2003 College Championship semifinal game 3.From Yale University.
Josh Perkins — a sophomore at Rice University from Houston, Texas
Robby Schrum — a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana
Heather Groggel — a junior at Concordia University Wisconsin from Oxford, Ohio
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heather | $1,400 | $1,400 | $1,800 |
$100
3rd place: $5,000 |
$1,800
3 R, 0 W |
| Robby | $4,400 | $7,800 | $19,900 |
$8,599
2nd place: $5,000 |
$21,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Josh | $1,800 | $2,800 | $15,600 |
$31,200
Finalist |
$14,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| SPEECH! | LORD OF THE RING | JEFFERSON, LINCOLN OR CLINTON | EAT YOUR FOREIGN VEGETABLES | SLOGANEERING | "FAT" CHANCE |
|
$200
[16]
Speaking at an 1848 convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, "We now demand our right to" do this
vote
Josh
|
$200
[22]
In a 2001 film, Will Smith played this heavyweight boxer known as "The Greatest"
Muhammad Ali
Robby
|
$200
[6]
A state capital is not named after him
Clinton
Josh
|
$200
[11]
In Italy these are distinguished as peperoni rossi & peperoni verdi
red & green peppers
Josh
|
$200
[26]
"Betcha can't eat just one" of this brand of potato chips
Lay's
Josh
|
$200
[1]
Informal military uniforms
fatigues
Josh
|
|
$400
[17]
He was a Vice Presidential candidate when he made his famous "Checkers" speech in 1952
Richard Nixon
|
$400
[18]
Nickname shared by middleweight champ Graziano, heavyweight champ Marciano & a certain movie title hero
Rocky
Robby
|
$400
[7]
Did not serve 2 full terms as President
Lincoln
Robby
|
$400
[12]
In Espanol it's espinaca (& I'm still not eating it)
spinach
Heather
Robby
|
$400
[27]
This leading newspaper exhibits "all the news that's fit to print"
New York Times
Robby
|
$400
[2]
The prodigal son's father serves it up for him in the Book of Luke
the fatted calf
Josh
|
|
$600
[19]
Once a prisoner, his 1994 inaugural address included the words "Let freedom reign ... God bless Africa ... thank you"
Nelson Mandela
Robby
|
$600
[23]
Seen here, he's been a heavyweight boxing champ since 2001
Lennox Lewis
Robby
|
$600
[8]
An accomplished violinist
Jefferson
Robby
|
$600
[13]
In French they're petits pois & weird people use a knife & honey to eat them
peas
Robby
|
$600
[28]
Use this shipping company "when it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight"
FedEx
Josh
|
$600
[3]
He's the early rock & roll legend heard here:"I found my thrill / On Blueberry Hill..."
Fats Domino
Robby
|
|
$1,000
[21]
Convicted in Athens in 399 B.C. he said, "It is now time to depart--for me to die, for you to live"
Socrates
Robby
|
$800
[24]
Early in his career Joe Louis boxed his way to become a champ in these amateur competitions that began in 1926
Golden Gloves
|
$800
[9]
Married a Yale graduate
Clinton
Robby
|
$800
[14]
In Polish it's cebula; you can cry out your response now
onions
Robby
|
$800
[29]
According to De Beers, one of these "is forever"
a diamond
Robby
|
$800
[4]
Salman Rushdie had one issued against him in 1989
a fatwa
Josh
|
|
DD
$2,600
[20]
She's the speaker heardherein the 1930s:"And in all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainments."
Amelia Earhart
Robby
|
$1,000
[25]
Last name of brothers Leon & Michael, who were the first 2 brothers to hold world heavyweight boxing titles
Spinks
Robby
|
$1,000
[10]
Once was a U.S. Congressman
Lincoln
Robby
|
$1,000
[15]
In a Caribbean mood in Sweden? You might serve your svarta bonor, these, with kokat ris, "white rice"
black beans
|
$1,000
[30]
This company asks, "Where do you want to go today?"
