2009 College Championship semifinal game 1.
Eric Betts — a senior from Emory University
Ariella Goldstein — a junior from Muhlenberg College
Scott Menke — a senior from Johns Hopkins University
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $1,800 | $2,600 | $15,200 |
$3,199
2nd place: $10,000 |
$16,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ariella | $1,000 | $400 | $8,000 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$6,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Eric | $2,200 | $7,200 | $13,600 |
$23,999
Finalist |
$13,600
18 R, 2 W |
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$200
[3]
(I'm Suzanne Malveaux.) Pope Benedict's visit to the U.S. was extra festive: during his White Housevisit, he was serenaded with this 1893 song
"Happy Birthday To You"
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$200
[1]
Choose from 26 hot babes holding 26 briefcases on this hit game show
Deal or No Deal
Ariella
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$200
[26]
Some say that the medieval tapestries about the hunting of this mythical beast symbolize the life of Christ
the unicorn
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$200
[14]
The story "The Snows of" this African mountain first appeared in a 1936 Esquire spread
Kilimanjaro
Ariella
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$200
[13]
Josef Delarose Lascaux introduced this confection, aka spun sugar, at his dental practice
cotton candy
Ariella
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$200
[11]
I'm at the car & I'm the first to call this word--now I get to ride in the front seat!
shotgun
Scott
|
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$400
[4]
Done to prevent repeat voting, thepurple fingers were a symbol of the return of democracy to this country
Iraq
Scott
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$400
[2]
You face off against the mob on this Bob Saget-hosted show
1 vs. 100
Ariella
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$400
[27]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) If side a equals 3 & side B equals 4, it's the length of side C
5
Eric
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$400
[15]
Inman is a Confederate soldier trying to get home in this Charles Frazier novel
Cold Mountain
|
$400
[22]
The supple consistency of this chewy saltwater candy is achieved by twisting & pulling as it cools
taffy
Eric
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$400
[12]
It's a Y-shaped schoolyard weapon using small projectiles
a slingshot
Eric
|
|
$600
[8]
(I'm Anderson Cooper, anchor ofA.C. 360.) In 2005, this craftput the Space Shuttle program back in flight after Columbia's tragedy 2 years earlier
Discovery
Scott
|
$600
[5]
Though Bob has retired from this game show, it still tapes in the "Bob Barker Studio"
The Price Is Right
Scott
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$600
[28]
In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Littte Eva's first name is actually this, like the heroine of a Longfellow poem
Evangeline
Scott
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$600
[18]
Before "Into the Wild", this author wrote "Into Thin Air", about a Mount Everest trip gone wrong
Jon Krakauer
Scott
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$600
[23]
Admiral Byrd took 2 1/2 tons of these Necco candies on his trip to the South Pole
Necco Wafers
Ariella
Eric
|
$600
[19]
The odds of you not saying this term for a horse with little chance of winning must be 100 to 1
a longshot
Eric
|
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
The Doomsday Vaultin Arctic Norway preserves thesein case of a disaster affecting the world's food supply
seeds
Scott
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$800
[6]
5 elementary school kids help adults make the grade on this Jeff Foxworthy game show
Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
Eric
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$800
[29]
Aptly, a big, fluffy makeup brush is named for this form of Japanese theatre known for its distinctive heavy makeup
kabuki theatre
Eric
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$800
[16]
A crash landing in the Himalayas sets the stage for this James Hilton tale of a fabled land
Lost Horizon
Eric
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$800
[24]
George Renninger invented this tricolored confection in the 1880s; farmers loved its agrarian look
candy corn
|
$800
[20]
For olympians, the ball weighs 16 pounds; for high school boys, 12, in this event
the shotput
Scott
|
|
$1,000
[10]
(I'm Campbell Brown.) The Democrats have adopted a 50-state strategy at the instigation ofthisDNC chairman & former presidential contender
