By Lauren Bishop / Enquirer staff writer
Answer: Record-breaking Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings returns to the game show on this date.
Question: What is today?
If you didn't know the question to that answer, don't panic - just make sure you're home in time tonight to see whether the Salt Lake City software engineer will continue his $1.3 million-and-counting winning streak.
And if you need to be reminded about why he's still on the show, see if you know the answers to any of the Final Jeopardy! questions below. They're just a sampling of the ones Jennings has gotten right in his 38 appearances to date.
Jeopardy! airs at 7:30 p.m. on Channels 9, 2 .
1. Shakespeare: Two of the four Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage.
2. U.S. presidents: With a book about the South, he became the first president - past or present - to publish a novel.
3. Children's lit: This title character's full name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs.
4. 2000 Olympics: She's the first female track and field athlete to win medals in five different events at a single Olympics.
| Jeopardy questions |
| 1. What are (any two of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Richard III?
2. Who is Jimmy Carter?
3. What is the Wizard of Oz?
4. Who is Marion Jones?
5. Who is SpongeBob Squarepants?
6. What is leprosy?
7. Who is Lois Lane?
8. Who is Patsy Cline?
9. What is French?
10. What is Canada?
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5. Entertainment: This title character who debuted in 1999 was created by former marine biology educator Steve Hillenburg.
6. Medicine: In 1901 U.S. Surgeon General Walter Wyman helped establish a hospital in Hawaii for this disease.
7. Fictional people: After a 58-year flirtation, this woman called it off temporarily in issue No. 720.
8. Singers: Her recording career lasted just eight years, starting in 1955 with "A Church, a Courtroom and Then Good-Bye."
9. Opera: The libretto for "William Tell" was in this language, the native tongue of neither the composer, Rossini, nor the subject.
10. International politics: Of the eight members of the G8 industrial nations, the one with the smallest population.
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