Show #4875 2005-11-18 (taped 2005-10-02) College Championship

2005 College Championship final game 2.From the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Contestants

Adam Pinson — a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama (subtotal of $14,800)

Nico Martinez — a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (subtotal of $29,000)

Jayanth Iyengar — a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin (subtotal of $399)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Jayanth	$5,400	$3,800	$8,300	$16,600	$9,000 16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Nico	$1,800	$3,200	$14,600	$14,601	$14,000 21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Adam	$1,400	$3,800	$10,200	$16,700	$10,200 14 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

HELLO, ALEX	COLLEGE FOOTBALL	U.S. HISTORY: THE EARLY 1800s	KISS MY GRITS!	ANIMAL YOUTH	RHYME TIME
$200 [6] In 324 B.C. he was king of Persia & leader of Greece, as well as king of Macedonia Alexander the Great Jayanth	$200 [15] The Davey O'Brien Award goes to the top player at this position; Peyton Manning & Eric Crouch are recent winners quarterback Jayanth	$200 [1] At Madison's request, Congress declared war on the U.K. on June 18 of this year 1812 Jayanth	$200 [26] Eaten for breakfast or as a side dish, hominy grits are made from this corn Nico	$200 [23] A newborn gnu is called one of these, like an elephant or a whale a calf Nico	$200 [16] Any pigment on the wall so faded you can barely see it faint paint Nico
$400 [7] Personal difficulties led him to resign as Secretary of the Treasury in 1795 Alexander Hamilton Nico	$400 [14] In January 2005 this Heisman-winning Trojan announced he'd return for a final year Matt Leinart Jayanth Adam	$400 [2] Completed in 1825, this New York waterway cost more than $7 million to build the Erie Canal Jayanth	$400 [27] Developed in Louisiana, praline is a sweet traditionally made with brown sugar & these nuts pecans Adam	$400 [24] Term for a newborn cheetah, fox or panda a cub Nico	$400 [19] A manly tortilla chip smothered with melted cheese a macho nacho Adam
$600 [13] Helen Keller's parents chose Anne Sullivan as her teacher on the advice of this inventor Alexander Graham Bell Jayanth	$600 [10] This Provo, Utah school won 10 straight WAC football titles from 1976 to 1985 Brigham Young Nico	$600 [3] Denmark Vesey, brought to Charleston in 1783, planned one of the USA's first of these types of revolt in 1822 a slave revolt Jayanth	$600 [28] It's said that yapping dogs were fed these fried dumplings to keep quiet, hence their name hush puppies Nico	$600 [25] Young people should know this 3-letter name for a young ruminant a kid Adam	$600 [20] The way to the tub the bath path Nico
$800 [12] His "Gulag Archipelago" led to his arrest & forced deportation Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Nico	$800 [9] This Florida State coach entered 2005 with 351 victories, more than any other Division 1-A coach Bobby Bowden Jayanth	$800 [4] In the Missouri Compromise, Massachusetts gave up its northern territory to form this state Maine Jayanth	$800 [29] This green pod, often a gumbo ingredient, is also called gumbo okra Nico	$800 [17] It can mean a young equine, or be a verb meaning to give birth to one foal Jayanth Nico	$800 [21] Accept the loan of someone else's pain & sadness borrow sorrow Jayanth Nico
$1,000 [11] Georgia is represented in Washington D.C.'s Statuary Hall by this Confederate vice president Alexander Hamilton Stephens Adam	$1,000 [8] Orlando Pace is the only 2-time winner of the Best Lineman award named for this legendary Packers coach Vince Lombardi Jayanth	$1,000 [5] Controversial "bank" led by Nicholas Biddle from 1823 to 1836 the Bank of the United States Jayanth	$1,000 [30] This "colorful" Southern gravy is made from ham drippings, hot coffee & water red-eye gravy	$1,000 [18] In "Songs of Innocence", William Blake asked it, "Who made thee?" the lamb Adam	DD $1,600 [22] Mitral valve or ventricle a heart part Jayanth

