2003 College Championship final game 1.From Yale University.
Grant Hutchinson — a freshman at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, Florida
Keith Williams — a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont
Josh Perkins — a sophomore at Rice University from Houston, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh | $600 | $2,600 | $8,400 | $11,111 |
$9,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Keith | $3,200 | $4,800 | $18,400 | $10,400 |
$16,400
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Grant | $3,200 | $2,600 | $8,600 | $5,000 |
$8,600
13 R, 1 W |
| THE CIVIL WAR | LATE NIGHT TV | WILDLIFE | CAN YOU PICTURE THIS? | ROTC | 3-LETTER WORDS IN YALE |
|
$200
[3]
This Union General's troops averaged 12-15 miles a day on their 1864 march to Savannah
Sherman
Grant
|
$200
[1]
If you want to get on his "Late Show", have Rover start practicing a stupid pet trick
David Letterman
Keith
|
$200
[21]
This African bird has long, powerful legs & a stride of 15 feet
the ostrich
Keith
|
$200
[26]
10-letter adjective shared by thefollowing
potbellied
Josh
Keith
|
$200
[11]
Army ROTC produces 75% of these, represented by the second letter in ROTC
officers
Keith
|
$200
[16]
Sitting on the ocean floor with the Titanic are 500 cases of Bass this that went down with the ship
ale
Keith
|
|
$400
[4]
This state was in the Confederacy, but its western region remained loyal to the Union & formed a new state in 1863
Virginia
Josh
Keith
|
$400
[2]
Bits on this late night comedian's show have included "If They Mated" & "Triumph the Insult Comic Dog"
Conan O'Brien
Grant
|
$400
[22]
Animal trainer Clyde Beatty was saved from an attacking tiger when Nero, this type of animal, intervened
a lion
|
$400
[27]
18th century religious sect that shares its name with these
Shakers
Keith
|
$400
[12]
As well as leadership, ROTC teaches this "ship" that you learn with a rifle in your hands
marksmanship
Keith
|
$400
[17]
It's the truth; this caustic chemical may be sodium hydroxide
lye
Josh
|
|
$800
[6]
An 1860s song tells the story of "The Drummer Boy of" this battle site, also called Pittsburg Landing
Shiloh
Grant
|
$600
[8]
Jon Stewart, seen here, hosts this Emmy-winning late night show
The Daily Show
Keith
|
$600
[23]
As in reindeer, both the male & female have antlers in this North American deer, the "nomad of the north"
a caribou
Keith
Grant
|
$600
[28]
Words illustrated here, forwards and backwards
spool & loops
Keith
|
$600
[13]
If you get an Army ROTC scholarship, you're committed to serve, either on active duty or in this group
the Reserves or National Guard
Keith
|
$600
[18]
In crosswords, you may come across this 3-letter word for a meadow
lea
|
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
It was the first Union fort captured by Confederate forces
Fort Sumter
Keith
|
$800
[9]
Cool guitar-playing Kevin Eubanks is a comic foil for this late night host
Jay Leno
Keith
|
$800
[24]
This bear may also be called a silvertip because of the white hairs growing in its brown coat
the grizzly
Keith
|
$800
[29]
Term for a non-dairy substitute, or the object seenherethat holds the real thing
a creamer
Keith
|
$800
[14]
In 1991 Gordon Sullivan was Army Chief of Staff; his boss was fellow ROTC man Colin Powell, in this post
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Grant
|
$800
[19]
When said twice, it's a lemur in Madagascar or an affirmative to a captain
aye
Josh
|
|
$1,000
[7]
5 days after this bloody Maryland battle, Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
Grant
|
$1,000
[10]
This late night news program originated in 1979 as a nightly report on the hostage crisis in Iran
Nightline
Josh
Keith
|
$1,000
[25]
The unau is the 2-toed species of this South American animal; the ai is the 3-toed species
a sloth
Josh
|
$1,000
[30]
What CL Grigg made in 1929 with the items seenhereis known as this drink brand today
7 Up
Josh
Keith
|
$1,000
[15]
Students in Navy ROTC, first launched at Yale & 5 other schools, are called these
Midshipmen
|
$1,000
[20]
It's a short poem that's sung; Scott wrote one "of the Last Minstrel"
lay
