2010-B College Championship semifinal game 1.
Marshall Flores — a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
Kyle Kahan — a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
Erin McLean — a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erin | $1,000 | $4,200 | $14,600 |
$22,401
Finalist |
$14,600
18 R, 1 W |
| Kyle | $1,200 | $5,600 | $11,200 |
$1
2nd place: $10,000 |
$11,800
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Marshall | $-800 | $200 | $3,000 |
$1
3rd place: $10,000 |
$7,400
10 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| TWAIN TRACTS | INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITIES | MONEY, NOT FROM THE MINT | STATE FACTS | STUDY ABROAD | PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING |
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$200
[26]
A blow on the head sends a man back to Camelot in this 1889 Mark Twain novel
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Kyle
Marshall
|
$200
[10]
This European supermodel is the host of "Project Runway"
Heidi Klum
Marshall
|
$200
[20]
A stock certificate is an example of this, also a word before a kid's "blanket"
security
Kyle
|
$200
[5]
This state boasts 2 of the oldest universities in the U.S.: Princeton & Rutgers
New Jersey
Kyle
|
$200
[15]
The University of Queensland offers a BMid, a bachelor's degree certifying you as one of these baby deliverers
a midwife
Erin
|
$200
[1]
"Imitation is the sincerest form of" this
flattery
Erin
|
|
$400
[27]
Twain set down the "Personal Recollections of" this female French saint & warrior
Joan of Arc
Erin
|
$400
[11]
Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan & Aamir Khan are all leading stars in this country's film industry
India
Kyle
|
$400
[21]
A Visa check card is also called this card, from the left-hand side of an accounting ledger
a debit card
Marshall
|
$400
[6]
As of 2008 Asians made up nearly 40% of this state's population
Hawaii
Erin
Kyle
Marshall
|
$400
[16]
You can get a master of music degree from the Sibelius Academy at this European capital's university
Helsinki
Erin
|
$400
[2]
An Old English proverb says, "beauty is only" this, to which someone added, "ugly goes to the bone"
skin deep
Erin
Marshall
|
|
$600
[28]
A miner bets on his amphibian's leaping ability in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of" this county
Calaveras County
Kyle
|
$600
[12]
In 2003, this singer became the youngest & first Colombian UNICEF international goodwill ambassador
Shakira
Erin
|
$600
[22]
The U.S. Postal Service & Big Ed's Check Cashing & Corn Dog Hut both offer these to send bucks through the mail
a money order
Erin
|
DD
$600
[7]
This state was named for the King of England who reigned from 1727 to 1760
Georgia
Kyle
|
$600
[17]
You can earn a Ph.D. in pedagogy at Masaryk University in this Central European republic
the Czech Republic
Kyle
|
$600
[3]
"Where ignorance is" this, "'tis folly to be wise"
bliss
Marshall
|
|
$800
[29]
The first half of this Twain work describes his apprenticeship as a river pilot
Life on the Mississippi
|
$800
[13]
This Brit who married Madonna & directed "Sherlock Holmes" must be quite a guy
Guy Ritchie
Marshall
|
$800
[23]
If you want to lend Atlanta money to fix its sewers, buy municipal these
bonds
Kyle
|
$800
[8]
It was the only one of the original 13 colonies that didn't border the Atlantic Ocean
Pennsylvania
Kyle
Marshall
|
$800
[18]
It's safe now to attend Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a battlefront in this 1930s conflict
the Spanish Civil War
Kyle
|
$800
[4]
Attributed to Lao-tzu, it "begins with a single step"
a journey of a thousand miles
Erin
|
|
$1,000
[30]
These were "Abroad" in a work Twain compiled from letters he sent home from an overseas trip
Innocents
|
$1,000
[14]
In 2010 he won the Australian Open for his 16th Grand Slam title
Roger Federer
Kyle
|
$1,000
[24]
An agreement with a bank that it'll loan you a certain amount whenever you ask is called a line of this
a line of credit
Erin
|
$1,000
[9]
The city of Tahlequah in this state is the capital of the Cherokee Nation
Oklahoma
|
$1,000
[19]
Bite into the university of this meaty Italian city, like Copernicus did
