2016 College Championship final game 1.
Sam Deutsch — a junior at the University of Southern California from Bethesda, Maryland
Niki Peters — a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley originally from Boise, Idaho
Sarah Dubnik — a senior at the University of Pittsburgh from Jamison, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah | $2,200 | $2,800 | $18,000 | $22,001 |
$13,800
18 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Niki | $1,000 | $400 | $13,600 | $18,600 |
$13,600
13 R, 1 W |
| Sam | $3,800 | $6,600 | $11,000 | $22,000 |
$11,000
15 R, 1 W |
| TERM: PAPER | CELEBRITIES | THE NORTH PACIFIC | I'LL NEED A TRANSLATOR | ANCIENT HISTORY: 1986 | VIDEO GAME SLANG |
|
$200
[27]
This hyphenated term refers to individual sheets held in a binder
loose-leaf
Sarah
|
$200
[21]
According to this rapper, Yeezus is his "God name"
Kanye West
Niki
|
$200
[13]
Over 1,300 miles from Oahu, Kure Atoll is the farthest west part of this archipelago
the Hawaiian Islands
Sam
|
$200
[1]
Japanese for "wearing thing", this garmentdates from the 7th century
a kimono
Sarah
|
$400
[9]
This object reached its closest point to Earth in April 1986, its second visit to our skies in the 20th century
Halley's Comet
Niki
|
$600
[18]
NPC stands for this, an avatar not controlled by a human
a non-player character
Sam
|
|
$400
[20]
A type of strong, durable paper is called this, like a famous fictional spy
bond
Sam
|
$400
[26]
A good detective might deduce that this "Elementary" co-star has exhibited her artwork under the name Yu Ling
Lucy Liu
Sarah
|
$400
[14]
In 1849 this Canadian island was made a British colony; 17 years later, it became part of British Columbia
Vancouver (Island)
Sarah
|
$400
[2]
This U.S. state's name is from an Aleut word meaning "mainland"
Alaska
Sam
|
$600
[6]
With no prime-time programming yet, this fourth U.S. TV network was launched
Fox
Sam
|
$800
[19]
Some games have LFG, "looking for group"; in "Lord of the Rings Online", it's LFF, "looking for" this
fellowship
Sarah
Niki
|
|
$600
[10]
You hear this 3-letter term for a single layer when people are talking about bathroom tissue
ply
Niki
|
$600
[25]
It's not just gossip, girl--this actor really is Tony Romo's brother-in-law
Chace Crawford
|
$600
[15]
Good morning! This U.S. territory sits at the south end of the Marianas
Guam
Sam
|
$600
[3]
On an invitation R.S.V.P. means "please answer" & stands for repondez this French phrase
s'il vous plaît
Sarah
|
$800
[7]
A "People Power" revolution in this country forced longtime leader Ferdinand Marcos into exile
the Philippines
Sam
|
$1,000
[24]
To defeat an enemy with overwhelming numbers is to do this, a term from "Star Craft"
to Zerg rush
|
|
$800
[11]
This term for a large sheet of paper is used in the name of the first complete Shakespeare play collection
folio
Sam
|
$800
[23]
Back in school, hewas voted the cutest, the sweetest & most likely to succeed
Jesse Eisenberg
Sam
|
$800
[16]
This Mexican port 50 miles south of San Diego has been called the "Cinderella of the Pacific"
Ensenada
Sarah
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
A boring class can seem to go on & on, like this 2-word Latin phrase meaning "to the point of sickness"
ad nauseam
Sarah
|
$1,000
[8]
In January NASA's Stephen Nesbitt sadly reported "a major malfunction" with this Space Shuttle
Challenger
Sam
|
— |
|
$1,000
[12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew throws a paper airplane at you.) The light weight of this old-fashioned paper makes it good paper airplane material; if you know your produce, you can see why it hasthis9-letter name
onionskin
|
$1,000
[22]
Thisstar of "Orphan Black" is of Ukrainian, Polish, German, Austrian & Romanian ancestry
Tatiana Maslany
|
$1,000
[17]
Between 1946 & 1958, 23 nuclear tests were conducted in this tiny atoll in the Marshall Islands
Bikini Atoll
Sam
|
$1,000
[5]
Literally German for "time ghost", it's the prevailing spirit or mood of a period in history
a Zeitgeist
Sam
|
— | — |
