2001 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.From the campus at UCLA.
Andrew Nerlinger — a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
Vinita Kailasanath — a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland
Jaime Green — a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaime | $-200 | $200 | $1,800 |
$3,595
3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$1,800
10 R, 6 W |
| Vinita | $1,600 | $2,300 | $7,700 |
$10,300
Automatic semifinalist |
$7,700
21 R, 3 W |
| Andrew | $700 | $2,200 | $6,000 |
$3,999
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$6,200
19 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE LONE STAR STATE | MOVIE TAGLINES | INSTANT MESSAGING | NUMB WITH NUMBERS | RANKS & TITLES | WHEN IN... |
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$100
[12]
"You can go to hell! I'm going to Texas", said this coonskin cap man after losing an 1835 Tennessee election
Davy Crockett
Vinita
Andrew
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$100
[16]
2001:"December 7, 1941:A day that shall live in infamy"
Pearl Harbor
Andrew
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$100
[1]
Left my pot of this square, stuffed pasta baking in the oven; BRB
ravioli
Jaime
Vinita
Andrew
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$100
[22]
Number of humps on a Bactrian camel
2
Vinita
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$100
[7]
Premier is an alternate title for this head of a parliamentary government
prime minister
Jaime
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$100
[2]
In Portugal, Italy or Romania, you'll find the basic word for water starts with this letter
A
Andrew
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$200
[13]
In 2001 this Dallas Cowboy quarterback retired after 3 Super Bowl wins & 10 concussions
Troy Aikman
Jaime
Vinita
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$200
[17]
2001:"His love is real, but he is not"
A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
Vinita
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$200
[8]
My trial's in an hour for this type of illegal entry onto private land; CUL8R (I hope)
trespassing
Andrew
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$200
[23]
According to Genesis, the number of women on Noah's ark
4
Jaime
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$200
[30]
Honorary title of the man seen here
colonel
Jaime
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$200
[3]
In Germany, frau is used for married women & this term of address for unmarried ones
fräulein
Andrew
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$300
[15]
Despite a Texas saying, this burrowing, bony-plated animal isn't "born dead by the side of the road"
armadillo
Jaime
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$300
[19]
2000:"There's nothing more determined than poultry with a plan"
Chicken Run
Andrew
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$300
[9]
Mom's yelling from downstairs; since Junior was born she's had this type of depression--TTYL
postpartum depression
Vinita
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$300
[24]
Number of locks in the Suez canal
zero
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$300
[29]
As of 1962 these high-ranking counselors to the pope must also be bishops
cardinals
Andrew
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$300
[4]
In Israel, this day of the week is Yom Rishon, literally "first day"
Sunday
Vinita
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$400
[14]
Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman "Tex-ecuted" since 1863, was put to death by this process in 1998
lethal injection
Jaime
Vinita
Andrew
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$500
[21]
2001:"He will rise again"
The Mummy Returns
Jaime
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$400
[10]
SOT; My paper on the decline of this Turkish empire in the 1900s is due tomorrow
the Ottoman Empire
Andrew
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$400
[25]
Number of moonless planets in our solar system
2
Jaime
Vinita
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$400
[27]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the U.N.) As chief administrator of the U.N., this is Kofi Annan's title
Secretary-General
Vinita
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$400
[5]
If you hear the following sentence, you're in this country:(Sofia delivers the clue in a tongue foreign to us but familiar to her.)
Iceland
Vinita
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$500
[18]
Members of this group that formally began in the 1830s were hired as protection from Indian attacks
Texas Rangers
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DD
$600
[20]
2000:"After a night they can't remember, comes a day they'll never forget"
Dude, Where's My Car?
