Show #7737 2018-04-10 (taped 2018-03-12) College Championship

2018 College Championship quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

Jordan Goodson — a senior at Columbia University from McLean, Virginia

Dhruv Gaur — a freshman at Brown University from Gainesville, Georgia

Thatcher Chonka — a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma from Tulsa, Oklahoma

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Thatcher	$1,800	$3,600	$10,800	$21,599 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$10,800 14 R, 2 W
Dhruv	$5,000	$10,400	$22,800	$23,312 Automatic semifinalist	$19,000 26 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W
Jordan	$1,400	$2,200	$6,200	$12,399 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$6,200 12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COLLEGE VOCABULARY	STATES' GEOGRAPHIC CENTERS	RECENT MOVIES	WEIGHTS & MEASURES	PRE-REC	HAMLET
$200 [21] Russet & tan are shades of this Ivy Leaguer Brown Thatcher	$200 [26] In Pulaski County, 12 miles northwest of Little Rock Arkansas Dhruv	$200 [30] Alicia Vikander plays this young woman who switches jobs from bicycle courier to tomb raider Lara Croft Dhruv	$200 [23] This basic unit for oil equals 42 gallons a barrel Dhruv	$200 [25] Different types of this device can heat your house or cool your car radiators	$200 [20] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Kronborg Castle in Denmark.) The legendary Danish hero Amleth inspired Shakespeare's "Tragedy of Hamlet", & the castle at Kronborg inspired this setting for nearly every scene of the play Elsinore
$400 [12] A botanist might call this Houston school Oryza sativa Rice Thatcher	$400 [27] 30 miles northwest of Pikes Peak Colorado Dhruv	$400 [15] In the film of the same name, James McAvoy as Barry, Dennis et al. has this type of personality split Dhruv	$400 [24] Listen up! Firecrackers & jets taking off measure about 150 of these units a decibel Dhruv	$400 [5] A counter-argument a rebuttal Thatcher	$600 [19] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Kronborg Castle in Denmark.) Hamlet instructs this friend, "Draw thy breath in pain to tell my story," which is why a guide leads tours of Kronborg Castle as this character Horatio
$600 [14] In Britain this Southern school would have a peerage & rank just below prince Duke Dhruv	$600 [9] 5 miles north-northwest of Cadillac Michigan Jordan	$600 [29] Woody Harrelson as "The Colonel" leads the humans against the chimps in this movie War for the Planet of the Apes Thatcher	$600 [7] The name of this monetary unit of Israel originally referred to a unit of weight equal to about half an ounce a shekel Jordan	$600 [6] The animals shownherecan both be described as these a raptor Dhruv	$800 [4] Perhaps because a ghost was seen the night before, the play opens with foreboding when a sentry asks this 2-word question "Who's there?" Dhruv
$800 [13] In Wisconsin, it's a yellow cheese; in Maine, it's a 2,000-student college Colby Jordan	$800 [28] In Yavapai County, 55 miles east-southeast of Prescott Arizona	$800 [11] In "Justice League" Jason Momoa pays this hero of Atlantis Aquaman Dhruv	$800 [18] An angstrom is equivalent to 0.1 of these teeny tiny units, nm for short a nanometer Jordan	$800 [3] A steel rod embedded in concrete rebar Dhruv	$1,000 [8] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Kronborg Castle in Denmark.) While confronting his mother here in the queen's chamber, Hamlet ends up killing Ophelia's dad, this devious character, who is hiding behind a curtain Polonius Dhruv Jordan
$1,000 [1] A Portland liberal arts college, or part of an oboe's mouthpiece a reed Jordan	$1,000 [22] In Hernando County, 12 miles north-northwest of Brooksville, former "Home of the Tangerine" Florida Dhruv	$1,000 [10] He won an Oscar in 2018 for playing troubled cop Jason Dixon in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (Sam) Rockwell Jordan	$1,000 [17] J is the symbol for this unit of work or energy joule Thatcher	$1,000 [2] Very conservative, as a response to liberalism reactionary Thatcher	DD $3,000 [16] Shakespeare may have gotten the names of these courtiers from 2 members of Danish nobility who visited London in the 1590s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Dhruv

