1990 College Championship semifinal game 1.
Brad Williams — a junior from the University of Northern Iowa
Matthew Miller — a junior from the University of Michigan
Amy Zucker — a senior from Wesleyan University (Connecticut)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy | $1,600 | $3,000 | $9,200 |
$17,801
Finalist |
$10,100
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Matthew | $900 | $2,700 | $8,900 |
$17,200
2nd place: $5,000 |
$8,900
20 R, 0 W |
| Brad | $-600 | $200 | $5,200 |
$602
3rd place: $5,000 |
$4,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| WORD ORIGINS | COMIC BOOKS | ECONOMICS | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES | U.S. GEOGRAPHY | ACCORDING TO PEOPLE |
|
$100
[23]
This name for an ear then ware beer mug is German for "stone"
Stein
Amy
|
$100
[16]
In addition to toys & a cartoon series, this comedy cop school series has spawned a Marvel comic
Police Academy
Amy
|
$100
[3]
Economists say if the rate of this is 2 or 3% a year, it's normal; if it's "galloping", it's bad
Inflation
Matthew
|
$100
[1]
The most candy bought for a holiday is for this springtime one, not Valentine's Day
Easter
Matthew
|
$100
[10]
This river that rises at Lake Itasca drains about 1/8 of the North American continent
Mississippi River
Brad
|
$100
[25]
When Pat Sajak got married, People quoted her as saying, "Th*y'll l*v* happ*ly *v*r aft*r!"
Vanna White
Amy
|
|
$200
[17]
Italian for "first lady", it can refer to a temperamental woman or man
Prima donna
Matthew
|
$200
[18]
After DC killed off Jason Todd, Tim Drake was written in to become this red-breasted hero
Robin
Matthew
|
$200
[7]
After deducting all expenses from your gross profit, you're left with this
Net
Amy
|
$200
[2]
The New Year's Day of this calendar can fall between our January 20 & February 20
Chinese calendar
Brad
|
$200
[12]
Of New York City's 5 boroughs, the one that is New York County
Manhattan
Amy
|
$200
[26]
People said this late star's "slapstick made her the greatest comedienne of all time."
Lucille Ball
Matthew
|
|
$300
[20]
From the Latin for "worm", it's defined simply as "animals obnoxious to man"
Vermin
Amy
|
$300
[19]
Getting caught in a gamma bomb blast in 1989 turned him from green to gray & boosted his intelligence
The Hulk
Amy
|
$300
[8]
Holders of this type of stock take precedence over common stock holders
Preferred
Amy
|
$300
[4]
Bennington Battle Day, August 16th, is a legal holiday in this New England state
Vermont
Matthew
|
$300
[13]
This lake was created when Hoover Dam was built on the Colorado River
Lake Mead
Matthew
|
$300
[28]
People said that Helen Gurley Brown wants Johnny Depp to pose nude for this magazine
Cosmopolitan
Brad
|
|
$400
[21]
From the Latin for "hunger", it's a period when food is extremely scarce
Famine
Amy
|
$500
[27]
Fictional detective with his own mystery magazine, he recently guest sleuthed with the Maze Agency
Ellery Queen
Amy
|
$400
[9]
This system is a direct exchange of goods or services without the use of money
Barter
Matthew
|
$400
[5]
The red or white rose is the official flower of this Sunday observance in June
Father's Day
Amy
Brad
|
$400
[14]
In Kansas more people live in this city than in Topeka & Kansas City combined
Wichita
Matthew
|
$400
[29]
Naming him "The Sexiest Man Alive (1989)", People called him "Older, balder...and better!"
