2013 College Championship quarterfinal game 5.
Nishanth Uli — a sophomore from Washington University in St. Louis from Solon, Ohio
Laura Rigge — a junior at Wellesley College from Emmaus, Pennsylvania
Forrest Farjadian — a sophomore from the University of Tulsa from Claremore, Oklahoma
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forrest | $200 | $200 | $3,400 |
$6,795
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$3,400
9 R, 2 W |
| Laura | $-600 | $3,000 | $11,400 |
$5,900
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$15,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Nishanth | $2,800 | $6,800 | $21,800 |
$22,801
Automatic semifinalist |
$22,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL | LITERARY CHARACTERS | TV LOCALES | THE SHORT FORM | THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS | CENTURY OF THE MAN |
|
$200
[11]
Someone who submits to abuse, or something to wipe your feet on to avoid abuse when entering Mom's house
a doormat
Laura
|
$200
[16]
It's a surprise to his parents when this E.B. White character is born with a tail & whiskers
Stuart Little
Laura
|
$200
[21]
Caramoan is the latest exotic Pacific setting for this CBS reality show
Survivor
Laura
|
$200
[1]
You've got to figure the angles when studying "trig"
trigonometry
Forrest
|
$200
[6]
Nigel Richards:This board game, after winning the decisive game 475-298: that's a lot of Qs & Zs
Scrabble
Forrest
|
$200
[26]
Emperor Hirohito
the 20th century
Laura
Nishanth
|
|
$400
[12]
You get a precious 9 extra minutes with this feature introduced on a G.E. alarm clock in 1956
the snooze
Nishanth
|
$400
[17]
This sleepy Dutch-American character has a dog named Wolf & a daughter named Judith
Rip Van Winkle
Laura
|
$400
[22]
"Breaking Bad" takes place in this "Land of Enchantment" state
New Mexico
Nishanth
|
$400
[2]
I know you guys went out! Now I need some "deets"!
details
Nishanth
|
$400
[7]
Michael van Gerwen:This "flighty" pub sport--get the point?
darts
Forrest
|
$400
[27]
Millard Fillmore
19th
Laura
|
|
$600
[13]
"Beastly" type of desk lamp with a long, flexible shaft, helpful in studying without waking a roommate
a gooseneck lamp
Forrest
|
$600
[18]
Charlotte Haze is a middle-aged widow & mother to 12-year-old Dolores, better known by this title name
Lolita
Laura
|
$600
[23]
Pretty little Rosewood, Pennsylvania is the home of the girls on this series
Pretty Little Liars
Laura
|
$600
[3]
In the club, the lead singer might urge you to get a CD at the "merch" table
merchandise
Nishanth
|
$600
[8]
Ronnie O'Sullivan:This British billiards variant
snooker
Laura
Nishanth
|
$600
[28]
Sir Francis Drake
the 16th century
Nishanth
|
|
$800
[14]
In old movies ladies undressed by standing behind the privacy type of this & draping their undies over it
a screen
Laura
|
DD
$600
[19]
The pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna & her sister Lizaveta are murdered with an ax in this novel
Crime and Punishment
Laura
|
$800
[24]
This title motorcycle gang revs up in Charming, California
the Sons of Anarchy
Laura
|
$800
[4]
The script for "Zero Dark Thirty" describes "helos" disappearing into the night
helicopters
Nishanth
|
$800
[9]
Chris Wahren:This board game using numbered rectangular blocks
dominoes
|
$800
[29]
England's Richard III
the 15th century
Nishanth
|
|
$1,000
[15]
This useful type of hitch knot shares its name with certain undergraduates in Annapolis
a midshipman's knot
Forrest
Laura
Nishanth
|
$1,000
[20]
Saleem & Shiva are both born exactly at the stroke of 12 in this novel by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
Nishanth
|
$1,000
[25]
It's set in Mystic Falls, Virginia, home of werewolves & other creatures
The Vampire Diaries
|
$1,000
[5]
When a crime is committed, the police try to catch the "perp"
the perpetrator
Nishanth
|
$1,000
[10]
Yusuke Takanashi:This board game named for a Shakespeare character
Othello
Forrest
|
$1,000
[30]
Baruch Spinoza
