Show #4413 2003-11-12 (taped 2003-10-03) College Championship

2003 College Championship quarterfinal game 3.From Yale University.

Contestants

Joyce Yuan — a freshman at UC Berkeley from San Francisco, California

Keith Williams — a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont

Lee Tucker — a sophomore at Carleton College from Lansing, New York

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Lee	$-2,000	$1,200	$0	$0 3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated	$0 8 R, 7 W
Keith	$2,400	$3,400	$19,400	$22,222 Automatic semifinalist	$19,400 27 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Joyce	$600	$1,800	$5,400	$0 2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated	$7,000 11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LIBRARIES	NEW VIDEO GAMES	WORLD CAPITALS	WEEDER'S DIGEST	THEY ATTENDED YALE	IDIOMS
$200 [21] On May 30, 1998 a library devoted to this Confederate President opened at Beauvoir, his Mississippi home Jefferson Davis Keith Joyce	$200 [11] You can download "Wheel of Fortune" onto the Nokia 3650, one of these devices a cell phone Keith	$200 [1] This city has the ruins of forums of 5 rulers still standing, including Trajan & Nerva Rome Keith Joyce	$200 [26] Russian thistle is one type of this large weed that breaks off & drifts along with the wind a tumbleweed Keith	$200 [6] Yale graduate Garry Trudeau began to syndicate this comic strip nationally in 1970 Doonesbury Lee	$200 [16] Find the "happy" one between extremes the medium Lee Keith
$400 [22] The public library in Salinas, Calif. is named for this Nobel Prize-winning author born in Salinas in 1902 Steinbeck Joyce	$400 [12] X-2 isn't a Marvel super hero game, it's the sequel to the 10th game in this long-running Japanese RPG series Final Fantasy	$400 [2] This capital is home to Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi Joyce	$400 [27] This great African-American botanist quipped that "A weed is a flower growing in the wrong place" George Washington Carver Keith	$400 [7] This 1985 Yale graduate won her second Oscar for her role in "The Silence of the Lambs" Jodie Foster Joyce	$400 [17] It can be done to a book, a joke or a smile crack Lee
$800 [24] The Family History Library at 35 N. West Temple St. in this state capital has archival info on more than 3 billion names Salt Lake City, Utah Lee	$600 [13] This 1982 cult film set in a computer was updated in 2003 with gameplay that includes thefollowing Tron	$600 [3] This capital lies at the northernmost extremity of a 60-mile fjord Oslo Joyce	$600 [28] This member of the parsley family that grows wild in Europe & the U.S. is a main flavoring agent in pickles dill Lee	$600 [8] Among the many prominent Yale Law School graduates is this African-American Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Lee Joyce	$600 [18] Bad news can "set you back on" these your heels Lee
DD $1,000 [23] The James Madison, Thomas Jefferson & John Adams buildings provide about 65 acres of floor space for this library the Library of Congress Joyce	$800 [14] A bright red Ford Torino & voice-overs by Antonio Fargas (aka Huggy Bear) are in the game of this '70s cop show Starsky & Hutch Lee Keith	$800 [4] Said to be 5,000 years old, this capital city lies between the Anti-Lebanon Mountains & the Syrian Desert Damascus Lee Keith Joyce	$800 [29] Of the Genus Digitaria, this common weed with a "crustacean" name originally came from Europe crabgrass Lee Keith	$800 [9] This Asian-American woman famous for her architectural memorials graduated with a B.A. from Yale in 1981 Maya Lin Joyce	$800 [19] Don't get trapped in one of these, illustrated here by Charlie Brown a vicious circle Lee Keith
$1,000 [25] Andrew himself dedicated this city's Carnegie Library in 1895 Pittsburgh Lee	$1,000 [15] For 2004, EA has brought this game, popular in Europe, to American PCs and PlayStations rugby Lee Keith	$1,000 [5] This capital lies near the junction of the Pilcomayo & Paraguay Rivers Asunción Keith	$1,000 [30] Orange hawkweed is also called the "Devil's" type of this artistic tool a paintbrush Keith	$1,000 [10] This "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" orator was only 17 when he graduated from Yale in 1720 (Jonathan) Edwards Lee	$1,000 [20] To "follow" this comes from card games such as bridge suit Keith

