Show #5852 2010-02-09 (taped 2010-01-06) College Championship

2010-A College Championship semifinal game 2.

Contestants

Surya Sabhapathy — a senior from the University of Michigan

Ashley Walker — a senior from Dartmouth College

Leah Anthony Libresco — a junior from Yale University

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Leah $200 $1,800 $4,600 $9,200
2nd place: $10,000
$6,600
11 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Ashley $-200 $1,000 $-200 $-200
3rd place: $10,000
$-600
10 R (including 1 DD), 8 W
Surya $4,200 $5,400 $9,400 $9,500
Finalist
$9,400
15 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN LITERATURE COLLEGIATE MOVIE TITLES 21st CENTURY WOMEN OLD NAVY DO IT YOURSELF THE 3 "R"s
$200 [6]
This 1961 Joseph Heller novel was set on the island of Pianosa during WWII
Catch-22
Ashley
$200 [11]
Demi Moore was Esmeralda's voice in this epic from Disney
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ashley
$200 [14]
This talk show host made her film debut in "The Color Purple" & when it hit Broadway in 2005, she was one of the producers
Oprah
Ashley
$200 [25]
The oldest commissioned warship afloat, this "Old Ironsides" set sail again in 1997 for her 200th birthday
the USS Constitution
Leah Ashley
$200 [1]
In 1947, Frank Ulrich pumped up L.A. drivers with the first successful self-serve this
gas station
Leah
$200 [20]
The character in a novel who tells the story
narrator
Leah
$400 [7]
Old Stony Phiz in "The Great Stone Face" by this author of "Twice-Told Tales" is said to be based on Daniel Webster
Hawthorne
Surya
$400 [12]
Coach K knows all about this 2005 Johnny Knoxville film, based on a TV series
The Dukes of Hazzard
Ashley
$400 [15]
In 2008 Ann Dunwoody was promoted to this numerical rank in the Army, the highest ever for a woman
4-star general (full general)
Ashley Surya
$400 [26]
Partly designed by Peter the Great, this country's first battleship, the Poltava, was launched in 1712
Russia
Surya
$400 [2]
Especially to dads facing complex toys, it's been said the 3 most frightening words are "some" this "required"
assembly
Surya
$400 [24]
When a Rastafarian weds a Zoroasterian, it's considered this
an inter-religious marriage (or interfaith marriage)
Surya
$600 [8]
A 1936 operetta, "The Headless Horseman", was based on this 1820 short story
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Surya
$600 [13]
We found Matthew Fox; he was in this 2006 movie with Matthew McConnaughey
We Are Marshall
$600 [16]
Her website is speaker.gov
Pelosi
Leah
$600 [27]
Gustavus Vasa established this country's navy in 1522
Sweden
Leah Ashley
$600 [3]
Intuit Inc. makes Quicken & this speedy product that puts you mano a mano with the IRS
TurboTax
Surya
$600 [21]
A line of preppy clothing endorsed by a Cambridge Mass. university is named for this, the campus' central area
Harvard Yard
Leah Surya
$800 [9]
In a 1947 novelette by John Steinbeck, a diver named Kino finds the valuable title object to pay his child's doctor bill
pearl
Surya
$800 [28]
The title of this Homeric film is also a Sun Belt Conference school located in Alabama
Troy
Ashley
$800 [17]
In 2006 she left the "Today" show to anchor the CBS evening news
Couric
Leah
$800 [4]
The Warped Tour showcases music's punk/DIY movement--actually, do it with the help of this shoe company
Vans
Surya
$800 [22]
Also valuable in archery, it's someone who avoids vices
a straight-arrow
Leah
$1,000 [10]
This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled "A Story of the Buried Life"
Look Homeward, Angel
$1,000 [19]
This 1984 Spielberg sequel had nothing to do with a Philadelphia university
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
$1,000 [18]
She retired from a managerial job at Microsoft after marrying the boss & today she co-chairs their foundation
Melinda Gates
Leah
$1,000 [5]
This prefix meaning "self" precedes "didact" in a word for a self-taught person
auto
Surya
$1,000 [23]
A battery produces this one-way flow of electric charge
direct current
Surya

