2014 College Championship quarterfinal game 2.
Cameron Kim — a senior at Duke University from Riverview, Florida
Ben Juster — a senior at UCLA from Woodland Hills, California
Laurie Beckoff — a sophomore from the University of Chicago from Hollis Hills, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurie | $2,200 | $4,000 | $8,200 |
$13,400
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$8,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Ben | $2,600 | $5,600 | $16,400 |
$16,400
Automatic semifinalist |
$16,400
18 R, 0 W |
| Cameron | $3,000 | $3,400 | $5,400 |
$10,800
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$5,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| HARD TO DEFINE | RECENT TV | SOLVE FOR x | JUST A WORD BEFORE GOING | MINI | HA HA |
|
$200
[26]
In March 2014 NYC's 92nd Street Y will use a 7-day program to define this (our try: a creatively brilliant person)
genius
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$200
[17]
Despite the inconvenience of being killed in a movie, Phil Coulson made it to the small screen as an "Agent of" this
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Cameron
|
$200
[16]
500 - X + 1 = 381
120
Ben
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$200
[1]
In 1886 this poet said, "I must go in, for the fog is rising"--then death stopped for her
(Emily) Dickinson
Ben
Cameron
|
$200
[6]
Released in 2012, this Apple product weighs just 0.68 pounds & is only 7.87 inches tall
the iPad mini
Cameron
|
$200
[11]
This kind of laugh is one letter off from the word for a group of geese
giggle
Laurie
|
|
$400
[27]
stopTHIS.gov defines it as "unwanted, aggressive behavior among... children that involves a... power imbalance"
bullying
Cameron
|
$400
[22]
Phil Dunphy, on this sitcom:"I'm the cool dad... I'm hip, I surf the web, I text... LOL... OMG... WTF, why the face?"
Modern Family
Ben
|
$400
[18]
82+ X2= 100
6
Cameron
|
$400
[2]
At Trafalgar he reportedly said, "Thank God I have done my duty" & then expired
Nelson
Cameron
|
$400
[7]
When Gulliver travels, he meets people from this place who are 1/12 his size
Lilliput
Ben
|
$400
[12]
Idiomatically, a good laugh is said to split one's these
sides
Laurie
|
|
$600
[28]
The elusive concept of fairness, or an official "of the peace"
justice
Cameron
|
$600
[23]
Ichabod Crane napped for 2 centuries, but at least he awoke with his head still atop his shoulders on this drama
Sleepy Hollow
Ben
|
$600
[19]
√25 + 3X = 29
8
Cameron
|
$800
[4]
This Spanish artist passed away in 1973 but not before asking friends to "Drink to me"
Picasso
Laurie
|
$600
[8]
4-letter word for a speck of dust, perhaps in your eye
mote
|
$600
[13]
As opposed to "LOL", "LQTM" stands for laughing this way
quietly to myself
Cameron
|
|
$800
[29]
AKA po-mo, it's a rejection of theory in favor of a mix of styles & values--or something like that
post-modernism
Laurie
|
$800
[24]
Spoiler alert! In 2013, via a governor's veto, Hershel lost another important body part on this AMC show
The Walking Dead
Ben
|
$800
[20]
(X - 5)2= 81; X can be 14 or this number
-4
Cameron
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
A final manifesto attributed to him in 1883 was "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough"
(Karl) Marx
Cameron
|
$800
[9]
This disease was so-named in the 16th century to distinguish it from syphilis, which was "the great" one
smallpox
Laurie
|
$800
[14]
An audience convulsed in laughter is "rolling in" these
the aisles
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Clara Bow starred in a 1927 film whose title was this pronoun--hard to define, but basically sex appeal
it
|
$1,000
[25]
"American Horror Story" turned its attention to witches in its 2013 season, titled this
American Horror Story: Coven
Ben
|
$1,000
[21]
5/8 - X/4 = 3/8
X = 1
Laurie
Cameron
|
$1,000
[5]
Concerned about his mistress Nell Gwynn, this restoration king requested, "Let not poor Nelly starve"
Charles II
Ben
|
$1,000
[10]
A very small or lowercase letter; it's now acceptable to spell the word with either a "U" or an "I" in the 4th spot
minuscule
Ben
|
$1,000
[15]
Type of laugh that's the name of the ringtone heard here
a cackle
Cameron
|
| KING ME | RHYME TIME | U.S. GEOGRAPHY | "S"PORTS TALK | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | OCCUPATIONS |
|
$400
[12]
Greece's George I supported a movement to revive this sporting event abolished in 393 A.D.
