2016 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.
Emily Sun — a freshman at Columbia University from San Diego, California
Carissa Pekny — a senior at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from West Lafayette, Indiana
Adam Antoszewski — a junior at the University of Virginia from Baltimore, Maryland
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam | $-200 | $2,000 | $6,400 |
$0
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$8,400
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Carissa | $4,200 | $6,800 | $5,000 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$6,000
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Emily | $700 | $3,700 | $10,900 |
$8,999
Automatic semifinalist |
$11,600
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| IN WHICH MONTH? | ELECTION TERMS | SHEER WILL | COUNTRIES' PROVINCES | POP SONGS OF 2015 | "EX"s & "OH"s |
|
$200
[30]
Kwanzaa begins
December
Adam
|
$200
[22]
In Arizona every elected official "is subject to" this type of removal "by the qualified electors"
recall
Emily
|
$200
[1]
In 1982 she gave birth to the royal lad known as Wills
Princess Diana
Carissa
|
$200
[17]
Kwa Zulu-Natal &Western Cape
South Africa
Emily
|
$200
[5]
What do you mean, this Canadian singer's "What Do You Mean?" topped the Billboard Pop Chart?
Justin Bieber
Emily
|
$200
[21]
If you're "going to" these, you're heading to the farthest point from a center
the extremes
|
|
$400
[29]
The 1944 invasion of Normandy
June
Carissa
|
$400
[9]
It can be part of a political platform or part of a pile of lumber
a plank
|
$400
[2]
You may know him as Ricky Bobby, but to "Family Guy", he's the voice of "Fat Greek Guy"
Will Ferrell
Carissa
|
$400
[13]
Granma &Guantanamo
Cuba
Adam
|
$400
[6]
Watch out, Radioactive Man! This band sang, "She wants to dance like Uma Thurman, bury me 'til I confess"
Fall Out Boy
Carissa
|
$400
[19]
Oh yes, he won 8 medals at 3 Winter Olympics
(Apolo Anton) Ohno
Emily
|
|
$600
[28]
The Indianapolis 500 roars to life
May
Carissa
|
$600
[10]
A wife who jogs with her husband, or that person who is going to be the vice president under you on the ticket
a running mate
Emily
|
$600
[3]
This 3-named man won the Democratic nomination for president when he was only 36
William Jennings Bryan
Adam
Carissa
Emily
|
$600
[14]
Carinthia &Salzburg
Austria
Carissa
|
$600
[7]
Time for a quick game of Pick the Right Jonas Brother! He had a solo hit with "Levels"
Nick Jonas
Carissa
|
$600
[18]
Let's make one of these out of you, a pattern to be imitated
an example
Carissa
|
|
$800
[26]
The Bastille Day military parade marches on
July
Emily
|
DD
$700
[11]
By definition, these are taken right after someone votes & are used to forecast the outcome
an exit poll
Emily
|
$800
[24]
In 1951 this "Naked Lunch" author accidentally shot & killed his second wife in a drunken prank
(William) Burroughs
Emily
|
$800
[15]
Kandahar &Baghlan
Afghanistan
Carissa
|
$800
[4]
"Zero" was big for this singer, but domestic violence issues resulted in denial of his visa for a trip to Australia
Chris Brown
|
$800
[12]
We'll lay down his law--E = I x R
(Georg) Ohm
Carissa
|
|
$1,000
[27]
Guy Fawkes Day lights up
November
Emily
|
$1,000
[23]
It's a signature on the back of a check, or support from others for the candidate
an endorsement
Adam
|
$1,000
[25]
This newspaper magnate came within 3,500 votes of winning the 1905 election for mayor of New York City
William Randolph Hearst
Carissa
|
$1,000
[16]
Colon &Darien
Panama
|
$1,000
[8]
"See You Again" stayed on the list again & again for this rapper & Charlie Puth
Wiz Khalifa
Carissa
|
$1,000
[20]
To make a bad situation worse
exacerbate
Adam
|
| AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | POP-POURRI | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING | REQUIRED READING | 5-LETTER WORDS | SEEING STARS |
|
$400
[2]
Segregation was ruled unconstitutional in the case Brown v. the Board of Education of this city in Kansas
Topeka
Carissa
|
$400
[15]
"Black Ops III" is the subtitle of a game in this series
Call of Duty
Adam
|
$400
[16]
This architectural style of the High Middle Ages mostly seen in cathedrals developed from the Romanesque & Byzantine styles
Gothic
Carissa
|
$400
[1]
For Shakespeare II at Notre Dame: This play in which Romans are asked to "Lend me your ears"
Julius Caesar
Carissa
|
$400
[21]
It's a fertile area in the middle of a desert
an oasis
Adam
|
$400
[30]
Blue stars are the hottest with temperatures exceeding 30,000 K.; this color is the coolest at less than 3,500 K.
