Show #5221 2007-04-30 (taped 2007-04-21) College Championship

2007 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.From the University of Southern California.

Contestants

Haritha Sudanagunta — a junior from University of California-San Diego

Dean Malec — a junior from Northwestern University

Alice Luo — a junior from Georgia Institute of Technology

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alice $4,000 $5,800 $19,200 $16,400
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$16,600
19 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Dean $6,000 $10,000 $17,200 $25,000
Automatic semifinalist
$17,200
24 R, 0 W
Haritha $600 $2,800 $12,800 $14,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$10,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORKING FOR DADDY TRAVELING ABROAD FLIPPIN' BURGERS HOW ABOUT MED SCHOOL? OR "LAW" SCHOOL? I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND
$200 [21]
Charles Walgreen Jr. grew up working for his dad in this type of store
a pharmacy (or drugstore)
Dean
$200 [1]
You can rest up at the Churchill, Claridge's or the Ivanhoe Suites, hotels in this city
London
Alice
$200 [16]
Warren Burger retired from this job in 1986
Justice of the Supreme Court
Alice
$200 [11]
This branch of medicine is devoted to the care of children & the treatment of their diseases
pediatrics
Alice
$200 [3]
Specific type of nail-knocker seen here
a claw hammer
Alice
$200 [26]
That spooky woman's head in a crystal ball always freaks me out on this scary ride
The Haunted Mansion
Haritha
$400 [22]
With his dad, Robert Stephenson built an engine for these in 1829 that did an amazing 36 mph
trains (or locomotives)
Alice
$400 [2]
Life is a carnival when you travel to this country
Brazil
Dean
$400 [17]
Rodin's classic group "The Burghers of" this city isseen here
Calais
Alice
$600 [13]
In 1893 this Baltimore university became the first major medical school to admit women as well as men
Johns Hopkins
Haritha
$400 [5]
It's from the Dutch for "cabbage salad"
cole slaw
Dean
$400 [27]
I'll feel like a kid again on this flying elephant ride, a fixture at Disneyland since 1955
Dumbo
Haritha
$600 [23]
Robert McCormick invented a hempbrake, but it was his son Cyrus who came up with this machine
a reaper
Dean
$600 [4]
Go sail into this port city, "Kaapstad" in Afrikaans, founded in 1652 by a Dutch official
Cape Town
Dean
$600 [18]
A burger is a German townsman; a burgermeister is this local authority in a town
the mayor
Dean
$800 [14]
Using this insect, geneticist Thomas Morgan proved that some traits pass on to only one sex or the other
a fruit fly
Dean
$600 [6]
An adjective meaning without imperfection
flawless
Alice
$600 [28]
I love the theme of global unity on the ride in which international dolls sing this interminable tune
"It's A Small World"
Haritha
$800 [24]
In the 1880s he turned his dad's floundering San Francisco Examiner newspaper into a profitmaker
(William Randolph) Hearst
Alice
$800 [7]
You can go visit this "glorious" nation seen here
Kazakhstan
Alice
$800 [19]
Hans Berger developed this brain-wave-analyzing device, EEG for short
an electroencephalograph
Dean
$1,000 [15]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on a monitor.) In the spinal cord & the brain, these specialized cells consist of an axon, one or more dendrites & a nucleus
a neuron
Dean
$800 [9]
This river flows 800 miles between the U.S. & Canada
the St. Lawrence
Dean
$800 [29]
Aaargh! I can't wait to go on this classic ride now that Captain Jack Sparrow is part of the fun
Pirates of the Caribbean
Dean
$1,000 [25]
In the 1500s Andrea Amati & his 2 sons started a dynasty making these musical instruments
violins
Dean
$1,000 [8]
Take firth things firth; the Antonine Wall was built across Scotland from the Firth of Clyde to this firth
the Firth of Forth
Dean
$1,000 [20]
Berger sings "Donna" in Act 1 of this musical; later, he explains that Claude has to go before the draft board
Hair
DD $2,000 [12]
In 1984 the FDA approved this drug for over-the-counter sales; popular brands include Advil & Motrin
ibuprofen
Alice
$1,000 [10]
Chewa & Ngonde are among the main ethnic groups in this African country
Malawi
Dean
$1,000 [30]
Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah! I can't wait to get soaked on this ride that has a 5-story plunge near the end
Splash Mountain
Haritha

