Contestants
Linda Simplicio, Aspiring chef from Front Royal, VA
Brian Brown, Hotel food & beverage manager from Carteret, NJ
Sean Ryan, Taxi driver, bartender & student from State College, PA (Returning 1-day champ with $11,599)
JEOPARDY! Round - October 9, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
EUROPE
| FRUITS & VEGETABLES
| BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT ...
| POLITICALLY INCORRECT SONGS
| "STREET"S
| SOUNDS THE SAME
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$200 - Linda (1) The world's earliest steam locomotives pulled cars full of this product out of mines in Wales | $200 - Sean (2) The sugar variety of this is preferred for pies, the Connecticut field variety for Jack-o'-lanterns | $200 - Linda (9) He was the author of "Profiles in Courage" | $200 - Sean (14) Lyric that completes the line "We're drinkin', my friend, to the end of a brief episode, make it one for my baby ..." | (-$200) - Sean (-$200) - Linda (-$200) - Brian (21) America's second-largest daily newspaper, it's published in New York City & 4 regional editions | $200 - Brian (24) Feeble, or 7 days |
(-$400) - Linda $400 - Sean (3) The residents of this country noted for its Grand Prix are almost all foreigners | $400 - Linda (5) The scientific name of this veggie -- or is it a fruit? -- is Lycopersicon Esculentum | $400 - Brian (10) He was a matinee idol | $400 - Sean (15) "Gonna meet the boys on floor number two" for this title activity of a 1985 Motley Crue hit | $400 - Sean (22) Elvis could have told you that it's the location of "Heartbreak Hotel" | $400 - Linda (25) Your lips say "No, no, no", but these say "yes, yes, yes" |
(-$600) - Linda $600 - Brian (4) (Video) City seen here during a lazy summer day | (-$600) - Brian $600 - Linda (6) Unlike the green variety of this vegetable, the string on sugar snaps runs around both sides of the pod | (-$600) - Brian $600 - Sean (11) He was Postmaster of New Salem, IL | $600 - Brian (16) "Some get a kick from" this, a Cole Porter song says, "I'm sure that if I had even one sniff it would bore me terrific'ly too" | $600 - Brian (23) It's the shrewd awareness & resourcefulness needed to survive a hostile urban environment | (-$600) - Linda $600 - Sean (26) Very sage, or a pair of the letter after X |
$800 - Linda (19) Bulgaria is a leading producer of attar, an oil from these flowers | $800 - Brian (7) In Italian cabbage is cavolo & this vegetable is cavolfiore | $800 - Brian (12) He owned a haberdashery in Kansas City, Missouri | $800 - Sean (17) "She makes the Indy 500 look like a Roman chariot race now ... and she'll have fun, fun, fun til" this happens | $800 - Triple Stumper (28) In "O Little Town of Bethlehem", it's where "the everlasting light" shineth | $800 - Brian (27) To find & dig out this metal-containing material with this boating implement would be a stroke of luck |
(-$1000) - Brian $1000 - Sean (20) In 1997 this eastern European country restored the citizenship of its exiled King Michael | $1000 - Brian (8) Although this juice orange may have originated in Portugal, it bears the name of a Spanish city & region | $1000 - Brian (13) He was Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of State DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | $1000 - Triple Stumper (18) This song by Sheila E. begins, "She wears a long fur coat of mink, even in the summer time" | $1000 - Brian (29) One of the world's top marketers of business information, its NYSE symbol is DNB | $1000 - Brian (30) Reasonable, or a payment for travel |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Brian: $1,600
Sean: $1,200
Linda: $400
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Brian: $6,400
Sean: $4,400
Linda: $800
Double JEOPARDY! Round - October 9, 2003
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TALKING RELIGION
| LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S"
| CABLE TV
| GAS
| FOOD
| LODGING
