2018 College Championship semifinal game 1.
Jordan Goodson — a senior at Columbia University from McLean, Virginia
William Scott — a freshman at Tufts University from Los Altos, California
Rebecca Rosenthal — a sophomore at Swarthmore College from Ridgewood, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca | $3,600 | $5,000 | $21,800 |
$43,600
2nd place: $10,000 |
$15,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| William | $6,200 | $10,400 | $22,400 |
$43,601
Finalist |
$20,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Jordan | $200 | $3,000 | $2,200 |
$4,399
3rd place: $10,000 |
$1,800
9 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIES FLASHBACK | PEOPLE & PLACES | COMPUTER STUFF | HODGEPODGE | YES, MAMMAL! | HETERONYMS |
|
$200
[22]
2 teen rivals team up after one of the kids they're watching goes missing in 2016's "Adventures in" this
babysitting
William
|
$200
[16]
A man from Germany's largest port city is called this--hold the bun
a Hamburger
William
|
$200
[11]
I'm always out & about with my tablet, so I need my Mophie Juice Pack Powerstation, an external one of these
a charger (or battery)
William
|
$200
[26]
A Florida mom invented one version of this twirling gizmo back in the 1990s; 20 years later, they became a craze
a fidget spinner
Rebecca
|
$200
[1]
When it comes to brain size, a bottlenose this has humans beat, 1,600 grams to 1,300
a dolphin
Rebecca
|
$200
[4]
A place of little rain & to abandon completely
desert [DES-ert] and desert [de-SERT]
Jordan
|
|
$400
[21]
It featured Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay & some catchy tunes; 'nuff said
High School Musical
William
|
$400
[17]
The folks seenhereare taking part in a musical competition in this country
Scotland
Jordan
|
$400
[12]
Snapchat, an app on which content disappears after a certain time, has one of these for a logo, also known to fade away
a ghost
William
|
$400
[27]
Each November the president ceremonially pardons one or more of these birds
a turkey
Rebecca
|
$400
[2]
If you look atitsback, you'll know it's a pink fairy this
an armadillo
Rebecca
|
$400
[5]
One who displays & a downpour of rain
a shower [SHO-er] and a shower [SHAU-er]
William
|
|
$600
[20]
This movie starring Demi Lovato & the Jonas Brothers was followed by a sequel subtitled "The Final Jam"
Camp Rock
Rebecca
|
$600
[23]
Most of this country's people are Khmer & speak the Khmer language
Cambodia
William
|
$600
[13]
It's the adventurous name of the default Mac web browser
Safari
Rebecca
|
$600
[28]
In 2012 this actress went from "Gossip Girl" to the girl who married Ryan Reynolds
Blake Lively
Rebecca
Jordan
|
$600
[3]
This marsupial sometimes wrongly called a bear gets its liquids mostly from eucalyptus leaves
a koala
William
|
$600
[6]
Multiple female deer & a third person action verb conjugation
does [DOHZ] and does [DUHZ]
Rebecca
|
|
$800
[19]
Zendaya & Bella Thorne are among 3 sets of pals who become foes & then pals again in this 2012 film
Frenemies
Jordan
|
$800
[24]
About 3% of Australia's population are these indigenous people, from the Latin for "from the beginning"
Aborigines
Rebecca
|
$800
[14]
Getting an HTTP code 101 on your computer means it's switching to another this, a letter in HTTP
protocol
|
$800
[29]
Of Japan's 4 main islands, the one that doesn't end in U
Hokkaido
William
|
$800
[9]
The Arctic species of this canine is Iceland's only native land mammal
a fox
William
|
$800
[7]
Trash & to decline to accept something
refuse [re-FUSE] and refuse [REF-use]
Rebecca
|
|
$1,000
[18]
In this St. Patrick's Day favorite written by our own Andrew Price, Kyle Johnson discovers he's half-leprechaun
Luck of the Irish
Jordan
|
$1,000
[25]
This 3-letter people of China make up the world's largest ethnic group
Han
William
|
$1,000
[15]
My gamer roommate loves his rig from this "extraterrestrial" company, a division of Dell
Alienware
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[30]
From the 13th to the 15th centuries, this association of German cities dominated trade in northern Europe
the Hanseatic League
William
|
DD
$2,800
[10]
The name of this mammal is Afrikaans for "earth pig"
