Contestants
Joe Holtzmann, Teacher from Wahiawa, HI
Karen Kratzer, Tax accountant from Annapolis, MD
Scott Troy, Student from Highland Park, IL (Returning 2-day champ with $15,600)
JEOPARDY! Round - November 25, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
WE "LOVE" LITERATURE
| THE BOYS IN THE BAND
| POTPOURRI
| & IN THIS CORNER
| THE FOOD BIZ
| COMIN' UP SHORT
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$200 - Karen (15) What can you say about a 33-year-old novel by Erich Segal? Perhaps just this, the book's title | $200 - Scott (1) Chris Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain | $200 - Triple Stumper (3) Damon Runyon mentions gefilte fish in this 1932 collection of tales | $200 - Karen (10) in the 1411 Battle of Harlaw, it was the Lowland Scots vs. these Scots | $200 - Joe (17) Peas & lima beans were among the first frozen foods sold by this Ho! Ho! Ho! company in 1961 | $200 - Karen (4) A DMZ is a demilitarized zone; dz is short for this quantity |
$400 - Triple Stumper (16) (Video of Cheryl in Providence, RI) This is the original 1920 manuscript of a horror story by this author, whose initials stood for Howard Phillips | $400 - Joe (2) Adam Clayton, Bono, Larry Mullen, Jr., The Edge | $400 - Karen (13) The British Home Office's crime computer was named the "Home Office Large Major Enquiry System" after him | $400 - Karen (11) The First Peloponnesian War was just Sparta vs. this city | $400 - Karen (22) The top ice cream brands sold at the supermarket are private label, followed by these 2 rhyming brands | $400 - Triple Stumper (5) for is short for foreign; aft is short for this period (a timely response is expected) |
$600 - Triple Stumper (26) Modern lit just wouldn't be the same without such seminal works as this 1969 Jacqueline Susann novel | $600 - Joe (7) John Entwistle, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, Pete Townshend | $600 - Triple Stumper (14) A belief that they increased the content of something in milk provided the name of these yellow flowers | (-$600) - Karen (12) On the card in the 1916 Battle of Jutland was the British fleet vs. this country's fleet | $600 - Karen (23) "Do something good for yourself" is the slogan for this line of healthier frozen entrees from Stouffer's | $600 - Scott (6) Things you bought whsle, wholesale, might have come out of the whs, this |
$800 - Karen (30) Despite war & outbreaks of disease, the love of Florentino for Fermina endures in this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $800 | $800 - Scott (8) Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, Paul Cook | $800 - Joe (18) (Video of Jeff Probst in the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil) Until about 1910, the economy of the Amazon depended on the other black gold, this resource, derived from latex. | $800 - Triple Stumper (20) In the 1491-92 siege of Granada, the Spanish defeated this group | $800 - Karen (24) In the '50s Betty Bitesize was the spokesperson for this line of Ralston Purina cereals | (-$800) - Joe $800 - Karen (28) mgr, it's a title for a biggie in the Church, & no, it's not manager |
$1000 - Triple Stumper (29) It's the only Evelyn Waugh novel we know that became a film starring Jonathan Winters & Liberace | $1000 - Scott (9) Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil | $1000 - Joe (19) The Little Entente was a 1920s alliance of Romania, Yugoslavia & this country that's since split in 2 | $1000 - Triple Stumper (21) The Second Punic War was Rome vs. this | $1000 - Triple Stumper (25) Tater Tots was an invention of this company in 1953 | $1000 - Scott (27) sec is short for second & nsec is this, one-billionth of a second |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Scott: $2,600
Joe: $1,000
Karen : $800
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Karen: $4,200
Scott: $3,600
Joe: $2,200
Double JEOPARDY! Round - November 25, 2003
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STATES BY COUNTY
