Contestants
Jeffrey Burcaw, Vice president of an engineering firm from Warner Robins, GA
Ben Eggenberger, Technology manager from Alma, MI
Lillie Salsberry, Librarian from Baton Rouge, LA (Returning 1-day champ with $2,700)
JEOPARDY! Round - December 4, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
THE 18th CENTURY
| MOVIE SONGS
| A HOOSIERS WHO'S WHO
| AVIATION FIRSTS
| GREAT FIGURES
| PASS THE "P"s
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$200 - Jeffrey (15) This man was hanged for murder & piracy May 23, 1701 | $200 - Lillie (6) "Maniac" | $200 - Jeffrey (26) At 33 this future Vice President was the youngest man ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Indiana | $200 - Ben (11) The first President to hold a pilot's license, he learned to fly in 1939 while serving with MacArthur in the Philippines | $200 - Ben (21) Ben Lusbie, who could sell 6,000 tickets to this in an hour, was an attraction just like the animals & acrobats | $200 - Ben (1) It's a hill or mountain with a level top |
$400 - Jeffrey (16) Denounced as a magician in Venice in 1755, this famous lover was sentenced to prison but escaped to Paris | $400 - Lillie (7) "The Bare Necessities" | $400 - Jeffrey (27) The story of this lovely lady from "The Brady Bunch" begins in Dale, Indiana in 1934 | $400 - Ben (12) In June 1910 this partner of Henry Royce became the first to fly non-stop across the English Channel & back | (-$400) - Jeffrey (-$400) - Lillie (22) In 2002 the Philadelphia Mint produced about 540 million of these -- about $27 million worth | $400 - Lillie (2) It's an act performed to show sorrow for having committed a sin |
$600 - Jeffrey (17) This Frenchman had lots to write "confessions" about, like sending 5 of his kids to a foundling hospital | $600 - Ben (8) "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" | $600 - Jeffrey (28) We assume his friends find this senior Indiana Senator a real pistol | $600 - Triple Stumper (13) In July 1908 this science journal awarded a trophy to Glenn Curtiss for the first U.S. public flight of one kilometer | $600 - Lillie (23) In 2001 the U.S. awarded IBM 3,411 of these & we're sure IBM's lawyers defend them vigorously | (-$1000) - Lillie (3) This publication is credited to an imaginary astronomer & appeared from the early 1730s to 1757 DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 |
$800 - Triple Stumper (18) 1787 Mozart work often called a serenade; the "New Oxford Companion to Music" says it's, aptly, a nocturne | $800 - Triple Stumper (9) "I'm Easy" | $800 - Lillie (29) He was first seen in Brazil, Indiana in 1913; he was last seen outside a Michigan restaurant in 1975 | $800 - Jeffrey (14) In 1933, 2 years before his death with Will Rogers, this pilot became the first to fly solo around the world | $800 - Lillie (24) Vroom! Mattel introduced these in 1968 & says 2 of them are now sold every second | $800 - Ben (4) In I Corinthians, he tells us that charity is the greatest virtue |
$1000 - Jeffrey (19) This German Baron known for his fantastic tales died in 1797 | $1000 - Triple Stumper (10) "Beautiful Maria of My Soul" | $1000 - Triple Stumper (30) A state historic site in Dana honors this news correspondent who was killed in the Pacific during WWII | $1000 - Jeffrey (20) In 1935 transPacific air mail was begun by the "China" one of these, also a type of sailing ship | $1000 - Jeffrey (25) The Nullarbor Plain in this country has a dead-straight stretch of railroad track 297 miles long | $1000 - Ben (5) It's a highfalutin' 6-syllable word for sleight of hand magic |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Ben: $3,200
Jeffrey: $1,000
Lillie: $0
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Jeffrey: $5,800
Ben: $3,400
Lillie: $1,800
Double JEOPARDY! Round - December 4, 2003
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MAMMALS
| THE OLYMPIC GAMES
| DOG & CAT TALES
| SUCCESSORS
| "A" IN GEOGRAPHY
| BEFORE & AFTER
