2001 College Championship final game 2.From the campus at UCLA.
Matt Schnippert — a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida (subtotal of $11,000)
Thomas Zamora — a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California (subtotal of $2,500)
Vinita Kailasanath — a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland (subtotal of $12,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinita | $2,100 | $1,900 | $8,500 | $9,501 |
$9,300
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Thomas | $0 | $2,800 | $5,800 | $11,600 |
$5,800
15 R, 1 W |
| Matt | $-100 | $1,900 | $5,700 | $8,801 |
$5,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| SCIENCE | ONE-WORD FILM TITLES | CHANGE ONE LETTER... | I REPRESENT | AMERICAN PIE | THIS ONE TIME AT BAND CAMP |
|
$100
[4]
It's what the "L" stands for in laser
light
Vinita
|
$100
[8]
If Keanu Reeves' bus went under 50 mph in this flick, it'd like, totally explode
Speed
Vinita
|
$100
[6]
...in pink, a color, to get this serving size for, say, pink lemonade
pint
Vinita
|
$100
[9]
Rep. Dick Gephardt
Missouri
Vinita
Matt
|
$100
[18]
It's been a Thanksgiving favorite since the pilgrims ate it at the second Thanksgiving in 1623
pumpkin pie
Matt
|
$100
[23]
A drum major had to pay for a broken window when he lost control of this while twirling it
baton
Thomas
|
|
$200
[5]
What we call table salt is the most common compound of this element
sodium
Vinita
|
$200
[14]
Sly Stallone knocks the stuffing out of a slab of beef & Apollo Creed in this movie
Rocky
Vinita
|
$200
[7]
...in fume, smoke, to get this alternative to a circuit breaker
fuse
Thomas
|
$200
[10]
Sen. Joseph Biden
Delaware
Vinita
|
$200
[19]
You can top your chocolate cream pie with whipped cream or this mixture of stiffly beaten egg whites & sugar
meringue
Vinita
Matt
|
$200
[24]
To prank our instructor on this brass instrument, we stole his picture of J.J. Johnson & glued his slide in place
the trombone
Matt
|
|
$300
[3]
On a weather map isotherms join places of equal temperature & these lines join places of equal air pressure
isobars
Matt
|
$300
[15]
John Hurt got something off his chest in this '79 horror flick also starring Sigourney Weaver
Alien
Vinita
|
$300
[28]
...in grope, to fondle, to get this site full of squeezable oranges
grove
Matt
|
$300
[11]
Rep. Barney Frank
Massachusetts
Vinita
Thomas
|
$400
[21]
At about 70% fat, this American nut, Carya illinoensis, makes a mighty rich pie
pecan
Thomas
|
$300
[25]
The brothers seenherecame & showed us a few tricks on this double-reed instrument
the bassoon
Matt
|
|
$400
[1]
Lepidoptera is the order of insects that includes skippers & these 2 familiar groups
butterflies & moths
Vinita
|
$400
[16]
They call Samuel L. Jackson "Mr. Glass" in this 2000 drama that co-starred Bruce Willis
Unbreakable
Thomas
|
$400
[29]
...in squire, a personage of big importance, to get this, a person of little stature
squirt
Thomas
|
$400
[12]
Sen. Evan Bayh
Indiana
Vinita
|
DD
$500
[20]
This custard pie is made from the Florida citrus which has a yellow skin, not the typical green
key lime pie
Matt
|
$400
[26]
We only had a day to learn the "Aggie War Hymn", which is, appropriately, one of these college "songs"
a fight song
Matt
|
|
$500
[2]
One of the earliest devices for storing electricity was this jar, named for a Dutch city
a Leiden jar
Vinita
|
$500
[17]
In this 2000 film Ben Affleck comforts widow Gwyneth Paltrow--but he has a terrible secret
Bounce
Thomas
|
$500
[30]
...in kudus, antelopes with horns, to get this, praise to toot your horn about
kudos
Thomas
|
$500
[13]
Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy
Rhode Island
Thomas
Matt
|
$500
[22]
One story has it this Pennsylvania Dutch molasses & sugar pie was created to attract flies away from other food
shoofly pie
Thomas
|
$500
[27]
Nobody could stop whistling them archnamed for this military man
Colonel Bogey
|
| CliffsNotes | COMMERCIAL SUCCESS | HAND GESTURES | CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE | AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES | BEFORE & AFTER |
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$200
[2]
Gullible Moor accuses wife of sleeping around, then kills her... (whoops)
Othello
Matt
|
$200
[6]
In 2001 Super Bowl ads, Pepsi went old with Bob Dole & Budweiser went young with this "Pop" group
NSYNC
Thomas
|
$200
[19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew drives a bumper car with her left up in the air, the elbow bent at a right angle.) I'm signaling that I'm about to do this... if these other creeps on the road will let me
make a right turn
Matt
|
$200
[9]
The building seenherehas two key features of old Eastern colleges--red brick & this plant
ivy
Vinita
|
$200
[14]
This silversmith helped plan & carry out the Boston Tea Party
(Paul) Revere
Vinita
|
$200
[26]
Large London timepiece that had zipper problems in "There's Something About Mary"
Big Ben Stiller
Thomas
|
|
$400
[3]
Girl who has grown up alone on an island with her dad grabs the first guy who comes along
The Tempest
Thomas
|
$400
[7]
Snack food munched on to the following"I came to get down /I came to get down /So get out your seats and jump around /Jump around..."
