2018 College Championship final game 1.
Dhruv Gaur — a freshman at Brown University from Gainesville, Georgia
Hannah Sage — a sophomore at the University of Central Florida from Sarasota, Florida
William Scott — a freshman at Tufts University from Los Altos, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | $3,000 | $5,000 | $16,600 | $0 |
$12,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Hannah | $2,600 | $3,600 | $15,600 | $7,600 |
$15,600
15 R, 0 W |
| Dhruv | $2,000 | $7,800 | $18,000 | $9,000 |
$14,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| YOU KIDS & YOUR MUSIC THESE DAYS | MYTH-POURRI | KILLER APPS | GETTING HISTORICAL | UNBEATABLE WORDS | SNIPPETS FROM MY COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS |
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$200
[4]
"What About Us"? More like what about this "colorful" singer who hit the Top 40 with that tune in 2017
Pink
William
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$200
[13]
This top Norse god traded an eye to drink from Mimir's well & gain wisdom
Odin
Hannah
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$200
[17]
Boomerang allows you to post clips that loop back & forth on this photo app
Instagram
William
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$200
[22]
On and off from the 1760s to the 1960s Britain had a Secretary of State for these distant possessions
colonies
Dhruv
|
$200
[1]
The baa sound from an ovine companion
a bleat
Dhruv
|
$600
[23]
So dance, dance like this"World of Dance" judge was watching you
(Jennifer) Lopez
Dhruv
|
|
$400
[5]
He's the multiple Grammy-winning artist heard here
Bruno Mars
Dhruv
|
$400
[14]
To scientists it's Canis latrans; in Native American myth it's a common trickster figure
a coyote
Dhruv
|
$400
[18]
To work for Uber Eats, you need to be 19 to drive a car, but only 18 to use one of these low-tech options
a bicycle
William
|
$400
[27]
South Africa's first president elected post-apartheid, he was sworn in on May 10, 1994
Mandela
Dhruv
|
$400
[3]
A sacrifice on the diamond
a bunt
William
Dhruv
|
$800
[25]
You will cross many bridges in life, perhaps the Fred Schwengel Memorial one over this river from Iowa into Illinois
the Mississippi
Dhruv
|
|
$600
[9]
This band has gone nation wide singing, "Oo woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks now, I been feelin' it since 1966, now"
Portugal. The Man
Dhruv
|
$600
[16]
This corporation founded in 1892 wants you to know it's an urban myth that its product can dissolve a tooth overnight
Coca-Cola
William
|
$600
[15]
This app has trademarked "swipe left" & "swipe right"
Tinder
Hannah
|
$600
[8]
Term for the edge of western U.S. settlement; it was in the title of an early biography of Wyatt Earp
the frontier
William
|
$600
[19]
If you laze around at work, you may hear the old line that starts "If you've got time to" do this"
lean
|
$1,000
[28]
I leave you with the 1653 words of this British statesman: "You have sat too long here... in the name of God, go!"
