2000-A College Championship semifinal game 1.
Gina Bronsberg — a sophomore at the University of Illinois from Chicago, Illinois
Natalie Tindall — a senior at Florida A&M from Tallahassee, Florida
Greg Hodgin — a senior at Emory University from Columbia, South Carolina
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg | $-100 | $900 | $7,000 |
$7,000
Finalist |
$7,300
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Natalie | $1,200 | $2,000 | $9,600 |
$5,100
2nd place: $5,000 |
$8,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Gina | $200 | $2,200 | $2,400 |
$300
3rd place: $5,000 |
$2,400
12 R, 2 W |
| FICTION | ENTERTAINING CATS | AROUND THE WORLD | BEASTLY RHYME TIME | CANDY | IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY |
|
$100
[9]
Kaye Gibbons' "Ellen Foster" & "A Virtuous Woman" have found their way into this TV host's book club
Oprah Winfrey
Greg
|
$100
[7]
Jim Davis draws the line at this title cat
Garfield
Gina
|
$100
[1]
When remeasured in 1999, this highest mountain was found to have grown by 7 feet
Mount Everest
Greg
|
$100
[26]
An oversized oinker
a big pig
Natalie
|
$100
[14]
Get the "cool sensation" of these mint candies made by Hershey
York Peppermint Patties
Natalie
|
$100
[10]
In 1929 Al Capone's men massacred rival gangsters on St. Valentine's Day in this city
Chicago
Gina
|
|
$200
[11]
Isabel Allende's 1999 novel "Daughter of Fortune" begins in Valparaiso in this country
Chile
Natalie
|
$200
[8]
Distinct phraser heardherereading "The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat":
David Hyde Pierce
|
$200
[2]
Most of this small British dependency on ths Spanish coast is dominated by a big "rock"
Gibraltar
Natalie
|
$200
[27]
An appaloosa from Oslo
a Norse horse
Natalie
|
$200
[15]
According to a jingle, "Almond Joy's got nuts", this candy bar "don't"
Mounds
Gina
|
$200
[18]
TV's Mrs. Brady, she was born on Feb. 14, 1934
Florence Henderson
Gina
|
|
$300
[12]
Chili Palmer returns in "Be Cool", a 1999 sequel to this Elmore Leonard novel
Get Shorty
Natalie
|
$300
[20]
This colorful big cat has been bopping to a Henry Mancini theme since 1963
the Pink Panther
Natalie
|
$300
[4]
For safety reasons this landmark seenherewas closed to the public in 1990:
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Greg
|
$300
[28]
A bird of prey allowed by law
a legal eagle
Gina
|
$300
[16]
The name of this candy bar, taffy with a peanut butter center, runs from A to Z to A
Abba-Zaba
|
$300
[19]
In 1995 Arthur Chaskalson, who defended Nelson Mandela in 1964, was sworn in as this country's chief justice
South Africa
Natalie
|
|
$400
[21]
Say a little prayer for this title character of a 1989 John Irving novel, who speaks in capital letters
Owen Meany
|
$400
[24]
Beanie Baby fanatics know Blizzard is a white one of these
a tiger
Natalie
|
$500
[6]
Argentina, Bolivia & Brazil could say to this small country, "Halt, we've got you surrounded!"
Paraguay
Greg
Natalie
|
$400
[29]
Goldilocks sat on one (actually, on all three)
a bear chair
Gina
|
$400
[13]
The character seenhererepresents this candy:
Lemonheads
Gina
|
$400
[23]
Americans fell in love with her when she gave a TV tour of the White House on Feb. 14, 1962
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Natalie
|
|
$500
[22]
Newsweek calls this "Cryptonomicon" author "The Hacker Hemingway"
Neal Stephenson
|
$500
[25]
The cat seenherelives with the TV family with this last name:Salem the Cat: "I'll take WORLD DOMINATION for $1000, Alex!"
