1995 College Championship quarterfinal game 2.
Scott Hackler — a sophomore from Louisiana State University
Cynthia Greenlee — a junior from the University of North Carolina
Josh Elman — a sophomore from Stanford University
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh | $-300 | $-700 | $1,500 |
$3,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$2,000
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Cynthia | $600 | $1,700 | $11,500 |
$11,500
Automatic semifinalist |
$12,500
27 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Scott | $2,100 | $3,000 | $5,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$5,000
17 R, 2 W |
| NICKNAMES | GHOSTS | 1995 GRAMMYS | STATE CAPITALS | FOOD | ANAGRAMS |
|
$100
[7]
This explorer who set sail in 1492 was nicknamed "Iberia's Pilot"
Columbus
Scott
|
$100
[25]
He subtitled an 1843 tale "A Ghost Story of Christmas"
Dickens
Scott
|
$100
[6]
Before she won Best New Artist & 2 others, she may have said, "All I wanna do" is win some Grammys
Sheryl Crow
Cynthia
|
$100
[1]
Every summer the California state fair is held in this city
Sacramento
Josh
|
$100
[17]
While venison can refer the meat of a moose or elk, it usually applies to this animal
deer
Josh
|
$100
[12]
Yes, it is the Spanish word for yes
si (from is)
Scott
|
|
$200
[8]
While British prime minister, she earned the nickname "TINA", which stood for "There is no alternative"
Margaret Thatcher
Cynthia
|
$200
[26]
In 1706 this "Robinson Crusoe" author wrote "The True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal"
(Daniel) Defoe
Scott
|
$200
[20]
Album of the Year went to this 68-year-old's "MTV Unplugged"
Tony Bennett
Josh
|
$200
[2]
This home of the Naval Academy was chartered by Queen Anne in 1708
Annapolis
Cynthia
|
$200
[18]
Small ones of these breakfast treats are popularly referred to as silver dollars
pancakes
Cynthia
|
$200
[13]
The Bible's King Og might give this order to depart
go (from Og)
Cynthia
|
|
$300
[9]
Born in 1809, he evolved into "The Great Naturalist"
Darwin
Scott
|
$300
[27]
It's said the ghost of this third VP returns to the sea wall of NYC's Battery looking for his daughter
Aaron Burr
Scott
|
$400
[22]
A song from this film won 4 awards, including Song of the Year & Rock Song
Philadelphia
Josh
Cynthia
|
$300
[3]
This state capital is home to the William Penn Memorial Museum
Harrisburg
Scott
|
$300
[19]
Not only are these Hawaiian nuts expensive, they also contain more fat than most
macadamia nuts
Josh
|
$300
[14]
Fe fi fo fum, I smell this preposition
of (from fo)
Scott
|
|
$400
[10]
This author of "The Song of Hiawatha" was known as "The Poet of the Commonplace"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cynthia
|
$400
[28]
The ghost of this Gulf of Mexico pirate has been seen guarding his treasure near La Porte, Texas
(Jean) Lafitte
Scott
|
DD
$500
[21]
The Best Rock Duo or Group award went to this group heard here: "...crazy, crazy baby, I go crazy / You turn it on, then you're gone..."
Aerosmith
Josh
|
$400
[4]
Covering about 430 acres, Roger Williams Park is this city's largest
Providence
Cynthia
|
$400
[23]
Its the French name for an oblong pastry filled with custard or cream & iced with chocolate
an eclair
Josh
|
$400
[15]
Weird Al Yankovic would soon hit this singing the diatonic scale
la (from Al)
Josh
Cynthia
|
|
$500
[11]
This Revolutionary War general earned his famous nickname after a mad attack at Stony Point, N.Y.