the 17th century
Nishanth
|
| INNOVATION | POP CULTURE | RIVER RUN | MAGAZINES | "HIT" ME | PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER |
|
$400
[16]
Goodyear's air maintenance technology uses a regulator that adds air when pressure falls in these
tires
Forrest
Nishanth
|
$400
[11]
Some of the costumes she wore in her Oscar-winning role in "Silver Linings Playbook" went up for auction
(Jennifer) Lawrence
Nishanth
|
$400
[26]
From the Cotswolds to Teddington Lock
the Thames
Forrest
|
$400
[21]
The Horseless Age, first published in 1895, was the first American magazine devoted to this subject
cars
Laura
|
$400
[1]
To be married is to get this
hitched
Laura
|
$400
[6]
The mother of allportraitsof an artist's mother is by him
Whistler
Forrest
|
|
$800
[17]
This term from movie watching is also used for the "printing" of solid objects, as with the Makerbot Replicator
3-D
Forrest
|
$800
[12]
A 2013 Internet sensation gets its name from this dance going back to the '80s
the Harlem shake
Nishanth
|
$800
[27]
From the Black Forest to the Black Sea (it's blue, though)
the Danube
Laura
Nishanth
|
$800
[22]
In a March 2013 issue, it listed "The 30 greatest rock & roll movie moments"
Rolling Stone
Nishanth
|
$800
[2]
An accident after which the person responsible flees the scene
a hit-and-run
Nishanth
|
$800
[7]
Seen in a portrait here, Julia, the mom of this pop artist, lived with her son the last 20 years of her life
(Andy) Warhol
Nishanth
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Attach a Stick-N-Find sticker to a valued item & you can locate it using your phone & this popular headset technology
Bluetooth
Nishanth
|
$1,200
[13]
She & Andrew Garfield were caught in a web of love after co-starring in "The Amazing Spider-Man"
Emma Stone
Nishanth
|
$1,200
[28]
From the Cuilcagh Mountains to the Atlantic west of Limerick
the Shannon
Laura
|
$1,200
[23]
BFF Gayle King is editor-at-large of this magazine
O
Laura
|
$1,200
[3]
This idiom meaning to get a quick start implies your feet are already moving in midair
to hit the ground running
Forrest
|
$1,200
[8]
This Mexican woman didn't just paint her mom; she included her dad, both sets of grandparents, & herself, twice
Frida Kahlo
Laura
|
|
$1,600
[19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew explains the font of some text shown on a monitor.) The font seen here has heavy bottoms, creating a sort of gravity to each letter to help people afflicted with this neurological disorder avoid reading errors
dyslexia
Nishanth
|
$1,600
[14]
As a teen, Amanda Seyfried had a stint on this soap that starred Susan Lucci as Erica Kane
All My Children
Laura
|
$2,000
[30]
From the Valdai Hills to the Caspian Sea
the Volga
Laura
|
$1,600
[24]
In 2010 Adweek named this magazine covering technology, business & culture the "Magazine of the Decade"
Wired
Laura
|
$1,600
[4]
A baseball player getting a single, double, triple & home run all in one game is doing this
hitting for the cycle
Nishanth
|
DD
$1,400
[10]
Noted as a painter of moms & kids, this American Impressionist showedherown mom with the grandkids
(Mary) Cassatt
Nishanth
|
|
$2,000
[20]
A new Antarcticbaseslides across ice on skis operated by this type of power that applies fluid mechanics
hydraulic (power)
|
$2,000
[15]
In the movie "42" Chadwick Boseman is Jackie Robinson & Harrison Ford is this executive who signed Jackie to the Dodgers
(Branch) Rickey
Nishanth
|
DD
$4,000
[29]
From the Rockies to the Gulf, between Brownsville & Matamoros
the Rio Grande
Laura
|
$2,000
[25]
The website for this magazine calls it "The heart, the soul and the pulse of Black-America"
Ebony
Nishanth
|
$2,000
[5]
Uriah was one
a Hittite
Laura
|
$1,600
[9]
Thisson of Iowa painted his mother Hattie in the same style as his later "American Gothic"
(Grant) Wood
Nishanth
|
In 1928, a year after making international headlines, it reached its final destination, the Smithsonian
the Spirit of St. Louis