Contestants
Matt McWha, Consulant from Arlington, VA
Mary Laferriere, Administrative assistant from West Warwick, RI
Sam Ott, Graduate student from Los Angeles, CA (Returning 2-day champ with $26,001)
JEOPARDY! Round - September 9, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
NAME GAME
| THE OLD TESTAMENT
| ROAD MOVIES
| HEADLINE NEWS 1899
| LOVE, HONOR OR OBEY
| 10-LETTER WORDS
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(-$200) - Sam (-$200) - Matt $200 - Mary (6) Based on the 1990 census, this color is also the fifth most common last name in the U.S. | $200 - Mary (26) He "was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights" | $200 - Sam (1) Freddy Krueger was introduced in this 1984 scarefest | $200 - Sam (21) This man forms Detroit automobile company | $200 - Sam (11) The one that doesn't appear in the Boy Scout oath | (-$200) - Sam (16) It's the Good Book's last book |
(-$400) - Matt (7) Around the time of this war, Kimberley was a popular name for British boys | $400 - Sam (27) This city was the site of Solomon's temple | $400 - Mary (2) Classic 1950 film that includes the line "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" | $400 - Matt (22) Defeating English challenger Shamrock, U.S. continues its dominance of this sailing race | $400 - Sam (12) The Daleks of "Dr. Who" have a limited vocabulary; basically it's this or "You will be exterminated!" | $400 - Mary (17) It's a 3-flavored ice cream usually consisting of chocolate, strawberry & vanilla |
$600 - Sam (8) It's fair to say that this first name of an 'N Sync member is from the Latin for "fair & righteous" | $600 - Sam (28) Exodus 3:8 describes the Promised Land as "flowing with" these 2 items | $600 - Mary (3) Michael Douglas won an Oscar for assuring us that "Greed ... is good" in this 1987 film | (-$600) - Matt (23) (Video) This girl seen here sets fashion trends for women | $600 - Sam (13) Those darn Brits add a "u" to it | $600 - Sam (18) In an orchestra, it's the section where you'll find the timpani |
$800 - Triple Stumper (9) This Presidential first name was originally used as a given name to honor Protestant Reformer John | $800 - Sam (29) Evil men at Lot's house were smitten with this affliction "so that they wearied themselves to find the door" | $800 - Sam (4) Naomi Watts & Laura Elena Harring starred in this 2001 Hollywood noir film directed by David Lynch | (-$800) - Mary (24) Led by this man, "Wild Bunch" gang robs Wyoming train of $30,000 | $800 - Matt (14) It's repeated 9 times at the start of the following. Listen. | $800 - Sam (19) Presented by a grand jury, it's a formal written accusation charging a party with a crime |
(-$1000) - Mary (-$1000) - Matt (10) As a child Queen Elizabeth II went by this 3-syllable pet form of her name | $1000 - Sam (30) 57 of the 150 of these were meant to be accompanied by a stringed instrument | $1000 - Matt (5) College Professor Jeff Bridges begins to suspect that his neighbor Tim Robbins is a terrorist in this 1999 thriller | $800 - Matt (25) General Arthur MacArthur battles rebels in this Asian country DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $800 | $1000 - Matt (15) This type of guard accompanies a casket at a military funeral | $1000 - Mary (20) It's the medical branch that deals with antigens & antibodies & the body's ability to fight off disease |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Sam: $2,600
Matt: $1,200
Mary: $200
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Sam: $6,800
Matt: $1,800
Mary: $1,000
Double JEOPARDY! Round - September 9, 2003
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GAME NAME
| SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
| ISLANDS OF THE WEST INDIES
| GRAPHICS
| MOVED TO FRANCE
| ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES
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$400 - Sam (13) For a piece of the pie ... this game full of factoids came out with a 20th anniversary edition in 2002 | $400 - Mary (18) In 1885 one of these explosions, the brightest to appear for the next century, appeared in the Andromeda Galaxy | $400 - Triple Stumper (26) This largest West Indian country's Isle of Youth was formerly called the Isle of Pines | (-$400) - Sam (6) (Video) The font seen here is named for this machine famously used by Mark Twain | $400 - Matt (8) By 1903 this American had settled in Paris where she was joined by Alice B. Toklas | $400 - Sam (1) To be indebted |
$800 - Sam (14) This classic board game was once known as Criss-Cross Words | $800 - Sam (19) (Video of Jimmy | $800 - Mary (27) 1 of 2 Caribbean Overseas Departments of France | (-$800) - Sam (7) The Pantone Formula Guide shows 1,114 of these with their corresponding ink formulas | $800 - Matt (9) This "Waiting for Godot" author moved to France where he worked with fellow Irishman James Joyce | $800 - Matt (2) The first word of "The Rainbow Connection" |
$1200 - Sam (15) "Fiend Folio" & "Monster Manual" are 2 of the books used in conjunction with this game | $1200 - Sam (20) AKA Zidovudine, the drug AZT was approved in 1987 to fight this virus | (-$1200) - Matt (-$1200) - Mary (28) This capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands is the busiest cruise-ship port in the Caribbean | $1200 - Matt (23) Named for their large storage tray, these proofs with a nautical name are checked before pages are made up | (-$1200) - Matt (10) This Pennsylvania-born woman was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1904 for her art DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1200 | $1200 - Matt (3) The sugar one is also called the Mennonite one (Mennonites like it) |
$2500 - Sam (16) Known as Jumpman when introduced in Donkey Kong, this video game character has since appeared in over 70 games DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2500 | $1600 - Mary (21) In 1919 this rocket pioneer published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" | (-$1600) - Mary (29) 1 of the 2 nations formed when the Grenadines chain split in the 1970s | $1600 - Matt (24) The resolution of printers is measured in DPI, dots per inch; on a screen, in PPI, this | $1600 - Matt (11) The story of this dancer who became a French citizen in 1937 was made into a telepic starring Lynn Whitfield | $1600 - Sam (4) A pigtail once mandatory in the British army |
$2000 - Mary (17) It's all there in black & white: this strategy game is named for a Shakespeare play | $2000 - Matt (22) In 1885, 14 years after a more famous find, this German archaeologist excavated Tiryns in Greece | $2000 - Triple Stumper (30) This country has been independent since 1804, making it the 2nd-oldest independent nation in the western hemisphere | $2000 - Mary (25) (Video) One paragraph seen here is right-ragged. The other is right this, also called aligned and flush | $2000 - Triple Stumper (12) Look up in the Paris Opera & you'll see a ceiling by this Russian-born artist who moved to France in 1923 | $2000 - Triple Stumper (5) "Haw" tells an animal to turn left & this means turn right |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Sam: $14,500
Matt: $9,000
Mary: $5,000
Final JEOPARDY!
TV & STAMPS
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When this program shows its address to write for audience tickets, its graphic has used one of the stamps seen here
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Mary: $5,000 + $4,999
Matt: $9,000 + $2,500
Sam: $14,500 + $3,501
Final Scores
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| Sam: $18,001 (3-day total of $44,002)
Matt: $11,500 Mary: $9,999 |
| Sam: $13,600 (21 right, including 1 DD; 4 wrong)
Matt: $10,400 (13 right, including 1 DD; 6 wrong, including 1 DD) Mary: $5,000 (11 right, including 1 rebound; 4 wrong) Total: $29,000
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