Responses for The Greatest of All Time game #2 - Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time match 1, game 2.

Contestants

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Brad Rutter, the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California (subtotal of 10,400)

Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington (subtotal of 45,000)

James Holzhauer, the setter of 20 Jeopardy! records from Las Vegas, Nevada (subtotal of 33,200)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN IDOLS
TOY STORY
GEO-VERSE
NOT AN ARMCHAIR EXPERT
(Dax Shepard: I'm Dax Shepard, host of the Armchair Expert podcast, with clues about some people who were definitely not armchair experts.)
TRIPLE RHYME TIME
GREATEST OF ALL TIME TRAVELERS
    200 28
Parkinson's

James
    200 26
the View-Master

Ken
    200 29
Ukraine

Brad
    200 30
a dinosaur egg

James
    200 23
a fine wine shrine

Ken
    200 22
(James: What is [*]?--
(Alex: Yeah.)
(James: --JFK.)

the Kennedy assassination

James
    400 27
Dolly Parton

Ken
    400 25
the Cabbage Patch doll

James
    400 19
the Matterhorn

Ken
    400 24
DuPont

Ken
    400 20
(Brad: What is [*]?)
(Alex: All right.)

a calm psalm palm

Brad
    400 21
The Time Traveler's Wife

James
    600 17
(James: [Pointing at Brad] Ha ha! What is [*]?)
(Alex: Yes.)
[Laughter]
(Brad: No need to rub it in!)

Philadelphia

James
    600 14
Doc McStuffins

Brad
    600 18
Petrified Forest

James
    600 10
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Ken
    600 2
a pliant giant client

Ken
    2,400 5
(Ken: Who is Morgan?... Who is [*]?)
(Alex: Thank you!)

Morgan le Fay

Ken
    800 16
(Ken: Ooh... who is Don Ho?)

Elvis

JamesKen
    800 13
Etch A Sketch

Ken
    800 11
the Atacama

Brad
    800 9
(Zachary) Taylor

James
    800 1
[NOTE: Brad selected the first clue.]
(Brad: Let’s get TRIPLE RHYME TIME out of the way and let’s start with 800.)

a pleasant pheasant present

Ken
    800 6
Slaughterhouse-Five

Brad
    1000 15
Reprise

Brad
    1000 12
Lincoln Logs

James
    1000 4
the Mackenzie

Ken
    1000 8
(Ernest) Rutherford

James
    1000 3
(Alex: Yes.)
[Laughter]

a Tahiti graffiti treaty

James
    1000 7
(Octavia) Butler

James

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

James Ken Brad
8,200 7,000 3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE
ALL IN THE FAMILY: GOVERNMENT EDITION
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
PHILOSOPHERS
POTPOURRI
    400 25
(Ken: What is Xanadu?)

Hearst Castle

KenBrad
    400 26
midnight

Brad
    400 27
(Ken: Who is Ramón Castro?)

Raúl Castro

JamesKen
    400 28
mademoiselle

Brad
    400 29
(James: What is... the pursuit of happiness?)

liberty

James
Triple Stumper
    400 30
Westminster Abbey

Ken
    800 19
an Eames chair

Ken
    800 20
(Ken: What's "[*] Man"?)

Watermelon

Ken
    800 21
Taft

Ken
    800 22
(James: What is feliz aniversario?)

feliz cumpleaños

JamesBrad
    800 23
good & evil

James
    800 24
Nichelle Nichols

Brad
    1200 18
Bernini

Brad
    1200 17
Dave Brubeck

James
    1200 4
Poland

Brad
    1200 15
inshallah

Brad
    1200 16
(Ken: What are cosmologies?)

metaphysics

KenBrad
    1200 14
John Henry

Ken
    1600 3
the organ

Ken
    3,800 1
(Alex: Brad?)
(Brad: What are Bourbon... and... Beale?)
(Alex: I thought you'd say that. That's incorrect. It's [**], [**]. "[**] Street Blues".)

Bourbon & Basin

Brad
    1600 6
Dingell

Brad
    1600 12
sine qua non

Brad
    1600 5
Kierkegaard

James
    1600 11
(Ken: What's [*]?)
(Alex: [Chuckles] Yeah.)

a webcam

Ken
    2000 8
(Ken: Who is Latrobe?)

Bulfinch

JamesKen
    2000 2
(Vince) Guaraldi

Ken
    2000 9
Lurleen

James
    2000 10
samizdat

Brad
    2,800 7
(James: Okay...)
[Ken throws up his hands.]
(Brad: I gotta bet 2800. It's gonna come in one of these times.)
[James and Ken chuckle.]
...
(Alex: Brad?)
(Brad: It's not Jean-Paul Sartre, but I'll say "Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?")

William James

Brad
    2000 13
Olympias

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

James Ken Brad
15,000 12,200 10,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ASTRONOMERS
[Ken doubles forward and holds his hand to his chest when his response is revealed correct.]
...
(Alex: Over to James Holzhauer now. Big reaction a moment ago. He had 15,000; came up with [*].)
(James: [Sarcastically] Yeah, look how happy I am about it.)
(Alex: Yeah?)
[Laughter]
(Alex: Risked everything, I assume? Yes; that brings you up to 30,000 for this game. Earlier, you had 33,200, so you are 200 points shy.)
[The audience gasps when James' match total is revealed.]
(Alex: And that means that Ken Jennings has won the first match.)
[Ken and James shake hands.]
(Ken: Fantastic.)
(Alex: What a game; what a way to start The Greatest of All Time tournament. Tomorrow will be just as good, I promise you. Join us then, please.)
BradWho is Hale?
10,000
KenWho is Shoemaker?
6,200
JamesWho is Shoemaker?
15,000
Shoemaker

Final scores:

James Ken Brad
30,000 18,400 0

Cumulative scores:

James Ken Brad
63,200 63,400 10,400
2nd place Winner: 1 match point 3rd place

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

James Ken Brad
15,000 10,400 16,600
19 R,
2 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 18 R,
2 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: 42,000

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