2010-A College Championship quarterfinal game 5.
Prashant Raghavendran — a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
Leah Anthony Libresco — a junior from Yale University
Lindsay Eanet — a senior from the University of Missouri
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lindsay | $1,600 | $3,400 | $14,600 |
$22,100
Automatic semifinalist |
$14,600
19 R, 2 W |
| Leah | $400 | $4,000 | $12,000 |
$21,000
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Prashant | $-200 | $1,400 | $9,400 |
$5,400
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| NEW TESTAMENT PLACES | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE | WORLD HOLIDAYS | ANAGRAMMED UNIVERSITIES | THE MIDDLE AGES | TIME FOR THE "SAT" AGAIN! |
|
$200
[26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in flowing water in Israel.) The book of Mark recounts how believers, including Jesus, were baptized in the Jordan River by this man
John the Baptist
Leah
|
$200
[1]
Katy Perry:"Waking Up In ____"
Vegas
Lindsay
|
$200
[6]
This second-most populous country celebrates Buddha Purnima & Diwali, a festival of light
India
Leah
|
$200
[16]
In jolly old England:BARDIC GEM
Cambridge
Lindsay
|
$200
[7]
Seeking an elixir for immortality, the 9th c. Chinese accidentally invented this using saltpeter, sulfur & charcoal
gunpowder
Prashant
|
$200
[21]
Iapetus orbits it
Saturn
Prashant
|
|
$400
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.) This boat from the early Christian era is the type that Peter & Andrew may have been in when Jesus said, "Follow me and I will make you" these
fishers of men
Leah
|
$400
[2]
Green Day:"____ Guns"
21
Lindsay
Prashant
|
$400
[10]
This country officially closes public schools on both St. Patrick's Day & St. Stephen's Day
Ireland
Lindsay
|
$400
[17]
A Latter-Day institution:BRAINY HOG MUG
Brigham Young
Prashant
|
$400
[8]
The Vikings developed written law & this type of trial that's specified in the 7th Amendment
trial by jury
Lindsay
|
$400
[22]
Launched in 1962, Telstar was the first commercial one of these
satellite
Leah
|
|
$600
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.) The Church of the Beatitudes is on the hilltop long considered the site where Jesus delivered this, which contained the Beatitudes
the Sermon on the Mount
Lindsay
|
$600
[3]
Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester:"Good Girls ____ ____"
Go Bad
Lindsay
Prashant
|
$600
[11]
This country has Bataan Day & People Power Day, commemorating the 1986 revolt
the Philippines
Prashant
|
$600
[18]
60% Texan enrollment:ERIC
Rice
Prashant
|
$600
[9]
Around 1000 A.D. the caliphate of Cordoba controlled much of this European peninsula
the Iberian Peninsula
Lindsay
|
$600
[23]
Starting with Gaius Lucilius, it's considered the only literary form the Romans invented
satire
Prashant
|
|
$800
[29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.) Here in the garden of Gethsemane, this disciple, accompanied by a group of armed men, approached Jesus & said, "Hail, master", then kissed him
Judas
Leah
|
$800
[4]
Tim McGraw:"It's A Business Doing ____ ____ ____"
Pleasure With You
Leah
|
DD
$800
[12]
This country has a Coptic Christmas, an Islamic new year & a Sinai Liberation Day
Egypt
Prashant
|
$800
[19]
I'll be D.C.'in ya!:EGG ON TOWER
Georgetown
Prashant
|
$800
[14]
Around 800 this Holy Roman Emperor established a school at his palace at Aachen
Charlemagne
Prashant
|
$800
[24]
Served with peanut sauce, it's Asian barbecue served on skewers
satay
Leah
|
|
$1,000
[30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is believed to be built over this hill, site of the crucifixion
Golgotha
Prashant
|
$1,000
[5]
Whitney Houston:"____ Dollar Bill"
Million
|
$1,000
[13]
October 3 is a day of unity celebration in this reunified European country
Germany
Leah
|
$1,000
[20]
Founded in 1769:MOD ART HUT
Dartmouth
Lindsay
|
$1,000