"Mad" Anthony Wayne
Scott
|
$500
[29]
One legend says this ghost ship sails around the Cape of Good Hope; another puts it in the North Sea
the Flying Dutchman
Scott
|
$500
[30]
They "spiced up" the awards with their performance & won for "None Of Your Business"
Salt-N-Pepa
Cynthia
|
$500
[5]
In 1821 this city between St. Louis & Kansas City was chosen as a state capital
Jefferson City (Missouri)
Scott
|
$500
[24]
While it looks like a cross between celery & chard, bok choy is a variety of this vegetable
cabbage
Josh
|
$500
[16]
Drama found on stages in Japan
no (from on)
Cynthia
|
| U.S. HISTORY | ARCHAEOLOGY | LITERARY TERMS | LANGUAGES | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | THEATRE |
|
$200
[26]
In 1787 Gouverneur Morris wrote the final draft of its preamble
the Constitution
Scott
|
$200
[16]
T'ao t'ieh are monster masks found on bronze objects of this country's Shang & Chou dynasties
China
Cynthia
|
$200
[21]
The rhyme royal is a 7-line stanza introduced by this author of "The Canterbury Tales"
Chaucer
Cynthia
|
$200
[4]
The dialect of Zanzibar was eventually recognized as the standard form of this language
Swahili
Josh
|
$200
[1]
Founded in 1583, the University of this Scottish capital is renowned for its school of medicine
Edinburgh
Cynthia
|
$200
[10]
This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical is set in Siam in the early 1860s
The King and I
Scott
|
|
$400
[27]
War during which the quote "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" was said
the War of 1812
Cynthia
|
$400
[17]
U.S. chemist Willard F. Libby developed this method of dating in the 1940s
carbon-14
Cynthia
|
$400
[22]
This term for the resolution of a work is from the French denouer, meaning "to untie"
a denouement
Cynthia
|
$400
[6]
The word vodka is borrowed from this language
Russian
Cynthia
|
$400
[2]
Combining features of U.S. & European universities, Johns Hopkins opened in this centennial year
1876
Scott
|
$400
[11]
Maggie the Cat is the catty heroine of this Tennessee Williams play
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cynthia
|
|
$600
[28]
In 1923 his father swore him in as president at their Plymouth, Vermont house
Coolidge
Josh
|
$600
[18]
In 1912 a German expedition found the now-famous painted bust of this queen at Tell el-Amarna
Nefertiti
Scott
|
$600
[23]
It's defined as a short composition on a particular topic; Pope wrote one "on Criticism"
an essay
Josh
|
$600
[7]
This native language of New Zealand belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian family of languages
Maori
Cynthia
|
$600
[3]
This N.Y. liberal arts college is named for the wife of its founder, William Van Duzer Lawrence
Sarah Lawrence
Cynthia
|
$600
[12]
The title of Tina Howe's play "Painting" these refers to people, not to houses of worship
Churches
Scott
|
|
$800
[29]
Thanks to 450,000 votes from southern blacks, he won the 1868 popular vote by 300,000
Grant
Josh
|
$800
[19]
Archaeologists no longer believe the long-held theory that these ancient priests built Stonehenge
the Druids
Cynthia
|
$800
[24]
"Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" by this "Faust" author is a bildungsroman, or novel of education
Goethe
Cynthia
|
$800
[8]
The classical form of this language had 23 letters, lacking J, U & W
Latin
Cynthia
|
$800
[5]
The Dearborn Observatory in Evanston Illinois is associated with this university
Northwestern
Cynthia
|
$800
[13]
He wrote in "Tartuffe", "Those whose conduct gives room for talk are...first to attack their neighbors"
Moliere
Cynthia
|
|
$1,000
[30]
In the 1880s Neb. settlers were known as these from the material they used to construct their houses
sodbusters
Scott
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
In 1865 Sir John Lubbock coined this term to denote the "New Stone" Age
the Neolithic Age
Cynthia
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
Juvenalian & Horatian are the 2 main types of this literary form that uses irony & sarcasm
satire
Cynthia
|
$1,000
[9]
Telugu & Malayalam are Dravidian languages spoken in the southern part of this Asian country
India
Cynthia
|
$1,000
[15]
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics is part of this oldest U.S. Catholic university
Georgetown
Scott
|
$1,000
[14]
In 16th c. Italy the commedia erudita followed scripts & this popular dramatic form was improvised
commedia dell'arte
Cynthia
|
Highest atomic numbered element whose symbol is a single letter
uranium