1991 College Championship semifinal game 1.
Andre DuVoisin — a senior from the University of New Orleans
Michael Cantor — a senior from Princeton University
Katie Czukas — a senior from the University of California at Berkeley
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katie | $2,300 | $2,100 | $3,500 |
$6,998
2nd place: $5,000 |
$3,500
18 R, 4 W |
| Michael | $600 | $1,700 | $5,700 |
$3,700
3rd place: $5,000 |
$5,700
13 R, 2 W |
| André | $1,700 | $3,900 | $13,900 |
$13,900
Finalist |
$10,300
24 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| COLLEGE FILMS | WORLD LANDMARKS | PHOBIAS | GAMES | QUOTES | & IN OTHER NEWS... |
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$100
[9]
This comedian had 3 stunt divers performing his high dives in "Back to School"
Rodney Dangerfield
Michael
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$100
[1]
Top Soviet officials enter this triangular fortress in Moscow via the Gate of the Savior
the Kremlin
André
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$100
[2]
If you have musophobia, fear of these, we advise avoiding Disneyland
mice
Michael
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$100
[17]
There really is a pasta-twirling game that comes with plastic meatballs & 4 fake strings of this pasta
spaghetti
Katie
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$100
[28]
Samuel Johnson wrote, "It matters not how a man dies, but how he" does this
lives
André
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$100
[3]
On March 7, 1991 Indiana had a statewide drill to prepare people for this type of windstorm
a tornado
Katie
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$200
[10]
The sequel to this 1984 film about geeky college freshmen was subtitled "Nerds in Paradise"
Revenge of the Nerds
André
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$200
[4]
The top of this Paris landmark houses a French weather bureau station
the Eiffel Tower
Katie
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$200
[8]
Robin hood wasn't dendrophobic, as he didn't mind living among these
the woods (the trees)
Katie
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$200
[18]
The suspects in this "Jr." version of this detective game include Peter Plum & Mortimer Mustard
Clue ( Jr. )
André
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$200
[29]
In a poem about this man, Longfellow said, "The fate of a nation was riding that night"
Paul Revere
André
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$200
[22]
The only store in NYC that catered exclusively to those with this VCR format closed in 1991
Beta
Michael
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$300
[12]
John Houseman won an Oscar as Prof. Kingsfield in this 1973 film set at Harvard Law School
The Paper Chase
Katie
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$300
[5]
The famous Rialto Bridge was the only bridge over this city's Grand Canal until modern times
Venice
Katie
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$300
[11]
If Noah suffered from antlophobia, fear of these disasters, he didn't show it
floods
Katie
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$300
[19]
A Looney Tunes set for this board game features Daffy Duck & Elmer Fudd as the 2 queens
chess
Katie
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$300
[27]
In 1852 F. Douglass said, "To the American slave" the celebration of this holiday "is a sham"
Independence Day (the 4th of July)
Katie
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$300
[23]
Signed with a "V", "Still Life with Flowers" is the 3rd unknown work of this artist found in 20 years
van Gogh
André
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$400
[13]
In "Everybody's All-American" he played a college football hero & Jessica Lange his homecoming queen
Dennis Quaid
Michael
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$400
[6]
It stretches 1500 miles from the city of Shanhaiguan to near Jiayuguan
the Great Wall of China
Katie
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$400
[15]
Iatrophobia, fear of going to these, could have you eating an apple a day
the doctor
André
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$400
[20]
In Pressman's "One Bad Apple" game, you "pick an apple from the barrel, but don't let" this animal "pop up!"
