Contestants
John Haynes, Meteorologist from Alexandria, VA
Erin Topping, High school English teacher from Santa Ana, CA
Wes Johnson, Band manager & attorney from Columbia, SC (Returning 2-day champ with $22,000)
JEOPARDY! Round - December 16, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
| "C" IN ROCK
| FLORA
| CORPORATE SYMBOLS
| THE 1920s
| BY THE NUMBERS
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$200 - John (7) His July 15 birthday is a holiday in Brunei | $200 - Wes (1) Sadly, guitarist Joe Strummer died just months before this group of his was inducted into the Hall of Fame | $200 - Erin (26) This fruit that's good for making dip is also known as an alligator pear | $200 - Wes (12) Utensil on which you'd find Betty Crocker's name | $200 - Erin (19) Charlie Chaplin said, "Motion pictures need" this "as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics" | $200 - John (6) Requiring 2 standard decks & 4 jokers, Canasta uses a total of this many cards |
$400 - Wes (8) Tahiti celebrates this on July 14; it's that French connection | $400 - Wes (2) Ric Ocasek was the lead singer of this "Candy-O" group | $400 - Wes (27) Columbia University is a part of a distinguished group of colleges bearing the name of this plant of the Genus Hedera | $400 - Wes (13) Sailor Jack & his dog Bingo first appeared on boxes of this in 1919 | $400 - Wes (20) (Video of Sofia at the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville, KY) | $400 - Triple Stumper (16) Number of questions you have to answer correctly to win the top prize on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" |
$600 - John (9) "The Folklore of World Holidays" gives instructions on how to make a turnip lantern for this observance | $600 - Wes (3) It's the rockin' group from Rockford, Illinois heard here | $600 - John (28) James Markham received the first patent for a tree in 1932, a variety of this fuzzy fruit | $600 - Triple Stumper (14) Its oval, topped by a double cross, was used by medieval Italian printers | (-$1000) - Wes (21) In 1928 DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | (-$600) - Wes (-$600) - John $600 - Erin (17) Number of players on a Quidditch team, or number of gold medals Mark Spitz won at the '72 Olympics |
$800 - Triple Stumper (10) At each of the 12 strokes of midnight starting a new year, a Spaniard will traditionally eat one of these | $800 - Wes (4) Like a fairy tale come true, Jon Bon Jovi discovered this metal band | $800 - Triple Stumper (29) If you're hungry, plant this Raphanus Sativus root vegetable in your garden & it can be ready to eat in 18 days | $800 - Triple Stumper (15) In this company's caricatures, the guy on the right is actually named Izzy, but is still identified as Jack | $800 - John (22) New York City's last horse-drawn one of these was retired in 1922 | $800 - Triple Stumper (18) In 2003 Ed O'Neill, in his new TV role, acquired this famous badge number |
(-$1000) - John (11) In Germany, Pfingsten is this observance, 50 days after Easter | $1000 - Triple Stumper (5) This Nirvana song says, "And I swear that I don't have a gun" | $1000 - Erin (30) If you have to tell wood it's been "knotty", it's usually this wood often used to panel rooms & make furniture | (-$1000) - Erin (24) The Anheuser-Busch logo is one of these with an eagle in it; Mr. Busch must have felt very left out | $1000 - John (23) Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay joined a 1927 Boston picket line protesting this pair's execution | $1000 - John (25) The first Apollo mission launched at night & the last one to go to the moon had this number |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Wes: $3,000
Erin: $0
John: $0
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
John: $2,800
Wes: $2,200
Erin: $1,000
Double JEOPARDY! Round - December 16, 2003
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PHYSICISTS
| BOX OFFICE BLOCKBUSTERS
| NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT
| SHRINE CIRCUS
| SLAV-ING AWAY
| "FOR" YOU
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$400 - John (17) In 1962 Riccardo Giacconi detected these coming from outside the solar system, maybe from a far-off doctor's office | $400 - John (1) This 1939 film that garnered Victor Fleming an Oscar for directing is one of the most popular films of all time | $400 - Erin (26) "Broadway Bound" | $400 - John (6) The Shinto-styled Meiji Shrine is in this world capital | $400 - John (7) While it existed, this nation was the "Land of the southern Slavs" | $400 - John (12) Bragg in North Carolina or Benning in Georgia |
$800 - Triple Stumper (18) In 1963 Edwin McMillan & Vladimir Veksler shared the award called these for Peace | $800 - John (2) This Spielberg-directed effort about a boy & his alien was one of the highest-earning films of the '80s | $800 - Erin (27) "The Crucible" | $800 - John (22) Tibetan Buddhists revere the Bodhnath Stupa, a shrine near this capital of Nepal | $800 - John (8) Bounded by the Adriatic on the west & the Black Sea on the east, this peninsula was populated by Slavs in the 6th century | (-$800) - John (13) This U.S. Senate committee reviews international treaties |
$1200 - John (19) Max Born made major contributions to quantum theory, originated by this other Max | $1200 - Erin (3) Peggy Lee purrs "The Siamese Cat Song" in this 1950s animation blockbuster | $1200 - Wes (28) "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" | $1000 - John (23) Thomas a Becket's tomb in this English town became a shrine for pilgrims after he was canonized DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | (-$1200) - Erin (9) Mr. Spassky could tell you this first name of Slavic origin means "fight" or "battle" | $1200 - Erin (14) An illegal copy of a document that has been made to look genuine |
(-$2500) - John (20) In 1908 this German invented a device that counted the alpha particles emitted by radium DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2500 | $1600 - Wes (4) Flower, Faline, Ronno & Thumper are characters in this 1942 Disney cash cow | $1600 - Erin (29) "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" | $1600 - Triple Stumper (24) For Muslims, this one-room shrine is the "house of God"; it's washed once a year & is covered in a silk cloth | $1600 - John (10) Feb. 14 is the Feast Day of this saint who lends his name to an alphabet used by the Slavs | $1600 - John (15) The part of a picture that appears nearest the viewer |
$2000 - Triple Stumper (21) This 1922 Nobel Prize winner was active in the Danish resistance to Nazi occupation | $2000 - Wes (5) This 1915 historic American epic directed by D.W. Griffith grossed over $10 million | $2000 - Triple Stumper (30) "The Piano Lesson" | $2000 - Triple Stumper (25) The Golden Temple in Amritsar is a shrine of this religious group | $2000 - John (11) The many Slavic languauges belong to this hyphenated & most widely spoken family of languages in the world | $2000 - Triple Stumper (16) The only instance of a world sports championship won posthumously was when Jochen Rindt won in 1970 for this |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
John: $11,300
Wes: $7,000
Erin: $5,000
Final JEOPARDY!
THE OLYMPICS
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This city that Napoleon gave to Bavaria in 1806 has hosted the Winter Olympics twice
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Erin: $5,000 - $3,000
Wes: $7,000 - $3,000
John: $11,300 - $2,701
Final Scores
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| John: $8,599
Wes: $4,000 Erin: $2,000 |
| John: $14,000 (20 right, including 1 DD; 4 wrong, including 1 DD)
Wes: $8,000 (12 right; 2 wrong, including 1 DD) Erin: $5,000 (9 right, including 1 rebound; 2 wrong) Total: $27,000
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