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Finals: Jennings vs. Ogas - September 8

This season on Grand Slam, sixteen of the game's living legends, from Jeopardy! champs to Millionaire masters, from Weakest Link contenders to modern-day Lingo-ists, were met on a common battleground, and when the dust settled, only two survived... Ken Jennings, who became a legend on Jeopardy! by dispatching 150 players and amassing more than $2.5 million in 2004, and Ogi Ogas, who traversed the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 15 only to walk away with $500,000 in 2006. They played against the best, but tonight, they go against each other for the trophy, $100,000, and the title of 2007 Grand Slam Champion.

It's the brawl for it all, y'all. Let's check the tale of the tape...

KEN JENNINGS	VS	OGI OGAS
33	Age	36
Computer programmer/author	Occupation	graduate student (neuroscience)
Mountlake Terrace, WA	Hometown	Waltham, MA
Jeopardy!: went on a reign of terror that spanned 75 days, two seasons, and over $2 million	Claim to fame	Millionaire: won $500,000 last season
def. #15 Victor Lee def. #10 Phyllis Harris def. #14 Michelle Kitt	Ticket to the finals	def. #8 Nancy Christy def. #1 Brad Rutter def. #5 David Legler

One more time, here are the rules of combat for this final... The Grand Slam final will be played in FIVE rounds.

Round 1: General knowledge questions.
Round 2: Numbers and logic.
Round 3: Contemporary knowledge and current events questions.
Round 4: Words and letters.
Round 5: Mixed bag.

Players are each given one minute of the questioner's time. Correct answers will stop the clock; wrong ones will keep the clock going until they give a correct answer or they use one of three switches given to them for the entire match. A switch passes the question to their opponent. The player who runs out of time first loses the round, and the winner keeps the time remaining on his clock to use in the final round. Player who runs out of time in that round first is out of the tournament, and his opponent will win the cup, the title, the stack of presidents, and, of course... ha HA... THE BRAGGING RIGHTS!

Two men enter... one man leaves $100,000 richer. Game show nation, this is the match you've been waiting for. Round 1 begins... NOW.

	What organisms are made up of algae and fungi living together symbiotically? OGI: Lichen. CORRECT :56.14
What Civil War general is noted for having declared, "If nominated I will not accept; if elected I will not serve"? KEN: Sherman. CORRECT :54.09	In Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," the Wife of Bath claims to have had how many husbands? OGI: 10. (5) In humans, osteoblasts are cells that help the body to form what? OGI: Bones. CORRECT :45.70
October 24, 1929 is better known by what name in American history? KEN: Black Monday. (Black Thursday) "The Thinker" was the work of what 19th Century sculptor? KEN: Rodin. CORRECT :45.76	Human hair is mostly made out of what protein? OGI: Keratin. CORRECT :41.73
The two dots sometimes places over vowels in the German alphabet are known as what? KEN: Umlaut. CORRECT :42.11	Jake Barnes is the protagonist of what Hemingway novel? OGI: "The Sun Also Rises". CORRECT :37.59
What hormone, produced by the pineal gland, is sold as an over-the-counter sleep aid? KEN: Ketamine (Melatonin). What state did Rebecca Felton represent for 22 hours in 1922, becoming the first female US Senator in history? SWITCH! :28.82	OGI: Georgia. CORRECT :36.83
What vestigial human organ shares its name with the term for supplemental information at the end of a book? KEN: Appendix. CORRECT :23.60	What was the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima? OGI: Enola Gay. CORRECT :32.12
Menlo Park is the site of a New Jersey state park memorializing what inventor? KEN: Thomas Edison. CORRECT :19.19	Often found in a research paper's footnotes, what abbreviation of a Latin word means "in the same place?" OGI: Pass. (Ibid) Charles Darwin based his natural selection theory on data he collected while visiting what island group? OGI: Galapagos. CORRECT :19.24
Confederate Civil War general Thomas Jackson was better known by what formidable nickname? KEN: Stonewall. CORRECT :15.44	What Russian novel begins with the famous opening line, "Happy families are all alike..."? OGI: Anna Karenina. CORRECT :13.30
In the Old Testament, a dove returns to Noah with a branch from what tree? KEN: Olive. CORRECT :11.26	Louisiana is named after a ruler of what European country? OGI: France. CORRECT :09.84
Who was the first person to sign the original Declaration of Independence? KEN: John Hancock. CORRECT :07.24	Found in the human brain, the olfactory bulb is critical to the function of what sense? OGI: Smell. CORRECT :05.88
What African country's capital is named after US President James Monroe? KEN: Liberia. CORRECT. :02.51	What notoriously romantic character has been depicted in works by Mozart, Lord Byron and George Bernard Shaw? OGI: Don Juan. CORRECT :00.14
In a scientific litmus test, what color does the paper turn in an acid solution? Ken: Blue! (Red) TIME!

