2009 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.
Mark Petterson — a senior from the University of Kansas
Laura Myers — a senior from the University of Missouri
Jennifer Duann — a senior from the Ohio State University
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer | $-400 | $-200 | $7,400 |
$400
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,400
12 R, 3 W |
| Laura | $3,000 | $6,400 | $19,600 |
$21,600
Automatic semifinalist |
$17,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mark | $2,600 | $3,600 | $8,600 |
$16,200
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$10,800
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| NAME THE WORK | HEISMAN WINNERS | I WANT TO RIDE THAT! | A HORSE IS A HORSE | THEFORTUNE500 | RHYMES WITH TRACK |
|
$200
[19]
Cervantes:"At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember"
Don Quixote
Mark
|
$200
[2]
Carson Palmer, Reggie Bush & Matt Leinart are a few of this school's recent winners
the University of Southern California
Laura
|
$200
[7]
The Pitt Fall is a scary free fall ride at Kennywood, near this second-largest Pennsylvania city
Pittsburgh
Jennifer
|
$200
[1]
The Greek hero Bellerophon was crippled when he fell off this winged steed
Pegasus
Laura
|
$200
[14]
No. 242 on the list, this insurance co.'s $99.3 billion loss made it Fortune's biggest loser ever
AIG
Laura
|
$200
[23]
A pile of pancakes
stack
Jennifer
|
|
$400
[20]
Verne:"Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner"
Around the World in Eighty Days
Laura
|
$400
[3]
Even though his team won the BCS Championship in 2009, this QB didn't win back-to-back Heismans
Tim Tebow
Mark
|
$400
[12]
No tame little swing ride, the Starflyer in this Austrian city swings you as high as a 23-story building
Vienna
Mark
|
$400
[8]
A horse named Comanche survived this man's June 1876 "Last Stand"
Custer
Mark
|
$400
[15]
Since the Fortune 500 list began in 1955, only Exxon, Wal-Mart & this now-troubled auto co. have held the top spot
GM (General Motors)
Laura
|
$400
[24]
A somewhat shapeless dress
a sack
Laura
|
|
$800
[22]
Jack London:"'The Ghost' was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind"
The Sea Wolf
Jennifer
Laura
|
$600
[4]
Sam Bradford, the most recent winner of the Heisman, attended a university in this conference
the Big 12
Jennifer
Mark
|
$600
[13]
Six Flags Great America unleashed a roller coaster named for this bat-tastic 2008 blockbuster
The Dark Knight
Laura
|
$600
[9]
The Lone Ranger rode Silver & this companion of his rode a horse named Scout
Tonto
Laura
|
$600
[16]
Fortune's "Most Likely to Succeed" was this Internet search site at No. 119 with 35 different "buy" ratings
Google
Mark
|
$600
[25]
A knave who's a real card
a jack
Laura
|
|
DD
$1,000
[21]
Melville:"Captain Vere was an exceptional character"
Billy Budd
Laura
|
$800
[5]
In 2006 Troy Smith joined Eddie George & back-to-back winner Archie Griffin as winners from this school
Ohio State
Laura
|
$800
[28]
I may not know "Who Framed" this movie bunny, but I can ride his Car Toon Spin at Disneyland
Roger Rabbit
Jennifer
Mark
|
$800
[10]
In "The Lord of the Rings", Gandalf rides this horse that only he could tame
Shadowfax
Mark
|
$800
[17]
With 14,000 videos, the most watched Fortune 500 CEO on YouTube was this bespectacled chairman of the No. 35 company
Bill Gates
Laura
|
$800
[26]
The cry of a canvasback
quack
|
|
$1,000
[30]
O. Henry:"Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present"
"The Gift of the Magi"
Mark
|
$1,000
[6]
An award given for the best running back in college football is named for this 1948 Heisman winner from SMU
Doak Walker
|
$1,000
[29]
Atlantis on this "heavenly" island in the Bahamas has a Lazy River Ride & a Mayan Temple Water Slide
Paradise Island
Laura
|
$1,000
[11]
Alexander the Great conquered much of the known world riding this stallion
