Show #6609 2013-05-16 (taped 2013-04-09) College Championship

2013 College Championship final game 1.

Contestants

Kristen Jolley — a senior at the Georgia Institute of Technology from Alpharetta, Georgia

Trevor Walker — a sophomore at MIT from Miami Shores, Florida

Jim Coury — a sophomore from Georgetown University from Olmsted Falls, Ohio

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jim $1,600 $6,000 $17,200 $8,600 $17,200
19 R, 1 W
Trevor $2,200 $4,200 $11,800 $11,000 $12,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kristen $400 $2,400 $13,000 $10,000 $10,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHERE IS IT? SYMBOLS SHORT & TWEET NONFICTION TECH STUFF YES "WAY"
$200 [21]
The yellow oval room: in this building
The White House
Jim
$200 [11]
Renaissance artists used an ear of this as a symbol of the harvest
corn
Jim
$200 [6]
@JLo(a former TV show judge)
Jennifer Lopez
Trevor
$200 [26]
After killing this outlaw, Pat Garrett co-wrote the first biography of him
Billy the Kid
Kristen
$200 [1]
Wi-Fi technology uses these waves that brought us "The Chase & Sanborn Hour" in the 1930s
radio waves
Trevor
$200 [16]
Eliminating static is one way to tame hair that's described as this 7-letter synonym for windblown
flyaway
Jim Kristen
$400 [22]
Lenin's tomb: in this 800,000-square-foot expanse
Red Square
Trevor
$400 [12]
The 5 interlaced rings that symbolize it represent the 5 parts of the world brought together by it
the Olympics
Kristen
$400 [7]
@King James(he's been known to dribble)
LeBron James
Jim
$400 [27]
Alex Haley wrote much of "The Autobiography of" this 1960s African-American leader
Malcolm X
Jim
$400 [2]
Reddit is known for hosting online interviews where you can AMA, short for this
ask me anything
Jim
$400 [17]
It's the nickname for the highway that encircles the Washington, D.C. area
beltway
Kristen
$600 [23]
Edo Castle: in this city
Tokyo
Kristen
$600 [13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Used for centuries, the astronomical symbol of this planet depicts a head, a winged cap & a staff
Mercury
Jim
$600 [8]
@Pontifex(he's new in the job)
Pope Francis
Trevor
$600 [28]
"The Virtue of Selfishness", a 1964 collection of essays by this woman, is a favorite of young conservatives
Ayn Rand
Trevor
$600 [3]
This type of "net" developed by Xerox has helped local area networks communicate since the 1970s
ethernet
Trevor
$600 [18]
The name of these iconic sunglasses from Ray-Ban means "traveler"
Wayfarers
Jim
$800 [24]
Saskatoon: in this province
Saskatchewan
Jim
$800 [14]
When you're drawing a family medical history, circles stand for these
women
Trevor
$800 [9]
@aplusk(a TV sitcom man)
Ashton Kutcher
$800 [29]
Elaine Pagels explored "Lost" books of the New Testament in "The Gnostic" these
gospels
Jim
$800 [4]
We're gonna go old school and use keyboard characters to translatemy imageinto this computing code
ASCII
Trevor
$800 [19]
Michigan congressman Dave Camp chairs this House committee
Ways and Means
Jim
$1,000 [25]
Moldova: on this continent
Europe
Trevor
DD $3,000 [15]
The phoenix rising from the ashes is the symbol of this southern capital that arose from the ashes
Atlanta
Trevor
$1,000 [10]
@wilw(he's boldly gone)
Wil Wheaton
Trevor
$1,000 [30]
"The Doors of Perception" were opened for this novelist in 1953 when he wrote a true account of his drug use
(Aldous) Huxley
Jim
$1,000 [5]
It's a big smartphone, it's a small iPad, it's this 7-letter hybrid word
phablet
Trevor
$1,000 [20]
The largest Gaelic-speaking population of Ireland is in this county
Galway
Kristen