Microsoft
Robby
|
$1,000
[5]
It's believed the Virgin Mary appeared near this Portuguese village in 1917
Fatima
Heather
|
| BIOLOGY | THE SETH GREEN SCENE | ART & ARTISTS | ARCHIPELAGOS | IT OPENED IN NEW HAVEN | A BUCKLEY LEXICON |
|
$400
[1]
This oxygen-carrying substance gives red blood cells their color
hemoglobin
Josh
|
$400
[22]
This character is the father of Scott, Seth's character in the Austin Powers film
Dr. Evil
Josh
|
$400
[21]
26-year-old Michelangelo used a nearly 40-year-old marble block for his sculpture of this Biblical man
David
Heather
|
$400
[6]
Several species of giant tortoise & over 7 dozen species of birds inhabit this Ecuadoran island group
the Galapagos Islands
Robby
|
$400
[11]
Coincidentally, New Haven still had streetcars of its own when this southern drama premiered here in 1947
A Streetcar Named Desire
Josh
|
$400
[16]
Of belletristic, bellwether or bellicose, the one that means "provocatively warlike"
bellicose
Robby
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Protozoans, slime molds & eukaryotic algae are members of this kingdom
Protista
Josh
|
$800
[23]
Back in 1988 Seth was in "My Stepmother is an Alien" with this actress who 10 years later he dated on "Buffy"
Alyson Hannigan
Robby
|
$800
[27]
Salvador Dali lectured in a diving suit at a famous exhibition of this movement in 1936
Surrealism
|
$800
[7]
On July 23, 2001 Megawati Sukarnoputri became this archipelago's first woman President
Indonesia
Robby
|
$800
[12]
This ever-popular musical set in 1938 Austria debuted in New Haven in 1959
The Sound of Music
Josh
|
$800
[17]
Lachrymal means marked by these, & please refrain from shedding them when you respond
tears
Josh
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Butterflies take in oxygen through these, breathing holes located on the sides of the abdomen
spiracles
|
$1,200
[24]
Seth worked with Breckin Meyer in "Rat Race", "Can't Hardly Wait" & as part of Du Jour, a boy band in this 2001 film
Josie and the Pussycats
Josh
|
$1,200
[28]
This masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture is seen here& at the Louvre
Nike
Robby
|
$1,200
[8]
Columbus' first landing in the New World was probably in this archipelago, now an independent nation
The Bahamas
|
$1,200
[13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven.) Appropriately, this "Catch-22" author's play "We Bombed in New Haven" opened in New Haven, at Yale Rep.
Joseph Heller
Josh
|
$1,200
[18]
When you say Brobdingnagian, say it "Swift"ly, because the word was inspired by this novel
Gulliver's Travels
Josh
|
|
DD
$2,000
[2]
It's what the "M" stands for in mRNA, a single-stranded type of RNA
messenger
Josh
|
$1,600
[25]
Seth's character in this 2003 heist film claimed he invented Napster & his roommate stole it while he "nap"ped
The Italian Job
Josh
|
$1,600
[29]
Born in 1898 & trained as an engineer, he turned to art in his 20s & began making stabiles & mobiles
Alexander Calder
|
$2,000
[10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Alaska.) From Sitka on Baranoff Island, you can see other islands in the archipelago named for this czar who sold Alaska
Alexander
|
$1,600
[14]
This musical featuring Curly, Jud & Laurey was called "Away We Go!" when it tried out in New Haven in 1943
Oklahoma!
Robby
|
$1,600
[19]
Instead of saying "popular opinion", try substituting this Latin phrase, literally "voice of the people"
vox populi
Josh
|
|
$2,000
[5]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents in front of a blackboard.) A 2-carbon compound & protein are converted to CO2& water in this cycle that turns food into energy
the Krebs cycle
|
$2,000
[26]
In this 1999 comedy horror film, Seth is killed by his pal's possessed right mitt
Idle Hands
Robby
|
$2,000
[30]
Dots of color are applied on the canvas so that they fuse at a distance in the viewer's eye in this technique
Pointillism
Robby
|
DD
$2,500
[9]
Cape Kumukahi is the easternmost point in this Pacific archipelago
The Hawaiian Islands
Robby
|
$2,000
[15]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT.) His play "Fences" was originally staged here at Yale Rep.; it moved to Broadway & won him his first Pulitzer Prize
August Wilson
|
$2,000
[20]
To tutoyer is to address someone familiarly, as in using "tu" in place of this more formal French pronoun
vous
Robby
|
In 1497 the 4 ships under his command included the Berrio & the Sao Rafael
Vasco da Gama