Show #5848 2010-02-03 (taped 2010-01-05) College Championship

2010-A College Championship quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Rebecca Maxfield — a freshman from Brown University

James Hill III — a freshman from Santa Clara University

Robbie Berg — a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Robbie	$1,400	$6,000	$6,800	$3 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$6,800 16 R, 3 W
James	$800	$3,000	$17,600	$25,198 Automatic semifinalist	$23,600 25 R, 3 W (including 3 DDs)
Rebecca	$2,400	$4,600	$15,000	$11,974 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$15,000 14 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

CAPITAL CITIES	MOVIE OBJECTS	FOOD FESTIVALS	MAMMALS	TAKE THE FIFTH	WORDS IN FEBRUARY
$200 [1] It joins Yokohama in a Metro area home to more than 30 million people Tokyo Robbie	$200 [6] In "The Wizard of Oz", the Wicked Witch of the West watches these disappear & then finds them on Dorothy ruby slippers James	$200 [22] Make room for guacamole & head to Fallbrook, California for its festival of this fruit avocado Robbie	$200 [21] Like mice, chipmunks belong to this order of mammals rodentia James	$200 [16] With the familiar 4-note opener, his Fifth Symphony has been called "the most popular orchestral work ever written" Beethoven James	$200 [9] The cost to ride a bus or subway fare James
$400 [2] The Maly & Bolshoi theaters are on its Teatralnaya Square Moscow James	$400 [7] In this holiday classic, Ralphie's dad's "leg lamp" causes quite a stir A Christmas Story James	$400 [23] Bridge City, Louisiana is famous for this festival where a lot of stewing goes on--seafood or chicken? gumbo Robbie	$400 [27] Down Under, a male one of these is called a buck, Boomer or jack a kangaroo Robbie	$400 [17] Our fifth president, he moved into a renovated post-torching White House Monroe Robbie	$400 [10] Extremely uncommon, or how I like my steak rare Robbie
$600 [3] It fell to British troops in 1917 & to U.S. troops on April 9, 2003 Baghdad James	$600 [8] At the beginning of "Close Encounters", a bunch of these, missing since 1945, are found in the Sonoran Desert airplanes	$600 [24] You'll find deep dish pizza & more at the "Taste of" this city, in Grant Park Chicago Rebecca	$600 [28] Our domesticated hogs are descended from these "wild" mammals of Europe wild boars Rebecca	$600 [18] This fifth book of the Bible ends with the death of Moses Deuteronomy Robbie	$600 [11] Exercise rail used by ballet dancers barre Rebecca
DD $1,000 [4] Once the capital of Spain's New World empire, this South American city was founded by Pizarro in 1535 Lima James	$800 [14] This shiny title object from a 2007 fantasy film is actually an alethiometer, which cryptically answers questions The Golden Compass Rebecca	$800 [25] The largest ethnic festival in Arkansas highlights foods from this country, like gyros & souvlaki Greece Robbie	$800 [29] The daily diet for this toothless mammal is some 30,000 termites & the insect in its name an anteater Robbie	$800 [19] The first American in space, he would later become the fifth man on the Moon (Alan) Shepard James	$800 [12] Grain for sandwich bread rye Robbie
$1,000 [5] The Rideau canal separates this North American capital into upper & lower regions Ottawa Robbie	$1,000 [15] When Jimmy Stewart finds these items from his daughter Zuzu in his pocket in "It's a Wonderful Life", all is well the flower petals	$1,000 [26] The Valparaiso Popcorn Festival in Indiana has a parade named for this man, America's popcorn king Orville Redenbacher Robbie	$1,000 [30] One of 2 living water mammals, also called sea cows, that belong to the order sirenia manatees (or dugongs) James	$1,000 [20] You get a B if you know it's the fifth element on the periodic table boron Rebecca	$1,000 [13] For Mercury it's only 88 days long a year Robbie Rebecca

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOMETRY	GRAPHIC NOVELS	CLASS "E"	PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS	PORTRAIT OF WHOM?	I'M FEELIN' HAPPY!
$400 [7] In books 1 through 4 of his "Elements", he covered the rudiments of plane geometry Euclid Rebecca	$400 [1] Though the show has ended, Joss Whedon still writes graphic novels about Angel & this title character Buffy James	$400 [11] Elementary classroom culture & management is an offering from Stanford's school of this Education James	$400 [10] United States Military Academy (class of 1843) (Ulysses) Grant Robbie	$400 [6] A 17th-century holder of this holy office in a 20th-centuryportrait the Pope Robbie	$400 [19] This "pleased" company is known for its drawstring trash bags Glad James
$800 [27] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) Two or more circles that have the same center point are said to be this, from the Latin for "together center" concentric Robbie	$800 [2] "The Photographer" chronicles a trip to Afghanistan with this medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders Robbie Rebecca	$800 [12] In the name of a Penn department, Earth Studies is paired with these earth-friendly studies Environmental Studies James	$800 [15] William & Mary College (class of 1762) Jefferson James	$800 [23] This English king in his coronation robes, a 1760 work by Allan Ramsay George III Robbie Rebecca	$800 [20] Rapture, or the first name of Ms. Behar of "The View"... so what? who cares? Joy Robbie
$1,200 [30] You deserve straight As if you know that a straight angle has this many degrees 180 James	$1,200 [4] A graphic novel by Robert Venditti & Brett Weldele was the basis for this Bruce Willis film about androids that live for users Surrogates James	$1,200 [13] Don't bug me! I'm doing my reading for this class in which we study insects entomology Rebecca	$1,200 [16] University of Michigan (class of 1935) Ford James	$1,200 [8] This person seenhereby Rembrandt, not Whistler the artist's mother Rebecca	$1,200 [21] In titles, it precedes "Adventures of Robin Hood" & "Wives of Windsor" Merry James
$1,600 [28] (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) Because the angle here is more than 90 degrees, both the angle & the triangle are classified as this obtuse James	$1,600 [3] Tim Hamilton illustrated the authorized adaptation of this dystopian classic by Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 James	$2,000 [24] Often paired with public health, it's the branch of medicine that deals with outbreaks of infectious diseases epidemiology Rebecca	$1,600 [18] Yale University (class of 1948) George H.W. Bush James	$1,600 [9] This super-impressionist, by fellow painter Renoir, 1875 Monet James	$1,600 [22] Greatly pleased, you're said to be this verb "pink" but to me, that sounds awful! tickled James
DD $2,500 [29] When carried out to 5 decimal places, pi equals this 3.14159 James	$2,000 [5] Art Spiegelman tackled the holocaust in this graphic novel that portrayed Germans as cats Maus Rebecca	DD $2,500 [17] At Harvard, Introduction to Game Theory is a course on this economics James	$2,000 [26] Whittier College (class of 1934) Nixon Rebecca	$2,000 [14] Seen here, Giovanni, a younger member of this Tuscan family the de' Medicis James	$2,000 [25] Ron Burgundy sang--but I won't--"a-uh-aa-aa-aa... afternoon" this delight James

Final Jeopardy!

OLYMPIC VENUES

At above 7,000 feet, this Western Hemisphere city had the highest altitude ever of a Summer Olympics host city

Mexico City

Robbie "What is Atlanta?" — wagered $6,797

Rebecca "What is Winnipeg?" — wagered $3,026

James "What is Mexico City?" — wagered $7,598

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