Andrew
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$500
[11]
Sup? Got 2 tickets to this German composer's 1729 "St. Matthew Passion" tonite; W/B ASAP
(Johann Sebastian) Bach
Vinita
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$500
[26]
Number of oxygen atoms in a molecule of ozone
3
Andrew
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$500
[28]
A male heir apparent to a throne commonly uses this 2-word title, as Naruhito does
crown prince
Andrew
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$500
[6]
If you're offered a nice bowl of sopa tarascan, you're probably in Michoacan in this country
Mexico
Vinita
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| SOCIOLOGY | MUSEUMS | 13-LETTER WORDS | ANATOMY CLASS | JANE PAULEY PAVILION | BEATING THE TROJANS |
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$200
[20]
These 2 prefixes divide sociology as well as economics into broader & narrower focuses
macro- & micro-
Vinita
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$200
[11]
You can learn the history of the microprocessor & how it's made at this computer chip maker's Santa Clara, Ca. museum
Intel
Andrew
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$200
[6]
It's what the VC stands for in VCR
videocassette
Andrew
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$200
[5]
Minute finger-like projections called villi line the walls of this "small" digestive organ
small intestine
Andrew
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$200
[30]
Like David Letterman, Jane was born in this state & began her TV career there
Indiana
Jaime
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$200
[28]
Using timber from Mount Ida, Epeius built this object that won the Trojan War for the Greeks
The Trojan Horse
Jaime
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$400
[19]
Of the basic class divisions, it's the one the most Americans say they're in
middle class
Andrew
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$400
[12]
The National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque has an exhibit on this Polish radiation pioneer & her husband Pierre
Marie Curie
Vinita
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$400
[7]
A 300th anniversary
tricentennial
Jaime
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$400
[2]
All of your blood cells are produced in this soft substance that fills the bones
marrow
Vinita
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$400
[21]
He's her old "Today" co-host & Jane sometimes subs for him on the "NBC Nightly News"
(Tom) Brokaw
Vinita
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$400
[23]
This greatest Greek hero sprang into action after his friend Patroclus was killed
Achilles
Andrew
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DD
$600
[18]
2-word term for a person whom others try to emulate; Charles Barkley said he wasn't one
role model
Andrew
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$600
[13]
Boneshakers, velocipedes & Schwinns abound in the Ohio museum honoring this mode of transport
bicycle
Vinita
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$600
[10]
It's a drug that minimizes symptoms of allergies; Benadryl is an over-the-counter one
antihistamine
Jaime
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$600
[1]
A tib-fib fracture is one of these 2 bones
tibia & fibula
Andrew
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$600
[22]
Jane currently is the principal anchor of this primetime newsmagazine
Dateline
Jaime
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$800
[25]
The greatest Trojan warrior, he ended up taking a spear in the neck & getting dragged behind a chariot
Hector
Vinita
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$800
[16]
Americans' need to conform was analyzed by the 1950 bestseller "The Lonely" this
crowd
Jaime
Vinita
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$800
[14]
Cartoon boy Sherman might get his questions answered at this museum of natural history at Yale
Peabody Museum
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$800
[9]
To exclude from the sacraments of the church by ecclesiastical sentence
excommunicate
Jaime
Andrew
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$800
[4]
More common in men than women, they're usually made of calcium oxalate & cause renal colic when they pass
kidney stones
Vinita
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$800
[29]
Jane covered this royal pair's wedding in 1986 for "Today"; she had covered an earlier big one in 1981
Prince Andrew & Sarah Ferguson
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
This Virgil work focuses on one of the few surviving Trojans
The Aeneid
Andrew
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$1,000
[17]
A nation expanding its power over other lands is this -ism; selling Coca-cola abroad is "cultural" this -ism
imperialism
Andrew
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$1,000
[15]
Saturday Evening Post covers are on display at the Rutland, Vermont museum devoted to this illustrator
(Norman) Rockwell
Vinita
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$1,000
[8]
It's the flowering vine seen here
bougainvillea
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$1,000
[3]
From the Greek for "throat" it's the passage that connects the back of the mouth & nose to the esophagus
pharynx
Vinita
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$1,000
[27]
To Jane, Rachel and Ross are more than friends, they're the twins she had with this man
Garry Trudeau
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$1,000
[26]
When Troy fell, Helen had to talk this peeved Greek husband of hers into letting her live
Menelaus
Vinita
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Led by Nicholas, a German boy, the Children's Crusade of 1212 may have been the inspiration for this character
The Pied Piper (of Hamelin)