Contestants
Sara Wilska, Contracts manager from Vienna, VA
Tom Massimo, Equity trader from New York, NY
Elisabeth Corkran, Human resources coordinator from Atlanta, GA (Returning 1-day champ with $14,600)
JEOPARDY! Round - October 2, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
THEIR FIRST NOVELS
| LET'S GO BOWLING
| AMERICAN FOOD
| WAYNE MAN
| PIRATES
| "ARG"
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$200 - Elisabeth (11) "Interview with the Vampire" (1976) | $200 - Tom (23) It's the term for 3 strikes in a row (gobble gobble) | $200 - Tom (18) Illinois & Texas both claim to be the home of this battered & deep-fried wiener on a stick | $200 - Tom (16) Now voiced by Wayne Allwine, this character was originally voiced by Walt Disney himself | $200 - Tom (6) in the 1600s, the pirate Koxinga took this island also known as Formosa from the Dutch | $200 - Elisabeth (1) This type of plane carries packages, not passengers |
$400 - Tom (12) "Catch-22" (1961) | $2000 - Tom (24) Appropriately, in a Woolworth split, these 2 pins are left standing DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $400 - Tom (19) Dried, smoked or even roasted, this fish is "king" in Alaska | $400 - Elisabeth (17) This Norfolk, Virginia-born Las Vegas superstar claims to be a descendant of Pocahontas | $400 - Triple Stumper (7) The main job of a pirate, "to take things by force", it's from a German word | $400 - Sara (2) The FDA requires that this butter substitute be fortified with Vitamin A |
$600 - Tom (13) "Lord of the Flies" (1954) | $600 - Tom (25) (Video of Sarah at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, NV) In 1997, Jeremy Sonnenfeld achieved the American Bowling Congress's first perfect series: 3 games totalling this number | $600 - Tom (20) Nopales, used in salads in the southwest, are the cooked-until-tender leaves of these, with the spines removed | $600 - Elisabeth (28) Good golly, his real name is Richard Wayne Penniman | (-$600) - Tom (-$600) - Elisabeth (8) A favorite weapon of pirates; being stabbed by one 20 times helped kill the pirate Blackbeard | $600 - Tom (3) It's a signal by bugle for the soldiers to attack |
$800 - Triple Stumper (14) "Horseman Pass By" (1961) | $800 - Elisabeth (26) A trademark of Brunswick, you might say this type of bowling, with laser lights, fog & music is out of this world! | $800 - Triple Stumper (21) Marionberries aren't from D.C.; they're from Oregon & are a variety of these berries | $800 - Tom (29) Sen. Wayne Morse, who spoke nonstop for 22 hours & 26 minutes in 1953, set a then-record for one of these | $800 - Tom (9) Some of his famous treasure has been found on Gardiners Island off Long Island | $800 - Elisabeth (4) This city was named for one of the founders of American Express |
$1000 - Triple Stumper (15) "King Rat" (1962) | $1000 - Triple Stumper (27) (Video of Sofia at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, NV) When a righty bowler's ball hits the left side of the head pin to make a strike, it's called this, even outside New York | (-$1000) - Tom $1000 - Sara (22) The steamed blue ones from Chesapeake Bay are served by the dozen in Baltimore restaurants | $1000 - Tom (30) Before the 1804 Lewis & Clark expedition, William Clark served as an Army officer under this "crazy" General | $1000 - Tom (10) A New York bridge that gets you to Staten Island is named for this privateer turned explorer | $1000 - Tom (5) It's the lingo peculiar to a particular trade or group |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Tom: $4,000
Elisabeth: $600
Sara: $400
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Tom: $9,000
Elisabeth: $2,400
Sara: $1,400
Double JEOPARDY! Round - October 2, 2003
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SCIENTIFIC PREFIXES
| FILM SHORTS
| THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA
| MICRO-NATIONS
| DON'T BE CONFUSED
| BEFORE & AFTER
