Ken Jennings game 38.Ken sets a new single-day cash winnings record of $75,000.Last game of Season 20.
Kristine O'Connell-McCoy — a former probation officer and mom from Santa Barbara, California
Sarah Mulloy — a dealer service representative from Ferndale, Michigan
Ken Jennings — a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 37-day cash winnings total $1,246,660)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $5,200 | $14,400 | $51,400 |
$75,000
38-day champion: $1,321,660 |
$37,600
44 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Sarah | $400 | $2,000 | $5,600 |
$1,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
9 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Kristine | $400 | $1,200 | $4,800 |
$1,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,800
4 R, 1 W |
| THE BIG BANGLADESH | WHO'S THE MRS.? | TRANSPORTATION | MYTHELLANEOUS | NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE | BIRD HUNTING |
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$200
[21]
Over 80% of those in Bangladesh follow this religion
Islam
Ken
Sarah
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$200
[6]
Mrs. Brad Pitt
Jennifer Aniston
Ken
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$200
[28]
The twin rotor type of this has 2 main rotors going in opposite directions, so it doesn't need a tail rotor
a helicopter
Sarah
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$200
[1]
The mythical Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big vessel at God's urging & thereby survived this catastrophe
a flood
Ken
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$200
[16]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue in a tongue foreign to us but familiar to her.) Spoken by about 9 million people worldwide it's the Scandinavian language I'm speaking
Swedish
Ken
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$200
[11]
The stars of the movie "Network" include Faye Dunaway, Beatrice Straight & Peter Finch
a finch
Ken
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$400
[22]
About two-thirds of all Bangladeshis work in agriculture, mostly farming this product
rice
Ken
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$400
[7]
Mrs. Tim McGraw
Faith Hill
Sarah
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$400
[26]
There are no knife or spoon varieties of these vehicles used in warehouses to raise & carry merchandise
forklifts
Ken
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$400
[2]
Lotis, later turned into the lotus tree, was one of these female spirits of nature
a nymph
Kristine
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$400
[17]
"Namaste" is a greeting in this official language of India used by over a quarter of a billion speakers
Hindi
Ken
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$400
[12]
One of the cardinal rules of e-mail listed on insiderreports.com is to turn off your caps-lock
a cardinal
Sarah
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$600
[23]
The green on the flag of Bangladesh represents its lush vegetation; the red circle in the middle is this
the Sun
Ken
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$600
[8]
Mrs. James Carville
(Mary) Matalin
Ken
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$600
[27]
The U.S. U-2, first built in the 1950s, was an airplane; the German U-1, first built in the 1910s, was one of these
a submarine
Sarah
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$600
[3]
In Zuni myth, a kachina named Paiyatemu attracted these colorfully winged insects when she played the flute
butterflies
Ken
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$600
[18]
The official language of Niger, it's a remnant of its colonial times
French
Ken
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$600
[13]
At NYU, Martin Scorsese taught future filmmakers Spike Lee & Oliver Stone
a martin
Ken
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|
$800
[24]
After India was partitioned in 1947, what would later become Bangladesh was the "East" part of this country
Pakistan
Kristine
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$800
[9]
Mrs. Maury Povich
Connie Chung
Ken
|
DD
$600
[29]
In 1994 the trip across this body of water was cut from a little more than an hour to about 35 minutes
the English Channel
Sarah
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$800
[4]
This goddess after whom a major city in Greece is named sprang from the head of Zeus
Athena
Ken
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$800
[19]
The official language of Andorra, it's the second-most spoken language in Spain
Catalan
Ken
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$800
[14]
The third rail in a subway system is the one with the juice & should be avoided like a touchy subject
a rail
Ken
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$1,000
[25]
In the 1960s, Louis Kahn designed the Parliament buildingseen herein this capital
Dhaka
Ken
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$1,000
[10]
Mrs. Blake Edwards
Julie Andrews
Ken
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$1,000
[30]
The Kearsarge was the only one of these not named for a U.S. state
a battleship
Ken
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$1,000
[5]
Riding this winged horse made it possible for Bellerophon to approach & kill the chimera
Pegasus
Ken
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$1,000
[20]
