Contestants
Kevin Lamp, Museum exhibit designer from Philadelphia, PA
Lynne Bruschetti, High school English teacher from Peachtree City, GA
Russ Schumacher, Graduate student from Fort Collins, CO (Returning 1-day champ with $7,199)
JEOPARDY! Round - October 20, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
THE GOODYEAR BLIMP
| TOP 40 DEBUTS
| A "LITTLE" LIT
| AUSTIN SPACE
| 19th CENTURY AMERICA
| BEFORE & AFTER
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$200 - Lynne (26) (Video of Sofia) I'm in California, aboard the Spirit of America. Her sister blimp, the Spirit of Goodyear, is based near this rubber capital | $200 - Russ (9) 1985: Sade with this "smooth" song | $200 - Lynne (1) Chapter 9 of this novel is entitled "Meg Goes to Vanity Fair" | $200 - Russ (15) Crowds of 30,000 are the rule for commencement at this Austin school | $200 - Kevin (12) On May 1, 1873 the first postcards at this postage rate were issued | $200 - Russ (6) 1995 film in which actor Beau's brother has a love affair in Iowa with Meryl Streep |
$400 - Kevin (27) Air-filled ballonets control how much this gas is allowed to expand in the envelope | $400 - Lynne (22) 1966: This TV band with "Last Train to Clarksville" | $400 - Russ (2) The Charles Ingalls family moves to the Great Plains area in this 1935 novel | $400 - Russ (18) A statue of this reptile movie terror stands about 8 feet tall on top of Austin's Mangia Pizza on Guadalupe Street | $400 - Triple Stumper (13) In 1825 the Marquis de Lafayette laid the cornerstone for a monument to this battle | $400 - Lynne (7) Perhaps Salome danced to "Crocodile Rock" when demanding the head of this singer & voice in the wilderness |
$600 - Russ (28) (Video of Sofia in front of the Goodyear blimp) The blimp captain controls the elevators, the horizontal fins, and these steering devices, the vertical fins | $600 - Russ (23) 1995: This "band" with "What Would You Say" | $600 - Russ (3) This pal of Robin Hood stood out in a crowd: he was at least 7 feet tall | $600 - Kevin (19) A statue commemorating these lawmen stands in front of the state capitol in Austin | (-$600) - Russ (-$600) - Lynne (14) Name of the ship that James Lawrence urged his men, "Don't give up", it was also paired in a railroad with Ohio | $600 - Triple Stumper (8) Mr. Romano's sitcom featuring the hard-boiled writer of "The Big Sleep" |
$800 - Triple Stumper (29) (Video of an old airship) A winter visitor to Florida, or a Goodyear airship that stayed aloft for 11 days, going from Massachusetts to Florida via Africa | $800 - Russ (24) 1999: Christina Aguilera with this song that rubbed listeners the right way | $800 - Kevin (4) The mousy hero of this E.B. White book leaves home to search for the bird who's his dearest friend | $800 - Russ (20) Built in 1856 & now home to Rick Perry, it's located at 1010 Colorado Street in Austin | $1000 - Russ (16) In 1863 he patented his popular folding upper berth DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | $800 - Triple Stumper (10) Star of TV's "The Dead Zone" who checks students' passes if they're en route to the loo during classtime |
$1000 - Triple Stumper (30) (Video of Sofia) The Goodyear blimp's skin isn't made with natural rubber, but this synthetic rubber made from chloroprene | $1000 - Russ (25) 1983: This heavy metal group with "Cum on Feel the Noize" | $1000 - Lynne (5) Regina Giddens is the vixenish lead character of this 1939 Lillian Hellman play | $1000 - Russ (21) A museum in Austin is dedicated to this "Gift of the Magi" author who lived in the city for many years | $1000 - Triple Stumper (17) (Video) 1889 event that caused the damage seen here | $1000 - Kevin (11) Hong Kong action star of "The Replacement Killers" who's the English name for the day before Lent |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Kevin: $2,000
Russ: $1,000
Lynne: $1,000
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Russ: $7,200
Kevin: $3,000
Lynne: $1,600
Double JEOPARDY! Round - October 20, 2003
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SCIENCE & NATURE
| TV GUIDE: 1953
| BORDERS
| LAWYERING
| MUSIC MEN
| "BEFORE" & "AFTER"
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$400 - Russ (6) One of the smallest of these "white" diminutive stars is Van Maanen's Star at 7,800 miles in diameter | $400 - Russ (16) This international newsmaker was on the cover of the May 29 issue in all her crowning glory | $400 - Russ (17) Just across the Mexican border, Tijuana is the cuate, or twin, of this U.S. city | (-$400) - Russ $400 - Kevin (26) Hearsay & leading the witness are grounds for this during testimony | $400 - Lynne (11) When Lorenz Hart declined to work on the show that became "Oklahoma!", Richard Rodgers partnered with him | $400 - Russ (1) A small earthquake or tremor that occurs following a major one |
$800 - Russ (7) Crickets "hear" via highly sensitive membranes on these body parts | $800 - Lynne (22) Was he on the cover of the July 24 issue? "You Bet Your Life" he was | $800 - Russ (18) Go up the north face of Mount Everest & down the south face & you'll cross from Tibet into this country | $800 - Russ (27) Personal injury lawyers may work on this type of fee, a percentage of the money awarded | $800 - Russ (12) "Rhapsody in Blue", a piece by this composer, was used as the title of a 1945 movie biography of him | $800 - Russ (2) Tim Burton's spooky stop-motion animated feature from 1993 |
$1200 - Russ (8) In 1857 this French chemist's theory of fermentation was first presented in a paper "On Lactic Fermentation" | $1200 - Triple Stumper (23) Just the facts, Ma'am: he missed being on the first cover by 1 week & was back the end of the year on the Dec. 11 cover | (-$1200) - Lynne $1200 - Kevin (19) The problem with the Maginot Line was it covered France's border with Germany, but not with this country | $1000 - Russ (28) If you fill out lots of EOIR-40s, applications for suspension of deportation, this area of law is your specialty DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | $1200 - Triple Stumper (13) He wrote the words & music to "I Happen to Like New York" & "I Love Paris" | $1200 - Kevin (3) Antebellum |
$1600 - Triple Stumper (9) This whale, whose name is from Russian for "white", is born grey or brown; it turns a milky white by age 5 | $1600 - Triple Stumper (24) An investigative report in the November 6 issue looked into why this man "fired Julius La Rosa" | $1600 - Russ (20) Argentina's border with this country is 3,200 miles long, about the same as its coastline | $1600 - Russ (29) Some firms require lawyers to amass a minimum weekly number, like 40, of these, for which a client can be charged | $1600 - Triple Stumper (14) He collaborated with Yip Harburg on "Lydia, the Tattoed Lady" & "Over the Rainbow" | $1600 - Triple Stumper (4) 1840 Richard Henry Dana memoir that became one of the most popular tales of life at sea |
$2000 - Russ (10) Seed plants are divided into 2 main groups: angiosperms & these, which include the conifers | $2000 - Triple Stumper (25) The cover story on this actor was subtitled "Man and Superman" | $3000 - Russ (21) A monument at Pervouralsk in the Ural Mountains marks this geographic border DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $3000 | $2000 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | $2000 - Lynne (15) This "Moon River" lyricist has been called "The Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia" | $2000 - Russ (5) It's the title of the 1894 prelude heard here |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Russ: $24,800 (Lock game)
Kevin: $5,800
Lynne: $3,600
Final JEOPARDY!
ACTORS & HISTORICAL ROLES
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In the 2002 film "Frida", Geoffrey Rush portrayed this European firebrand during his final days
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Lynne: $3,600 - $3,599
Kevin: $5,800 - $2,000
Russ: $24,800 -$2,500
Final Scores
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| Russ: $22,300 (2-day total of $29,499)
Kevin: $3,800 Lynne: $1 |
| Russ: $23,800 (29 right, including 3 DDs; 2 wrong)
Kevin: $5,800 (8 right, including 2 rebounds; 0 wrong) Lynne: $3,600 (8 right; 2 wrong) Total: $33,200
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