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$400 - Sean (16) (Video of Sarah in Waikiki) Around 1830, these conservative religious workers made hula dancers wear long dresses instead of skirts | $400 - Sean (21) Gertrude, or her beer mug (5 letters) | $400 - Triple Stumper (9) "Scorecard Report" & "Peter Jacobsen Plugged In" are seen on the sports channel devoted to this | $400 - Brian (26) Hank Hill knows it's the most common U.S. residential liquefied petroleum gas | $400 - Brian (1) An energetic person is full of these, maybe the fava type | (-$400) - Brian $400 - Sean (2) If you're looking at a long time in Tempe, try Studio 6, the extended-stay version of this chain |
$800 - Linda (17) St. Augustine's mother was a Christian, but his father was one of these, from the Latin for "country dweller" | (-$800) - Brian $800 - Linda (22) It's paired with "sense" (11 letters) | $800 - Sean (10) One of the most popular shows on the Food Network is "The Essence of" him | $800 - Linda (27) (Video of Sofia in front of the Goodyear blimp) Having learned from the Hindenburg, modern non-rigid airships use helium in place of this explosive gas | $800 - Sean (5) Government money that a congressman steers toward his home district | $800 - Brian (3) What some say the movie "Stagecoach" is, or "the world's largest hotel chain" with more than 4,000 hotels |
$1200 - Linda (18) (Video of Sarah at Westminster Abbey in London) The statues over the west front door are all of these, people who died for their Christian faith | $1200 - Linda (23) Caldecott medalist Maurice (6 letters) | $1000 - Sean (11) "The Eulogy" is HBO's email newsletter devoted to this series DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | $1200 - Linda (28) Used in WWI, & against Iraq's Kurds, it's named for its smell | $1200 - Brian (6) To mean a quarrel, vegetarians can use "rhubarb" & carnivores can use this | $1200 - Linda (4) Spelled the same way as a type of regular payment, it's a small European hotel or boarding house |
(-$3000) - Linda (19) Pedilavium is this ceremony, part of the Maundy Thursday observance DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $3000 | $1600 - Brian (24) Miserly Marner (5 letters) | $1600 - Brian (12) (Video) Hi, I'm Billy Ray Cyrus. In 2001 I began practicing medicine in the Big Apple on this PAX TV drama | $1600 - Triple Stumper (29) The atmosphere of Venus, the heaviest of any planet, is mainly this common gas 1.5 times heavier than air | $1600 - Linda (14) Diana Prince occasionally has to take her hair out of this to become Wonder Woman | $1600 - Triple Stumper (7) In 1912 King Alfonso inaugurated this -- not his own home, but the Madrid hotel |
$2000 - Sean (20) An Apostle spreads his belief; this word with the same beginning means one who abandons it | (-$2000) - Linda $2000 - Brian (25) Hesse-ian Buddhist saga (10 letters) | (-$2000) - Brian $2000 - Sean (13) What Sonya Fitzpatrick is, or the Animal Planet series on which she communicates with animals telepathically | $2000 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | (-$2000) - Linda (15) A story or joke that's been repeated often, maybe too often | (-$2000) - Brian (8) Escoffier was once the chef of this elegant French-named hotel at Fifth Avenue & 61st Street |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Sean: $12,200
Brian: $9,200
Linda: $2,600
Final JEOPARDY!
MOVIE CHARACTERS
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On the AFI's 2003 list of favorite movie heroes & villains of all time, this character appears on both lists
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Linda: $2,600 - $0
Brian: $9,200 - $9,199
Sean: $12,200 - $5,801
Final Scores
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| Sean: $6,399 (2-day total of $17,998)
Linda: $2,600 Brian: $1 |
| Sean: $12,400 (17 right, including 6 rebounds & 1 DD; 1 wrong)
Brian: $9,200 (19 right, including 2 rebounds & 1 DD; 8 wrong) Linda: $5,600 (14 right, including 2 rebounds; 6 wrong, including 1 DD) Total: $27,200
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