Bucephalus
|
$1,000
[18]
At No. 9, this printer-heavy co. from Palo Alto had the biggest payroll bump after acquiring 149,000 EDS workers
HP
Laura
|
$1,000
[27]
It's a titan in the trucking industry
Mack
Laura
|
| WE SHALL REMAIN: GERONIMO | TAYLOR, SWIFT | PLANT LIFE | ART | TIME TO CONVERT | "V" IS FOR |
|
$400
[26]
Geronimo married the daughter of Cochise, a great one of these, but was never one himself as he was thought too impulsive
a chief
Jennifer
|
$400
[5]
Taylor Lautner played Jacob Black in this 2008 vampire flick
Twilight
Laura
|
$400
[1]
Carl Sandburg wrote, "I am" this most abundant type of flora; "I cover all"
the grass
Mark
|
$400
[10]
In the 1300s Italy gave birth to this art movement that would eventually sweep across Europe
the Renaissance
Laura
|
$400
[15]
It's the simplest fractional form of .75
3/4
Mark
|
$400
[21]
...this word on a sign meaning there's still room at the inn
vacancy
Jennifer
|
|
$800
[27]
Wyatt Earpwas part of this sheriff-organized group sent out after Geronimo; it never caught sight of him
a posse
Jennifer
|
$800
[6]
"Gossip Girl" Taylor Momsen was Cindy Lou Who in this holiday film
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Laura
|
$800
[2]
If someone insists your spruce is really a fir, show him that these pointy items are square, not flat
needles
Jennifer
|
$800
[11]
Seen in the painting here, this Dutch artist loved the color yellow
van Gogh
Laura
|
$800
[16]
MMIX in Roman numerals gives us this year
2009
Laura
|
$800
[22]
...this third-largest city of Spain, famous for its oranges
Valencia
Laura
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Late in life, Geronimo got co-opted by the white power structure, even riding in this president's 1905inauguralparade
Teddy Roosevelt
Jennifer
|
$1,200
[7]
Taylor Kitsch is Gambit in this 2009 X-Men flick
Wolverine
Mark
|
$1,200
[3]
Club, reindeer & Spanish are called this but botanically are not true this
moss
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a landscape on the monitor.) To show distance, the artist creates a place on the horizon where two parallel lines seem toconverge, referred to by this 2-word term
the vanishing point
Laura
|
$1,200
[17]
.001 grams is equal to one of these
a milligram
Mark
|
$1,200
[23]
...this pasta, thinner than spaghetti, whose name is Italian for "little worms"
vermicelli
Jennifer
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Geronimowas born in the 1820s to the Bedonkohe, the smallest band among the Chiricahua branch of this tribe
Apache
|
$1,600
[8]
This season 5 winner of "American Idol" is from Alabama
Taylor Hicks
Laura
|
$1,600
[4]
It's the large floating leaf of a water lily
pad
Laura
|
$2,000
[14]
In 1865 he shocked Paris with "Olympia", his painting of a reclining nude
Édouard Manet
|
$1,600
[18]
Multiply your liters by 1.0567 to get your amount of these units
a quart
Jennifer
Laura
|
$1,600
[24]
...this, like Paricutin in Mexico
volcano
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Geronimo was inspired by the Dreamer, one of these visionary healers or shamans, who was killed in 1881
a medicine man
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[9]
In a 2008 film he played Drillbit Taylor
Owen Wilson
Laura
|
$2,000
[19]
The spiny shrub ocotillo takes these as its habitat & is common in the Sonoran & Chihuahuan ones
a desert
Mark
|
DD
$4,000
[12]
This artist used trowels, sticks & even basters to create some of his drip paintings, like "Cathedral"
Jackson Pollock
Laura
|
DD
$2,200
[20]
You do the math: -40 degrees on the Fahrenheit temperature scale equals this on the Celsius scale
-40
Mark
|
$2,000
[25]
...this everyday form of Latin spoken by the Romans; sounds crude but it wasn't
Vulgar
Jennifer
Mark
|
An 1881 resolution established that this state's name was to be spelled one way but pronounced another
Arkansas