Show #4412 2003-11-11 (taped 2003-10-03) College Championship

2003 College Championship quarterfinal game 2.From Yale University.

Contestants

Karli Kosman — a sophomore at Mt. San Jacinto College from Temecula, California

Lauren Henderson — a senior at Colby College from Oneida, New York

Alex Albrecht — a junior at Purdue University from Clinton, Indiana

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Alex	$2,200	$2,400	$7,400	$10,001 Automatic semifinalist	$8,600 14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Lauren	$-800	$-400	$6,400	$4,400 3rd place: $2,500 if eliminated	$6,400 11 R, 4 W
Karli	$1,200	$2,000	$9,800	$6,800 2nd place: $2,500 if eliminated	$10,800 14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

NEW HAVEN	THE MATRIX	COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	AMERICA'S MOST WANT ADS	REALLY OLD HISTORY	BODY TALK
$200 [20] He moved to New Haven in 1822 & it was there in 1843 he would expire (verb; to breathe one's last breath: to die) Noah Webster Alex	$200 [17] One of these (of 2 similar black cats, for instance) usually means a glitch in The Matrix deja vu Lauren	$200 [15] Land adjoining the Palo Alto Stock Farm became the campus of this private university in northern California Stanford Karli	$200 [10] Wanted: Mass quantities of this hardest natural substance on Earth diamonds Alex	$200 [5] In 33 B.C. Rome put Marcus Agrippa in charge of canals & these artificial channels to supply water aqueducts Karli	$200 [1] When someone's completely in your control, you've got him "wrapped around" this body part your little finger Karli
$400 [21] (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from New Haven.) The New Haven Green was designated this type of public area around the same time as the one in Boston a common Lauren	$400 [18] This underground haven for humans hosts an orgiastic dance in "Reloaded" Zion	$400 [22] The University of Alabama opened in this city in 1831 Tuscaloosa	$400 [11] Wanted: Any one of the remaining ones of this vintage toy in its original box from 1959 Barbie Alex	DD $200 [9] This civilization of the Bronze Age developed on Crete around 3000 B.C. Minoans Alex	$400 [2] You've ordered too many pizzas when "your eyes are bigger than" this your stomach Alex
$600 [25] Built of bolts, wire & teapot lids, the 1st commercial one of these to connect phone callers opened in New Haven in 1878 a switchboard	$600 [19] In the first film this character turns out to be a friendly cookie-baking African-American lady the Oracle Lauren	$600 [26] The world-famous Peabody Conservatory of Music is a division of this Baltimore University Johns Hopkins	$600 [12] Wanted: Any living specimens of the Schaus Swallowtail, one of the rarest species of this insect the butterfly Karli	$400 [6] According to tradition, King Menes founded this country's first dynasty in the 31st century B.C. Egypt Lauren	$600 [3] Something conspicuously out of place is said to "stick out like a sore" one of these thumb Lauren
$800 [27] (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Eli Whitney Museum in New Haven.) A.C. Gilbert invented this set, & his New Haven-based company sold it to millions of children an Erector Set Lauren	$800 [23] These 2 words, Keanu Reeves' character & the powerful figure he's supposed to be, are anagrams Neo & One Lauren Karli	$800 [28] Melvil Dewey (of Decimal System fame) graduated from this Massachusetts college named for a Lord Jeff Amherst Lauren	$800 [13] Wanted: Street maps of this lost continent first described by a priest to the philosopher Solon Atlantis Alex	$600 [7] In the late 400s B.C., this Chinese philosopher served as the Minister of Justice in the state of Lu Confucius Alex	$800 [4] To work diligently toward a desired aim is "to keep" this "to the wheel" your shoulder Alex
$1,000 [29] This Connecticut poet & insurance exec wrote a 20-page poem called "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" Wallace Stevens	$1,000 [24] Choosing to stay in The Matrix & enjoy his servitude, Cypher quotes these 3 words from Thomas Gray Ignorance is bliss	$1,000 [30] (Hi, I'm Lauren Graham from the Gilmore Girls.) I was an English major at this women's college in New York City which was named after the president of Columbia--the school, not the country Barnard	$1,000 [14] Wanted: Recent photos of this reclusive author & creator of Holden Caulfield J.D. Salinger Lauren	$800 [8] Ancient Greek Hoplites fought in a formation of a large rectangle with 6 to 8 ranks known as this phalanx Alex	$1,000 [16] When you're spending too much time in pointless self-analysis, you're "contemplating" this body part your navel

