Contestants
Wes Johnson, Band manager & attorney from Columbia, SC
Tim Heaney, Facility manager, originally from Cranston, RI
Molly Strothmann, Graduate student from Norman, OK (Returning 1-day champ with $20,000)
JEOPARDY! Round - December 12, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
AMERICAN WOMAN
| MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES "G"
| PHOBIAS
| GEORGIA ON MY MIND
| CEREMONIES
| A LITTLE LATIN
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$200 - Tim (4) Her maiden name was Fitzgerald when she married into the fabled Kennedy family in 1914 | $200 - Molly (5) Dolls' title partners (4 letters) | $200 - Wes (17) Bad dreams at night can lead to hypnophobia, the fear of doing this | $200 - Triple Stumper (2) Oglethorpe is the seat of this county whose "line" was featured in a 1974 film | $200 - Wes (1) Every U. of British Columbia graduating class ceremonially does this; you can still see 1949's dogwood | $200 - Tim (23) Rene Descartes made famous the phrase "Cogito ergo sum", which means this |
$400 - Tim (14) U.S. Ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976, she was once Hollywood's biggest star | $400 - Wes (10) Ms. Close, to you (5 letters) | $400 - Wes (18) One of the most common of all, glossophobia is the fear of doing this in public | $400 - Triple Stumper (3) Visiting the Callaway Plantation in Washington, Georgia you can "jump down, turn around" & do this | $400 - Wes (6) In 2001, at Ellis Island, the President led the Pledge of Allegiance at this type of ceremony | $400 - Molly (26) Meaning "always faithful", it's the motto of the Marine Corps |
(-$600) - Tim $600 - Wes (15) (Video of Sofia at the U.S.S. Missouri in Pearl Harbor, HI) | $600 - Wes (11) Disney dwarf, or "Old Men" adjective (6 letters) | $600 - Molly (19) If you've got amathophobia, a fear of this, you might also fear Genesis 3:19, which tells us we'll all return to it | $600 - Tim (24) Cleveland, Georgia is home to these dolls, adopted out of its "Babyland General Hospital" | $600 - Wes (7) If a priest comes to your hospital room to perform the Anointing of the Sick, you may want to know it's also called this | $600 - Triple Stumper (27) If you're not of sound mind, you're this 3-word phrase, literally |
$800 - Molly (16) Clotilde Bowen was the first black woman to receive her "eagles" by promotion to this U.S. Army rank | $800 - Wes (12) "Spirited" Swayze saga (5 letters) | (-$800) - Wes (-$800) - Molly (20) A nebulaphobe is frightened of this, even when it "comes on little cat feet" | $800 - Molly (25) The first steamship to sail across the Atlantic sailed from Georgia & was named for this city | $800 - Tim (8) In Branson, Missouri, the nation's largest celebration of this day includes a parade at 11:00 on 11/11 | $800 - Triple Stumper (28) "In wine there is truth" or so says this phrase |
$1000 - Triple Stumper (22) In 1990 Joan Finney became the first Kansas woman elected to this post | $1000 - Tim (13) Oddjob's master (10 letters) | $1800 - Molly (21) Hippophobia isn't the fear of hippopotami but of these DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1800 | $1000 - Triple Stumper (29) Georgia's state motto is "Wisdom, justice and" this, something you should have "in all things" | $1000 - Molly (9) (Video) The ritual smoke seen here indicates a new one of these | $1000 - Molly (30) When he crossed the Rubicon, Julius Caesar supposedly said, "Iacta alea est", which translates to this |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Wes: $3,600
Tim: $1,800
Molly: $1,200
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Molly: $5,800
Wes: $3,400
Tim: $2,600
Double JEOPARDY! Round - December 12, 2003
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EXPLORERS
| BEATLES REMAKES
| QUOTATIONS
| FISH
| RHYME
| REASON
