Show #5849 2010-02-04 (taped 2010-01-05) College Championship

2010-A College Championship quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Nick Yozamp — a junior from Washington University in St. Louis

Surya Sabhapathy — a senior from the University of Michigan

Dan D'Addario — a senior from Columbia University

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $3,000 $9,200 $17,800 $13,584
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$17,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Surya $800 $-200 $12,200 $17,000
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$12,200
12 R, 1 W
Nick $2,800 $6,000 $16,400 $20,000
Automatic semifinalist
$14,400
20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

MILITARY MATTERS THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS PRODUCE THE INTERNATIONAL PRODUCE AUTHOR, AUTHOR! I'LL TAKE THE COUNTRY FROM HERE, THANKS COLLEGIATE RHYME TIME
$200 [2]
Like Pearl Harbor, Marine Corps Base Hawaii is on this island
Oahu
Nick
$200 [5]
In 2009 Nebraska's Huskers rolled, spared & struck their way to the NCAA women's title in this sport
bowling
Dan
$200 [23]
Hope you catch up to the fact that a pomodoro is this fruit used in many pasta sauces in Italy
tomato
Dan
$200 [1]
"Billy Budd, Foretopman"
Melville
Nick
$200 [11]
Muammar al-Qaddafi, from King Idris
Libya
Dan
$200 [24]
A cleverly sharp head of a faculty
keen dean
Dan
$400 [3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) Because synchronization with the propeller hadn't been developed yet, the gun wasmountedabove the propeller arc on the Caproni Ca.20, which the Museum of Flight considers the first of this basic type of military aircraft
fighter plane
$400 [12]
Its Tar Heels won the 2009 NCAA basketball title
UNC
Dan
$400 [13]
Don't cry--it's only this vegetable known as a tamanegi in Japan
the onion
Nick
$400 [6]
"To the Lighthouse"
Virginia Woolf
Surya
$400 [15]
Nicolas Sarkozy, from Jacques Chirac
France
Surya
$400 [25]
The smell of the document you receive upon graduating
diploma aroma
Dan
$800 [10]
In the U.S. Marines, if you're one rank below corporal, you're this type of corporal
lance
Dan
$600 [20]
In 2009, this school's Gators won their second BCS title in 3 years
Florida
Dan
$600 [16]
In the Netherlands cut up a komkommer to add this gourd to your salad
cucumber
Nick
$600 [7]
"Absalom, Absalom!"
Faulkner
Dan
$600 [17]
Deng Xiaoping, from Hua Guofeng
China
Dan
$600 [26]
A B.A. in hosting a TV show
emcee degree
Dan
DD $1,000 [4]
All 28 members of this international organization have sent troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan
NATO
Nick
$800 [21]
The Cardinal women outstroked their rivals from Cal to bring this school a 2009 NCAA rowing title
Stanford
Nick
$800 [29]
In Poland, pick up some kalafjor if you crave this broccoli relative
cauliflower
Nick
$800 [8]
"Songs of Experience"
(William) Blake
Dan
$800 [18]
Asif Ali Zardari, from Pervez Musharraf
Pakistan
Dan
$800 [27]
A bureau for the clothes of a teacher of college courses
professor dresser
Dan
$1,000 [14]
The U.S. Army unitinsignia with the 23rd Greek letter signifies these operations
psychological
$1,000 [22]
This upstate N.Y. academy's team has won back-to-back National Collegeiate Boxing Association titles
West Point
Nick
$1,000 [30]
Mamma mia! In Rome this vegetable is cavolo
cabbage
Dan
$1,000 [9]
"Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Zora Neale Hurston
Nick
$1,000 [19]
Jose Zapatero, from Jose Maria Aznar
Spain
Surya
$1,000 [28]
A short, quick motion of the head on the square open area on campus
quad nod
Dan

