Show #5693 2009-05-13 (taped 2009-04-15) College Championship

2009 College Championship semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Mark Petterson — a senior from the University of Kansas

Erica Greil — a junior from Princeton University

Patrick Tucker — a senior from the University of Notre Dame

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Patrick	$1,400	$5,000	$13,400	$23,201 Finalist	$12,600 21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Erica	$3,000	$6,200	$9,000	$3,647 2nd place: $10,000	$9,000 17 R, 2 W
Mark	$1,600	$4,800	$11,600	$1,502 3rd place: $10,000	$10,600 14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

STAYING AT HOME	THE WORLD COMES TO YOU	WHAT'S ON TV?	CHECK THE NEWSPAPER	TAKE OUT THE TRASH	TIME FOR A "NAP"
$200 [21] The British royal residence & castle known as Balmoral is found in this U.K. country Scotland Mark	$200 [6] This geographic extreme has no sunshine for 182 days a year the South Pole Patrick Erica	$200 [1] The fifth season of this show is finding itself: Jin isn't dead after all; like others he's sort of displaced in time Lost Erica	$200 [30] Though based in McLean, Virginia, this top-selling daily serves the entire nation USA Today Patrick	$200 [16] I obeyed this item's "Squeeze... from the bottom & flatten as you go up" until I couldn't squeeze or flatten anymore toothpaste Erica	$200 [7] A quickly taken informal photo a snapshot Patrick
$400 [22] Treat yourself like royalty by lounging at Iolani Palace, the old home of Hawaii's monarchs on this isle Oahu Erica	$400 [12] The towering statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooks this South American metropolis Rio de Janiero Patrick	$400 [2] Joshua Jackson plays the son of a mad scientist on this "X-Files"-esque Fox show Fringe Patrick	$600 [26] This Detroit paper has a 2-word name, a guarantee of the First Amendment the Free Press Patrick	$400 [17] Time to recycle my latest 24 cans of this lemon-lime soft drink that sponsors the NBA Slam Dunk Contest Sprite Patrick	$400 [8] You may not have ever seen it, but it's the back of your neck the nape Patrick
$600 [23] Keep a low profile if you visit Hatchet Hall, home of this female anti-alcohol campaigner Carry Nation Mark	$600 [13] Ommmmmmm...This Tibetan city is known as the "Forbidden City" Lhasa Patrick	$600 [3] We were just getting into Michael Imperioli & Harvey Keitel on this "planetary" cop show, then it got canceled Life on Mars Patrick	$800 [27] A San Diego paper is the Union-this; Chicago has the (just) this the Tribune Patrick	$600 [18] I've worn my INSPI(RED) T-shirt from this company so many times, even Goodwill won't want it The Gap Erica	$600 [9] I love the smell of this incendiary jelly-like substance in the morning! napalm Erica
$800 [24] Chill out in this D.C. residence like Harry Truman did in the 1950s when the White House was being renovated Blair House Patrick	$800 [14] Da, this mountain range separates Siberia from European Russia the Urals Mark	$800 [4] Hey, Simon Baker plays this title crime solver on CBS; sure, he was a fraud in the past, but he gets the job done The Mentalist Mark	$1,000 [28] In April 2009 this daily from the First Church of Christ, Scientist replaced its daily print edition with its website The Christian Science Monitor Mark	$800 [19] Wow, an oldphotolabeled "Grandma and Grandpa at" this Arizona natural wonder, "1947"--gee, too bad I don't know these people the Grand Canyon Patrick	$800 [10] Unsuitable inappropriate
$1,000 [25] Get lost in the 250-room North Carolina mansion known as Biltmore that was once home to members of this family the Vanderbilts Erica	$1,000 [15] Tierra del Fuego lies just south of this blustery strait the Strait of Magellan Erica	$1,000 [5] They always call in science-loving biophysicist Jacob Hood at the last possible moment on this show Eleventh Hour Patrick	DD $1,400 [29] In 1889 Dow Jones changed the name of its daily business newsletter to this The Wall Street Journal Mark	$1,000 [20] Last week's sandwich has to go; it's now ham, cheese & Rhizopus stolonifer, better known as this mold Erica	$1,000 [11] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a micrographic animation on the monitor.) In the nervous system, when an impulse gets to the end of a nerve, cell neurotransmitters shoot across one of these spaces a synapse Erica

