Show #3386 1999-05-03 College Championship

1999 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.From the Rosemont Theatre in Rosemont, Illinois.Entire Double Jeopardy! Round replaced and replayed because Butch's signaling device wasn't working.

Contestants

Josh Levy — a senior at the University of Pennsylvania from Bethesda, Maryland

Carolyn Cracraft — a junior at the University of Chicago from San Jose, California

Butch Malec — a freshman at Reed College from Edinboro, Pennsylvania

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Butch $-400 $0 $1,800 $600
3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated
$1,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Carolyn $1,900 $3,200 $7,200 $7,200
Automatic semifinalist
$8,100
20 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Josh $1,100 $2,900 $10,100 $2,899
2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated
$9,900
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITALS ANNUAL EVENTS TV CHARACTERS THE BODY HUMAN PARENTS ARE PEOPLE TOO CHAT ROOM CLICHES
$100 [1]
In 1955 Martin Luther King, Jr. led a boycott of this Alabama capital's segregated bus system
Montgomery
Butch Carolyn
$100 [17]
Each July 2 London guilds enact a centuries-old ceremony of sending swans up this river
Thames
Butch
$100 [2]
Roz Doyle, Daphne Moon, Niles Crane
Frasier
Butch
$100 [11]
Oddly, the "small" one of these is over 15 feet longer than the "large" one
Intestine
Butch
$100 [8]
Also a home for hummingbirds, it becomes "empty" when the last child leaves home
Nest
Josh
$100 [20]
FWIW:"For"this
For what it's worth
$200 [3]
One of the 2 state capitals whose names include that of the state
Indianapolis or Oklahoma City
Carolyn
$200 [30]
The groundhog displays his weather-predicting skills each year on this date
February 2
Josh
$200 [4]
Kyle, Kenny & Stan
South Park
Carolyn
$200 [18]
It's the medical name for the thighbone, the longest bone in the body
Femur
Butch
$200 [9]
It's what a lonely dad may want to be to you, or the name of the one on the left(President Clinton's dog)
Buddy
Carolyn
$200 [21]
BTW:"By"this
By the way
Josh
$300 [12]
(Hi, I'm Kristi Yamaguchi.) In 2002 the Winter Olympics are scheduled to take place in this state capital
Salt Lake City
Josh
$300 [27]
December 13 is Sosuharai Day, a traditional year-end house-cleaning time, in this country
Japan
Josh
$300 [5]
Jack McFarland, Karen Walker, Grace Adler
Will & Grace
Josh
$300 [19]
Your renal arteries are so named because they carry blood to these organs
Kidneys
Josh
$300 [10]
At least this restriction dad put on you isn't a dusk-to-dawn one, as in Warri, Nigeria
Curfew
Carolyn
$300 [22]
LOL:"Laughing"this way
Laughing out loud
Carolyn
$400 [13]
The name of this capital is French for "red stick"
Baton Rouge
Carolyn
$400 [26]
(Alex gives the clue.) (Each spring) the Procession of the Golden Chariot in Mons, Belgium is followed by a mock battle between a dragon & this saint
Saint George
Josh
$400 [6]
Tommy Pickles, Phil & Lil, Angelica
Rugrats
Josh
$500 [24]
Your spine ends at this tailbone, formed by 4 fused vertebrae
Coccyx
Butch
$400 [15]
If you get one of these in your nose or navel, parents may let out the same kind of "shriek"
Piercing
Butch Carolyn
$400 [28]
IMHO:"In my"this
In my humble opinion
Josh
$500 [14]
Dating from 1764, this city's "Courant" is one of our nation's oldest newspapers
Hartford
Butch
$500 [25]
On August 1 this country isn't neutral about celebrating the 1291 Confederation of the 3 Forest Cantons
Switzerland
Carolyn
$500 [7]
Angela Chase, Brian Krakow, Jordan Catalano
My So-Called Life
Carolyn
DD $900 [23]
Take a breath & name this chief muscle used in normal shallow breathing
Diaphragm
Carolyn
$500 [16]
This term for a right that divorcing parents may fight over comes from Latin for "guardian"
Custody
Carolyn
$500 [29]
HTH:"Hope this"does this
Hope this helps
Carolyn

