Show #2938 1997-05-14 (taped 1997-02-25) College Championship

1997 College Championship quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Eric Slack — a freshman from Purdue University

Andrea Riquier — a junior from Boston University

Steven Bevier — a senior from Michigan State University

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $800 $1,500 $8,200 $11,700
Automatic semifinalist
$8,100
20 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Andrea $1,200 $2,700 $5,500 $7,000
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$5,500
15 R, 1 W
Eric $1,500 $2,000 $5,800 $9,300
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated
$5,800
16 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR 5-LETTER WORDS MONEY THE DAKOTAS OUT OF THE MICROWAVE SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
$100 [1]
The Confederates destroyed this ironclad May 11, 1862 in Norfolk Harbor so it wouldn't be captured
the Merrimack
Eric
$100 [6]
One of these doesn't make sense, it makes just a cent
Penny
Andrea
$100 [17]
Shakespeare's Antonio, a merchant of this city, borrowed 3,000 ducats from Shylock
Venice
Steven
$100 [11]
In 1997 the Dakotas were declared disaster areas as the cold hit -80 degrees including this factor
Wind chill factor
Andrea
$100 [13]
To cook this ballpark treat, put it in a bun, wrap it in a paper towel & microwave it for 30 seconds
Hot dog
Andrea
$100 [24]
Subject of the first Schoolhouse Rock, it "is a magic number"
3
Eric
$200 [2]
Not everyone in the Confederacy did this April 9, 1865; Stand Watie & his Native American troops did it June 23
Surrender
Eric
$200 [7]
An old synonym for an overseas telegram, today it brings HBO & USA to your home
Cable
Steven
$200 [18]
Panama's currency is named for this explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean there
Balboa
Eric
$200 [12]
Hot Springs, South Dakota has one of North America's largest graveyards of these prehistoric elephants
mammoths
Steven Eric
$200 [22]
Betty Crocker sells this snack food under the name Pop Secret
Microwave popcorn
Eric
$200 [27]
Song explaining the function of "and, but, and or"
"Conjunction Junction"
Eric
$300 [3]
Sherman said of this general, he "stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk"
Ulysses S. Grant
Steven
$300 [8]
It's the crosshatched paper used in math class
Graph
Eric
$300 [19]
Name shared by the basic monetary unit of Madagascar, Mali & Monaco
Franc
Andrea
$300 [14]
A "Little" river & a "Big Muddy" river with this name flow through both states
Missouri
Eric
$300 [23]
Baking these russets in a regular oven can take 45-60 minutes, but the microwave can cook them in 5
Potatoes
Andrea
$300 [28]
Merv Griffin's trumpet player Jack Sheldon sang this classic on how a law is made in Washington, D.C.
"I'm Just A Bill"
Steven
$400 [4]
He once wrote his daughter, "Traveler is my only companion; I may say my only pleasure"
Robert E. Lee
Eric
$400 [9]
Alone, it's an aquarium fish; with coddle, it means to indulge excessively
Molly
$400 [20]
1996 Nobel Prizes carried monetary awards of 7.4 million in this country's currency, the krona
Sweden
Andrea
$400 [15]
Much of the Dakotas was once dominated by the Lakota & Nakota branches of this Indian tribe
Sioux
Andrea
$400 [25]
Dishes made of this type of material can damage a microwave & shouldn't be used
metal
Steven
$500 [30]
"Burnin' fuel and usin' steam they generate..."this, this
Electricity, electricity
$500 [5]
Alexander Stephens called this boss "weak and vacillating, petulant, peevish, obstinate"
Jefferson Davis
Steven
$500 [10]
A full-court move in basketball, or the Fourth Estate
press
Andrea
$500 [21]
100 centimos make up one unit of this Spanish currency
Peseta
Steven
$500 [16]
Now a North Dakota city, this junction of 2 rivers was called "Les Grandes Fourches" by French traders
Grand Forks
$500 [26]
This brand of microwaveable dinners makes Lean Cuisine
Stouffer's
Andrea
DD $600 [29]
Subject of the song that includesthe following:"(Ow!)They're generally set apart from a sentence /By an exclamation point /Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong (Mmmm...)"
interjections
Steven

