Show #6018 - Wednesday, November 10, 2010

2010-B College Championship quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas

Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois

Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT
KITES
FAR OUT FACTS
LADY ANTEBELLUM
HOMOPHONES
    $200 1
This brother of Prometheus had the whole world on his shoulders
    $200 2
Will Smith married this actress in 1997
    $200 28
The earliest kites date back around 3,000 years, when the Chinese made them from silk & this tall grass
    $200 14
Barrow is the northernmost city in this state & thus the United States
    $200 21
Ladies wore this headgear that ties under the chin, like the tunnel vision-inducing "coal scuttle" type
    $200 11
This 4-syllable word can refer to a stage of youth or the youths themselves
    $400 7
Sound the alarm! It's the term for a nymph who lures sailors & ships onto the rocks
    $400 3
This CW series explores the world of collegiate cheerleading
    $400 29
Isaac Asimov's book "The Kite that Won the Revolution" told the story of this man & his kite experiments
    $400 15
A 2007 brawl forced some to be airlifted from the Amundsen-Scott Station on this continent
    $400 22
In 1848 Ellen Craft, a slave from Macon in this state, escaped north disguised as a top-hatted white man
    $400 12
A hiding place, or the moolah you might put there
    $600 8
The cyclopes gave headwear to Hades that rendered him not invincible, but this
    $600 4
The duo Gnarls Barkley is Danger Mouse & this singer
    $600 30
Cpl. William Eddy took the first aerial wartime surveillance photos from a kite during this 1898 conflict
    $600 16
Pico Bolivar is the highest mountain in the Venezuelan part of this chain & is covered in part by a glacier
    $600 23
Women knew how to salt; this animal was the main source of meat, with slaves getting about 3 pounds a week
    $600 13
This word can refer to a boat's large hooked pole or a social blunder
    $800 9
She pined away over Narcissus until only her voice was left
    $800 5
In 2010 this British star of "Get Him to the Greek" was cast in the title role in a remake of "Arthur"
    DD: $600 26
Samuel Cody crossed this waterway in 1903 in a dinghy pulled by kites, reaching Britain after a 13-hour trip
    $800 17
The limit of a cannonball's flight from shore once marked the beginning of this area that limited sovereignty
    $800 24
Edgeworth & Johnson were 2 schools called "female" these, more associated with training priests
    $800 19
Operated a small boat, or operated a horse
    $1000 10
He tamed the winged horse Pegasus with a bridle given to him by Athena
    $1000 6
The name of this WWE TV show is slang for a decisive defeat
    $1000 27
In 1893 Lawrence Hargrave flew the first of this type of kite, which he called a cellular kite
    $1000 18
About halfway between S. Africa & South America is the isolated Tristan da Cunha, this 11-letter type of island group
    $1000 25
Ladies learned this French square dance whose name hints that it's for 4 couples
    $1000 20
Shortcuts to webpages, or certain wildcats

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Folake Ellen Kyle
$2,000 $2,000 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Folake Ellen Kyle
$3,800 $2,000 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD OF WAR FACT
21st CENTURY MOVIE ROLES
SPACING OUT
WHO WROTE IT?
THE FABRIC OF LIFE
COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER
    $400 19
The U.S. combat mission in this country ended in August 2010
    $400 10
In "Charlie St. Cloud", he has trouble letting go of his little brother, who dies in a car accident
    $400 27
Per NASA, with 16 participating nations, it's the largest cooperative scientific project in history
    $400 1
The "Aeneid"
    $400 26
If someone intends to tan your hide, he's going to turn it into this fabric
    $400 11
The second oldest U.S. college breaks out the flying umbrella & disciplines the Banks kids
    $800 20
Originally a cavalry officer, he transferred to the German air service in 1915 & shot down 80 planes
    $800 9
She's the title character
who returns in a 2010 film
    $800 28
Launched by the Soviets in 1957, this first artificial satellite was less than 2 feet in diameter & weighed 164 lbs.
    $800 2
"Light in August"
    $800 25
This fabric that's on the tips of markers is also used in blackboard erasers
    $800 12
A Utah school stages a black & white Mel Brooks classic
    $1200 21
World Book says this 20th century so-called war that lasted decades was actually an "intense rivalry"
    $1200 6
In 2007 Johnny Depp did double time playing both Jack Sparrow & this "Demon Barber"
    DD: $1,200 24
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a film of the Space Shuttle in flight.) The speed needed for a rocket to break free of Earth's gravity--6.96 miles per second--is called this, E.V. for short
    $1200 3
"The Member of the Wedding"
    $1200 16
Cobweb is a type of this fabric known for its open, networked quality
    $1200 13
Paterno sends his "Happy Valley" boys to get some "neighbor"ly life insurance
    DD: $3,000 22
2 days before this war was declared, the British said they'd repealed the laws that were the chief reason for fighting us
    $1600 7
In this movie based on a classic novel, Jackie Chan plays Passepartout, Phileas Fogg's travel companion
    $1600 29
A giant elliptical one of these may contain more than 10 trillion stars
    $1600 4
"Miss Lonelyhearts" & "The Day of the Locust"
    $1600 17
Used with other fibers like nylon, this 5-letter fiber makes swimwear fabric stretchy
    $1600 14
Tulsa university named for a preacher who was very skilled in parliamentary procedure
    $2000 23
Meaning "lightning war", it's the method of warfare Germany pioneered in the 1939 invasion of Poland
    $2000 8
In 2001's "Moulin Rouge!", John Leguizamo portrayed this real-life artist
    $2000 30
A spectacular show of summer is this meteor shower that peaks annually around August 13
    $2000 5
"The Portrait of a Lady"
    $2000 18
Harris is a trademarked type of this rough fabric used in sport coats
    $2000 15
A Jesuit school in Worcester competes in running that's off-track

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Folake Ellen Kyle
$6,200 $10,000 $9,800

Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PRESIDENTS
During his tenure, he never threw out an opening day first pitch, but before he was president, he did it for the Braves

Final scores:

Folake Ellen Kyle
$8,700 $19,601 $15,800
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated Automatic semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Folake Ellen Kyle
$6,200 $11,200 $13,000
10 R,
2 W		 18 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $30,400

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Game tape date: 2010-10-18
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