2016 College Championship semifinal game 2.
Hannah Norem — a sophomore from Augustana University from Houston, Texas
Sam Deutsch — a junior at the University of Southern California from Bethesda, Maryland
Emily Bingham — a senior at Wright State University from Dayton, Ohio
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily | $1,200 | $2,200 | $5,100 |
$9,101
3rd place: $10,000 |
$8,600
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sam | $2,400 | $3,600 | $12,800 |
$18,201
Finalist |
$12,800
17 R, 1 W |
| Hannah | $600 | $2,000 | $9,100 |
$18,200
2nd place: $10,000 |
$9,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE LEGEND & TRUTH OF SLEEPY HOLLOW | WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU? | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | GEEK OUT | RECENT MUSIC |
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$200
[22]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sleepy Hollow, NY.) I'm in Sleepy Hollow, New York, where the 18th century wooden span that this literary character would've used to escape danger has long rotted away, but the local cemetery has another one
Ichabod Crane
Emily
|
$200
[21]
Fruit &vampire
a bat
Emily
|
$200
[8]
This type of surgeon does knee replacements
orthopedic
Sam
|
$200
[13]
Fenway Park
Boston
Sam
|
$200
[16]
Products from Livescribe transfer these directly to your device; most college students still take them with good old Bics
notes
Sam
|
$200
[2]
Some people thought her song "Roar" sounded an awful lot like "Brave" by Sara Bareilles
Katy Perry
Sam
|
|
$400
[23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sleepy Hollow, NY.) Sleepy Hollow's Old Dutch Church was founded around 1685; Washington Irving wrote that this character tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard
the Headless Horseman
Emily
|
$400
[27]
Spider &rhesus
a monkey
Hannah
|
$400
[9]
Sporadic, like some windshield wipers
intermittent
Emily
|
$400
[15]
The World of Coca-Cola, a multimedia experience
Atlanta
Emily
|
$400
[17]
3D touch, already a feature of reality, is found on this 2015 model of the iPhone
the iPhone 6s
Emily
Hannah
|
$400
[3]
(Hi, I'm Eric Stonestreet of Modern Family.) I got to appear in this man's video for "Tacky", a parody of Pharrell's song "Happy"
"Weird Al"
Sam
|
|
$600
[24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sleepy Hollow, NY.) The menacing trooper in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" became a supernatural being after some nameless battle during this war
the Revolutionary War
Emily
|
$600
[30]
Spectacled &American black
bears
|
$600
[10]
This synonym for "choice" can precede "energy" & "medicine"
alternative
Hannah
|
$600
[14]
Abraham Lincoln's tomb
Springfield
Sam
|
$600
[19]
The character seenhererepresents this website
Reddit
Hannah
|
$600
[4]
"Undertow" is a synonym for the title of this Vance Joy song that mentions Michelle Pfeiffer
"Riptide"
Emily
|
|
$800
[25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sleepy Hollow, NY.) As the exceedingly lank schoolmaster heads for the bridge near the story's end, he "casts a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish... in a flash of fire and" this, but is disappointed
brimstone
|
$800
[29]
Anole &frilled
lizards
|
$800
[11]
It can be difficulty in staying asleep as well as falling asleep
insomnia
Emily
|
$800
[1]
The Roger Williams Park Zoo
Providence
Hannah
|
$800
[18]
Use your hyperspace drive to jump from star to star in the gaming app FTL, which stands for this
Faster Than Light
|
$800
[5]
The name of this song by Drake & Future refers to the logo on Nike's Air Jordan shoes
"Jumpman"
Sam
|
|
$1,000
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sleepy Hollow, NY.) Irving used this word for a German mercenary to describe the trooper whose head had been carried away by a cannonball
Hessian
Sam
|
$1,000
[28]
Eider &Muscovy
ducks
|
$1,000
[12]
In math the product of any expression & its this is 1
reciprocal
Emily
|
DD
$1,800
[7]
Blue Bayou Water Park &Dixie Landin' Amusement Park
Baton Rouge
Hannah
|
$1,000