a worm
Michael
André
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$500
[30]
La Rochefoucauld said, "The mind is always the dupe of" this organ
the heart
Michael
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$400
[24]
With the success of the new Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew books, this inventor & adventurer is back in print
Tom Swift
Katie
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$500
[14]
Medical students experimented with life after death in this 1990 K. Sutherland film
Flatliners
André
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$500
[7]
This 13 1/2-ton London bell was first heard on radio on New Year's Eve, 1923
Big Ben
André
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$500
[16]
Andrew Lloyd Webber musical you'd avoid if you suffered from ailurophobia
Cats
Katie
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$500
[21]
A game by Milton Bradley in which clumsy "surgeons" set off an alarm
Operation
Michael
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DD
$1,800
[26]
Herman Melville said this facial expression "is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities"
a smile
André
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$500
[25]
A new Major League stadium for this city is being built in Babe Ruth's childhood neighborhood
Baltimore (Maryland)
Katie
Michael
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| NOVELS | AGRICULTURE | SCIENTISTS | NOVA SCOTIA | THEATRE | LEFTOVERS |
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$200
[7]
Samuel Butler's novel "The Way of All" this was published posthumously in 1903
The Way of All Flesh
Michael
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DD
$100
[27]
This country is the world's biggest importer of wheat
the Soviet Union
André
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$200
[1]
In 1784 Henry Cavendish announced that water is made up of these two element
hydrogen & oxygen
Katie
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$200
[16]
The charter King James gave sir William Alexander gave Nova Scotia its name, which is Latin for this
New Scotland
Katie
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$200
[2]
The female version of this Neil Simon play is about roommates Florence & Olive
The Odd Couple
André
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$200
[21]
In "Winnie-the-Pooh", Roo was this kind of stuffed animal
a kangaroo
Katie
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$400
[6]
"The "Genius" is this "Sister Carrie" author's most autobiographical novel
Theodore Dreiser
Michael
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$200
[26]
El! Whitney's invention helped make this the leading crop of the South
cotton
André
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$400
[8]
Francis Crick & James Watson were the first to demonstrate the double-helix structure of this
DNA
André
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$400
[17]
The 3rd largest city in Nova Scotia, or the largest city in Australia
Sydney
Katie
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$400
[12]
This author of "Speed-the-Plow" has done translations of Chekhov's plays
(David) Mamet
André
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$400
[22]
On April 4, 1865 Lincoln visited this capital, the day after its capture
Richmond
Michael
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$600
[3]
His first novel, "The Dark Arena", was published in 1955, 14 years before "The Godfather"
(Mario) Puzo
André
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$400
[28]
The British use the word "corn" for grains such as oats & barley, & this American Indian word for corn itself
maize
Katie
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$600
[9]
Calculus was developed independently by Gottfried Leibniz & this British scientist
Newton
André
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$600
[18]
On the provincial seal this one-horned mythical beast signifies Nova Scotia's ties to England
a unicorn
Michael
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$600
[13]
Ancient Greek who wrote "The Clouds", "The Wasps" & "Lysistrata"
Aristophanes
Katie
André
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$600
[23]
German for "noisy spirit", one encyclopedia says it commonly manifests near adolescent girls
a poltergeist
André
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$1,000
[5]
In an Evelyn Waugh novel, Charles Ryder is billeted at this great country home during World War II
Brideshead
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$600
[29]
This organization founded in 1928 prepares high school students for careers in agriculture
the Future Farmers of America
Katie
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$800
[10]
In 1958 this physicist discovered the radiation belts that surround the Earth
Van Allen
André
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$800
[19]
From 1710 to 1749 the capital was Annapolis Royal; now it's this city
Halifax
Michael
André
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$800
[14]
"Raisin" was the musical based on this Lorraine Hansberry play
A Raisin in the Sun
André
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$800
[24]
He was elected president in 1868 without 3 Southern states voting & with the black vote putting him over
(U.S.) Grant
André
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DD
$3,700
[4]
Sinclair Lewis novel about a bacteriologist who goes to the West Indies to fight bubonic plague
Arrowsmith
André
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$1,000
[30]
It's the science or art of cultivating fruit, vegetables & flowers
horticulture
Michael
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$1,000
[11]
Element 101 on the periodic table is named for this chemist who developed the table
Mendeleev
André
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$1,000
[20]
A statue of this fictional heroine at Grand Pre commemorates the expulsion of the Acadians
Evangeline
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$1,000
[15]
Completes the title of the Tony-winning Best Play of 1986, "I'm Not..."
Rappaport
Katie
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$1,000
[25]
On the street sign for "Sesame Street", the 3 letters in the little space on top
CTW (Children's Television Workshop)
Katie
Michael
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In 1661, 2 1/2 years after his death, his body was exhumed & hanged at Tyburn
Oliver Cromwell