Spellman (on Sabrina the Teenage Witch )
Gina
|
DD
$600
[5]
Vatnajokull, the largest glacier in this country, covers some 3,200 square miles
Iceland
Greg
|
$500
[30]
The jargon of an Australian wild dog
dingo lingo
Greg
|
$500
[17]
The peaks & the triangular shape of this Swiss chocolate bar were inspired by the Matterhorn
Toblerone
Greg
|
$500
[3]
On Feb. 14, 1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini called for the death of this Indian-born British author
Salman Rushdie
Greg
|
| FRICTION | SCARY MOVIE SEQUELS | EDIBLE LINGO | CELEBRITY ALUMNI | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | LOVE POETRY WITH JOHNNY GILBERT |
|
$200
[1]
These fluid-filled swellings on the skin are most commonly caused by burns or friction
blisters
Gina
|
$200
[2]
This 1997 movie opens with Jada Pinkett meeting her end at a screening of "Stab"
Scream 2
Gina
|
$200
[19]
Life's not the pits when it's like "a bowl of" these
cherries
Natalie
|
$200
[13]
Though he's rather dim as Dick on "3rd Rock from the Sun", he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
John Lithgow
Gina
|
$200
[8]
She ran the farm while the revolution kept her & future president John apart for most of 10 years
Abigail Adams
Greg
|
$200
[10]
We hope she meantthe followingfor husband Robert:"I love thee to the level of every day's /Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Greg
|
|
$400
[4]
A violinist rubs this substance onto his bow to increase the friction between it & the strings
rosin
|
$400
[3]
"Judgment Day" was the subtitle to this 1991 movie sequel
Terminator 2
Greg
Gina
|
$400
[20]
Some people can be "as nutty as" this holiday treat with a long shelf life
fruitcake
Natalie
|
$400
[14]
She was a freshman at the University of Miami when she joined the Miami Sound Machine in 1975
Gloria Estefan
Natalie
|
$400
[9]
At Cornwallis' defeat, 1 of the 3 major American divisions was headed by this Frenchman
Marquis de Lafayette
Natalie
|
$400
[24]
It's the object John Donne is addressing here:"Why dost thou thus, /Through windows, and through curtains call on us? /Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?"
Sun
Greg
|
|
$600
[5]
The rolling element types of these friction-reducing machine parts come in 2 varieties, roller & ball
bearings
Greg
|
$800
[16]
In this series Part 4 was "The Final Chapter", but Part 5 was "A New Beginning"
Friday the 13th
Greg
Gina
|
$600
[21]
Hold on to your wallet if you're ever "packed in like" these small herring relatives
sardines
Greg
|
$600
[26]
David Schwimmer's friends know he studied speech & drama at this Evanston, Illinois school
Northwestern
Natalie
|
$800
[12]
This future treasury secretary was appointed Washington's aide-de-camp in 1777
Alexander Hamilton
Natalie
|
$600
[25]
With words likethe following, this poet's name could be read as a statement:"So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, /So deep in luve am I; /And I will luve thee still, my dear, /Till a’ the seas gang dry"
Robert Burns
Natalie
|
|
$800
[6]
Friction gives a balloon rubbed on wool a static charge by transferring these subatomic particles
electrons
Greg
|
$1,000
[18]
"The Evil Escapes" in the fourth installment of this normally housebound "Horror"
The Amityville Horror
|
$800
[22]
A score of zero in sports is also known by this bird term
goose egg
|
$800
[27]
This oldest of the Baldwin acting brothers was a poli sci major at George Washington University
Alec Baldwin
Natalie
|
DD
$900
[11]
For his dealings with this man, Major John Andre concocted codes & used secret inks
Benedict Arnold
Greg
|
$800
[29]
It's the line that precedesthe following:"Thou art more lovely and more temperate. /Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May..."
How do I compare thee to a summer's day?
Gina
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Friction is what makes this type of machine impossible; all machines will eventually run down
a perpetual motion machine
Greg
|
DD
$1,400
[15]
"The Dream Child" was the subtitle to the fifth installment in this series
Nightmare on Elm Street
Natalie
|
$1,000
[23]
Proverbs 9:17 wisely observes that "Stolen waters are sweet, and" this food "eaten in secret is pleasant"
bread
|
$1,000
[28]
He wrote his 1st complete play, "Camel", while studying at Goddard College; "Glengarry Glen Ross" came later
David Mamet
Natalie
|
$1,000
[17]
A staff officer for Frederick the Great, he came to fight after meeting Franklin in France
Baron von Steuben
Greg
|
$1,000
[30]
She wasn't so "saint"ly when she wrotethe following:"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, /I have forgotten, and what arms have lain /Under my head till morning"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Natalie
|
According to Suetonius it was inscribed on a parade wagon after the 5-day Pontic campaign of 47 B.C.
"Veni, Vidi, Vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered")