Contestants
Dave Oberhart, Computer consultant from Durham, NC
Erika Rogers, Bartender from Indianapolis, IN
Michele Bassett, Stay-at-home mom from McLean, VA (Returning 1-day champ with $17,300)
JEOPARDY! Round - December 18, 2003
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The number in parentheses preceding the clue denotes the order in which the clue was played.
U.S. CITY NICKNAMES
| YULETIDE FAVORITES
| FEMALE FIRSTS
| OOOH ... CHESS
| ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED?
| ABBREV.
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$200 - Triple Stumper (1) Nashville is "The Athens of the South"; this home of the Crimson Tide is "The Athens of Alabama" | $200 - Triple Stumper (18) "Oh, bring us a figgy pudding, oh, bring us a figgy pudding, oh, bring us a figgy pudding and a cup of" this | $200 - Dave (12) In 1678 Elena Cornaro, fluent in 7 languages, became the first woman to receive this advanced degree | $200 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | $200 - Dave (3) "This was the noblest Roman of them all" | $200 - Michele (4) Tho can be short for |
$400 - Erika (2) Huntington Beach, California has been nicknamed this, also the title of a 1963 Jan & Dean hit | $400 - Dave (19) In 1947 this singing cowboy co-wrote & recorded the perennial favorite "Here Comes Santa Claus" | $400 - Michele (13) Fay Fuller, a Tacoma journalist, made the first female ascent of this mountain in 1890, wearing wool bloomers | $400 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | (-$400) - Michele $400 - Erika (8) "Get thee to a nunnery!" | $400 - Dave (5) With my new flat panel screen, I've gotten rid of my old monitor with that big CRT, this |
$600 - Michele (23) This capital has been designated the "Green Mountain City" | $600 - Dave (20) The subject of a Christmas carol, this good king was not a king but the Duke of Bohemia in the 10th century | $600 - Michele (14) In 1957 Dame Beryl Grey became the first foreign guest artist to dance with this Moscow company | $600 - Erika (28) In German this piece is a Springer; in French, Cavalier | $600 - Erika (9) "I am dying, Egypt, dying" | $600 - Michele (6) mth is month; |
$800 - Michele (24) New Orleans was dubbed this city; when it was laid out, that was the shape the Mississippi formed around it | (-$800) - Erika (21) In "Away in a Manger", it's what "the little Lord Jesus" was "asleep on" | $800 - Michele (15) Ehud Barak once dressed as a woman in a covert operation, but she was the only actual woman PM of Israel | (-$800) - Dave (27) When it moves, this piece will always wind up on the same color square that it began the game on | $800 - Erika (10) "I am a Jew! Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands ..." | $800 - Dave (7) You'll get no help on a project labeled DIY, short for this |
$1000 - Michele (25) Rockwell City in this state calls itself the "Golden buckle on the Corn Belt" | $1000 - Dave (22) 6 years before "Seventy-Six Trombones", he wrote "It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas" | $1000 - Triple Stumper (16) Bill Clinton made Janet Reno the first woman Attorney General & Hazel O'Leary the first woman Secretary of this | $1000 - Triple Stumper (26) Invented in the 1500s to speed up the game, this maneuver involves 2 pieces of the same color | $1000 - Erika (11) "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua" DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $1000 | $1000 - Dave (17) At the DOS, Department of State, a US would be a person in this post |
Scores at the first commercial break:
Erika: $3,200
Dave: $1,600
Michele: $1,400
Scores at the end of the JEOPARDY! Round:
Michele: $4,600
Dave: $3,800
Erika: $3,000
Double JEOPARDY! Round - December 18, 2003
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THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
| SCREEN PLAYS
| AFTER THE FOX
| LEAVING SO SOON?
| WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG
| ENDS IN "OLD"
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$400 - Erika (22) It's estimated that the largest of these contains 2.3 million stone blocks, each averaging about 2.5 tons | (-$400) - Dave $400 - Michele (1) Jason Miller went back home to Scranton in this state to make the '82 film of his play "That Championship Season' | $400 - Erika (21) Russ Meyer fans know this name for a female fox | (-$400) - Michele $400 - Dave (16) Charles Tupper, one of this country's Fathers of Confederation, served 10 weeks as its Prime Minister | $400 - Erika (11) During his summers in high school, Ronald Reagan worked as one of these, maybe inspiring David Hasselhoff | $400 - Erika (6) Real estate agents' favorite 4-letter word; they like to add it to front yard signs |
$800 - Michele (23) It's the only one of the ancient wonders that was located in present-day Iraq | $800 - Dave (2) Peter Firth horsed around as the unstable stable boy in the film version of this Peter Shaffer play | $800 - Erika (27) The bat-eared fox, like the funnel-eared bat, eats mainly these | $800 - Michele (17) Theodore Pomeroy had the shortest tenure in this job, serving on the last day of the 40th Congress | $800 - Dave (12) He got a violin at age 6 & continued to play through the rest of his 39 years | $800 - Michele (7) Dionne Warwick, Marilyn McCoo & Rick Dees were among the hosts of "Solid" this |
$1200 - Dave (24) This wonder depicted a sun god shielding his eyes & gazing out across the Aegean Sea | $1200 - Michele (3) Everyone "nose" that Jose Ferrer starred in this play on Broadway before he made the film in 1950 | $1200 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | $1200 - Michele (18) Elected Pope in 752, Stephen died 2 days later, before he could undergo this, from the Latin for "to make sacred" | $1200 - Erika (13) Born in Hungary in 1874, the son of Samuel & Cecilia Weiss, he became a professional magician at age 17 | $1200 - Michele (8) The compartment of a passenger airplane where animals usually fly |
(-$2000) - Dave (25) Reportedly, a spiral ramp allowed wagons to carry fuel up to the constantly burning fire at its top DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $1600 - Triple Stumper (4) Paul Newman was so good in this man's play "Sweet Bird of Youth" that he got to star in the film, too | $1600 - CLUE NOT REVEALED FOR LACK OF TIME | $1600 - Triple Stumper (19) After less than 2 years in the job, he resigned as executive editor of the New York Times in June 2003 | $2000 - Erika (14) When Joseph Haydn was 8, he joined this world-famous singing group DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $2000 | $1600 - Michele (9) It's an enclosure for sheep |
$2000 - Erika (26) Tools & molds used by Phidias to sculpt this wonder have been discovered at Olympia | $2000 - Michele (5) Aaron Sorkin adapted the screenplay for this 1992 film about a Marine murder trial from his own play | $2000 - Erika (28) The Alopex Lagopus, or this fox, turns white in the winter | (-$2000) - Michele (20) He was a konstantinvalid during the year he led the USSR, February 1984 to March 1985 | $2000 - Triple Stumper (15) Louisa May Alcott's first big crush was on this "Sage of Concord", almost 30 years her senior | $2000 - Michele (10) Hawthorne's Tales were "Twice" this |
Scores at the end of the Double JEOPARDY! Round:
Michele: $14,200
Erika: $12,600
Dave: $4,600
Final JEOPARDY!
SCIENCE
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Some refractive index numbers for you now: Diamond, 2.42;
Air, 1.0003; this, 1.0000 |
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Final JEOPARDY! wagers:
Dave: $4,600 - $4,599
Erika: $12,600 - $2,600
Michele: $14,200 - $11,100
Final Scores
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| Erika: $10,000
Michele: $3,100 Dave: $1 |
| Michele: $14,200 (18 right, including 1 rebound; 2 wrong)
Erika: $12,200 (15 right, including 2 DDs & 1 rebound; 1 wrong) Dave: $6,600 (12 right, including 1 rebound; 3 wrong, including 1 DD) Total: $33,000
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