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORICAL FICTION THE ROLES OF A LIFETIME OPERA 101 21st CENTURY QUOTATIONS "E"COLLEGEY INTRA-MURALS
$400 [1]
In James Michener's "Journey", it's 1897 & 5 men are in a rush to find this in the Klondike
gold
Dean
$400 [2]
Ichabod Crane, Gilbert Grape, Willy Wonka
Johnny Depp
Dean
$400 [28]
From the French for "opening", it's the music played before the opera begins
an overture
Dean
$400 [12]
In 2005 on the "Today" show, this actor told Matt Lauer, "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do"
Tom Cruise
Dean
$400 [22]
Some of these "activities" you won't be graded on are intramural sports & student government
extracurricular activities
Dean
$400 [23]
The three guys seenhereare part of a mural painted by this man
Da Vinci
Haritha
$800 [4]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Bloomsbury Square, London.) His "Barnaby Rudge", a novel of the 1780 anti-Catholic riots, describes the rioters' actions, & later their hanging, here--in Bloomsbury Square
Dickens
Dean
$800 [3]
Siddhartha, Johnny Mnemonic, Neo
Keanu Reeves
Alice
$800 [27]
The "di sortita" type of this solo is sung by a character about to make an exit--sometimes not a moment too soon
an aria
Alice
$800 [13]
On the Aug. 6, 2003 "Tonight Show", he announced "Say hasta la vista to Gray Davis"
Schwarzenegger
Dean
$800 [21]
You probably wrote this short literary composition as part of your college application
an essay
Dean
$800 [30]
The fresco seenhereshows monks practicing martial arts in this country
China
Alice Haritha
$1,200 [11]
This Dumas hero is incarcerated for allegedly carrying letters from Elba to Paris
the Count of Monte Cristo
Haritha
$1,200 [5]
Memphis Raines, Sailor Ripley, Johnny Blaze (aka Ghost Rider)
(Nicolas) "Nic" Cage
Haritha
$1,200 [26]
"I got plenty o' nuttin'"--I'm not complaining, I'm quoting a song from this American opera
Porgy and Bess
Dean
$1,200 [14]
Of campaigning with her husband, she said in 2007, "I'm absolutely ready for this... I don't look sickly, I don't feel sickly"
Elizabeth Edwards
Haritha
$1,200 [20]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has majors in 14 types of this, including aeronautical
engineering
Alice
$1,200 [29]
The two men seen here have similar last names & share this grand title
Ayatollah
Haritha
$1,600 [10]
Brother William, the hero of this Umberto Eco novel, is a buddy of William of Occam
Name of the Rose
Alice
$1,600 [7]
Papa Klump, Mama Klump, Ernie Klump, Prof. Sherman Klump
Eddie Murphy
Haritha
$1,600 [25]
Darn! Bullwinkle isn't in this opera we're studying today; it's not "Boris Badenov", it's this 1874 Mussorgsky opera
Boris Godunov
Alice
$1,600 [16]
In 2001 this Vt. senator left the GOP, saying, "I have changed my party label, but I have not changed my beliefs"
James Jeffords
$1,600 [19]
This type of exam, like the SAT, is part of the college admissions requirement
an entrance exam
Dean
$1,600 [24]
Sari! The two gals seenheredon't clash with the image of this edifice behind them
the Taj Mahal
Alice
DD $3,000 [9]
Her 1956 novel "Imperial Woman" is about China's Dowager Empress Tz'u-Hsi
(Pearl) Buck
Alice
$2,000 [6]
James Joyce, Rodney Copperbottom, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Ewan McGregor
Haritha
$2,000 [8]
If a big buxom blonde is belting out "rhue, rhue, du Gott!", your're watching this opera that ends the "Ring" cycle
Twilight of the Gods ( Gotterdammerung )
Alice
DD $4,000 [15]
In June 2006 this mayor said, "This is the Big Easy, and sometimes we lay back a little too much. Get off your duffs"
Ray Nagin
Haritha
$2,000 [18]
Someday you might give your university this type of fund in which the income earned is used for programs
an endowment
$2,000 [17]
The bug seenhereabove Anubis' head is one of these beetles
a scarab
Haritha

Final Jeopardy!

STATES OF MEXICO

It's Mexico's northernmost state, but part of its name means "low"

Baja California

Haritha "What is Baja California?" — wagered $1,200
Dean "What is Baja California?" — wagered $7,800
Alice "What is Baja?" — wagered $2,800

« Back to Games