Pleasantville, NY Commercial real estate investor	Los Angeles Graduate student	Manchester, VT College student 2004 College Championship Winner

Jeopardy! categories: Imaginary Races, Championship Movies, Named for a French King's Mistress, Also a Current Supreme Court Justice, And a "Pin"ch, For Good Measure

Daily Double: $800 Also a Current Supreme Court Justice. Sam ($1000) wagers $500. Clue: Founder of an ice cream company in 1866. Sam's guess: "Who is Robbins?" Correct question: Who is Breyer?; Sam drops to $500.

End of Round:
Arthur - $5400
Sam - $2500
Keith - $1200

Double Jeopardy! categories: Let's Visit Botswana, TV Title Pairs, Birthin' Babies, Business, Politicians, "TOC".

Daily Double #1: $1600 Let's Visit Botswana. Arthur ($16,600) wagers $600. Clue: Botswana's economy is closely tied to this country with which it shares its longest border. Arthur's guess: "What is South Africa?" Correct for $17,200.

Daily Double #2: $2000 Birthin' Babies. Arthur ($17,200) wagers $1000. Clue: This American obstetrician's natural childbirth method brought the father into the delivery room as a labor coach. Arthur's guess: "Who is Lamaze?" Correct response: Who is Robert Bradley?; Arthur drops to $16,200.

End of Round:
Arthur - $16,200
Sam - $1700
Keith - $7200

Final Jeopardy! Category: Art Subjects. Answer: Seen in sculpture, Eustache de St. Pierre & 5 other wealthy men made themselves hostages to free this city. Correct response: What is Calais?
Sam's question: What is Paris? (WRONG) Wager: $1700. Final score: $0.
Keith's question: What is Berlin? (WRONG) Wager: $3700. Final score: $3500.
Arthur's question: What is Bruges? (WRONG) Wager: $0. Final score: $16,200 - SEMI-FINALIST

TUESDAY:

Washington, DC Writer 7-day champion	Alexandria, VA Bookstore supervisor	Norman, OK Loan accounting clerk

Jeopardy! categories: Recent Fiction, Baseball Rookies of the Year, Waxing Philosophical, Sweet, Ballroom Blitz, Silent "P".

Daily Double: $800 Ballroom Blitz. Seth ($2200) wagers $2100 ("Oh what the hey"). Clue: Wham's hit, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" mentions this American dance of the 1930s & '40s. Seth's response: "What is the swing?" Correct question: What is the jitterbug?; Seth drops to $100.

End of Round:
Tom - $4000
Seth - $100
Steve - $1000

Double Jeopardy! categories: Heir of the Dag, Big Screen Bios, You Had to Expect Shakespeare, Great Moments in History, A World of Potpourri, Lingua Techna.

Daily Double #1: $1200 You Had to Expect Shakespeare. Seth ($1300) wagers $2000. Clue: After being a 16th C. version of "The Terminator", the title guy buys the farm too at the end of this, Will's 1st tragedy. Seth's guess: "Who is Hamlet?" Correct question: Who is Titus Andronicus?; Seth drops to -$700.

Daily Double #2: $2000 Heir of the Dag. Tom ($9200) wagers $2000. Clue: This secretary-general accompanied Anwar Sadat on his historic trip to Israel in 1977. Tom's guess: "Who is Gali?" Correct response: Who is Boutros Boutros-Gali?; Tom drops to $7200.

End of Round:
Tom - $11,600
Seth - $5300
Steve - $6200

Final Jeopardy! Category: First Ladies. Answer: She survived the President by 39 years & was married to an archaeology professor at the time of her own death in 1947. Correct response: Who was Cleveland?
Seth's question: Who was Cleveland? (RIGHT) Wager: $5300. Final score: $10,600.
Steve's question: Who was Cleveland? (RIGHT) Wager: $4700. Final score: $10,900.
Tom's question: Who was Cleveland? (RIGHT) Wager: $801. Final score: $12,401 - SEMI-FINALIST

WEDNESDAY:

Torrance, CA Associate creative director	Burlington, VT Bartender/actor (aka Renzo)	orig. Laurel, MD Recent college graduate 2002 College Championship winner

Jeopardy! categories: Around the Cell (about prisons); Fishing for Vocabulary; Money, Money, Money; I've Got Supernatural Powers; They're All Winners; Game Over.

Daily Double: $1000 Fishing for Vocabulary. Vinita ($2800) wagers $1000. Clue: It might be a social blunder to use one of these long poles with a hook on the end to land large fish. Vinita's response: "What is a sinker?" Correct question: What is a gaffe?; Vinita drops to $1800.

End of Round:
John - $2400
Renzo - $3200
Vinita - $3800

Double Jeopardy! categories: Around the Cell (about cell biology), Movie Musicals, Meter Maids, A Year in the Life of Herbert Hoover, Despotpourri, Wide World of Weird Words.

