2002 College Championship semifinal game 1.From the Schottenstein Center at the Ohio State University in Columbus.
Corrie Loeffler — a junior at Azusa Pacific University from Los Banos, California
Sarah Martin-Anderson — a senior at California State University-Bakersfield from Bakersfield, California
Jara Dorsey — a senior at Carnegie Mellon University from Steubenville, Ohio
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jara | $3,000 | $3,400 | $14,400 |
$4,400
Finalist |
$12,800
17 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Sarah | $1,600 | $4,000 | $6,600 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$8,400
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Corrie | $3,200 | $6,600 | $10,600 |
$0
2nd place: $5,000 |
$10,600
18 R, 2 W |
| SHAKESPEARE | SWEET! | TRANSPORTATION | ACTORS & ACTRESSES | HEY, BABY, I'M PREMED | "DOO"D! |
|
$200
[1]
His diabolic plotting leads to tragedy for Othello & Desdemona
Iago
Jara
|
$200
[11]
2-word term for the edible tuber of the genus Ipomoea that's very similar to a yam
sweet potato
Corrie
|
$200
[17]
Reptoid, seen here, is this type of vehicle; the fangs might be a clue
monster truck
Sarah
|
$200
[6]
She married her boyfriend, cameraman Danny Moder, in a secret midnight ceremony on July 4, 2002
Julia Roberts
Corrie
|
$200
[26]
I hope to train at Guy's Hospital in this world capital to become a better doctor--& it's near some good pubs
London
Jara
Sarah
|
$200
[16]
To scribble drawings aimlessly, usually while doing something else
doodle
Sarah
|
|
$400
[2]
Cicero & Publius are senators in this tragedy
Julius Caesar
Corrie
|
$400
[12]
Columbus native Buster Douglas was a 1990s champion in this sport dubbed "The Sweet Science"
boxing
|
$400
[18]
As a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during WWI Ernest Hemingway drove one of these vehicles
ambulance
Sarah
|
$400
[7]
This TV "Friend" won critical raves for her role as "The Good Girl" in a 2002 film
Jennifer Aniston
Jara
|
$400
[27]
I'm considering this Connecticut med school founded in 1810, but they make you write a thesis
Yale
Sarah
|
$400
[22]
Seen here, this popular (comic) strip began in 1970
Doonesbury
Sarah
|
|
$600
[3]
It's the name of Romeo's family
Montague
Jara
|
$600
[13]
Suckle, moon & dew are often preceded by this sweet word
honey
Sarah
|
$600
[19]
Most commercial freight on the Mississippi travels in barges pushed by this type of boat
tugboat
Sarah
|
$600
[8]
In a 2002 blockbuster, he played both Peter Parker & your friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man
Tobey Maguire
Corrie
|
$600
[28]
When I was 12 I saved my brother by diagnosing the anaphylactic type of this when he got stung by a bee
shock
Jara
|
$600
[23]
In the song "Camptown Races", it immediately follows "Camptown ladies sing this song..."
Doo-dah!
Corrie
|
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
King Claudius commissions these 2 minor characters, Hamlet's schoolmates, to spy on Hamlet
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Jara
|
$800
[14]
According to the spiritual, one of these is "comin' for to carry me home"
sweet chariot
Jara
|
$800
[20]
This space shuttle that made its maiden voyage in 1992 was built to replace Challenger
Endeavour
Jara
|
$800
[9]
He played Will Freeman in "About a Boy", based on the book of the same name by Nick Hornby
Hugh Grant
Corrie
|
$800
[29]
As a kid I thought this was a disease, instead of cell division that produces identical daughter cells
mitosis
Jara
|
$800
[24]
Last name of Eliza, the Cockney girl in "My Fair Lady" whom Professor Higgins tries to turn into a lady
Doolittle
Corrie
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Completes Dick the Butcher's "The first thing we do, let's..."
