2014 College Championship quarterfinal game 3.
Kevin Shen — a junior from the University of California, Berkeley from Cupertino, California
Terry O'Shea — a sophomore at Princeton University from Bridgewater, New Jersey
Kenesha Bennett — a senior from Oakwood University from Huntsville, Alabama
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenesha | $4,400 | $5,000 | $2,200 |
$4,400
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$2,200
12 R, 7 W |
| Terry | $800 | $5,200 | $15,400 |
$17,400
Automatic semifinalist |
$17,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kevin | $0 | $2,000 | $10,800 |
$15,401
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| MUSIC MAKERS | BIOLOGY CLASS | PRIME NUMBERS | STUDENT AID | 3-LETTER WORDS | THE HARVARD BOOK STORE TOP 100 |
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$200
[1]
When Pink teamed up to sing "Just Give Me A Reason" with Nate Ruess of this band, they were nominated for a Grammy
fun.
Terry
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$200
[18]
At about 9 weeks of age, a human embryo becomes one of these
a fetus
Terry
|
$200
[3]
To get a brief respite, you "take" it
five
Terry
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$200
[13]
A 1902 will established this scholarship that sends students to Oxford University
the Rhodes
Terry
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$200
[2]
After good service in a restaurant, make it 15-20% of the pretax total
a tip
Kevin
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$200
[26]
Get the Bronte beat with this title character's story, coming in at No. 1
Jane Eyre
Terry
|
|
$400
[10]
This "Video Games" chanteuse teams with Cedric Gervais on "Summertime Sadness"
Lana Del Rey
Terry
|
$400
[19]
By definition, a polypeptide is a chain of these linked together by peptide bonds
amino acids
Kenesha
Terry
|
$400
[5]
This many diners attend da Vinci's "Last Supper"
13
Kenesha
|
$400
[14]
The name of these 4-letter federal grants honors the senator who originated the program
Pell
Kenesha
|
$400
[4]
From the Latin for "strength" & meaning energy, it's often paired with vigor
vim
Kevin
|
$400
[27]
This vintage Vonnegut "meal" from 1973 ranks No. 3
Breakfast of Champions
Kevin
|
|
$600
[23]
The song heardhereis from this band's album "AM""Do I want to know /If this feeling flows both ways? /Sad to see you go..."
the Arctic Monkeys
Terry
|
$600
[20]
It's the branch of biology that deals with glands such as the pituitary & thyroid
endocrinology
Kevin
|
$600
[6]
The First Battle of Bull Run was in this year
1861
Terry
|
$600
[15]
The PSAT is the qualifying exam for this scholarship program that began in 1955
the National Merit Scholarship Program
Kenesha
Kevin
|
$600
[7]
In volleyball it's when you dive to hit the ball just above the ground
dig
Kenesha
|
$600
[28]
This first novel by Carson McCullers takes 35th place on the list
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
|
|
$800
[24]
"Life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes", says this hit by Avicii
"Wake Me Up"
Kenesha
|
$800
[21]
While red bone marrow gets its color from developing red blood cells, yellow marrow gets its color from this
fat
|
$800
[11]
It's the largest 3-digit prime
997
Kenesha
|
$800
[16]
This group gives scholarships to minority students & financial support to 37 historically black colleges & universities
the UNCF (United Negro College Fund)
Kenesha
|
$800
[8]
Grass-covered soil
sod
Kenesha
Terry
|
$800
[29]
No. 55 is this Alan Moore graphic novel of aging superheroes
Watchmen
Terry
|
|
$1,000
[25]
3 sisters make up this pop band"Baby, baby /Baby /Don't save me now /Don't save me now..."
Haim
Kenesha
|
$1,000
[22]
In 1937 this German-born biochemist discovered the citric acid cycle that bears his name
(Hans) Krebs
Terry
|
$1,000
[12]
Number "Against Thebes" in a work by Aeschylus
seven
Kenesha
|
$1,000
[17]
Originally for WWII vets, it provides grants for tuition & is more formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act
the G.I. Bill
Kevin
|
$1,000
[9]
Usually powdered, a peruke was a man's one of these in the 18th century
a wig
Kenesha
|
DD
$2,000
[30]
This 1855 volume of American poetry rounds out the Top 100
Leaves of Grass
Terry
|
| HAIL TO THE CHIEF | TIME MANAGEMENT | SHARP THINGS | GETTING YOUR "M-B-A" | KENYA WEST | NO DISRESPECT TO BEN AFFLECK |
|
$400
[11]
His father, William Jefferson Blythe, died in a 1946 car accident before the future president was born
Bill Clinton
Terry
|
$400
[6]
A.M. comes from the Latin words "ante meridiem", meaning "before" this
noon
Terry
|
$400
[16]
Medicine in the "Star Trek" world involves a "laser" one of these surgical instruments
a scalpel
Kenesha
|
$400
[1]
Similarity in appearance; I see the...