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala is a well-known writer in this language of the Incas
Quechua
Ken
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$1,000
[15]
The Academy of Pro Players Power Hitting Baseball Camp can help you with bat speed, bunting & hitting the curve
a bunting
Ken
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| OSCARS OF THE '70s | THE STING | "ROCK"Y | THE GODFATHER | DEAR JUNTA | THE FRENCH CONNECTION |
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$400
[1]
No relation to the Lakers' center, she's the youngest ever to win a Supporting Actress Oscar
Tatum O'Neal
Sarah
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$400
[12]
Most bar recipes for the stinger call for the white version of this potent potable, not the green
crème de menthe
Ken
Sarah
Kristine
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$400
[11]
"SF Sorrow" by The Pretty Things was the first of these works; "Tommy" came soon after
a rock opera
Sarah
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$400
[21]
This S.F. Giant, Barry Bonds' godfather, got his nickname from his unique greetings to fans
"Say Hey" Willie Mays
Ken
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$400
[6]
Shortly after the death of Gen. Omar Torrijos, Manuel Noriega controlled the junta that ruled this country
Panama
Ken
|
$400
[26]
From Old French, its what we call the person who runs the roulette table
a croupier
Ken
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|
$800
[2]
"Colorful" actor seenherewho won Best Supporting Actor in 1973
Joel Grey
Ken
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$800
[13]
Singer/actor Sting played Feyd-Rautha in this David Lynch film based on a Frank Herbert novel
Dune
Ken
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$800
[17]
National Guard troops escorted Black students to class in this Southern state capital in August 1959
Little Rock
Ken
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$800
[22]
After the death of his mother, this future poet was taken in by his godfather John Allan in 1811
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Ken
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$1,200
[8]
This former priest was ousted in Feb. 2004, even after a U.S.-brokered deal in 1994 with the Haitian junta kept him in power
Aristide
Ken
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$800
[27]
Campari & Pernod are good options for this pre-meal potent potable
apéritif
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Of Jack Nicholson's 5 nominations in the 1970s, this was the only movie for which he won
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken
|
$1,200
[14]
The creature known as this "false" arachnid has venomous pincers & no tail
a scorpion
Ken
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$1,200
[18]
Also known as the Mosque of Omar, it was home to the Knights Templar during the Crusades
the Dome of the Rock
Ken
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$1,200
[23]
He was the royal godfather to the son of French playwright Moliere
King Louis XIV
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$1,600
[9]
After the junta released activist Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest, Japan restored aid to this country
Burma (or Myanmar)
Ken
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$1,600
[29]
A homophone for the French word for "wheel", you need a good one to make gumbo
a roux
Ken
Sarah
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$2,000
[5]
This son of a famous French Impressionist painter received an honorary Oscar in 1975
Jean Renoir
Ken
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$1,600
[15]
The WNBA team belonging to this Southern city is known as the Sting
Charlotte
Ken
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$1,600
[19]
Also called halite, this common mineral can be formed by the drying of enclosed bodies of seawater
rock salt
Ken
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$1,600
[24]
After a mock funeral for this counterculture icon, his goddaughter, Winona Ryder, moved in with him
Timothy Leary
Sarah
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$2,000
[10]
In 1998 Nigerian-led forces captured Freetown, ousting the junta that controlled this African country
Sierra Leone
Ken
|
$2,000
[28]
From the French for "to sort" comes the word for this process of treating patients based on need
triage
Ken
|
|
DD
$10,000
[4]
For her portrayal of Greta Ohlsson in a 1974 mystery, this legendary actress scored her third Oscar
Ingrid Bergman
Ken
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$2,000
[16]
This famous FBI sting derived its name from one its fictitious enterprises, Abdul Enterprises
Abscam
Kristine
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$2,000
[20]
This peninsula in the borough of Queens is one of the principal resort areas for New Yorkers
Rockaway Beach (or Rockaway Peninsula)
Kristine
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$2,000
[25]
This British philosopher who won a Nobel Prize in 1950 was the godchild of John Stuart Mill
Bertrand Russell
Ken
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DD
$6,200
[7]
The "Juntas Provinciales" organized the Spanish resistance to this man's 1808 invasion
Napoleon (Bonaparte)
Ken
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2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage
(2 of) Hamlet , Julius Caesar , Macbeth & Richard III