2014 College Championship semifinal game 3.
Julia Clark — a senior at Harvard University from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Erika Sloan — a sophomore from Middlebury College from Simsbury, Connecticut
Kevin Shen — a junior from the University of California, Berkeley from Cupertino, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin | $5,400 | $7,000 | $13,000 |
$23,201
Finalist |
$12,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Erika | $1,200 | $4,000 | $11,600 |
$21,300
2nd place: $10,000 |
$11,200
17 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Julia | $600 | $3,000 | $10,600 |
$13,002
3rd place: $10,000 |
$10,600
14 R, 2 W |
| DORM ROOM CHECKLIST | WEBSITES | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS | STATE LINES | "FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS | THE MOVIE SUPERHERO WHO... |
|
$200
[6]
To enjoy TV or music without disturbing your roommate, bring along a pair of noise-canceling these
headphones
Erika
|
$200
[1]
You'll need an exclamation point to spell this website, America's largest e-mail provider
Yahoo!
Kevin
|
$200
[21]
A North Carolina county board made this 1952 Ralph Ellison classic disappear, saying it didn't have "any literary value"
Invisible Man
Kevin
Erika
Julia
|
$200
[11]
Stephen Foster:"I've come from ____ with my banjo on my knee"
Alabama
Kevin
|
$200
[26]
In a movie, it's the narrative that supplies a character's past
a backstory
Julia
|
$200
[16]
kneels before Zod... momentarily
Superman
Kevin
|
|
$400
[7]
For your dining pleasure, this tool will come in quite handy
a pizza cutter
Kevin
|
$400
[2]
Watch "Glee" or "Nashville" on this rhyming online video service that has a "Plus" subscription
Hulu
Erika
|
$400
[22]
A Florida county pulled this 2011 E.L. James book from libraries, but it came back "in response to public demand"
Fifty Shades of Grey
Erika
|
$400
[12]
"I am from ____. You have got to show me"
Missouri
Kevin
|
$400
[27]
One could be "rainy with a chance of hail"
a forecast
Erika
|
$400
[17]
married Elastigirl & entered the superhero protection program
Mr. Incredible
Kevin
|
|
$600
[8]
Mom will loan you a broom, but you can't take her Dyson one of these cleaning appliances
a vacuum
Julia
|
$600
[3]
Troopers & Jake & Amir are original features on this "college" website
CollegeHumor
Erika
|
$600
[23]
This 1985 Margaret Atwood novel was challenged in N.C. as "sexually explicit, violently graphic and morally corrupt"
The Handmaid's Tale
Erika
|
$600
[13]
Woody Guthrie:"From California to the ____ ____ Island"
New York
Kevin
|
$600
[28]
What's called Obamacare is formally the Patient Protection & this type of Care Act
Affordable
Erika
|
$600
[18]
advises local cop John Blake, "If you're working alone, wear a mask"
Batman
Julia
|
|
$800
[9]
Don't forget raingear--umbrella, boots & this blanketlike cloak with a hole in the middle
a poncho
Kevin
|
$800
[4]
The web radio site with this mythic name asks you to "enter artist, genre or composer to create a station"
Pandora
Kevin
|
$800
[24]
A beef with his "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" on a Penn. reading list: "sexual content &... there is nothing good about it"
Tom Wolfe
Julia
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
From the pen of screenwriter Noel Langley:"I've a feeling we're ____ ____ ____ ____"
not in Kansas anymore
Kevin
|
$800
[29]
Type of workplaceseen here
a forge
Kevin
|
$800
[19]
is asked, "You've been called the da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?" "Ridiculous. I don't paint"
Tony Stark (Iron Man)
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Your first aid kit should include an antibiotic ointment like this popular brand from Johnson & Johnson
Neosporin
Kevin
|
$1,000
[5]
Need a ride? Go to the site called this to schedule your pickup & look for the pink carstache
Lyft
|
$1,000
[25]
A Katy, Texas school district didn't have a Jane Smiley face after complaints about this numerically titled book
A Thousand Acres
|
$1,000
[15]
"So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, while we were marching ____ ____"
through Georgia
|
$1,000
[30]
A screen behind the catcher in baseball, or a term for the catcher himself
a backstop
Erika
|
$1,000
[20]
got his powers from a ring in 2011