red
Carissa
|
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Thisinstitute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp
Booker T. Washington
Carissa
|
$800
[13]
Melissa Benoist plays the charming title caped hero on this CBS series
Supergirl
Adam
Emily
|
$800
[17]
A gambrel type of this has 2 pitches on each side, such as seen on a barn
a roof
Carissa
Emily
|
$800
[7]
For "Women & Fiction" at Tufts: This Austen novel with single sisters Elizabeth& Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Adam
|
$800
[22]
A native of Goteborg or Uppsala
a Swede
|
$800
[29]
In 1995 the first extrasolar planet ever discovered orbiting a sun-like star was found in this "flying horse" constellation
Pegasus
Adam
|
|
$1,200
[4]
Joseph Cinque led a successful slave rebellion aboard this ship in 1839
the Amistad
Adam
|
$1,200
[14]
Here's the main star of this Netflix show
BoJack Horseman
Adam
|
$1,200
[18]
Covering 8 Nevada acres, it's the not very ancient pyramid seen here
the Luxor
Carissa
|
$1,600
[9]
For English 164C at UCLA: This Wilkie Collins detective novel about a stolen gem
The Moonstone
Emily
|
$1,200
[23]
Poisonous or deadly, or a Britney Spears song
toxic
Emily
|
$1,200
[28]
A star in this "big dog" is one of the biggest we know of, about 1,500 times the size of the sun
Canis Major
Adam
Emily
|
|
$1,600
[5]
A prominent member of the Harlem Renaissance, shewrote the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
(Zora Neale) Hurston
Adam
|
$1,600
[11]
In 2015 on "SNL" Larry David played this presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders
Adam
|
$1,600
[19]
Terrazzo floors usually feature chips of this stone embedded into a base
marble
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
For "Women and War" at the Univ. of Virginia: This Aristophanes play about women who refuse to take things lying down
Lysistrata
Adam
|
$1,600
[24]
Of the 3 instruments in a standard string quartet, it's intermediate in size
a viola
Adam
Emily
|
$1,600
[25]
Full of stars, it's called "Silver River" by the Chinese
the Milky Way
Emily
|
|
$2,000
[6]
Marian Anderson made history in 1954 by signing a contract with this New York performing arts organization
the Metropolitan Opera
Emily
|
$2,000
[12]
Gwen Stefani had a 2014 holiday collection for this 3-letter brand of nail polish
OPI
Carissa
Emily
|
$2,000
[20]
Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is the only North American building designed by this Swiss architect
Le Corbusier
|
$2,000
[10]
For "Feminism and Film" at Vanderbilt: "Backlash" by this Pulitzer winner
Susan Faludi
|
$2,000
[27]
There's only one consonant in this synonym for strange or frightening
eerie
Adam
Emily
|
$2,000
[26]
Soon after discovering Uranus, he became the first to suggest that nebulae are composed of stars
Herschel
Emily
|
Teddy Roosevelt called it "the one great sight which every American should see"
the Grand Canyon