MONDAY: Brian Weikle, Ben Tritle, Kathy Cassity

Jeopardy! categories: First Ladies, I Direct, Gnome-enclature, Geographic Quotations, Hard Candy, TV Guide Crossword Clues.

Daily Double: $800 First Ladies. Kathy ($1400) wagers $1000. Clue: "She was 5 foot 2, eyes of blue, & a member of Kentucky's high society." Kathy's guess: "Who was Grace Coolidge?" Correct answer: "Who was Mary Todd Lincoln?" Kathy drops to $400.

End of Round:
Brian - $2200
Ben - $4800
Kathy - -$200

Double Jeopardy! categories: World Lit, Holy Roman Emperors, General Science, Nun But the Brave, Revolutionary War Battles, Backwords.

Daily Double #1: $2000 Holy Roman Emperors. Brian ($7000) wagers $3000. Clue: "Deposed in 1400 as German king, Wenceslas ruled from this city that has a statue of 10th Century Saint Wenceslas." Brian's guess: "What is Prague?" Correct for $10,000.

Daily Double #2: $1200 Nun But the Brave. Brian ($16,800) wagers $200. Clue: "3-word title of Sister Helen Prejean's powerful account of being a Death Row counselor." Brian does not guess. Correct response: "What is 'Dead Man Walking'?" Brian goes down to $16,600.

End of Round:
Brian - $22,200
Ben - $6400
Kathy - -$3000

Final Jeopardy! Category: Historic Occassions. Answer: On Dec. 1, 1990, Philippe Cozette & Graham Fagg had a historic handshake here. Correct reponse: "What is The Chunnel?"

Ben's question: What is the International Space Station? (WRONG) Wager: $6400. Final score: $0.
Brian's question: What is the Chunnel? (RIGHT) Wager: $0. Final score: $22,200.

TUESDAY: Max Levaren, Trevor Norris, Mark Dawson

Jeopardy! categories: Tough Geography, Pop Culture, Stand By Your Mannequin, Around the Gym, Penguin Classics, From the Latin.

Daily Double: $800 Penguin Classics. Mark ($5000) wagers $2000. Clue: "New to Penguin Classics is this 1953 play, a parable about McCarthy's witch hunts." Mark's guess: "What is 'The Crucible'?" Correct for $7000.

End of Round:
Max - $2000
Trevor - $4200
Mark - $6000

Double Jeopardy! categories: US History, Singing Actors, The Russians are Coming, Labor, My Son the Painter, Triple Rhyme Time.

Daily Double #1: $2000 Triple Rhyme Time. Trevor ($9400) wagers $2000. Clue: "A bloody Loyalist tale" Trevor's guess: "What is a gory Tory story?" Correct for $11,400.

Daily Double #2: $2000 US History. Trevor ($13,800) wagers $2000. Clue: "Popular name of the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944." Trevor's guess: "What is the GI Bill?" Correct for $15,800.

End of Round:
Max - $7600
Trevor - $15,000
Mark - $16,000

Final Jeopardy! Category: Legal History. Answer: After killing his wife's lover in Washington D.C. in 1859, Rep. Daniel Sickles was the 1st to claim this, a 2-word term. Correct response: "What is temporary insanity?"

Max's question: What is Lame Duck? (WRONG) Wager: $7600. Final score: $0.
Trevor's question: What is temporary insanity? (RIGHT) Wager: $3000. Final score: $18,000
Mark's question: What is temporary insanity? (RIGHT) Wager: $799. Final score: $16,799

WEDNESDAY: Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, Travis Troyer, Mark Lee.

Jeopardy! categories: Health and Medicine, Script Tease, Best Sellers, It'll Take an Act of Parliament, She's a Saint, "Eau" Yeah!

Daily Double: $1000 Script Tease. Mark ($600) wagers $1000. Clue: "1969: 'I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.'" Mark's guess: "What is 'True Grit'?" Correct for $1600.

End of Round:
Jill - $2000
Travis - $4800
Mark - $5400

Double Jeopardy! categories: European Cities, '70s Sitcoms, At a Loss for Worlds, Danger Puns, "C" is for Cooking, Doggy Bag.

Daily Double #1: $1600 Doggy Bag. Jill ($3200) wagers $1000. Clue: "Prized by the Aztecs, it's also been called the pelon or 'bald dog'." Jill's guess: "What is the Chihuahua?" Correct question: "What is the Mexican hairless?" Jill drops to $2200.

