Contestants
Rebecca Fahrendorf, Validation engineer from Indianapolis, IN
Robert Morgan, High school teacher from San Juan Capistrano, CA
Benni Adkins, School lunch lady from Glenpool, OK (Returning 1-day champ with $20,600)
JEOPARDY! Round - December 2, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
PLACES TO GO BEFORE YOU DIE
| MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS
| LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L"
| FAMOUS VALEDICTORIANS
| THE U.S. ARMY
| VERBS
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$200 - Rebecca (21) On the Greek isle of Aegina, at the orchards full of these nuts, you can see them before they're dyed red | $200 - Benni (1) Will Smith's "Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)" is the theme to this 2002 sequel | $200 - Robert (13) Genie container (4 letters) | $200 - Rebecca (8) Lynnwood High's Valedictorian in 1975 was this rock parodist who probably thought himself the "Bald Victorian" | $200 - Robert (3) The Stephen Ailes Award goes to the top one of these trainers of recruits -- What's that, soldier? I can't hear you!! | $200 - Benni (26) As a noun, he calls signals for the plays in the huddle; as a verb, it means to direct the offense |
$400 - Benni (22) This Canadian city's Bata Shoe Museum has Pierre Trudeau's sandals; now that's worth "CN" | $400 - Robert (2) The soundtrack to this 1983 yuppie reunion movie includes '60s hits like "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" & "My Girl" | $400 - Rebecca (14) Hilton's "Horizon", or Fitzgerald's "Generation" (4 letters) | $400 - Robert (9) A mole told us she was a model Valedictorian for Dekalb High in 1984 | $400 - Robert (4) About 35,000 soldiers of the 8th Army are stationed on this Asian peninsula | $400 - Robert (27) To tamper with something, or to behave in an "apish" manner |
$600 - Rebecca (23) The Museumboot will take you through this city's canals with stops near the Rembrandt House & Rijksmuseum | $600 - Benni (18) (Video) This is Alison Krauss. 3 of my songs, including "I'll Fly Away", are on the multi-Platinum soundtrack to this Coen Brothers film | $600 - Benni (15) Nabokov's nymphet (6 letters) | $600 - Benni (10) He was behind the lectern for Binger High in 1965 & he was behind the plate for the Reds in the '70s | $600 - Benni (5) (Video) Designed to accompany tanks, this fighting vehicle is named for a U.S. General of World War II | $600 - Benni (28) It's a synonym for "efface" that also rhymes with it |
(-$800) - Rebecca $800 - Robert (24) Though this city encircled by Hubei province is China's second-largest, it's the one you think of first | $800 - Rebecca (19) Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" is a No. 1 hit from the soundtrack to this 1985 John Hughes film | $800 - Robert (16) Fauntleroy is a "little" one (4 letters) | $800 - Triple Stumper (11) This game show host might have offered the Yale Law class of 1970 a chance to win his Valedictorian speech | $800 - Robert (6) This corps evolved from flags & torches in the 1850s to advanced electronic communications | $800 - Benni (29) From the Old Norse for "to bathe", it means to lie on the beach & soak up the warm rays |
(-$1000) - Benni $1000 - Robert (25) In its native tongue, this Himalayan kingdom is called Drukyul | $1000 - Rebecca (20) (Video) I'm Wynonna. I covered Elvis Presley's "Burning Love" for the soundtrack to this 2002 animated film | $1000 - Benni (17) Versifier Vachel (7 letters) | (-$1000) - Robert (-$1000) - Benni (12) When Gouverneur Morris was Valedictorian at this N.Y. school in 1768, it was known as King's College | $1000 - Robert (7) Washington was the first 3-star General; this President the first 4-star General DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | $1000 - Benni (30) Often used to mean "imply", it really means to draw a conclusion from what another has implied |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Robert: $2,400
Benni: $1,000
Rebecca: $600
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Robert: $5,400
Benni: $4,600 (Originally $3,400. The judges reversed their negative ruling on a $600 clue.)
