Show #6016 2010-11-08 (taped 2010-10-18) College Championship

2010-B College Championship quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Steve Greene — a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California

Olivia Colangelo — a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania

Sid Chandrasekhar — a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sid $3,200 $7,000 $24,800 $28,401
Automatic semifinalist
$21,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Olivia $1,600 $2,400 $8,800 $15,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$7,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Steve $1,000 $5,400 $14,200 $20,000
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$13,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

CIVIL WAR QUOTES SHOWING YOU THE ANNE HATHAWAY BOOKS & AUTHORS CITY BY HOTELS GAME GOALS THE OLD COLLEGE "TRI"
$200 [26]
Before marching to the sea, he said that "War is cruelty... the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over"
Sherman
Steve
$200 [6]
Cowboy Jake Gyllenhaal has a son with Anne Hathaway (but he can quit her) in this film
Brokeback Mountain
Olivia
$200 [1]
This Ernest Hemingway love story that takes place during WWI was one of Penguin Books' first 10 titles
A Farewell to Arms
Sid Steve
$200 [11]
Halekulani, Sheraton Moana Surfrider
Honolulu
Sid
$200 [21]
Discover what happened to Mr. Boddy, the victim of foul play in this game
Clue
Sid
$200 [16]
Some colleges run on a calendar of 3 10-week terms each called this
a trimester
Sid
$400 [27]
William Lloyd Garrison said, "In firing his gun", this abolitionist "has merely told what time of day it is. It is High Noon"
John Brown
Sid Olivia
$400 [7]
Anne is the assistant to Miranda Priestly, editor of Runway Magazine, in this fashionable film
The Devil Wears Prada
Sid
$400 [2]
The middle initial of this author of "The Good Earth" stood for Sydenstricker, her maiden name
(Pearl) Buck
Sid
$400 [12]
Covent Garden Hotel, The Dorchester
London
Olivia
$400 [22]
In the "Fleet Command" version of this game, use salvos or triple shots to blow your enemy out of the water
Battleship
Olivia
$400 [17]
Texas' Buffalo Spring Lake was host to the 2010 collegiate championships in this multi-sport sport
a triathlon
Sid
$600 [28]
About this speech, Lincoln said, "I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it"
the Gettysburg Address
Steve
$600 [8]
Anne finds out she's Genovian royalty in this 2001 film
The Princess Diaries
Steve
$600 [3]
This Khaled Hosseini novel is about Amir, who flees Kabul for America
The Kite Runner
Olivia
$600 [13]
Hotel Romischer Kaiser, Hotel am Schubertring
Vienna
Sid Olivia Steve
$600 [23]
One description of this 4-letter game says the object is to "retire in style"
Life
Sid
$600 [18]
If you're double-majoring in Spanish & Mandinka, you're planning to become this
trilingual
Steve
$1,000 [30]
Giving aid to Union Army surgeons, she said, "while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them"
Clara Barton
Sid
$800 [9]
Anne engaged in "Bride Wars" with this blonde actress
Kate Hudson
Sid
$800 [4]
The bestselling novel "Freedom" has put him back in Oprah's Book Club & good graces
Jonathan Franzen
Olivia Steve
$800 [14]
Excelsior Copacabana Hotel, Ipanema Plaza
Rio de Janeiro
Olivia
$800 [24]
Shake container with little lettered cubes; after they settle into the pockets, make more words than your opponent
Boggle
Sid Olivia
$800 [19]
Arizona State's mascot Sparky the Sun Devil carries one of these 3-pronged pitchforks
a trident
Sid
DD $2,000 [29]
In his Feb. 16, 1861 inaugural address, he said, "The time for compromise has now passed"
Jefferson Davis
Steve
$1,000 [10]
Anne got an Oscar nomination for this 2008 film in which she was the troubled sister of the bride
Rachel Getting Married
Sid Olivia
$1,000 [5]
This "Remembrance of Things Past" author was so deathly afraid of germs he wouldn't pick up a pen if he had dropped it
(Marcel) Proust
Sid
$1,000 [15]
Hotel Sherpa, Yak & Yeti
Kathmandu
Sid
$1,000 [25]
Don't be the person who topples the tower that starts with 54 wooden blocks
Jenga
Steve
$1,000 [20]
The math department will gladly instruct you in plane & spherical this
trigonometry
Sid

