2016 College Championship semifinal game 1.
Emily Sun — a freshman at Columbia University from San Diego, California
Gus Woythaler — a senior at Stanford University from Encino, California
Niki Peters — a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley originally from Boise, Idaho
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niki | $-1,400 | $1,600 | $14,800 |
$24,900
Finalist |
$14,000
17 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Gus | $4,400 | $6,200 | $11,400 |
$10,399
3rd place: $10,000 |
$11,400
17 R, 4 W |
| Emily | $2,600 | $3,400 | $12,400 |
$24,800
2nd place: $10,000 |
$8,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| COLLEGE TOWNS | AWARDS & HONORS | FICTION | MAMA'S BOYS | DOUBLE THE VOWEL, DOUBLE THE FUN | HOME WATCHING TV |
|
$200
[4]
The University of Michigan is this city's largest employer
Ann Arbor
Gus
|
$200
[27]
It's the common name for both an international yacht race & that race's trophy, formerly the Hundred Guinea Cup
the America's Cup
Gus
|
$200
[26]
This third installment of Stieg Larsson's "Girl" trilogy was the top-selling hardcover fiction book of 2010
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Niki
Gus
|
$400
[10]
Lucky number 7, this brother of a president blossomed from the former Rose Fitzgerald in 1925
RFK (Robert Francis Kennedy)
Gus
|
$400
[17]
Hey doll, it's a rhyming-named religion practiced in the West Indies
Voodoo
Niki
|
$400
[25]
Set at a law school, "How to Get Away with Murder" stars this Emmy winner as an attorney & law professor
Viola Davis
Niki
|
|
$400
[5]
TCU is in this city often paired with "Big D"
Fort Worth
Gus
|
$400
[24]
His 1861 textbook on organic chemistry won the Demidov Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences
Mendeleev
Niki
|
$400
[1]
He died in 2013, 2 months before the publication of his "Command Authority", a new Jack Ryan novel
Tom Clancy
Gus
|
$600
[11]
As kids Rahm, Ari & Ezekiel, these later high-achieving brothers, would cause mom Marsha to yell, "I hate all of you equally"
the Emanuels
Gus
|
$600
[20]
A Tennessean who freely offers to do something
a volunteer
Gus
|
$600
[16]
"Narcos" chronicles Pablo Escobar's rise as a drug lord in this South American country
Colombia
Gus
|
|
$600
[6]
From 1936 until his death, Albert Einstein lived in a house on Mercer Street in this college town
Princeton
Niki
|
$600
[21]
This military medal is given to those wounded or killed in service to the United States
a Purple Heart
Niki
|
$600
[2]
This 2003 story about 2 friends, Amir & Hassan, was the debut novel of Afghan American Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
Gus
|
$800
[12]
This writer who defined guts as "grace under pressure" was born to the former Grace Hall in Illinois in 1899
Hemingway
Emily
|
$800
[19]
A thick fruit beverage, or one with a winningly polished manner, you old...
