Contestants
Tom Walsh, Writer from Washington, D.C.
Naomi Brokaw, Math adviser from Santa Cruz, CA
Joe Wolke, V.P. of IT communications & information from Northbrook, IL (Returning 1-day champ with $14,800)
JEOPARDY! Round - January 5, 2004
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
COME HERE OFTEN?
| CAN I BUY YOU A DRINK?
| DO I KNOW YOU FROM SOMEWHERE?
| WHAT'S YOUR SINE?
| WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN THE MOVIES?
| ARE YOU GIVING ME A LINE?
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(-$200) - Joe $200 - Tom (17) In 1998 it became the seventh continent to get an ESPN feed | $200 - Naomi (1) Ingredient in common to a tequila sunrise & a screwdriver | $200 - Joe (3) This poet died in Dumfries, Scotland in 1796, aged just 37 | $200 - Joe (2) Trigonometry is from Greek words for this shape & "measure" | $200 - Naomi (12) First brought to the big screen by D.W. Griffith in 1909, this hugely popular star was once known as "Little Mary" | $200 - Joe (24) Running down the coast of California is a big one of these -- the San Andreas |
(-$400) - Joe (-$400) - Naomi (18) Cry "Yoo-hoo!" in Canada's Yoho National Park from a peak in this range | $400 - Joe (4) If you don't have one of these small appliances, you can forget about making those frozen daiquiris | $400 - Tom (8) Also known as Abu Mazen, or "Father of Mazen", he became Palestinian Prime Minister in 2003 but later resigned | $400 - Naomi (6) Using trig with the periodic movements of the sun & moon, the times of high & low these can be determined | $400 - Triple Stumper (13) Born in South Africa, this female star of "The Italian Job" was discovered in line at a Hollywood bank | $400 - Joe (27) Until the early '70s, this Moscow-Washington link had no speech facilities -- it was a teletype |
$600 - Tom (19) For our final fling, let's head off to Loch Sunart in this famous northern region of Scotland | $600 - Naomi (5) 2 oz. of white wine & 6 oz. of this & you've got the standard white wine spritzer | $600 - Joe (9) In 1984, with a thousand bucks & a dream, he founded the computer company named for himself | $600 - Joe (7) Trig comes out of the geometry rules spelled out by this Greek around 300 B.C. | $600 - Joe (14) Sophia Loren was a struggling teenage model when she met this future husband & beauty contest judge | $600 - Tom (25) "Scabs" cross them |
$800 - Tom (20) Benbulbin is a peak in this country; you can take a peek at Yeats' grave nearby | $800 - Naomi (10) Traditionally, before you dip the rim of your margarita glass in the salt, rub it with this | $800 - Tom (22) Born in France in 1596, he was a law student & soldier before becoming the Father of Modern Philosophy | $800 - Tom (29) Trig comes into play in figuring out distances between points on one of these math shapes, like the Earth | $800 - Triple Stumper (15) Jack Nicholson discovered this Arkansas native & 2 years later she won an Oscar for "Melvin and Howard" | $800 - Naomi (26) It's 60 feet from the head pin on an alley |
$1000 - Tom (21) Hoste is an island in this fiery-sounding archipelago off Chile | $1000 - Triple Stumper (11) To make this type of martini, add a splash of olive juice | $1000 - Triple Stumper (23) A socialite whose name is still on magazines, he published Mademoiselle & Glamour starting in the 1930s | $1000 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | (-$600) - Joe (16) She was discovered while performing at the 1940 Aquacade in San Francisco DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $600 | $1000 - Triple Stumper (28) (Video) In 1957, this chain of about 60 radar sites along the 70th parallel, went into operation |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Naomi: $2,200
Joe: $2,000
Tom: $400
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Tom: $5,200
Naomi: $2,600
Joe: $2,000
Double JEOPARDY! Round - January 5, 2004
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OCEANOGRAPHY
| "WILD" ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT
| MR. & MYTH
| TECH TV
| NAVAL BATTLES
| FIRST NAME'S THE SAME
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$400 - Joe (17) This 6-foot unit is used mainly in terms of marine depth, & gave its name to a "meter" that measures depth | $400 - Naomi (1) From 1963 to 1985, this TV show was hosted by Marlin Perkins | $400 - Naomi (15) Hephaestus became lame after his mother Hera or his father Zeus, we're not sure which, dropped him off this mountain | $400 - Tom (20) One gadget on Tech TV's "Fresh Gear" was the roomba, a robot version of this cleaning device | $400 - Tom (11) On March 9, 1862 these 2 ironclads fought for 4 hours with neither ship receiving much damage | $400 - Tom (5) Morrison, |
$800 - Tom (18) The part of the ocean from about 300 to 3,000' down is called the thermocline, since this happens as you go deeper | $800 - Tom (2) It's the groovy proto-punk hit from 1966 heard here | $800 - Joe (16) When Zeus flooded the world, Deucalion built one of these; hmmmm, that story sounds familiar | $800 - Naomi (21) (Video) The program shown here is called this Japanese style "Unleashed" | $800 - Triple Stumper (12) In this 1805 battle Lord Nelson split Admiral Villenueve's fleet in half & then proceeded to destroy each half | $800 - Tom (7) Costello, |
$1200 - Tom (26) For scientists, not surfers, 1978's Seasat Satellite used radar to measure the heights of these | $1200 - Tom (3) A popular children's book, this Maurice Sendak story was turned into an opera in 1980 | $1200 - Tom (22) He was called the second-bravest Trojan (Hector was first); Virgil wrote the book on him | $1200 - Joe (25) A "Cybercrime" episode showed how students at Washington's Highline High used computers to change these | (-$2000) - Tom (13) In a 1588 battle this fleet commanded by Medina Sidonia lost 63 ships due to high winds & the British Navy DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $1200 - Tom (8) Bradley, |
$1600 - Tom (29) In 1919 the French tested one of these devices that measure the depth of the ocean (ocean ocean ocean) | $1600 - Joe (4) Clark Gable starred in the 1935 big screen version of this Jack London adventure tale | (-$1500) - Tom (23) Iolaos cauterized the places where this hero cut the heads off the Hydra & stopped them from growing back DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1500 | $1600 - Triple Stumper (27) (Video) It's the workhorse fighter plane profiled here in "Future Fighting Machines" | $1600 - Naomi (14) The 1st extensively recorded naval battle was in 480 B.C. at Salamis where this Greek city-state beat the Persians | (-$1600) - Tom (9) Walker, |
$2000 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | $2000 - Triple Stumper (6) Even though it was in Swedish, Ingmar Bergman was nominated for an Oscar for writing this 1950s film | $2000 - Tom (24) While king of this city, Eteocles was killed by one of the seven against it | $2000 - Tom (28) In 2003 Tech TV took a "First Look" at the new fee-charging version of this online music service | $2000 - Joe (19) The U.S. lost the destroyer Hammann & the aircraft carrier Yorktown in this June 1942 battle in the north Pacific | $2000 - Tom (10) Horowitz, |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Tom: $16,100 (Lock game)
Joe: $8,000
Naomi: $5,800
Final JEOPARDY!
INVENTIONS
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On April 25,1792 Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to have a bad encounter with this
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Naomi: $5,800 - $5,700
Joe: $8,000 - $4,000
Tom: $16,100 + $0
Final Scores
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| Tom: $16,100
Joe: $4,000 Naomi: $100 |
| Tom: $19,600 (22 right, including 1 rebound; 3 wrong, including 2 DDs)
Joe: $8,600 (13 right; 3 wrong, including 1 DD) Naomi: $5,800 (10 right; 1 wrong) Total: $34,000
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