1997 College Championship quarterfinal game 3.
Eric Slack — a freshman from Purdue University
Andrea Riquier — a junior from Boston University
Steven Bevier — a senior from Michigan State University
| 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 |
| 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
|
| 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
|
More than 95% of all known compounds contain this element
hydrogen (or carbon)