2012 College Championship quarterfinal game 3.
Zack Terrill — a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
Tyler Benedict — a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
Sarah Bart — a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah | $400 | $5,600 | $11,600 |
$18,600
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,600
16 R, 2 W |
| Tyler | $2,800 | $6,200 | $20,600 |
$20,100
Automatic semifinalist |
$22,400
25 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Zack | $3,200 | $3,200 | $9,600 |
$19,200
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,600
13 R, 1 W |
| WOMEN'S FIRSTS | LET'S HAVE A BOWL | NOW YOU KNOW | BIRD SOUNDS | "G"EOGRAPHY | A DONUT SHOP DICTIONARY |
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$200
[26]
On becoming House Speaker in 2007, she said, "Today we have broken the marble ceiling"
Nancy Pelosi
Sarah
|
$200
[6]
Since 1923 it's been played at its self-named stadium in Pasadena, California
the Rose Bowl
Tyler
|
$200
[11]
Chopping an onion releases a compound that causes these glands to produce tears
the lachrymal glands
Tyler
|
$200
[21]
This soft, murmuring sound of a dove rhymes with a bovine sound
coo
Zack
|
$200
[1]
It's the southernmost country on the Balkan Peninsula
Greece
Zack
|
$200
[13]
Having a fixed or lifeless expression
glazed
Sarah
|
|
$400
[27]
Jane Colden, who died in 1766, was the first female one of these plant scientists in the colonies
a botanist
Tyler
|
$400
[7]
Now at Sun Life Stadium, it was played at its self-named stadium in Miami until 1996
the Orange Bowl
Sarah
|
$400
[12]
The best result in this lakeside game also called "ducks & drakes" is with a flat projectile thrown at a 20-degree angle
skipping stones
Tyler
|
$400
[22]
The cry of an owl; it's also an extremely funny person like moi
a hoot
Sarah
|
$400
[2]
It left the Union--of Soviet Socialist Republics--April 9, 1991
Georgia
Tyler
|
$400
[14]
A light drizzle
sprinkle
Sarah
|
|
$600
[28]
In 2008 she beat Helio Castroneves by 5.9 seconds to become the first woman to win an Indy car race
Danica Patrick
Zack
|
$600
[8]
Sweet! This New Orleans Bowl game celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2009
Sugar Bowl
Zack
|
$600
[18]
As we humans get older, less & less of this pigment is added to beginning hair cells, leading to gradual graying
melanin
Tyler
|
$600
[23]
Despite its name, the mute swan, when angry, makes this noise, like a snake
a hiss
Tyler
|
$600
[3]
There's a British colony on this southern Spanish peninsula
Gibraltar
Sarah
Zack
|
$600
[15]
Someone intimidating is said to "reduce you to" this
jelly
|
|
$800
[29]
Amonghermany firsts was the first transcontinental nonstop airplane flight by a woman
Amelia Earhart
Sarah
|
$800
[9]
Party on, amigo, & name this Bowl game held in Arizona since 1971
the Fiesta Bowl
Zack
|
$800
[19]
This type of "burn" happens when water molecules escape from food preserved there & begin to migrate
freezer burn
Tyler
|
$800
[24]
It's the harsh, 3-letter call of a crow or raven
a caw
Sarah
|
$800
[4]
In this area of Lower Manhattan, independent spirits like Eugene O'Neill & Margaret Sanger found a "Voice"
Greenwich Village
Tyler
|
$800
[16]
No longer in vogue
old-fashioned
Zack
|
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1976 she began giving her "view" as the first woman co-anchor on a nightly network news show
Barbara Walters
Sarah
|
$1,000
[10]
It's played annually in San Antonio, not too far from the site of an 1836 battle
the Alamo Bowl
Zack
|
$1,000
[20]
The world's smallest flowers, Wolffia globosa, each consist of 1 pistil & 1 this, the pistil's male counterpart
the stamen
Sarah
|
$1,000
[25]
A shrill laugh, or the shrill cry of a hen, especially after she lays an egg
a cackle
Tyler
|
DD
$800
[5]
This major seaport sits at the center of the Italian Riviera
Genoa
Tyler
|
$1,000
[17]
Edible name of the band heard here"He's going the distance /He's going for speed..."
