Contestants
Gina Makarski, Stay-at-home mom from Arlington Heights, IL
Christopher Eaton, Freelance writer from Chicago, IL
Alicen Nadal, Office manager from Richmond Hill, NY (Returning 1-day champ with $8,801)
JEOPARDY! Round - October 31, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
ROCKS & MINERALS
| TV TRANSPORTATION
| REMEMBER THE ALAMO?
| CARD GAME NAMES
| GHOSTS
| "BOO"!
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$200 - Alicen (21) Michelangelo used this statuary rock from Carrara, Italy for many of his works | $200 - Gina (1) TV's Thomas Magnum, played by this man, was piloted around the islands by his buddy T.C. | $200 - Alicen (26) (Video of Jimmy at the Alamo in San Antonio, TX) Born in Tennessee in 1786, he served as a U.S. Congressman before dying at the Alamo in 1836 | $200 - Gina (16) A conflict, as in 1812 | $200 - Gina (6) Legend says that a mummy case with a curse on it once haunted this great London museum on Great Russell Street | $200 - Gina (8) Used for hunting & sport, you might say this Aborigine weapon gives you a good return for your money |
$400 - Gina (22) This "snake-like" mineral is used as an ornamental stone called verd antique | $400 - Christopher (2) Loaded with gadgets, The Wanderer was Robert Conrad & Ross Martin's private train on this show | $400 - Alicen (27) In the 1960 film "The Alamo", this movie star delivers the line, "Republic. I like the sound of the word" | $400 - Christopher (17) A metal rod used to stir a fire | (-$400) - Gina $400 - Alicen (7) (Video of Sofia | $400 - Alicen (12) It's given in fun to the last place finisher in a game or race |
(-$600) - Christopher (23) Quebec produces much of the world's supply of this heat-resistant mineral now banned in most U.S. products | $600 - Christopher (3) (Video) The 2 men seen here spent a lot of time driving L.A.'s streets on this show | $600 - Christopher (28) (Video of Jimmy at the Alamo in San Antonio, TX) This General brought his army on an arduous march through Mexico to reach the Alamo | $600 - Gina (18) The legal drinking age in every U.S. state | (-$600) - Christopher $600 - Gina (9) Once prosperous, St. Elmo is one of the best-preserved (& some say, most haunted) of these places in Colorado | $600 - Gina (13) The entire lot or collection is like the "whole kit &" this |
$800 - Alicen (24) The "lead" in pencils is actually a mixture of clay & this mineral | $800 - Alicen (4) '60s sitcom in which Jerry Van Dyke heard his late parent's voice coming from a 1928 automobile | $3000 - Christopher (29) Now a historic monument, the Alamo was once used as a mission by this religious order that built it around 1722 DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $3000 | $800 - Gina (19) Beefeater or Tanqueray, for instance | $800 - Alicen (10) The original "Ghosts of Williamsburg" candlelight tour is spooky good fun in this state | $800 - Christopher (14) Sacred & forbidden, or a game from Milton Bradley |
$1000 - Christopher (25) Because of deposits nearby, this chief ore of lead lent its name to an Illinois city, once home to U.S. Grant | $1000 - Gina (5) On the original "Love Boat", the title cruise ship was this Princess | (-$1000) - Christopher (30) During the siege, this Colonel drew a line in the sand using a sword & asked those prepared to stay & die to cross it | $1000 - Alicen (20) (Video) Term for the setting seen here that fits the category | $1000 - Gina (11) This synonym for ghost comes from the Latin for "to look" | $1000 - Christopher (15) Well I'll be a monkey's uncle! -- the Hamadryas species of this was revered by the ancient Egyptians |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Gina: $3,400
Alicen: $2,400
Christopher: $2,200
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Christopher: $5,600
Gina: $5,400
Alicen: $5,000
Double JEOPARDY! Round - October 31, 2003
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POETS & POETRY
| ONE-HIT WONDERS
| CAN YOU BELIZE IT?
