As the final department seminar of the Spring 2006 semester, another edition of CS Jeopardy occurred on April 12, 2006. Three teams went head-to-head: a faculty team of Dr. Hyatt and Dr. Johnstone, a grad student team of Matthew Curry and Xin Chen, and a mixed team of Dr. Bryant and Daniel Chappell.

Special thanks to all of those faculty, staff, students and ACM members who helped write questions, put together the Jeopardy presentation, set up the refreshments and all of the other hard work that went into presenting this great event.

Questions

Each round was implemented by a PowerPoint slide that had hyper-links to each question. The original PowerPoint slides are provided below, as well as the corresponding PDF (the PDF will not provide the executable version of the contest, but captures all of the questions for those not able to read PowerPoint).

Round 1: PowerPoint  PDF

Round 2: PowerPoint   PDF

Final Question: PowerPoint   PDF

Results

    1st Place - Team Thomas: Dr. Bob Hyatt and Dr. John Johnstone (1800)

    2nd Place - Team Chicken Little: Dr. Barrett Bryant and Daniel Chappell (700)

    3rd Place - Team Elmo: Matthew Curry and Xin Chen (0)

Photos

    Below are various photos taken throughout the contest.

Round 1 categories: Architecture, Databases, Graphics, HPC, and Software Engineering	Pre-contest meditation...
The score keeper (Jing Zhang), judge (Kathy Baier), and host (Jeff Gray)	CS Jeopardy 2006 had a large audience!
The audience appears mesmerized.	Between the rounds, it was pizza time!
Round 2 categories: The 80s, Acronyms, Department Trivia, Computer Pioneers, Turing and His Award	The audience ponders a particularly hard question.
The view from up front.	Looks like all of the pizza is gone.
The host announces the final question.	Final question...
Winners receiving their Big Cup.	Rock'em Sock'em for 2nd Place.
A sour egg for the the 3rd place team.	Until next year...