2009 College Championship quarterfinal game 5.
Patrick Tucker — a senior from the University of Notre Dame
Ariella Goldstein — a junior from Muhlenberg College
Andrew Ceppos — a senior from Tufts University
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew | $1,800 | $3,400 | $9,200 |
$18,399
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$13,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ariella | $1,400 | $5,200 | $12,000 |
$18,401
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Patrick | $4,800 | $7,800 | $15,400 |
$24,001
Automatic semifinalist |
$15,400
20 R, 1 W |
| OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s | MOVIES & TV | A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS | ANIMAL COLLECTIVE | I'D RATHER BE SKIING | PARLEZ VOUS? |
|
$200
[6]
goop.com is a lifestyles website from this Oscar-winning actress; the g & p represent her initials
Gwyneth Paltrow
Patrick
|
$200
[1]
On March 19, 2009 he said, "I'm excited and honored to introduce my first guest... Barack Obama"
Jay Leno
Patrick
|
$200
[11]
Baylor, Stephen F. Austin, Rice
Texas
Patrick
|
$200
[16]
Synonym for dignity that's the term for a group of lions
a pride
Andrew
|
$200
[26]
If you're a beginner, you might hippity-hop over to this smaller, gentler slope
a bunny hill
Ariella
|
$200
[21]
If your mate from Marseilles says he's getting to LAX via "Sud-Ouest", pick him up at this carrier
Southwest
Ariella
|
|
$400
[7]
In 2008 David Gregory became moderator of this NBC Sunday morning news show
Meet the Press
Ariella
|
$400
[2]
Time magazine said this 2003 Pixar film was "the ultimate fish-out-of-water story"
Finding Nemo
Andrew
|
$400
[12]
Antioch, Bowling Green, Kent State
Ohio
Ariella
|
$400
[17]
Like peas, whales & seals are in groups called these
pods
Patrick
|
$400
[27]
Something you'd sprinkle on after a shower, it's also the term for soft, dry, freshly fallen snow
powder
Patrick
|
$400
[22]
Duck, duck, l'oie; (l'oie of course referring to this other feathered friend)
a goose
Patrick
|
|
$600
[8]
Linus Torvalds is the father of this operating system used on cell phones & supercomputers
Linux
Patrick
|
$600
[3]
Of his dialogue, this Han Solo actor said, "You can type this (stuff), George, but you sure can't say it"
Harrison Ford
Ariella
|
$600
[13]
DePaul, Wheaton, Northwestern
Illinois
Andrew
|
$600
[18]
A crash is a group of these large horned mammals
rhinoceroses
Ariella
|
$600
[28]
In California, a premier spot for skiing is this resort area that shares its name with a prehistoric elephant
Mammoth
Ariella
|
$600
[23]
"Je ne sais pas" means this, but you still get credit if you phrase it in the form of a question
"I don't know"
Andrew
|
|
$800
[9]
The district of conservative rep. Patrick McHenry in this state includes Mooresville, a home of NASCAR
North Carolina
Patrick
|
$800
[4]
Tim Robbins played a public TV newsman in "Anchorman: The Legend of" him
Ron Burgundy
Andrew
|
$800
[14]
Wayne State, Kalamazoo College, Madonna University (it's Franciscan Catholic, not Material Girl)
Michigan
Patrick
|
$800
[19]
It can be a pack of dogs, or a place to board them
a kennel
Patrick
|
$1,000
[30]
Bumps or mounds of snow that accumulate on a slope are called these, like some very wealthy & powerful people
moguls
|
$800
[24]
When mom tells you to do something "Maintenant!", she means this
now
Andrew
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Elon Musk is now making rockets & electric cars; before that he co-founded & sold this electronic payment system
PayPal
Andrew
|
$1,000
[5]
We were frakkin' sad when this sci fi show had its series finale on March 20, 2009
Battlestar Galactica
Patrick
|
$1,000
[15]
Grambling,McNeese State, Southern
Louisiana
Andrew
Patrick
|
$1,000
[20]