Double Jeopardy! Round

OWL NIGHTER	ENTERTAINING ERAS	NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS	B.C.-ING YOU	WORD HISTORY	AP JOURNALISM
$400 [29] Many night owls have these sense organs set at different heights to better pinpoint a prey's location ears Jordan	$400 [30] Rock's psychedelic era started in this decade the '60s Jordan	$400 [27] 2010 winner Liu Xiaobo was represented by an empty one of these, as he was in a Chinese prison a chair Thatcher	$400 [28] Just before dying in Cleopatra's arms, he urged her to make peace with Octavian Antony Dhruv	$400 [5] This word for a bad dream once also meant a monster that makes you feel suffocated while you sleep a nightmare Dhruv	$400 [25] In most cases the reporter filing an AP story from the dateline location gets this credit the byline Jordan
$800 [10] This owl was once considered an evil omen because of the shriek it's named for, scarier than a hoot a screech owl Dhruv	$800 [13] This HBO mob show's 1999 debut is said to have begun TV's new golden age The Sopranos Jordan	$1,200 [18] This sitting U.S. president won the 1919 prize for his efforts to make peace an part of international law Wilson Dhruv	$800 [23] Flourishing from around 300 B.C., El Mirador in Guatemala was one of the largest cities ever built by these people the Maya Dhruv	$800 [4] It can contain billions of stars & takes its name from the Greek for "milk" galaxy Jordan	$800 [24] In 2013 the AP announced this 7-letter adjective should only be applied to actions, not to people like immigrants illegal Jordan
$1,200 [26] To better hunt at night, most owls' eyes have retinas full of these cells that detect movement better than color rods Thatcher Dhruv	$1,200 [15] Not MC but this precedes "Kool Herc" in the name of the guy who says he began the hip-hop era (Bronx Rec Room, 1973) DJ Dhruv	$1,600 [16] 1947 winner the American Friends Service Committee is an arm of this religious group the Quakers Thatcher	$1,200 [6] This epic poem of Rome that consists of 12 books was modeled largely after the "Iliad" & the "Odyssey" the Aeneid Thatcher	$1,200 [1] They say you'll never see a U-Haul behind this coffin-bearing vehicle, from Old French for a frame to carry candles a hearse Thatcher	$1,200 [22] The AP's standards permit it to quote this type of source only for information but not opinion or speculation an anonymous Dhruv
$1,600 [11] The features in the name of this great owl are really just bunches of feathers the great horned owl Dhruv	$1,600 [9] You've had more birthdays than this number of bits in the early '90s home console game era of "Street Fighter II" 16 Thatcher Dhruv Jordan	$2,000 [17] Aung San Suu Kyi is the author of "Letters from" not Myanmar but this other name Burma Thatcher	DD $1,200 [19] Called the "Father of History", he wrote a long account of the Greco-Persian Wars Herodotus Dhruv	$1,600 [2] Those listening to this squeezable instrument may be surprised to know the word is from the French for "harmony" accordion Thatcher	$1,600 [20] In 1972 the AP broke the story of experiments on unconsenting subjects at this Alabama institute Tuskegee Thatcher
$2,000 [12] Not all owls are nocturnal; some are crepuscular, meaning they are more active in these 2 times of day dawn and dusk Dhruv	$2,000 [14] A golden era of teen movies is sometimes named for this "Breakfast Club" director John Hughes	DD $2,800 [8] These people are the "R" in UNHCR, which gives them shelter & helps them find a new permanent home refugees Dhruv	$1,600 [7] Emperor Wu promoted this philosophy, helping it spread through China Confucianism Dhruv	$2,000 [3] A statistical term or a synonym for ordinary, this adjective may have come from Arabic for "damaged goods" average Thatcher	$2,000 [21] The AP requires fixes to a story after publication to be marked with this "C" word, not weaselisms like "clarification" correction Jordan

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS

This Cabinet department traces its roots back to the Manhattan Project & efforts to develop the atomic bomb

the Department of Energy

Jordan "What is Dept. of Energy" — wagered $6,199

Thatcher "What is Department of Energy" — wagered $10,799

Dhruv "What is the Department of Energy?" — wagered $512

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