Show #4411 2003-11-10 (taped 2003-10-03) College Championship

2003 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.From Yale University.

Contestants

Robby Schrum — a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana

Mary Naam — a junior at Harvard University from Effingham, Illinois

Ken Basin — a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Ken	$3,600	$7,200	$16,800	$16,800 Automatic semifinalist	$16,400 21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Mary	$600	$2,400	$5,600	$0 3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated	$5,600 16 R, 4 W
Robby	$1,600	$2,400	$5,700	$11,400 2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated	$6,000 13 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE & NATURE	THE J. LO DOWN	NOSE WEEK	BALLET	THE SNACK FOOD GROUP	ABBR.
$200 [1] Alphabetically, it's the first mammal that could be in a "STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS" category aardvark Mary	$200 [12] Rich guy Ralph Fiennes falls in love with hotel employee Jennifer Lopez in this Cinderella story Maid in Manhattan Mary	$200 [22] The name of this large land creature is from the Greek for "nose-horned" rhinoceros Robby	$200 [3] The tale of the tortoise & the hare comes to life in Karen Corey-Malik's ballet based on this man's fables Aesop Ken	$200 [17] The first 2 ingredients listed in Cheez Whiz are whey & this (it does a body good) milk Ken	$200 [2] To save someone costs when replying to your letter, enclose an SASE, which stands for this self addressed stamped envelope Robby
$400 [4] It's the main metal in both bronze & brass copper Ken	$400 [13] When asked what she got on this standardized college placement exam, Jen quipped, "Nail polish" the SAT Ken	$400 [23] This 6-letter word for the spout at the end of a hose is a diminutive form of "nose" nozzle Ken	$400 [27] "Something" tells us the ABT presented a ballet tribute to this former Beatle who passed away in 2001 George Harrison Ken	$400 [18] This company's Wheat Thins are thin, baked wheat crackers; its Triscuit thin crisps, thin, baked wheat wafers Nabisco Mary	$400 [8] In chat room abbreviations, WYSIWYG is "what you see is what you get"; YGWYPF is this you get what you pay for Mary
$800 [6] From their size, about 2.5 cm. & how they crawl, caterpillars of the moth family Geometridae are often called this inchworm Mary	$600 [14] Ben Affleck plays a lowly thug who falls for female gangster J. Lo in this 2003 romantic comedy Gigli Ken	$600 [24] Henry I of England fixed this unit of measure as the distance from his nose to the thumb of his outstretched arm yard Mary	$600 [28] Czar Nicholas II & this empress appear in "Anastasia", a ballet about one of their daughters Alexandra Mary	$600 [19] In 1932 Elmer Doolin paid a guy in Texas $100 for his corn chip recipe & founded this brand Fritos Ken Mary	$600 [9] Computer users should know that BBS stands for this bulletin board system Mary Robby
DD $1,000 [5] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Cape Cod, Massachusetts) When lightning strikes the sand, it can melt & fuse it into a type of this, called fulgurite glass Ken	$800 [15] When Jen wore that now-infamous green Versace dress to the 2000 Grammys, he was her date Puff Daddy Robby	$800 [25] Edmond Rostand won international fame with this 1897 play about a long-nosed, star-crossed poet Cyrano de Bergerac Ken	$800 [29] Arrgh! A pirate is the hero of "Le Corsaire", based on an 1814 poem by this British lord Lord Byron Robby	$800 [20] As you can see, the logo on this product's can has had some work done over the years Pringles Mary	$800 [10] EOE in a job listing in the newspaper classifieds stands for this equal opportunity employer Robby
$1,000 [7] This property is the reason a rubber ball bounces & a stretched rubber band springs back to size elasticity Ken	$1,000 [16] The video for this song pays homage to the movie "Flashdance", with Jen as the welder/dancer "I'm Glad" Ken	$1,000 [26] This Indian tribe's name comes from the French for "pierced noses", ironically a practice they rarely engaged in Nez Perce Ken Robby	$1,000 [30] In 2003 the dance theatre of this N.Y. neighborhood presented the world premiere of "St. Louis Woman: A Blues Ballet" Harlem Ken	$1,000 [21] What would you do for this ice cream treat introduced by the Isaly family in 1922 a Klondike bar Ken	$1,000 [11] The abbreviation for pound, lb., stands for this Latin word that means pound libra

