2014 College Championship semifinal game 1.
Whitney Thompson — a junior at the University of Oklahoma from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tucker Pope — a junior from Texas A&M University from Lubbock, Texas
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 | $1,800 | $3,200 | $10,400 |
$19,800
2nd place: $10,000 |
$12,000
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Tucker | $1,600 | $2,800 | $12,000 |
$21,201
Finalist |
$12,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Whitney | $1,800 | $4,200 | $10,600 |
$393
3rd place: $10,000 |
$11,200
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| COLLEGE TOWNS | THE OLD TESTAMENT | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS | STUDENT HEALTH CENTER | OLYMPIC GOLD | "U.S.", EH |
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$200
[1]
Georgia's Bulldogs are top dogs in this city that was named for an ancient center of culture & learning
Athens
Tucker
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$200
[11]
Naaman was cured of leprosy after Elisha told him to bathe in this river 7 times
the Jordan
Whitney
|
$200
[16]
Singer Faith or actor Jonah; what the...?
Hill
Laurie
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$200
[6]
Come on in--the CDC says everyone 6 months of age & older should get this yearly, ideally by October
a flu shot
Whitney
|
$200
[21]
Women's doubles tennis,2012 (both players)
Venus & Serena Williams
Laurie
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$200
[26]
He's a symbol of the U.S.A. or its government
Uncle Sam
Whitney
|
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$400
[2]
It's home to the University of Florida, the state's largest & oldest university
Gainesville
Tucker
|
$400
[12]
He ripped the doors off the gate of the city of Gaza & carried them on his back to the top of a hill
Samson
Whitney
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$400
[17]
Oh, this! Rising 770 feet on the Feather River, Oroville is the highest one in the United States
a dam
Tucker
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$400
[7]
The visual aura that you just described is common with the classic type of this severe headache
a migraine
Laurie
|
$400
[22]
Men's half-pipe,2006, 2010
Shaun White
Tucker
|
$400
[27]
The 2012 film in this franchise has Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme & an army of genetically enhanced warriors
Universal Soldier
|
|
$600
[3]
It's the Ivy League school that's located in the town of Hanover
Dartmouth
Laurie
|
$600
[13]
Thisson of Jacob goes to prison when a woman falsely accuses him; you canseewhat really happened
Joseph
|
$600
[18]
This non-naughty 5-letter "B" word means to bungle a task
botch
Whitney
|
$600
[8]
All that sneezing & red & itching eyes, it's pollinosis, or, in layman's terms, this
hayfever
Whitney
|
$600
[23]
Men's 100-meter dash,1936 (in Berlin)
Jesse Owens
Tucker
|
$600
[28]
It's the "U.S." in a USB, a socket used to attach a device to a computer
universal serial (universal service accepted)
Tucker
|
|
$800
[4]
A shortened version of the name of trapper Etienne Provost is on a college town in this Western state
Utah
|
DD
$600
[14]
This third book of the Old Testament is named for the tribe from which the priests of Israel were descended
Leviticus
Whitney
|
$800
[19]
1-word energy industry technique that's the subject of the film "Gasland"
fracking
Whitney
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$800
[9]
That raw egg eating contest wasn't such a smart move; I'm afraid you have this "fishy" food poisoning
salmonella
Laurie
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$800
[24]
Men's figure skating,2010
Evan Lysacek
|
$800
[29]
2-word term for the uncontrolled spreading out of metropolitan communities into surrounding areas
urban sprawl
Whitney
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Waco, Texas is home to this university, the largest Baptist university in the world
Baylor
Tucker
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$1,000
[15]
Esther 4:3 reports that "there was great mourning among the Jews... and many lay in sackcloth and" these
ashes
|
$1,000
[20]
That's a load of this, a short "riding" whip
a crop
Tucker
|
$1,000
[10]
Have you had a menactra vaccine? it helps protect against this illness that also begins with M-E-N
meningitis
Whitney
