Responses for Show #4875 - Friday, November 18, 2005

2005 College Championship final game 2.
From the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Contestants

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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama (subtotal of $14,800)

Nico Martinez, a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (subtotal of $29,000)

Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin (subtotal of $399)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

HELLO, ALEX
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
U.S. HISTORY: THE EARLY 1800s
KISS MY GRITS!
ANIMAL YOUTH
RHYME TIME
    $200 6
Alexander the Great

Jayanth
    $200 15
quarterback

Jayanth
    $200 1
1812

Jayanth
    $200 26
corn

Nico
    $200 23
a calf

Nico
    $200 16
faint paint

Nico
    $400 7
Alexander Hamilton

Nico
    $400 14
(Jayanth: Who is Matt Leinhart?)
...
(Alex: [*], yes; no "H" in there.)

Matt Leinart

JayanthAdam
    $400 2
the Erie Canal

Jayanth
    $400 27
pecans

Adam
    $400 24
a cub

Nico
    $400 19
[Adam laughs at his response]

a macho nacho

Adam
    $600 13
Alexander Graham Bell

Jayanth
    $600 10
Brigham Young

Nico
    $600 3
a slave revolt

Jayanth
    $600 28
hush puppies

Nico
    $600 25
a kid

Adam
    $600 20
the bath path

Nico
    $800 12
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nico
    $800 9
Bobby Bowden

Jayanth
    $800 4
Maine

Jayanth
    $800 29
okra

Nico
    $800 17
(Nico: What is... filly?)
(Jayanth: What's a pony?)
...
(Alex: What is [*]? You can [*], or you can be a [*].)

foal

JayanthNico
Triple Stumper
    $800 21
(Nico: [Shakes head])

borrow sorrow

JayanthNico
    $1000 11
Alexander Hamilton Stephens

Adam
    $1000 8
Vince Lombardi

Jayanth
    $1000 5
[Applause and cheers for Jayanth's run of the category]
(Alex: Hey, well done, you ran the category, you did what you had to do, start off on the right foot.)

the Bank of the United States

Jayanth
    $1000 30
(Alex: And the folks here know it as [*].)

red-eye gravy

Triple Stumper
    $1000 18
the lamb

Adam
    $1,600 22
(Alex: You have to think ahead as well as think back.)
(Jayanth: That's right. Uh... I'l go $1600.)
...
(Jayanth: What is a right, uh, vent?)

a heart part

Jayanth

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

Jayanth Nico Adam
$5,400 $1,800 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jayanth Nico Adam
$3,800 $3,200 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

LESSER-KNOWN EXPLORERS
I NEED MORE COWBELL
MATH
GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE
FICTIONAL WOMEN
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
    $400 1
the Titanic

Adam
    $400 26
the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Nico
    $400 13
imaginary

Adam
    $400 11
the Bronze (Age)

Nico
    $400 21
Scarlett O'Hara

Adam
    $400 6
drei

Jayanth
    $800 2
the Nina

Nico
    $800 27
Shania Twain

Jayanth
    $800 14
zero

Nico
    $800 12
(Nico: What is gold?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Nico: What is gold…plating?)

gold leaf (or gold foil)

Nico
Triple Stumper
    $800 22
Minnehaha

Nico
    $800 7
tikis

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
Lake Michigan

Jayanth
    $1200 28
Elvis Presley

Adam
    $1200 15
adjacent

Nico
    $1200 18
the Silverdome

Nico
    $1200 23
Edgar Allan Poe

Nico
    $1200 8
sensei

Nico
    $2,500 4
the Colorado River

Jayanth
    $1600 29
(Adam: Who are the Stone Temple Pilots?)

Queens of the Stone Age

Adam
Triple Stumper
    $2,200 16
division

Nico
    $1600 19
the silver anniversary

Adam
    $1600 24
Marcel Proust

Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
a vignette

Jayanth
    $2000 5
Roanoke

Nico
    $2000 30
Blue Öyster Cult

Adam
    $2000 17
a logarithm

Adam
    $2000 20
(Adam: A gold digger?)

a gold bricker

Adam
Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
Julia

Adam
    $2000 10
(Jayanth: What is piccato?)
...
(Alex: Jayanth realizes that he should have said [*] instead of piccato.)

pizzicato

Jayanth
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jayanth Nico Adam
$8,300 $14,600 $10,200
(lock tournament)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CAPITALS
(Alex: [To Nico] Come on over here. Adam gets bumped up to $50,000, Jayanth, $25,000, and, young man, congratulations.)
(Nico: Thank you very much.)
(Alex: Here's your trophy. You've really earned it, and I believe you are the second College Champion from Stanford.)
(Nico: That's awesome.)
(Alex: That's awesome, indeed. All right, folks, we're back in Los Angeles. Want to thank everybody here in North Carolina for the wonderful time we have had. We'll see you back in L.A.--next time. So long. [To Adam and Jayanth] Come on over.)
JayanthWhat is Lima?
$8,300
AdamWhat is Lima
$6,500
NicoWhat is Lima?
$1
Lima, Peru

Final scores:

Jayanth Nico Adam
$16,600 $14,601 $16,700

Cumulative scores:

Jayanth Nico Adam
$16,999 $43,601 $31,500
2nd runner-up: $25,000 Tournament champion: $100,000 1st runner-up: $50,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jayanth Nico Adam
$9,000 $14,000 $10,200
16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 14 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $33,200

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Game tape date: 2005-10-02
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