resemblance
Terry
|
$400
[26]
Because Mount Kenya is right on this line, climbers prefer the north side July-Sept. or the south side Dec.-Feb.
the equator
Kenesha
|
$400
[21]
On Kanye's "nodisrespecttobenaffleck" hashtag, this woman, "alias" Ben's wife, noted, "I say that all the time"
Jennifer Garner
Kevin
|
|
$800
[12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew displays a map of the U.S. on the monitor.) In 1952, the term "Solid South" referred to anareacontrolled by Democrats, even in this man'slandslide win--the political map was very different back then
Eisenhower
Kenesha
Terry
|
$800
[7]
One of these is used to tell time by the shadow that its gnomon casts on a calibrated ring
a sundial
Kevin
|
$800
[17]
A leather strip called a strop is traditionally for sharpening this
straight razor
Kenesha
Terry
|
$800
[2]
To accept a concept willingly; hug it out!
embrace
Terry
|
$800
[27]
120 years ago what's now Nairobi was this, an oasis for thirsty animals (&, informally, thirsty people)
a watering hole
Terry
|
$800
[22]
A tag line for this Affleck film was "The movie was fake. The mission was real"
Argo
Terry
|
|
$1,200
[13]
In 1910, a year after leaving office, he published the book "African Game Trails"
Teddy Roosevelt
Terry
|
$1,600
[9]
The word "clock" derives from a French word for this object that could be used to sound the time
a bell
Kevin
|
$1,200
[18]
In Islamic tradition Zulfikar, one of these, passed to the caliph Ali on Muhammad's death
a sword
Kevin
|
$1,200
[3]
To board a ship, or to start an enterprise
embark
Kenesha
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$1,200
[28]
Birders love "soda lakes" like Nakuru: the alkaline water supports the blue-green type of these, luring lots of flamingos
algae
Kenesha
Kevin
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$1,200
[23]
Ben doesn't have much to say on the market economy in the colonies in a bar scene in this 1997 film... but Matt Damon does
Good Will Hunting
Terry
|
|
$1,600
[14]
He told Lincoln in 1861, "if you are as happy on entering the White House as I on leaving, you are a very happy man indeed"
Buchanan
Terry
|
$2,000
[10]
Smartphone clocks can drift 10 sec. a day; a Hong Kong scientist has a way to sync them with the flickering of this kind of light
fluorescent light
Kevin
|
$1,600
[19]
The company Festool introduced a gas-powered one of these tools in the 1920s
a chainsaw
Kevin
|
$1,600
[4]
A thin layer of body tissue lining an organ
membrane
Kevin
|
$1,600
[29]
Some of Kenya's most fertile land is within this 4,000-mile-long "great" depression
the Great Rift Valley
|
$1,600
[24]
As Ned, Ben agrees to play Mercutio in this film but does have an irritated question for the play's author... "He dies?"
Shakespeare in Love
Terry
|
|
DD
$3,000
[15]
This soldier served only 16 months as the 1st president who had never been in Congress or the Continental Congress
Zachary Taylor
Terry
|
DD
$2,400
[8]
It's what the U.S. Naval Observatory calls a timepiece regulated by the natural vibration frequencies of cesium particles
an atomic clock
Kevin
|
$2,000
[20]
To have a selfish motive, or to possess an implement that needs sharpening
having an axe to grind
Kenesha
|
$2,000
[5]
Type of "organization" that encompasses a number of smaller groups
umbrella
Terry
|
$2,000
[30]
She was talking about West Kenya when she began a book, "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills"
Isak Dinesen
|
$2,000
[25]
An armored car robbery goes wrong in "The Town" for Ben & this actor; maybe a bow & arrow would've helped?
Jeremy Renner
Terry
|
"Take care of him", says the man called this in Luke 10 after giving money to an innkeeper
the Good Samaritan