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENTISTS	WOMEN ON MY INFINITE PLAYLIST	KINGS OF LEON	LITERARY SETTINGS	WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT	OOO, 3 "O"s
$400 [11] The farad, a unit used to measure electrical capacitance, is named for this 19th century physicist (Michael) Faraday Patrick	$400 [2] Her hit "...Baby One More Time" was also recorded by Fountains of Wayne & Bowling for Soup Britney Spears Patrick	$400 [17] Leon is in western Spain, & its kings also ruled much of this country that wasn't independent until around 1140 Portugal Erica	$400 [1] Toni Morrison's "Jazz" is set primarily in this Manhattan neighborhood in the 1920s Harlem Erica	$400 [3] In February 2009 she traveled to Asia in her first trip abroad as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Patrick	$400 [18] It's a beautiful day in this, a district or locality, often with reference to its inhabitants the neighborhood Mark
$800 [26] This great physicist is buried at Copenhagen's Assistens Kirkegaard (Niels) Bohr Patrick	$800 [7] Formerly on "Kids Incorporated", this "Glamorous" woman can tell you that "Big Girls Don't Cry" Fergie Erica	$800 [23] Kings included Alfonso IX El Baboso, "The Drooler", & Alfonso VI El Bravo, meaning this "The Brave" Mark	$800 [13] "To Kill a Mockingbird" takes place in a small town in this southern state Alabama Patrick Mark	$800 [4] 1 of the 2 female senators from California Barbara Boxer (or Dianne Feinstein) Patrick	$800 [19] An exclusive privilege to carry on a business, granted by a government; respond & collect $800 a monopoly Erica
DD $1,000 [27] This Russian physiologist published his first book, "Work of the Digestive Glands", in 1897 (Ivan) Pavlov Patrick	$1,200 [8] Her single "So What" was on the Billboard charts even before the release of her 2008 album "Funhouse" Pink Erica	$1,200 [24] In 1081 Alfonso VI banished from Leon this most famous medieval Spanish warrior El Cid Patrick	$1,200 [14] (Jon of the Clue Crew walks a walled street of Pamplona, Spain.) A passage reads, "Suddenly, a crowd came down the street. They were all running, and then the bulls galloping, tossing their heads up and down..." vividly capturing Pamplona in this 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises Patrick	$1,200 [5] At 42, she became Alaska's youngest governor; recently, at 44, she became a grandmother Sarah Palin Mark	$1,200 [20] I got one of these for ya, Mac; they're also on ballots for Californians to vote on propositions Erica
$1,600 [28] In 1885 he left Edison because he was refused a raise to $25 a week; 6 years later, he invented his coil Tesla Mark	$1,600 [9] Breaking with her Christian music roots, she created some controversy with the song heard here"I kissed a girl and I liked it /The taste of her cherry chapstick..." Katy Perry Mark	$1,600 [25] The kings of Leon (the dead Spaniards, not the band) lie in the city of Leon in this "all the gods" structure the Pantheon	$1,600 [15] The "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series is set in this country that includes much of the Kalahari desert Botswana Erica	$1,600 [6] In 1967 Ann Uccello was elected the first woman mayor of a capital city--this capital of Connecticut Hartford Erica	$1,600 [21] Check out the "bark" of this tree of the genus Cornus dogwood Mark
$2,000 [29] 2008 Nobelist Osamu Shimomura isolated a glowing green fluorescent protein in this aquatic creature a jellyfish Erica Mark	$2,000 [10] Shemade a name for herself on the second stage at Lilith Fair in 1998"These eyes never saw you leaving /This heart..." India.Arie	$2,000 [30] Like the daughter of a future Spanish king, the daughter of Leon's Ferdinand III was married to a king of this nation England	$2,000 [16] Thomas Hardy set many of his novels in this fictional place also in the title of his first volume of verse Wessex Mark	DD $3,000 [12] After heading up 2 Cabinet departments, she represented North Carolina in the Senate from 2003 to 2009 (Elizabeth) Dole Patrick	$2,000 [22] This B.I.G. term means widely & unfavorably known notorious Mark

Final Jeopardy!

THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT

In 1784 these 2 future presidents saw an early manned balloon flight in Paris &, in 1793, America's 1st, in Philadelphia

John Adams & Thomas Jefferson

Erica "Who are Jefferson & Monroe" — wagered $5,353

Mark "Who are Jefferson and Monroe?" — wagered $10,098

Patrick "Who are T. Jefferson & John Adams?" — wagered $9,801

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