1990 College Championship quarterfinal game 3.
Noah Smith — a freshman from Northwestern University
Matthew Miller — a junior from the University of Michigan
Julie Gross — a sophomore from Rice University
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julie | $-100 | $700 | $3,700 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$3,700
19 R, 7 W |
| Matthew | $1,300 | $2,900 | $6,400 |
$9,800
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$5,600
18 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Noah | $200 | $800 | $9,800 |
$10,000
Automatic semifinalist |
$9,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| SONGS OF THE '80s | HODGEPODGE | ANCIENT EGYPT | ABBREVIATIONS | SCIENCE | NURSERY RHYME ANIMALS |
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$100
[3]
With "Ev'ry breath you take, every move you make...," Sting said he'd be doing this
"I'll Be Watching You"
Matthew
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$100
[19]
Weighing over 400,000 pounds, the Czar Kolokol in this capital is the world's largest bell
Moscow
Matthew
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$100
[28]
It was made by cutting the pith of a plant into strips & beating them together into sheets
papyrus
Julie
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$100
[8]
In British politics an M.P. is a member of Parliament & the P.M. is this
prime minister
Julie
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$100
[16]
In computerese, a "vaccine" is a program that seeks out & destroys these
computer viruses
Matthew
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$100
[1]
One was bought at the market & brought "home again, home again, jiggety-jig!"
pig
Julie
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DD
$300
[4]
Though "Fame" won the 1980 Oscar, this song beat it on the pop charts:
"9 To 5"
Matthew
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$200
[20]
Im, a black rat snake in a Knoxville, Tn. university lab, fights itself for food since it has 2 of these
heads
Julie
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$200
[29]
Excerpts from this book were often inscribed on the outside of a coffin lid
Book of the Dead
Noah
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$200
[14]
Chas. is short for Charles; Jas., for this
James
Julie
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$200
[23]
A compass points toward this north pole
magnetic north pole
Matthew
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$200
[2]
Jack jumped over a measly candelstick; one of these jumped over the Moon
a cow
Matthew
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$300
[5]
In a 1984 Cyndi Lauper hit, it follows "If you're lost, you can look & you will find me..."
"Time After Time"
Noah
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$300
[21]
It's the colorful middle name of Cher's son
(Elijah) Blue (Allman)
Julie
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$300
[11]
Capital during the old kingdom, almost none of it has survived
Memphis
Julie
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$300
[15]
An antonym of "caps.", "lc" stands for this
lowercase
Noah
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$300
[13]
Varieties of these simple plants include red, brown, green & blue-green
algae
Matthew
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$300
[9]
Simple Simon went a-fishing in a pail for to catch one
a whale
Julie
|
|
$400
[6]
Eddy Grant sang, "We're gonna rock down to" this "Avenue, and then we'll take it higher"
"Electric Avenue"
Matthew
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$400
[22]
Their emblem is a 3-leaf clover representing the 3 parts of their promise
The Girl Scouts
Noah
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$400
[27]
Deir El-Medina was the company town for workers building tombs here
the Valley of the Kings
Matthew
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$400
[17]
"atm", you won't find it in a vacuum or in a restaurant on the moon
Atmosphere
Matthew
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$400
[24]
Behaviorists & dogs drool over the work of this Russian physiologist
Ivan Pavlov
Matthew
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$400
[10]
1 of 2 animals mentioned in "Hush, Little Baby"
Billy goat or mockingbird
Julie
Noah
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$500
[7]
Duran Duran hit that begins "Darken the city, night is a wire, steam in the subway, Earth is afire"
"Hungry Like The Wolf"
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$500
[26]
This Republican was the last president who had no sons--but he did have daughters
Richard Nixon
Julie
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$500
[30]
When Alexander died, this man, one of his generals, gained control of Egypt
Ptolemy
Noah
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$500
[18]
Technically speaking No. doesn't stand for "number" but for this Latin word
numero
|
$500
[25]
The most abundant metal on Earth, when it was discovered in 1820 it was worth more than gold
aluminum
Julie
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$500
[12]