the Green Lantern
Julia
|
| SORORITY SISTERS | ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC | SCIENCE IN THE WORLD | 21st CENTURY MUSIC | FRENCH HISTORY | CIVIL WAR SLANG |
|
$400
[26]
We can see this 3-named Supreme Court justice, a Cornell AEPhi, just trashing a frat house at a kegger
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Erika
|
$400
[13]
A brand of water named for this Pacific island nation is bottled at the source, the Yaqara Valley on Viti Levu
Fiji
Julia
|
$400
[1]
If cirrostratus ones are replaced by lower altostratus ones, rethink the picnic
clouds
Kevin
|
$400
[18]
"Otherside" was an early hit for the team of Macklemore & him
Ryan Lewis
Julia
|
$400
[6]
A hunting lodge begun by Louis XIII in 1624 eventually became this elaborate royal residence
Versailles
Erika
|
$400
[11]
From the Latin for "life", vittles meant this
food
Erika
|
|
$800
[27]
FSU Tri Delt Sara Blakely became a billionaire by inventing this tight-fitting undergarment line
Spanx
Julia
|
$800
[14]
A big tourist activity in Tonga is whale watching, & since the whales are mainly this singing species, whale listening too
humpback whales
Kevin
Julia
|
$800
[2]
If you're doing this colorful cooking action to meat, you're making use of the Maillard reaction of sugars & amino acids
browning
Julia
|
$800
[19]
"Apologize" if you get this Ryan Tedder band mixed up with One Direction
OneRepublic
Erika
|
$1,200
[8]
In the 2012 election for president, Francois Hollande defeated this incumbent
(Nicolas) Sarkozy
Kevin
|
$800
[12]
A picket was someone on this duty
guard duty
Julia
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Margaret Brewer, this service's first woman general, was "always faithful" to the Michigan ZTA Alpha Gammas
the Marines
Erika
|
$1,200
[15]
Called by some the most beautiful place on Earth, Moorea is just 12 miles from this largest island in French Polynesia
Tahiti
Julia
|
$1,200
[3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a javelin on the monitor.) In 1984, for safety reasons, after one was thrown a staggering 343 feet, the javelin was redesigned to underperform by moving this point, "CM" for short, by 4 centimeters, which keeps the nose down
the center of mass
Erika
Julia
|
$1,200
[20]
2012's "Blunderbuss" is the first official solo album by this "Jack" of many trades
Jack White
Erika
|
DD
$1,600
[7]
At Castillon in 1453, French troops defeated the English in the final great battle of this war
the Hundred Years' War
Erika
|
$1,200
[23]
A Confederate soldier could be called by this first name whether he was "marching home" or not
Johnny
|
|
DD
$1,200
[29]
This George W. Bush Cabinet member was Alpha Chi Omega, a sorority with musical origins, at the University of Denver
Condoleezza Rice
Erika
|
$1,600
[16]
Anthropologists study the island of Yap for its use of 12-foot stone wheels not for transport but as this
currency (or money)
Kevin
|
$1,600
[4]
An eco-issue is protection of creatures that act as these for plants--honeybees of course, but also beetles & birds
pollinators
Kevin
|
$1,600
[21]
"Love Don't Live Here" was a hit by this country group of 2 guys & Hillary Scott
Lady Antebellum
Julia
|
$1,600
[9]
In Feb. of this year France hosted the Grenoble Winter Olympics; in May protests nearly led to a leftist revolution
1968
|
$1,600
[24]
A Union soldier could be called this, now found before "Trade Commission"
Federal
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Chi O! & Roll Tide! This author won a Pulitzer for fiction in 1961
Harper Lee
|
$2,000
[17]
Thor Heyerdahl believed this island was once colonized by a redheaded race from South America, possibly Peru
Easter Island
Erika
Julia
|
$2,000
[5]
An example of this "meta"term from information science is phone call times & recipients without the content
metadata
Kevin
|
$2,000
[22]
Pleading, "fathers, be good to" them earned John Mayer a Song of the Year Grammy
daughters
Erika
|
$2,000
[10]
To grant religious freedom to Protestants, in 1598 King Henry IV issued the Edict of this city
Nantes
|
$2,000
[25]
Now it's slang for any bad situation; back then it was a foraging soldier
a bummer
|
He has the most speeches of any character with 471 in 3 plays, of which 2 are histories & 1 is a comedy
Falstaff