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN-AMERICANA	BEFORE & AFTER	SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN	GRADE	POINT	AVERAGE
$400 [24] In the history of jazz, Dizzy Gillespie & Louis Armstrong were 2 of the greatest players of this instrument the trumpet Ken	$400 [1] Inventor of the telephone who's a nice salad ingredient Alexander Graham Bell pepper Mary Robby	$400 [21] She makes her first entrance with "Her ladies, the train, with eunuchs fanning her" Cleopatra	$400 [6] A second grade science experiment includes labeling magnets with these 2 math symbols plus & minus Mary	$400 [11] Lizard Point, from the Cornish for "court on a height", is this island's southernmost point Great Britain	$400 [12] From 1980 to 1998 this rose worldwide from 61 to 67 life expectancy Ken
$800 [25] Once called "The Capstone of Negro Education", this Washington, D.C. university opened its doors in 1867 Howard University Mary	$800 [2] This new Dynamic Duo is made up of Bruce Wayne's superhero self & a famous bandit of Sherwood Forest Batman & Robin Hood Robby	$800 [22] Title adjective Shakespeare used to describe Mistresses Ford & Page merry Mary	$800 [7] Sixth grade social studies teach about renewable energy, like solar, & nonrenewable, like this solid fossil fuel coal Robby	$800 [17] At Pittsburgh's "The Point", the Allegheny & Monongahela meet to form this third river the Ohio Mary Robby	$800 [13] Of 2, 4, 8 or 16, the number of hours a day the TV's on in the average American home 8 Mary Robby
$1,200 [26] While an editor for Random House books, she wrote her first novel, "The Bluest Eye" Toni Morrison Robby	$1,200 [3] Macedonian world conqueror who became a tragic F. Scott Fitzgerald hero Alexander the Great Gatsby Ken	DD $900 [29] Figure it out: she has the third line in "Macbeth" the third witch Robby	$1,200 [8] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows the equation y = 3x + 7 at a chalkboard.) Eighth graders should be able to deal with this type of equation that uses variables without exponents a linear equation Robby	$1,200 [18] A high point of your trip to Santiago might be seeing this hemispheric high point nearby Mount Aconcagua	$1,200 [14] According to Conde Nast, in the U.S. the average cost of this event is now $22,360 a wedding Mary
$1,600 [27] Currently, they're the 2 highest-ranking African-Americans in President Bush's administration Condoleezza Rice & Colin Powell Ken	$1,600 [4] "Colorful" 14th century plague that became a hit play by Arthur Miller The Black Death of a Salesman Ken	$1,200 [23] This daughter of Prospero was but a few years old when they were exiled Miranda	$2,000 [10] Tenth grade? Time for this 1840s French novel about a man falsely imprisoned who wants revenge The Count of Monte Cristo Ken Mary	$1,600 [19] Cape Andreas is at the pointy end of this island in the eastern Mediterranean Cyprus Mary	$1,600 [15] In March 2003 astronomers said this grayish light brown was the average color of the universe beige Ken Mary
$2,000 [28] In 2003 the Postal Service did him justice by honoring him with the stamp seen here Thurgood Marshall Robby	$2,000 [5] Snoopy's owner who's one of the most poisonous types of spiders in the U.S. Charlie Brown Recluse Ken Robby	$2,000 [30] Briseis in Homer's "Iliad" evolved in tales over time to wind up as this Shakespeare title character Cressida	DD $2,200 [9] Ninth graders know that electrically neutral atoms have the same number of these 2 particles protons & electrons Robby	$2,000 [20] The instantaneous North Pole is the point where this imaginary line would poke out the (Earth's) axis Ken Robby	$2,000 [16] A Frenchman eats 53 pounds of this a year; an American, 31; a Japanese, 4 cheese Robby

Final Jeopardy!

NEW ORLEANS

At the end of the American Revolution, this country controlled New Orleans

Spain

Mary "What is France?" — wagered $5,600

Robby "What is Spain?" — wagered $5,700

Ken "What is France" — wagered $0

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