Double Jeopardy! Round

LESSER-KNOWN EXPLORERS	I NEED MORE COWBELL	MATH	GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE	FICTIONAL WOMEN	FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
$400 [1] Robert Ballard discovered a new class of life forms on the sea floor & saw this "unsinkable" ship, too the Titanic Adam	$400 [26] This group uses "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" & cowbell when"Breaking The Girl""Twisting and turning you're feeling the burning you're breaking the girl..." the Red Hot Chili Peppers Nico	$400 [13] (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to some expressions on a monitor.) In a complex number of the form shown here, "i" is short for this type of unreal number, like the square root of negative one imaginary Adam	$400 [11] It was followed by the Iron Age the Bronze (Age) Nico	$400 [21] We meet her tantalizing the Tarleton Twins at Tara Scarlett O'Hara Adam	$400 [6] Numerically, it's the next word in the sequence ein, zwei... drei Jayanth
$800 [2] After the Santa Maria was shipwrecked, Columbus joined Pinzon on this ship; Pinzon later explored Brazil the Nina Nico	$800 [27] "That Don't Impress Me Much" that this country diva uses cowbell Shania Twain Jayanth	$800 [14] The sum of a number & its additive inverse equals this zero Nico	$800 [12] Thin-sheeted gilded lettering gold leaf (or gold foil) Nico	$800 [22] Minnie Mouse is Mickey's girl & this is Hiawatha's Minnehaha Nico	$800 [7] In Maori 101, you might learn this word for the type of carved images seen here tikis
$1,200 [3] Jean Nicolet expected to see Asians & wore Chinese robes after crossing this lake into Wisconsin Lake Michigan Jayanth	$1,200 [28] I say a little less conversation, a little more cowbell by this remixed singer"A little less conversation, a little more action, please..." Elvis Presley Adam	$1,200 [15] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a triangle on a monitor.) With respect to angle ABC, the sides of the right triangle are commonly called hypotenuse, opposite &this adjacent Nico	$1,200 [18] The two biggest crowds at this Detroit-area stadium were for the Pope & Wrestlemania III the Silverdome Nico	$1,200 [23] He thought his 1838 tale of Ligeia, a dead beauty who haunts her husband, was his best story Edgar Allan Poe Nico	$1,200 [8] Japanese for "teacher" or "master", this one will teach you karate, not social studies sensei Nico
$2,000 [5] Philip Amadas & Arthur Barlowe explored this island off North Carolina before its colony got lost Roanoke Nico	$1,600 [29] The cowbell on "Little Sister" is one of the "Lullabies to Paralyze" by this paleolithic group Queens of the Stone Age Adam	$2,000 [17] (Jon of the Clue Crew shows you that all your base belong to him on the monitor.) 3 squared equals 9, so we pull the old switcheroo, & this of 9 to base 3 equals 2 a logarithm Adam	$1,600 [19] Your 25th annual remembrance of your wedding the silver anniversary Adam	$1,600 [24] This author created Gilberte Swann, who entrances the young Marcel Marcel Proust	$1,600 [9] French for "little vine", it's a short literary sketch or a short scene a vignette Jayanth
DD $2,500 [4] Hernando de Alarcon sailed up this river a few months before Cardenas made his "Grand" discovery the Colorado River Jayanth	$2,000 [30] Don't fear this band who turned cowbell from a cult into a religion"Seasons don't fear the reaper /Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain /(We can be like they are)..." Blue Öyster Cult Adam	DD $2,200 [16] The per in miles per hour signifies this math process division Nico	$2,000 [20] A lazy loafer, or someone who makes bullion a gold bricker Adam	$2,000 [25] Winston Smith has a doomed romance with this young woman in "1984" Julia Adam	$2,000 [10] In music this Italian term tells you to pluck the strings instead of bowing pizzicato Jayanth

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CAPITALS

Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning "talker"

Lima, Peru

Jayanth "What is Lima?" — wagered $8,300

Adam "What is Lima" — wagered $6,500

Nico "What is Lima?" — wagered $1

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