Show #3959 2001-11-15 (taped 2001-10-07) College Championship

2001 College Championship semifinal game 2.From the campus at UCLA.

Contestants

Marques Redd — a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia

Brittany Rogers — a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California

Thomas Zamora — a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Thomas $1,400 $1,700 $10,200 $10,200
Finalist
$8,700
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Brittany $1,000 $1,100 $2,100 $4,199
2nd place: $5,000
$3,900
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Marques $1,700 $2,800 $-400 $-400
3rd place: $5,000
$-400
15 R, 8 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE HISTORY CHANNEL TURNING PRO COLLEGE WORLD MAMMALS WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? TO "L" AND BACK
$100 [16]
It's the classic entertainment venue described here[Dick Clark:]"Only costs a couple of bucks. There's popcorn, hot dogs, and privacy. And..."
the drive-in movie theater
Marques
$100 [26]
Then known as Cassius Clay, he won his pro debut on Oct. 29, 1960 against one Tunney Hunsaker
Muhammad Ali
Brittany
$100 [21]
There's a Transylvania university in Kentucky & also one in this country
Romania
Thomas
$100 [1]
It's the more common term for a marsupial's marsupium
pouch
Thomas
$100 [11]
If you've got musophobia, the fear of these, we suggest avoiding Minnie & Mickey
mice
Brittany
$100 [6]
Defame a liberal with a bad label in an article & you may be sued for this
libel
Marques
$200 [17]
Jay Leno says of this mode of transport that in a complex world, "you get on it, you kick it & it goes"
a motorcycle
Marques
$200 [27]
Generations of Olympic skaters have turned pro to join this show launched in 1940
Ice Capades
Thomas
$200 [22]
You'll find John Cabot University & Bologna University in this nation
Italy
Thomas
$200 [2]
You don't know jack if you think a jack rabbit is a rabbit; it's actually one of these relatives
a hare
Brittany
$200 [12]
The longer they survive, the more snowmen must suffer from thermophobia, the fear of this
heat
Brittany Marques
$200 [7]
Over half of the garbage produced in the U.S. will wind up in one of these
landfill
Marques
$300 [18]
Here the series describes how Gerry Thomas developed this culinary marvel[Dick Clark:]"He added compartments so the different foods wouldn't run together. Now, the next step was what to call it."
the TV dinner
Brittany
$300 [28]
In 1996 Tiger Woods won this tournament for the third straight time, at Pumpkin Ridge, Oregon, then turned pro
the U.S. Amateur Championship
$300 [23]
The University of this Canadian city is the largest French-language college outside of France
Montreal
Thomas Brittany
$400 [4]
About 6 inches long & weighing about 6 ounces, the pygmy marmoset is one of the smallest of these mammals
a monkey
Thomas Brittany
$300 [13]
You probably won't do well on "Jeopardy!" if you suffer from bibliophobia, defined as the fear of these
books
Marques
$300 [8]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew throws a football across to Jimmy as they both run the field.) It's the pass seen here
lateral
Marques
$400 [19]
With this oats brand, "For the 1st time... a package served not just to protect its products but to sell them"
Quaker (Oats)
Marques
$400 [29]
This All-Star seenhereskipped college to become a 19-year-old NBA rookie in 1995
Kevin Garnett
$400 [24]
Colleges in this w. hemisphere nation include Escola Politecnica de Pernambuco & Universidade Gama Filho
Brazil
Marques
DD $500 [3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the San Diego zoo.) Despite the length of the giraffe's neck, it contains only seven of these bones, same as humans
vertebrae
Brittany
$400 [14]
If I had ergophobia, which is fear of this, I'd never get anything done
work
Brittany
$400 [9]
The first wet dock in Britain was built in this city back in 1715
Liverpool
Thomas
$500 [20]
When the lady seenherefirst arrived in America, this was her official name
Liberty Enlightening the World
$500 [30]
The L.A. Dodgers were sanctioned for signing Adrian Beltre from this Latin country before he turned 16
the Dominican Republic
$500 [25]
Slovak Technical University is found in this capital city
Bratislava
Thomas
$500 [5]
It's the type of golden show horse seen here
a palomino
Thomas
$500 [15]
After a long night out, most vampires surely have eosophobia, the fear of this event
the sunrise
Marques
$500 [10]
Last name of poet Amy & her astronomer brother Percival
Lowell
Marques

