2003 College Championship final game 2.From Yale University.Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.
Grant Hutchinson — a freshman at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, Florida (subtotal of $5,000)
Keith Williams — a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont (subtotal of $10,400)
Josh Perkins — a sophomore at Rice University from Houston, Texas (subtotal of $11,111)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh | $800 | $2,000 | $6,200 | $55 |
$8,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Keith | $2,000 | $2,800 | $13,200 | $25,001 |
$15,200
19 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Grant | $3,400 | $6,800 | $15,200 | $18,601 |
$15,200
17 R, 1 W |
| RELIGION | GRAPHIC NOVELS | MIXED DOUBLES | THE INTERNET | CAPITAL CITY MAYORS | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY |
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$200
[1]
Statues of this religious figure feature a knot of hair covering a second brain that contains his enlightenment
Buddha
Josh
|
$200
[6]
The nonfiction "Fallout" is about Leo Szilard, J. Robert Oppenheimer & the "political science" of this weapon
the atomic bomb
Keith
|
$200
[21]
Proverbially, "it takes two" to perform this dance
the tango
Grant
|
$200
[16]
Founded in 1995, this auction site calls itself "the world's online marketplace"
eBay
Keith
|
$200
[10]
Shintaro Ishihara
Tokyo
Keith
|
$200
[23]
It means to read messages in an online chat forum without contributing yourself
lurk
Keith
|
|
$400
[2]
The Ramayana is an epic story in this religion that tells the tale of Prince Rama & his attempts to rescue Sita
Hinduism
Keith
|
$400
[7]
Eric Shanower's "A Thousand Ships", a graphic novel about this war, opens with the story of Paris kidnapping Helen
the Trojan War
Grant
|
$400
[22]
Serpentine name for a dice roll of a one & a one
snake eyes
Josh
|
$400
[17]
The icon seenhererepresents this company
AOL
Grant
|
$400
[11]
Walter Veltroni
Rome
Keith
|
$400
[24]
The inclusion of this trademark toxin should raise a few eyebrows, or rather, freeze them in place
Botox
Grant
|
|
$600
[3]
Every Muslim must fast during this month, the month the first verses of the Koran were revealed to Muhammad
Ramadan
Josh
|
$600
[8]
"From Hell" recounts this notorious figure's crimes in Victorian England
Jack the Ripper
Keith
|
$600
[28]
The condition of holding full legal status in 2 different countries
dual (double) citizenship
Josh
|
$600
[18]
Western musician Wylie Gustafson yodels the name of this company at the end of its commercials
Yahoo!
Grant
|
$600
[12]
Ken Livingstone
London
Keith
|
$600
[25]
Not a female lawyer, it's someone who serves coffee, especially at Starbucks
barista
|
|
$800
[4]
The Great Purification Ceremony is one of the most important rituals in this, Japan's oldest religion
Shintoism
Keith
|
$1,000
[15]
This graphic novel made it to the big screen in 2003 with Sean Connery as Allan Quatermain
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Grant
|
$800
[29]
Its "second law" states that heat always flows from a hotter object to a colder object
thermodynamics
Grant
|
$800
[19]
This saint presides over the internal search engine at americancatholic.org
St. Anthony
Josh
|
$800
[13]
Bertrand Delanoe
Paris
Keith
|
$800
[26]
You can name this surgical operation that reshapes the cornea to correct myopia in 5 letters
LASIK
Keith
|
|
$1,000
[5]
In Avesta, this Iranian religion's sacred book, only the sacrificial prayers are attributed to its founder
Zoroastrianism
Grant
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
This graphic novel about 1930s gangsters by Collins & Rayner became a Tom Hanks film
Road to Perdition
Keith
|
$1,000
[30]
From the Latin for "two-headed", it's the arm muscle that bends the elbow
the biceps
Grant
|
$1,000
[20]
This butler seenheredoes the searching for you at ask.com
Jeeves
Josh
|
$1,000
[14]
Klaus Wowereit
Berlin
Grant
|
$1,000
[27]
A brief & insignificant rise in a stock price after a steep decline is a "dead" this "bounce"
cat
|
