Contestants
Chris Fite, Elementary school teacher from San Diego, CA
Dana Maher, Pianist from Tulsa, OK
Sean Ryan, Taxi driver, bartender & student from State College, PA (Returning 5-day champ with $105,798)
JEOPARDY! Round - October 15, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
AMERICAN HISTORY
| FAMILY GROUPS
| 100
| TOUGH JOBS
| SCIENCE BRIEFS
| BEASTLY RHYME TIME
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$200 - Dana (26) On February 15, 1898 the U.S. Battleship Maine blew up in this Cuban capital's harbor | $200 - Dana (1) This duo had hits in the '60s with "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" & "Unchained Melody" | $200 - Sean (3) The 2003 TV special "100 Years of Hope and Humor" celebrated this entertainer's first 100 years | $200 - Sean (11) To write the book "Newjack", Ted Conover spent a year in this job at Sing Sing | $200 - Sean (16) The primary colors are red, yellow & this | (-$200) - Sean (21) A chunky flying mammal |
$400 - Dana (27) This "King of the Wild Frontier" once claimed to have killed 105 bears during a few months in 1825 | $400 - Chris (2) Siblings Debra, Joni, Kim & Kathy make up this group that sang the aptly titled "We Are Family" | (-$400) - Dana (7) In Europe, 1 Euro is made up of 100 these; feels like home | $400 - Sean (12) People who don't want their day in court can have problems with these people, AKA bail enforcement agents | $400 - Sean (17) Traveling 1 Astronomical Unit from the sun, you should just reach this planet | $400 - Sean (22) A life preserver for a nanny or a billy |
$600 - Sean (28) The "War on" this, approved by Congress in August of 1964, included VISTA, Volunteers In Service To America | $600 - Sean (4) This group made its Top 40 debut with "California Dreamin'" | (-$600) - Sean $600 - Chris (8) Of 93 years, 116 years, or 131 years, the actual length of the Hundred Years' War | (-$600) - Sean $600 - Dana (13) A 2002 study found this job, perhaps on the Dogger Bank, is Britain's riskiest profession | $600 - Sean (18) It's the international name for the centigrade scale | $600 - Chris (23) Carriage for a cucaracha |
$800 - Sean (29) What's known as the second of these programs began with FDR's January 4, 1935 message to Congress | $800 - Sean (5) In the mid-'60s Frank Zappa's record label made him lengthen the name of his band to this (perhaps out of necessity) | $800 - Sean (9) On March 2, 1962 this NBA superstar scored 100 points in one game | $800 - Dana (14) (Video of Cheryl in Oklahoma City, OK) From his coarse appearance, it's a term for a person who works in an oil rig, other than the driller | $800 - Sean (19) In 1909 Soren Sorensen came up with this scale to measure acidity | $800 - Sean (24) River horses' trademark cigarette lighters |
$1000 - Chris (30) John Smith was among the early members on the Council of Seven that governed this Virginia colony | $1000 - Sean (6) Kid Rock's DJ, he went solo with the song heard here (mp3 download) | (-$1000) - Sean $1000 - Chris (10) This state gave us Senators 99 & 100 | $1000 - Sean (15) 2 assistants left Jayde Hanson, this type of circus performer, who admits, "My concentration wavers" | $1000 - Sean (20) This element's name is from the Latin for "charcoal" DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | $1000 - Sean (25) A sudden quick thrust to grab a porous marine invertebrate |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Sean: $2,800
Chris: $2,000
Dana: $1,200
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Sean: $9,200
Chris: $3,600
Dana: $1,800
Double JEOPARDY! Round - October 15, 2003
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BOOKS & AUTHORS
| AWARDS
| WHERE YA FROM, SENATOR?
| UTAH
| ME TARZAN
| THE "L" YOU ARE!
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$400 - Dana (4) This book by Virginia Woolf inspired Michael Cunningham's novel "The Hours" | $400 - Sean (9) In 1975 Jack Nicholson & Gena Rowlands won Golden Globes & amateur boxer Aaron Pryor won these | $400 - Dana (18) Feinstein & Boxer | $400 - Triple Stumper (26) In August in Salt Lake City there's a festival for this mideastern dance (& you thought Utahans were a staid bunch) | $400 - Dana (16) At an April 2003 auction, a loincloth worn by this screen Tarzan didn't meet its reserve, so it wasn't sold | $400 - Dana (1) It's equal to 1.057 quarts |
$800 - Triple Stumper (5) The first line of this Philip Roth novella is "The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" | (-$800) - Sean (10) Britain's 200-year-old Rumford Medal is given for discoveries about heat or this form of energy | $800 - Chris (19) Kyl & McCain | (-$800) - Dana (27) Directional corner of Utah that's home to 1/4 of the Four Corners monument | $800 - Chris (17) MGM rejected this Olympic swimmer for the role in 1931; in 1933 he played it for another film company | $800 - Sean (2) (Video) Hi, I'm Hal Sparks. In the Women's National Basketball Association, the Sparks play their home games in this city |
$1200 - Sean (6) In 2003 Spenser & Hawk returned in a novel called "Back Story" by this author | $1200 - Triple Stumper (11) (Video) The award seen here, named for a man killed on the job, is given for this type of work | $1200 - Sean (20) Edwards & Dole | (-$5000) - Dana (28) (Video) This Mormon left his name on the Utah canyon seen here, which he described as "a hell of a place to lose a cow" DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $5000 | $1200 - Chris (23) In a 1981 film Miles O'Keefe was Tarzan to this lady's Jane | $1200 - Chris (3) This family of archaeologists has made many important fossil discoveries in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge |
$1600 - Triple Stumper (7) This 2002 novel by Yann Martel tells the story of 16-year-old Pi Patel, who survives a shipwreck | $1600 - Sean (12) In 2003 engineering's prestigious Draper Prize went to the co-inventors of this 24-satellite system | (-$1600) - Sean $1600 - Chris (21) Cornyn & Hutchison | $1600 - Dana (30) To demonstrate the acoustics in this Salt Lake City building, tour guides will drop a pin | $1600 - Dana (24) We guess that starring as Tarzan in 1984's "Greystoke" made him a Highlander ape man | $1600 - Sean (14) (Video of Sofia at the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville, KY) The Kentucky Derby is run on a track made of this -- a mixture of sand, silt and clay |
$2000 - Chris (8) His "Myth of Sisyphus" outlined his theory of the absurd | $1000 - Sean (13) Thomas Mann won the prize named for this German author in 1949, his bicentennial DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | $2000 - Triple Stumper (22) Hagel & Nelson | $2000 - Dana (29) In the 1870s silver brought folks in droves to this city; now it's the silver screen that's the draw each January | $2000 - Triple Stumper (25) This TV "Pretender" was the voice of "Disney's Tarzan" on TV | $2000 - Dana (15) Woe is me! This book follows Jeremiah in the Bible |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Sean: $14,600
Chris: $11,200
Dana: $4,800
Final JEOPARDY!
OPERA SETTINGS
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Verdi's Nabucco, who's also known by a longer form of his name, is the king of this ancient place
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Dana: $4,800 + $4,800
Chris: $11,200 + $1,599
Sean: $14,600 + $3,399
Final Scores
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| Sean: $17,999 (6-day total of $123,797)
Chris: $12,799 Dana: $9,600 |
| Sean: $15,600 (25 right, including 2 DDs; 6 wrong)
Chris: $11,200 (11 right, including 3 rebounds; 0 wrong) Dana: $9,800 (13 right, including 1 rebound; 3 wrong, including 1 DD) Total: $36,600
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