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE & NATURE WHAT'S THE DOG BREED? CALL ME SMITTY THAT'S MY RUNNING MATE BLACK AMERICANS GREEK ALPHABET SOUP
$200 [11]
It's the striped African mammal with whom the insect seenhereshares part of its name
zebra
Carolyn
$200 [16]
Lassie
Collie
Carolyn
$200 [5]
In 1614 he returned to America & led an expedition that explored & mapped the coast of New England
John Smith
Butch
$200 [4]
1984:Geraldine Ferraro
Walter Mondale
Carolyn
$200 [28]
(Hi, I'm Star Jones of The View. One of my personal heroes is) this man (who) in 1989 was the first African-American to be named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
Butch
$200 [1]
First used in 1706 by William Jones, it's the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
Pi
Butch
$400 [12]
A small but vigorous whirlwind over a sandy area is known by this "demonic" name
Dust devil
Josh
$400 [17]
Rin Tin Tin
German shepherd
Josh
$400 [8]
In 1839 this religious leader led the Mormons in the founding of Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith
Josh
$400 [24]
1968:Edmund Muskie
Hubert Humphrey
Butch Josh
$400 [27]
In 1997 Will Smith "rapped" up the year by marrying this actress
Jada Pinkett
Carolyn
$400 [2]
An alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
Delta
Butch
$600 [13]
Of teeth, bones or an esophagus, the one sharks don't have
Bones
Butch
$600 [18]
Scooby Doo
Great Dane
Josh
$600 [9]
This expressive blues "empress" was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee around 1894
Bessie Smith
$600 [25]
1964:William Edward Miller
Barry Goldwater
Butch
$600 [21]
This junior, the son of a famous activist & clergyman, represents parts of Chicago in Congress
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Carolyn
$600 [3]
This multiple star in Centaurus is 4.3 light years from Earth
Alpha Centauri
Carolyn
$1,000 [15]
Alha 81005, the first meteorite proven to have come from the moon, was found on this desolate continent
Antarctica
Josh
$800 [19]
Toto
cairn terrier
Carolyn
$800 [10]
"Most good gossip columnists have a touch of Savonarola in them", wrote this author & gossip columnist
Liz Smith
$800 [30]
1956:Estes Kefauver
Adlai Stevenson
Butch
$800 [22]
This "Invisible Man" author was perhaps destined to become a writer; he was named for Emerson
Ralph Ellison
Josh
$800 [6]
These rays are emitted by radioactive decay mostly in a range from 50,000 to 60 million electron volts
Gamma rays
Josh
DD $1,400 [14]
Collectively, argon, helium, krypton, neon, radon & xenon are known by this "heroic" name
Noble gases
Butch
$1,000 [20]
Balto
malamute
Josh
$1,000 [26]
This 18th c. Scottish political philosopher laid the foundations of free-market economic theory
Adam Smith
Carolyn
$1,000 [29]
1920:Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
Butch
$1,000 [23]
While a member of the Robert Peary expedition in 1909, he became the first African-American to reach the North Pole
Matthew Henson
Josh
DD $1,200 [7]
This Greek letter appears in the title of a 1971 film in which Charlton Heston thinks he's the last man on Earth
Omega ( The Omega Man )
Josh

Final Jeopardy!

ORGANIZATIONS

In 1901 Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, D.C., Baltimore & Philadelphia made up this; Tampa Bay joined in 1998

the American League

Butch "What is the opening of M.B." — wagered $1,200
Carolyn "What is the National Football League?" — wagered $0
Josh "What is Major League Baseball?" — wagered $7,201

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