| ELIs | HABITATS | MERYL STREEP | AN ENGLISHMAN | ON CAMPUS IN THE '60s | LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS |
|
$400
[3]
Like his brother Peyton of the Colts, Eli Manning has made a name for himself playing this position
quarterback
Keith
|
$400
[4]
These insects make up the animal kingdom's largest order; over 600 species may be found in 1 rainforest tree
beetles
Keith
Grant
|
$400
[26]
In 1994 Meryl provided the voice of Bart's naughty little girlfriend Jessica Lovejoy on this series
The Simpsons
Josh
|
$400
[15]
He was the Englishman whose blood was smelled by a fe-fi-fo-fummer
Jack
Keith
|
$400
[9]
Yale's chaplain William Sloane Coffin was convicted of helping young men avoid this
the draft
Josh
|
$400
[1]
What a social climber! His name precedes "symbol" to mean something that represents high position
Status
Josh
|
|
$800
[22]
This pharmaceutical company introduced Prozac to a grateful world in the 1980s
Eli Lilly
|
$800
[5]
Divers seek thebutterfly fishand other colorful creatures in this type of habitat, like Australia's "Great" one
a reef
Keith
|
$800
[27]
Meryl starred in a TV version of "Uncommon Women and Others", a play that this "Heidi Chronicle"r wrote at Yale
Wendy Wasserstein
Grant
|
$800
[16]
In 1995 he played "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain"
Hugh Grant
Josh
|
$800
[11]
FSM, formed by Berkeley protesters in 1964, stood for this "movement"
the Free Speech Movement
Grant
|
$800
[2]
His hand turned red when he touched orange juice, blue when he touched seawater
Litmus
Grant
|
|
$1,200
[23]
"Uncle Eli" has a "special-for-kids, most fun ever, under-the-table" edition of this liturgy for the Passover seder
haggadah
|
$1,200
[6]
You'd find the marsh hen & the swamp lily in these, a general term for areas like marshes & swamps
wetlands
Josh
|
$1,200
[30]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew at Yale.) As a drama student at Yale, Meryl frolicked in the forest as the lovestruck Helena in this Shakespeare play
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Grant
|
$1,200
[17]
In this peripatetic book, Jules Verne wrote, "An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet"
Around the World in Eighty Days
Josh
|
$1,200
[12]
Wisconsin kids protested campus recruitment by this chemical company, maker of Napalm
Dow
Josh
Keith
|
$1,200
[10]
In Rome his name meant simply "good"; to us it implies that he gave a little something extra
Bonus
Keith
|
|
$1,600
[24]
This inventor (Yale, 1792) built machines that mass-produced interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
Grant
|
$1,600
[7]
This U.S. national park is the only place where alligators & crocodiles exist side by side
the Everglades
Josh
|
$1,600
[29]
This 2002 film told several stories, & featured one tumultuous day in the life of Meryl's character, Clarissa Vaughan
The Hours
|
$2,000
[21]
Operetta that includes thefollowing:"For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!"
HMS Pinafore
|
$1,600
[13]
In 1968 at this NYC university, students took over President Kirk's office & even drank his sherry
Columbia
Grant
|
$2,000
[20]
Nobody was more skillful than him with a tool in his hand--his right hand, of course
Dexterous
Keith
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Eli Yale went to Madras in 1672 as an employee of this trading company
British East India Company
Keith
|
$2,000
[8]
These rodents of the genus Cynomys are named for their western U.S. habitat
prairie dogs
Keith
|
$2,000
[28]
In 1974 Meryl sang in "The Frogs", with music by this "Into the Woods" composer; it was performed in Yale's swimming pool
Stephen Sondheim
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
In 1912 he wrote, "Had we lived, I should have had a tale ... which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman"
Robert Falcon Scott
Josh
|
$2,000
[14]
At Harvard in 1966 Congressman-to-be Barney Frank helped this Defense Secretary escape angry students
Robert McNamara
Grant
|
DD
$3,600
[19]
His name came from the Latin for "dispute" & he would drag you into court any chance he got
Litigious
Josh
|
The 2 years thefollowing covershit the stands
1945 & 2003