last year, i was here as the plus one of ken jennings. >> that dummy. >> yeah. >> yeah, the tv triviay. >> and you were the person he was turning to. >> yeah. no pressure. >> yeah! [laughs] >> none. i got to say, there was no shame in, to spoil this for anybody who hasn't seen it, getting the question wrong that he did also not know. there's no shame in not knowing something that ken jennings also doesn't know. >> because no human knows it. >> right, exactly. it's basically unknowable. >> then i am extremely honored and excited to have you here and excited to play with you today. this is fantastic. >> i'm thrilled too. this is gonna be... uh, no pressure, hightower. >> all right, well, i probably don't have to tell you, but for everybody else, this is what you're up against today, 14 questions, the money values growing from $500 all the way up to $1 million. [cheers and applause] every question you answer correctly moves you one step closer to that top prize. remember, at any time, you can

. >> for tv trivia master ken jennings. >> the greatest game show contestant of all time, ken jenningsgot $100,000. >> mm-hmm. ken got questions he could get, and then got to a point and stopped, and... i feel a little more brave than i would've-- >> i was gonna say. >> you know, sitting in the plus one seat is really hard. >> well, i was gonna ask you, if you, you know, with three questions left, do you have a strategy, have you thought about, "when i get to this point..." you know, do you have a strategy

. >> ken and jen headed off to the sheriff's office and filed a report that bruce sawhill sexually abusedears old at that time. >> it's hard to describe that kind of betrayal. i don't -- i can't think of any other instance in my life where i felt that betrayed. you know, somebody that i had known and trusted for so long to do something like that to my daughter. i mean, couldn't he realize how he was hurting her, her trust and, you know, faith in him as a person? it was just devastating. >> investigators ran the criminal history for mr. sawhill and found that he was a registered sex offender. the sexual abuse conviction in st. louis county involved a 13-year-old girl. >> he was in prison after he met kenny joe, and he kept telling us it was for marijuana charges, and we knew that that's what he did for a living. >> i never questioned that because it sounded like pretty reasonable thing that would have happened to him. how do you know these things? they don't wear it on their sleeve or it's not written on their forehead. i'm a molester. >> mr. sawhell was charged with two counts of sodomy i