Show #6608 - Wednesday, May 15, 2013

2013 College Championship semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Julia Sprangers, a junior at University of Wisconsin-Madison from Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Jim Coury, a sophomore from Georgetown University from Olmsted Falls, Ohio

Nishanth Uli, a sophomore from Washington University in St. Louis from Solon, Ohio

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Jeopardy! Round

"YO" LO

POLITICAL QUOTES

REALITY SHOW TITLES

COLLEGE ACTIVITIES

POCKET CHANGE

SOWETO

$200

It's a harness for multiple draft animals so they can pull together

$200

Soliciting business in California in 2013, this Texas governor said Austin is poised to be the "next Silicon Valley"

$200

"The ____ Loser"

$200

Edward Albee got a New Haven tryout when he served as a judge at the annual drama series competition at this school

$200

Issued in 1879, the USA's 4-dollar "Stella" coin had a 5-pointed one of these on the reverse

$200

( Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) The epicenter of South Africa's long struggle for equality, Soweto takes its name from the first two letters of these three words--its location & designation within Johannesburg

$400

"Force" feeder for Luke Skywalker

$400

This 1848 manifesto's theory "may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property"

$400

On Discovery:
"____ Catch"

$400

Don't miss "Shocktoberfest" at this school that made a surprise trip to the Final Four in 2013

$400

A silver denarius from 44 B.C. depicts this Roman & calls him "dictator for life"; his life ended soon after

$400

( Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Johannesburg, South Africa.) The four-room matchbox houses that make up much of Soweto were originally built to house black workers cheaply during the years of this official policy of ethnic segregation

$600

The name of this device may come from a Filipino word meaning "come back"

DD: $1,000

De Gaulle warned JFK that America would step "into a bottomless military and political quagmire" in this place

$600

"____ & Tiaras"

$600

Fundraising was a big 2012 activity at this private N. California school, the first to raise a billion dollars in a year

$600

In Canada this coin was introduced in 1858 & discontinued in 2012

$600

( Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) Bringing Soweto to the world's attention, a march beginning here at Naledi High School was one of the dramatic moments in the 1976 protests against the forced teaching of this language

$800

Country music stars like Hank Snow & Jimmie Rodgers were famous for this singing style

$800

In 1868 he remarked, "Let them impeach and be damned"

$800

In 2012, featuring Jeremiah, Kate, Abe, Rebecca & Sabrina:
"Breaking ____"

$800

The 2013 Easter Conference at this university was held at its Joseph Smith Building auditorium

$800

Popular among collectors, this city's tetradrachm owl coin was minted for more than 300 years

$800

( Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) With marks of government gunfire to show for it, this house of worship was a center for anti-apartheid gatherings; it's called Regina Mundi, or this "of the World" & Soweto in particular

$1000

Historic region of Northern England that lends its name to a bready pudding

$1000

In 1839 this Kentuckian told the Senate, "I'd rather be right than be president"

$1000

Starring Patti Stanger:
"The Millionaire ____"

$1000

"Naked Spaces: Architecture in Art from the Kinsey Institute Collection" was at this Midwestern school in 2013

$1000

The 30 pieces of silver given to Judas are thought to be these, which you can use in Israel today

$1000

( Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) This house on Vilakazi Street belongs to this South African--the first black dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg is just one of his distinctions

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

Nishanth	Jim	Julia
$1,600	$5,600	$1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Nishanth	Jim	Julia
$5,000	$9,600	$2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOVELLAS

TECHIE DROPOUTS

STUFF ABOUT STATES

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

SCIENCE GUYS

3 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS

(Alex: Each correct response will contain [*] of the alphabet.)

$400

His novella "The Body" centers on 4 Maine youths who deal with death in the woods

$400

In 2004 he "unliked" Harvard; he was worth $19 billion in 2012

$400

Judging from its nicknames, it's full of lakes & gophers

$400

To see the Lopez family wire-walk blindfolded, go to the Ringling Bros. one of these

$400

The very first Nobel Prize for Physics went to Wilhelm Roentgen for his discovery of these, used in radiology

$400

Numero uno, ordinally

$800

Harlan Ellison won a Best Novella Nebula Award for his story about "a boy" & his intelligence-enhanced this

$800

Kevin Rose dropped out of UNLV, this school, & took a gamble when he founded Digg

$800

This original 13er is the largest state in land area east of the Mississippi River

$800

Barclays Center in this New York City borough opened in 2012 with eight straight sellout shows by borough native Jay-Z

$800

He wrote that in 1666, "I began to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon"

$800

Measuring yourself on a scale

$1200

Kafka depicts a warped & brutal version of justice with "In" this type of colony

$1200

There was no apple for the teacher after he left Reed College & went to design video games for Atari in 1974

$1200

This Rhode Island city is home to the U.S. Naval War College & the Tennis Hall of Fame

$1200

This city's philharmonic loads up on Strauss waltzes in its New Year's concert dating back to 1941

$1200

From 1988 to 1992 this collaborator of Francis Crick directed the Human Genome Project

$1200

The lord "maketh me to lie down in green" these

DD: $9,800

A prototype of the form, this Boccaccio work deals with 10 people who each tell a story a day

$1600

Never mind college--David Karp, founder of this "acrobatic" blogging site, didn't finish high school

DD: $7,200

Of the 4 states officially called commonwealths, it's alphabetically last

$1600

With shows around the globe, this group came a long way from 1987, when 3 bald guys began painting their faces

$1600

This originator of the quantum theory had the middle names Karl Ernst Ludwig

$1600

An '80s arcade space game, or a football player such as a linebacker or safety

$2000

This German left "Venice" behind with his novella "Mario and the Magician"

$2000

This Stanford dropout & RSS pioneer died in 2013 while fighting government charges

$2000

Its national monuments include the Real Rainbow Bridge, Natural Bridges & Timpanogos Cave

$2000

From the Spanish for "shell", this California valley lent its name to a festival where you could hear Franz Ferdinand in 2013

$2000

This surgeon to Queen Victoria founded antiseptic surgery

$2000

Tranquility

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Nishanth	Jim	Julia
$15,800	$32,600	$9,000
	( lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS EUROPEANS

After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous gentile by Yad Vashem

Final scores:

Nishanth	Jim	Julia
$31,600	$32,604	$1,000
2nd place: $10,000	Finalist	3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Nishanth	Jim	Julia
$15,800	$18,400	$9,000
20 R, 3 W	23 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W	13 R, 1 W

Show #6608 - Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round

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

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Double Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Final Jeopardy! Round

Final scores:

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Combined Coryat: $43,200

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Game tape date: 2013-04-09