Cake
Sarah
|
| EASY "A" | SOME ROMAN GUY | MUSEUMS | THE WRITER'S COLLEGE | HEALTH & MEDICINE | ALPHANUMERIC NAMES & TITLES |
|
$400
[12]
A representative or operative; one can be "free" or "secret"
an agent
Zack
|
$400
[6]
A selfless citizen-soldier lent his name to this city in Southern Ohio
Cincinnati
Sarah
|
$400
[1]
A museum in Mountain View, Calif. devoted to the history of this has a 1964 IBM mainframe & an Apple II
computers
Sarah
|
$400
[9]
Henry David Thoreau:This school just east of his Concord hometown
Harvard
Tyler
|
$400
[21]
A driver who's rear-ended may suffer this type of neck injury that jerks the head rapidly backward or forward
whiplash
Tyler
|
$400
[26]
In 1999 a feature film & a TV movie both had this 3-character title, a reference to the millennium bug
Y2K
Zack
|
|
$800
[13]
Peyton Manning is a master of these plays called at the line of scrimmage
audibles
Zack
|
$800
[7]
This legendary co-founder of Rome was killed by his brother
Remus
Tyler
|
$800
[2]
The Syracuse, N.Y. museum devoted to this 19th century waterway is in a building once used to weigh boats
the Erie Canal
Tyler
|
$800
[10]
John Milton:This university where fellow students mocked his fair complexion, calling him the "Lady of Christ's College"
Cambridge
Sarah
Tyler
|
$800
[22]
Like Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by one of these arachnids
a tick
Tyler
|
$800
[27]
The show hosted by this CNN anchor is sometimes shortened to AC360
Anderson Cooper
Sarah
|
|
$1,200
[14]
They're the structuresseen here
apiaries
|
$1,200
[8]
In his "Odes" Horace opined that one must "carpe diem"--this
seize the day
Tyler
|
$1,200
[3]
Founded as the Columbian Museum of Chicago in 1893, it was renamed 12 years later to honor a major benefactor
the Field Museum
Sarah
Tyler
|
$1,200
[17]
Toni Morrison:This Washington, D.C. university founded in 1867
Howard
Tyler
|
$1,200
[23]
To raise awareness about a chronic viral liver disease, July 28, 2011 was observed as the first World this Day
Hepatitis
|
$1,200
[28]
This humanoid robot calls Chewbacca "You flea-bitten furball"
C-3PO
Tyler
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Acid that gives vinegar its taste & smell
acetic acid
Zack
|
DD
$2,000
[11]
In 313 A.D. he legalized Christianity throughout the Empire
Constantine (the Great)
Tyler
|
$1,600
[4]
One of the oldest vehicles in this Stuttgart automaker's museum is a 1907 Milnes-Daimler double-decker bus
Mercedes-Benz
Zack
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
Eudora Welty:This state's state college for women
Mississippi
Tyler
|
$1,600
[24]
An M.I.T. study found that adults with this reading disability also have a harder time recognizing voices
dyslexia
Zack
|
$1,600
[29]
The robot dog on "Dr. Who" goes by this name
K9
|
|
$2,000
[16]
6-letter term for discrimination against the elderly
ageism
Tyler
|
$2,000
[18]
Poet who noted in "The Art of Love" that a triumphal procession was a great place to pick up a girl
Ovid
Tyler
|
$2,000
[5]
This Madrid art museum houses its treasures in the Villanueva Building & the Cason del Buen Retiro
the Prado
Sarah
|
$2,000
[20]
Nathaniel Hawthorne:This oldest Maine college
Bowdoin
Sarah
|
$2,000
[25]
Some people are head over heels, relieving back pain by stretching their spine in this type of upside-down therapy
inversion therapy
Tyler
|
$2,000
[30]
Surname of the musical artist whose debut album was entitled "2Pacalypse Now"
Shakur
Tyler
|
A biosphere reserve, this Southern national park is the largest in the lower 48 completely within one state
Everglades National Park