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT PERSIA POP CULTURE HOW MANY FEET LONG? POETIC PLACES IT'S ELEMENTAL, MY DEAR FROM THE GREEK
$400 [11]
Ancient Persians called the region the "land of the Aryans", from which we get this country's name
Iran
Sid
$400 [1]
In a spin-off from "Keeping up with the Kardashians", these 2 sisters "Take Miami"
Kourtney and Khloé
Olivia
$400 [26]
The tail of your average male housecat
1
Sid
$400 [16]
In "Idylls of the King" Tennyson calls this place "the mighty hall that Merlin built"
Camelot
Sid
$400 [6]
Like diamond & graphite, fullerene is a form of this element
carbon
Steve
$400 [21]
Meaning "self-moving", this word often precedes pilot or transmission
automatic
$800 [12]
The Persians wrote in this Northwest Semitic language related to Hebrew
Aramaic
$800 [2]
This game's new "Warriors of Rock" features narration by Gene Simmons of KISS
Guitar Hero
$800 [27]
A meterstick
3
Sid
$800 [17]
"What troubles you, Yankee phantoms?" asked Whitman in a ballad of this New England city
Boston
Sid
$800 [7]
This really light gas has the lowest boiling point of any element, -452 degrees Fahrenheit
helium
Sid
$800 [22]
Greek for "overseer" gives us this chess piece big on 45-degree angles
the bishop
Sid
$1,200 [13]
The palace in the city of Susa was built from cedar timber from what's now this country
Lebanon
Steve
$1,200 [3]
This outfitter, whose logo is seen here, first took wing in 1977
American Eagle
Olivia
$1,200 [28]
A Texas state flag that's 4 feet wide
6
Olivia Steve
$1,200 [18]
"Chalk-white arrows" lead to this title Shel Silverstein place that's located "before the street begins"
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Steve
$1,200 [8]
To earn a B.A. in chemistry, you'd better know that Ba is the symbol for this
barium
Olivia
$1,600 [24]
An essay topic or a written work similar to a dissertation, it's from the Greek for "putting down"
thesis
Steve
$1,600 [14]
This "Great" king, dad of Xerxes I, standardized weights & measures & built highways
Darius the Great
Sid
$1,600 [4]
"Dear John" & "The Last Song" are among his bestsellers that have been turned into films
Nicholas Sparks
Olivia
$1,600 [29]
In MLB the baseline from home plate to first base
ninety
Sid
$1,600 [19]
Sections of the lengthy Eliot poem about this place include "The Fire Sermon" & "What the Thunder Said"
The Waste Land
Steve
$2,000 [10]
This element named for a moon goddess is used in photoelectric cells & solar batteries
selenium
Sid
$2,000 [25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands by a map of the South Pacific.) The islands of the central & South Pacific are often divided into these three regions, whose names mean "little", "black" & "many islands"
Micronesia, Melanesia & Polynesia
Sid
$2,000 [15]
At its greatest extent, the Persian Empire stretched from Cyrenaica in Libya to this longest river in Pakistan
the Indus
Sid
$2,000 [5]
"Miss Celie's Pants" & "Shug Avery Comin' To Town" are songs featured in this Broadway musical
The Color Purple
Steve
$2,000 [30]
The length of the shelf of classic books compiled by Harvard's president in 1909
5
$2,000 [20]
This "stately pleasure-dome" was situated "where Alph, the sacred river ran"
Xanadu
Steve
DD $3,200 [9]
Your daily diet should include ample amounts of this element, kalium in Latin
potassium
Olivia
DD $4,200 [23]
4 horsemen could tell you this word is from the Greek for "Revelation"
Apocalypse
Sid

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN BUSINESS

The mailing address for this company is P.O. Box 57, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230

Heinz

Olivia "What is Heinz?" — wagered $6,200
Steve "What is Heinz?" — wagered $5,800
Sid "What is Heinz?" — wagered $3,601

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