| DOCTORS WITHIN BORDERS | ONE-WORD FILM TITLES | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE | CLASSICAL MUSIC | THE "MID" SECTION | MR. ROBOT |
|
$400
[11]
Norm Buckley, anesthesia chair at Canada's McMaster U., studies this sensation, both acute & chronic
pain
Sarah
|
$400
[10]
More than halfway through, Mike Myers decided to give the title character of this 2001 film a Scottish accent
Shrek
Sarah
|
$400
[6]
"Cambridge was a desert", begins Chapter 1 of Andre Aciman's this "Square"
Harvard
Sam
|
$400
[16]
One of the 3 "B"s, he was appointed director of music for the Protestant churches in Leipzig in 1723
Bach
Sarah
|
$400
[28]
Pro boxing division with a top limit of 160 pounds
middleweight
Niki
|
$800
[29]
The same company that makes the Roomba also made Ariel, a robot that detected & disposed of these buried munitions
land mines
Niki
|
|
$800
[12]
In 1871 John Maynard Woodworth became the first man appointed to this top U.S. medical post
surgeon general
Sarah
|
$800
[8]
Ed Asner voiced Carl, a retired balloon salesman, in this 2009 animated feature
Up
Niki
|
$800
[5]
This author of "Lolita" also wrote "Pnin", about a Russian prof at a U.S. college, like himself
(Vladimir) Nabokov
Sarah
|
$800
[17]
This "Carmen" composer's "Symphony in C" was written in 1855 but only discovered & performed in 1935
(Georges) Bizet
Sam
|
$800
[27]
As a verb it means to assist in the birth of a baby or a new idea
midwife
Sarah
|
$1,200
[26]
From the Greek for "manlike", it's a robot that closely resembles a human in form & function
android
Niki
|
|
$1,200
[13]
In prisons in Azerbaijan, Rafail Mehdiyev fights this lung disease caused by a bacillus
tuberculosis
Sarah
|
$1,200
[3]
This 2015 drama shows how the Boston Globe uncovered abuse claims against the Catholic Church
Spotlight
Niki
|
$1,200
[2]
An errant throw by a Westish College baseball star plays a major role in Chad Harbach's "The Art of" this
Fielding
Sam
|
$1,200
[18]
This French title of a beloved Debussy work means "moonlight"
"Clair de lune"
Sarah
|
$1,200
[23]
The world of mortals in Norse mythology
Midgard
Niki
|
$1,600
[25]
With names like Pookie & Snickle-Fritz, these robotic toy hamster pets have snuggled their way into our hearts
ZhuZhu Pets
|
|
$1,600
[14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a picture of a plane and a map of Australia on the monitor.) In Australia's remote areas, the Royal Flying Doctor Service has dozens of bases providing airborne care; the Alice Springs base serves nearly half a million square miles of this territory
the Northern Territory
|
$1,600
[7]
Catherine Hardwicke directed this tale of vampire love but not any of its sequels
Twilight
Sarah
|
$1,600
[1]
This author known for his white suits set the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" at Dupont (don't call it Duke!) University
Tom Wolfe
|
$2,000
[20]
The music heardhereappears in an Edvard Grieg suite when this title character is chased by trolls
Peer Gynt
Niki
|
$1,600
[22]
A sub-oceanic ridge between Iceland & Antarctica; its peaks are islands like the Azores
the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Niki
|
$2,000
[24]
In 2015 a robot that had traveled 6,000 miles by this method was damaged beyond repair in Philadelphia
hitchhiking
Niki
|
|
DD
$4,000
[15]
In South Sudan Abdinasir Abubakar battles this water-borne infection that's caused 7 pandemics since 1800
cholera
Sarah
|
$2,000
[9]
Joaquin Phoenix played Commodus in this sword-&-sandals epic from 2000
Gladiator
Sam
|
$2,000
[4]
Murder breaks the peace of Hampden College in this novel by Donna Tartt
The Secret History
|
DD
$3,600
[19]
PBS' "Capitol Fourth" often features this Russian piece written almost 70 years after its title year
the 1812 Overture
Sarah
|
$2,000
[21]
Sir Walter Scott titled a novel "The Heart of" this, after an Edinburgh prison
Midlothian
Niki
|
— |
When this man joined Twitter in September 2015, his first follow was the National Security Agency's account
Edward Snowden