2012 College Championship quarterfinal game 5.
Monica Thieu — a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
Matt Olson — a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
Zach McDonnell — a freshman at the College of William and Mary from Harrisonburg, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zach | $200 | $4,200 | $5,800 |
$11,600
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$5,800
12 R, 2 W |
| Matt | $6,200 | $10,000 | $32,600 |
$40,000
Automatic semifinalist |
$24,200
30 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Monica | $2,600 | $3,800 | $7,800 |
$15,599
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,800
12 R, 3 W |
| AALL AABOUT AARON | COLLEGE RHYME TIME | THE I.T. FACTOR | GEOGRAPHIC MEANINGS | THE WOMEN'S SPORTS | GRAD GIFT IDEAS |
|
$200
[26]
Aaron, who was denied entrance into Canaan, was the biblical brother of Miriam & this man
Moses
Matt
|
$200
[21]
A pack of playing cards for a Pasadena school with a Jet Propulsion Lab
a Caltech deck
Matt
|
$200
[11]
This term for a small program that runs within an application sounds like a baby Granny Smith
an applet
Matt
|
$200
[1]
A Caribbean island:"Rich Port"
Puerto Rico
Zach
Matt
|
$200
[5]
Shawn Johnson &Deng Linlin
gymnastics
Monica
|
$200
[16]
If "more people go with" this credit card, then why shouldn't mom & dad give you one with an unlimited line of credit?
Visa
Zach
|
|
$400
[27]
Before becoming vice president, he was a Lt. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War
Aaron Burr
Matt
|
$400
[22]
A ballroom dress for a Washington, D.C. university function
a Georgetown gown
Monica
|
$400
[12]
Baud, an old unit of signaling speed, is now measured as bps, short for this
bytes per second
Zach
Matt
|
$400
[2]
A big country:"Southern Land"
Australia
Zach
|
$400
[6]
Irina Slutskaya &Sasha Cohen
figure skating
Matt
|
$400
[17]
The folks can make you a road hog on a 2011 Road King Classic from this motorcycle company
Harley-Davidson
Zach
|
|
$600
[28]
A reality show focused on this TV mogul's widow, Candy, selling their 56,500-square-foot manor
(Aaron) Spelling
Zach
|
$600
[23]
Precipitation falling on a New Orleans college
Tulane rain
Matt
|
$600
[13]
Look to the sky for this type of computing that stores your info online, not on your hard drive
cloud computing
Monica
|
$600
[3]
A North African city:"Three Towns"
Tripoli
Matt
|
$600
[7]
Lisa Leslie &Tina Thompson
basketball
Matt
|
$600
[18]
Sending you & 20 of your pals to Atlantis on Nassau's Paradise Island in this nation? How nice!
the Bahamas
Matt
|
|
$800
[29]
Hisscreenplay for "The Social Network" got us to care deeply about intellectual property law
(Aaron) Sorkin
Zach
|
$800
[24]
A stroke of unexpected good luck for a Durham college
a Duke fluke
Monica
|
$800
[14]
Bjarne Stroustrup gets this grade "++" for creating a new computer language
C
Matt
|
$800
[4]
A South African city:"Fountain of Flowers"
Bloemfontein
Monica
|
$800
[8]
Shannon Boxx &Hope Solo
soccer
Matt
|
$800
[19]
Into handbags? The Sukey tote with detachable interlocking G charm from this Italian company is only $1,515
Gucci
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[30]
This American composer for ballet also won an Oscar for his work on the 1949 film "The Heiress"
(Aaron) Copland
Zach
|
$1,000
[25]
A tennis court divider at a university for the hearing impaired
a Gallaudet net
Zach
|
$1,000
[15]
Seen here is an example of this 2-letter type of code that can be read by a smartphone
a QR code
Monica
|
DD
$1,600
[10]
A country in the Balkans:"Black Mountain"
Montenegro
Matt
|
$1,000
[9]
Paula Creamer &Cristie Kerr
golf
Matt
|
$1,000
[20]
"Boy With a Pipe" by this alliteratively named Spaniard, which sold for $104 mil. in 2004, would look great on your wall
