2007 College Championship semifinal game 1.From the University of Southern California.
Hayley Clatterbuck — a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Alice Luo — a junior from Georgia Institute of Technology
Cliff Galiher — a sophomore from UCLA
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cliff | $4,200 | $7,600 | $24,000 |
$29,999
Finalist |
$21,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Alice | $2,600 | $4,200 | $9,000 |
$6,000
3rd place: $10,000 |
$8,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Hayley | $2,200 | $5,800 | $19,200 |
$9,700
2nd place: $10,000 |
$18,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| BOOKS & AUTHORS | YE GODS! | CHINESE GEOGRAPHY | WHAT A WAY TO GO | COLLEGE STADIUMS & ARENAS | BODY LANGUAGE |
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$200
[1]
This Steinbeck novel begins, "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came..."
The Grapes of Wrath
Hayley
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$200
[11]
Hilal, a pre-Islamic deity of Arabia, was god of one phase of this heavenly body
the Moon
Hayley
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$200
[16]
This colorful river emptied into the sea until 1853, when its course shifted to empty into the Gulf of Chihli
the Yellow River
Cliff
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$200
[6]
Franz Reichelt died after a 1912 jump from this tall Parisian structure testing his parachute-overcoat combo
the Eiffel Tower
Alice
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$200
[19]
Tulane's football team plays its home games off campus at this facility that has a 9.7-acre roof
the Superdome
Alice
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$200
[22]
Innocent & naive? You must be "wet behind" these
the ears
Hayley
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$400
[2]
A savage named John has educated himself by reading Shakespeare in "Brave New World" by this man
Aldous Huxley
Cliff
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$400
[12]
The Hindu goddess Shatarupa was so beautiful, this creator god grew 4 heads so he could view her in all directions
Brahma
Alice
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$400
[17]
The border formalized between Mongolia & China in 1962 includes a 900-mile stretch through this desert
the Gobi Desert
Alice
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$400
[7]
Tradition holds that Aeschylus died when a bird dropped this reptile on his bald head to crack its shell
a turtle
Cliff
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$400
[23]
Built in 1914, Palmer Stadium at this New Jersey university was the home of its football team for 82 years
Princeton University
Alice
Hayley
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$400
[27]
To pay or settle; it often precedes "the bill"
to foot
Hayley
|
|
$600
[3]
In "The Prince" he wrote, "It is far safer to be feared than loved"
Machiavelli
Alice
|
$600
[13]
A sabine god of war, Quirinus gave his name to one of the fabled hills of this city
Rome
Alice
|
$600
[18]
The Turfan Depression is China's lowest point; in 1951 this peak became its highest point
Mount Everest
Hayley
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$600
[8]
Plutarch says that this king who lent his name to a type of costly victory died from being struck by a tile
Pyrrhus
Cliff
|
$800
[25]
This South Carolina school's Tigers play their home game in Memorial Stadium, aka "Death Valley"
Clemson
Hayley
|
$600
[28]
It can be a dialect or a bell clapper
the tongue
Cliff
|
|
$800
[4]
Perhaps the effort killed him--he died not long after completing his masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov"
Dostoyevsky
Alice
|
$800
[14]
Invoked by seal hunters, Nerrivik is the mother of all sea creatures as a goddess of this North American people
the Inuit
Hayley
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$800
[20]
China's Fertile Triangle lies between Nanjing, Hangzhou & this, the country's leading seaport
Shanghai
Cliff
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$800
[9]
In an automated factory in 1979, Robert Williams became one of the first men killed by one of these (shades of Asimov)
a robot
Cliff
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$1,000
[26]
Rupp Arena is the home court to this school's Wildcats basketball team
University of Kentucky
Alice
Hayley
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$800
[29]
Your messy room at home might be one of these "of contention" with your parents
a bone
Cliff
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|
$1,000
[5]
The stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son about a mole & a toad became this 1908 classic
The Wind in the Willows
Hayley
|
$1,000
[15]
Covering a lot of ground, this Greek counterpart of Diana was the goddess of childbirth & chastity
Artemis
Cliff