Someone fleeced them good, their tails were found "all hung on a tree to dry"
Little Bo Peep's sheep
Julie
Noah
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| FAMOUS AMERICANS | LANGUAGES | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS | ASIA | THE CIVIL WAR | BALLET |
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$200
[2]
The tomb of this civil rights leader lies next to the Ebenezer Baptist churchyard on Auburn Ave.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Matthew
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$200
[13]
2 of the more than 800 languages spoken on this continent are Kimbundu & Kikuyu
Africa
Julie
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$200
[1]
The 2 "Hamlet" characters with the longest names are Rosencrantz & this friend
Guildenstern
Julie
Matthew
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$200
[29]
Uzbekistan & Tadzhikistan are predominantly Muslim republics of this country
the Soviet Union
Noah
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$200
[26]
Major Robert Anderson was in command of this S.C. fort when it was attacked in April 1861
Fort Sumter
Julie
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$200
[30]
In French the name of this ballet with a biblical theme is "Le Fils prodigue"
The Prodigal Son
Matthew
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|
$400
[3]
This telegraph pioneer was also an artist who served as the first president of the Nat'l Academy of Design
Samuel Morse
Matthew
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$400
[7]
The words "ersatz" & "hinterland" come directly from this language
German
Noah
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$400
[9]
His mother died of grief after he was banished from Verona
Romeo
Julie
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$400
[12]
Until 1939 this was Thailand's official name
Siam
Julie
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$400
[18]
Congress revived the rank of lieutenant general & made him the first one in March 1864
Ulysses S. Grant
Noah
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$400
[22]
A classical production of "Les Sylphides" features tutus of this color
white
Julie
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|
$800
[5]
In 1954 this chief justice wrote the opinion in the Brown v. Board of Education case
Earl Warren
Noah
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$600
[6]
Classical languages include ancient Greek, Latin & this language of ancient India
Sanskrit
Julie
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$600
[10]
Of Othello, Iago or Cassio, the one whose first name is Michael
Cassio
Matthew
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$600
[15]
The world's largest mountain glaciers are in these mountains between Assam & Kashmir
Himalayas
Noah
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$600
[19]
On Nov. 9, 1863 Lincoln went to the theater & saw "The Marble Heart" starring this man
John Wilkes Booth
Noah
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$600
[23]
The ballet based on his "Unfinished Symphony" is a romantic pas de deux
Franz Schubert
Matthew
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$1,000
[24]
New Englander who concluded an 1830 Senate speech, "Liberty & union, now & forever, one & inseparable"
Daniel Webster
Julie
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$800
[8]
Languages derived from French that are spoken in Haiti & Louisiana are both called this
Creole
Julie
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$800
[11]
This title king says, "I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning"
King Lear
Julie
Noah
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$1,000
[17]
In "Mandalay" Kipling called this country a "cleaner, greener land"
Burma (now Myanmar)
Noah
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$800
[20]
In this 1863 battle the Union forces were on Cemetery Ridge
Gettysburg
Julie
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$800
[27]
The title character of this Stravinsky ballet is part musical bird & part beautiful woman
The Firebird
Julie
|
|
DD
$1,300
[4]
After college, this future U.S. president taught debating & public speaking at Sam Houston High School
Lyndon B. Johnson
Matthew
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$1,000
[14]
Some of the aboriginal people of the northernmost islands of this country speak Ainu
Japan
Noah
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$1,000
[25]
In "Macbeth", Malcolm & Donalbain are sons of this king of Scotland
Duncan
Noah
|
DD
$1,200
[16]
On July 2, 1976 this country's national assembly proclaimed its own reunification
Vietnam
Noah
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$1,000
[21]
After this general took his own sweet time to cross the Potomac, Lincoln replaced him with Burnside
George McClellan
Julie
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$1,000
[28]
A roper & a wrangler compete for the love of a cowgirl in this Agnes de Mille ballet
Rodeo
Julie
Noah
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This country's national anthem was written on the night of April 24, 1792
France ("La Marseillaise")