Show #5853 2010-02-10 (taped 2010-01-06) College Championship

2010-A College Championship semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Dan D'Addario — a senior from Columbia University

Ryan Stoffers — a sophomore from UCLA

Lindsay Eanet — a senior from the University of Missouri

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lindsay $2,400 $6,700 $18,700 $2,157
2nd place: $10,000
$18,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Ryan $4,400 $5,400 $15,500 $24,500
Finalist
$15,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Dan $1,400 $2,200 $3,400 $300
3rd place: $10,000
$3,400
13 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

NAME THAT CONTINENT OSCARS SINCE 2000 WEIRD SCIENCE SUPERHERO NAMES THROUGH PICTURES BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL ALPHABETIC LETTER PAIRS
$200 [7]
Estado de Mato Grosso
South America
Dan
$200 [1]
In 2009 this supporting actor Oscar winner's award was accepted by his mother, father & sister
Heath Ledger
Ryan
$200 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) The reason why astronauts are taller in space is due to a lessening of this force; the vertebrae separate slightly, allowing for a height increase of 2 inches or more
gravity
Lindsay
$200 [6]
X marks the spot, man, when this guy opens his peeper
Cyclops
Dan
$200 [12]
The benefactor for whom this West Lafayette, Indiana university is named is buried on the campus
Purdue
Lindsay
$200 [18]
For most people, it replaced the LP
the CD
Ryan
$400 [8]
The Filchner Ice Shelf
Antarctica
Lindsay
$400 [2]
The title of this best screenplay winner refers to the pregnant lead character, not a mythic queen of the heavens
Juno
Dan
$400 [27]
These cephalopods not only have 8 appendages, but 3 hearts
octopi
Dan
$400 [17]
They're the crime-fighting duo seenherein a pair of pictures
Batman & Robin
Dan
$400 [13]
In 2009 an anonymous alum gave $100 million to this Mass. college that runs the nearby Emily Dickinson museum
Amherst
Ryan
$400 [19]
Sunscreen protects you from these harmful rays
UV
Dan
$600 [9]
Ayers Rock, or as the locals call it, Uluru
Australia
Ryan
$600 [3]
When Helen Mirren won in 2007 for playing "The Queen", he won best actor for "The Last King of Scotland"
Forest Whitaker
Ryan
$600 [30]
The return stroke for this weather event takes about 100 microseconds & its temperature is around 50,000 degrees
lightning
Dan
$600 [21]
Frodo wasn't the only one with a cool ring--this guy had one, too
the Green Lantern
Lindsay
$600 [14]
This 1973 grad gave Harvard's 1989 commencement address shortly after beginning her first term as P.M. of Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
Dan
$600 [20]
In names of cities, this abbreviation precedes Paul & Louis
St.
Lindsay
$800 [10]
The Kamchatka Peninsula
Asia
Ryan
$800 [4]
Cate Blanchett won an Oscar for playing this 4-time Oscar-winning actress in "The Aviator"
Katharine Hepburn
Ryan
$800 [29]
Known for its ability to float, pumice is a porous type of this
a rock
Ryan
$800 [24]
Nowyou see this fantastic person; nowyou don't
the Invisible Woman
Lindsay
$800 [15]
Alum David Booth gave $300 million to this university's business school just off South Lake Shore Drive
the University of Chicago
Lindsay
$1,000 [23]
It spells the name of a classic form of Japanese drama
noh
Lindsay
$1,000 [11]
The Limpopo River
Africa
Dan
$1,000 [5]
He followed up his 2003 Oscar for "Mystic River" with a best actor win for 2008
Sean Penn
Ryan
$1,000 [28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a simple science experiment.) Oops--our salt & pepper got mixed together; if I take a plastic spoon & rub it on wool, it picks up electrons & gets this kind of electrostatic charge, attracting the lighter pepper flakes
a negative charge
Dan
$1,000 [25]
We take you to science class for arepresentationof this DC Comics hero
the Atom
$1,000 [16]
In 1999 Sloan school alum Kenan Sahin made a surprise 9-figure donation to this institute
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
Lindsay Dan
DD $1,100 [22]
If you have this blood type, you're lucky; it's the "universal recipient"
AB
Lindsay

