2001 College Championship semifinal game 1.From the campus at UCLA.
Jayce Newton — a senior at UCLA from Long Beach, California
Brett Dvorak — a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana
Vinita Kailasanath — a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinita | $900 | $2,700 | $7,200 |
$10,201
Finalist |
$11,500
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brett | $600 | $3,400 | $4,800 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$4,800
14 R, 1 W |
| Jayce | $200 | $1,200 | $5,100 |
$10,100
2nd place: $5,000 |
$4,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Astronomy.com | SITCOMOMS | THEY WERE EXPELLED | YE GODS! | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN | MMM... YOU SMELL GREAT |
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$100
[18]
Astronomy.com reminds you when to look for these events in the sky, like the Perseid ones around Aug. 11 & 12
meteor showers
Jayce
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$100
[16]
Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza
Seinfeld
Brett
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$100
[11]
This star of "Casablanca" was booted out of Phillips Academy for uncontrollably high spirits
Humphrey Bogart
Brett
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$100
[2]
Famous for enticing Amaterasu out of hiding, Uzume is a goddess of mirth & dancing from this Asian country
Japan
Jayce
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$100
[1]
This captain's "five year mission" actually only lasted about 3 (until syndication & films)
Captain Kirk
Jayce
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$100
[25]
Mmm... you smell like these "curiously strong peppermints"; you're wearing the cologne named for them
Altoids
Vinita
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$200
[19]
In the "Astro for Kids" section, click on images of your favorite planets; the oneseenheresymbolizes this planet
Venus
Vinita
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$200
[17]
Patricia Richardson as Jill Taylor
Home Improvement
Jayce
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$200
[12]
Perhaps responding "nevermore", this poet was expelled from West Point in 1831 for refusing to attend drills
Edgar Allan Poe
Brett
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$200
[3]
Akin to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs, Kinich Ahau was a fire-bird sun god of this Central American people
the Mayans
Vinita
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$200
[7]
Let's give a hand to this villain, created in 1904 by James M. Barrie
Captain Hook
Vinita
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$200
[23]
Wow! Un amour de patou makes you smell like this flower "of the valley"
a lily
Vinita
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|
$300
[20]
Astroshopping? Check out the image stabilization type of these (opera glasses are a lower-tech type)
binoculars
Jayce
|
$400
[29]
Doris Roberts as Marie Barone
Everybody Loves Raymond
Vinita
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$300
[13]
Once publisher of the USA's largest newspaper chain, he was expelled from Harvard in 1885 for insulting his professors
William Randolph Hearst
Brett
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$400
[5]
Akin to the Greek Dike, Justitia was this empire's divine personification of justice
the Roman Empire
Brett
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$300
[8]
Let's give a hand (no, a leg) to this seafaring captain created in 1851
Captain Ahab
Brett
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$300
[24]
Mmm! You smell like sandalwood & tonka bean in this designer's cK Be cologne
Calvin Klein
Brett
|
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$400
[21]
The "Fun Facts" told us how this Spanish surrealist artist thought he got messages from outer space thru his mustache
Dalí
Brett
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$500
[28]
Debbie Reynolds as Bobbi Adler
Will and Grace
|
$400
[14]
Assassinated in August 1940, this Russian Communist leader was expelled in his youth for howling at his teacher
Trotsky
Brett
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DD
$500
[4]
Hanuman, a god of this religion, leads an army of monkeys & once allied himself with Rama in an important war
Hinduism
Vinita
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$400
[9]
Climb aboard the S.S. Guppy at this breakfast food mascot's website
Cap'n Crunch
Vinita
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$400
[26]
You smell like the bitter type of this nut, so either you're wearing Dior's Hypnotic Poison or you've swallowed cyanide
almond
Jayce
|
|
$500
[22]
Learn all about these objects, whose name comes from the Latin for "mist"; the Eagle one is see here
a nebula
Vinita
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— |
$500
[15]
The leading actress of her time, in 1860 she was expelled from a Paris convent school for making fun of a bishop
(Sarah) Bernhardt
Brett
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$500
[6]
Depicted as both a cobra & a lioness, the goddess Wadjet protected royal authority in this ancient land
Egypt
Brett
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$500
[10]
The secret identity of this patriotic shield-sporting Marvel superhero was Steve Rogers
Captain America
Brett
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$500
[27]
I hate to be gauche, but you smell like jasmine in this designer's Rive Gauche perfume
Yves St. Laurent
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| EUROPEAN HISTORY | IT'S ALL IN THE DNA | JOHN GRISHAM FILMS | THE BILL OF RIGHTS | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS | WHAT'S THAT CALLED? |
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$200
[14]
In 1979 this nation granted home rule to Catalonia & the Basque country
Spain
Brett
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$200
[23]
In most cellular organisms, DNA is carried by these threadlike structures in the nucleus of a cell
chromosomes
Vinita
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$200
[28]
Tom Cruise plays a lawyer in trouble with his bosses in this 1993 film
The Firm
Brett
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$200
[10]
Many ideas George Mason wrote into this state's Declaration of Rights in 1776 were used in the Bill of Rights
Virginia
Vinita
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$200
[1]
A nameless black protagonist narrates this 1952 classic by Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
Jayce
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$200
[25]
On this berry whose 2 main varieties are red & black, the little beads are called drupelets
raspberries
|
|
$400
[15]
This Roman emperor known for his "Wall" rebuilt the Pantheon between 118 & 128 A.D.
