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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=834260" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=3 height=91 BGCOLOR="#000066" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="41d14603.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Bauhaus 93" ><B>JEOPARDY'S</b></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> 19th Season Tournament of Champions</b></FONT><B>  |     </b><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HOME"><U><B>home</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="site_info.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABOUT THE SITE"><U>ABOUT THE SITE</U></A>   |   <A HREF="crew.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABOUT THE CREW"><U>ABOUT THE CREW</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id136.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GAME RECAPS"><U>GAME RECAPS</U></A>   |   <A HREF="toc_19_contestants.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MEET THE CONTESTANTS"><U>MEET THE CONTESTANTS</U></A>   |   <A HREF="media__photos_and_more_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IN THE MEDIA"><U>IN THE MEDIA</U></A>   |   <A HREF="communications.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="COMMUNICATIONS"><U>COMMUNICATIONS</U></A>   |   <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LINKS"><U>LINKS</U></A>   |   <A HREF="offical_site.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEOPARDY! .COM"><U>JEOPARDY! .COM</U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=228 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="d3fe8c00dvldtc.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="d11b4960.jpg" border=0 width="180" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> GAME 4 - WINNER</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="4___jason_s_recap.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JASON McCUNE"><U><IMG SRC="c54b3170.gif" border=0 width="179" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="4___harrison_recap.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JACKIE HARRISON"><U><IMG SRC="b67b3170.gif" border=0 width="179" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="comments_home.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PLAYER COMMENTS "><U><IMG SRC="b5cb3170.gif" border=0 width="179" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id136.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GAME RECAPS"><U><IMG SRC="ad7b3170.gif" border=0 width="179" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=389 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="abe00c00dvldtc.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Game Four Recap... </b></I><B>  </b>Mark Brown</div> <bR> <div> <B>Waiting in the Green Room is fun in part because it's your best chance to chat with the other contestants, but aside from that it's a kind of nervous boredom. I couldn't quite commit to studying, napping, or watching </b></div> <div> <B>"About a Boy" (although I would give it four stars based on what I did see). However, in my first Jeopardy! experience last year, I had to wait for the</b></div> <div> <B>#4 slot of the day (which is right after lunch) and I decided that it's a good position to be in.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>When I wasn't called for Game 3, I knew it was time to kick back. I was hoping to eat and then have a power nap in the big comfy chair like last time to get rid of any post-meal lethargy. While Game 3 was still underway out in the studio, lunch came and we ate, all of us avoiding the Typhoid Tuna Salad.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>When I was called for the next game, I was ready to go get it over with for</b></div> <div> <B>better or for worse. I had just seen Jackie's games in January and felt as if</b></div> <div> <B>we were a pretty even match. I have to admit that I didn't remember much about Jason's original games.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>But rather than think about my opponents, I was mostly trying to convince myself that this is no different from the last time, although that's obviously a lie. For one thing, the studio had been revamped since my last visit. More</b></div> <div> <B>importantly, of course, I was now playing the cream of the crop, and in only one of my original five games could be said to have been a runaway victory. In fact, three of them were squeakers.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>That said, for me there was still something less nerve-wracking about being in the Tournament than about playing Jeopardy! for the very first time and not having any idea how I'd really do. I was trying to stick with my mental strategy of pretending that I was playing in my living room, taking it one question at a time and not dwelling on wrong answers. I was also hoping that my nine months of studying since taping my five games last June would pay off.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I won't say much about the actual game except how warped my memory of it apparently was! I don't remember my early lead being that big ? all I remember is sitting there through the first four clues in the Neuroscience category while Jackie caught up and passed me. But I did feel redeemed when I beat her on the buzzer to get the $1,000 clue.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>In the second round, the Australian Capitals category seemed too good to be true, especially when a Daily Double turned up. I kept thinking there was going to be a twist and they would ask for some obscure detail about an Australian capital, rather than just the name of a capital. ("This hill is the highest in the capital of Western Australia" or something like that.)</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The only reason I didn't sit back more towards the end was because I wanted to test myself in the British Heir Ways category. The British monarchy had been one of my big areas of study. Although it was something of a moot point by then, it did feel good when knowing about Edward the Black Prince paid off.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>This was the first time I ever had a lock going into Final Jeopardy. And of</b></div> <div> <B>course, under the ToC prize structure, there was no incentive to be greedy and try to make a little more safe cash. The $5 bet in Final Jeopardy was based on an in-joke between me and my wife. I had every intention of writing "Who is Zachary Brown" (my son's name) as my answer, until the clue came up and it called for two names. I should've done it anyway, but being an former Oklahoman (OK, another lucky break) I wanted to see if it could actually get it. I just picked the two most famous Oklahomans that I'd ever heard of.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>For the record, I talked at length with Jackie and her husband at the</b></div> <div> <B>post-party (or really the post-party-party) and, as was everyone at the ToC,</b></div> <div> <B>they were very gracious people. Jason I had less of a chance to speak with</b></div> <div> <B>because he was quite the MC Party Animal! 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