the Olympics
Laurie
|
$400
[26]
Rose-colored substance used to write a letter
pink ink
Ben
|
$400
[4]
This Arkansas capital is in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains
Little Rock
Ben
|
$400
[1]
Also a term for an Old West gunfight, it's a way to break a tie at the end of overtime in soccer
a shootout
Laurie
|
$400
[2]
He noted, "I had sent my heroine... down a rabbit-hole... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards"
(Lewis) Carroll
Cameron
|
$400
[17]
The full name of the Teamsters' Union once included this French word for a driver
chauffeur
Laurie
|
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
In 1922 King Victor Emmanuel III refused to proclaim martial law to stop this man's march on Rome
Mussolini
Laurie
|
$800
[27]
A hex put on a handbag
a purse curse
Laurie
|
$800
[5]
Baltimore lies on the Patapsco River, which flows into this bay
the Chesapeake
Cameron
|
$800
[3]
2-word term for thedevicebeing used by the competitors seen here
a starting block
Ben
|
$800
[13]
In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed
H.G. Wells
Ben
Cameron
|
$800
[22]
This is a real job as well as the name of Purdue's mascot
a boilermaker
Cameron
|
|
$1,200
[19]
In 1643 at age 4, he became king of France; he'd hang around for 7 more decades
Louis XIV
Cameron
|
$1,200
[28]
It's the chilly ridepictured here
an icicle bicycle
Laurie
Cameron
|
$1,200
[9]
Although "Montana" is Spanish for "mountain", 2/3 of the state is on the "Great" these
the Great Plains
Ben
|
$1,200
[6]
This football position shares its name with one of the ways to score in a football game
a safety
Cameron
|
DD
$800
[16]
Between 1872 & 1882 she wrote 6 volumes of "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag"
Louisa May Alcott
Cameron
|
$1,200
[23]
Profession of the fictional Howard Roark & the real Christopher Wren
architect
Cameron
|
|
$1,600
[20]
An attack by Frederick the Great, king of this Germanic nation, led to the war of the Austrian succession
Prussia
Ben
|
$1,600
[29]
Mathematically 3 pigs or hogs, squared
nine swine
Laurie
|
$1,600
[10]
Many rivers flow into this large lake in the Sierra Nevada, but only the Truckee flows out
Lake Tahoe
Ben
|
$1,600
[7]
To take a tennis match 6-1, 6-2 is to "win in" these
straight sets
|
$1,200
[14]
In 1863 he put out a book originally titled "Voyage au Centre de la Terre"
Jules Verne
Cameron
|
$1,600
[24]
A deaccelerator is a piece of equipment for this film & TV "man" or "woman"
a stuntman or a stuntwoman
Laurie
|
|
$2,000
[21]
Charles III, Philip V & Alfonso XII all ruled this country
Spain
Ben
|
$2,000
[30]
Fun, little-known facts about a landlocked country in South America
Bolivia trivia
|
$2,000
[11]
The Swenson family operates this state's largest granite quarry on Rattlesnake Hill
New Hampshire
|
$2,000
[8]
Broadcaster Eddie Doucette coined this term for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's trademark arcing shot
the skyhook
|
$1,600
[15]
Before "Downton Abbey", there was this, the shortest of Jane Austen's 6 major novels
Northanger Abbey
|
$2,000
[25]
A business degree might help you become an analyst for M&A, mergers & these
acquisition
Ben
Cameron
|
The most retweeted tweet of all time happened on November 6, 2012 & started with "four" & ended with these 2 words
more years