Daily Double #1: $1200 Around the Cell. Vinita ($6600) wagers $2000. Clue, delivered by Jimmy: During cell division, structures called spindles attach these to one end of the cell. Vinita's guess: "What are chromosomes?" Correct for $8600.

Daily Double #2: $1600 Despotpourri. Renzo ($8800) wagers $3000. Clue: Crazed with grief when his mother died in 1827, this African warrior chief forbade the drinking of milk. Renzo's guess: "I got nothing." Correct response: Who is Shaka Zulu?; Renzo drops to $5800.

End of Round:
John - $5600
Renzo - $11,000
Vinita - $10,600

Final Jeopardy! Category: Geography in Literature. Answer: Leo Tolstoy's story about Hadji Murat, "who slew the Russian swine", opens in this present-day Russian republic. Correct response: What is Chechnya?
John's question: What is Turkmenistan? (WRONG) Wager: $5001. Final score: $599.
Vinita's question: What is Ukraine? (WRONG) Wager: $400. Final score: $10,200 - SEMI-FINALIST
Renzo's question: What is Ukraine? (WRONG) Wager: $9000. Final score: $2000.

THURSDAY:

Louisville, KY Retail specialist	Tokyo, Japan Writer	Fort Collins, CO Graduate student

Jeopardy! categories: New Hampshire, All That Jazz, Koala Time, What a Mythtake!, Ranks & Titles, You Are What You Eat.

Daily Double: $1000 Ranks & Titles. Tom ($2600) wagers $2600. Clue: Inheriting property & title from her deceased husband made Tz'u-Hsi of China this kind of emperess. Tom's response: "What is a dowager empress?" Correct for $5200.

End of Round:
Chris - $2000
Tom - $7800
Russ - $2000

Double Jeopardy! categories: National Book Critics Circle Honorees, Taking Your Lumps, How Do You..., The Johnny Gilbert "Blue"s, This Way to the Egress, Letters in Sequence.

Daily Double #1: $1200 National Book Critics Circle Honorees. Chris ($3200) wagers $3200. Clue: Houdini, Emma Goldman & Henry Ford are in this writer's first winner; Dutch Schultz is in his second winner. Chris' guess: "Who is Michael Chiavonne?" Correct response: "Who is EL Doctorow?"; Chris loses everything.

Daily Double #2: $1600 Letters in Sequence. Tom ($22,600) wagers $2600. Clue: 18-19-20: explode, in air, perhaps. Tom's blanks out. Correct response: What is buRST?; Tom drops to $20,000.

End of Round:
Chris - $2000
Tom - $20,000
Russ - $6400

Final Jeopardy! Category: 20th Century Ships. Answer: This British ship was named for a Roman province established in the area of Portugal in 27 BC. Correct response: What is the Lusitania?
Chris' question: What is the Lusitania? (RIGHT) Wager: $2000. Final score: $4000.
Russ' question: What is Lusitania? (RIGHT) Wager: $6000. Final score: $12,400.
Tom's question: What is the Lusitania? (RIGHT) Wager: $100. Final score: $20,100 - SEMI-FINALIST
 

FRIDAY:

State College, PA cab driver	Los Angeles Freelance writer/student	Denver Crime data specialist

Jeopardy! categories: US Lakes, Pro Football, Chain of Command, If They Married..., Patriots, Foreign Words & Phrases

Daily Double: $600 Patriots. Sean ($800) wagers $400. Clue: Thinking him conceited, some added a "Y" to the last name of this Declaration signer born in 1737. Sean's response: "Who is John Hancock?" Correct for $5200.

End of Round:
Sean - $4000
Anne - $2600
Jim - $0

Double Jeopardy! categories: Americana, Punk, Victory is Ours!, This is Gonna Be Tough, Bible Books by Famous Phrase, Wish I'd Said That!

Daily Double #1: $800 Americana. Anne ($3000) wagers $2000. Clue: It was in this state in the late 1800s that Standard Oil & National Cash Register rand up their first sales. Anne' guess: "What is Pennsylvania?" Correct response: "What is Ohio?"; Anne drops to $1000.

Daily Double #2: $1600 Bible Books by Famous Phrase. Sean ($8400) wagers $400. Clue: "Physician, heal thyself" Sean's guess: "What is Proverbs?" Correct response: What is Luke?; Sean drops to $8000.

End of Round:
Sean - $5200
Anne - $9000
Jim - $2400

Final Jeopardy! Category: Children's Authors. Answer: After WWI he wrote, "To develop a horse-surgery... would necessitate a knowledge of horse language". Correct response: Who was Hugh Lofting?
Jim's question: Who was Herriot? (WRONG) Wager: $0. Final score: $2400.
Sean's question: Who was AA Milne? (WRONG) Wager: $2600. Final score: $2600.
Anne's question: Who was EB White? (WRONG) Wager: $1401. Final score: $7599 - SEMI-FINALIST

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