A flock of these black birds is called a murder
crows
Patrick
|
DD
$1,200
[29]
In this type of race you have to zigzag between flags or other obstacles in proper order
a slalom
Ariella
|
$1,000
[25]
"Huitieme" is French for this ordinal number
eighth
Ariella
|
| AMERICAN AUTHORS | ALBUMS THAT ROCK | ANATOMY | MATHEM-ATTACK! | NAME THE DECADE | WORD ORIGINS |
|
$400
[6]
Her home Orchard House was the model for where the March family lived in her most famous novel
Louisa May Alcott
Ariella
|
$400
[1]
"X&Y","Parachutes"
Coldplay
Andrew
|
$400
[14]
This cord that connects a fetus to the placenta contains 2 arteries & 1 vein
the umbilical cord
Andrew
|
$400
[26]
Che Guevara probably knew the political-sounding term for the root symbol seen here
radical
Andrew
|
$400
[11]
The World Wide Web gets its first page
the 1990s
Andrew
|
$400
[18]
This adjective meaning deceptive or sneaky is from the Latin de via, meaning "out of the way"
devious
Patrick
|
|
$800
[7]
During the War Of 1812, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of Naval commanders
Washington Irving
Ariella
|
$800
[2]
"American Idiot","Dookie"
Green Day
Andrew
|
$800
[15]
The human body has 3 types of these: skeletal, smooth & cardiac, a combination of skeletal & smooth
muscles
Andrew
Ariella
|
$800
[27]
You should answer this one automatically:It's the property that saysa = a
reflexive
Ariella
|
$800
[22]
The first controlled nuclear chain reaction
the 1940s
Patrick
|
$800
[19]
This New York island's name may come from the Algonquian word for "island"
Manhattan
Andrew
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Susan & Benjamin Cheever, children of this short story master, are both authors as well
John Cheever
Ariella
|
$1,200
[3]
"Master of Puppets","Death Magnetic"
Metallica
Andrew
|
$1,200
[16]
The talus fits between the ends of these 2 bones forming the ankle joint
the tibia & fibula
Andrew
|
$1,200
[28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an array of numbers enclosed in brackets on the monitor.) A set of numbers in rows & columns can be used in many ways--for example, to encrypt a code or create 3-D computer graphics; the set shares this name with a 1999 film
a matrix
Andrew
|
$1,200
[23]
Khruschev's "Secret Speech" denounces Stalin
the 1950s
Patrick
|
$1,600
[21]
From the Latin for "much writing", it's another name for a lie detector test
a polygraph
Patrick
|
|
$1,600
[9]
He stood 5'3" & was the subject of movies that came out in 2005 & 2006
(Truman) Capote
Andrew
Patrick
|
$1,600
[4]
"In Your Honor","The Color and the Shape"
Foo Fighters
Andrew
|
$1,600
[13]
Humans have 33 vertebrae, 7 of them cervical, meaning they are in this part of the body
your neck
Ariella
Patrick
|
$1,600
[29]
The symboliis used to represent the imaginary square root of this number
-1
Patrick
|
DD
$1,800
[12]
George Orwell, 34 years dead, hits the bestseller list
the 1980s
Andrew
|
$2,000
[25]
A type of ear implant to help the deaf, it's from the Greek for "snail"
cochlear
Patrick
|
|
$2,000
[10]
He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", was published in 1959
Philip Roth
Ariella
|
$2,000
[5]
"Beggars Banquet","Steel Wheels"
The Rolling Stones
Andrew
|
$2,000
[17]
The pons connects the 2 hemispheres of this part of the brain that regulates balance
the cerebellum
|
$2,000
[30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) Half the base times the height gives the area of a triangle; for acylinder, the area of the base times the height gives this measurement
volume
Ariella
|
$2,000
[24]
Man first reaches the South Pole
the 1910s
Ariella
|
DD
$4,800
[20]
This compass direction may come from the Proto-Germanic for "to the left of the rising sun"
north
Andrew
|
He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing"
Henry VIII