Oliver Cromwell
|
|
$800
[12]
This 2018 Grammy winner is heard"Here"
Alessia Cara
Hannah
|
$800
[6]
Named for a mythical bird, Garuda is appropriately the Indonesian national this enterprise
an airline
Dhruv
|
$800
[7]
People who do odd jobs via this app are called "taskers", not "bunnies"
TaskRabbit
|
$800
[2]
In this ancient practice, 4 separate jars were designated for the storage of different internal organs
mummification
William
|
$800
[20]
To make an electronic switch active, or to help a loved one continue a bad habit
enable
William
|
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$1,000
[11]
After being the "Life Of The Party", this Canadian singer found "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back"
Shawn Mendes
Hannah
|
$1,000
[10]
Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom & war, was called this by the Romans
Minerva
William
|
$1,000
[26]
This rhyming ticket app does not support will-call tickets, but does have a last-minute services option
StubHub
Dhruv
|
DD
$2,800
[24]
On Sept. 25, 1950 U.S. Marines retook this Asian capital city
Seoul
Dhruv
|
$1,000
[21]
French for "boat", it means a neckline shaped like one
bateau
Hannah
|
— |
| FICTIONAL STUDENTS | FAMOUS PAIRS' OTHER NAMES | WORLD PLAYS | STRAIGHT "A"s IN SCIENCE | GOING UNDERGROUND | ALLITERATION |
|
$400
[1]
The "Me" of this novel title is "a senior a Benson High School in lovely inner-city Pittsburgh"
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
|
$400
[22]
Explorers Meriwether & William
Lewis and Clark
William
|
$400
[10]
"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!" is a line from this play by Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
William
|
$400
[8]
Get in shape with this word that means occurring in the presence of oxygen
aerobic
William
|
$400
[28]
After an 1889 fire ravaged this city in Wash., streets were raised & what was the ground is now tourable underground
Seattle
William
|
$400
[14]
The part of a baseball bat or tennis racket that you hope makes contact with the ball
the sweet spot
Dhruv
|
|
$800
[2]
In one "Star Trek" video game, you play David Forester, a cadet at this academy in San Francisco
Starfleet Academy
Hannah
|
$800
[21]
Outlaws Parker & Barrow
Bonnie and Clyde
Hannah
|
$800
[11]
This author's murder mystery "The Mousetrap" has been performed in London for 65 straight years
Agatha Christie
William
|
$800
[7]
In an electric circuit, it's a cathode's opposite number
an anode
Hannah
|
$800
[30]
A setting in "Les Miserables", they were described by Victor Hugo as "fetid, wild, fierce"
the sewers
Hannah
|
$800
[19]
If you're able to speak effortlessly, it's said you've received this sort of "present"
the gift of gab
Hannah
|
|
$1,200
[3]
High school kid Charlie realizes being shy has its "Perks" in this Stephen Chbosky novel
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Dhruv
|
$1,200
[16]
Ice cream entrepreneurs Cohen & Greenfield
Ben & Jerry
Dhruv
|
$1,200
[9]
Treplev shoots down the title bird in "The Seagull" by this Russian playwright
(Anton) Chekhov
William
|
$1,200
[6]
The law that the upward force on a submerged body equals the weight of the displaced fluid is this man's principle
Archimedes
Hannah
|
$1,200
[26]
Marble walls & an image of this distinguished comrade complete the picture of Moscow's metro
Lenin
Dhruv
|
$1,200
[18]
Snow White musically suggested that if one did this "cheerfully together we can tidy up the place"
whistle while you work
Hannah
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Max Fisher takes on Bill Murray & the establishment at this title school in a Wes Anderson movie
Rushmore
|
$1,600
[15]
Showmen Phineas T. & James A.
Barnum & Bailey
Hannah
|
$2,000
[13]
The German play "Frühlings Erwachen" became this alt-rock musical in 2006
Spring Awakening
|
$2,000
[5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a wave on the monitor.) The distance between two peaks of a wave is the wavelength; the distance from the peak to the wave's midpoint isthis9-letter word
amplitude
Hannah
Dhruv
|
$1,600
[27]
In these caverns you'll find the Hall of the White Giant & the New Mexico Room
the Carlsbad Caverns
Dhruv
|
$1,600
[17]
(Iain Armitage of Young Sheldonpresents the clue.) The journal Cognition reports that adults can be taught this ability to identify musical notes by ear, though generally it appears in childhood
perfect pitch
Dhruv
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Jerry Renault, Brother Leon & Archie Costello all return in Robert Cormier's "Beyond" this struggle
the Chocolate War
Dhruv
|
$2,000
[23]
Operetta creators William & Arthur
Gilbert and Sullivan
Hannah
|
DD
$6,000
[12]
This 5-letter Greek tragedy from Euripides is not a good choice for Mother's Day
Medea
William
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
Immunoglobulins, which attack foreign substances inside you, are AKA these
antibodies
Dhruv
|
$2,000
[29]
The only one of these still containing human remains in Rome is the one named for Domitilla
catacombs
William
|
$2,000
[20]
Money given to someone who arranges a business deal
a finder's fee
|
Its official seal includes the year 1864 for when it was established, a folded flag & a scroll inscribed "our most sacred shrine"
Arlington National Cemetery