Contestants
Diane Wing, Product management director from East Lansing, MI
Kierre Daniels, Announcer & stay-at-home dad from Schenectady, NY
Sam Ott, Graduate student from Los Angeles, CA (Returning 3-day champ with $44,002)
JEOPARDY! Round - September 10, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
BOOKS & AUTHORS
| SHE'S CANADIAN, EH?
| EATING OUT
| HOME BOYS
| EDUCATION
| "BIG" & "LITTLE"
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$200 - Sam (6) In 2003 he returned with a new legal thriller, "The King of Torts" | $200 - Kierre (16) This Windsor native's 2002 CD "Up!" offers pop & country versions of the same 19 songs | $200 - Kierre (1) Grimaldi's under the Brooklyn Bridge is often voted No. 1 for this; try a slice! | $200 - Sam (11) Bay Staters | $200 - Sam (21) The New England primer used in colonial America included this, which begins, "Our Father Which art in Heaven" | $200 - Diane (26) At 8'2", he's over a foot taller than his best friend Snuffleupagus |
$400 - Kierre (7) His 1994 novel "White Shark" didn't have quite the same bite as his "Jaws" | $400 - Sam (17) We've got a hankering for this singer from Consort, Alberta. Listen: | $400 - Diane (2) At any of the Marie Callender's, top off your meal with this type of dessert; it's what they're famous for | $400 - Kierre (12) Jayhawkers | $400 - Sam (22) At the urging of this President, the Department of Education became a Cabinet Department in 1979 | $400 - Kierre (27) "I think I can -- I think I can -- I think I can" name this classic children's tale by Watty Piper |
$600 - Triple Stumper (8) In the U.S., Ian Fleming took a gamble & published this first novel of his under the title "You Asked For It" | $600 - Sam (18) As a kid, this angry alt-rocker from Ottawa starred on Nickelodeon's "You Can't Do That on Television" | $600 - Diane (3) This fast food chicken chain offers red beans & rice & mashed potatoes & Cajun gravy, but no spinach | $600 - Kierre (13) Gophers | (-$600) - Kierre (23) The NRTA, formerly the National Retired Teachers Association, is one of this huge organization's divisions | (-$600) - Kierre $600 - Diane (28) Your kids might enjoy a visit to S. Williamsport, Pa. where there's a museum devoted to this sports program |
$800 - Kierre (9) An actress is recruited to infiltrate a terrorist group in this John LeCarre bestseller -- pa rum pum pum pum | $800 - Triple Stumper (19) This jazz vocalist from British Columbia lists Carmen McRae & Nat King Cole as her biggest influences | (-$800) - Sam $800 - Diane (4) This chain famous for its "girls" & chicken wings calls itself "delightfully tacky yet unrefined" | $800 - Kierre (14) Granite Boys | $800 - Kierre (24) Vanderbilt in this state capital was chartered as Central University in 1872; the name was changed the next year | $1500 - Diane (29) British lawyer & horologist Edmund Beckett had a hand in designing this famous attraction DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1500 |
$1000 - Triple Stumper (10) In the beginning was this Barbara Kingsolver saga of a southern missionary & his family in the Belgian Congo | $1000 - Kierre (20) This teen from Ontario sang about a "Sk8er Boi" | (-$1000) - Diane $1000 - Sam (5) At State & Rush Streets, you can dine at the original one of these steakhouses "of Chicago" | $1000 - Kierre (15) Terrapins | $1000 - Kierre (25) The Model Secondary School for the Deaf is a part of this Washington, D.C. college | (-$1000) - Sam $1000 - Kierre (30) (Video) Hi, I'm Brenda Lee. The title of one of my first records gave me this "explosive" nickname |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Kierre: $4,200
Diane: $800
Sam: $600
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Kierre: $7,400
Diane: $3,100
Sam: $1,200
Double JEOPARDY! Round - September 10, 2003
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CRIMEA RIVER
| SOCCER'S WORLD CUP
| "C" IN SCIENCE
| WORLDWIDE PANTS
| CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
| 5-LETTER WORDS
