Contestants
Eok Ngo, Production assistant from Monterey Park, CA
Sandy Topping, Indexer from Valparaiso, IN
Patrick Fernan, Government manager from Madison, WI (Returning 1-day champ with $11,999)
JEOPARDY! Round - December 9, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
SESAME STREET
| MR. ROGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD
| BLUES CLUES
| ZOOM
| READING RAINBOW
| BETWEEN THE LIONS
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$200 - Sandy (9) It's the part of the Big Mac that contains sesame seeds | $200 - Patrick (14) Roger Bacon, the first European with a gunpowder recipe, was educated at this English university | $200 - Patrick (21) Last name of Mamie, who had a 1920 hit with "Crazy Blues", & also of the better-known Bessie | $200 - Patrick (1) Its velocity can be thousands of feet per second, so we know Superman's faster than that | $200 - Triple Stumper (4) He's the boy who had a "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day" | $200 - Eok (26) In the sixth chapter of his book, this prophet stands unafraid between the lions in their den |
(-$400) - Eok (-$400) - Sandy (10) Sesame paste is used like & substituted for this sandwich spread made from legumes | $400 - Triple Stumper (17) (Video of Sarah in Providence, RI) This compass is believed to be the one that guided this man to the place he called Providence in 1636 | $400 - Eok (22) (Video) Hi, I'm Buddy Guy. This cat from Cream who's not a bad blues player himself called me the best guitar player around | (-$400) - Eok $400 - Patrick (2) Using radar, scientists measured it at over 300 mph in Oklahoma in 1999 | $400 - Eok (5) "Mr. Toad" & "Mr. Badger" are chapters in this Kenneth Grahame classic | $400 - Patrick (27) If you walk between the lions at 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue you're entering or exiting this New York City building |
$600 - Sandy (11) Baba Ghanoush is made with sesame oil & this member of the nightshade family | $600 - Sandy (18) This king of low-budget moviemaking came to California from Michigan in his teens | (-$600) - Patrick (23) A wizard on this instrument, Meade "Lux" Lewis was a pioneer of boogie-woogie & later a success in cocktail bars | $600 - Eok (3) A "speedy" part of a river; you can go down them 30 mph at Raging Waters' Neptune's Fury ride | $600 - Eok (6) Louise Fitzhugh continued the adventures of this little girl snoop in the book "The Long Secret" | $600 - Patrick (28) Alex Karras & Barry Sanders both had success playing among their fellow Lions of this city |
$800 - Triple Stumper (12) The name of this confection made from honey & sesame seeds is from the Arabic for "sweet confection" | $800 - Eok (19) This French region was the birthplace of William the Conqueror & of Roger I, who conquered Sicily | $800 - Eok (24) Muddy Waters & Paul Butterfield performed the blues in this film of The Band's final concert | $800 - Patrick (15) A magazine named for this type of souped-up car debuted in 1948 | $800 - Eok (7) Dictionopolis & Digitopolis are 2 of the unusual places Milo visits in this novel | $800 - Patrick (29) Nickname shared by France's Louis VIII & England's Richard I |
$1000 - Sandy (13) Falafel is often served with this thick paste made primarily from ground sesame seeds | $2400 - Eok (20) 1850s Chief Justice whose name, his fellow Marylanders write to tell us, rhymes with "brawny", not "brainy" DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2400 | $1000 - Triple Stumper (25) State that preceded the names of bluesmen John Hurt & Fred McDowell | $1000 - Eok (16) (Video of Jimmy at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY) In 1973, this horse ran the Derby in a record 1 minute, 59 and 2/5, for an average speed of 38 miles per hour | (-$1000) - Sandy (8) E.B. White named the main character in this book after Louis Armstrong | (-$1000) - Sandy (-$1000) - Eok (30) If you're standing between 2 lions at this country's Kruger National Park, let's hope they're not hungry! |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Eok: $2,600
Patrick: $1,600
Sandy: $400
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Eok: $6,200
Patrick: $3,000
Sandy: $0
Double JEOPARDY! Round - December 9, 2003