Howard Dean
Scott
|
$1,000
[7]
Show on which 2 clans compete to guess the top responses to survey questions
Family Feud
Eric
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$1,000
[30]
More than 1,000 islands make up the Alexander Archipelago in this U.S. state
Alaska
Eric
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$1,000
[17]
James Baldwin gained fame with this semi-autobiographical work that includes a peak in the title
Go Tell It on the Mountain
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$1,000
[25]
Macaroons are often made with the shredded meat of this palm fruit
coconut
Eric
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$1,000
[21]
Word for the large size of shot used for deer hunting
buckshot
Eric
|
| WORLD CAPITALS | BROADWAY REVIVALISM | TECH TALK | SCRAMBLED MAMMALS | AFRICAN AMERICANS | "COL"LEGE |
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$400
[1]
The Australian War Memorial is in this city
Canberra
Ariella
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$400
[16]
It's always "the Age of Aquarius" in this musical that lets the sun shine in again in 2009
Hair
Ariella
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$400
[4]
Microsoft made a tool to recognize this annoyance & found it could also help find the fast-mutating HIV virus
spam
Scott
|
$400
[29]
An ocean dweller:POISE PRO
porpoise
Scott
|
$400
[9]
As part of a 3-book deal, she'll soon write a memoir about her years as Secretary of State
(Condoleezza) Rice
Eric
|
$400
[21]
It links the scapula & the sternum
the collarbone
Scott
|
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1823 Costa Rica moved its capital from Cartago to this city where coffee plantations were prospering
San José
Eric
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$800
[17]
The original ran for 2 years, but the revival of this Illinois-set musical had a 12th anniversary party in 2008
Chicago
Ariella
|
$800
[5]
This device at the government's NIST lab neither gains nor loses a second in 99 million years
the atomic clock
Eric
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$800
[28]
A real softy:CHAIN CHILL
chinchilla
Eric
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$800
[12]
In 1962 he said, "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ariella
|
$800
[25]
A settlement far from a home country
a colony
Eric
|
|
$1,600
[10]
This capital city is on a railway line between Fez & Casablanca
Rabat
Scott
|
$1,200
[18]
This classic Rodgers & Hammerstein show set in WWII Polynesia came back to Broadway in 2008
South Pacific
Ariella
|
$1,200
[6]
Astronomy using these, discovered in the 1890s, has to be done from space as these can't penetrate our atmosphere
X-rays
Eric
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
A little monkey:MORE MAST
marmoset
Scott
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$1,200
[13]
Currently, he's the only African American on the Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas
Scott
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$1,200
[23]
California venue that has hosted 2 Olympic games
the L.A. Coliseum
Scott
|
|
DD
$2,000
[2]
This European capital lies on a plain near the southern end of the Attic Peninsula
Athens
Ariella
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$1,600
[19]
In April 2009 Bill Irwin & Nathan Lane began "Waiting for" him (P.S. They're still waiting)
Godot
Scott
|
$1,600
[7]
This word came to be used in telecom when the coverage area was divided into honeycomb shapes
cellular
|
$1,200
[26]
It's under heavy cover:IDOL ALARM
armadillo
Scott
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1872 Victoria Woodhull chose this orator & former slave to be her running mate
Frederick Douglass
Scott
|
$1,600
[22]
From the Latin for "partner in office", it's an associate with whom one works
a colleague
Eric
|
|
$2,000
[11]
One way to see the sights on New Providence Island in the Bahamas is to get on a bus called a jitney in this port
Nassau
Scott
|
$2,000
[20]
Hey, genius, it's the genus of your pony--also a play revived on Broadway in 2008
Equus
Eric
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$2,000
[8]
In 1971 Intel introduced these integrated circuits that perform all the functions of a CPU
microprocessor
|
$2,000
[30]
Large hog-like mammal:I TRAP
tapir
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$2,000
[15]
Ernest Just, who received the first Spingarn Medal in 1915, was a biologist & professor at this D.C. university
Howard
Ariella
|
$2,000
[24]
Arches supported by a row of evenly spaced columns
a colonnade
|
Before its use in journalism, it meant a boundary beyond which straying prisoners would be shot
deadline