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHARED TEAM NICKNAMES	CELEBS	IT'S ALL A MYTH	POTPOURRI	U.S. HISTORY	LANGUAGE LESSONS
$400 [11] Johnson State College & the University of Wisconsin the Badgers Keith	$400 [22] He says Pepe Le Pew & Keith Richards inspired him as Capt. Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean" Johnny Depp Keith	$400 [16] In Japanese myth, Inari, not Uncle Ben, is the god of this rice Keith	$400 [21] (Sofia gives the clue from a football field in New Haven, Connecticut.) Yale fans first sang "Boola Boola" at a football game in 1900, when Yale beat this team 28-0 Harvard Joyce	$400 [1] At the start of the Civil War, this crop accounted for 2/3 of U.S. exports cotton Keith	$400 [6] (Sarah gives the clue from Barcelona, Spain.) In Spain, this word isn't used to hail Vinny or Guido. It means "I", as in the title of a Picasso self-portrait yo Keith
$800 [12] Michigan State & Case Western Reserve University the Spartans Keith	$800 [27] This tart-tongued Brit from "American Idol" is an executive producer of the dating show "Cupid" Simon Cowell Keith	$800 [17] In Egyptian myth the first men & women were fashioned out of this, on a potter's wheel clay Keith	$800 [23] Excluding the state quarter, they're the 2 current pieces of money with the likeness of Abraham Lincoln the penny & the 5-dollar bill Keith	$800 [2] Ben Franklin changed Jefferson's "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" to this "We hold these truths to be self-evident" Keith	$800 [7] The words seenheremean "yes" & "no" in this language Russian Keith
$1,200 [13] Princeton University & Louisiana State the Tigers Keith	$1,200 [28] Your goal is to name this U.K. soccer star, who married Victoria Adams (aka Posh Spice) in 1999 David Beckham Joyce	$1,200 [18] (Jimmy gives the clue from Rockefeller Center in New York.) Paul Manship's sculpture depicts this figure from Greek mythology, stealing fire from the gods as a gift for mankind Prometheus Joyce	$1,200 [24] In 1947, to go along with its motorcycles, this company introduced its classic black leather jacket Harley-Davidson Joyce	$1,200 [3] Criticized by colleagues in 1839 he said, "I had rather be right than be President" Henry Clay	$1,200 [8] (Sarah gives the clue from Munich, Germany.) In an English-German dictionary, this word can become quadrat or platz, as in Marienplatz, below us square Lee
$1,600 [14] Washington State & the University of Houston the Cougars	$1,600 [30] The master prankster behind MTV's "Punk'd", he's also an investor in the L.A. restaurant Dolce Ashton Kutcher Joyce	DD $2,000 [19] The riddle of the Sphinx was so "complex" that only he could solve it Oedipus Joyce	$1,600 [26] Elizabeth Bennet in this novel was reportedly Jane Austen's favorite of all her heroines Pride and Prejudice	DD $1,600 [4] This senator who died in 2003 came in third in the 1948 presidential race Strom Thurmond Keith	$1,600 [9] In Portuguese this common English questioning word is onde (1 letter shorter than in Spanish) where Keith
$2,000 [15] The Florida Institute of Technology & the University of Pittsburgh the Panthers Keith	$2,000 [29] He'sthe anchor of "News Night" Aaron Brown	$2,000 [20] This most famous of the snake-haired gorgons wound up with her head cut off & placed on the shield of Athena Medusa Keith	$2,000 [25] The Sultanate of Brunei occupies the northern coast of this island Borneo Keith	$2,000 [5] Andrew Jackson had this captured leader & namesake of an 1830s war put on tour in the East as a trophy Black Hawk	$2,000 [10] Many words derived from this language begin with al-, like alcove, alchemy & Alhambra Arabic Keith

Final Jeopardy!

18th CENTURY AMERICA

These 2 British astronomers were sent to America in 1763 to settle a land dispute

Mason & Dixon

Joyce "Who is Herschel[crossed out] & Rush–Bagot?" — wagered $5,400

Keith "Who were Mason and Dixon? Pranksters rule!" — wagered $2,822

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