time Pulitzer winner, Mississippian, died in 1962
Faulkner
Robert
|
|
$2,000
[5]
On July 4, 1828 President John Quincy Adams broke ground for this canal, known as the C&O
the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
|
$2,000
[18]
A Belgian DJ created this studio group that had hits with "Pump Up The Jam" and "Move This"
Technotronic
Ken
|
DD
$3,400
[24]
This flower that Shakespeare wrote about several times was also the name of a theatre he once worked at
a rose
Ken
|
$2,000
[20]
Ronald Reagan often accused pessimistic critics of peddling this rhyming pair
gloom & doom
Kate
|
DD
$4,000
[9]
This capital's harbor is spanned by the Angus L. MacDonald & A. Murray Mac Ka Mac Ka Mac Ka Mac Ka Mac Ka Mac Ka Mac KaMacKayensionges
Halifax
Ken
|
$2,000
[30]
Monk,"Ecclesiastical History", born around 673
the Venerable Bede
Ken
|
Norma McCorvey recently sought a reversal to her landmark 1973 case in which she had this name
(Jane) Roe