2018 College Championship semifinal game 3.
Alli Ross — a sophomore at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Rishab Jain — a freshman at Georgia Tech from Memphis, Tennessee
Dhruv Gaur — a freshman at Brown University from Gainesville, Georgia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhruv | $3,200 | $5,400 | $13,400 |
$20,000
Finalist |
$10,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Rishab | $1,200 | $3,200 | $12,000 |
$7,000
2nd place: $10,000 |
$7,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Alli | $5,200 | $7,200 | $16,800 |
$6,799
3rd place: $10,000 |
$16,800
19 R, 2 W |
| THIS IS MY COLLEGE FIGHT SONG | 21st CENTURY DEALS | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS | FOOD STUFF | ALL AROUND YOUTUBE | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE |
|
$200
[23]
Students at this school sing, "Drown 'em Tide! ...send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave"
the University of Alabama
Rishab
|
$200
[25]
In 2015 representatives of 195 nations agreed to a landmark climate change accord in this city
Paris
Rishab
|
$200
[8]
He's the royal elephant created by illustrator Jean de Brunhoff
Babar
Alli
|
$200
[16]
I like eggs this way, not stolen in violation of game laws but cooked in water just below the boiling point
poached
Dhruv
|
$200
[30]
If you saw a music video on YouTube, chances are it was on this site with a 4-letter name
Vevo
Alli
|
$200
[10]
A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter
a sonnet
Alli
|
|
$400
[6]
"We live in fame or go down in flame! Hey! Nothing'll stop" this military academy
the U.S. Air Force Academy
Dhruv
Rishab
Alli
|
$400
[19]
This telecom co. dating back to the early days of the telephone bought DirecTV for about $50 billion
AT&T
Rishab
|
$600
[2]
In a Dr. Seuss story he said, with fingers nervously drumming, "I must find some way to stop Christmas from coming!"
the Grinch
Alli
|
$400
[11]
Nachos supreme & the Meximelt are on this fast food chain's menu
Taco Bell
Dhruv
|
$400
[29]
"After Hours" & "Excessive Pop Culture Discussion" are 2 shows on this fractured website's channel
Cracked
Rishab
Alli
|
$400
[22]
The horizontal part in football goalposts
a crossbar
Dhruv
|
|
$600
[24]
Red is very, very big at this Midwestern Big Ten school "where the girls are the fairest, the boys are the squarest"
Nebraska
Dhruv
|
$600
[21]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is not a signatory to ACAP, the Agreement on the Conservation of these & Petrels
an albatross
Alli
|
$800
[1]
Fast friends Jess & Leslie create a secret & magical kingdom across the creek in this Katherine Paterson book
Bridge to Terabithia
Alli
|
$600
[9]
This process of steeping a food in a seasoned liquid should be done in the refrigerator if you're doing it overnight
marinating
Dhruv
|
$600
[28]
The directors of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" shaped their film to avoid being mocked by this fake coming attractions show
Honest Trailers
|
$600
[5]
Circling the wagons, a Conestoga was larger than a prairie this
a schooner
Dhruv
|
|
$800
[20]
"And the squeal of the pig will float on the air, from the tummy of the grizzly bear" at this "Big Sky' university
the University of Montana
Rishab
|
$800
[12]
Metlife used Snoopy in ads, but paid more than peanuts to get its name on the stadium shared by these 2 NFL teams
the New York Jets and New York Giants
Rishab
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
Kids really dig this 1998 book featuring Stanley Yelnats & Zero, 2 of the young inmates at Camp Green Lake
Holes
Dhruv
|
$800
[14]
This Swedish word is a buffet meal of various hot & cold meats & cheeses
a smorgasbord
Alli
|
$800
[27]
All sorts of folks watch things on the Fine Brothers channel where this 5-letter verb is in every video title
react
Alli
|
$800
[17]
The -ly in the word correctly, for example
suffix
Alli
|
|
$1,000
[7]
An SEC fight song begins, "Dynamite, dynamite when" this nickname that rhymes with "dandy" "starts to fight"
Vandy
Alli
|
$1,000
[13]
The U.K. & the Philippines signed one of these treaties, so London crooks can't hide out in Luzon any more
an extradition treaty
Alli
|
$1,000
[3]
Lois Lowry won a 1990 Newbery Medal for this book about helping Jews to escape Denmark & the Nazis during World War II
Number the Stars
Dhruv
|
$1,000
[15]
Mangoes & bell peppers are loaded with ascorbic acid, AKA this
Vitamin C
Alli
|
$1,000
[26]
Unboxing videos open containers of new devices; these kinds of videos break open the device to see what's inside
teardown videos
|
$1,000
[18]
This pendent ornament will be on your head at graduation
a tassel
Dhruv
|
| YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH | AS DEFINED BY RANDOM HOUSE | IT GROWS ON TREES | BARBARIANS AT THE GATES | "R" TOWN | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS |
|
$400
[28]
A rabbi, a priest & a minister walk into this type of graph seen here
a bar graph
Dhruv
|
$400
[27]
"Unable to read and write"
illiterate
Dhruv
|
$400
[19]
Thesenuts grow on Ohio's state tree
buckeyes
Rishab
|
$400
[30]
Clovis I, founder of this present-day nation, led a barbarian army to victory over the last Roman governor of Gaul
France
Rishab
|
$400
[25]
We bet you know this Nevada city is nicknamed "The Biggest Little City in the World"
Reno
Rishab
|
$400
[18]
Named Best Musical or Comedy film in 2018, it stars Saoirse Ronan as a willful teenager, & don't call it "Christine"!
