2013 College Championship quarterfinal game 3.
Trevor Walker — a sophomore at MIT from Miami Shores, Florida
Taylor Roth — a junior at Baylor University from Plano, Texas
Paige Radtke — a sophomore from the University of Colorado at Boulder from Fort Collins, Colorado
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paige | $1,800 | $1,800 | $3,800 |
$1,599
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$4,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Taylor | $-400 | $3,600 | $6,000 |
$1
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$6,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Trevor | $2,400 | $3,000 | $13,800 |
$12,001
Automatic semifinalist |
$12,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES | WEB MUSIC PARODIES | YES, THEY WILL | "SIN"ONYMS | WHAT DEGREE ARE YOU GETTING? | ECONOMICS |
|
$200
[14]
"Special skills?" Icandrink5Doubleshotenergycoffeedrinksfrom thischainin1minute&youcannevereventell
Starbucks
Paige
|
$200
[9]
Yahoo!'s Sketchy Players sang of the grayer set with "We're Not Young", a parody of this band
fun.
Trevor
|
$200
[19]
This royal's will provided for her sons William & Harry & 50,000 pounds for former servant Paul Burrell
Princess Diana
Taylor
|
$200
[2]
Synonym for unattached
single
|
$200
[1]
Not baddest but this word is the proper superlative degree of "bad"
worst
Taylor
|
$200
[26]
In early 2013 there were about 900,000 discouraged workers among us, those who've stopped doing this
looking for work
Trevor
|
|
$400
[15]
"Would you relocate?" Only to this Vermont capital, as I'm uncomfortable in any capital city over 8,000 people
Montpelier
Paige
|
$400
[10]
"Is this the frat life?" begins College Humor's "Brohemian Rhapsody", a take on this band's tune
Queen
Paige
|
$400
[20]
In his 1788 will this Philadelphian called himself a printer & president of the state of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin
Trevor
|
$400
[3]
Synonym for heartfelt
sincere
Trevor
|
$400
[7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, point one arm at the North Star & the other at the horizon--the angle between the two will give you roughly where you are on the earth in degrees of this
latitude
|
$400
[27]
In fiscal 2011 Uncle Sam paid $230 billion in this, quite a bit of it on loans from Asia
interest
Taylor
|
|
$600
[16]
"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Replacing Kirk Hammett as lead guitarist of this "Unforgiven" band
Metallica
|
$600
[11]
"Keep it secret, keep it safe, I got a long grey beard", says this magic man in a Psy spoof
Gandalf
Trevor
|
$600
[21]
This actress who died in 1962 left her personal effects to her mentor Lee Strasberg
Marilyn Monroe
Paige
|
$600
[4]
Synonym for scorch
singe
Paige
|
$600
[8]
Under California law, killing someone while you're carjacking him is this crime
first-degree murder
Paige
Taylor
Trevor
|
$600
[28]
Moral hazard refers to people taking risks with their health because they know they have this
insurance
Taylor
|
|
$800
[17]
"Any questions?" What's your sick leave policy? I'm prone to this most common but least deadly type of plague
bubonic plague
Paige
|
$800
[12]
Billy Joel is parodied in "We Didn't Start" this type of war in which insults are hurled online
a flame war
Trevor
|
DD
$800
[24]
His 1821 will, written on St. Helena, stipulated that his ashes be scattered "on the banks of the Seine"
Napoléon (Bonaparte)
Taylor
|
$800
[5]
Synonym for menacing
sinister
Paige
|
$800
[22]
212 degrees Fahrenheit equals this many degrees Celsius
100 degrees Celsius
Paige
|
$800
[29]
Oddly, "The Economist" defines this, MFN for short, as at least equal treatment in trade
most favored nation treatment
|
|
$1,000
[18]
"What do you bring to the company?" Mypet, a naked this... I have him with me today
a mole rat
Taylor
|
$1,000
[13]
A YouTube cover of this Lana Del Rey song features Princess Peach & the Mario brothers in a love triangle
"Video Games"
Trevor
|
$1,000
[25]
This 19th c. British novelist asked to be buried on Mount Vaea in Samoa "under the wide and starry sky"
Robert Louis Stevenson
