Contestants
Luke McConnell, Student from Carmel, IN
Joe Wolke, V.P. of IT communications & information from Northbrook, IL
Faith O'Neal, Attorney from New York, NY (Returning 1-day champ with $12,000)
JEOPARDY! Round - January 2, 2004
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
| HOOP-LA
| NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS
| GRAMBLING MARCHING BAND
| FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
| W.W.
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$200 - Faith (7) To use this nylon material every day & not dread my next visit to Dr. Szell | (-$200) - Faith $200 - Luke (4) In 1981 Houston's Calvin Murphy sank 95.8 % of these shots, an all-time NBA record | $200 - Joe (3) 1979: | (-$200) - Luke (18) (Video of Jimmy at Grambling State University in Louisiana) | $200 - Luke (1) English schoolmaster Mr. Chipping is called this for short | $200 - Luke (23) Riesling or Chardonnay, for example |
$400 - Joe (8) To feed shut-ins as a volunteer with this rhyming program | $400 - Luke (5) (Video) Hi, I'm Julius Erving. During its final season in 1975-76 I led this league in scoring & won its slam dunk competition | (-$400) - Faith $400 - Joe (9) 1990: | $400 - Luke (19) Grambling first struck up the band in 1926 with 17 instruments obtained from this Chicago catalog company | $400 - Joe (2) This mathematician gone bad is Sherlock Holmes' archenemy | $400 - Luke (24) In 1900 he wrote the U.S. Weather Bureau for a list of windy areas; he chose Kitty Hawk, where winds averaged 13 mph |
$600 - Joe (13) To stop blowing every paycheck & start building this precipitation-named fund | $600 - Joe (6) In 1990 this Nevada school's team became the first in history to score over 100 points in the NCAA championship game | $600 - Luke (28) 1964: | $600 - Luke (20) The Marching Tigers performed in Monrovia at the 1972 inauguration of this country's President William Tolbert | $600 - Luke (10) Humbert Humbert usually refers to 12-year-old Dolores Haze by this name | $600 - Luke (25) It's the lip-curling favorite heard here |
$800 - Luke (14) To do this, often given as a reason for retirement, as by golfer Nancy Lopez & Congressman Dick Armey | $800 - Luke (16) Hi, I'm Malik Rose of the NBA. I attended the same Philadelphia high school as this late, great 7 foot 1 center | $800 - Faith (29) 1978: | $2000 - Luke (21) The band made sure to include a sax solo when they performed for this commencement speaker in 1999 DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $800 - Luke (11) With help from Helen Fielding, this 30-something singleton & diarist also has a published "Guide to Life" | $800 - Faith (26) It's what "W.W" stands for in WWD, "the retailers' daily newspaper" |
(-$1000) - Luke (15) To start doing yoga -- maybe this style that's really hot (as in the 105-degree room it requires) | $1000 - Luke (17) In 1979 the NBA's New Orleans Jazz moved to this state less well known for its jazz | (-$1000) - Joe (30) 1961: | $1000 - Triple Stumper (22) (Video of Cheryl at Grambling State University in Louisiana) | $1000 - Faith (12) Tyrone Slothrop, an American Lieutenant, is the central character of this 1973 classic by Thomas Pynchon | (-$1000) - Joe (27) (Video of Cheryl in Martha's Vineyard) |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Joe: $2,600
Luke: $2,000
Faith: $600
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Luke: $8,400
Faith: $2,200
Joe: $600
Double JEOPARDY! Round - January 2, 2004
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WEST AFRICA
| THE SINGER PORTRAYED
| 17th CENTURY NAMES
| CRAFTS
| ANIMALS AMONG US
| EASY AS "PIE"
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$400 - Faith (24) Nigeria's chief port, it lies on the Bight of Benin | $400 - Joe (12) By Diana Ross in 1972 | $400 - Faith (6) (Video of Sarah in Provincetown, MA) | $400 - Joe (17) Tesserae are the small, colored pieces, usually tiles, that are used to make this type of picture | $400 - Faith (5) The U.S. military used these animals to aid the clearing of underwater mines during the 2003 invasion of Iraq | $400 - Joe (1) Simple Simon asked him, "Let me taste your ware" |
(-$800) - Faith $800 - Luke (27) In 1936 Francisco Franco began his fight against the Spanish Republic from his base in this archipelago off NW Africa | $800 - Faith (13) By Sissy Spacek in 1980 | $800 - Luke (7) Around 1630 Mogul ruler Shah Jahan ordered this built as a memorial to his favorite wife | $800 - Joe (19) (Video of Vanna White) In several books, I share tips and some of my favorite designs for crocheting this cozy type of blanket | $800 - Joe (9) The lesser pandas of Asia are related to this "masked" North American mammal of the genus Procyon | $800 - Luke (2) It's one who induces others to follow by means of false promises |
$1200 - Triple Stumper (28) This river which empties into the Atlantic carries more water than any river in the world except the Amazon | $1200 - Luke (14) By Jennifer Lopez in 1997 | $1200 - Joe (8) In 1622 he became a Cardinal; 6 years later he became First Minister of France | $1200 - Joe (20) Depending on what you weave, you might use the rigid heddle or 4-harness type of this | (-$1200) - Luke (-$1200) - Joe (10) Plentiful in the Eurasian steppes in the late Pleistocene, these animals stood 16 feet high & had tusks 16 feet long | $1200 - Luke (3) In "The Preacher and the Slave", Joe Hill wrote, "Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get" this "when you die" |
$1600 - Joe (29) In the 1500s this European power established bases in Angola, which it used as a source for slave labor for Brazil | (-$2000) - Luke (15) By Lou Diamond Phillips in 1987 DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $1600 - Faith (25) Because it dealt with religious hypocrisy, his French comedy "Le Tartuffe" was banned until 1669 | $2000 - Joe (21) (Video) In this form of needlework, X's shown on fabric create pictures, like the lovely Paula Vaughan design seen here DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $1600 - Triple Stumper (18) A traditional Uzbek meal might include shurpa, the meat of this "timid" animal served with vegetable soup | $1600 - Joe (4) This hat has a low crown, flat top & flexible brim |
$2000 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | $2000 - Luke (16) By Dennis Quaid in 1989 | $2000 - Faith (26) In 1653 Izaak Walton reeled readers in with this treatise on fishes & fishing | $2000 - Triple Stumper (22) Many Hopi people earn part of their income from the crafting of jewelry, baskets & these sacred dolls | $2000 - Luke (23) Like the last passenger pigeon, the last captive Carolina parakeet died in the 1910s in this Ohio city's zoo | $2000 - Triple Stumper (11) Velvet Brown's horse in "National Velvet" got its name from this black & white marking |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Luke: $14,000
Joe: $9,800
Faith: $7,000
Final JEOPARDY!
NAMED FOR
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The "Scruggs Style" is a technique of doing this with only the thumb & first 2 fingers
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Faith: $7,000 + $5,000
Joe: $9,800 + $5,000
Luke: $14,000 - $5,601
Final Scores
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| Joe: $14,800
Faith: $12,000 Luke: $8,399 |
| Luke: $14,800 (22 right, including 1 DD & 2 rebounds; 4 wrong, including 1 DD)
Joe: $9,400 (16 right, including 1 DD & 1 rebound; 3 wrong) Faith: $7,000 (10 right; 3 wrong) Total: $31,200
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