Sean Connery
Amy
|
|
$500
[22]
This Scottish cap was named for the hero of a Robert Burns poem
Tam O' Shanter
Amy
|
DD
$1,300
[24]
Crimefighting team seen here in their new incarnations for the 1990s:
The Green Hornet & Kato
Amy
|
$500
[11]
First American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, he's the author of a widely used college textbook
Paul Samuelson
Brad
|
$500
[6]
Flag Day is a legal holiday only in this state where Betsy Ross worked as a seamstress
Pennsylvania
Amy
|
$500
[15]
The 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty fixed this state's border with New Brunswick
Maine
Brad
|
$500
[30]
1 of "The 25 Most Intriguing People" of 1989, she celebrated her 31st birthday with Warren Beatty
Madonna
Matthew
|
| FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | EUROPEAN HISTORY | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | QUOTES | BIOLOGY | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS |
|
$200
[1]
This captain of the Nautilus, whose name means "no one", disappears at the end of the novel
Captain Nemo
Amy
|
$200
[26]
He didn't lead the march on Rome in 1922; he waited in Milan until he got the "all clear" & then went
Benito Mussolini
Matthew
|
$200
[7]
Transylvania U., the oldest university west of the Alleghenies, is in Lexington in this state
Kentucky
Brad
|
$200
[17]
According to Jonathan Swift, these "and piecrust are made to be broken."
Promises
Brad
|
$200
[8]
Of all mammals, this one takes longest to mature
Man (humans)
Matthew
|
$200
[6]
In the '30s Laurens Hammond patented the 1st commercially practical electronic one of these
Organ
Matthew
|
|
$400
[3]
John is a Shakespeare-quoting "savage" found on a N.M. reservation in this Huxley novel
"Brave New World"
Brad
|
$400
[27]
Noted for saying "I am the state," he ruled France for 72 years, 1643-1715
Louis XIV
Amy
Brad
|
$400
[9]
A white oak at this New Brunswick, N.J. school supposedly inspired J. Kilmer to write "Trees"
Rutgers
Amy
|
$400
[18]
H.L. Mencken defined it as "The inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking"
Conscience
Amy
|
$400
[13]
The human body's largest bone
Femur
Brad
|
$400
[22]
The Highland version of this instrument has a blowpipe, a chanter & 3 drones
Bagpipes
Brad
|
|
$600
[2]
In wooing her, Siegfried was standing in for someone else, & when she found out, she killed him
Brunhilde
Matthew
|
$600
[28]
Romania was one Warsaw Pact country that didn't participate in the 1968 invasion of this country
Czechoslovakia
Matthew
|
$600
[10]
This school color of Syracuse gives its teams their nickname
Orange (Orangemen)
Amy
|
$600
[19]
"Love & Death" director who said, "It's not that I'm afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen
Amy
|
$800
[15]
Light-sensitive layer of nerve tissue covering the back 2/3 of the eyeball, it's an extension of the brain
Retina
Amy
|
$600
[23]
In 1709 inventor B. Cristofori gave this instrument a name meaning "harpsichord with soft & loud"
Piano
Amy
|
|
$1,000
[4]
Cecilia Brady is out to kill her father in this last F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
"The Last Tycoon"
Amy
|
$800
[29]
He became king of Spain in 1975 after Franco's death
Juan Carlos I
Matthew
|
$800
[11]
This Ivy League school has 2 major art museums: the Fogg & the Sackler
Harvard
Matthew
|
$800
[20]
This, said Wm. L. Garrison, "will not be overthrown without...a most tremendous excitement."
Slavery
Matthew
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
In 1956 scientists determined a normal human cell has this many chromosomes
46
Brad
|
$800
[24]
Also called a helicon, this 3-valve tuba wraps around the player's body & has a flaring bell
Sousaphone
Amy
|
|
DD
$1,200
[5]
The silly Mrs. Bennet is the mother of Elizabeth, Jane, Lydia, Kitty & Mary in this classic
"Pride And Prejudice"
Amy
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1924 U.S. banker Charles Dawes came up with a plan to help this country pay its war reparations
Germany
Matthew
|
$1,000
[12]
One of the many institutions of higher learning in this state capital is Oglethorpe University
Atlanta
Brad
|
$1,000
[21]
A biographer claimed he said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire
Amy
|
$1,000
[16]
This Swedish botanist, known for his system of classification, was the first to note that whales are mammals
Carl Linnaeus
Brad
|
$1,000
[25]
2 types of this Italian plucked stringed instrument are the Neopolitan & the rarer Milanese
Mandolin
Amy
Matthew
|
Of the men mentioned in the King James Version, he's first alphabetically
Aaron (Moses' brother)