Show #1327 1990-05-15 (taped 1990-04-22) College Championship

1990 College Championship semifinal game 2.

Contestants

David Honea — a junior from North Carolina State

Noah Smith — a freshman from Northwestern University

Gavin Russell — a senior from the University of California-Berkeley

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Gavin	$1,100	$1,700	$1,300	$1,300 3rd place: $5,000	$2,300 11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Noah	$300	$1,100	$8,200	$1,599 2nd place: $5,000	$9,200 17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
David	$2,700	$4,200	$7,400	$12,100 Finalist	$7,400 23 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

1983	COLORS	4-LETTER WORDS	MATHEMATICS	ODDS & ENDS	ADAM & EVE
$100 [1] At Christmas time parents shelled out a lot of lettuce for these one-of-a-kind dolls Cabbage Patch Kids David	$100 [18] Whether you spell it with an "A" or an "E", it describes any achromatic color between white & black Gray/grey David	$100 [6] You can do this from grace or on your face Fall Gavin	$100 [11] Statisticians make predictions based on the theory & laws of this Probability Gavin	$100 [16] From the Latin "to sleep", it's a building where collegians sleep Dormitory David	$100 [22] When called on the carpet, Adam blamed Eve, & Eve blamed him The Serpent Gavin David
$200 [2] Anne Burford resigned as head of the EPA, & he resigned as Secretary of the Interior James Watt David	$200 [27] Shade of green that Princess Grace might have worn since it's named for an Irish family Kelly Gavin David	$200 [7] A witch's concoction, whether or not it contains coffee, tea or beer Brew Gavin	$200 [12] The semicircular instrument used to measure & construct angles is called this Protractor Gavin	$200 [17] In "Paul Revere's Ride", the number of lamps that burn in the belfry of the Old North Church 2 Noah David	$200 [23] God reminded Adam that this "Thou art, unto" it "shalt thou return" Dust Noah
$300 [3] The Disneyland near this capital city opened in April Tokyo David	$300 [30] A person in a rage is said to "see" this color Red David	$300 [9] A walking stick that probably isn't made of candy Cane Noah	$300 [14] Degrees of latitude are further broken down into these divisions Minutes & seconds David	$300 [19] He wrote a biography of his grandfather, the artist Ford Madox Brown Ford Madox Ford	$400 [25] According to Genesis, Adam gave these to the animals & later gave one to his wife Names David
$400 [4] In October U.S. forces invaded this Caribbean island Grenada Noah	$400 [29] Maize is a shade of this color Yellow Noah	$400 [10] A repast, or the ground-up seeds of a grain Meal David	$400 [15] Number of zeros to the right of the decimal point in the number one ten-thousandth 3 Noah David	$400 [20] In 1778 Capt. George Vancouver named Prince William Sound in honor of one of this king's sons George III David	DD $500 [24] They could eat of the Tree of Life, but the Tree of the Knowledge of this was off limits Good and evil Noah
$500 [5] NASA verified that the meteorite found under the ice in Antarctica came from this celestial body Moon Gavin	$500 [28] The shortest wavelength of the visible color spectrum is this color Violet Gavin	$500 [8] To meditate upon something--Terpsichore, for example Muse David	$500 [13] A set with no elements is described as this Null/empty David	$500 [21] The Treaty of Vereeniging signed in Pretoria on May 31, 1902 officially ended this war The Boer War David	$500 [26] Adam was a young 130 when he begat him, his third son Seth Noah

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENTISTS	CLASSICAL MUSIC	FOOD	WORLD CITIES	ANTHROPOLOGY	BOOKS ON TAPE
$200 [7] He worked in the Dept. of Internal Medicine at Vienna's General Hospital before moving to the psychiatric clinic Sigmund Freud David	$200 [4] He also composed oratorios & operas, & felt the operettas he wrote with Gilbert were frivolous Sir Arthur Sullivan David	$200 [26] Described as an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis, it's often served with lox & cream cheese Bagel David	$200 [5] The silver baron Jose de la Borda laid out the famous Borda Gardens in Cuernavaca in this country Mexico	$200 [13] Last name of famous anthropologist family Louis, Mary & their son Richard Leakey Gavin	$200 [12] Not that you asked, this "60 Minutes" curmudgeon reads his own book "Not That You Asked..." Andy Rooney Noah
$400 [8] Dmitri Mendeleyev developed this chemical classification system in Russia in the 1860s Periodic Table of Elements David	$600 [14] He burned the score of his 5-act opera "Ivan IV" before "Carmen" made him a success Georges Bizet Gavin Noah	$400 [27] From the old French word for "ham", it makes a nice sandwich combined with lettuce & tomato Bacon Noah	$400 [6] The Gaelic name for this capital city is Baile Atha Cliath Dublin David	$400 [16] Margaret Mead studied teenagers in Samoa, & this woman studied "Gorillas In The Mist" Dian Fossey Noah	$400 [22] This "Lou Grant" star recorded Margaret Truman's "Murder At the Kennedy Center" Ed Asner Gavin
$600 [9] 1st U.S. woman astronomer, M. Mitchell, found these solar phenomena are whirling cavities, not clouds Sunspots David	$800 [20] Ibsen asked this Norwegian to compose the music for the stage version of "Peer Gynt" Edvard Grieg	$600 [28] As its signs indicate, a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store offers at least this many flavors 31 David	$600 [3] Named for one of the colleges at Oxford, this major New Zealand city has a religious name Christchurch Gavin	DD $500 [19] Eugene Dubois thought there'd be fossils of Homo Erectus in the East Indies & found them on this island Java Noah	$600 [23] This columnist taped her own book "Family - The Ties That Bind...And Gag!" Erma Bombeck David
$800 [10] It's said he 1st saw a published copy of his "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres" the day he died Nicolaus Copernicus Gavin	DD $1,000 [11] The music of this country's national anthem is attributed to a native son, Mozart Austria Gavin	$800 [29] Saffron-flavored Spanish rice stew with meat, vegetables & seafood Paella Gavin	$800 [2] Antananarivo is the largest city on this, the world's fourth largest island Madagascar Noah	$600 [17] Excavations in Newfoundland show evidence of a visit by these people around 1000 A.D. Vikings Noah	$800 [24] "Polar Star", Martin Cruz Smith's sequel to this novel is now available on tape "Gorky Park" Noah
$1,000 [15] 17th C. Dutchman noted for his work with the microscope & called the "Father of Microbiology" Anton van Leeuwenhoek Noah	$1,000 [21] In 1886 he completed his third symphony & "Carnival of the Animals" Camille Saint-Saens	$1,000 [30] This type of cucumber is only grown under artificial conditions in hothouses English/burpless/seedless	$1,000 [1] Mombasa, which lies on an island in the Indian Ocean, is the main port of this E. African country Kenya	$800 [18] The 2 major fields of anthropology are "physical" & this Cultural Noah	$1,000 [25] If you want to know what this "Rage Of Angels" novelist sounds like, catch him reading "The Sands Of Time" Sidney Sheldon Noah

Final Jeopardy!

THE NOBEL PRIZE

This winner of the 1970 Nobel Literature Prize was born in 1918 into a family of Cossack intellectuals

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Gavin "Who is Chekov?" — wagered $0

David "Who is Solzhenitzin?" — wagered $4,700

Noah "Who is [El] Pasternak?" — wagered $6,601

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