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$400 - Tom (25) Mesocarp & mesoderm refer to layers in this position | (-$400) - Tom $400 - Sara (12) Classic 1954 film that gave us the "could'a been a contender" speech | $400 - Sara (6) In 1946 Warren Avis filled a need by opening up his car rental shop at one of these places | $400 - Tom (1) In size, it's the smallest independent country in the world | $400 - Triple Stumper (11) Goat cheese is a food; this was the Chiricahua Apache leader who took on the Army in the 1860s | $400 - Elisabeth (17) Superman's classic nickname that's the material used in S.O.S. Pads for scouring & polishing |
$800 - Elisabeth (26) An astrocyte is a cell shaped like this | $800 - Tom (13) The Indian tribe that Dances With Wolves befriends | $800 - Sara (7) In 1924 A T & T introduced a printing telegraph system under this name that became widely used | $800 - Tom (2) All 181 square miles of it are found in the eastern Pyrenees mountains | $800 - Elisabeth (22) Ephedrine is an asthma drug; this is the actress who starred in "The Birds" | $800 - Tom (18) "A.I" co-star who's a TV drama about crime & justice from the perspective of the police & the prosecuting D.A.s |
$1200 - Triple Stumper (27) (Video) Hi, I'm Dave Mustaine of the rock group Megadeth. As in the Nuclear war term "megadeaths", the Greek prefix mega - translates as this | $1200 - Elisabeth (14) He played Cantor Rabinovitch in "The Jazz Singer" in 1980 & Hamlet in 1948 | $2000 - Sara (8) "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?" is Louis Gerstner's memoir of turning around this giant tech company DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $1200 - Tom (3) Dicovered by Columbus in 1498, invaded by the U.S. in 1983 | $1200 - Tom (23) Popeye was a cartoon sailor; he was part of the triumvirate with Caesar & Crassus | (-$1200) - Sara (19) Elton John song that's a tribute to Marilyn Monroe & the residents of Toad Hall |
$1600 - Triple Stumper (28) Holo- means "whole", as in this imaging system invented in 1947 | $1600 - Triple Stumper (15) (Video) Behind-the-camera legend seen here | $1600 - Sara (9) "Natural care" is the mantra of personal products company Tom's of this state | $2000 - Tom (4) It's only 23 square miles & completely surrounded by Italy DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $1600 - Triple Stumper (24) Lily pads are found in water; this French-American coloratura was found at The Met in 1931 | $1600 - Triple Stumper (20) "Stand By Me" singer who sat on Egypt's throne from 1936 to 1952 |
$2000 - Triple Stumper (30) (Video) Chryso- as in chrysoberyl, seen here, is from the Greek for this substance | $2000 - Triple Stumper (16) She played Julie in "Jezebel" | $2000 - Sara (10) The USA's largest radio station operator, it also stages over 25,000 live events a year | $2000 - Triple Stumper (5) The smallest island nation in the Mediterranean Sea | $2000 - Tom (29) A Junior Achiever takes a shot at running a business; he wrote "The Wapshot Chronicle" | $2000 - Tom (21) "Soul Train" host & businessman nicknamed "Commodore" who made a fortune in steamship lines & railroads |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Tom: $20,200 (Lock game)
Sara: $7,400
Elisabeth: $5,600
Final JEOPARDY!
U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS
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He served 2 terms as Vice President & was the first Vice President who had been born in the 20th century
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Elisabeth: $5,600 - $3,600
Sara: $7,400 - $2,900
Tom: $20,200 + $3,000
Final Scores
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| Tom: $23,200
Sara: $4,500 Elisabeth: $2,000 |
| Tom: $18,200 (26 right, including 2 DDs; 3 wrong)
Sara: $6,600 (8 right, including 1 DD & 2 rebounds; 1 wrong) Elisabeth: $5,600 (10 right; 1 wrong) Total: $30,400
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