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Season 20

Game Recap & Final Jeopardy – June 9, 2004 (Ken Jennings Game #6)

Published

Current Champion

Justin Robbins, career statistics:
28 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,600

To win:
2 games: 64.278%
3: 41.317%
4: 26.557%
5: 17.071%
6: 10.973%
Avg. streak: 2.799 games.
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All Time Winnings

All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:

1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200

All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):

1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603

Today’s contestants:

Anne Fritz

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Kevin Stanley, a writer and poet from Decatur, GA

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Ken Jennings,a software engineer from Salt Lake City, UT (5-day total: $156,000)

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In the introduction, Alex made reference to the then-recent rule change allowing “Sky’s the Limit!”:

If this were last year, Ken Jennings would have said good-bye to us after our last program. He would have won $156,000 after five victories, and he would stand in the sidelines and wait for the Tournament of Champions. But this year, we’ve allowed our champions to keep going as long as they keep winning. So, he’s trying for a sixth victory today. Kevin and Anne are here to stop him.

J! round catgories: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN; MOVIE ROLES; MUSEUMS; A GREEN CATEGORY; 1969; GOING “SOFT” ON US, EH?

Ken went out in this game like gangbusters! He gave 21 correct responses in this round, including 4/5 in MOVIE ROLES, MUSEUMS, A GREEN CATEGORY, and GOING “SOFT” and 3/5 in 1969.

After 30, the scores were: Ken $12,600 Kevin $2,800 Anne $2,400

DJ! round categories: SCOTLAND; CIRQUE DU SOLEIL; THE ANCIENTS SPEAK; SHOW TIME; SOUL FOOD; THE “L” WORD


Ken was motoring along nicely, holding a $15,400-$4,400-$4,400 lead early in Double Jeopardy, when he did something that he had never done before: He missed a Daily Double. It was under SCOTLAND for $800 (In Scotland lochs are lakes & these are wide bays into which most of Scotland’s rivers flow. He said “forths” instead of “firths”) and it cost him $4,600. While it brought the two challengers back into the game, both Kevin and Ann took some negs onto the way into the house, and once Ken got the train rolling again, it was another runaway for the SLC software engineer. He did got 3/5 in CIRQUE DU SOLEIL and SHOW TIME, though!

Scores going into Final Jeopardy!:
Ken $18,800
Kevin $4,400
Anne $1,200

Final Jeopardy! category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

Final Jeopardy! clue: In a last-minute change in his manuscript, Charles Dickens renamed Little Fred this

Who is Tiny Tim?

Anne 1200 + 1200 = 2400 Kevin 4400 + 4400 = 8800 Ken 18800 + 6200 = 25000 (6-day total: $181,000)

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Ken’s interview in this game spoke of a then-recent trip he had taken to Beijing (his wife’s parents lived for awhile in the city). He visited the location where Chairman Mao was embalmed.

Ken’s stats through 6 games:
192 correct (35 today, including Final)
11 incorrect (2 today)
8/9 on Daily Doubles
4/6 in Final Jeopardy
51.75% in first on buzzer
Average Coryat Score: $26,400
5 correct responses in a category: 4 times
4 correct responses in a category: 16 times
3 correct responses in a category: 19 times


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