Responses for Show #4620 - Friday, October 8, 2004

Ken Jennings game 53.

Contestants

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Al Lindke, a pastor from Montrose, Michigan

Aimee Watson, a mother and erstwhile attorney from Lake Wylie, South Carolina

Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 52-day cash winnings total $1,778,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE ART WORLD
TOOL TIME
THERE ARE PLACES
SPANIARDS
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
(Alex: And finally, I want you to name the type of fish found within one of the words in the clue in...)
GONE FISHING
    $200 1
(Ken: What is beer?)

wine

Ken
Triple Stumper
    $200 26
(Ken: What's a hoe?)
(Alex: No.)
[Ken grins; the audience erupts into the loudest and longest laughter ever heard on Jeopardy!]
(Alex: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! They teach you that in school in Utah, huh?)

a rake

KenAl
    $200 12
South Philly

Aimee
    $200 11
(Ken: Who is Picasso?)

(Salvador) Dalí

KenAimee
    $200 6
Katharine Hepburn

Aimee
    $200 21
tuna (in tunable)

Ken
    $400 2
(Alex: Right, you're out of the hole.)

Marc Chagall

Ken
    $400 27
a chainsaw

Ken
    $400 13
Pakistan

Ken
    $400 14
Banderas

Ken
    $400 7
Sarah Jessica Parker

Ken
    $400 22
bass (in bassoon)

Ken
    $600 3
(Al: Who is Winston Churchill?)

David Hockney

Al
Triple Stumper
    $600 28
an anvil

Al
    $3,800 18
the Bering Sea

Ken
    $600 15
(Miguel de) Cervantes

Ken
    $600 8
Willem Dafoe

Ken
    $600 23
carp (in carpal)

Ken
    $800 4
(Ken: Who is Velázquez?)

Goya

Ken
Triple Stumper
    $800 29
a mallet

Aimee
    $800 19
the Strait of Magellan

Ken
    $800 16
El Cid

Ken
    $800 9
Toulouse-Lautrec

Ken
    $800 24
(Aimee: What is sword?)
...
(Alex: Yes, you had to say "swordfish", and that's not contained in another word.)

cod (in codified)

KenAimee
    $1000 5
Mary Cassatt

Ken
    $1000 30
(Ken: What are tweezers?)
...
(Alex: Tool, hoe.)
[audience laughter]
(Alex: Back with Double Jeopardy! in a moment.)

nippers

Ken
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
Panama City

Ken
    $1000 17
(Alex: You did it again, didn't you? Surprised yourself!)
(Ken: I did!)

Maimonides

Ken
    $1000 10
Helena Bonham Carter

Ken
    $1000 25
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

perch (in Perchance)

Ken

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Ken Aimee Al
$4,400 $600 -$600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ken Aimee Al
$14,000 $600 $200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

1920s AMERICA
"Y"s GUYS
IT'S VEGAS, BABY!
FLY ME TO THE MOON
BILLIE HOLIDAY
STRANGE FRUIT
    $400 1
a Good Humor (bar)

Ken
    $400 6
Boris Yeltsin

Aimee
    $400 21
a Tyrannosaurus rex

Al
    $400 11
[Alex reads "LM" as "Lunar Module".]

Armstrong

Ken
    $400 23
Benny Goodman

Ken
    $400 16
China

Ken
    $800 2
Capone

Ken
    $800 7
Yale

Ken
    $800 22
a cowboy

Aimee
    $800 12
[Alex reads "VMA" as "Video Music Awards".]

Buzz Aldrin

Ken
    $800 27
Greenwich Village

Ken
    $800 17
the passion fruit

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
Buster Keaton

Ken
    $1200 8
Sergeant York

Ken
    $1200 24
Madame Tussauds

Ken
    $1200 13
Apollo 13

Ken
    $1200 28
Time

Ken
    $1200 18
(Ken: What is apple?)

orange

Ken
Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
Teapot Dome

Ken
    $1600 9
Yeats

Aimee
    $2,600 25
(Alex: I see you with a total of $32,400. I hear you wagering...)
(Ken: I'm just gonna wager $2,600.)

the MGM Grand

Ken
    $1600 14
Alan Shepard

Ken
    $6,000 29
(Alex: You want to say it. You want to say it; I know you do!)
(Ken: Okay, I'll do it. $6,000, Alex.)
(Alex: Is that what you wanted to say?)
(Ken: It's what I wanted to say.)
[Laughter]
(Alex: All right. $6,000 it is; here is the clue.)

Columbia

Ken
    $1600 19
Peru

Ken
    $2000 5
[Applause for Ken's run of the category]

Leopold & Loeb

Ken
    $2000 10
Yamamoto

Ken
    $2000 26
Mandalay Bay

Ken
    $2000 15
a Space Shuttle

Al
    $2000 30
"Lover Man"

Aimee
    $2000 20
leather

Ken

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ken Aimee Al
$45,000 $5,400 $2,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MEN OF SCIENCE
(Alex: Two important elements in the clue--the date and the fact that the author was German.)
...
(Alex: [To Aimee] Do we have [*] there?)
[Aimee shakes her head.]
(Alex: No? We have... no one.)
(Aimee: No idea.)
...
(Alex: Ken, are you going to surprise yourself by... uh, your knowledge?)
[Ken shakes his head.]
(Alex: Mendel? No, not this time. Your wager? $15,000. So, an even $30,000 once again, and your new total is $1,808,100. On his way to $2,000,000? Maybe, but we'll find out next week. We'll see you then on Jeopardy! So long.)
AlWho is Kepler?
$2,600
AimeeWho is ?
$100
KenWho is Mendel?
$15,000
Johannes Kepler

Final scores:

Ken Aimee Al
$30,000 $5,300 $5,200
53-day champion: $1,808,100 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ken Aimee Al
$36,400 $5,400 $2,600
42 R
(including 3 DDs),
6 W		 8 R,
1 W		 4 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $44,400

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Game tape date: 2004-08-09
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