Double Jeopardy! Round

OLD HAVEN	THINGS IN THE YALE LIBRARY	MUSIC MAKERS	HERE COMES THE SUN	19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS	SMART ANSWERS
$400 [19] Quakers found a new haven in the new city of Philadelphia set up by this man William Penn Lauren	$400 [20] Yale has a chamberpot used by this "New Deal" President when he received an honorary degree at Yale Franklin Roosevelt Karli	$400 [14] She's the Oscar-nominated singer/actress belting it outherein a song from a film"Don't you know that this hand washes that one too..." Queen Latifah Karli	$400 [9] Appropriately, the sun is classified as a dwarf star of this color yellow Alex	$400 [1] To defend the accuracy of her blockbuster book, she wrote "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1853 Harriet Beecher Stowe Lauren	$400 [4] Psychologist Lewis Terman thought someone scoring over 140 on an IQ test could qualify as one of these a genius Karli
$800 [25] This country, founded as a haven for fleeing American slaves, found its President fleeing in 2003 Liberia Karli	$800 [21] Yale can't find the underpants removed from this future U.S. Pres. & Chief Justice during a Freshman rush William Howard Taft Karli	$800 [15] "Mr. S" is a 2003 memoir by the valet of this legendary blue-eyed singer Frank Sinatra Karli	$800 [10] It's the "effect" by which radiation from the sun, trapped in our atmosphere, warms the Earth the Greenhouse Effect Alex	$800 [2] Having no war experience of his own, he wrote "The Red Badge of Courage" based on information from reading Tolstoy Stephen Crane Lauren	DD $600 [7] Meaning "arising from sound judgment", it was a sound name for an insurance company to take in the 1870s Prudential Alex
$1,200 [26] King Gustav V of this country provided a haven for Danish Jews in WWII Sweden Alex	$1,200 [22] This leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux once sat around in the moccasins seen here, but Yale has them now Sitting Bull	$1,200 [16] "God bless" this man, whose compositions includethe following Irving Berlin	DD $1,000 [13] Solar winds are believed to flow from "holes" in this layer of the sun's atmosphere, Latin for "crown" the corona Karli	$1,200 [3] Yeats called this "Lenore" author "Always and for all lands a great lyric poet" Edgar Allan Poe Alex	$800 [5] Another name for high-beam headlights brights Alex
$1,600 [27] He founded the colony of Rhode Island as a haven for those persecuted by the Puritans Roger Williams Lauren	$1,600 [23] Yale is the proud possessor of this grooming item used by James Fenimore Cooper, & the strop that goes with it a razor Lauren	$1,600 [17] "The End" of this '60s band isn't yet in sight as the "21st Century" version toured in 2003 The Doors Karli	$1,200 [11] At present, about 25% of the mass of the sun is helium, & the rest is mainly this element hydrogen Alex	$1,600 [29] This "American Scholar" author settled in Concord, Massachusetts in 1834 Ralph Waldo Emerson	$1,200 [6] Many scientists oppose the teaching of this type of "design", a rival of evolution theory intelligent design Alex
$2,000 [28] Once a haven for smugglers, this tiny country in the Pyrenees is trying to become a haven for skiers Andorra	$2,000 [24] An empty envelope that once contained a rose belonged to this expatriate American woman who lived in Paris Gertrude Stein	$2,000 [18] This group that sings of "Stacy's Mom" is named for a New Jersey lawn ornament store Fountains of Wayne	$1,600 [12] The Maunder Minimum refers to the period from 1645 to 1715 when these dark areas on the sun were extremely rare sunspots Karli	$2,000 [30] The "old manse" in the title of his 1846 short story collection "Mosses from an Old Manse" was his Salem home Nathaniel Hawthorne	$2,000 [8] The Latin acuere, "to sharpen", gives us this word for sharp judgment acumen (or acute or acuity) Lauren

Final Jeopardy!

BIG IN THE USA

This state is home to the USA's largest portrait busts

South Dakota

Lauren "What is Wyoming?" — wagered $2,000

Alex "What is South Dakota?" — wagered $2,601

Karli "What is Washington D.C.?" — wagered $3,000

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