[15]
In 1167 northern Italian cities formed the Lombard League as protection against this red-bearded invader
Barbarossa (Frederick I)
Lindsay
|
$1,000
[25]
Adjective for any liquid that has all the solute it can handle
saturated
Leah
|
| CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES | FUNNY PEOPLE | NAME THAT CENTURY | NUCLEAR ENERGY | THE PRISONER | PALINDROMIC WORDS |
|
$400
[10]
Rosa Parks' 1955 arrest led to a yearlong bus boycott in this Alabama city
Montgomery
Leah
Prashant
|
$400
[1]
Born in Vancouver, he's brought his curly hair & rubber face to "Funny People" as well as to "Superbad"
Seth Rogen
Lindsay
Prashant
|
$400
[8]
Texas declares its independence as a republic
the 19th Century
Lindsay
|
$400
[3]
In 1944 the world's first plutonium production reactor went online at Hanford in this Northwest state
Washington
|
$400
[25]
In 2009 Jon Stewart nicknamed this man, now an inmate, "Arthur Ponzarelli"
Bernie Madoff
Lindsay
|
$400
[27]
Slang for soda or Dad
pop
Leah
|
|
$800
[11]
In February 1960 4 young black men staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter at a N.C. branch of this 5 & dime
Woolworth's
Lindsay
|
$800
[2]
She won a 2009 Emmy for her impression of a certain Vice Presidential candidate
Tina Fey
Leah
|
$1,200
[21]
Marie Antoinette lives & dies
the 18th Century
Prashant
|
$800
[4]
Metal control rods prevent chain reactions by absorbing neutrons & are often made of this, symbol Cd
cadmium
Leah
|
$800
[26]
Andrew Fastow, who cooked the books for this Houston-based power company, got 6 years
ENRON
Lindsay
|
$800
[23]
Short for a certain sibling
sis
Prashant
|
|
$1,200
[14]
Martin Luther King's purpose in traveling to this city in March 1968 was to support striking sanitation workers
Memphis
Lindsay
Leah
|
$1,200
[9]
In 2002 she was friends with "The Hot Chick"; in 2008 she was "The House Bunny"
(Anna) Faris
Leah
|
$1,600
[22]
Virginia Dare is the first white child of English parents born in America
the 16th Century
Lindsay
Leah
|
$1,600
[6]
Of the world's countries, this one in Europe gets the highest percentage of its power from nuclear energy
France
Leah
|
$1,200
[30]
After his conversion on the road to Damascus, he was sent to prison for taking a Gentile into temple precincts
(St.) Paul
Leah
|
$1,200
[17]
This term for midday comes from the Latin for "ninth hour"
noon
Lindsay
|
|
$1,600
[15]
James Meredith, the first black student at the University of this state, was shot & wounded there in June 1966
Mississippi
Lindsay
|
$1,600
[12]
This "Report"er tried without success to get on the ballot for South Carolina's 2008 Presidential Primary
Stephen Colbert
Lindsay
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
The Normans conquer England
the 11th Century
Prashant
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
2-word term for the amount of fuel required to maintain a chain reaction; it varies according to the reactor
critical mass
Leah
|
$1,600
[28]
After Sam Waksal, CEO of Imclone, got busted in 2002, this celeb gal pal of his also went to the big house
Martha Stewart
Leah
|
$1,600
[18]
Proverbially, water seeks its own
level
Leah
|
|
$2,000
[16]
He was the lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case
Thurgood Marshall
|
$2,000
[13]
Jimmy Kimmel's real-life on & off girlfriend, she played a grumpy girlfriend in "School Of Rock"
Sarah Silverman
Lindsay
|
$2,000
[24]
The Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China
the 20th century
|
$2,000
[7]
This rare isotope of hydrogen is sometimes called H-3
tritium
Prashant
|
$2,000
[29]
This Dublin-born man was released from prison bankrupt in 1897; "The Ballad Of Reading Gaol" was released in 1898
Oscar Wilde
|
$2,000
[19]
Multiple epics of Iceland
sagas
Prashant
|
In a lecture called "Storia Senza Storia" (Story Without History), an Italian cardinal rebutted claims in this 2003 novel
The Da Vinci Code