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$1,000
[21]
This gulf is bordered by Luichow Peninsula & Hainan Island on the east & Vietnam on the west
the Gulf of Tonkin
Cliff
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$1,000
[10]
This playwright choked to death in 1983 at NYC's hotel Elysee; a character of his exits a streetcar at "Elysian Fields"
Tennessee Williams
Cliff
|
DD
$1,600
[24]
Fittingly, $57 million is what this food company is paying over 20 years to have its name on the Pittsburgh Panthers' field
Heinz
Alice
|
$1,000
[30]
A rounded mass of radicchio, for example
a head
Hayley
|
| CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE | BUSINESS PAIRINGS | DIRECTOR"S" | SILENT B | GAUL'S GONE WILD! | SPRING BREAK! |
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$400
[24]
A hot biomedical topic is apoptosis, the programmed "suicide" of these biological units
cells
Alice
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$400
[1]
They put on the "greatest show on earth" even before the Ringling brothers joined them
Barnum & Bailey
Cliff
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$400
[2]
"War of the Worlds" & "Munich"
Steven Spielberg
Alice
|
$400
[11]
It can follow smoke, cherry & incendiary
bomb
Alice
|
$400
[28]
Gaul had an area roughly including Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany w. of the Rhine & this tricolor flag-waving country
France
Cliff
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$400
[16]
From Jeopmark Cards: on the 2nd Sunday in May, you're the one we're thinking of, enjoy this very special holiday
mother
Cliff
|
|
$800
[25]
(Jon of the Clue Crew plays with cool lab equipment.) Infrasonics detects & interpretssoundswe can't hear, like those produced by this kind of event; infrasonics would have helped the Pompeiians
an eruption
Alice
|
$800
[4]
A book-publishing duo, or country music's Tim & Faith
McGraw & Hill
Alice
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$800
[3]
"Goodfellas" & "The Age of Innocence"
Martin Scorsese
Hayley
|
$800
[12]
This fleshy growth atop a chicken's head comes in shapes such as buttercup & pea
comb
Alice
|
$800
[29]
In "Commentaries on the Gallic War" he described Gaul as being inhabited by the Belgae, the Aquitani & the Gauls
Julius Caesar
Cliff
|
$800
[17]
Hey, mon! You be jahmmin' on May 23, Labour Day in dis country
Jamaica
Hayley
|
|
$1,200
[22]
In 2006 a pulse of this type of beam sent a message a record 15 million miles to the MESSENGER spacecraft
a laser beam
Hayley
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$1,200
[5]
Company that introduced the first magnum revolver, the .357 in 1935
Smith & Wesson
Hayley
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$1,200
[8]
"JFK" & "World Trade Center"
Oliver Stone
Cliff
|
$1,200
[13]
Completed in 1932, it bears the inscription "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God"
Tomb (of the Unknown Soldier)
Alice
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$1,600
[27]
In the Second Punic War, this Carthaginian made alliance with the Gallic Cenomani against the Romans
Hannibal
Hayley
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$1,200
[18]
Ceremonies at the grave of Theodor Herzl are part of this country's Independence Day observation
Israel
|
|
$1,600
[30]
Invasion biology studies species like the brown tree this reptile, which wiped out 9 of Guam's 11 native bird species
snakes
Cliff
Alice
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$1,600
[6]
You've probably used some of their products: Crest, Gleem, Scope, Ivory
Procter & Gamble
Hayley
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$1,600
[9]
"Alien" & "Blade Runner"
Ridley Scott
Cliff
|
$1,600
[14]
A prosthesis is an artificial one
limb
Alice
|
$2,000
[26]
I, this Roman emperor, made Gallic nobility eligible for senate seats during my 41-54 A.D. reign
Claudius
Cliff
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$1,600
[19]
On April 26, this country's Union Day commemorates the 1964 union of Zanzibar & Tanganyika
Tanzania
Hayley
|
|
DD
$2,600
[23]
These particles studied by astroparticle physics are the only ones in the nuclei of hydrogen atoms
protons
Hayley
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$2,000
[7]
You can clean up on this oneif you know it's the maker of the productseen here
Black & Decker
Alice
|
$2,000
[10]
A USC grad:"Boyz n the Hood" & "2 Fast 2 Furious"
John Singleton
Cliff
|
$2,000
[15]
Carpenters use this type of line with a weight on the end of it to determine a true vertical
plumb
Hayley
|
DD
$4,000
[21]
In 222 B.C., Romans defeated the Gauls in Italy, capturing the city of Mediolanum, now this northen city
Milan
Cliff
|
$2,000
[20]
On April 17 this state enjoys Verrazano Day
New York
Cliff
Alice
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Of all the U.S. states named after European monarchs, it's the one that reaches the farthest west
Louisiana