Rebecca: $2,400
Double JEOPARDY! Round - December 2, 2003
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PLACES TO GO AFTER YOU'RE DEAD
| BASEBALL LEGENDS
| HISTORIC NICKNAMES
| AROUND THE KITCHEN
| PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL
| GETTING UP THERE
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$400 - Benni (9) If Peter forgets his keys at home, no one gets in here | $400 - Robert (4) Only 2 pitchers have lost over 300 games in a career: Pud Galvin & this legend for whom a major award is named | $400 - Robert (14) "Old Blood and Guts" | $400 - Benni (1) The first automatic one of these was patented by Charles Strite in 1921; pop-up was added in 1925 | $400 - Robert (24) Nietzsche named the wild, creative impulse for Dionysus & the orderly one for this sun god | $400 - Robert (19) The base of the stratus, a low type of this, can get down to less than 6,000 feet |
$800 - Benni (10) The friendless poor & strangers are buried in one of these, mentioned in Matthew 27:7 | $800 - Robert (5) Prior to entering the Major Leagues at age 42 in 1948, he had pitched 55 no-hitters in the Negro Leagues | $800 - Benni (15) "The Serpent of the Nile" | $800 - Benni (2) Gibson added the first automatic interior light to this appliance | $800 - Robert (25) Henri Bergson saw this not as a series of moments but as a flow he called duration | $800 - Robert (20) The day before Alan Shepard went up, Malcolm Ross went 21 miles up, up & away in one of these |
$1200 - Benni (11) The Latin & Greek Churches agree it's a place of temporary suffering, but do not agree on the form of suffering | (-$1200) - Robert $1200 - Benni (6) This Cardinals first baseman hit 583 career home runs, averaging a home run for every 10.6 times at bat | $1200 - Robert (16) "The Second Man on the Moon" | $1200 - Robert (3) It took 30 years for this appliance to be in over 50% of U.S. homes; the need to bake a potato in 3 min. wasn't pressing | $1200 - Robert (26) His "Two Treatises of Government", which influenced Jefferson, said man has a natural right to liberty | $1200 - Benni (21) (Video of Cheryl in Colorado) Drink extra water at 10,000 feet. Up here, this point is lower, so the air contains less water |
$1600 - Robert (12) In Greek mythology its subdivisions include Erebus & Tartarus | $1600 - Robert (7) Baseball's all-time strikeout king with 5,714, his uniform number was retired by 3 teams: California, Houston & Texas | $1600 - Robert (17) "The Kingfish of Politics" | $1600 - Triple Stumper (29) Kitchen appliance that helped A.D. Hershey win a Nobel Prize; it removed a virus' protein coat from its DNA core | (-$1600) - Rebecca (27) This man who died around 347 B.C. said we perceive examples of things, not their ideal forms | $1600 - Robert (22) In 1975 one of these scavengers climbed to 37,000' over Africa -- sadly, we know this because it hit a plane |
$2000 - Robert (13) It's a bottomless pit for the dead, or, in its special edition, an almost endless James Cameron movie | $2000 - Rebecca (8) This shortstop, the "Flying Dutchman", outplayed Ty Cobb in their 1909 World Series showdown | $2000 - Robert (18) "The Wittenberg Monk" | (-$200) - Robert (30) Found in many kitchens, polytetrafluoroethylene is more commonly called this DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $200 | $2000 - Triple Stumper (28) Hobbes followed this | $2000 - Robert (23) (Video) The men seen here lunching above Manhattan include members of this Indian tribe DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Robert: $24,000 (Lock game)
Benni: $11,400
Rebecca: $2,800
Final JEOPARDY!
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS
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These 2 words are anagrams of each other & for our location now one is about 34, the other about 74
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Rebecca: $2,800 - $2,800
Benni: $11,400 - $4,000
Robert: $24,000 - $500
Final Scores
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| Robert: $23,500
Benni: $7,400 Rebecca: $0 |
| Robert: $24,200 (28 right, including 2 DDs & 2 rebounds; 3 wrong, including 1 DD)
Benni: $11,400 (19 right, including 1 rebound; 2 wrong) Rebecca: $2,800 (7 right; 2 wrong) Total: $38,400
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