Show #1555 1991-05-10 (taped 1991-04-06) College Championship

1991 College Championship quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Scott Gillispie — a senior from Georgia Tech

Mike Furlanetto — a sophomore from Williams College

Katie Czukas — a senior from the University of California at Berkeley

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Katie	$1,300	$1,300	$6,500	$12,900 2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$5,300 14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Mike	$400	$2,200	$3,200	$6,400 3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated	$3,200 10 R, 0 W
Scott	$3,000	$4,700	$13,600	$14,100 Automatic semifinalist	$12,600 30 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MAY	WORLD FACTS	THE ARABIAN KNIGHTS	INSECTS	TOP LADIES OF POP	IN OTHER WORDS...
$100 [16] This pair set out west from St. Louis May 14, 1804 Lewis & Clark Mike	$100 [1] Liberia's flag has 11 stripes but just one of these a star Scott	$100 [7] On his first voyage he visited an island which turned out to be a huge sleeping whale Sinbad Scott	$100 [23] These insects are able to digest cellulose because of protozoa in their intestines termites Mike	$100 [2] From 1963-67 this group consisted of Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson & Diana Ross The Supremes Katie	$100 [17] Display one's blood-pumping organ over the outside of one's arm covering wear your heart on your sleeve Katie
$200 [21] Many thought its appearance in May 1910 signaled the end of the world; in 1986 few worried Halley's comet Mike	$200 [3] NATO headquarters is in this Belgian capital Brussels Scott	$200 [12] He said, "I am ready to obey thee as...the slave of all those who have the lamp in their hands" the genie of Aladdin's lamp Scott	$200 [24] Glowworms are the luminescent larvae or the flightless females of some species of these beetles fireflies	$300 [9] She won 1991 Grammys for Best New Artist & Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Female for "Vision Of Love" Mariah Carey Katie Scott	$200 [18] Never postpone a project 24 hours when it may be executed now Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today Katie
$300 [27] She was burned at the stake on May 30, 1431 Joan of Arc Mike	$300 [4] Not part of the UK but a dependency of the British crown, it's home to Manx cats the Isle of Man Scott	$300 [13] This man's son married the female slave who killed the 40 thieves Ali Baba Scott	$300 [25] In a 1910 experiment, one of these insects, Pulex irritans, jumped 130 times its own length a (human) flea Katie Mike	$400 [10] Brooklyn-born singer who studied opera before scoring with "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" Pat Benatar Scott	$300 [19] A lack of anything which can be put in an epistle to my parents nothing to write home about Mike
$400 [29] Be careful how you couch your question when you tell us this psychoanalyst was born May 6, 1856 Sigmund Freud Scott	$400 [5] This town in Cornwall used to be raided by pirates; Gilbert & Sullivan set an operetta there Penzance Mike	$400 [14] It was only about 6 feet square but its asking price was 40 purses of gold a flying carpet Katie	$400 [26] Karl von Frisch won a 1973 Nobel Prize for deciphering the dancing "language" of these insects bees Scott	$500 [11] The female half of Eurythmics Annie Lennox Scott	$400 [20] Tumbling down walkways between seating sections rolling in the aisles Scott
$500 [30] On May 5, 1936 this capital fell to the Italians; on May 5, 1941 Haile Selassie retuned there Addis Ababa (in Ethiopia) Mike	$500 [6] It's the religion of most of the people in Mauritania Islam Katie	$500 [15] She was the elder daughter of the Grand Vizier who was in charge of executing the Sultan's wives Scheherazade Scott	$500 [28] The leaf-cutter species of these insects use leaves & flower petals to fertilize their fungus gardens ants Scott	DD $700 [8] 1 of the most successful pop stars of the '80s, she had her first No. 1 hit with the following:"Then you say, go slow /I fall behind /The second hand unwinds..." Cyndi Lauper Scott	$500 [22] One brief talk with a smart person will be adequate A word to the wise is enough

Double Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES	MATHEMATICS	SUPERSTITIONS	THE SOVIET UNION	OLD MONEY	MEN OF LETTERS
$200 [10] She attended Georgia Southwestern College, where she served as Sophomore class vice president Rosalynn Carter Scott	$200 [1] It's no hype that in geometry "hyp." is short for this the hypotenuse Scott	$200 [26] To prevent ill fortune after a boastful statement, you're supposed to "knock on" this wood Katie	$200 [21] He led the Bolshevik wing of the Social Democratic Workers' Party that took power in 1917 Lenin Katie	$200 [13] This current U.S. currency traces its name back to the joachimsthaler of Bohemia the dollar Scott	$200 [2] In 1985 a plaque was unveiled at Westminster Abbey honoring this "Lady Chatterley's Lover" author (D.H.) Lawrence Scott
$400 [11] She says actor William Holden kissed her after her wedding but can't recall if her husband did Nancy Reagan Scott	$400 [5] Deca- is a prefix meaning ten times & this is the prefix meaning one-tenth deci- Mike	$400 [27] It's said to be a sign of future greatness if a baby is born with these in its mouth teeth Katie	$400 [22] In a Feb. 19, 1991 speech, this president of the Russian republic called for Gorbachev's resignation Yeltsin Scott	$400 [14] The English coin called the guinea got that name as this material used to make it came from Guinea gold Katie	$400 [3] He used his science training to write novels like "The Time Machine" & "The War of the Worlds" H.G. Wells Scott
$600 [12] We're not being wry when we tell you this first lady was born in Rye, New York in 1925 Barbara Bush Katie Scott	$600 [7] A league is 3 miles; if you go ½ a league, ½ a league, ½ a league on, you've gone this many miles 4 and a half Scott	$600 [28] To dream of climbing up one of these means you'll rise in life, but if you walk under one, look out! a ladder Scott	$600 [23] Its fertile farmland has made this republic the "Breadbasket of the Soviet Union" the Ukraine Scott	$600 [19] A coin of the Venetian Republic, it's now a small shiny disk sewn on cocktail dresses a sequin Mike	$600 [4] His son wrote "The Enchanted Places", a memoir of the real Christopher Robin & Winnie-the-Pooh the son of A.A. Milne Katie
$1,000 [18] She covered the coronation of Elizabeth !! for the Washington Times-Herald Jacqueline Bouvier	$800 [15] In an equilateral triangle each angle is this many degrees 60 Katie	$800 [29] Supposedly if you bite your tongue while eating, it's because you've done this lied Scott	$800 [20] The caviar industry is centered in Astrakhan, where this river flows into the Caspian Sea the Volga Scott	$800 [24] The name of this coin, 1st issued by the Duke of Apulia, is slang for an admission ticket a ducat Scott	$800 [8] In 1978 this author of "Charlotte's Web" was given a special Pulitzer Prize (E.B.) White Scott
DD $2,000 [17] She wrote a syndicated newspaper column, "My Day", from 1936-62 Eleanor Roosevelt Katie	$1,000 [16] In the 3-D Cartesian coordinate system, the designation of the axis that defines height z Katie	$1,000 [30] Many actors consider it bad luck to quote lines from this Shakespeare play Macbeth Scott	$1,000 [6] This official news agency of the Soviet Union was formed in 1925 TASS Katie	$1,000 [25] This old Spanish coin is twice as nice as the rest, as its name means twofold Spanish doubloon	DD $1,500 [9] In 1917 he published his first volume of poetry, "Prufrock and Other Observations" T.S. Eliot Scott

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Other than North America, it's the closest continent to South America

Antarctica

Mike "What is Antarctica?" — wagered $3,200

Katie "What is Antarctica?" — wagered $6,400

Scott "What is Antarctica" — wagered $500

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