a smoothie
Gus
|
$800
[14]
On "Empire", Taraji P. Henson plays thisex-con ex-wife intent on getting her share
Cookie
Emily
|
|
$800
[7]
This University of Oregon city boasts of being "a great city for the arts and outdoors"
Eugene
Gus
|
$800
[23]
Thiscreator of many comic book characters is seenhereat his National Medal of Arts ceremony
Stan Lee
Gus
Emily
|
$800
[3]
With fishy ladies carved into it, "The Mermaid" this furniture item is the title object of a Sue Monk Kidd novel
chair
Niki
|
$1,000
[13]
If his Mama Hannah hadn't left him as a child, he might have been less troubled--then again, we might not have the "Principia"
Newton
Emily
|
$1,000
[18]
One definition is a space with such low pressure that any particles in it don't affect anything happening there
a vacuum
Gus
|
$1,000
[15]
The mystery of a woman waking up nude, covered in cryptic tattoos, propels this NBC drama
Blindspot
Emily
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Named for a pioneer & trailblazer, it's home to the main campus of Montana State University
Bozeman
Gus
|
DD
$1,000
[22]
Computer science's equivalent to the Nobel Prize is named for this 20th century British mathematician
(Alan) Turing
Niki
|
$1,000
[9]
This 2009 follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code" sold over 1 million copies in e-book & hardcover editions on the first day
The Lost Symbol
Emily
|
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$400
[26]
A liquid in which food is soaked before cooking, it's from the Latin for "sea water"
a marinade
Niki
|
$400
[27]
The tip of the Malay Peninsula is the southernmost mainland point of this continent
Asia
Emily
|
$400
[28]
These, carved by natives in the Pacific Northwest, often included a genealogy but you need good eyes to see the top
totem poles
Niki
|
$400
[5]
In "Telegraph Days", Nellie Courtright interviews this dentist for the Tombstone paper
(Doc) Holliday
Gus
Emily
|
$800
[23]
One of these spinning tops is depicted in yellow on a Hanukkah stamp
a dreidel
Gus
|
$800
[24]
"Mystere" & "The Beatles Love" are among the many Las Vegas shows presented by this Montreal-based group
Cirque du Soleil
Gus
|
|
$800
[25]
From a Gothic word for "throne", it's a much less grand small, backless seat
a stool
Emily
|
$800
[21]
Both Guernica & Gibraltar lie on this peninsula
the Iberian
Niki
|
$800
[22]
These Arab nomads are classified in castes according to the animals they keep, with camels being the most prestigious
the Bedouins
Gus
|
$800
[4]
Lew Wallace's "The Fair God" centers on this Aztec ruler's efforts to resist Cortes in early 16th century Mexico
Montezuma
Niki
|
$1,200
[19]
"Henceforward shall be free", says the stamp honoring the 150th anniversary of this proclamation
the Emancipation Proclamation
Emily
|
$1,200
[14]
Perhaps you've attended one of the sold-out shows by this pitch-perfect group & YouTube sensation
Pentatonix
Niki
|
|
$1,200
[17]
This 4-letter word for a humble terrestrial annelid comes from the Old English for "dragon" or "serpent"
worm
Emily
|
$1,600
[7]
A peninsula in this 4-letter historic county separates the estuaries of the Thames&Medway Rivers
Kent
Niki
|
$1,200
[18]
Coprolites (fossilized poop) provide info about ancient life, like roundworms & other types of these
parasites
Niki
|
$1,600
[2]
A quartet of books by Paul Scott bears this 3-letter term for British rule in India
the Raj
Gus
|
$1,600
[15]
The Coastal Birds postcard stamp set includes this wading bird that's named for a prominent facial feature
the spoonbill
|
$1,600
[13]
Matthew Morrison from "Glee" starred on Broadway as author J.M. Barrie in "Finding" this place
Neverland
Gus
|
|
$1,600
[16]
The name of this desert wind comes from sharq, an Arabic word for "east"
sirocco
|
$2,000
[9]
North America's westernmost mainland point is Cape Prince of Wales on this Alaskan peninsula
the Seward Peninsula
|
$1,600
[6]
Eugene Dubois traveled to the East Indies in search of early hominins; he struck paydirt on this island in 1891
Java
|
DD
$2,000
[1]
"Across the Endless River" is a fictional account of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of this Shoshone
Sacagawea
Niki
|
$2,000
[11]
The portrait of this "Invisible Man" author on a 91-cent stamp is based on a photo by Life magazine's Gordon Parks
(Ralph) Ellison
Niki
|
$2,000
[12]
The Ravinia Outdoor Music Festival is the summer home of this city's symphony orchestra
Chicago
|
|
$2,000
[10]
From the Sanskrit for "enlightened being", it's a Buddhist who forgoes nirvana to return & help others on Earth
bodhisattva
Niki
|
DD
$5,000
[20]
This peninsula is separated by the Gulf of Suez & the Suez Canal from the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Sinai
Emily
|
$2,000
[8]
In 1899 Franz Boas of this NYC university founded the first major college anthropology department
Columbia
Niki
|
$2,000
[3]
The 1593 murder of this Elizabethan playwright is the focus of George Garrett's "Entered from the Sun"
(Christopher) Marlowe
Niki
|
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In 1604, for a special project, he approved a list of scholars to work at Westminster, Cambridge & Oxford
James I