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLINTON'S FIRST TERM WORLD CAPITALS COMEDY FILMS ANATOMY NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS
$200 [16]
This VP headed a bureaucracy-trimming effort called the National Performance Review
Al Gore
Andrea
$200 [6]
St. Margaret's Chapel, the oldest surviving building in this Scottish city, may date back to the 11th century
Edinburgh
Steven
$200 [1]
In a 1996 animated film from Mike Judge, these crude buddies from MTV "Do America"
Beavis & Butt-Head
Steven
$200 [26]
This pair of bean-shaped organs filter some 50 gallons of blood each day
Kidneys
Eric
$200 [21]
The Washington Times was founded in 1982 as a conservative alternative to this newspaper
The Washington Post
Steven
$200 [8]
This author of "The Brothers Karamazov" never finished his novel "Netochka Nezvanova"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Andrea
$400 [17]
In August 1996 Clinton signed a bill reforming this system but vowed to correct some of its provisions
Welfare
Andrea
$400 [7]
This legislative capital is nicknamed the "Mother City of South Africa"
Cape Town
Steven Andrea Eric
$400 [2]
"I Was A Teenage Teenager" was one of the working titles for this 1995 comedy starring Alicia Silverstone
Clueless
Steven
$400 [27]
They're any of the bones that form the spinal column
Vertebrae
Steven
$400 [22]
The name of Vatican City's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano means "The Roman" this
Observer
Steven
$400 [10]
In 1941 she wrote "Little Town on the Prairie"
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Eric
$600 [18]
In September 1994 Clinton dispatched troops to this Caribbean nation
Haiti
Steven
$600 [9]
The Biblioteca Nacional in this capital of Chile is one of South America's largest libraries
Santiago
Eric
$600 [3]
Eddie Murphy played a "Beverly Hills Cop" & this SNL alumnus plays a "Beverly Hills Ninja"
Chris Farley
Andrea
$600 [28]
Running down the back of the thigh, it's the body's longest & thickest nerve
Sciatic nerve
Eric
$600 [23]
This Midwestern city's Sunday Journal is produced by striking workers from its News & Free Press
Detroit
Steven
$600 [11]
This wonderful author of Oz sometimes wrote books for boys under the pen name Captain Hugh Fitzgerald
L. Frank Baum
Eric
$1,000 [20]
Congress ratified NAFTA in November 1993 & this "General Agreement" on world commerce a year later
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
Andrea
$800 [14]
The Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum in this city displays Franz Liszt's gold baton & St. Stephen's crown
Budapest
Andrea
$800 [4]
John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis & Kevin Kline of "Fierce Creatures" also starred in this 1988 comedy
A Fish Called Wanda
Steven
$800 [29]
These disc-shaped blood cells are also called thrombocytes
Platelets
Steven Eric
$800 [24]
This "Weekly" journal of TV, movies, & music was named 1995's best magazine with circulation over one million
Entertainment Weekly
Steven
$800 [12]
This scandal that struck the Harding administration inspired Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!"
Teapot Dome
Steven
DD $1,500 [19]
Name given to the national youth service program created in 1993
AmeriCorps
Steven
$1,000 [15]
Ilya Chavchavadze Boulevard in this capital of Georgia is named for a Georgian poet
Tbilisi
$1,000 [5]
Andrew McCarthy & Jonathan Silverman's dead boss gets around in this 1989 comedy & its sequel
Weekend At Bernie's
Eric
$1,000 [30]
Because they excrete fluid outside the body, sweat glands are classified as this type of gland
Exocrine glands
$1,000 [25]
"Final Analysis" is a column found in the magazine of this field "Today"
Psychology Today
DD $1,000 [13]
The first line of a Jane Austen novel tells us this heroine is "handsome, clever, and rich"
Emma
Steven

Final Jeopardy!

THE ELEMENTS

More than 95% of all known compounds contain this element

hydrogen (or carbon)

Andrea "What is hydrogen?" — wagered $1,500
Eric "What is Hydrogen" — wagered $3,500
Steven "What is Hydrogen" — wagered $3,500

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