Josh
|
| YOU'RE HISTORY | 21st CENTURY ROCK | DIET & EXERCISE | COLLEGE PROFESSORS | THE REAL CANCUN | WORD ORIGINS |
|
$400
[2]
This German philosopher & writing partner of Engels often visited the British Museum when he lived nearby
Karl Marx
Keith
|
$400
[1]
Her debut solo album "Dangerously in Love" & the single "Crazy in Love" both topped the charts in 2003
Beyonce Knowles
Grant
|
$400
[26]
(Video of Cheryl on an exercise bench.) It's the noisy name for this exercise, with a smaller range of motion than regular sit-ups
crunches
Grant
|
$400
[10]
This "Song of Hiawatha" poet was Bowdoin College's first Professor of Modern Languages
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grant
|
$400
[16]
One of Mexico's most popular resorts, Cancun is on the Caribbean coast of this peninsula
the Yucatan
Josh
|
$400
[17]
From the French for "to cut", it's something you cut out & use at the grocery store
a coupon
Grant
|
|
$800
[3]
Ruling only from 475-476 A.D., Romulus Augustulus is considered by many to have been the last of these
Roman emperors
Grant
|
$800
[7]
Sheryl Crow sang, "I got no one who will bring me a big umbrella, so I'm watching" this cable TV network
the Weather Channel
|
$800
[27]
3 ounces of cooked chicken liver gives 40% of the daily value of the heme type of this mineral
iron
Josh
|
$800
[11]
M.I.T. Professor & Nobel Prize winner John Nash inspired this Oscar-winning movie
A Beautiful Mind
Grant
|
$800
[18]
On February 24 stand up & celebrate Dia de la Bandera, Mexico's equivalent of this June 14th holiday
Flag Day
Keith
|
$800
[22]
It's from Norwegian that we get the word ski & this term for a skiing race over a zigzag course
slalom
Keith
|
|
$1,200
[4]
Edward VI became the King of England in 1547 when this King died
Henry VIII
Grant
|
$1,200
[8]
A No. 1 album from 2002 was titled "P. Diddy & Bad Boy Records Present ... We Invented" this
the remix
|
$1,200
[28]
(Video of Cheryl fencing.) It's this position in fencing, or what I'm tempted to say to my opponent
en garde
Josh
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
In 1938 he left the University of Rome, stopped in Sweden to pick up his Nobel Physics Prize, then moved to America
Enrico Fermi
Josh
|
$1,200
[19]
Catering to tourists, one of Cancun's major newspapers is the Herald of this U.S. city, about 350 miles north
Miami
Keith
|
$1,200
[23]
It should hit you like lightning that this day of the week is named for the Norse god of thunder
Thursday
Josh
|
|
$1,600
[5]
In the name of peace, this heroic Egyptian President flew to Jerusalem on Nov. 19, 1977
Anwar Sadat
Keith
|
$1,600
[9]
3-letter name for the confessional genre of bands like Bright Eyes & Dashboard Confessional
emo
Grant
|
$1,600
[29]
Ann Wigmore popularized the notion that this vegetation seenherehas healing power
wheatgrass
|
$1,200
[12]
Brandeis Sociology Professor Morrie Schwartz is the title teacher in this bestseller by Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie
Josh
|
$1,600
[20]
Just a drive away, Tulum & Chichen Itza are famous for their ruins of this Indian people
the Mayans
Keith
|
$1,600
[24]
If you roomed there as a freshman you might know that it's from the Latin for "sleeping place"
dormitory
Keith
|
|
$2,000
[6]
The 2000 Mexican elections ended 71 years of rule by the party known by this 3-letter acronym
PRI
|
$2,000
[15]
The documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" chronicled this band's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" CD
Wilco
|
$2,000
[30]
If you're 5'10" & weigh 150 pounds, your BMI, short for this, is a normal 21.5
body mass index
Keith
|
$1,600
[13]
While he's big on Shakespeare, this literary critic & longtime Yale Professor admits he's no Harry Potter fan
Harold Bloom
|
$2,000
[21]
Public beaches include Playa Tortuga, or Turtle Beach, & Playa Langosta, this beach
Lobster
|
DD
$3,600
[25]
From the Greek for "crooked", this condition often results in an s-shaped curvature of the spine
scoliosis
Keith
|
A European city founded in 1703 has at different times been named for these 2 people born 1,800 years apart
St. Peter and Lenin