Show #4874 2005-11-17 (taped 2005-10-02) College Championship

2005 College Championship final game 1.From the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Contestants

Adam Pinson — a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama

Nico Martinez — a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Jayanth Iyengar — a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jayanth $1,000 $200 $200 $399 $-400
8 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Nico $4,000 $10,800 $26,000 $29,000 $25,600
31 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Adam $2,000 $3,000 $10,800 $14,800 $13,800
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE IVORY TOWER STUDENT LOANS MONEY FROM HOME STAYING UP LATE PARTYING IN COLLEGE
$200 [8]
The White Tower in Thessaloniki in this country has evolved from place of execution to museum
Greece
Jayanth
$200 [1]
I made the very long trip to the library to borrow this epic, Homer's sequel to the "Iliad"
The Odyssey
Adam
$200 [15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from St. Petersburg, Russia.) Shopping in a Russian marketplace, you can buy a traditional nesting doll for 3,000 of these
ruble
Adam
$200 [26]
This veteran of ABC News is the anchor & managing editor of "Nightline"
Ted Koppel
Nico
$200 [13]
As presidents, Truman & Wilson were members of this political party
Democratic Party
Jayanth
$200 [6]
One of the 3 main divisions of the mind in Freudian psychology
ego
Nico
$400 [9]
The White Pagoda in Lanzhou, China was originally built in memory of a monk of this religion
Buddhism
Nico
$400 [2]
This Dostoyevsky novel about Alyosha, Dmitri & Ivan clocks in at about 900 pages, so I had to renew my copy
The Brothers Karamazov
Nico
$400 [16]
If your grandma in Argentina wanted to send you money, she'd convert these into dollars
pesos
Jayanth
$400 [27]
This late-night host seenherewas born in Brooklyn & raised in Las Vegas
Jimmy Kimmel
Nico
$600 [20]
Ralph Nader was this political party's candidate for President in 1996 & 2000
the Green Party
Nico
$400 [7]
A heavy wooden shoe, or an obstruction in the pipes of the sink
clog
Jayanth
$600 [11]
Chew on this name of the building seen here, a landmark on Chicago's skyline
the Wrigley Building
Nico
$600 [3]
I checked out his "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn", but they weren't the travel books I thought they'd be
Henry Miller
Nico
$600 [17]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a park bench.) Take the first three letters of the country's name to identify this currency used in Riga
lat
Jayanth Nico Adam
$600 [28]
This "Tonight Show" segment features Leno asking simple questions of people out on the street
Jaywalking
Adam
$800 [21]
Pres. John Adams was a member of this former political party that advocated a strong centralized govt.
the Federalist
Adam
$600 [23]
At Yale University, the Whiffenpoofs are this type of "club"
glee
Jayanth Nico
$800 [12]
A centuries-old fortress in Monmouthshire, Wales, or a decades-old burger chain based in Ohio
White Castle
Jayanth Adam
$800 [4]
I borrowed a volume of his works that includes "Elmer Gantry" & "Dodsworth"
Sinclair Lewis
Nico
$800 [18]
In South Africa 100 cents equals R1, R standing for this
rand
Nico
$800 [29]
He's been David Letterman's musical director & late-night sidekick for more than 20 years
Paul Shaffer
Nico
DD $1,000 [14]
Between 1841 & 1853, 4 U.S. presidents were from this political party that no longer exists
the Whig Party
Jayanth
$800 [24]
To do this is to stare at someone desirously
ogle
Nico
$1,000 [10]
In 1078 this king built the Tower of London's White Tower out of stone from his home region of Normandy
William the Conqueror
Nico
$1,000 [5]
The library copy of his "Finnegans Wake" seems to be missing some text; the last sentence ends, "a long the"
(James) Joyce
Adam
$1,000 [19]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Gdansk, Poland.) King Vladislav, who joined Poland to Lithuania & ruled for almost 50 years, is on the note worth 100 of these
złoty
Nico
$1,000 [30]
This Scottish comic took over as host of "The Late Late Show" in 2005
Craig Ferguson
$1,000 [22]
For the 1864 Presidental election, the Republican Party changed its name to this
the Union Party
Nico
$1,000 [25]
In a theater or arena, it's the area at the front of a balcony or upper level
loge