And Ogi wins that round by the slimmest of margins, banking 0.14 seconds for use in round 5. So theoretically, it's still a draw match, but Ogi has a one-switch advantage, three to two. Next is numbers and logic.

Minute on the clock. Ken's clock begins to count down... NOW.

What is (81 - 36) + 19? KEN: 42? (64) What is 50% of 750? KEN: 375. CORRECT :49.90	What do you get when you subtract 75 from the number of days in a leap year? OGI: Pass (291). Before 2002, what was the most recent calendar year to be palindromic? OGI: 1991. CORRECT :45.67
If 4y = 204, what does 3y equal? KEN: 153. CORRECT :43.49	A person holding a 5 dollar bill, 9 quarters, 6 dimes and 3 nickels has what sum of money? OGI: Pass. ($8) What is five-eighths of 80? OGI: 50. CORRECT :32.50
Multiply the square root of 144 by the square root of 169. KEN: 156. CORRECT :36.38	If a square has an area of 81 square inches, how long is each side? OGI: 9. CORRECT :29.44
If Ted owns 500 shares of a stock valued at $7.22 a share and the stock splits, what is the dollar value of his shares? SWITCH! :29.09	SWITCH! :28.89
KEN: Pass. ($3610) What is 30 x 0.6? KEN: 18. CORRECT :20.51	What is 231 ÷ 7? OGI: 33. CORRECT :24.23
How is 551 expressed in Roman numerals? KEN: DLI. CORRECT :15.80	What is four-sevenths of 84? OGI: 48. CORRECT :19.54
If a runner burns 75 calories every 15 minutes, how many calories would be burn in one hour? KEN: 300. CORRECT :10.51	If Josh arrives 45 minutes late for a 7:30 movie, what time did he arrive? OGI: 8:15. CORRECT :15.19
A poem consisting of nine quatrains has how many total lines? KEN: 36. CORRECT :07.16	What is three-fifths of 300? OGI: 180. CORRECT :08.79
If all colas are soda pops and the uncola is a soda pop, could the uncola possibly be a cola? KEN: Yes. CORRECT :00.76	What is 8 x 0.75? OGI: 6. CORRECT :02.96
0.0625 inches is equal to what fraction of an inch? TIME! Correct: 1/16.

Another 2.96 seconds goes to Ogi's final clock. He now has a three-second advantage over Ken. Ogi still leads on switches, two to one, but the next round might tell the tale. It's contemporary knowledge.

Round 3 begins... NOW.

	The title of a 2005 book by New York Time columnist Maureen Dowd asks, "Are Men" what? OGI: Pass. (Necessary) Who immediately proceeded Kelly Ripa as Regis Philbin's regular co-host on his morning television show? OGI: Kathie Lee. CORRECT :45.25
What popular beverage is based on a Thai energy drink called Krating Daeng? KEN: Red Bull. CORRECT :55.42	The Hollywood Foreign Press Association oversees what annual awards? OGI: Golden Globes. CORRECT :39.14
What popular punk rock trio consists of Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool, and Billie Joe Armstrong? KEN: Green Day. CORRECT :49.77	Greece's president from 1995-2005 shared his last name with what American news broadcaster? OGI: Papandreou. (George Stephanopoulos) In 1992, Russell Simmons launched what urban-inspired fashion line? OGI: Pass (Phat Farm) What NFL quarterback has a cameo at the end of the 1998 movie "There's Something About Mary"? SWITCH! :19.29
KEN: Brett Favre. CORRECT :48.64	What star of the Showtime series "Fat Actress" claims to have lost 75 pounds using the Jenny Craig program? OGI: Pass (Kirstie Alley). What town on the banks of Lake Como lends its name to a Las Vegas casino famous for its elaborate water shows? OGI: Pass. (Bellagio) Pop star Beyonce rose to fame with what 90s girl group? OGI: Destiny's Child. CORRECT TIME!

Ken just jumped to a commanding lead with over 48 seconds on his final clock. Ogi lost his concentration on that round and we can all see it in his eyes...

Time to play with letters. Round 4... begins now.