[20]
Over 100,000 home computers are helping Stanford study protein assembly in the program called this@home
Folding
|
$1,000
[6]
Billy Joel's "She's Always A Woman" inspired John Legend to write this song for Chrissy Teigen
"All Of Me"
Hannah
|
| THE 2015 NOBEL PRIZES | RELIGION | IN THE "ZONE" | LEATHER | A HISTORY LESSON | EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA |
|
$400
[15]
The Chemistry prize went to a trio of scientists for figuring out how cells repair this genetic material
DNA
Sam
|
$400
[18]
In the Roman Catholic Church, the first of the 7 sacraments you go through is this ceremony
a baptism
Sam
|
$400
[23]
A cheesy, meaty Italian turnover
a calzone
Emily
|
$400
[21]
This term for the pelt of a cow or horse used to make leather sounds like you're trying to conceal it
a hide
Sam
|
$400
[17]
Continent where the kingdom of New Granada was founded in the 16th century
South America
Emily
Sam
|
$400
[3]
In the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", he mentions the South Atlantic had its first hurricane in 2004
Al Gore
Hannah
|
|
$800
[16]
"Understanding Consumption" author Angus Deaton won this prize
the Nobel Prize for Economics
Sam
Hannah
|
$800
[1]
The man seenhereis the 14th person to be known by this title
the Dalai Lama
Emily
|
$800
[26]
Created by electrical discharges in the air, it causes that distinctive odor after a thunderstorm
ozone
Emily
|
$800
[20]
Used on leather, this type of soap is named for an equestrian item
saddle soap
|
$800
[10]
Under the Congress of this city, 1814-15, Denmark was forced to give Norway to Sweden
Vienna
Emily
|
$800
[4]
A boxer named Adonis follows in his dad's footsteps & has a Rocky road in this 2015 film
Creed
Sam
|
|
$1,600
[24]
The Peace prize went to the National Dialogue Quartet of this North African country
Tunisia
|
$1,200
[2]
It's the common name for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Mormons
Sam
|
$2,000
[28]
Stephen King novel & movie title
The Dead Zone
|
$1,200
[19]
Ironically, Seth Boyden never legally protected his process to make the high-gloss leather with this name
patent
|
$1,200
[11]
He led the 6,000-mile Long March from 1934 to 1935 & had to abandon 2 of his kids along the way
Mao
Hannah
|
$1,200
[5]
In 2005 moviegoers met Emma Thompson in the guise of this magical nanny
Nanny McPhee
Emily
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Works by 2015 Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich include "Voices from" this now-radioactive location
Chernobyl
Sam
|
$1,600
[6]
In Judaism, this sacred scroll is handwritten & kept inside a special ark
the Torah
Hannah
|
— |
$1,600
[22]
Cordovan leather, used in making shoes, is named for a city in this country where it was developed
Spain
Hannah
|
$1,600
[12]
In 1934 Augusto Cesar Sandino was assassinated by this Central American country's National Guard
Nicaragua
Sam
|
$1,600
[8]
(New York Timesmovie critic A.O. Scott gives the clue.) Julia Child could whip up a navarin of lamb for lunch but Meryl Streep eats young actresses for breakfast as she does in this 2009 film co-starring Amy Adams
Julie & Julia
Hannah
|
|
DD
$3,500
[14]
The Physics prize was for the discovery that these subatomic particles oscillate & therefore actually have mass
neutrinos
Emily
|
DD
$3,500
[7]
"The Way" to spell this ancient Asian religion & philosophy?--with a "T" or a "D"
Daoism
Hannah
|
— |
$2,000
[27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a piece of leather.) This type of soft leather is named for a European mountain goat antelope whose skin was used in cleaning & shining
chamois
Hannah
|
$2,000
[13]
No. 47 of these from 1517 reads, "Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is a matter of free will"
the 95 Theses (of Martin Luther)
Emily
|
$2,000
[9]
Film in which Bruce Willis is sent back in time to be killed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, his younger self
Looper
Sam
|
It was originally published in 1915 under the German title "Die Verwandlung", meaning "The Transformation"
The Metamorphosis (by Franz Kafka)