2005 College Championship semifinal game 1.From the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Antonia Wang — a sophomore at Purdue University from Carmel, Indiana
Jayanth Iyengar — a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin
Amanda Walker — a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda | $2,800 | $4,000 | $15,200 |
$30,399
2nd place: $10,000 |
$14,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Jayanth | $2,200 | $6,800 | $20,600 |
$30,401
Finalist |
$19,600
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Antonia | $2,800 | $4,600 | $4,200 |
$1
3rd place: $10,000 |
$4,200
13 R, 2 W |
| IN THE NEWS 2005 | SCARY MOVIES | PRESS ON NAILS | THAT'S MY ROYAL NICKNAME | COLLEGE COURSES | GO "STATE"! |
|
$200
[1]
This country's new president Ahmadinejad may have minored in embassy hostage taking in the 1970s
Iran
Antonia
|
$200
[16]
This 1999 movie says it's the footage shot by 3 film students who disappeared in the Maryland woods
The Blair Witch Project
Amanda
|
$200
[26]
Judith Miller got nailed in the Plamegate scandal while reporting for this newspaper
The New York Times
Jayanth
|
$200
[6]
Bloody Romanian prince known as "the Impaler"
Vlad
Amanda
|
$200
[7]
At Texas A&M civil engineering majors can take a course called advanced design in this "reinforced" paving material
concrete
Jayanth
|
$200
[21]
Philander C. Knox, Daniel Webster & John Foster Dulles have all held this federal post
Secretary of State
Amanda
|
|
$400
[2]
12 years after approving NAFTA, Congress barely passed this trade deal opening southern markets
CAFTA
Jayanth
|
$400
[17]
When Kate Hudson unlocks a hidden attic room that has a terrifying secret, she uses the title object of this 2005 film
The Skeleton Key
|
$400
[27]
This CBS anchor got hammered in 2004 reporting on President Bush's military service
Dan Rather
Antonia
|
$400
[9]
He was "the Confessor" king of England in the 11th century
Edward
Jayanth
|
$400
[8]
The University of Nebraska at Omaha offers an English course devoted to this "Canterbury Tales" author
Chaucer
Antonia
|
$400
[22]
President Clinton recognized Hank Aaron's achievements in this January 27, 2000 speech
the State of the Union address
Jayanth
|
|
$600
[3]
On Sept. 28, 2005 he stepped down as House Majority Leader (at least temporarily) upon being indicted
Tom DeLay
Antonia
|
$600
[18]
It's terror at 30,000 feet for Rachel McAdams in this 2005 film that's like "Phone Booth" on a plane
Red Eye
Antonia
|
$600
[28]
In 2003 this Caribbean island nation put 27 reporters in the slammer for furthering U.S. interests
Cuba
Jayanth
|
$800
[11]
Basil "the Bulgar-Slayer" was emperor of this, also called the Eastern Roman Empire
the Byzantine Empire
Amanda
|
$600
[12]
At N.Y.'s Vassar global feminism & postmodern feminism are 2 of the courses offered in this program
women's studies
Antonia
|
$600
[23]
From the Latin for "laid waste", it means to destroy
devastate
Jayanth
|
|
$800
[4]
Napster's gone legit, but the Supreme Court ruled against this file-sharing company in MGM Studios v. it
Grokster
Jayanth
|
$800
[19]
Elisha Cuthbert & Paris Hilton are amazed by the life-like sculptures at this title museum
the House of Wax
Antonia
|
$800
[29]
This editor had "Common Sense" but he was arrested while in France for opposing Louis XVI's execution
Thomas Paine
Jayanth
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
Ottoman emperor styled "the Magnificent"
Suleiman
Jayanth
|
$800
[14]
Here at N.C. State you can find a course on "The Life and Letters of" this apostle from Tarsus
Paul
Amanda
|
$800
[24]
Numerical term used to describe the press
the Fourth Estate
Amanda
|
|
$1,000
[5]
(Hi, I'm Nancy Grace with CNN Headline News.) On a busy March 16, 2005, I reported on Scott Peterson's death sentence & this actor's murder acquittal
Robert Blake
Antonia
|
$1,000
[20]
A cross of horror & western, "The Devil's Rejects" was written & directed by this shock rocker
Rob Zombie
|
$1,000
[30]
Ca.'s Liberty Hill was so named because in 1923 this muckraker & "Jungle" author was arrested at a union rally there