| FACTORIES
| YESTERDAY'S PERSONALITIES
| MIND YOUR LATIN
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$400 - Christopher (11) In 1385 this "Canterbury Tales" poet was appointed Justice of the Peace for County Kent | $400 - Gina (6) Tiny Tim died in 1996 shortly after singing this novelty song, his only hit | (-$400) - Alicen $400 - Gina (21) As Belize was a British colony, it makes sense that St. John's is Central America's oldest cathedral of this church | $400 - Gina (23) The type of place that Willy Wonka ran, or that Scharffen Berger recently opened in Berkeley | $400 - Alicen (1) (Video) This famous early 20th century entertainer seen here was hard to keep under lock and key | $400 - Gina (16) Meaning "around" or "about", it's often shortened to ca. |
$800 - Gina (12) Collier's calls this American lyric poet a "typographical innovator" | $800 - Alicen (7) In 1974 Terry Jacks had this mournful No. 1 hit, based on a tune by Jacques Brel | $800 - Alicen (22) This, the country's national tree, appears on the flag of Belize (giving Diana Ross something to sing about) | $800 - Alicen (24) At Vinterviken, Sweden, this family had a sulfuric acid as well as a dynamite factory | $800 - Alicen (2) (Video) He's the controversial Olympian and professional athlete seen here | $800 - Triple Stumper (17) Cum means "with", so cum grano salis means "with" this |
(-$2000) - Gina (13) In "The Courtship of Miles Standish", she says, "If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning" DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $1200 - Alicen (8) In their only hit, this group was "too sexy for my shirt" & "too sexy for Milan, New York & Japan" | $1200 - Triple Stumper (28) Though it agreed to a de facto boundary in 2000, this country periodically claims territory in southern Belize | $1200 - Gina (25) In 2002 a Guangzhou sporting goods company opened a factory to make 100,000 of these tables a year | $1200 - Alicen (3) (Video) Jerome Kern was inspired to write "Old Man River" for this man, seen here | (-$1000) - Gina (18) In a Bible in Latin, this line would be "Fiat lux" DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 |
$1600 - Triple Stumper (14) Petrarch's "Canzoniere" included 366 sonnets, one a day, to this lady with whom he was infatuated | $1600 - Christopher (9) Completes the title of Timbuk 3's hit "The Future's So Bright ..." | $1600 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | (-$1600) - Christopher (26) You can see how your Saturn was made by touring the plant at Spring Hill in this state | $1600 - Gina (4) (Video) We bet you know the name of this brotherly actor | $1600 - Christopher (19) Meaning "of whom", it now is used for the minimum number of people required for a meeting |
(-$2000) - Gina (15) In 1642 This English Cavalier poet was jailed for presenting a Royalist petition to Parliament | $2000 - Gina (10) Yes sir! He had a No. 1 hit with the tender love song "Baby Got Back" | $2000 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | $2000 - Triple Stumper (27) This famed Lockheed Martin plant in southern California is named for the bad smell on the original site | $2000 - Alicen (5) (Video) In 1930, this man became the last Emperor of his country | (-$2000) - Gina (20) Copies of the book "Hannibal" should be marked caveat lector, meaning this |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Alicen: $12,600
Christopher: $7,600
Gina: $5,600
Final JEOPARDY!
19th CENTURY NOVELS
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In chapter 1 of this novel, we find "a vast, ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light"
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Gina: $5,600 - $5,500
Christopher: $7,600 + $7,600
Alicen: $12,600 - $2,600
Final Scores
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| Christopher: $15,200
Alicen: $10,000 Gina: $100 |
| Alicen: $12,600 (17 right, including 1 rebound; 1 wrong)
Gina: $8,600 (19 right, including 2 rebounds; 5 wrong, including 2 DDs) Christopher: $5,400 (11 right, including 1 DD; 4 wrong) Total: $26,600
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