2005 College Championship quarterfinal game 4.From the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Adam Pinson — a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
Chelsea He — a sophomore at Duke University from Raleigh, North Carolina
Chris Breen — a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $5,600 | $5,800 | $10,200 |
$6,900
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$10,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Chelsea | $-1,000 | $1,000 | $6,200 |
$2,199
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$6,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Adam | $1,600 | $4,000 | $16,000 |
$11,500
Automatic semifinalist |
$15,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| COLLEGE AKA | GEEK LOVE | THE 19th CENTURY | I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER | THE DA VINCI CODE | THE ACC |
|
$200
[1]
In Alabama:A reddish-brown colour
Auburn
Chris
|
$200
[16]
The Woz, Steve Wozniak, built the first computer for this company
Apple
Adam
|
$200
[6]
In the 1840s he began reaping fame & fortune from the sale of his reaping machines
(Cyrus) McCormick
Chris
|
$200
[11]
A rocket scientist in training, you interned at this lab, JPL for short
the Jet Propulsion Lab
Chris
|
$200
[26]
This Da Vinci masterpiece is a portrait of the second wife of a Florentine merchant
the Mona Lisa
Chelsea
|
$200
[21]
On July 1, 2005 this school, Doug Flutie's alma mater, became the ACC's 12th member
Boston College
Chris
|
|
$400
[2]
In New York:A brand of toothpaste
Colgate
Chris
|
$400
[17]
Steve Ballmer has big geek shoes to fill for this Washington State software company
Microsoft
Adam
|
$400
[7]
In June 1876 George Custer made his last stand at the Battle of this river
Little Bighorn
Adam
|
$400
[12]
You worked with this group founded by Millard Fuller to help build homes for low-income families
Habitat for Humanity
Adam
|
$400
[27]
This mural depicts the reaction to Jesus' declaration that "one of you shall betray me"
The Last Supper
Chelsea
|
$400
[22]
She's the ACC's all-time goals leader in women's soccer with 103
Mia Hamm
Chris
|
|
$600
[3]
In Texas:An edible grain of the Gramineae family
Rice
Chris
|
$600
[18]
This director's geek cred was sealed when he sold his film co.'s computer division & it later became Pixar
George Lucas
Chris
|
$600
[8]
It was the largest & most powerful state of the German Empire in the 1800s
Prussia
Chris
|
$600
[13]
You worked as a "blended beverage technician" at this chain that started as The Juice Club in 1990
Jamba Juice
Chris
|
$600
[28]
Being left-handed made it easy for Leonardo to use what's called this type of writing named for a grooming aid
mirror writing
|
$600
[23]
You'll be a hell of an engineer if you graduate from this school, a 1990 champ in football
Georgia Tech
Chelsea
|
|
$800
[4]
In Massachusetts:Small clumps of hairs, trees or grass
Tufts
Chris
|
$800
[19]
Sexy Linus Torvalds made us melt when he created this freely distributed UNIX clone in 1991
Linux
Adam
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
Much of the fighting in this war, 1853 to 1856, took place on a peninsula in the Black Sea
the Crimean War
Chris
|
$800
[14]
You went to summer school to take this branch of science that deals specifically with compounds of carbon
organic chemistry
Adam
|
$800
[29]
Italy has issued euro coins with this Da Vinci "Man" on the reverse
Vitruvian Man
Chris
Chelsea
Adam
|
$800
[24]
In 1954, when you talked about Arnold, you meant this Wake Forest golfer & ACC champ
Arnold Palmer
Adam
|
|
$1,000
[5]
In Iowa:A male duck
Drake
Chelsea
|
$1,000
[20]
Hunky Marc Andreessen turned heads with this early web browser & company, later brought out by AOL
Netscape
Chris
|
$1,000
[10]
In 1889 this South American country's last emperor, Pedro II, was forced to abdicate
Brazil
Chris
|
$1,000
[15]
You slept til noon every day & read novels like "The Devil Wears Prada" & "Bergdorf" these
Blondes
|
$1,000
[30]
Around 1485, Leonardo painted the younglady with this short-tailed weasel seen here
an ermine
|
$1,000
[25]
The only ACC withdrawal came in 1971 when this university's Gamecocks resigned
the University of South Carolina
Adam
|
| WE'VE GOT MORE PEOPLE THAN YOU! | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS | TOUGH STUFF | SUPREME COURT REJECTS | PITHY QUOTES | THE "ACC" |
|
$400
[11]
Iraq, Iran, Israel
Iran
Chris
Chelsea
Adam
|
$400
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue accompanied by a puppet at the Golden Theatre in New York: "I'm on the Broadway set of Avenue Q.") This troubled character in "Avenue Q" has the same name as an Ivy League university in New Jersey--you do look preppy"Why thank you!"
