2001 College Championship quarterfinal game 4.From the campus at UCLA.
Matt Schnippert — a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
Brittany Rogers — a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
Tony Nagatani — a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tony | $-200 | $200 | $4,200 |
$2,000
3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$4,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Brittany | $1,600 | $2,700 | $5,900 |
$7,100
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated |
$5,500
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Matt | $1,300 | $1,200 | $3,800 |
$7,593
Automatic semifinalist |
$5,500
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| ZOOLOGY | GEMS & JEWELRY | THE SURF REPORT | MUSIC VIDEOS | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES | E BEFORE I |
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$100
[3]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the San Diego Zoo.) All apes, including the siamang, are, unfortunately, now on this list
the endangered species list
Tony
|
$100
[2]
Introduced in 1886, a classic 6-prong setting for engagement rings is named for this Manhattan jewelry store
Tiffany's
Matt
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$100
[26]
Dude! There are 30-footers breakin' at Waimea Bay on the North Shore in this state
Hawaii
Brittany
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$100
[1]
Guy Ritchie directed the controversial video for her "What It Feels Like For A Girl"
Madonna
Matt
|
$100
[12]
In the '60s Katharine Graham took over as publisher of this newspaper & hired Ben Bradlee as managing editor
The Washington Post
Matt
|
$100
[17]
A noisy ghost
a poltergeist
Brittany
|
|
$200
[8]
Hermit crabs have 2 pairs of antennae & 4 pairs of these
legs
Matt
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$200
[22]
It's said that pins weren't worn on kilts until this 19th c. queen offered one to a Highland soldier on a windy day
Queen Victoria
Tony
Brittany
|
$200
[27]
Bummer! In 2001 a pro event on the southern tip of East Java in this country was scrubbed due to civil unrest
Indonesia
Matt
|
$200
[4]
Destiny's Child sings in a lagoon in this jungle-set video
"Survivor"
Tony
|
$200
[13]
In 2001 McCall's magazine was relaunched with this TV talk show host at the helm & renamed for her
Rosie O'Donnell
Tony
Matt
|
$200
[18]
Bogus or fake, like some money
counterfeit
Tony
Brittany
|
|
$300
[9]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from SeaWorld.) The otter is the most aquatically adapted of this animal family
the weasel family
Tony
Matt
|
$300
[23]
Most folks think of this January birthstone as reddish, but lovely orange ones are found in Namibia & Nigeria
garnet
Matt
|
$300
[28]
It's surfin' among the future sushi where you hit the waves at Chiba's Torami Beach in this country
Japan
Matt
|
$300
[5]
This actor dances his way through the Fatboy Slim video "Weapon Of Choice"
Christopher Walken
Brittany
|
$300
[14]
This alternative music magazine founded by Bob Guccione Jr. celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2000
Spin
|
$300
[19]
"Magic Kingdom" city
Anaheim
Brittany
|
|
$400
[10]
Strains of the Norway species of this animal are the ones used in labs
rats
Brittany
|
$400
[24]
Often green or white, nephrite is a type of this gemstone closely associated with Asia
jade
Tony
|
$400
[29]
Whoa! I took a donut (wiped out) at Burleigh during the Billabong Pro on this country's Gold Coast
Australia
Matt
|
$400
[6]
Lingerie-clad Christina Aguilera, Mya, Lil' Kim & Pink all appear in this video
"Lady Marmalade"
Brittany
|
$400
[15]
Roger Ebert writes movie reviews for this Midwestern paper
the Chicago Sun-Times
Matt
|
$400
[20]
A valuable family possession handed down from one generation to the next
an heirloom
Matt
|
|
$500
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the San Diego Zoo.) Unlike humans, sheepdon't have these front cutting teeth on their upper jaw, but they do have eight on their lower jaw
incisors
Matt
|
$500
[25]
"Jurassic Park" made this fossilized resin really popular; maybe you'll find some dinosaur DNA in yours
amber
Brittany
|
$500
[30]
Head to Jeffreys Bay & pull off a sick floater in this country, whose administrative capital is Pretoria
South Africa
Brittany
|
$500
[7]
5 of this woman's 6 MTV Video Music Award nominations were courtesy of her work with Eminem on "Stan"
Dido
Brittany
|
$500
[16]
After the demise of Sassy, founding editor Ms. Pratt launched this magazine that bears her first name
Jane
|
DD
$1,700
[21]
The only U.S. President whose last name fits the category
Dwight David Eisenhower
Matt
|
| LITERATURE | FAMOUS NAMES | CHEMISTRY 101 | LOSING YOUR HEAD IN THE MOVIES | WAR BATTLES | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS |
|
$200
[6]
Completes the title of Edward Gibbon's masterpiece "The History of the Decline and Fall of..."