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$400 - Triple Stumper (21) In 1811 Thomas Manning, disguised in Chinese garb, became the first Englishman to enter this Tibetan capital | $400 - Tim (1) With over 2,500 versions, it's been listed in Guinness as the most recorded song in history | $400 - Wes (11) For radio's "Family Theater", Al Scalpone wrote, "The family that prays together" does this | $400 - Wes (26) (Video) Let's see, there's one fish, not two fish, and it's not a red fish, it's this | $400 - Molly (16) It's when a spacecraft passes a planet to observe it | $400 - Molly (3) This event happens because of the pressure on gas-filled magma from the solid rock around it |
$800 - Tim (22) This Venetian's accounts of the Roc of Arabian myth may have been based on the Elephant Bird of Madagascar | $800 - Molly (2) They're the trio heard here in a rather animated remake of a Beatles hit | $800 - Triple Stumper (12) His first inaugural address gave us the phrase "the better angels of our nature" | $800 - Molly (27) (Video) It's also the name of a wholesome snack that smiles back until you bite their heads off | $800 - Triple Stumper (17) It's when unionized police officers call in sick en masse | $800 - Molly (4) It's why Sampson's Pearly Mussel & the Santa Barbara Song Sparrow were taken off the endangered species list |
$1200 - Molly (23) In April 1874 this Scottish missionary & African explorer was buried at a state funeral at Westminster Abbey | $1200 - Tim (8) On George Martin's farewell album "In My Life", Jim Carrey does this song (Goo goo goo joob) | $1200 - Tim (13) Paul Erdos was famous as one of these, which he defined as a machine "for turning coffee into theorems" | (-$1200) - Tim $1200 - Molly (28) (Video) Complain, complain, complain, that's all it does is complain | $1200 - Tim (18) It's the lottery option that lets the computer randomly select some numbers | $1200 - Molly (5) In 1654 Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated because she wanted to practice this religion |
$3000 - Molly (24) On Sept. 12, 1609 he sailed into New York harbor & then proceeded north to the site of present-day Albany DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $3000 | $4200 - Tim (9) Under the name Dr. Winston O'Boogie, John Lennon played guitar on Elton John's 1974 remake of this gem DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $4200 | (-1600) - Tim $1600 - Molly (14) Samuel Johnson rhymed, "Let observation with extensive view / Survey mankind from China to" this country | $1600 - Wes (29) (Video) It's named for the insects that spread malaria, because it eats the insects | $1600 - Wes (19) In nuclear imaging, it's an area with an accumulation of radioactivity | $1600 - Wes (6) Washington attacked at this N.J. city Dec. 26, 1776 because many of his soldiers' enlistments ended Dec. 31 |
(-$2000) - Molly (25) This Grand Canyon explorer wrote "Explorations of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries" in 1875 | (-$2000) - Tim (10) It's the song covered here by Earth, Wind & Fire | $2000 - Triple Stumper (15) These "Prairie Home Companion" biscuits give "shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done" | $2000 - Wes (30) (Video) It's named for the decorative pattern on its skin. As you can see, it's not slimming | $2000 - Molly (20) 3-word proverb meaning that the strong create their own rules | (-$2000) - Molly (7) This double-reed instrument's pitch rarely changes, so the rest of the orchestra tunes to it |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Molly: $15,200
Wes: $11,000
Tim: $6,800
Final JEOPARDY!
19th CENTURY BUSINESS
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Frederic Tudor became wealthy marketing this, which he took from a pond called Fresh Pond in Massachusetts
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Tim: $6,800 - $6,800
Wes: $11,000 + $4,200
Molly: $15,200 - $6,802
Final Scores
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| Wes: $15,200
Molly: $8,398 Tim: $0 |
| Molly: $13,000 (19 right, including 2 DDs & 2 rebounds; 3 wrong)
Wes: $11,000 (15 right, including 1 rebound; 1 wrong) Tim: $4,200 (12 right, including 1 DD; 4 wrong) Total: $28,200
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