Bologna
Kyle
|
$1,000
[25]
"Man proposes, God" does this
disposes
|
| SINCE THE IRON CURTAIN | NOW THAT'S COMEDY | G-FORCE | ART 101 | ONLINE SHOPPING | A LITTLE LATIN |
|
$400
[1]
Vitosha Boulevard in this Bulgarian capital is now a shopping hub
Sofia
Kyle
|
$400
[3]
"Animal House":"Women--can't live with them, can't" do this
live without them
Erin
|
$400
[11]
The Moon's gravitation accounts for the diurnal & semidiurnal types of these
tides
Marshall
|
$400
[21]
An achromatic painting is one done in black, white & shades of this color
gray
Kyle
|
$400
[16]
It traces its roots to 1995 & Pierre Omidyar, a computer programer who wrote the code for an auction website
eBay
Kyle
|
$400
[30]
The name of this prayer is simply Latin for "Hail Mary"
Ave Maria
Kyle
|
|
$800
[2]
In 2006 Lithuania was banned from adopting the euro as its rate of this was 2.7% & the max allowable was 2.6
inflation
Kyle
|
$800
[4]
Jon Stewart:"Before we bring" this type of govt. "to... Afghanistan, it might be prudent to bring it to Florida"
a democracy
Kyle
|
$800
[12]
Before its 1846 sighting, this 8th planet's existence was deduced from its gravitational effect on other planets
Neptune
Erin
|
$800
[22]
French for "gluing", it's a picture made by gluing photos, news cuttings, ticket stubs, etc, to a surface
a collage
Erin
Marshall
|
$800
[17]
The logo of this giant online retailer is a smile that can also be seen as an arrow that goes from "A" to "Z" in its name
Amazon.com
Erin
|
$800
[29]
It's literally "something for something"
quid pro quo
Kyle
|
|
$1,200
[7]
Right-wing parties on the rise include Hungary's Jobbik, which fiercely attacks these people, also called Roma
Gypsies
Erin
|
$1,200
[5]
Woody Allen:"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live" one of these toy animals "in my crib"
a teddy bear
Marshall
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
Newton said the gravitational force between 2 objects is inversely related to the square of this measurement
the distance between the 2 objects
Marshall
|
$1,200
[23]
He once said, "When I was young I could draw like Raphael, but it has taken me my whole life to learn to draw like a child"
Pablo Picasso
|
$1,200
[18]
The name of this online shoe store is an alteration of the Spanish word for "shoes"
Zappos.com
Erin
|
$1,200
[27]
From Horace comes this 2-word bit of advice, literally "seize the day"
carpe diem
Marshall
|
|
$2,000
[10]
In this country's 1996 elections, the statist Iliescu lost to the more market-oriented Constantinescu
Romania
Kyle
|
$1,600
[6]
Chris Rock:"If you haven't contemplated murder, you ain't been in" this
love
|
$1,200
[13]
This 1915 "General" theory says gravitational acceleration is a geometric result of the properties of space-time
the general theory of relativity
Marshall
|
$1,600
[24]
His Philadelphia museum houses more than 120 sculptures, including a bronze cast of "The Thinker"
Rodin
Kyle
|
$1,600
[19]
Club O is the frequent buyers program of this online closeout retailer founded by Dr. Patrick Byrne
Overstock.com
Erin
|
$1,600
[26]
Meaning "in the same place", you see this word in footnotes to refer to a source cited in a previous entry
ibid.
Erin
|
|
DD
$3,400
[9]
500,000 people, many lighting candles, marched in this country in 2005 to honor the late Pope
Poland
Marshall
|
$2,000
[8]
The late Greg Giraldo on this pres.:"Cheat on your wife & cover it up for 200 years, you're... thinking you're home free"
Jefferson
Marshall
|
$1,600
[14]
In the 18th century John Michell theorized that gravitation could affect the path of this
light
|
$2,000
[25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew mixes paint.) For centuries, artists have mixed egg yolk with pigment to make this kind of paint
tempera
|
$2,000
[20]
Robert Kalin founded this site for selling handmade items; the meaning of its 4-letter name is a mystery
Etsy.com
Erin
|
$2,000
[28]
Rene Descartes came up with this phrase that translates to "I think, therefore I am"
cogito, ergo sum
Kyle
|
Seenwith a piece of equipment, Bryn Mawr's 1st physical education director brought this sport to the U.S.; it shares part of its name with another sport
field hockey