Lady Bird
Alli
|
|
$800
[22]
Multiply 2 of these integers, like 3 & 7, & you get a "semi" one, like 21
a prime number
Rishab
|
$800
[26]
A 7-letter "preventative inoculation to confer immunity"
a vaccine
Alli
|
$800
[24]
Occasionally, peach trees also yield these smooth-skinned cousins
nectarines
Dhruv
|
$800
[29]
The Angles & this Germanic group invaded Britain in the 5th century & historians combined their names
Saxons
Dhruv
|
$1,200
[4]
Once known as Pile O' Bones, in 1882 this western Canadian city was renamed in honor of Queen Victoria
Regina, Saskatchewan
|
$800
[5]
In 2014 the directors of "Frozen" were played up on stage with this song
"Let It Go"
Rishab
|
|
$1,200
[2]
The cube is one of the 5 "platonic solids" or regular these
polyhedra
Dhruv
|
$1,200
[7]
A breakfast "batter cake", or "to speak or write equivocally"
waffle
|
$1,200
[12]
Theselarge nuts grow inpodsthat look like coconuts on trees in the Amazon forest
Brazil nuts
Dhruv
Rishab
|
$1,600
[23]
These 2 main branches of Goths began entering Roman territory in the 3rd century
Visigoths and Ostrogoths
Dhruv
|
$1,600
[8]
At the age of 5 George Eastman moved there with this family
Rochester, New York
|
$1,200
[17]
A Golden Globe was just one of the honors this Mexican-born director got in 2018 for "The Shape of Water"
Guillermo del Toro
Alli
|
|
$1,600
[1]
A vector has both magnitude & direction; this type of quantity, such as speed, has magnitude only
a scalar
Alli
|
$1,600
[3]
"A German emperor"
a kaiser
|
$1,600
[9]
An evergreen, the eastern hemlock produces mini 1/2" to 1"-long types of these seed-bearing structures
cones
Dhruv
|
$2,000
[14]
In 568 A.D. King Alboin led this nomadic people over the Alps in an invasion & settlement of northern Italy
the Lombards
Dhruv
|
$2,000
[10]
It's at the head of navigation of the James River
Richmond, Virginia
|
$1,600
[15]
He won in 2017 as "The Night Manager", but a Norse trickster god may have messed with his victory speech
Tom Hiddleston
Alli
|
|
$2,000
[6]
Calculus time! It's the second derivative of 3x3
18x
Rishab
|
$2,000
[21]
"A tentlike dwelling of the Mongol(s)... covered by felt or skins"
a yurt
Alli
|
$2,000
[13]
The furniture seenhereis made from the wood of this 4-letter tree
teak
Dhruv
|
DD
$4,000
[11]
These barbarians whose name means "destroyer" crossed the Rhine River & sacked Rome in 455 A.D.
the Vandals
Dhruv
|
DD
$5,200
[20]
This North Carolina city founded in 1792 is named for a man who died in 1618
Raleigh
Rishab
|
$2,000
[16]
Seen here is this winner for her performance in the 2015 movie "Room"
Brie Larson
Alli
|
In Latin Jesus says, I am "via et veritas et vita"--in English, these 3 words
way, truth, life