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE NON-BEATLES ROCK BAND AFRICAN AMERICANS THE NEW YORK TIMESENERGY & ENVIRONMENT SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR "BOR"-ING! ALEX TREBEK, CLASS OF '61
$400 [1]
The supergroup Them Crooked Vultures has Alain Johannes, Josh Homme, John Paul Jones & this Foo Fighters frontman
Dave Grohl
Surya
$400 [5]
The first African American to play modern Major League Baseball, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
Jackie Robinson
Ashley
$400 [20]
The topics pages of nytimes.com say Texas leads the U.S. in producing power from this, especially out on the high plains
wind
Leah Ashley
$400 [14]
This country's Christchurch is the world's southernmost city with more than 250,000 people
New Zealand
Leah Ashley Surya
$400 [4]
The Sultanate of Brunei is on the northern coast of this island
Borneo
Ashley
DD $2,000 [26]
In October my U.S. pals dusted off their draft cards as U.S. & Soviet tanks faced off against each other in this capital
Berlin
Leah
$800 [2]
Formed in 2008, Chickenfoot had Chad Smith of the Peppers, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony & this ex-Van Halen singer
Sammy Hagar
DD $1,200 [6]
A biography of this former Cabinet secretary is subtitled "Soldier and Statesman"
Colin Powell
Ashley
$800 [25]
The times said "Bla, bla, bla, act now!" was a protest slogan at the 2009 climate change talks in this city
Copenhagen
Leah
$800 [15]
This desert covers much of western Botswana
the Kalahari
Surya
$800 [10]
Carrying on while postponing the inevitable is "living on" this 2-word phrase
borrowed time
Leah
$1,200 [3]
"Be Somebody" & "Sex On Fire" are songs off 2008's "Only By the Night" from this band
Kings of Leon
$1,200 [7]
Her website calls her a Renaissance woman, poet, historian, author, actress & playwright
Maya Angelou
$1,200 [21]
In a 2009 editorial the Times called it disgraceful that this agency has never set limits on arsenic in water
the EPA
Leah
$1,200 [16]
This resort island just 2 miles east of Java is predominantly Hindi while the rest of Indonesia is Muslim
Bali
$1,200 [12]
Any of the 5 administrative divisions of New York City
a borough
Surya
$1,600 [19]
Bassist Stefan Lessard & drummer Carter Beauford are the rhythm section of this "Under the Table and Dreaming" band
the Dave Matthews Band
$1,600 [8]
Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, was mayor of this Ohio metropolis from 1967 to 1971
Cleveland
Ashley Surya
$1,600 [23]
To the Times, XOM's plan to buy XTO Energy for $31 bil. shows it expects rising demand for this fuel that's cleaner than coal
natural gas
Ashley
$1,600 [17]
The Gran Chaco, an arid subtropical region, covers parts of Uruguay & Bolivia & the northern part of this country
Argentina
Surya
$1,600 [11]
It's the type of pooch pictured here
a border collie
Ashley
$2,000 [24]
When he's not busy being a movie star, Jared Leto fronts this platinum-selling band that is both "timely" & "planetary"
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Surya
$2,000 [9]
He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his play "Fences" & another for "The Piano Lesson" in 1990
(August) Wilson
Leah
$2,000 [22]
The Times obit on Harold Bell said he drew the original sketches of this "Give a hoot, don't pollute" bird
Woodsy Owl
$2,000 [18]
After gold was discovered in 1890 in the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie mines, this capital of Western Australia grew rapidly
Perth
Ashley
$2,000 [13]
The son of Danish immigrants, he's best known for his colossal sculptures on Mount Rushmore
Borglum
Ashley

Final Jeopardy!

ASTRONOMY

With a mass of 4.31 millions Suns, Sagittarius A* is thought to be a supermassive one of these in the Milky Way's center

black hole

Leah "What is a black hole?" — wagered $4,600
Surya "What is a black hole?" — wagered $100

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