Show #3958 2001-11-14 (taped 2001-10-07) College Championship

2001 College Championship semifinal game 1.From the campus at UCLA.

Contestants

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

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

Astronomy.com SITCOMOMS THEY WERE EXPELLED YE GODS! O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN MMM... YOU SMELL GREAT
$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
$100 [16]
Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza
Seinfeld
Brett
$100 [11]
This star of "Casablanca" was booted out of Phillips Academy for uncontrollably high spirits
Humphrey Bogart
Brett
$100 [2]
Famous for enticing Amaterasu out of hiding, Uzume is a goddess of mirth & dancing from this Asian country
Japan
Jayce
$100 [1]
This captain's "five year mission" actually only lasted about 3 (until syndication & films)
Captain Kirk
Jayce
$100 [25]
Mmm... you smell like these "curiously strong peppermints"; you're wearing the cologne named for them
Altoids
Vinita
$200 [19]
In the "Astro for Kids" section, click on images of your favorite planets; the oneseenheresymbolizes this planet
Venus
Vinita
$200 [17]
Patricia Richardson as Jill Taylor
Home Improvement
Jayce
$200 [12]
Perhaps responding "nevermore", this poet was expelled from West Point in 1831 for refusing to attend drills
Edgar Allan Poe
Brett
$200 [3]
Akin to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs, Kinich Ahau was a fire-bird sun god of this Central American people
the Mayans
Vinita
$200 [7]
Let's give a hand to this villain, created in 1904 by James M. Barrie
Captain Hook
Vinita
$200 [23]
Wow! Un amour de patou makes you smell like this flower "of the valley"
a lily
Vinita
$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
$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
$400 [5]
Akin to the Greek Dike, Justitia was this empire's divine personification of justice
the Roman Empire
Brett
$300 [8]
Let's give a hand (no, a leg) to this seafaring captain created in 1851
Captain Ahab
Brett
$300 [24]
Mmm! You smell like sandalwood & tonka bean in this designer's cK Be cologne
Calvin Klein
Brett
$400 [21]
The "Fun Facts" told us how this Spanish surrealist artist thought he got messages from outer space thru his mustache
Dalí
Brett
$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
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
$400 [9]
Climb aboard the S.S. Guppy at this breakfast food mascot's website
Cap'n Crunch
Vinita
$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
$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
$500 [6]
Depicted as both a cobra & a lioness, the goddess Wadjet protected royal authority in this ancient land
Egypt
Brett
$500 [10]
The secret identity of this patriotic shield-sporting Marvel superhero was Steve Rogers
Captain America
Brett
$500 [27]
I hate to be gauche, but you smell like jasmine in this designer's Rive Gauche perfume
Yves St. Laurent

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY IT'S ALL IN THE DNA JOHN GRISHAM FILMS THE BILL OF RIGHTS GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS WHAT'S THAT CALLED?
$200 [14]
In 1979 this nation granted home rule to Catalonia & the Basque country
Spain
Brett
$200 [23]
In most cellular organisms, DNA is carried by these threadlike structures in the nucleus of a cell
chromosomes
Vinita
$200 [28]
Tom Cruise plays a lawyer in trouble with his bosses in this 1993 film
The Firm
Brett
$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
$200 [1]
A nameless black protagonist narrates this 1952 classic by Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
Jayce
$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
$400 [20]
Humans have about 30,000 of these basic DNA units of heredity whose name is from the Greek for "birth"
genes
Jayce
$600 [26]
Susan Sarandon plays a lawyer with pint-sized trouble in this 1994 film
The Client
Vinita
$400 [9]
The Second Amendment says a "well regulated" one of these is "necessary to the security of a Free State"
a militia
Vinita
$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
$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
$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
$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
$800 [18]
3 types of this nucleic acid are transfer, ribosomal & messenger
RNA
Vinita
$1,000 [29]
Chris O'Donnell plays a lawyer whose granddad faces the ultimate trouble--execution--in this title place
The Chamber
Brett
$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
$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
$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

Final Jeopardy!

THE INTERNET

This search engine was co-founded by Sergey Brin, a math major who chose the name to imply a vast reach

Google

Brett "What is Alta vista?" — wagered $4,800
Jayce "What is google.com" — wagered $5,000
Vinita "What is Google?" — wagered $3,001

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