Princeton
Chris
|
$400
[14]
When beekeepers open an active hive, they blow this into it first
smoke
Adam
|
$400
[19]
This president lost Haynsworth & Carswell but won with Harry Blackmun in 1970
Nixon
Adam
|
$400
[6]
Scrooge's 2-word response to "A merry Christmas, Uncle!"
"Bah, Humbug"
Chris
|
$400
[1]
Draw & push the bellows so that air passes over the reeds to play this instrument
the accordion
Adam
|
|
$800
[12]
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
Lithuania
Adam
|
$800
[27]
Harvey Fierstein milked the role of Tevye in a revival of this classic musical
Fiddler on the Roof
|
$800
[15]
Siberia is a source for this golden gem, November's birthstone
topaz
Chelsea
|
$800
[20]
When John Jay quit, John Rutledge failed to win confirmation as Chief Justice for this president
George Washington
Chelsea
Adam
|
$800
[7]
After recanting is belief that the Earth orbits the sun, he's said to have muttered, "But it does move"
Galileo
Chelsea
|
$800
[2]
Due in part to scandals at Enron & World Com, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 sought to reform this profession
accounting
Chelsea
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Nauru, Tonga, Fiji
Fiji
Adam
|
$1,200
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue suspended in a bubble in front of a giant clock in the Gershwin Theatre in New York.) In the hit musical "Wicked", this beautiful resident of Oz floats in high above the set
Glinda (the Good Witch)
Adam
|
$1,200
[16]
The languages of Mauritania include Soninke, French & this official one
Arabic
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1881 Stanley Matthews failed under Hayes but was confirmed under this doomed president
James Garfield
Adam
|
$1,200
[8]
It's said William Booth sent his troops in this charitable "Army" a 1-word telegram: "Others!"
The Salvation Army
Chelsea
|
$1,200
[3]
It's the capital of Ghana
Accra
Chris
|
|
$1,600
[25]
Poland, France, Germany
Germany
Chelsea
|
$1,600
[29]
Yes, "Sir": Robert Goulet played him in "Camelot" & Hank Azaria played him in "Spamalot"
Sir Lancelot
Adam
|
$1,600
[17]
(Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Palau.) Palau celebrates its independence on October 1st because it signed a compact with this country on that date in 1994
the United States of America
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
This president not only got Bork-ed but also got smoked with Douglas Ginsburg
Reagan
Adam
|
DD
$1,200
[9]
French title of Zola's 1898 letter to President Faure
J'accuse
Chelsea
|
$1,600
[4]
When used as a catalyst to spread fire, gasoline is considered this
an accelerant
Adam
|
|
$2,000
[26]
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan
Pakistan
Adam
|
$2,000
[30]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the clue from inside a giant tree in the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York.) I'm here in the tree of this character, who's a male baboon in the movie & played by a female here on Broadway
Rafiki
Chris
|
$2,000
[24]
From the Latin for "pouch", it's the scientific term for a possum's pouch
marsupium
|
$2,000
[23]
William Hornblower & Wheeler Peckham gave this president back-to-back losses in 1894
Grover Cleveland
Adam
|
$2,000
[10]
The King James Bible's shortest verse, "Jesus wept", refers to the death of this man
Lazarus
|
$2,000
[5]
Accumulated over time
accrued
Adam
|
Launched in 2004, Billboard's first Top 20 chart for these included "My Boo", the "Halloween" theme & "Ice Ice Baby"
ringtones