Double Jeopardy! Round

ROYALTY ON BROADWAY BAND NAMES NONFICTION THE AGE OF THE AQUARIUS OBAMAMANIA COMPLETES THE FAMOUS PHR--
$400 [24]
Dashaun Young is now playing this hero who's destined to be "The Lion King"
Simba
Ryan
$400 [3]
This Madden Brothers band isn't named for a North Carolina city but for a kids' book written by Carol Beach York
Good Charlotte
Lindsay
$400 [1]
She followed up "s Tori Telling" with "Mommywood"
Tori Spelling
Dan
$400 [30]
On February 11 happy 163rd birthday to this great American inventor
Edison
Lindsay
$400 [25]
In high school Barack was known as "O'bomber", due to his skills in this sport
basketball
Dan
$400 [11]
"The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties", 'Off with his h--"'
head
Ryan
$800 [23]
From the "Les Mis" team, 2007's "The Pirate Queen" was about a 16th C. Irishwoman & her rivalry with this real English queen
Queen Elizabeth I
Ryan
$800 [4]
The soul of a deceased person, thankful to someone for arranging his burial
The Grateful Dead
Lindsay
$800 [2]
2009's "Last Lion" is subtitled "The Fall and Rise of" this political brother
Ted Kennedy
Lindsay
$800 [29]
This French writer knew the future included turning 182 on February 8
Jules Verne
Ryan
$800 [20]
After winning this in 2009, he said, "This is not how I expected to wake up this morning"
the Nobel Peace Prize
Lindsay
$800 [12]
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Ka--"
Kansas anymore
Ryan
$1,200 [19]
The king in "The King and I" rules this 4-letter land
Siam
Ryan
$1,200 [5]
A Rolling Stone article titled "Kentucky's finest" said their name came from a coat that had "MMJ" on it
My Morning Jacket
Lindsay
$1,200 [8]
This Rachel Carson book tells "the story of how the young planet Earth acquired an ocean"
The Sea Around Us
Ryan
$1,200 [28]
Send diamonds to this founder of a jewelry retailer--he'll be 198
Charles Louis Tiffany
Dan
$1,200 [18]
Obamamania was said to have started after his 2004 keynote address at this
the Democratic National Convention
Lindsay
$1,200 [13]
"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do a--"
and die
Ryan
$1,600 [21]
David McCallum played Emperor Joseph II in the 1999 revival of this play about Mozart
Amadeus
Ryan
DD $2,000 [6]
This band's name refers to what bassist Mike Kroeger said when giving a coin in change at Starbucks
Nickelback
Lindsay
$1,600 [9]
Christopher McDougall tells of training for a 50-mile race in this book that shares its title with a Springsteen song
Born to Run
Ryan
$1,600 [27]
Felix-itations to this composer, 201 on Feb. 3
Mendelssohn
Lindsay
$1,600 [17]
For their first date, Barack took Michelle to see this director's film "Do the Right Thing"
Spike Lee
Ryan
$1,600 [14]
"That's one small step for a man, one giant l--"
leap for mankind
Dan
$2,000 [22]
We wonder if Kelsey Grammer called this "the Scottish play" when he played the title role in 2000
Macbeth
Lindsay
$2,000 [7]
This group's name came from the younger sidekick of Radioactive Man on "The Simpsons"
Fall Out Boy
Lindsay
DD $2,500 [10]
A 2009 biography of this builder of Grand Central Terminal calls him "the first tycoon"
(Cornelius) Vanderbilt
Ryan
$2,000 [26]
It mathers to us that this theologian is having his 347th
Cotton Mather
Dan
$2,000 [15]
As a youth Obama lived in this country whose capital is Jakarta
Indonesia
Lindsay
$2,000 [16]
"Apres moi le de--"
deluge
Dan

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HEROES

He said, "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way"

John Paul Jones

Dan "Who was Peary?" — wagered $3,100
Ryan "Who was John Paul Jones" — wagered $9,000
Lindsay "Who was Dewey?" — wagered $16,543

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