Hadrian
Jayce
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$400
[20]
Humans have about 30,000 of these basic DNA units of heredity whose name is from the Greek for "birth"
genes
Jayce
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$600
[26]
Susan Sarandon plays a lawyer with pint-sized trouble in this 1994 film
The Client
Vinita
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$400
[9]
The Second Amendment says a "well regulated" one of these is "necessary to the security of a Free State"
a militia
Vinita
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$400
[2]
The name of this Toni Morrison novel (& its title character) comes from the simple inscription on a headstone
Beloved
|
$400
[24]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew puts a clasping gizmo in her hair.) From the French, it's what I'm using to hold my hair back
a barrette
Vinita
|
|
$600
[16]
He became British prime minister in 1997 as the Labour Party won its largest majority since 1935
(Tony) Blair
Vinita
|
$600
[19]
In 1953 Watson & crick described the spiral structure of DNA as one of these
a double helix
Vinita
|
$800
[27]
Matt Damon plays a young lawyer in trouble in this "stormy" flick
The Rainmaker
Jayce
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$800
[7]
From 1952 to 2001 the Bill of Rights was on display in the Exhibition Hall of this building in Washington, D.C.
the National Archives
Vinita
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$600
[3]
H.L. Mencken said, "No romantic novel ever written in America... is one half so beautiful as" this one by Willa Cather
My Antonia
Vinita
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$600
[13]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew tugs on her skirt.) All polite young ladies should learn this respectful gesture
a curtsy
Jayce
|
|
$1,000
[22]
When a 1918 treaty was signed there, the name of this city in Belarus included Litovsk
Brest
Vinita
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$800
[18]
3 types of this nucleic acid are transfer, ribosomal & messenger
RNA
Vinita
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$1,000
[29]
Chris O'Donnell plays a lawyer whose granddad faces the ultimate trouble--execution--in this title place
The Chamber
Brett
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$1,000
[6]
In essay No. 84 in this series of letters, Alexander Hamilton argued against a Bill of Rights
the Federalist Papers
Vinita
|
$800
[4]
This author's "An American Tragedy" was based on a real-life murder case
Dreiser
Vinita
|
$800
[12]
It's the notch that fits on the bowstring in the non-business end of an arrow
the nock
|
|
DD
$1,500
[21]
The Hohenzollern family ruled Germany & Prussia for centuries until this man abdicated in 1918
Kaiser Wilhelm (II)
Jayce
|
$1,000
[17]
One of the 4 nitrogen-containing DNA bases abbreviated A, G, T & C
cytosine (or adenine, guanine or thymine)
Vinita
|
— |
DD
$4,500
[8]
This man whose signature graces the Bill of Rights was president of the Senate at the time
John Adams
Vinita
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$1,000
[5]
The title of this 1962 Faulkner novel refers to 3 young men who steal a car & take it for a joy ride
The Reivers
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$1,000
[11]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew finishes chalking up his pool cue.) Keep track of this part of the table, where I'm suavely setting down my chalk
the rail
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