Contestants
Melanie Cruanes, Clerk from El Dorado, AR
Steve Altes, Writer from Burbank, CA
Sean Ryan, Taxi driver, bartender & student from State College, PA (Returning 2-day champ with $17,998)
JEOPARDY! Round - October 10, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
| WOMEN IN MUSIC
| WELL EQUIPPED
| ARTISTS
| STUPID ANSWERS
| I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN IDIOM!
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$200 - Sean (4) A new industry in Europe began in 1747 when Andreas Marggraf discovered this in beets | $200 - Sean (14) Barbra Streisand sings "Some Day My Prince Will Come" on the 2001 deluxe DVD edition of this Disney classic | $200 - Steve (10) Cars come with standard equipment, but you can add on these, from the Latin for "choice" | $200 - Steve (24) This Spanish surrealist once broke the window of a 5th Avenue gallery after it had rearranged a display of his art | $200 - Steve (1) The scientific name of this Andean animal is Lama Glama | (-$200) - Steve (7) Meaning "to quiet down", it derives from the practice of stuffing a stocking into a gramophone to control volume |
$400 - Melanie (13) In 1835 Jan Purkinje noted animal tissues, like plant tissues, are made from these | $400 - Sean (15) This superstar who was raised in Hawaii was named for the star of "Now, Voyager" & "All About Eve" | $400 - Melanie (16) This piece of equipment was first worn by a future Admiral playing in the 1893 Army-Navy game | $400 - Steve (27) While living in Parma, Italy this American Impressionist began painting babies, later her trademark | $400 - Sean (2) It's the third-largest city in Kansas | $400 - Melanie (8) (Video of Cheryl next to a blackboard) It's the 2-word term for this arboreal representation |
$600 - Sean (18) In 1834 one of the projects this German had on the back burner was finding an antidote for arsenic poisoning | $600 - Sean (21) Injured in a 1990 bus accident, in 1997 she donated $250,000 to the Miami Project to cure paralysis | $600 - Steve (17) Corers, ballers, griddles & mousse rings are equipment used by these professionals | (-$600) - Melanie (-$600) - Sean (28) His painting "View of Toldeo" is also called "Toledo in a Storm" | $600 - Steve (3) This Rockabilly trio had a 1983 hit with "Stray Cat Strut" | $600 - Melanie (9) On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth must have taken literally this 3-word actors' phrase meaning "Good luck" |
$800 - Sean (19) Elso Barghoorn found the remains of these acids in 3-billion-year-old rocks, exhibiting proof of very early life | $800 - Sean (22) In 1995 she and country star George Jones reunited for an album called "One" | $800 - Sean (25) Among the equipment in a well-stocked lab is this piece you grow your mold in | $1000 - Steve (29) In July 1954 her coffin was draped with a hammer & sickle flag while lying in state in Mexico's Palace of Fine Arts DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | $800 - Sean (5) Composer Benjamin Britten was born November 22, 1913 at Lowestoft on this island | (-$800) - Steve $800 - Melanie (11) An enthusiastic hard worker is described as one of these zealous rodents |
$1000 - Steve (20) In 1986, Willams & Dubner, with too much time on their hands, found that a number formed by 1,031 ones in a row was this | $1000 - Triple Stumper (23) She's the songwriter extraordinaire of the hits "How Do I Live" & "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" | $1000 - Sean (26) Hidden cameras, bugs & PC taps are classified as this type of equipment, from the French for "to watch over" | (-$1000) - Sean (30) A Lord Byron poem inspired this great French Romantic painter's "The Death of Sardanapalus" | (-$1000) - Melanie (6) (Video of Sofia aboard the Goodyear blimp) It's a majestic sight as the water breaks over this barrier located below us | $1000 - Steve (12) To "machine gun the zephyr" is a literal way of saying this phrase meaning to chat aimlessly |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Sean: $2,000
Steve: $1,000
Melanie: $1,200
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Sean: $5,000
Steve: $4,200
Melanie: $1,000
Double JEOPARDY! Round - October 10, 2003
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY
| REEL LIFE QUOTES
| INTERIORS
| HEY, VERNE!
| THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
| BAG "DAD"
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$400 - Sean (6) The West Point Military Reservation includes Constitution Island, which lies in this river | (-$400) - Melanie $400 - Steve (9) 1977: "I suggest a new strategy, R2: let the Wookie win" | $400 - Sean (26) Real-Fyre, a brand of these for your faux fireplace, features realistic knotholes & peeled bark | $400 - Sean (16) Phileas Fogg's journey in this Jules Verne novel begins & ends at The Reform, a real club still going on Pall Mall | $400 - Sean (21) Article 25 of the League Covenant called for the establishment of chapters of this relief group by all members | $400 - Steve (1) This candy that comes in a yellow wrapper is a milk caramel pop |
$800 - Sean (7) The dome of the capitol building in this city 100 miles west of Philadelphia is a copy of St. Peter's in Rome | $800 - Steve (10) 1974: "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart." | $800 - Sean (27) (Video) Hi, I'm Paige Davis, host of TLC's "Trading Spaces." Use a kind of map called a bagua to get your space in balance according to this system | $800 - Steve (17) A giant sea monster turns out to be a submarine in this 1870 Verne tale | $800 - Sean (22) One of this man's "14 Points" led to the establishment of the League of Nations | $800 - Melanie (2) You can also call 'em crayfish |
$1200 - Steve (8) Virginia's longest river, it provides abundant waterpower for the state's industries | $1200 - Sean (11) 2000: "I may die tonight in this cell or in the arena tomorrow. I am a slave" | $1200 - Steve (28) This suite at the Regent Beverly Wilshire boasts 3 sitting rooms, a dining room & sunken marble tubs | $1200 - Sean (18) A German professor of geology makes a subterranean expedition in this 1864 classic by Jules Verne | $1200 - Sean (23) For attacking Finland in 1939, this country was expelled from the League in December of that year | $1200 - Sean (3) A thingamabob or trinket |
(-$1600) - Steve $1600 - Sean (14) This state's highest point is Mount Frissell; its lowest point is at sea level on Long Island Sound | $2000 - Sean (12) 1974: "Pardon me, boy, is this the Transylvania Station?" DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | (-$1600) - Sean $1600 - Steve (29) (Video) Ornothological term for the item seen here | $1600 - Steve (19) The title place of this 1874 novel is an uncharted locale in the south Pacific | $5000 - Sean (24) This Emperor pleaded for help but the League did nothing to stop Italy's 1935 invasion of his country DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $5000 | $1600 - Triple Stumper (4) "To run away hurriedly", Random House says it's from the Scots for "to scatter" |
$2000 - Sean (15) A statue of Hiawatha & this wife stands atop the waterfall named for her | $2000 - Sean (13) 1970: "There's only 1 proper way for a professional soldier to die: the last bullet of the last batttle of the last war" | $2000 - Triple Stumper (30) A knot or lump on a tree, or the wood cut from it, used as veneer in Jaguar interiors | $2000 - Steve (20) This 1865 novel is about some U.S. Civil War vets who decide to create a cannon to shoot a "space-bullet" from Florida | $2000 - Sean (25) From 1919 to 1939 this Polish port was a free city under the supervision of the League of Nations | $2000 - Triple Stumper (5) This island off Venezuela is famous for its Pitch Lake |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Sean: $26,800 (Lock game)
Steve: $12,600
Melanie: $1,400
Final JEOPARDY!
PEOPLE IN HISTORY
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The spear that killed him in 1779 sold at auction in 2003 for over $400,000
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Melanie: $1,400 - $1,000
Steve: $12,600 - $12,600
Sean: $26,800 + $0
Final Scores
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| Sean: $26,800 (3-day total of $44,798)
Melanie: $400 Steve: $0 |
| Sean: $23,000 (28 right, including 2 DDs & 1 rebound; 3 wrong)
Steve: $12,400 (18 right, including 1 DD & 2 rebounds; 3 wrong) Melanie: $1,400 (6 right, including 1 rebound; 3 wrong) Total: $36,800
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