Show #3164 1998-05-07 College Championship

1998 College Championship quarterfinal game 4.From Zellerbach Auditorium at the University of California-Berkeley.

Contestants

Katy Sprinkel — a junior at DePauw University from Larkspur, Colorado

Andrew Hutchings — a senior at Harvey Mudd College from Tucson, Arizona

Chanel Lee — a junior at the University of Virginia from Bronx, New York

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Chanel	$2,000	$3,600	$5,000	$8,000 2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated	$5,000 19 R, 2 W
Andrew	$800	$1,300	$7,300	$10,001 Automatic semifinalist	$8,500 22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Katy	$300	$1,100	$3,000	$6,000 3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated	$3,900 11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ENGLISH LITERATURE	URBAN MYTHS	COMPUTER CHARACTERS	RIVERS	"N" THE DICTIONARY	BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS
$100 [1] This shipwrecked surgeon helps the Lilliputians defeat Blefescu, a neighboring empire Gulliver Chanel	$100 [4] It's not a croc, I heard it from a friend: these croc relatives are living in the New York City sewers alligators Katy	$100 [8] Nintendo's official mascot since 1985, he was named for the landlord of the firm's first U.S. warehouse Mario Chanel	$100 [30] The Detroit, Huron & Grand Rivers flow into Lake Erie, & this river with a famous falls flows out of it Niagara Katy	$100 [17] It's said when this game was outlawed in the 1840s, some players added a tenth pin to get around the laws ninepin Andrew	$100 [28] Proverbially, it's what the mice do "when the cat's away" play Andrew
$200 [2] The first chapter of this novel is titled "The Old Sea-Dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'" Treasure Island Andrew	$200 [7] Because he's barefoot on the cover of "Abbey Road", I'm convinced this member of the Beatles is dead Paul McCartney Katy	$200 [9] Seen here, she's the star of one of the hottest video games ever Lara Croft Chanel	$200 [29] The Dee & Don Rivers are scenic features of Aberdeen, in this country Scotland Andrew	$200 [22] This term for a between-meal snack comes from Yiddish nosh Chanel	$200 [24] In other words, "Similar to a flying mammal leaving Hades" like a bat out of Hell Katy
$300 [3] She rewrote "Elinor and Marianne" off & on for more than a decade before it became "Sense and Sensibility" Jane Austen Andrew	$300 [10] My cousin just told me that a man in a hotel room had this renal organ removed while he slept a kidney Andrew	$300 [13] "Toy Story" character who is now Burger King's spokespud Mr. Potato Head Chanel	$300 [27] This river separates Cambridge from Boston Charles Chanel	$300 [21] A province of ancient Egypt, or a city in modern Alaska Nome Chanel	$300 [23] If these are "deserting the sinking ship", you might want to get off rats Andrew
$400 [5] This Kipling beggar boy becomes a chela, or disciple, of a Tibetan lama Kim	$400 [11] Wow! A couple found this pirate prosthesis on their car door handle when they got home from a date a hook Chanel	$400 [14] TV series set inside a computer that features the characters seen here ReBoot Chanel	$500 [25] In Arabic, it's Nahr Al-Urdunn Jordan Andrew	$400 [19] Perhaps from a word for "lump", it's a small lump of gold, or of wisdom nugget Chanel	$400 [18] In other words, "As comfy as an insect in a carpet" as snug as a bug in a rug Chanel
$500 [6] In this novel of the future, Mustapha Mond "had been the first to reveal the... dangers of family life" Brave New World Chanel	$500 [12] Did you hear? This man had a congressional page fired for making a "Love Boat" joke Fred Grandy	$500 [15] 1 of the 2 computer games that feature the clay man Klaymen seen here The Neverhood or Skullmonkeys	DD $1,200 [26] The Platte River joins it near Omaha; the Kansas River joins it at Kansas City Missouri Andrew	$500 [16] This shark may have earned its name because the male hangs on to the female's fin with his teeth a nurse shark Andrew	$500 [20] If you feel young, you feel like this kind of non-winter barnyard fowl a spring chicken Katy

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALL ABOUT CALCULUS	WHEN YOU WERE IN DIAPERS	HI, I "Q"	TIME	LIFE	WARNER
$200 [1] Points in the X & Y axes are called Cartesian coordinates in honor of this man Rene Descartes Andrew	$200 [12] This Pennsylvania nuclear power plant's No. 2 reactor malfunctioned on March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island Katy	$200 [7] Medieval Bic quill Andrew	$200 [6] Most of the time, this month is exactly 2 fortnights long February Chanel	$200 [13] Most protozoans reproduce by this asexual method which President Clinton wants to ban for humans cloning Chanel	$200 [30] NBC will pay Warner a record $13 million an episode to keep this series on the network ER Chanel
$400 [2] It's the century in which calculus was created 17th century Andrew	$400 [14] One of 1982's bestsellers was this author's "2010: Odyssey Two" Arthur C. Clarke Andrew	$400 [8] The sensitive area of flesh under your fingernails; you can be "cut to" it quick Andrew	$400 [22] This holiday always gives federal employees their first 3-day weekend of the year Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Andrew	$400 [18] Many think that a few hundred thousand years ago, Homo erectus evolved into this taxonomic group Homo sapiens Andrew	$400 [29] In 1998 this comedienne took her talk show from New York to the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California Rosie O'Donnell Chanel
$600 [3] Calculus is featured in this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, heard here The Pirates of Penzance Andrew	$600 [15] This song, heard here, was a No. 1 hit in 1979 "My Sharona" Andrew	$600 [9] In 1996 id Software developed this shoot-em-up top seller; in 1997, a sequel Quake Andrew	$600 [23] It's the total number of seconds in a hour 3,600 Katy	$600 [19] The process of pasteurization kills harmful types of these in milk bacteria Katy	$600 [28] This Michael Crichton novel was shaped into a 1998 Warner Bros. film by Barry Levinson Sphere Chanel
$800 [4] With Cambridge closed because of the plague, he developed calculus at his mother's farm in Woolsthorpe Sir Isaac Newton Andrew	$800 [16] In 1980 he was recognized as the leader of the Polish trade union Solidarity Lech Walesa Andrew	$800 [10] Shapes seen here quadrilaterals Katy	$800 [24] It's the warning given twice in every NFL game the two-minute warning Katy	$1,000 [21] From the Latin for "frenzy", it's the regular period of ovulation in female mammals estrous Chanel Andrew	$800 [26] Warner Bros.' 1998 film "U.S. Marshals" is a follow-up to this 1993 hit The Fugitive Chanel
$1,000 [5] Leibniz, an inventor of calculus, was an adviser to this "Great" Russian czar Peter the Great Andrew Katy	$1,000 [17] In 1981 this cranky American defeated Bjorn Borg at the U.S. Open John McEnroe Andrew	$1,000 [11] It's a synonym for idiosyncrasy quirk Chanel	DD $1,600 [25] Germany was first to adopt the system known as this; they did it in 1915 to conserve energy during the war daylight saving time Katy	DD $1,500 [20] Oswald Avery discovered it wasn't a protein but this acid that transfers genetic material DNA Katy	$1,000 [27] A Warner's album of his romantic best includes the following Rod Stewart Chanel

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS TEAMS

1 of 2 names shared by both a Major League Baseball team & an NFL team

Cardinals (St. Louis [baseball] & Arizona [football]) or Giants (San Francisco [baseball] & New York [football])

Katy "What is Cardinals?" — wagered $3,000

Chanel "What is Giants?" — wagered $3,000

Andrew "What are Giants?" — wagered $2,701

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