Add vowels to L__SS_Z F__R_ to get a French phrase... KEN: Laissez-faire. CORRECT :56.96	Spell "sanguine" OGI: S-A-N-G-U-I-N-E. CORRECT :56.23
What letter appears only once in the word "horseshoe"? KEN: R. CORRECT :52.42	What classic actor's name is an anagram of THUMP A HOG BERRY? OGI: Pass. (Humphrey Bogart) What one word does "CP" stand for in the medical procedure CPR? OGI. Cardiopulmonary. CORRECT :44.16
NAPOLEON - - - - - - - CARBOHYDRATE. KEN: Complex. CORRECT :47.54	What letter comes between delta and zeta in the Greek alphabet? OGI: Epsilon. CORRECT :38.51
How many total vowels are there in "illegitimate"? KEN: Six. CORRECT :42.35	Spell the Japanese condiment "wasabi". OGI: W-A-S-A-B-I. CORRECT :34.05
Add letters to _U__E_ O_ L_VE to get the name of what 1967 social movement in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district? KEN: Summer of Love. CORRECT :36.02	What American poet's name is an anagram of CURB RAD SLANG? OGI: Pass. (Carl Sandburg) What is the postal abbreviation for Vermont?. OGI: VT. CORRECT :24.86
Spell "dromedary". KEN: D-R-O-M-E-D-A-R-Y. CORRECT :32.25	THOUGHT - - - - - - STATE OGI: Pass (Police). Separate the DNA pioneers in WCARTISCOKN. OGI: Watson & Crick. CORRECT :16.54
How many vowels are in the word "triceratops"? KEN: Four. CORRECT. :27.09	What two letters in ABODE would you switch to get the name of a building material? OGI: D & B. CORRECT :11.91
What is the term for a single syllable that starts with one vowel so SWITCH! :20.34	SWITCH! :11.16
KEN: Pass (diphthong). Separate the two ice cream flavors in VACONFILFELEA. KEN: Vanilla & coffee. CORRECT :12.71	In the abbreviation IOU, the "U" commonly stands for a word beginning with what letter? OGI: Y. CORRECT :06.06
Add vowels to _E_NC_L_R to get the ... KEN: Avuncular. CORRECT :09.67	What award-winning actor and singer is hidden in YOUR MOUSTACHE ROCKS? OGI: Pass. (Cher). TIME!

Ken takes another 9.67 seconds through to the final round, giving him a total of 1:58.31 to Ogi's 1:03.10.

Both players have an extra switch, giving them one a piece.

The first quintuple header for all the cheddar is about to crown its first champ ever. The final round to determine who will be named the best gamer in all the land... begins....

NOW!

	The Ponte Vecchio, a medieval bridge in Florence, spans what river? OGI: Pass. (Arno) What is the name of the wind instrument associated with Australia's aboriginal people? OGI: Pass. (Didgeridoo) What "C" is a gradual increase in the volume or intensity of a musical passage? OGI: Crescendo. CORRECT. :47.81
According to legend, kissing what rock will endow one with a silver tongue? KEN: The Blarney Stone. CORRECT 1:54.52	What heavyweight boxing champion was nicknamed "The Louisville Lip"? OGI: Joe Louis. (Muhammad Ali) What is 6.4 + 17.9? OGI: 24.3. CORRECT :37.76
What Welsh poet's name is an anagram of A SAD MONTHLY? KEN: Dylan Thomas. CORRECT 1:51.31	Who wrote "The Bridges of Madison County"? OGI: Waller. CORRECT :33.36
What number is expressed in Roman numerals as XLVII? KEN: 47. CORRECT. 1:46.54	Who was the Greek god of shepherds and flocks? OGI: Pan. CORRECT :28.89
CANDY - - - - - PIE SWITCH! 1:42.10	SWITCH! :27.96
KEN: Pass (Apple) What Spanish explorer landed on and named the coast of Florida in 1513? KEN: Ponce de Leon. CORRECT 1.35.53	If Kate has an equal number of nickels and pennies and a total of 30 cents, how many pennies does Kate have? OGI: Pass. (5) Salicylic acid, an active ingredient in aspirin, is found in the bark of what tree? OGI: Aspirin (Willow) Who painted "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2"? OGI: Marcel du Champ. CORRECT :12.07
Add letters to _A_ S__AK to get the name of what television... KEN: Pat Sajak. CORRECT 1.32.49	An isosceles triangle with a perimeter of 40 inches and a base of 10 inches has two sides that are each how many inches? OGI: 15. CORRECT :05.46
What is 57 + 77 - 24? KEN: 110. CORRECT 1:27.67	What Web site has roots in the Cartographic Services division of the RR Donnelly and Sons company? OGI: Pass. (Mapquest.com) TIME!

AND KEN JENNINGS IS THE 2007 GRAND SLAM CHAMPION!

And let's not forget the $100,000 that comes with it. Will we see him or 16 others enter the arena for another $100,000? Only time will tell. But for now, from the Sony Studios in New York City... Good night everyone!