kill all the lawyers
|
$1,000
[15]
Seen here, this insect is eagerly prized by ants for the sweet liquid it produces
aphid
Corrie
|
$1,000
[21]
The railroad known by this hyphenated name runs over 5,000 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Corrie
|
$1,000
[10]
This star of "XXX" was also the voice of the title character in 1999's "The Iron Giant"
Vin Diesel
Sarah
|
$1,000
[30]
Organic chem is easy once you get this concept of an atom's combining capacity, also applied to some electrons
valence
|
$1,000
[25]
Popular 20th century vocal style heard here
Doo-wop
Corrie
|
| OHIO STATE ALUMNI | WORLD HISTORY | ON THE WEB | PEN NAMES | FAMILIAR EXPRESSIONS | SOUNDS GOOD TO ME |
|
$400
[21]
Buckeye Archie Griffin, B.S. '76, is the only 2-time winner of this college football trophy
Heisman Trophy
Corrie
|
$400
[1]
In 1472 this island group known for its pony & sheepdog was annexed to Scotland
Shetland Islands
Corrie
|
$400
[26]
This site's mission is "to help practically anyone trade practically anything on Earth"
eBay
Corrie
|
$400
[6]
He wrote "The Fifth Quarter" under the name John Swithen, a musician at the prom in his novel "Carrie"
Stephen King
Jara
|
$400
[11]
Preceding "as thieves", it may come from thieves sticking together, or pickpockets sticking close to victims
thick
Jara
Sarah
|
$400
[16]
The jig is up when this instrument stops playing
fiddle
Sarah
|
|
$800
[22]
For his theory of element generation in nuclear reactions, William Fowler '33 won the Nobel Prize for this
physics
Jara
Sarah
|
$800
[2]
The Visigoth Empire went out of business in 711 when it was defeated by this north African group in Spain
Moors
Sarah
|
$800
[27]
Since 1998 you can "name your own price" for plane tickets, hotel rooms & more on this website
Priceline.com
Jara
|
$800
[7]
Lady Chatterley knows that Lawrence H. Davison was a pen name of his
D.H. Lawrence
Jara
|
$800
[12]
It follows "heads I win" in an expression meaning the game is fixed
tails you lose
Corrie
|
$800
[17]
It's the heavy metal instrument of Caribbean origin heard here
steel drums
Corrie
|
|
$1,200
[23]
He's sold over 200 million "Goosebumps" books & over 80 million "Fear Street"s
R.L. Stine
Corrie
|
$1,200
[3]
Term for the period in England from 1760 to 1840 during which steam power & big factories came into vogue
Industrial Revolution
Sarah
|
$1,200
[28]
Looking for old high school friends? Try this site, "The World's Best Place to Reunite"
Classmates.com
Jara
|
$1,200
[8]
In her youth, this Bronte sister wrote under the masculine alias Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley
Charlotte Bronte
Jara
Sarah
Corrie
|
$1,200
[13]
This expression got reversed from its original version, which meant that once you consume dessert, it's gone
you can't have your cake and eat it too
Sarah
|
$1,200
[18]
This double reed woodwind can be 4 feet long
bassoon
Corrie
|
|
$1,600
[24]
The name aside, this clothing company founded by alum Leslie Wexner grew to own brands like Victoria's Secret
The Limited
Corrie
|
$1,600
[4]
This doctor lit up China as its provisional president in 1911
Sun Yat-sen
|
$2,000
[30]
For information on health, beauty, diet, work & even pets, "it takes" this, "the women's network" of websites
iVillage.com
Jara
|
$1,600
[9]
He contributed to the Columbia Review under the name Jean-Louis Incogniteau, perhaps while he was "On the Road"
Jack Kerouac
Sarah
|
DD
$1,800
[14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports) As a horse gets older, its gums recede, so an elderly one literally is this expression
long in the tooth
Sarah
|
$1,600
[19]
From Spanish for a region of Africa, they're the percussion instruments heard here
conga drums
Corrie
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Ohio-born realist painter whose best-known work, "Stag at Sharkey's", is seen here
George Bellows
|
$2,000
[5]
4,000 years ago, this island was starting its middle Minoan period
Crete
Jara
|
DD
$3,000
[29]
You can read some of the classics online at this site named for a Melville short story character
Bartleby.com
Jara
|
$2,000
[10]
"The Prophet" was a pseudonym used by this "Sister Carrie" author on articles & columns
Theodore Dreiser
Jara
|
$2,000
[15]
This expression meaning "those in ultimate control" appears in Romans 13:1
the powers that be
|
$2,000
[20]
Also called a cembalo, it's the keyboard instrument heard here
harpsichord
Jara
|
He was the first man to become U.S. president as a result of the 25th Amendment
Gerald Ford