2012 College Championship semifinal game 2.
Jaime Alayon — a sophomore at the George Washington University from Miami, Florida
Greer Mackebee — a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
Sarah Bart — a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah | $1,400 | $7,000 | $25,800 |
$29,300
Finalist |
$22,400
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Greer | $800 | $1,200 | $14,400 |
$2,999
2nd place: $10,000 |
$9,200
10 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Jaime | $5,400 | $4,000 | $3,200 |
$1
3rd place: $10,000 |
$3,200
11 R, 5 W |
| THE ANIMAL KINGDOM | GO OUT OR STAY IN? | NAKED-ITY | IT'S THE LAW! | NONFICTION | IN THE URBAN DICTIONARY |
|
$200
[26]
L.A. pet owners know that these creatures have moved into urban areas, like our canyons
coyotes
Sarah
|
$200
[21]
Stay in & turn on this "Factor"; heck, it was the No. 1 British TV show 7 straight years
The X Factor
Sarah
|
$200
[11]
Legend says this wife of the Lord of Coventry horsed around to say, "Read my lips. Reduce heavy taxes"
Lady Godiva
Jaime
|
$200
[5]
No feeding these birds in Venice, even the carrier type; a $600 ticket can fly your way
pigeons
Jaime
|
$200
[16]
In this mega-bestseller, Mitch Albom recounts his weekly visits with his dying college professor
Tuesdays with Morrie
Sarah
|
$200
[1]
If you've put a scoratorium in place, you're trying to avoid hearing what happened in one of these
a sporting event (football game accepted)
Sarah
|
|
$400
[27]
Shawnee Indians referred to this large member of the deer family as the wapiti
an elk
Greer
Jaime
|
$400
[22]
Go out & catch some NHL action; this city's Blues are in town
St. Louis
Sarah
|
$400
[12]
This love god forbade his wife Psyche to see what he looked like; then put on some clothes, man!
Eros (or Cupid)
Sarah
|
$400
[6]
Stopping on this 8-letter German speedway is a somewhat obvious no-no
the Autobahn
Jaime
|
$400
[17]
This late first lady's "Historic Conversations on Life With" her husband was a No. 1 bestseller in 2011
Jackie Kennedy
Sarah
|
$400
[2]
A carnevoyeur is one of these who derives pleasure from watching others eat meat
a vegetarian
|
|
$600
[28]
Found in Southeast Asia, the siamang is the largest of these smallest apes
gibbons
|
$600
[23]
Stay in with a DVD of this 2011 film whose title is an African-American wedding tradition
Jumping the Broom
|
$600
[13]
An ad campaign for this organization said, "I'd rather go naked than wear fur"
PETA
Jaime
|
$600
[7]
Driving topless could cost you a few hundred bahts (about $10) in this country, formerly Siam
Thailand
Jaime
|
$600
[18]
His "A Brief History of Time" is subtitled "From the Big Bang to Black Holes"
Stephen Hawking
Sarah
|
$600
[3]
Failing to impress a woman you're attracted to can land you in this "zone"
the friend zone
Jaime
|
|
$800
[29]
Found in tropical regions, a skink, not to be confused with a skunk, is a type of this
a lizard
Sarah
|
$800
[24]
Go out & see Matt Bellamy & his mates in this band perform anthems like "Uprising"
Muse
Sarah
|
$800
[14]
The figures in this Flemish man's 1630s work "The Three Graces" are lovely & very him-esque
Rubens
Sarah
|
$800
[8]
2 juice drinkers in the UAE each got a $275 fine for quenching their thirst in daylight during this holy month
Ramadan
Jaime
|
$1,000
[20]
Dee Brown's classic "Indian History of the American West" is called "Bury my Heart at" this place
Wounded Knee
Sarah
|
$800
[4]
A "cough & call" is a technique to avoid this
(going to) work
Greer
|
|
$1,000
[30]
It's the American salamanderseen here; we wonder if its bark is worse than its bite
a water dog (or a mud puppy) salamander
Sarah
Jaime
|
$1,000
[25]
Go out & see or stay in & hear a live broadcast performance of this Garrison Keillor radio show
A Prairie Home Companion
Sarah
|
$1,000
[15]
Writing on the destruction of the best minds of his generation, this poet also said they were "starving hysterical naked"
Allen Ginsberg
|
$1,000
[9]
It could cost you to stroll around in a bathing suit in this island nation, site of a 1983 U.S. invasion
Grenada
Jaime
|