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(-$400) - Sam $400 - Kierre (26) Simferopol, on the Salgir River, is one of Crimea's top producers of this ancient fermented beverage | $400 - Sam (8) England won in 1966 when the final game went into this, but not as far as penalty kicks | $400 - Sam (1) Amphibians & fish are described as being poikilothermic, more popularly called this | $400 - Kierre (13) Swinging '60s attire included "huggers" of this body part | (-$400) - Sam (21) He composed "The Well-Tempered Clavier" while employed as a conductor at the court of Anhalt-Cothen | $400 - Kierre (3) Hitch a ride, or an opposable digit |
$800 - Kierre (27) The Chernaya River valley was the "valley of death" for "the six hundred" of this valiant title group | $800 - Kierre (9) 2 of its last 3 World cup wins were over Italy in the finals | (-$800) - Sam $800 - Diane (2) The Gutenberg Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the earth's mantle from this part | $800 - Sam (14) Joan Didion described Jim Morrison as "a 24-year-old ... who wore" this color "vinyl pants & no underwear" | $800 - Sam (22) Many think that Josephine Von Brunswick was the recipient of his "Immortal Beloved" letter | $800 - Sam (4) A large wing or tail feather, or one of the spines of a porcupine |
$1200 - Kierre (28) In the 1991 coup, this Soviet Pres. was held under house arrest in Foros, not far from the Uchan-Su waterfall | $1200 - Kierre (10) in 1994, the year this country hosted, 147 nations participated | (-$1200) - Sam (15) The one named for Max Planck is 6.6260755 x 10 to the -34 Joule Second, symbolized simply h | $1200 - Triple Stumper (18) The name of Jack Tar Trousers, popular in the 19th century, is a term for someone in this profession | $1200 - Sam (23) Part of this composer's "Requiem" is heard here | $1600 - Sam (5) From the Latin word for "time", it's the speed at which a musical piece is played DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1600 |
$1600 - Sam (29) This resort straddling the Bystra River was the site of a historic meeting of the Big 3 in February 1945 | $1600 - Kierre (11) In 1938 it became the first host country not to make it to the finals; it didn't make that mistake in 1998 (it won) | $1600 - Sam (16) Simple ones are classified as monosaccharides | $1600 - Kierre (19) One of Lee Jeans' brand names is Lee these, meaning sturdy denim trousers | $1600 - Triple Stumper (24) "From the New World" was his 9th symphony, but it's also known as his 5th since they were renumbered later | $1600 - Diane (6) It's a length of yarn wound in a coil, or a flock of geese in flight |
$2000 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | $2000 - Kierre (12) This country that no longer exists made it to the finals 6 times, winning in 1954, 1974 & 1990 DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $2000 - Sam (17) In order to duplicate itself in cell division, one of these splits into 2 identical strands called chromatids | $2000 - Triple Stumper (20) In the '50s you could wear these pants to go with & rhyme with your white bucks | $2000 - Sam (25) A 1901 piano concerto by this Russian-born composer & virtuoso is heard here | $2000 - Kierre (7) Your eyelashes, or tiny hairlike structures that help certain protozoans move about |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Kierre: $19,800
Sam: $11,600
Diane: $5,500
Final JEOPARDY!
CHARLES LINDBERGH
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After landing in Paris in 1927 Lindbergh filed an exclusive report to newspapers in 2 cities, New York & this
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Diane: $5,500 + $0
Sam: $11,600 + $11,500
Kierre: $19,800 - $5,000
Final Scores
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| Sam: $23,100 (4-day total of $67,102)
Kierre: $14,800 Diane: $5,500 |
| Kierre: $19,800 (24 right, including 1 DD & 2 rebounds; 2 wrong)
Sam: $11,200 (18 right, including 1 DD & 1 rebound; 6 wrong) Diane: $4,800 (8 right, including 1 DD & 3 rebounds; 1 wrong) Total: $35,800
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