Double Jeopardy! Round

FACTS & FINGERS INTERNET FAVORITES NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS HIT THE LIBRARY OFF TO GRAD SCHOOL GET A "P-H-D"
$400 [6]
As well as a list in a book, this word also means something that points out; hence this finger
index
Nick
$400 [16]
There have been more than 130 million views on YouTube for "The Evolution of" this, including the twist & the robot
Dance
Surya
$400 [1]
1934: "Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of" this classic
Little Women
Surya
$400 [5]
Ptolemy I wrote to sovereigns & governors asking for works by all authors to build this library's circulation
Library at Alexandria
Nick
$400 [28]
Study up for your GRE, short for this test; you're probably not hittin' grad school without it
Graduate Record Exam
Surya
$400 [11]
Hippos & rhinos are also these, thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates
pachyderms
Nick
$800 [7]
Extensor digiti minimi is the muscle that lets you straighten this when holding a teacup
pinkie
Nick
$800 [17]
Thousands of prisoners in the Philippines re-enacted the moves of the video of this Michael Jackson hit
"Thriller"
Nick
$800 [2]
1986: Her, "Plain and Tall"
Sarah
Surya
$800 [22]
The Manuscripts & Archives Division of this library known for its marble lions has Washington's farewell address
New York City Public Library
Nick
$800 [30]
Subjects in this grad field include food science & plant breeding; maybe you'll run the Cabinet dept. of it
agriculture
Nick
$800 [12]
The state of being a mom or dad
parenthood
Dan
$1,200 [8]
Olden tradition said the vena amoris, or vein of love, ran from this one of the 10 fingers
ring
Nick
$1,200 [19]
Fatso from Spokane is the lovable "Keyboard" this animal
Cat
Dan
$1,200 [3]
1972: "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of" this group
NIMH
Surya
$1,200 [23]
This priceless word comes before "Library of Philadelphia" in the name of a system with over 6 million books
free
$1,200 [26]
A 2006 study in N.J. found those going for this business degree are the most likely grad students to cheat
M.B.A.
Dan
$1,600 [15]
The name of this plant is from the Greek for "fond of trees"
philodendron
Dan
$1,600 [9]
In piano playing the fingers are numbered; a right-hand triad uses these 3 numbers
5, 3, 1
Surya
$1,600 [20]
"I'm On a Boat" is one of many popular parody songs that started on this TV show & then went viral on the web
Saturday Night Live
Surya
$1,600 [4]
1995: "Walk Two" of these celestial bodies
Moons
Dan
$1,600 [24]
Since 1537 it's been the legal depository for all books published in France--en francais, s'il vous plait!
the National Library (Bibliotheque Nationale)
$2,000 [29]
"Hold" this last name of the medical family who put on a clinic & established a graduate school of medicine in 1915
Mayo
Surya
$2,000 [18]
The Curies discovered radium in 1898 while working with this ore of uranium
pitchblende
Surya
$2,000 [10]
All primates have 2 of these bones in each thumb & 3 in each other finger
phalanges
Nick
$2,000 [21]
A popular animation about a unicorn with this name follows him to Candy Mountain, where he loses a kidney
Charlie
Surya
$2,000 [13]
1978: "Bridge to" this imaginary kingdom
Terabithia
Nick
$2,000 [25]
Located on Capitol Hill, it publishes the journal Shakespeare Quarterly
Folger
Nick
DD $2,200 [27]
His will provided $2 million to an Ivy League univ. to establish a graduate school of journalism; quite the prize
(Joseph) Pulitzer
Dan
DD $2,800 [14]
This term for a solid figure having many faces comes from the Greek for "many faces"
polyhedron
Nick

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY PEOPLE

The July 1, 1946 cover of Time magazine depicted him with the caption, "All matter is speed and flame"

Albert Einstein

Surya "Who is Albert Einstein?" — wagered $4,800
Nick "Who is Einstein?" — wagered $3,600
Dan "Who is Yeager?" — wagered $4,216

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