Responses for Show #4569 - Thursday, June 17, 2004

Ken Jennings game 12.

Contestants

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Deirdre Basile, a stay-at-home mom from Ridgefield, Connecticut

Steve DiGiulio, a senior account executive from Washington Township, New Jersey

Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 11-day cash winnings total $376,158)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PLAINS
THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS
MYTHOLOGICAL WOMEN
FLEX YOUR "AB"S
I HAVE SPOKANE
JEOPARDY! OF FORTUNE
(Alex: Vanna will be revealing the clues for you.)
    $200 23
the Great Plains

Deirdre
    $200 6
Billy Crystal

Ken
    $200 1
Medusa

Ken
    $200 16
(Ken: What is... I don't know.)

abreast

Ken
Triple Stumper
    $200 11
Idaho

Ken
    $200 21
Bill Gates

Ken
    $400 24
trees

Steve
    $400 7
Sean Penn

Ken
    $400 2
stars

Ken
    $400 17
Bud Abbott

Deirdre
    $400 12
(Ken: Boo boo boo. Who is [*]?)
(Alex: Boo boo boo to you.)

Bing Crosby

Ken
    $400 22
(Ken: Huh, who is... uh... Dennis Hastert?)
(Steve: Who is Tom Daschle?)
...
(Alex: [*]--current Senate Majority Leader, you're right.)

Bill Frist

KenSteveDeirdre
    $600 25
the Serengeti

Ken
    $600 8
Charlize Theron

Ken
    $600 3
Scylla

Ken
    $600 18
ablaze

Ken
    $600 13
the Sun

Ken
    $600 26
(Ken: Who is... uh-oh, I lost it.)
(Alex: Too much time.)
...
(Alex: You are right; less than a minute now.)

Warren Buffett

KenSteve
    $800 29
Armageddon

Ken
    $800 9
Finding Nemo

Deirdre
    $1,200 4
(Alex: And you have managed to find it again, but today you find it with very little money to your credit--$1,200 only.)
(Ken: I'll bet all of it, Alex; True Daily Double.)
...
(Alex: [*], yes, indeed. Daddy, daddy dearest.)

Electra

Ken
    $800 19
Ab Fab (Absolutely Fabulous)

Deirdre
    $800 14
the Grand Coulee

Ken
    $800 27
(Jeffrey) Katzenberg

Ken
    $1000 30
Salisbury

Deirdre
    $1000 10
Robert McNamara

Ken
    $1000 5
(Deirdre: Who is Ariadne?)

Arachne

KenDeirdre
    $1000 20
(Ken: What is [**]?)
[Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Double Jeopardy!]

abstinence (or abstention)

KenSteve
    $1000 15
(Ken: What is... Flag Day?)
(Steve: What is Arbor Day?)
...
(Alex: [*], that's right; you're on the plus side with $800.)

Father's Day

KenSteveDeirdre
    $1000 28
Donald Trump

Ken

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Ken Steve Deirdre
$6,800 $0 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ken Steve Deirdre
$10,400 $600 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE POTPOURRI
SINGERS
MIND IF I LEAD?
A "LITTLE" LIT
HOW ABOUT HOWARD
ADVERBS
    $400 21
a galaxy

Ken
    $400 1
Gary Glitter

Ken
    $400 26
Hawaii

Steve
    $400 2
Little Women

Ken
    $400 11
Moe (Howard)

Steve
    $400 16
(Ken: What is [*]?)
(Alex: Yes.)
(Ken: ADVERBS for...)
(Alex: And do not call me [*].)
[Laughter]
(Ken: ADVERBS for $800, [*].)

surely

Ken
    $800 22
the Mayo Clinic

Ken
    $800 5
Sinatra

Ken
    $800 27
Pinochet

Ken
    $800 3
little green men

Ken
    $800 12
Howard Hughes

Steve
    $800 17
swimmingly

Steve
    $1200 23
starch

Ken
    $1200 8
(Ken: I love [*].)

Tito

Ken
    $1200 28
Helmut Kohl

Ken
    $1200 4
Little Sheba

Deirdre
    $1200 13
Catherine Howard

Steve
    $1200 18
amply

Deirdre
    $1600 24
(Alex: That's right, with a minute to go.)

lift

Ken
    $1600 9
Patti LuPone

Steve
    $1600 29
Brazil

Triple Stumper
    $5,000 6
The Little Prince

Ken
    $1600 14
Howard Carter

Ken
    $3,000 19
gallantly

Deirdre
    $2000 25
hydrochloric acid

Ken
    $2000 10
(Barry) Manilow

Ken
    $2000 30
Milton Obote

Triple Stumper
    $2000 7
Little Dorrit

Ken
    $2000 15
Desmond Howard

Ken
    $2000 20
hard

Ken

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ken Steve Deirdre
$37,000 $5,800 $9,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

COMMUNICATIONS
(Alex: Boy, I hope no one put down Troilus and Cressida, because you know you're wrong.)
...
(Alex: [To Deirdre] Looks like you're gonna finish in second place, the same way your dad did, but probably with more money than he had at that time.)
...
(Alex: How close can he get to $500,000? Come back and see us next time, and we'll see. So long.)
SteveWho are Romeo + Hamlet
$5,800
DeirdreWho are Romeo & Juliet
$3,000
Kenwho are Othello and Hamlet?
$3,000
Romeo & Juliet

Final scores:

Ken Steve Deirdre
$34,000 $0 $12,000
12-day champion: $410,158 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ken Steve Deirdre
$33,200 $5,800 $7,600
39 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 9 R,
2 W		 10 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $46,600

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Game tape date: 2004-03-02
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