1997 College Championship semifinal game 3.
Eric Slack — a freshman from Purdue University
Mark Urciuolo — a sophomore from Marist College
Aaron Wenger — a junior from the University of Louisville
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron | $400 | $1,200 | $7,800 |
$15,600
2nd place: $5,000 |
$7,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Mark | $400 | $2,600 | $11,000 |
$15,601
Finalist |
$11,100
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Eric | $800 | $1,600 | $3,600 |
$7,199
3rd place: $5,000 |
$3,600
14 R, 4 W |
| U.S. STATES | SWEET TREATS | DOCTORS | TELEVISION | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | GRAMMAR |
|
$100
[6]
The international date line bends around this state
Alaska
Aaron
|
$100
[19]
This jiggly dessert brand was based on a patented recipe by locomotive inventor Peter Cooper
Jell-O
Eric
|
$100
[26]
In 1996 Renat Akchurin performed a 7-hour heart bypass operation on this Russian president
Boris Yeltsin
Mark
|
$100
[12]
This series features a fox & a wolf, Matthew Fox & Scott Wolf
Party of Five
Eric
|
$100
[11]
Frederic Henry is wounded by a shell while eating cheese & macaroni in his "A Farewell to Arms"
Ernest Hemingway
Mark
|
$100
[5]
18th c. bishop Robert Lowth laid down the often-ignored rule that 2 negatives make one of these
a positive
Mark
|
|
$200
[7]
With over 15,000 lakes, its lowest point is naturally on a lake, Lake Superior
Minnesota
Eric
|
$200
[20]
Made with sugar & crushed or chopped fruit, these preserves have a softer consistency than jellies
jams
Mark
|
$200
[27]
Dr. Audrey Manley is the acting holder of this post for which the Senate rejected Henry Foster in 1995
Surgeon General of the United States
Mark
|
$200
[13]
This actress who played Mallory on "Family Ties" now stars on "Men Behaving Badly"
Justine Bateman
Eric
|
$200
[1]
Dr. Pangloss teaches this Voltaire title character metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology
Candide
Aaron
|
$200
[17]
It's the correct noun form of "to decline", meaning to list the forms of a noun
declension
Aaron
|
|
$300
[8]
Its state mineral is gold, its state fish is the golden trout & its state flower is the golden poppy
California
Aaron
Eric
|
$300
[21]
Fannie Farmer says don't overbake these chocolate flavored cake squares; they should be moist & chewy
brownies
Mark
|
$300
[28]
In 1996 David Kessler, known for battling against tobacco use, resigned as head of this agency
the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
Aaron
Eric
|
$300
[14]
When they premiered in 1994, "ER" & this medical drama aired opposite each other
Chicago Hope
Mark
|
$300
[2]
This R.L. Stevenson story follows Mr. Utterson as he discovers these 2 characters are the same man
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Aaron
|
$300
[18]
When reading this clue, a dangling one of these is included
participle
Eric
|
|
$400
[9]
NCAA teams in this state include the La Salle Explorers, the Villanova Wildcats & the Drexel Dragons
Pennsylvania
Mark
|
$400
[24]
It's a rich soft chocolate treat or a precocious 4-year-old created by Judy Blume
Fudge
Mark
|
$400
[29]
This radio host & author of "How Could You Do That?!" earned her doctorate in physiology
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Eric
|
$400
[15]
It's the first name shared by Frasier Crane's brother & the butler on "The Nanny"
Niles
Eric
|
$400
[3]
The title of this 1987 Toni Morrison novel is what the ghost of Sethe's daughter calls herself
Beloved
Aaron
|
$400
[22]
It's the correspondence in number of a subject & a verb, & it aren't found in this clue
agreement
Aaron
Eric
|
|
DD
$500
[10]
Cimarron County in this state touches 4 other states
Oklahoma (Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico & Texas)
Mark
|
$500
[25]
From a Turkish term for a cool drink, it's French for sherbet
sorbet
Mark
|
$500
[30]
In the 1950s these 2 famed physicians each developed a polio vaccine
Albert Sabin & Jonas Salk
Aaron
|
$500
[16]
This comedian hosts TV's "Politically Incorrect"
Bill Maher
Mark
|
$500
[4]