Pringles
Thomas
|
$400
[22]
It's the kind of establishment you're probably in if you're pretending to sign your palm
a restaurant
|
$400
[10]
A converted one of these farm structures serves as a theater at UC Santa Cruz
a barn
Matt
|
$400
[15]
This spy who was hanged on September 22, 1776 may have been betrayed by a Loyalist cousin
(Nathan) Hale
Vinita
Matt
|
$400
[29]
A Canadian Major League Baseball player who currently hosts "The Tonight Show"
Blue Jay Leno
Matt
|
|
$800
[4]
Shipwrecked young woman decides to try cross-dressing; much confusion & hilarity ensue
Twelfth Night
Matt
|
$600
[8]
The slow beat of her "Tom's Diner" accompanies a speedy Nissan Maxima, not an old Chevy
Suzanne Vega
|
$600
[23]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew puts up her pinky and index finger, the other fingers held down by her thumb.) The gesture seen here says "Hook 'em" this college football team
the University of Texas Longhorns
Matt
|
$600
[11]
UNC's Playmakers Theater, seen here, was patterned after one of these ancient Greek structures
a temple
Vinita
|
$600
[16]
Last name of famed cavalry leader "Light Horse Harry"
Lee
Vinita
|
$600
[30]
"Lucille"-strumming blues guitarist who reigned as a boy king of Egypt
B.B. King Tut
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Banished young woman wanders Arden Forest & decides to try cross-dressing; much confusion & hilarity ensue
As You Like It
Vinita
|
$800
[20]
This retail chain used Devo's "Beautiful World" to push its blue products & Petula Clark's "Sign Of The Times" for red
Target
Vinita
|
$800
[24]
At the 1968 Democratic Convention, Mayor Daley made this gesture meaning "cut it off!"
the throat slash
Matt
|
$800
[12]
The one "of St. John the Divine" is in New York; the one "of Learning" is the heart of the Pitt campus
a cathedral
Thomas
Matt
|
$800
[17]
This brewer headed the demonstrations that led to the Boston Massacre
Sam Adams
Vinita
|
$800
[28]
Former "Seinfeld" sidekick who also invented the telephone
Jason Alexander Graham Bell
Vinita
|
|
DD
$1,800
[1]
Brand-new king comes up with lame excuse for invading France, then gets all jingoistic on us
Henry V
Vinita
|
$1,000
[21]
A Coca-Cola ad features this group's "Letters From The Wasteland"
The Wallflowers
|
$1,000
[25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew pumps his palms skyward.) The name of this gesture--it's also the title of a single by Luke of 2 Live Crew
raise the roof
Matt
|
$1,000
[13]
Pfeiffer Chapel, seen here, is at Florida Southern, the only college designed by this great American architect
(Frank Lloyd) Wright
Vinita
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
In September 1776 Congress named Arthur Lee, Silas Deane & this man as commissioners to the court of France
(Benjamin) Franklin
Vinita
|
$1,000
[27]
A rehabilitation center to ease prisoners back into society used as a novel setting by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Halfway House of Seven Gables
Thomas
|
In 1517 the Portuguese modified the name of a port city of western Ceylon in honor of this man
Christopher Columbus