the Roman Empire
Tony
|
$200
[21]
This Cherokee Indian gave his name to both a giant tree & the California nat'l park where you'll find it
Sequoyah
Brittany
|
$200
[10]
You don't need any super powers to know that Kr is the chemical symbol for this noble gas
krypton
Tony
Matt
|
$200
[1]
In this film Christina Ricci loses her head over Johnny Depp who's chasing a headless murderer
Sleepy Hollow
Brittany
|
$200
[24]
Brandywine, Bunker Hill, Concord
the American Revolutionary War
Matt
|
$200
[16]
Hannibal Lecter could tell you it's an equal exchange; its Latin meaning is "something for something"
quid pro quo
Tony
Brittany
|
|
$400
[7]
The heroine of his novel "Roxana" leads almost as saucy a life as his more famous Moll Flanders
(Daniel) Defoe
Matt
|
$400
[22]
She once whisked Eleanor Roosevelt away for an airplane ride over Washington, both still in evening gowns
Amelia Earhart
|
$400
[11]
The temperature of this smokeless laboratory heating device is controlled by the amount of air in the tube
a Bunsen burner
Matt
|
$400
[2]
Film in which Jennings loses his head over a little boy named Damien with a devil-may-care attitude
The Omen
Tony
|
$400
[30]
Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Nashville
the American Civil War
Tony
Brittany
|
$400
[17]
From the Old French for "man", it's a special honor expressed publicly for a person
an homage
|
|
$600
[8]
E.M. Forster & Virginia Woolf were part of a floral-sounding literary "Group" named for this London district
Bloomsbury
|
$600
[23]
It's the last name of famed anthropologists Louis, Mary, Richard & Meave
Leakey
|
$600
[12]
It's a substance that reacts with an acid to decrease or neutralize its acidic properties; lye, for example
a base
Brittany
|
$600
[3]
In this 1998 film Michael Myers loses his head over Jamie Lee Curtis 20 years after their first date
Halloween H20
Brittany
|
$600
[29]
The Bulge, Stalingrad, Iwo Jima
World War II
Matt
|
$800
[19]
Representative of the world in miniature, it's from the Greek for "small world"
microcosm
Brittany
|
|
DD
$600
[15]
An African safari is the setting for his famous story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Hemingway
Tony
|
$800
[28]
"Father of the Supercomputer" who once said, "I was one of those nerds before the name was popular"
Seymour Cray
Tony
|
$800
[13]
(Hi, I'm Doctor Alan Heger, Nobel Prize-winner in Chemistry.) These large molecules are formed by the chemical linking of smaller molecules; nylon is a synthetic one
a polymer
Matt
|
$800
[4]
Brad Pitt uncovers the deadly sin, as wife Gwyneth Paltrow loses her head over Kevin Spacey in this movie
Seven
Tony
|
$800
[27]
Khe Sanh, the Tet Offensive, Con Thien
Vietnam
Tony
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
The name of this sea may come from the Lithuanian word for "white"
the Baltic Sea
Brittany
|
|
$800
[9]
One of his most famous works, "A child's Christmas in Wales", wasn't published until 2 years after his death
Dylan Thomas
|
$1,000
[26]
In 1850 this "colorful" Scotsman founded one of the first detective agencies in the U.S.
Allan Pinkerton
|
$1,000
[14]
In this type of bond, 2 bonded atoms each contribute 1 electron to a pair, which the atoms then share
a covalent bond
Tony
|
$1,000
[5]
In this film David Gale loses his head over Jeffrey Combs; in the sequel grafted bat wings give him new life
Re-Animator
|
$1,000
[25]
The Chosin Reservoir, Unsan, Inchon
the Korean War
Tony
|
$1,000
[20]
Meaning empty boasting, it comes from the name of a loud-mouthed braggart in Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"
braggadocio
|
A 1904 issue of Popular Science Monthly reported their success in North Carolina the previous year
the Wright Brothers