Pablo Picasso
Matt
|
| A NOVEL DESCRIPTION | MATHEMATICS | DOG POUNDS | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES | ANATOMICAL WORDS & PHRASES | ACTOR/ |
|
$400
[8]
Prep school problems; a few days in New York City; a narrator barely Holden on to sanity
Catcher in the Rye
Matt
|
$400
[5]
To multiply 2.57 & 5.72, take the product of 257 & 572 & move the decimal point this many places to the left
four
Matt
|
$400
[6]
13-14 pounds:The cairn this, developed to hunt vermin in cairns, or rock piles
terrier
|
$400
[23]
Nearly 4 years after the end of the Civil War, he became the first veteran of that war elected president
(Ulysses) Grant
Zach
|
$400
[17]
In Disney's "Cinderella", a dog is transformed into this liveried servant who attends the carriage
a footman
Monica
|
$400
[18]
He starred in "Men in Black" & rapped the title song on the soundtrack
Will Smith
Matt
|
|
$800
[9]
A case of Great Depression; nobody wants to play in the Dust Bowl; on the Joad again
The Grapes of Wrath
Monica
|
$800
[1]
The ancient altar at Delos was this geometric shape, so the "Delian Problem" is how to exactly double it in volume
a cube
Matt
|
$800
[7]
75-120 pounds:This Japanese working breed that shares its name with a Japanese prefecture
Akita
Monica
|
$800
[24]
She married the future president on November 17, 1934 in San Antonio
Lady Bird Johnson
Matt
|
$800
[10]
The TSA specifically bans this item from carry on luggage; I wonder why!
brass knuckles
Matt
|
$800
[19]
He co-wrote, directed & starred in "The Ides of March"
Clooney
Zach
|
|
$1,200
[14]
Life in one day; I'm Dublin down; love in Bloom
Ulysses
Zach
|
$1,600
[3]
This arrangement of a group is often paired with "combination"; for 3 items, there are 3 x 2 x 1 or 6 possible ones
a permutation
Matt
|
$1,200
[28]
1-6 pounds:The AKC says this "should not be underestimated even though small in size"
a Chihuahua
Monica
|
$1,200
[25]
The daughter of a stage actress, she began her film career in 1949 with a role in "The Doctor and the Girl"
(Nancy) Reagan
Zach
|
$1,200
[11]
Cannellini is an Italian white type of this legume
kidney bean
Monica
|
$1,200
[20]
She played Elinor Dashwood in 1995's "Sense and Sensibility", for which she adapted the screenplay
Emma Thompson
Monica
|
|
$1,600
[15]
An unjust 14-year imprisonment; vengeance served cold; listen up, Dumas!
The Count of Monte Cristo
Matt
|
$2,000
[4]
By rule, x-nequals 1 over this
x n
Matt
|
$1,600
[29]
55-80 pounds:The English this, not usually red-brown like the breed from a nearby island
setter
Monica
|
$1,600
[26]
He served as minister to the Netherlands from 1794 to 1797, while his father was vice president
John Quincy Adams
Matt
|
$1,600
[12]
This painful condition of the front of the lower leg can be the result of running on a non-resilient surface
shin splints
Matt
|
$1,600
[21]
He got writing credits on "Superbad", "Pineapple Express" & "The Green Hornet", & acted in all 3
Seth Rogen
Matt
|
|
DD
$4,000
[16]
Workin' on the transcontinental railroad; Galt-ernate reality; from the Rand non-corporation
Atlas Shrugged
Matt
|
DD
$7,000
[2]
On theleftis the decimal equivalent of three-fifths; on therightis the decimal equivalent of this fraction
two-thirds
Matt
|
$2,000
[30]
30-55 pounds:The Australian this, aka the Queensland heeler for its habit of nipping at heels while herding
cattle dog
Zach
Matt
|
$2,000
[27]
Born Elizabeth Wallace, she was 97 when she died in 1982, the longest-living First Lady
Bess Truman
|
$2,000
[13]
There are 2 body parts in the name of this steak from between the short loin & the chuck
a ribeye
Monica
|
$2,000
[22]
Hewrote and starred in "Swingers"; he also directed "Cowboys & Aliens"
Jon Favreau
Monica
|
Nicolas Paulescu isolated a substance he called pancrein, now known as this
insulin