Show #4871 - Monday, November 14, 2005

2005 College Championship semifinal game 1.
From the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Contestants

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Antonia Wang, a sophomore at Purdue University from Carmel, Indiana

Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin

Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington

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Jeopardy! Round

IN THE NEWS 2005
SCARY MOVIES
PRESS ON NAILS
THAT'S MY ROYAL NICKNAME
COLLEGE COURSES
GO "STATE"!
    $200 1
This country's new president Ahmadinejad may have minored in embassy hostage taking in the 1970s
    $200 16
This 1999 movie says it's the footage shot by 3 film students who disappeared in the Maryland woods
    $200 26
Judith Miller got nailed in the Plamegate scandal while reporting for this newspaper
    $200 6
Bloody Romanian prince known as "the Impaler"
    $200 7
At Texas A&M civil engineering majors can take a course called advanced design in this "reinforced" paving material
    $200 21
Philander C. Knox, Daniel Webster & John Foster Dulles have all held this federal post
    $400 2
12 years after approving NAFTA, Congress barely passed this trade deal opening southern markets
    $400 17
When Kate Hudson unlocks a hidden attic room that has a terrifying secret, she uses the title object of this 2005 film
    $400 27
This CBS anchor got hammered in 2004 reporting on President Bush's military service
    $400 9
He was "the Confessor" king of England in the 11th century
    $400 8
The University of Nebraska at Omaha offers an English course devoted to this "Canterbury Tales" author
    $400 22
President Clinton recognized Hank Aaron's achievements in this January 27, 2000 speech
    $600 3
On Sept. 28, 2005 he stepped down as House Majority Leader (at least temporarily) upon being indicted
    $600 18
It's terror at 30,000 feet for Rachel McAdams in this 2005 film that's like "Phone Booth" on a plane
    $600 28
In 2003 this Caribbean island nation put 27 reporters in the slammer for furthering U.S. interests
    DD: $1,000 10
Ottoman emperor styled "the Magnificent"
    $600 12
At N.Y.'s Vassar global feminism & postmodern feminism are 2 of the courses offered in this program
    $600 23
From the Latin for "laid waste", it means to destroy
    $800 4
Napster's gone legit, but the Supreme Court ruled against this file-sharing company in MGM Studios v. it
    $800 19
Elisha Cuthbert & Paris Hilton are amazed by the life-like sculptures at this title museum
    $800 29
This editor had "Common Sense" but he was arrested while in France for opposing Louis XVI's execution
    $800 11
Basil "the Bulgar-Slayer" was emperor of this, also called the Eastern Roman Empire
    $800 14
Here at N.C. State you can find a course on "The Life and Letters of" this apostle from Tarsus
    $800 24
Numerical term used to describe the press
    $1000 5
(Hi, I'm Nancy Grace with CNN Headline News.) On a busy March 16, 2005, I reported on Scott Peterson's death sentence & this actor's murder acquittal
    $1000 20
A cross of horror & western, "The Devil's Rejects" was written & directed by this shock rocker
    $1000 30
Ca.'s Liberty Hill was so named because in 1923 this muckraker & "Jungle" author was arrested at a union rally there
    $1000 13
Holy Roman emperor Charles II was known by this nickname; today we might call him "the Follicularly Challenged"
    $1000 15
Biology majors at Humboldt might take mammalogy, herpetology or this, the study of fish
    $1000 25
This term means not having made a will

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

Amanda Jayanth Antonia
$2,800 $2,200 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Amanda Jayanth Antonia
$4,000 $6,800 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

POETS & POETRY
MC TREBEK IN DA HIZZ-OUSE
WHICH TIME ZONE?
A DANGEROUS CATEGORY
A CLOSE LOOK AT ART
"UMP" IT UP
    $400 16
2005 marks 150 years since this poet first mowed his "Leaves of Grass"
    $400 1
"You better lose yourself in the music, the moment, you own it you better never let it go"
    $400 9
Wichita, Kansas
    $400 21
Riding these, Cody Hancock's specialty, is considered by many to be the most dangerous rodeo event
    $400 22
(Kelly of the Clue Crew points to paints & pigments.) "The clash of colors, like the different greens, express the terrible passions of humanity", wrote this artist
    $400 6
A bean, jack or mouse
    $800 17
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" asks, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat" this fruit
    $800 2
"It's gettin' hot in here (so hot), so take off all your clothes"
    $800 10
Toronto, Ontario
    $800 27
More shark attacks occur in the waters off this country than any other
    $800 23
In his "Night Watch", hierarchy is shown by the shadow of the militia captain's hand on an underling's coat
    $800 7
A dark rye bread that originated in Germany
    DD: $2,000 18
In 1993 she became the second poet to recite an original work at a presidential inauguration
    $1200 3
"Sippin' on gin & juice, laid back, with my mind on my money and my money on my mind"
    $1200 11
El Paso, Texas
    DD: $1,800 28
According to Homer, these deadly mythological singers enticed many a sailor to his doom
    $1200 24
(Kelly of the Clue Crew poses with a Pontormo painting.) As painters often do, Pontormo inserted one of these into his work called "Deposition"
    $1200 8
A single amount of money that serves as a complete payment
    $1600 19
In a Keats ode, these 5 words immediately precede "that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know"
    $1600 4
"Your mom busted in and said 'What's that noise?', aw Mom, you're just jealous, it's" them
    $1600 12
Las Vegas, Nevada
    $1600 29
In the first Time magazine in 1923, these below-ground workers protested dangerous work conditions
    $1600 25
The message of healing in Friedrich's "Winter Landscape" includes a discarded pair of these supports
    $1600 14
Asian national capital city with a 2-word name
    $2000 20
This poem by Matthew Arnold mentions the French coast & the cliffs of England
    $2000 5
"I been here for years, rockin' my peers & puttin' suckas in fear... Mama said knock you out"
    $2000 13
Pensacola, Florida
    $2000 30
Due to storms, the southernmost cape of South America is one of the world's most dangerous places
    $2000 26
(Jon of the Clue Crew poses with a seascape.) W.H. Auden wrote, "Everything turns away quite leisurely from a disaster" in Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of" this mythical flier
    $2000 15
Term for Republicans who abandoned their own party in 1884 to support Grover Cleveland

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Amanda Jayanth Antonia
$15,200 $20,600 $4,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN DESIGN
A Phillips 66 in Cloquet, Minnesota is the only functioning gas station designed by this man

Final scores:

Amanda Jayanth Antonia
$30,399 $30,401 $1
2nd place: $10,000 Finalist 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Amanda Jayanth Antonia
$14,400 $19,600 $4,200
18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 21 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 13 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $38,200

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Game tape date: 2005-10-02
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