Paige
|
$1,000
[6]
Synonym for Sri Lankan
Sinhalese
|
$1,000
[23]
With shared great-grandparents, the children of Caroline Kennedy & RFK Jr. are this degree of cousin
second cousins
Taylor
|
$1,000
[30]
George Akerlof won a Nobel for his theory of this "lopsided" type of info, meaning one party knows more than the other
asymmetrical information
|
| THE FIRST MILLENNIUM | RECENT TITLE ROLE PLAYING | TRANSPORTATION | THE BOOK BOOK | ISLANDS | THE J-5 |
|
$400
[16]
In 532 a riot broke out during races of these vehicles at the Hippodrome in Constantinople & much of the city was destroyed
chariots
Paige
|
$400
[17]
"Lincoln"
Daniel Day-Lewis
Paige
|
$400
[6]
The Baltimore & Ohio's first train service in 1830 consisted of cars drawn by these
horses
Paige
|
$400
[11]
In a Margaret Truman novel, a lost diary of one of Columbus' men is linked to a "Murder at" this D.C. library
the Library of Congress
Paige
|
$400
[1]
In 1906 Britain transferred the territory of Papua on this island to the jurisdiction of Australia
New Guinea
|
$400
[26]
Combat involving horses & blunted lances
joust
Taylor
Trevor
|
|
$1,200
[23]
In 452 Pope Leo I met this warrior known as the "Scourge of God" & persuaded him not to sack Rome
Attila the Hun
|
$800
[18]
"Anna Karenina"
Keira Knightley
Taylor
|
$800
[7]
This man's company Virgin Galactic is now offering 2-hour trips to space for a cool $200,000
(Richard) Branson
Paige
|
$800
[12]
In a Robert Barnard mystery, Scotland Yard det. Trethowan seeks a lost book ms. by one of these sisters
the Brontë sisters
Taylor
|
$800
[2]
Greece's Ionian Islands, which include Corfu, are sometimes called the Heptanesos because there are this many islands
seven
Paige
|
$800
[27]
Some have a "beef" with this word meaning characterized by sudden starts
jerky
Paige
|
|
$1,600
[24]
In 759 this "diminutive" father of Charlemagne extended his rule to the Pyrenees
Pepin the Short
|
$1,200
[19]
"Captain America: The First Avenger"
Chris Evans
Paige
|
DD
$800
[8]
You can see Mount Fuji in the background as one of these, with a ballistic name, speeds by
a bullet train
Paige
|
$1,200
[13]
5 women & 1 man form a title "Book Club" that reads the novels of this 19th century woman
Jane Austen
Taylor
|
$1,200
[3]
Inagua in this nation just east of Miami is home to more than 80,000 flamingos, the national bird
the Bahamas
Taylor
|
$1,200
[28]
Worn out by overindulgence; yawn... been there, done that
jaded
Trevor
|
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
Pliny the Younger wrote that fumes from its eruption probably killed his uncle "by blocking his windpipe"
Mount Vesuvius
Trevor
|
$1,600
[20]
"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone"
Steve Carell
Paige
|
$1,600
[9]
These have 3 types of brakes--wheel, track & emergency--so no fear of runaway carnage at Fisherman's Wharf
cable cars
Trevor
|
$1,600
[14]
The Necronomicon, an ancient evil Book of the Dead, wreaks havoc in several stories by this author who died in 1937
(H.P.) Lovecraft
Trevor
|
$1,600
[4]
Founded by Bounty mutineers, it's now encouraging immigration because its small population of about 50 is aging
Pitcairn Island
|
$1,600
[29]
An instant or flash, as in, "I'll be there in a" this
a jiffy
Paige
|
|
$2,000
[25]
In 430 St. Augustine died in this North African port after 34 years as its bishop
Hippo
|
$2,000
[21]
"Snow White & the Huntsman" (both, please)
Kristen Stewart and (Chris) Hemsworth
Paige
Taylor
Trevor
|
$2,000
[10]
Each Labor Day weekend, the Hudson River is the site of a race for these vessels that push & pull
tugboats
Trevor
|
$2,000
[15]
A hidden book by this ancient Greek is at the heart of the Umberto Eco thriller "The Name of the Rose"
Aristotle
|
$2,000
[5]
Immortalized by Alexandre Dumas, this isle in the Tuscan archipelago has been infested with black rats in recent years
Montecristo
Paige
Trevor
|
$2,000
[30]
It's a small group ruling a country after a coup
a junta
Trevor
|
On the eve of his 200th birthday in 2009, the Church of England offered him "an apology for misunderstanding you"
Charles Darwin