Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show contestant and host, author, and television presenter. He is the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time, having won money on five different games shows, most notably $4,522,700 on Jeopardy!. He currently hosts Jeopardy! as the alternate/backup to Mayim Bialik.

Sif is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted commonly in association with the superhero Thor. Based on the Norse goddess Sif, she was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in Journey Into Mystery #102 (March 1964). As an Asgardian warrior and lover of Thor, Sif often accompanies Thor into battle. She has also battled alongside Balder, who has developed an unrequited attraction to her, as she never shows affection for anyone but Thor and certain individuals who have proved worthy to wield his hammer, Mjolnir, such as the noble alien warrior Beta Ray Bill and the mortal Eric Masterson. Sif has appeared in various media adaptations of Thor. Jaimie Alexander portrays Lady Sif in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013), as well as two episodes of the first and second seasons of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., one episode of the television series Loki, and two episodes of the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021) as alternate versions of the character. Alexander will reprise the role in the upcoming film Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).

Lefort (Russian: Лефорт; also spelled "Leffort") was an Imperatritsa Aleksandra–class ship of the line of the Imperial Russian Navy, rated at 84 guns but actually armed with 94 guns. Her keel was laid in 1833 at Saint Petersburg and she was launched 9 August [O.S. 28 July] 1835 in the presence of Nicholas I. She was named after Admiral Franz Lefort, the head of the Russian Navy from 1695 to 1696. Upon commissioning, Lefort joined the Russian Baltic Fleet. During the Crimean War she aided in the defence of Kronstadt in 1854 against a Franco-British fleet, but did not see combat.

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others. Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland, and educated there and in London. He was a Protestant and member of the Anglo-Irish community. He spent childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, his poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show contestant and host, author, and television presenter. He is the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time, having won money on five different games shows, most notably $4,522,700 on Jeopardy!. He currently hosts Jeopardy! as the alternate/backup to Mayim Bialik. He holds the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. game show Jeopardy! with 74 consecutive wins. He also holds the record for the highest average correct responses per game in Jeopardy! history (for those contestants with at least 300 correct responses) with 35.9 during his original run (no other contestant has exceeded 30) and 33.1 overall, including tournaments and special events. In 2004, he won 74 consecutive Jeopardy! games before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. His total earnings on Jeopardy! are $4,522,700, consisting of $2,520,700 over his 74 wins, a $2,000 second-place prize in his 75th appearance, a $500,000 second-place prize in the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions (2005), a $300,000 second-place prize in Jeopardy's IBM Challenge (2011), when he lost to the Watson computer but became the first human to beat third-place finisher Brad Rutter; a $100,000 second-place prize in the Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades (2014), a $100,000 second-place prize (his share of his team's $300,000 prize) in the Jeopardy! All-Star Games (2019), and a $1 million first-place prize in the Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time (2020). During his first run of Jeopardy! appearances, Jennings earned the record for the highest American game show winnings. His total was surpassed by Rutter, who defeated Jennings in the finals of the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions, adding $2 million to Rutter's existing Jeopardy! winnings. Jennings regained the record after appearing on several other game shows, culminating with his results on an October 2008 appearance on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, though Rutter retained the record for highest Jeopardy! winnings and once again passed Jennings' total after his victory in the Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades tournament. In 2020, he once again faced off with and won against Rutter, as well as James Holzhauer, in a special primetime series, Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time. After his success on Jeopardy!, Jennings wrote about his experience and explored American trivia history and culture in his book Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs, published in 2006. In September 2020, he signed on as a consulting producer of Jeopardy!, a job that will include an on-air role reading categories. Following Alex Trebek's death on November 8, 2020, Jennings hosted Jeopardy! as the first of a series of guest hosts. His episodes aired from January 11, 2021 to February 19, 2021. Jennings will again host in late 2021, from at least November 8 through the end of the calendar year, and will split hosting duties with Mayim Bialik as their schedules permit.

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.

Lefort (Russian: Лефорт; also spelled "Leffort") was an Imperatritsa Aleksandra–class ship of the line of the Imperial Russian Navy, rated at 84 guns but actually armed with 94 guns. Her keel was laid in 1833 at Saint Petersburg and she was launched 9 August [O.S. 28 July] 1835 in the presence of Nicholas I. She was named after Admiral Franz Lefort, the head of the Russian Navy from 1695 to 1696. Upon commissioning, Lefort joined the Russian Baltic Fleet. During the Crimean War she aided in the defence of Kronstadt in 1854 against a Franco-British fleet, but did not see combat. On the morning of 22 September [O.S. 10 September] 1857, the Lefort was in the Gulf of Finland en route from Reval (present day Tallinn, Estonia) to Kronstadt along with the ships Imperatritsa Aleksandra, Vladimir, and Pamiat Asova, under the command of Rear Admiral I. Nordman. The ship had on board 756 crew and officers, 53 women, and 17 children (families of the crew). The squadron was caught in a sudden squall, and the Lefort heeled over once, righted herself, and heeled over again, capsizing and sinking between the islands of Gogland and Bolshoy Tyuters, five and a half nautical miles (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) north-northeast of Bolshoy Tyuters, with the loss of 826 people on board, although one sailor had been saved by holding on to a beam and floating to Gogland. The same storm wrecked about 30 ships off the Baltic coast of Russia. A board of inquiry investigating the disaster recognized as the most probable cause of the accident the weakening of the ship ties; Lefort had twice been used to transport heavy loads on the gun decks in 1856. The inquiry also alleged that the ship's hull had not been adequately caulked, and that the cargo load was too small and incorrectly arranged. In addition, it was speculated that the gun ports had been left open to provide fresh air for the passengers; this may have contributed to the sinking of the ship through water ingress when the ship first heeled over. The wreck of Lefort was found in the Gulf of Finland on 4 May 2013, as part of an international underwater search expedition.