Contestants
Gina Ash, Artist & administrative assistant from Gainesville, VA
Dick Fernberg, Geologist from Daytona Beach, Florida
Russ Schumacher, Graduate student from Fort Collins, CO (Returning 3-day champ with $47,500)
JEOPARDY! Round - October 22, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
OPERA
| A TOM CRUISE FILM FESTIVAL
| BODIES OF WATER
| OCCUPATION HAZARDS
| PLANT PARENTHOOD
| PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME
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$200 - Russ (13) Stationed in Seville, Don Jose is bewitched by a gypsy girl in this Bizet opera | $200 - Russ (11) "I lost the number one draft pick the night before the draft!" | $200 - Dick (6) In 1975 the United Kingdom began piping oil from this sea to its shores | $200 - Dick (23) Chafing from chaps, rope burns from lassos & that saddle horn -- watch where you sit if you're one of these | $200 - Russ (21) Named for the Virgin Mary, these carnivorous little red beetles can help rid your garden of aphids & other insects | $200 - Russ (1) Ulysses' trousers |
$400 - Russ (17) Like many of his works, this composer's "Tannhauser" is based on Germanic legends | $400 - Dick (12) "What I wouldn't give for a drop of good old-fashioned Creole blood" | (-$400) - Russ $400 - Dick (7) The St. Mary's River connects Lake Superior to this second-largest Great Lake | $400 - Russ (24) If this is is you're job you'd be fired if this clue go t by you uncorected | $400 - Gina (22) (Video of Jimmy with a glass tank filled with soil & plants) Any glass or plastic container can be used to build one of these self-contained indoor gardens | $400 - Dick (2) Arthur's school terms |
$2500 - Russ (18) Mozart opera in which the Count tries to thwart & postpone his valet's wedding DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2500 | $600 - Russ (14) "I am a Vietnam veteran! I fought for my country!" | $600 - Dick (8) 12,500 ' above sea level, this South American lake bordering Bolivia & Peru is the world's highest navigable lake | $600 - Russ (25) In this job aiding a medical professional, Angie might get a finger nipped by little Billy while x-raying his molar | $600 - Gina (28) Juniper & Maple are good trees to use in this cultivating art whose name means "plant in a tray" in Japanese | $600 - Dick (3) Zachary's wardens |
$800 - Triple Stumper (19) Musetta has her very own waltz in Act II of this Puccini opera | $800 - Russ (15) "I'm gonna let you in on a little secret, Ray. K-Mart sucks." | $800 - Russ (9) At Khartoum, Sudan these colorful branches meet to form the Nile River | (-$800) - Gina (26) He has to listen to his wheels going round, round, round all day & may get a paper cut from a transfer | $800 - Russ (29) (Video of Sarah with a plant) A must for any gardener, a soil testing kit is used to take a reading of this level, a measure of acidity | $800 - Russ (4) James' egg parts |
$1000 - Russ (20) At 35 he decided for the first time to sit right down & write himself an opera; he produced "Fidelio" | $1000 - Triple Stumper (16) "They're dead ... my team is dead ... they knew we were coming" | $1000 - Russ (10) After a 1,750-mile trip from Germany, this river breaks into 3 branches in Romania before emptying into the Black Sea | $1000 - Gina (27) If this is your job you might get brine in your eye after dropping the cucumber in the barrel | $1000 - Russ (30) The 3 elements most commonly found in garden fertilizers are phosphorous, potassium & this element | $1000 - Russ (5) Tyler's conducting sticks |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Russ: $5,200
Dick: $2,600
Gina: $0
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Russ: $12,100
Dick: $2,800
Gina: $1,200
Double JEOPARDY! Round - October 22, 2003
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THE ROYALS
| THE TIGERS
| THE GIANTS
| THE REDS
| THE "A"s
| BASEBALL HISTORY