Rabo Karabekian, a minor character in "Breakfast of Champions", is the focus of his 1987 novel "Bluebeard"
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Aaron
|
$500
[23]
A verb's voice may be active or passive & this feature may be indicative, subjunctive or imperative
mood
Eric
|
| HISTORIC NAMES | GOVERNMENT | PLAYWRIGHTS | ISLANDS | CHEMISTRY | IT'S THE PITT'S |
|
$200
[9]
Clarissa was the original first name of this nurse known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"
Clara Barton
Mark
|
$200
[3]
In the U.S. this official is the leader of the executive branch of a state's government
the governor
Mark
|
$200
[30]
"En Folkefiende" is the Norwegian title of his 1882 drama "An Enemy of the People"
Henrik Ibsen
Aaron
Eric
|
$200
[27]
Air Lanka is the government-owned airline of this Indian Ocean island nation
Sri Lanka
Aaron
|
$200
[23]
Boyle's Law says the volume of a gas increases as this decreases if its temperature stays constant
its pressure
Aaron
|
$200
[18]
Brad sank his teeth into the role of Louis de Pointe du Lac in this horror film
Interview with the Vampire
Mark
|
|
$400
[10]
In 1505 this Protestant reformer earned a master of arts degree from the University of Erfurt
Martin Luther
Mark
|
$400
[4]
In John Marshall's day, this highest judicial body met in the basement of the Capitol
Supreme Court
Aaron
|
$400
[29]
His 1659 comedy "Les precieuses ridicules", or "The Affected Young Ladies", launched his career
Molière
Eric
|
$400
[17]
This Ecuadorean island group is home to 6 species of giant tortoises found no where else on Earth
the Galapagos Islands
Eric
|
$400
[26]
An electron is said to be in this "state" when it's at a higher energy level than its ground state
excited
Eric
|
$600
[20]
Brad was flying high in this 1992 fly fishing film
A River Runs Through It
Mark
|
|
$600
[11]
Spain's King Philip II was married 4 times; his second wife was this Tudor queen
Mary Tudor (Mary I of England)
Aaron
|
$600
[6]
Chicago's Richard M. Daley is the president of the U.S. Conference of people in this post
mayors
Mark
|
$600
[28]
This "Waiting For Godot" playwright once taught French at Trinity College in his native Dublin
Samuel Beckett
Aaron
|
$600
[16]
This U.S. Caribbean commonwealth has many smaller islands, including Culebra, Mona & Vieques
Puerto Rico
Aaron
Eric
|
$600
[25]
Penicillin, the first of these drugs, comes from a fungus
antibiotics
Eric
|
DD
$800
[19]
Film seen here, it influenced People magazine to pick Brad as the "Sexiest Man Alive":
Legends of the Fall
Mark
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Theodora & Zoe, the daughters of emperor Constantine VIII, became joint rulers of this empire in 1042
the Byzantine Empire
Mark
|
$800
[7]
Term for a state's geographical area that sends a representative to the U.S. Congress
a district
Mark
|
$800
[2]
A course in playwriting at Smith College inspired this author of "The Heidi Chronicles"
Wendy Wasserstein
Mark
|
$800
[15]
Brunei & parts of 2 other countries occupy this, the world's third-largest island
Borneo
Aaron
|
$800
[24]
This "factor" of the gastric juice in your stomach is about 1.5
pH
Aaron
|
$800
[21]
In this 1991 film Brad played the hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis
Thelma & Louise
Mark
|
|
DD
$1,200
[12]
This Egyptian for whom a lake is named was born in Alexandria in 1918
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Aaron
|
$1,000
[8]
In this type of primary election, party affiliations do not appear on the ballot
non-partisan
Mark
|
$1,000
[1]
This author of "The Piano Lesson" founded the Black Horizons Theatre Company in 1968
August Wilson
Aaron
|
$1,000
[14]
A popular tourist site in this Australian state is Port Arthur, a former penal settlement
Tasmania
Aaron
|
$1,000
[13]
This union of atoms may be covalent or ionic
a bond
Aaron
Eric
|
$1,000
[22]
The 2 Brad Pitt films released in 1995 with numbers in their titles
Se7en & 12 Monkeys
Mark
|
Many homes in this city are heated by near-boiling water pumped in from hot springs at Nesjavellir
Reykjavik, Iceland