Double Jeopardy! Round

PIERCED NAVAL HISTORY ATHLETES EFFECTS LOST IN AUSTRIA SHE INVENTED WHAT? MISSING VOWELS
$400 [4]
It survived the Merrimack in March 1862 only to sink in a gale in December
the Monitor
Jayanth
$400 [21]
He bid adieu to fans in July 2005 saying "Vive le Tour, forever"
Lance Armstrong
Jayanth
$400 [15]
Photography's Sabatier effect can involve prematurely peeling apart a picture from this company's camera
Polaroid
Jayanth Nico
$400 [1]
As in a neighbor nation, Austria's head of govt., Wolfgang Scheussel, holds this official position & title
chancellor
Jayanth Nico Adam
$400 [16]
Helen Free helped invent the strips that those with this disease first used to check glucose levels
diabetes
Nico
$400 [26]
A Zodiac sign:R S
Aries
Nico
$800 [11]
Even though the mortally wounded James Lawrence on the Chesapeake cried, "Don't" do this, his crew finally had to
give up the ship
Adam
$800 [6]
Red Sox fans will never forget his bloody sock in a 2004 postseason game
Curt Schilling
Nico
$800 [22]
A series of events resulting from one act or event is called this effect, after a type of watery undulation
a ripple effect
Nico
$800 [7]
These are what power the Fiakers, the traditional cabs in Salzburg's Residenzplatz
horses
Nico
$800 [20]
Gertrude Elion created drugs that aided kidney transplants & a drug that fights this cancer of the blood & marrow
leukemia
Nico
$800 [27]
A prop for an artist:S L
easel
Adam
$1,200 [12]
On Aug. 2, 1917, E.H. Dunning became the first man to do this on a moving ship, HMS Furious
land an airplane
Jayanth Adam
$1,200 [5]
This Belgian won the 2005 U.S. Open women's singles title
Kim Clijsters
Nico
$1,200 [23]
In the Barkhausen effect, a metal gains this property in minute steps rather than continuously
magnetization
$1,200 [8]
King George's War in North America was known in Europe as the war of the Austrian this
Succession
Nico
$1,200 [19]
Rachel Brown & Elizabeth Hazen invented nystatin, an antibiotic used on people & on this "Dutch" tree disease
Dutch elm disease
Adam
$1,200 [28]
A flowering shrub:Z L
azalea
Jayanth
$1,600 [13]
Just 1 torpedo from the German sub U-20 sank this liner May 7, 1915
the Lusitania
Nico
$1,600 [3]
Born in Stockholm, she completed the LPGA career grand slam in 2003
(Annika) Sorenstam
Adam
$1,600 [24]
If your painful symptoms lessen even though the doc gave you a sugar pill, you're experiencing this effect
the placebo effect
Adam
$1,600 [9]
In 1901 when this Austrian physicist left teaching, 3 schools could have speedily retired his "number"
Ernst Mach
$1,600 [18]
Police officers salute Stephanie Kwolek for inventing this vest material that's 5 times stronger than steel
Kevlar
Nico
$1,600 [29]
A receptacle with a touch of glass:Q R M
aquarium
$2,000 [14]
In October 1944, this admiral nicknamed "Bull" sank 4 Japanese carriers off Luzon's Cape Engano
Halsey
Adam
$2,000 [2]
Seen here, she rode into history in 2005
Danica Patrick
Nico
DD $3,000 [25]
This 19th century Frenchman gave his name to an effect by which oxygen inhibits fermentation
Pasteur
Adam
DD $2,400 [10]
Austria-Hungary declared war on this country on July 28, 1914
Serbia
Nico
$2,000 [17]
Kate Holloway & Chen Zhao developed one of the most powerful types of anti-HIV drugs, this "inhibitor"
protease
Adam
$2,000 [30]
A small stringed instrument:K L L
ukulele
Nico

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH POETS

In 1812 he became a disciple & friend of social philosopher William Godwin, later his father-in-law

Percy Shelley

Jayanth "Who is Percy Shelley?" — wagered $199
Adam "Who is Percy Shellyeey" — wagered $4,000
Nico "Who is Percy Shelley" — wagered $3,000

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