DD
$1,800
[19]
Sebastian Junger re-creates the final hours of a fishing boat during a devastating nor'easter in this bestseller
The Perfect Storm
Sarah
|
$1,000
[10]
"When an ethnic minority makes unfounded accusations", they're pulling this from the deck
the race card
Jaime
|
| GAME OF THRONES | THEATER | WORLD CAPITALS | FAST-FOOD FOREIGN MENU | FESTIVALS | "OH" MY! |
|
$400
[6]
Returned to Scotland in 1996, the Stone of Sconesat for 700 years under thecoronation thronein this country
England
|
$400
[21]
This 1949 play about Willy Loman won a Tony & a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Death of a Salesman
Sarah
|
$400
[1]
Monrovia, Liberia is at the mouth of the Mesurado River on this ocean
the Atlantic
Greer
|
$400
[14]
In Mexico, this chain serves up the cuarto de libra
McDonald's
Jaime
|
$400
[26]
In October 2011 a Highwood, Illinois festival set a world record with 30,919 of these carved gourds
jack-o-lanterns (or pumpkins_
Greer
|
$400
[9]
This brand is a soft, nontoxic, colorful modeling compound for kids
Play-Doh
Sarah
|
|
$800
[7]
Thethroneof this youthful kingdepictshim & his wife Ankhesenamun bathed in the sun's protective rays
King Tut
Greer
|
$800
[22]
In 1983 New York's Alvin Theatre was renamed for this playwright whose "Brighton Beach Memoirs" was playing there
Neil Simon
Sarah
|
$800
[2]
This Down Under capital city bears the name of the duke who defeated Napoleon
Wellington
Sarah
Jaime
|
$800
[15]
In France, this franchise specializes in "longs sandwiches" that are "prepares sous vos yeux"
Subway
Greer
Jaime
|
$1,200
[28]
A Florence, Oregon festival features a cook-off to determine the best of these thick soups containing fish or shellfish
chowders
Sarah
|
$800
[10]
From the Latin for "hinder", it means to forbid by law
prohibit
Sarah
|
|
$1,200
[8]
The Palatine Chapel in Aachen, Germany contains the simplemarble & bronzethroneof this first Holy Roman Emperor
Charlemagne
|
$1,200
[23]
"Freud's Last Session", about an imagined meeting between Dr. F. & this Narnia creator, is an Off-Broadway hit
C.S. Lewis
Sarah
|
$1,200
[3]
The Plaza de la Revolucion in this Caribbean capital was often the site of revolutionary speeches, including a 7-hour one
Havana
Sarah
|
$1,200
[16]
Mexican sizes for this chain's Blizzard are chico, mediano, grande y hasta un litro!
Dairy Queen
Sarah
|
$1,600
[29]
The film festival in this Colorado mining town began in 1974 with screenings at the Sheridan Opera House
Telluride
Jaime
|
$1,200
[11]
One of the 6 main classes of nutrients that provide energy to the body
carbohydrates
Greer
|
|
$1,600
[19]
The throneseenhereis known as the cathedra, or chair, of this saint
Saint Peter
Sarah
|
$1,600
[24]
Dolly Parton wrote 16 new songs for this musical that clocked in on Broadway in 2009
9 to 5
Sarah
|
$2,000
[5]
Share the love in Muscat, this Middle Eastern country's capital
Oman
Sarah
|
$1,600
[17]
Choose "piezas de pollo que puedes pedir en receta secreta o en cruji pollo" at this fast food place
KFC
Greer
|
$2,000
[30]
Newton, Kansas has an annual festival in July honoring this cattle trail that ended farther north in Abilene
the Chisholm Trail
|
$1,600
[12]
Logically connected or consistent; it describes a good argument
coherent
Sarah
|
|
$2,000
[20]
You'll find the throneseenherein Deoksugung Palace in this capital city
Seoul
Sarah
Greer
|
$2,000
[25]
A play starring Samuel L. Jackson takes its title from a line in Martin Luther King's last speech, "I've been to" this summit
the mountaintop
|
DD
$4,000
[4]
This Scandinavian capital's Kon-Tiki museum houses mementos of Thor Heyerdahl's voyages
Oslo
Sarah
|
$2,000
[18]
French-speaking Canadians can order a flotteur frosty a la vanille avec fresca at this old-fashioned favorite
Wendy's
Sarah
|
DD
$6,000
[27]
A Japanese lantern lighting ceremony is a part of this 2 week long spring festival in Washington, D.C.
the Cherry Blossom festival
Greer
|
$2,000
[13]
The fleece of an Angora goat
mohair
Jaime
|
The name of this title heroine of an 1847 poem is from the Greek for "good news"
Evangeline