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW INOXFORD USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC OF TODAY CLASSIC TOYS THEATER GETTING MEDIEVAL ON YOU
$400 [16]
A meep is a type of this, perhaps made by a kitten or groundhog
a sound
Kristen
$400 [11]
5/4 = 30/x; x = this
24
Jim
$400 [1]
She co-wrote the Miley Cyrus hit "Party in the U.S.A." & co-wrote her own hit heard here
Jessie J
Trevor
$400 [6]
Originally the safety-bake oven, its name was changed when TV broadcasters weren't convinced of its safety
Easy-Bake Oven
Trevor
$400 [22]
It's the musical in which Fantine sings "I Dreamed a Dream"
Les Misérables
Kristen
$400 [21]
A trencher was a plate made of metal, wood or a (probably stale) slice of this
bread
Kristen
$800 [17]
It's the 11-letter word for the elucidating picture seen here
infographic
Kristen
$800 [12]
Solve for x:5x + 2x = 14
2
Kristen
$800 [2]
The singer of "Locked Out of Heaven" chose this stage name partly because "people say I'm out of this world"
Bruno Mars
Trevor
$800 [7]
This Wham-O product is made of compressed "zectron"; drop it from 10 feet & it'll bounce 9 feet high
Super Ball
Kristen
$1,200 [24]
In 2013 Scarlett Johansson starred on Broadway as Maggie in this playwright's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Tennessee Williams
Jim
$800 [27]
A medieval date might've included taking in a "mystery play" depicting stories like the Genesis 4:8 murder of this man
Abel
Kristen
$1,200 [18]
A "savior sibling" is a child conceived in vitro in the hope that he or she may do this specific act
donate an organ
Trevor
$1,200 [13]
Solve for x in the math problem seen here
1/3
Jim
$1,200 [3]
Modern rock band heard here
The Killers
Jim
$1,200 [8]
In 1987 he lost his pipe & became the official spokespud for the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout
Mr. Potato Head
Kristen
$1,600 [25]
"The Laramie Project" is a docudrama-style play about the brutal 1998 murder of this gay college student
(Matthew) Shepard
Jim
$1,200 [28]
In clothing, a chaperon was a hood, as in the French title of this children's story, "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge"
"Little Red Riding Hood"
Trevor
$2,000 [20]
It's someone who's basically a vegetarian but doesn't rule out the occasional burger
flexitarian
Jim
$1,600 [14]
The stadium holds 4,500 seats;80%, this many, are filled
3600
Kristen
$1,600 [4]
The Black Keys "got a love that keeps me waiting" in this song
"Lonely Boy"
$1,600 [9]
The original name of this toy invented by Frenchman Andre Cassagnes was L'Ecran Magique, "magic screen"
Etch A Sketch
Trevor
$2,000 [26]
Everyone on stage is a suspect in the musical based on Charles Dickens' unfinished tale "The Mystery of" this man
Edwin Drood
Kristen
$1,600 [30]
Knights fought for fun in mock battles called this, now a term for the contest you're in
tournament
Jim
DD $4,000 [19]
2-word alliterative movement that asks ISPs to allow access to all content equally
net neutrality
Trevor
$2,000 [15]
3x - y = 82x + y = 7; solve forx & y
x = 3; y = 1
Trevor Kristen
$2,000 [5]
Shegot to sing for the newlywed Duke & Duchess of Cambridge
Ellie Goulding
Jim
$2,000 [10]
The creator of this toy was inspired by watching workers build the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, which was designed by his father
Lincoln Logs
DD $3,000 [23]
This Jonathan Larson musical was loosely based on the opera "La Boheme"
Rent
Kristen
$2,000 [29]
The 12th c. "Song" of this vassal of Charlemagne tells of his heroic death in a Saracen ambush
Roland
Kristen

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS

These 2 men followed each other consecutively as vice president & later, in reverse order, as president

Richard Nixon & LBJ

Trevor "Who ?" — wagered $800
Kristen "Who are Ford + someone" — wagered $3,000
Jim "Who are Roosevelt + Taft" — wagered $8,600

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