Daily Double #2: $1600 European Cities. Travis ($9600) wagers $5000. Clue: "This large city on the Vistula River can be spelled with 2 Cs or 2 Ks." Travis' guess: "What is Bucharest?" Correct answer: "What is Krakow?" Travis drops to $4600.

End of Round:
Jill - $7400
Travis - $5000
Mark - $7400

Final Jeopardy! Category: Famous Estates. Answer: After the U.S. Government declined to buy this estate & tomb, a ladies association bought it for $200,000 in 1858. Correct response: "What is Mount Vernon?"

Travis' question: What is Monticello? (WRONG) Wager: $2401. Final score: $2599
Mark's question: What is ? (WRONG) Wager: $7400. Final score: $0
Jill's question: What is Mt. Vernon? (RIGHT) Wager: $7000. Final score: $14,400

THURSDAY: Jason McCune, Mark Brown, Jackie Harrison.

Jeopardy! categories: Poets & Poetry, On the Broadway Stage, Neuroscience, Initially Yours, Yemen-y Snippet, Fertile "I"s.

Daily Double: $600 Script Tease. Jason ($1800) wagers $1800. Clue: "He wrote, 'My heart leaps up when I beholod a rainbow in the sky' in the early 1800s, at Grasmere." Jason's guess: "Who was Walt Whitman?" Correct question: "Who was William Wordsworth?" Jason drops to $0.

End of Round:
Jason - $2000
Mark - $7600
Jackie - $3000

Double Jeopardy! categories: Australian Capitals, The Movies, British Heir Ways, Art & Artists, This Place Is a Zoo!, Before & After.

Daily Double #1: $2000 Australian Capitals. Mark ($9200) wagers $3200. Clue: "This capital of South Australia is the only Australian capital named for a woman." Mark's guess: "What is Adelaide?" Correct for $12,400.

Daily Double #2: $1600 British Heir Ways. Mark ($19,200) wagers $2000. Clue: "It isn't a deep dark secret that this brave knight captured the French king at Poitiers in 1356." Mark's guess: "Who was Edward the Black Prince?" Correct for $21,200.

End of Round:
Jason - -$2000
Mark - $19,200
Jackie - $2600

Final Jeopardy! Category: National Statuary Hall. Answer: Both partly of Cherokee descent, they're the 2 men whose statues represent Oklahoma in the U.S. Capitol. Correct response: "Who are Will Rogers and Sequoia?"

Jackie's question: Who are Will Rogers and Jim Thorpe? (WRONG) Wager: $2600. Final score: $0
Mark's question: Who are Will Rogers and Sequoia? (RIGHT) Wager: $5. Final score: $19,205

FRIDAY: Eric Floyd, Alan Bailey, Kyle Hale.

(NOTE: Much of today's match was preempted for local severe weather coverage. Therefore what follows is a copy and paste of what we did get in the daily recap page.)

We pick up at the game break with Eric at $1000, Alan at $3200, and Kyle at $3000.

One of this year's champions, Vinita Kailasanath, had finals. Therefore, she will be invited for the 2004 Tournament of Champions. Again, we are preempted for storm coverage. Rejoined in Double Jeopardy!, Kyle finds the first Daily Double under $1200 20th Century Novels. Of his $5800, he bets $1500. His clue: "A tower at Sandycove, in County Dublin, houses a museum honoring this author." Kyle's guess of "James Joyce" is right for $7300. Alan finds the second DD under $1600 Locution, Locution, Locution. He wagers $1000 for an even $20,000... IF he's right. His clue: "to do this is to make an irrevocable decision, like the action that touched off the Roman Civil War." Alan scores with "cross the Rubicon" for $20,000 even. Going into Final Jeopardy!, the college champ Kyle is trailing with $5300 against the big boys Alan ($22,400) and Eric ($9000).

Final Jeopardy! Category: Architectural History. Answer: Emperor Constantine commissioned several of these buildings, named from Greek for "Royal House". Correct response: What are Vasilicas?

Kyle's question: What are ? (WRONG) Wager: $5300. Final score: $0
Eric's question: What is a mausoleum? (WRONG) Wager: $9000. Final score: $0
Alan's question: What are ? (WRONG) Wager: $0. Final score: $22,400.