Upton Sinclair
Jayanth
|
$1,000
[13]
Holy Roman emperor Charles II was known by this nickname; today we might call him "the Follicularly Challenged"
"the Bald"
Jayanth
|
$1,000
[15]
Biology majors at Humboldt might take mammalogy, herpetology or this, the study of fish
ichthyology
Amanda
|
$1,000
[25]
This term means not having made a will
intestate
Jayanth
|
| POETS & POETRY | MC TREBEK IN DA HIZZ-OUSE | WHICH TIME ZONE? | A DANGEROUS CATEGORY | A CLOSE LOOK AT ART | "UMP" IT UP |
|
$400
[16]
2005 marks 150 years since this poet first mowed his "Leaves of Grass"
Walt Whitman
Amanda
|
$400
[1]
"You better lose yourself in the music, the moment, you own it you better never let it go"
Eminem
Amanda
|
$400
[9]
Wichita, Kansas
Central
Antonia
|
$400
[21]
Riding these, Cody Hancock's specialty, is considered by many to be the most dangerous rodeo event
a bull
Amanda
Antonia
|
$400
[22]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew points to paints & pigments.) "The clash of colors, like the different greens, express the terrible passions of humanity", wrote this artist
Van Gogh
Antonia
|
$400
[6]
A bean, jack or mouse
jumping
Amanda
|
|
$800
[17]
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" asks, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat" this fruit
a peach
|
$800
[2]
"It's gettin' hot in here (so hot), so take off all your clothes"
Nelly
Amanda
|
$800
[10]
Toronto, Ontario
Eastern
Amanda
|
$800
[27]
More shark attacks occur in the waters off this country than any other
the United States
Jayanth
|
$800
[23]
In his "Night Watch", hierarchy is shown by the shadow of the militia captain's hand on an underling's coat
Rembrandt
Jayanth
|
$800
[7]
A dark rye bread that originated in Germany
pumpernickel
Amanda
|
|
$1,600
[19]
In a Keats ode, these 5 words immediately precede "that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know"
beauty is truth; truth beauty
Jayanth
|
$1,200
[3]
"Sippin' on gin & juice, laid back, with my mind on my money and my money on my mind"
Snoop Dogg
Amanda
|
$1,200
[11]
El Paso, Texas
Mountain
Amanda
|
$1,600
[29]
In the first Time magazine in 1923, these below-ground workers protested dangerous work conditions
coal miners
Jayanth
|
$1,200
[24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew poses with a Pontormo painting.) As painters often do, Pontormo insertedone of these into his work called "Deposition"
a self-portait
Antonia
|
$1,200
[8]
A single amount of money that serves as a complete payment
a lump (sum)
Antonia
|
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
In 1993 she became the second poet to recite an original work at a presidential inauguration
Maya Angelou
Amanda
|
$1,600
[4]
"Your mom busted in and said 'What's that noise?', aw Mom, you're just jealous, it's" them
The Beastie Boys
|
$1,600
[12]
Las Vegas, Nevada
Pacific
Jayanth
|
DD
$1,800
[28]
According to Homer, these deadly mythological singers enticed many a sailor to his doom
the sirens
Jayanth
|
$1,600
[25]
The message of healing in Friedrich's "Winter Landscape" includes a discarded pair of these supports
crutches
Amanda
|
$1,600
[14]
Asian national capital city with a 2-word name
Kuala Lumpur
Jayanth
|
|
$2,000
[20]
This poem by Matthew Arnold mentions the French coast & the cliffs of England
Dover Beach
Antonia
|
$2,000
[5]
"I been here for years, rockin' my peers & puttin' suckas in fear... Mama said knock you out"
LL Cool J
|
$2,000
[13]
Pensacola, Florida
Central
Jayanth
|
$2,000
[30]
Due to storms, the southernmost cape of South America is one of the world's most dangerous places
Cape Horn
Jayanth
Antonia
|
$2,000
[26]
(Jon of the Clue Crew poses with a seascape.) W.H. Auden wrote, "Everything turns away quite leisurely from a disaster" in Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of"this mythical flier
Icarus
Amanda
|
$2,000
[15]
Term for Republicans who abandoned their own party in 1884 to support Grover Cleveland
the Mugwumps
|
A Phillips 66 in Cloquet, Minnesota is the only functioning gas station designed by this man
Frank Lloyd Wright