Double Jeopardy! Round

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE SCIENCE CLASS QUOTATIONS CHESS NUTS ISLANDS COLLEGE RHYME TIME
$200 [21]
He said, "War is cruelty... the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over" before he marched to the sea
Sherman
Thomas
$200 [1]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew writes an equation on the blackboard: ΔE=q-w.) A system's change in energy equals heat added to the system minus work done by the system in the first law of this
thermodynamics
Brittany Marques
$200 [3]
Robert Frost said it "consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer"
a jury
Marques
$200 [26]
It's the only chess piece that can jump over others
a knight
Marques
$200 [8]
New York owns the original 3.3 acres of this immigration site; New Jersey owns the 24.2 acres of landfill
Ellis Island
Brittany
$200 [15]
A dull, unexciting place for conducting chemistry experiments
a drab lab
Brittany
$400 [22]
Southern-born Pauline Cushman used this show biz profession as a cover when she spied for the Union
an actress
Thomas
$400 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an equation on the blackboard:sec A= 1/cos A.) In trigonometry, this function, abbreviated "sec", equals the reciprocal of the cosine
secant
Marques
$400 [4]
This Asian leader called nonviolence "the first article of my faith" & "the last article of my creed"
Gandhi
Marques
$600 [29]
The 17th letter of the English alphabet, in chess notation it stands for the most powerful piece on the board
Q (for queen)
Thomas Marques
$400 [9]
This island's Cape Morris Jessup, the northernmost land in the world, lies just 440 miles from the North Pole
Greenland
Thomas
$400 [16]
A student studying the basic unit of American currency
a dollar scholar
Brittany
$600 [23]
Alexander Gardner, his chief cameraman, left his employ in 1863 & started his own combat photo team
(Mathew) Brady
Thomas Brittany
$600 [13]
From the Latin for "to swing", it can be the swinging of a pendulum or variation between quantities
oscillation
$600 [5]
In a WWII address, he spoke of Russia's actions as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
Churchill
Thomas
$1,000 [27]
In 1985 he became the youngest world chess champion when he defeated another Soviet player, Anatoly Karpov
Garry Kasparov
Brittany Marques
$600 [10]
This Ecuadorian island group's animal life includes a rare flightless cormorant & 2 species of iguana
the Galápagos
Brittany Marques
$600 [17]
The university jester
a school fool
Thomas
$800 [24]
She set her 1862 novel "The Pearl of Orr's Island" in New England, not in the South
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Brittany Marques
$800 [14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew underlines an equation on the chalkboard:C(n, r) =n!/r!(n-r)!) In probability theory, here's a common formula for these, often paired with permutations
combinations
Marques
$1,000 [7]
In "Self-Reliance" Emerson said, "A foolish consistency is the" this "of little minds"
hobgoblin
Marques
DD $2,000 [28]
If you pawn your chess set, the shop will check to make sure there are this many pawns in it
16
Brittany
$800 [11]
This island & Labrador form Canada's easternmost province
Newfoundland
Brittany
$800 [18]
That semester when all you did was study the same vermiform organism again & again & again
a worm term
Thomas
$1,000 [25]
Future presidents William McKinley & Rutherford B. Hayes both fought in this bloodiest 1-day battle of the war
Antietam
Thomas Marques
$1,000 [20]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew writes an equation on the blackboard:f= 1/T.) In physics, it's what the "f" stands for in the wave equation f = 1/T
frequency
Brittany
DD $2,300 [6]
In 1897 she wrote, "There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws..."
Susan B. Anthony
Thomas
$1,000 [12]
The inhabitants of Gomera in this Spanish group off northwest Africa communicate over distances using a whistled language
the Canary Islands
Thomas
$1,000 [19]
One who evaluates your chosen academic field of study
a major gauger

Final Jeopardy!

YOUNG STARS

In the past 3 years she's played film roles based on Shakespeare's Katharina, Ophelia & Desdemona

Julia Stiles

Brittany "Who is Julia Stiles" — wagered $2,099
Thomas "Who is Julia Stiles" — wagered $0

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