| '90s MOVIE CHARACTERS
| CALTECH
| 2-LETTER WORDS
| BUSH MEN
| OF THE KALAHARI
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$400 - Karen (7) Powhatan, Spotsylvania, Appomattox | $400 - Scott (2) In "Ed Wood", this movie Dracula describes Boris Karloff with a string of expletives | $400 - Joe (11) All Caltech undergrads take 5 terms of this, including Quantum & Classical Mechanics | $400 - Scott (1) In the children's game of tag, what the pursuer is | $400 - Karen (17) William Farish, who gave Millie the dog to Bush I, was sent to London by Bush II with this nice job | $400 - Karen (20) The Kalahari's not all dry: the Okavango River feeds the Okavango one of these marshy areas |
$800 - Joe (8) Barnstable, Nantucket, Plymouth | $800 - Karen (3) (Video of Sofia at the California Science Center Titanic Artifact Exhibit) In "Titanic", this character, played by Kate Winslet, sweeps down the grand staircase to meet Jack | $800 - Karen (12) Caltech Biochemist Henry Borsook helped develop these guidelines; 6 mg of Niacin for a 2-year-old is one example | $800 - Scott (9) Follow the yellow brick road & give us this 2-letter nickname for Australia | (-$800) - Scott $800 - Karen (18) From 1995 to 2000 he was CEO of the energy firm Halliburton | $800 - Triple Stumper (21) The hartebeest & tsessebe are 2 of these animals you may see bounding gracefully across the plain |
$1200 - Karen (13) Apache, Cochise, Navajo | $1200 - Scott (4) This central character in "Clueless" shares her name with an entertainer | $1200 - Triple Stumper (24) Norman Church endowed the Chemical Biology lab after a Caltech Prof cleared him of doping this animal | $1200 - Triple Stumper (10) Eye-opening art movement of the 1960s | $1200 - Scott (19) Bush speechwriter Daid Frum coined this phrase for a trio of nefarious nations | $1200 - Triple Stumper (26) A depression between these "hills", which can be a mile long & 200' high, is called a straat, "street" |
$1600 - Karen (14) Antrim, Huron, Mackinac | $1600 - Scott (5) The cop who gets Van Goghed in this film has a name, Marvin Nash | $1600 - Triple Stumper (29) Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zawail holds a chair named for this 2-time Nobelist (for Chemistry & Peace) | $1600 - Karen (16) In the title of a classic beginner book by PD Eastman, it comes before & after "Dog" | $1600 - Scott (22) (Video) This ever-poised Press Secretary left the post in July of 2003 | (-$1000) - Joe (27) Using watering holes, this Scot struggled across the Kalahari in 1849 DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 |
$2000 - Karen (15) Waldo, Aroostook, Penobscot | $2000 - Triple Stumper (6) In "Braveheart", the English King who's trying to "take our freedom" | $2000 - Joe (30) In 1935 Caltech alum Arnold Beckman developed this 2-letter meter to measure acidity in lemon juice DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $2000 - Joe (23) The home of Abraham, this Sumerian city was rediscovered in the 1850s | $2000 - Triple Stumper (25) In March 2003 Senate Democrats stalled Bush's nomination of this Hispanic-American to the Court of Appeals | $2000 - Joe (28) (Video of Jimmy with a map of Africa) The Kalahari covers portions of Botswana, South Africa, and this country |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Karen: $14,200
Scott: $10,000
Joe: $8,400
Final JEOPARDY!
RELIGION
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The 2 main religions on this island nation are Greek Orthodox & Islam
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Joe: $8,400 + $2,600
Scott: $10,000 - $47
Karen: $14,200 + $5,801
Final Scores
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| Karen: $20,001
Joe: $11,000 Scott: $9,953 |
| Karen: $14,200 (20 right, including 1 DD & 2 rebounds; 1 wrong)
Scott: $10,000 (12 right; 1 wrong) Joe: $9,400 (10 right, including 1 DD; 2 wrong, including 1 DD) Total: $33,600
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