$1000 WOMEN IN LITERATURE: As You Like It
$200 THE NOT-SO-ROARING '30s: bank
$400 THE NOT-SO-ROARING '30s: drought
$200 TREE OF A KIND: maples
$600 TREE OF A KIND: spruce
$400 NASCAR IN VEGAS: The Daytona 500
$1000 NASCAR IN VEGAS: Richard Petty
DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND
$2000 TV THEME SONG LYRICS: Outlander
$800 OXYMORONS: the original copy
$1200 AWARDS & HONORS: Madeline
$1600 OXYMORONS: passive-aggressive
$2000 OXYMORONS: random order
$2000 A BUNCH OF SQUARES: Tahrir Square
$1600 MEDICAL HISTORY: ICUs
$2000 MEDICAL HISTORY: the thymus
DD3 THE CUBISTS: Gertrude Stein
Oh, what has science wrought? I sought only to turn a man into a metal-encased juggernaut of destruction powered by the unknown properties of a mysterious living crystal. How could this have all gone wrong?
No chance from the fourth podium for me. A pathetic $4600 in positive trash, brought down to $3800 by deducting my miss with "original manuscript". You'd think a flightless bird would be up on his oxymorons. Alex Switzky saved me from an even lower 4th podium score by making two wrong guesses before I could--Indy 500 and appendix.
At least I got Madeline, unlike the contestants. And unlike Alex Trebek, I pronounced the name correctly.
Spoiler
Rhymes with "shine" in the Bemelmans book. I also know that Madeline isn't an orphan and Miss Clavel isn't a nun.
I clammed on correct responses for As You Like It, bank, and maple, and didn't know Petty or Outlander. Alex S. took my incorrect responses of Indianapolis 500 and draft, and I was able to rebound with the correct response on the former. I initially said "Shahrir Square" but corrected myself to Tahrir before Alex T. said it, so I'm going to count it even though on stage it would have been one of those situations where I immediately realized my mistake after being ruled wrong. I have $11,800 with that, $7,800 without it. Either way, since the DD came after the thymus TS that I got, I hereby lay claim to it, assume I bet to take the lead from Kevin, and win by getting it and FJ right.