2008 College Championship semifinal game 3.From the Kohl Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Vera Swain — a junior from the University of South Carolina
Suchita Shah — a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joey Beachum — a senior from Mississippi State University
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joey | $600 | $600 | $15,600 |
$31,200
Finalist |
$12,200
16 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W |
| Suchita | $3,600 | $7,200 | $17,600 |
$3,900
2nd place: $10,000 |
$17,600
22 R, 1 W |
| Vera | $2,400 | $3,200 | $4,400 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$4,400
8 R, 2 W |
| SHAKESPEARE | POP'S MUSIC | AT THE THEME PARK | THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING | "OFF" CAMPUS | BREWERS, BUCKS & PACKERS |
|
$200
[17]
Desdemona's lady-in-waiting is Emilia, this man's wife
Iago
|
$200
[12]
Dad refuses to see a Guy Ritchie film because he's always had a secret crush on this "Like A Virgin" singer
Madonna
Joey
|
$200
[5]
Ice cream bars shaped like this celebrity cetacean are a special treat at Sea World
Shamu
Suchita
|
$200
[22]
This "great" Russian czar tricked his wayward son Alexis into coming home--bad move for Alex
Peter the Great
Joey
Suchita
|
$200
[2]
Not connected to the Internet
offline
Suchita
|
$200
[1]
A typical coffee berry contains 2 of these that are roasted, ground & brewed to make coffee
seeds (or beans)
Suchita
|
|
$400
[27]
Much of Act V of this play is set at Dunsinane Castle
Macbeth
Joey
|
$400
[13]
Dad slow dances by himself to this band's "Stairway to Heaven" because he's having school dance flashbacks
Led Zeppelin
Vera
|
$400
[7]
You could say that this theme park in Billund, Denmark was built block by (plastic) block
Legoland
Joey
|
$400
[23]
Playwright who introduced us to a title uncle & later to "Three Sisters"
Anton Chekhov
Joey
|
$400
[3]
An outrage to one's sensibilities or half the players on a football field
offense
Suchita
|
$400
[18]
Get your butt in gear & know this anatomical term for a small zippered pouch suspended from a belt
a fanny pack
Vera
|
|
$600
[28]
A shipwreck separates twin siblings Viola & Sebastian in this comedy
Twelfth Night
Suchita
Vera
|
$600
[14]
Dad wears that dorky clock on a chain because he was into this Public Enemy before he became a VH1 reality star
Flavor Flav
Suchita
|
$600
[8]
A highlight of Silver Dollar City in Branson is a tour of Marvel Cave, the deepest cave in this state
Missouri
Vera
|
$800
[25]
On April 14, 1961 this cosmonaut was awarded the honor "Hero of the Soviet Union"
(Yuri) Gagarin
Suchita
|
$600
[4]
Non-tailored clothing bought as is
off the rack
Vera
|
$600
[19]
Heart attack survivor Kerry Packer gave $3 mil. for portable these, aka "Packer Whackers", to local ambulances
defibrillators
Suchita
|
|
$800
[29]
Most of "Hamlet" is set in this Danish seaport
Elsinore
Joey
|
$800
[15]
Dad thinks he's an O.G. because he was into these white rappers long before their album "Ill Communication"
the Beastie Boys
Vera
|
$800
[9]
Uh-oh! Monsieur Cannibale wants you to ride in a cooking pot at Efteling theme park in this low country
the Netherlands
Joey
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
The only son of Nicholas II, Alexis was the last male heir born to this royal family while it ruled Russia
the Romanovs
Joey
|
$800
[6]
A colonel or a major, but not a sergeant
an officer
Joey
|
$800
[20]
On June 28, 1919 the buck stopped for Bess Wallace when she married this young man, home from WWI
(Harry) Truman
Joey
Suchita
|
|
$1,000
[30]
He's described as "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"
Marc Antony
|
$1,000
[16]
Dad needs help downloading "In Rainbows", but he always said this Thom Yorke band was ahead of its time
Radiohead
Vera
|
$1,000
[10]
Can-can girls have returned to N.C.: Ghost Town in the Sky has re-opened in these "Great" mountains
the Great Smoky Mountains
Suchita
|
$1,000
[26]
This chemist developed the periodic table, & element 101 was later named for him
Mendeleev
Suchita
|