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$400 - Gina (11) She was the Virgin Queen or Good Queen Bess | $400 - Dick (15) Founded by Claire Chennault, these aviators shot down hundreds of Japanese planes during World War II | $400 - Dick (19) 1 Samuel 17 informs us that the Philistine city of Gath was the home of this giant | $400 - Dick (24) This man's most avid supporters during the Cultural Revolution were students mobilized as "Red Guards" | $400 - Russ (1) Winston Churchill said that this weapon "brought peace, but man alone can keep that peace" | $400 - Dick (6) In a June 19, 1846 game, J.W. Davis of the N.Y. Nine was fined 6 cents for swearing at this person |
$800 - Russ (12) Louis VI of France was known as this; as a child he must have shopped in Le Husky department | $800 - Gina (16) Now endangered, this largest variety of tiger bears the name of a large Russian region | $800 - Dick (20) In Lilliput he's a giant | $800 - Dick (25) In the Catholic Church, they wear the red hats | $800 - Russ (2) Some scientists believe the dinosaurs died out when one of these interstellar objects struck the earth | $800 - Russ (7) To injure opposing players, Ty Cobb was said to sharpen these |
$1200 - Gina (13) Russia's first ruler with this name was called Kalita, meaning "Moneybags"; not so terrible | (-$1200) - Dick (17) Genus Sphyraena, this long, thin predatory fish with protruding jaws & teeth is known as the "tiger of the sea" | $1200 - Gina (21) Jett Rink, a poor ranch hand, becomes an oil millionaire in her novel "Giant" | $1200 - Dick (26) (Video) It's the world famous colorful area seen here in the 1950s | $1200 - Russ (3) Whether for a sorcerer or a craft guild, one serves time as one of these before becoming a journeyman | $1200 - Dick (8) Topps' 1952 series No. 311 was this player's first card & is a Holy Grail among collectors |
(-$400) - Gina (14) Charles Edward Stuart could have worn a T.Y.P necklace for "The Young Pretender" or a B.P.C. one for this nickname DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $400 | (-$1600) - Gina (18) One of this man's most famous poems begins, "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright, in the forests of the night" | $1600 - Triple Stumper (22) "Giants in the Earth" is Ole Rolvaag's novel about immigrants from this country adjusting to life on the prairie | $1600 - Russ (27) About 1,200 miles long, it has a maximum depth of almost 10,000 feet | $1600 - Triple Stumper (4) This "Khan" is the spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect of Muslims | $1600 - Russ (9) 2 of the 5 cities that had both National & American League teams in 1903 |
$2000 - Triple Stumper (29) This first king of Poland was alliteratively nicknamed "The Brave" | (-$500) - Gina (23) The autobiography written by this Nepalese was titled "Tiger of the Snows" DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $500 | $2000 - Russ (30) Odysseus incurs the wrath of Poseidon by blinding this giant Cyclops | (-$2000) - Gina (28) The flag of this U.K. division features an impressive red dragon with a forked tongue & tail | $2000 - Russ (5) In 1841 ex-President John Quincy Adams represented the mutineers of this ship before the Supreme Court | (-$2000) - Russ (-$2000) - Dick (10) During his 22-year career he walked a then-record 2,056 times |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Russ: $21,300 (Lock game)
Dick: $5,200
Gina: $300
Final JEOPARDY!
20th CENTURY NOTABLES
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Einstein said of him, "Generations to come will scarcely believe" one such as he "walked the Earth in flesh & blood"
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Gina: $300 - $0
Dick: $5,200 - $4,321
Russ: $21,300 - $4,000
Final Scores
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| Russ: $17,300 (4-day total of $64,800)
Dick: $879 Gina: $300 |
| Russ: $19,400 (26 right, including 1 DD; 2 wrong)
Dick: $5,200 (15 right, including 1 rebound; 2 wrong) Gina: $1,200 (7 right; 5 wrong, including 2 DDs) Total: $25,800
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