an aardvark
William
|
$1,000
[8]
Adjective for one from Gdansk & to make shiny by rubbing
Polish [POH-lish] and polish [PAW-lish]
William
|
| COLLEGE HONORS | FIRST IN YOUR CLASS | THE DEANS LIST | ROADS SCHOLAR | LETTER MEN | "MAG"NA CUM LAUDE |
|
$400
[17]
The College Television Awards are given out by the same academy as these awards
the Emmys
William
|
$400
[14]
It wasn't until 1976 that the first women cadets were admitted to the U.S. military academy here
West Point
William
|
$400
[10]
Your parents might know Dean Cainas Superman, but you probably know him as Jeremiah Danvers, father of this other DC hero
Supergirl
Jordan
|
$400
[7]
221B or not 221B? It's Sherlock Holmes' home street in London
Baker Street
Rebecca
|
$400
[6]
In his later years, this author of "The Catcher in the Rye" was a recluse
(J.D.) Salinger
William
|
$400
[20]
The action of making something look bigger than it actually is
magnify
Rebecca
|
|
$800
[27]
Arizona State's Cronkite School of this -ism & Mass Communication has won several prestigious Hearst Awards
journalism
Jordan
|
$800
[15]
His name is synonymous with blue jeans; he founded the first company to manufacture them
Levi Strauss
William
Jordan
|
DD
$1,200
[11]
Dean Moriarty is a memorable character in this Beat Generation novel
On the Road
Jordan
|
$800
[18]
10-letter word for U.S. roads like the one that runs 1,381 miles from Mexico to the Canadian border
interstate
William
|
$800
[5]
This "Narnia" creator taught medieval & Renaissance English lit at Cambridge University
(C.S.) Lewis
William
|
$800
[12]
This long-tailed member of the crow family is known for its raucous voice
a magpie
Rebecca
|
|
$1,200
[28]
In 2016 Lamar Jackson claimed the first Heisman trophy for this school's Cardinals
Louisville
William
|
$1,200
[16]
Home to the oldest University of California campus, in 2014 it became the first city in the U.S. to approve a soda tax
Berkeley
William
|
$1,200
[13]
Dean Kamen invented this "human transporter"
the Segway
William
|
$1,200
[19]
A part of the Pan-American Highway between Venezuela & Colombia is named from this "liberator"
Simon Bolivar
William
|
$1,200
[4]
He wrote his most famous stories for his son Christopher Robin
(A.A.) Milne
Rebecca
|
$1,200
[1]
It can be a small dynamo used to generate high voltage or a mutant villain in the X-Men movies
Magneto
Rebecca
|
|
$1,600
[29]
This arts center on the Potomac gives out the Irene Ryan scholarships to college actors
the Kennedy Center
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[26]
In 1954, in the first successful organ transplant, an identical twin gave up one of these to his brother
a kidney
Rebecca
William
|
$1,600
[23]
Nixon White House counsel John Dean titled a book about George W. Bush "Worse Than" this scandal
Watergate
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[21]
A fictional street in Paris, it's the location of murders in an 1841 Edgar Allan Poe tale
the Rue Morgue
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[8]
The vignettes in his poem "The Waste Land" are linked by the legend of the search for the holy grail
T.S. Eliot
William
|
$1,600
[2]
Adjective meaning generous & superior to pettiness
magnanimous
William
|
|
$2,000
[30]
This director won a student Oscar for "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" before his 1st feature, "She's Gotta Have It"
Spike Lee
|
DD
$8,000
[25]
This Standard Oil Company president was considered America's first billionaire
(John D.) Rockefeller
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[24]
From 2005 to 2009, heserved as chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Howard Dean
|
$2,000
[22]
Kurfurstendamm is an elegant shopping street in this capital city
Berlin
Jordan
|
$2,000
[9]
This author of Indian descent released "Half a Life" in 2001, the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature
V.S. Naipaul
Jordan
|
$2,000
[3]
Hungary's main ethnic group, it's also the name of the official language of the country
the Magyars
Rebecca
|
In one version Thetis killed 6 of her children in her attempts to make them immortal; this warrior was her seventh
Achilles