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THE ELEMENTS
| TV SHOWS & THEIR CHARACTERS
| COUNTRIES' FORMER NAMES
| RELATIVELY INTERESTING
| POLITICIANS & LEADERS
| "D" TALKS
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$400 - Sandy (6) This light metal, symbol Li, falls between helium & beryllium on the periodic table | $400 - Eok (1) Niles, Daphne, Roz | $400 - Patrick (11) What's now Nelson Mandela Avenue in Harare, Zimbabwe was once Baker Avenue in Salisbury, here | $400 - Triple Stumper (21) Percussionist Pete Escovedo played with Santana; this daughter of his played & sang with Prince | $400 - Patrick (13) Georges Pompidou was a President of France & Georgios Papandreou was a Prime Minister of this country | $400 - Patrick (26) John Hughes wrote the screenplay for this film based on Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip |
(-$800) - Patrick (7) Reflecting about 95% of the light falling upon it, it's the most lustrous of all metals | $800 - Patrick (2) Joey Potter, Pacey Witter, Jen Lindley | $800 - Eok (19) What's now the Democratic Republic of the Congo used to be just the Republic of the Congo, & in between, this | $800 - Patrick (22) Glenna Goodacre's creations include the Sacagawea dollar design & this daughter married to Harry Connick Jr. | $800 - Sandy (15) Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the son of this country's dictator, founded its Falange Party in 1933 | $800 - Eok (27) (Video of Sofia in front of the Goodyear blimp) This other name for an airship is also an adjective meaning "capable of being steered" |
$1200 - Sandy (8) Baddeleyite, an ore of this metal, symbol Zr, is used to make laboratory crucibles | $1200 - Eok (5) Tony, Carmela, Dr. Jennifer Melfi | (-$1100) - Eok (20) The country that made up most of the Spanish Netherlands in 1700 is known as this today DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1100 | $1200 - Patrick (23) (Video) Francis Cugat, brother of bandleader Xavier, created the cover illustration for this novel, seen here | $1200 - Sandy (12) A Swedish Cabinet Minister in 1951, he went on to become a U.N. Secretary-General | $1200 - Eok (28) While in Rome on a scholarship, Georges Bizet wrote a symphonic ode about this Portuguese explorer to India |
(-$600) - Sandy (9) Painter's colic is a group of symptoms caused by an excess of this element in the body DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $600 | $1600 - Patrick (4) Paul Drake, Hamilton Burger, Della Street | (-$1600) - Patick (-$1600) - Sandy (17) When still under British control, this present country was the Federation of South Arabia | $1600 - Sandy (24) Frank Lloyd Wright's daughter married Kenneth Baxter & gave birth to this Oscar-winning actress | $1600 - Sandy (14) In 1959 he got his butt booted out of office for a second time in Cuba | (-$1600) - Eok (29) This French seaport on the English Channel was the site of a disastrous Allied commando raid August 19, 1942 |
$2000 - Eok (10) This element used in the mantles of some camping lanterns was named for the Norse god of thunder | $2000 - Patrick (3) Agnes Dipesto, David Addison, Maddie Hayes | $2000 - Sandy (18) According to their legends, the Goths came from Scandza, now known as this country | $2000 - Triple Stumper (25) Last name of pundit William, a staunch critic of Bill Clinton, & his brother Robert, who was Clinton's lawyer | $2000 - Patrick (16) It should dawn on you that this man born back in 1866 is considered the Father of modern China | $2000 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Patrick: $10,200
Eok: $9,900
Sandy: $6,600
Final JEOPARDY!
MAGAZINES
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Aimed largely at women, this magazine that has its own institute took 110 years to make a woman its editor
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Sandy: $6,600 + $6,500
Eok: $9,900 - $9,900
Patrick: $10,200 + $10,000
Final Scores
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| Patrick: $20,200 (2-day total of $32,199)
Sandy: $13,100 Eok: $0 |
| Patrick: $10,200 (17 right, including 1 rebound; 3 wrong)
Eok: $9,600 (16 right, including 1 DD; 5 wrong, including 1 DD) Sandy: $7,200 (11 right; 5 wrong, including 1 DD) Total: $27,000
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