|
$1,000
[25]
Men's 100-meter dash,1984, 1988; men's long jump,1984, 1988, 1992, 1996
Carl Lewis
Tucker
|
$1,000
[30]
This author whose early 20th century novels argued for social reform ran unsuccessfully for Californla governor
Upton Sinclair
Laurie
|
| THOMAS, WRITE? | WEATHER VERBS | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE | TALK NERDY TO ME | KIWI FAUNA | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY |
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$400
[2]
The success of "Far From the Madding Crowd" enabled him to give up architecture for writing
Thomas Hardy
Laurie
|
$400
[16]
To fix prices or wages at a current level, or to immobilize, as with fear
freeze
Tucker
|
$400
[1]
"Das Boot" portrayed both boredom & terror aboard one of these German craft during World War II
a U-boat
Laurie
|
$400
[11]
I love it when you say that "I.P. address" is short for "Internet" this "address"
protocol
Tucker
|
$400
[21]
New Zealand has 2 species of this flying mammal, the only land mammal native to the country
bat
Tucker
Whitney
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$400
[26]
In August 2013 bells rang out across the nation to mark the 50th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tucker
|
|
$800
[3]
Climb up "The Magic Mountain", a novel by this German
Thomas Mann
|
$800
[17]
To yell to catch a taxi driver's attention
hail
Whitney
|
$800
[4]
"The Motorcycle Diaries" dramatized a life-changing road trip by this future ally of Fidel Castro
Che Guevara
Tucker
|
$800
[12]
It gives me chills when you say that Alekhine's Defense is named for the fourth world champion of this game
chess
Tucker
|
$800
[22]
Wallabies & brush-tailed possums arrived in New Zealand from this neighbor
Australia
Whitney
|
$800
[27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) Honored with amonument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military's first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State
Rhode Island
|
|
$1,200
[8]
"Hannibal" is this author's sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs"
Thomas Harris
Whitney
|
$1,200
[18]
To sing lead for a rock band
front
|
$1,200
[5]
Berenice Bejo played '20s actress Peppy Miller in this 2011 multi-Oscar winner from France
The Artist
Laurie
|
$1,200
[13]
Murmur "anime" or this 5-letter Japanese term for graphic novels & comic magazines like shonen ace
manga
Laurie
|
$1,200
[23]
Native frogs in New Zealand skip this larval stage, going directly from egg to adult
tadpole
Tucker
|
$1,200
[28]
It's Showtime at this Harlem theater that began hosting its amateur night in 1934
the Apollo
Laurie
|
|
$1,600
[9]
You may falter under the weight of "Gravity's Rainbow", by him
Thomas Pynchon
Laurie
|
$1,600
[19]
To pour in a fine stream, like syrup over pancakes
drizzle
Laurie
|
DD
$1,600
[6]
"City of God" is about 2 boys growing up in a violent favela in this South American country
Brazil
Laurie
|
$1,600
[14]
Say this 2-word "killing curse" from the Harry Potter series--but don't point your wand at me!
avada kedavra
Tucker
|
DD
$1,200
[25]
Found in New Zealand's waters, the blue bottle jellyfish is also known as this due to its resemblance to a battleship
a (Portuguese) man o' war
Tucker
|
$1,600
[29]
In 1976 Clarence Norris, the last member of these "Boys", was pardoned in Alabama for a 1931 rape conviction
the Scottsboro Boys
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Appropriately, this philosopher's "Leviathan" runs almost 600 pages
Thomas Hobbes
Laurie
|
$2,000
[20]
To send too much fuel to the carburetor, causing an unsuccessful ignition
flood
Tucker
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$2,000
[7]
The 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Film went to director Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation", the first winner from this country
Iran
Whitney
|
$2,000
[15]
"Your world. Your imagination" is a tagline for this build-it-yourself online game
Second Life
|
$1,600
[24]
The yellow-eyed penguin doesn't form these breeding groups like other penguins but builds solo nests
colonies
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1773 she put out the first book of poetry by an African American
Phillis Wheatley
Whitney
|
In preparation for a work he published in 1828 that was over 20 years in the making, he learned 26 languages
Noah Webster