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$400 - Jeffrey (2) Ornithorhynchus Anatinus is the scientific name for this egg-laying mammal | $400 - Ben (26) The only men to win 2 gold medals in this multi-event sport were Bob Mathias ('48 & '52) & Daley Thompson ('80 & '84) | $400 - Lillie (12) In the exciting sequel, this Dr. Seuss title character "comes back" | $400 - Lillie (6) Shakespeare's Macbeth succeeds this man as Scotland's king | $400 - Jeffrey (1) This country in southwestern Africa gained independence from Portugal on November 11,1975 | (-$400) - Jeffrey $400 - Lillie (20) 13th century Venetian traveler who's a Ralph Lauren short sleeve top with a collar |
(-$800) - Jeffrey $800 - Lillie (3) The largest animals of this species, which is also the largest species of deer, are found in Alaska & Siberia | $800 - Ben (27) The only women to repeat as gold medalists in solo figure skating are Sonja Henie & this East German in 1984 & 1988 | $800 - Lillie (13) Beverly Cleary wrote "Socks" & this First Lady wrote "Millie's Book" | $800 - Triple Stumper (7) In 1975 Robert Morganthau succeeded Richard Kuh in this Manhattan legal post -- he's still there | (-$1200) - Lillie (5) A city on the Potomac founded in 1749 is named this, like a city on the Mediterranean founded in 331 B.C. DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1200 | $800 - Ben (21) "Queen of Soul" who got R-E-S-P-E-C-T as the 32nd President of the U.S. |
(-$800) - Lillie (4) The dermis of this mammal that comes in 3-banded & giant species ossifies to form bony plates DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $800 | $1200 - Jeffrey (28) (Video of Sarah | $1200 - Jeffrey (14) A doggie turns up in his story "To Build a Fire" & in his novel "White Fang" | $1200 - Ben (8) James Cagney was a tough actor to follow as president of this, but George Murphy did it in 1944 | $1200 - Jeffrey (17) It's the capital of the state of South Australia | $1200 - Triple Stumper (22) Steinbeck classic in which Lennie & George are set adrift with Capt. Bligh in a sequel to "Mutiny on the Bounty" |
$1600 - Triple Stumper (10) (Video of Jeff Probst in the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil) | (-$1600) - Jeffrey (29) Since 1896 the record in this event has more than doubled, from 36 feet, 9.75 inches to 73 feet, 8.75 inches | $1600 - Ben (15) This 1843 Poe tale might have crossed your path | $1600 - Triple Stumper (9) In 1998 David Remnick succeeded her as editor of The New Yorker | $1600 - Triple Stumper (18) This desert in northern Chile is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west & the Andes on the east | $1600 - Triple Stumper (23) TV talk show host & "Hairspray" actress who is an over 5,300-foot-deep Russian body of water |
$2000 - Jeffrey (11) I hate to name-drop but this mammal often has "mundi" dropped from its name | $2000 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | $2000 - Jeffrey (16) "Moses the Kitten" was one of the small creatures this vet wrote about | $2000 - Triple Stumper (25) Following Georg Solti as its music director, Daniel Barenboim led a free concert in Grant Park Sept. 21, 1991 | $2000 - Jeffrey (19) Portugal's possessions in the North Atlantic include the Madeiras & this island group | $2000 - Ben (24) Kentucky city that's the setting of a children's book in which Sam-I-Am pushes an unusual dish |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Jeffrey: $13,400
Ben: $10,200
Lillie: $2,600
Final JEOPARDY!
AMERICAN AUTHORS
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He called himself a "Cubano Sato", a phrase from the Cuban dialect meaning both "flirt" & "half-breed"
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Lillie: $2,600 + $2,300
Ben: $10,200 - $4,900
Jeffrey: $13,400 - $7,001
Final Scores
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| Jeffrey: $6,399
Ben: $5,300 Lillie: $4,900 |
| Jeffrey: $13,400 (18 right; 4 wrong)
Ben: $10,200 (13 right; 0 wrong) Lillie: $5,600 (11 right, including 2 rebounds; 4 wrong, including 3 DDs) Total: $29,200
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