$1,000
[11]
An unaccented unit in music, or an adjective meaning "unusual"
offbeat
Suchita
|
$1,000
[21]
In 1861 a brewer with this last name gave $408,000 to the trustees at a Poughkeepsie women's college
Vassar
|
| U.S. PLACE NAMES | FAMOUS COLLEGE DROPOUTS | HELLO KITTY | THE NEW YORK TIMESTECH BIZ | TAKE A LETTER | BREWERS, BUCKS & PACKERS |
|
$400
[1]
The name of this state capital & port city is French for "red stick"
Baton Rouge
Joey
|
$400
[14]
This conservative radio talk show host dropped out of SE Missouri State after flunking ballroom dancing
Rush Limbaugh
Vera
|
$400
[19]
The Turkish Angora is named for this Turkish city
Ankara
Suchita
|
$400
[22]
The Times exposed memos from this company's execs who had trouble upgrading to its Vista operating system
Microsoft
Suchita
|
$400
[6]
Desmond Llewelyn played this gadget man in 17 James Bond films
Q
Joey
|
$400
[11]
On March 4, 2008 this Packer quarterback called it quits (probably)
Brett Favre
Suchita
|
|
$800
[2]
One of the world's largest steel plants can be found in this Indiana city named for a chairman of U.S. Steel
Gary
Vera
|
$800
[15]
This Russian novelist dropped out of college after 3 years & then wrote "Anna Karenina"
Tolstoy
Suchita
|
$800
[20]
The "fold" in the name of the Scottish Fold refers to these folded-down features
the ears
|
$800
[23]
Hoping to regain its luster, this Time Warner online service is buying the no. 3 social networking site, Bebo
AOL
Joey
|
$800
[7]
In the English alphabet, it's the only polysyllabic letter
W
Suchita
|
$800
[12]
He hit 22 of his 755 career HRs as a Brewer; he hit 398 as a Milwaukee Brave
Hank Aaron
Suchita
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Bartholomew Gosnold may have named this Mass. island for his daughter & for the plants he found there
Martha's Vineyard
Joey
|
$1,200
[16]
She dropped out of Columbia Univ. to sign with Columbia Records & later won a Grammy for "My Boo"
Alicia Keys
Joey
|
$1,200
[21]
This color follows "Russian" in the name of a cat breed; it actually refers to various shades of gray
blue
|
$1,600
[25]
The Times reported Best Buy is giving $50 gift cards to buyers of this format that is on the losing end of the video battle
HD-DVD
Joey
|
$1,200
[8]
Used with an apostrophe, this letter can be a contraction of had, would & did
D
Suchita
|
$1,200
[13]
In 1970-71 this master of the skyhook averaged 31.7 ppg & led the Bucks to an NBA title
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (or Lew Alcindor)
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Haakon County, South Dakota was named for a king of this country
Norway
|
$2,000
[18]
Thisinspirational TV pastor dropped out of Oral Roberts University before writing the bestseller "Your Best Life Now"
Joel Osteen
|
$1,600
[29]
Eugene Field's poem "The Duel" tells of a fight between a gingham dog & this cat, a tortoiseshell & white coat pattern
a calico
Vera
|
$2,000
[27]
The David Pogue blog says the iPhone with push email is gunning for this most popular smartphone
the BlackBerry
Joey
|
$1,600
[9]
On a bowling scoresheet, a diagonal line represents a spare & this letter, a strike
an X
Joey
|
$1,600
[26]
Guess winning was the only thing for him; he coached the Pack to 5 NFL titles
Lombardi
Suchita
|
|
$2,000
[5]
He wrote the poem from which Pippa Passes, Kentucky took its name
Robert Browning
|
DD
$2,500
[17]
After dropping out of the Univ. of Maryland, he exposed the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
Joey
|
$2,000
[30]
The riddle of this cat breed seen here: Is it a pet, or is it art?
a Sphynx
Suchita
|
DD
$3,300
[24]
The Times cites an estimate that in 2007, its 3rd year, this site used as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000
YouTube
Joey
|
$2,000
[10]
All Japanese words end in a vowel or this consonant
an N
|
$2,000
[28]
"Royal" first name of Mr. Fielder, who hit 50 HRs for the Brewers in 2007; his first name is this, & he is funky"
Prince
Suchita
|
In the last week of the John Tyler administration, this republic was offered statehood
Texas