Show #8196 2020-04-06 (taped 2020-02-03) College Championship

2020 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Sirad Hassan — a senior at Princeton University from Frederick, Maryland

Emma Farrell — a senior at Carnegie Mellon University from Telford, Pennsylvania

Marshall Comeaux — a sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin from Dallas, Texas

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Marshall	$800	$1,000	$8,800	$17,599 Automatic semifinalist	$9,400 18 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W
Emma	$3,400	$9,400	$12,200	$6,799 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$11,000 20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Sirad	$200	$1,000	$2,600	$100 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$2,600 11 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES	TV OF TODAY	COLLEGE ETYMOLOGY	MAMMALS	ALPHANUMERICS	E-COLLEGE-Y
$200 [28] "Hero of Appomattox" Grant Marshall	$200 [29] Tori Spelling's unicorn & Donny Osmond's peacock belted out tunes on this show--that line shouldn't make any sense, but it's true The Masked Singer Emma	$200 [30] This word for a type of degree originally referred to a young knight of low rank a bachelor Marshall Emma	$200 [13] To ward off predators, it may feign death, hence the alliterative expression "playing" this marsupial a possum Sirad	$200 [19] This astromech droid served 2 Skywalkers R2-D2 Marshall	$200 [12] N.C. State created a program to compost these food boxes, which usually aren't recyclable, especially if they contain crusts pizza boxes Sirad
$400 [27] "Father of the Constitution" Madison Emma Sirad	$400 [7] Kara Danvers flies around National City doing errands (like saving National City) as this title hero Supergirl Marshall	$400 [26] This oral lesson is from the Latin for "to read" a lecture Sirad	$400 [15] The okapi & this tall relative are the only living species in their family a giraffe Emma	$400 [23] The Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company modified its moniker & got down to business under this name 3M Emma	$400 [11] In 2019 this Cardinal school won the Pac-12 division of the EPA's University Challenge with 160 million k Wh of green power Stanford Emma Sirad
$600 [6] "Red Hunter","Tricky Dick" Nixon Marshall	$600 [5] Chechen gangster Noho Hank is a super-upbeat associate of the title assassin-thespian on this HBO show Barry Marshall	$600 [25] Sooner or later you'll have to declare one of these, from a Latin word meaning "greater" a major Marshall	$600 [16] The dewlap is a hanging fold of skin under the muzzle of this largest member of the deer family a moose Emma	$600 [22] In 1942 the Army established the War Dog Program, or this Corps the K-9 Corps Emma	$600 [10] UC Davis converts 50 tons of organic waste into energy daily with a system called an A.D., this non-oxygen type of "digester" anaerobic Marshall Emma
$800 [4] In the 1850s, "Old Buck" (James) Buchanan Emma Sirad	$800 [3] This host has gotten political & gone "Full Frontal" on TBS since 2016 Samantha Bee Marshall	$800 [14] Often applied to courses, it's from the Latin for "before" & "need" a prerequisite Emma	$1,000 [18] A desman is a type of this insectivore, butithunts in water rather than by burrowing a mole Marshall Emma	$800 [21] This club within the Dept. of Agriculture helps kids learn not only about animal sciences but rocketry & robotics, too the 4H Club Emma	$800 [9] This college in Waterville, Maine has used 100% renewable electricity sources since way back in 2003 Colby College Emma
$1,000 [2] Once a university president, "Schoolmaster in Politics" Wilson Emma	$1,000 [1] Hakeem Lyon & Thirsty Rawlings are characters on this Fox show that's setting records Empire Sirad	$1,000 [24] This word for a class of student derives from a word for a fallacious argument sophomore Marshall	DD $2,000 [17] The mnemonic device "D" has one hump, "B" has 2 helps us remember these 2 types of camels the dromedary and Bactrian camels Emma	$1,000 [20] In August 2019 France presided over this summit of world leaders the G7 Marshall Emma	$1,000 [8] The foundation named for this holiday runs the Tree Campus USA program to recognize forest-friendly schools, like Bryn Mawr Arbor Day Marshall Emma

Double Jeopardy! Round

I'M YOUR NEW PERSONAL TRAINER!	COLLEGE TALES	OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN COMMON	CELEBRITY LECTURES	ART HISTORY	WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
$400 [30] Biceps curls! 1! 2! 1! 2! Can you feel this 3-headed muscle stretch as the biceps contract?! Burn, baby, burn! triceps Sirad	$400 [28] Julia Whelan's novel "My Oxford Year" follows the young American recipient of one of these scholarships Rhodes Marshall	$400 [24] Belarus, Kyrgyzstan Russian Emma	$400 [29] Alright, alright--in 2019 Matthew McConaughey became a communications professor at the university of this, his home state Texas Sirad	$400 [25] Not quite 5 inches tall, a statuette found in Austria is known as this love goddess of Willendorf Venus Marshall	$400 [9] Boots & handbags are also sold at DSW, short for designer shoe this type of building warehouse Marshall
$800 [27] Reclining hero pose! Into corpse pose! Oh yeah, you bet we're going heavy on this 4-letter discipline right now! yoga Emma	$800 [15] The 2015 novel "Cow Country" is set in one of these alliterative institutions aka a junior college a community college Marshall	$800 [23] Chad, Bahrain Arabic Sirad	$800 [22] Angelina Jolie lectured on women, peace & security at the LSE, the London school of this Economics Sirad	$800 [21] Georges Braque & this Spaniard are considered the founders of Cubism Picasso Sirad	$800 [8] It's the "K" in the AKC, an authority on dogs Kennel Marshall Emma
$1,200 [26] Delts & traps, done! Now Men's Health says pull-ups are great to build up these big, triangle-shaped back muscles, so get to it! lats Sirad	$1,200 [14] A Langston Hughes poem begins in a "college on the hill above" this area of upper Manhattan Harlem Emma	DD $1,000 [1] Burundi, Switzerland French Marshall	$1,200 [18] John Cleese of this comedy troupe was professor-at-large at Cornell starting in 1999, but he didn't teach silly walks Monty Python Marshall	$1,200 [19] (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows two paintings on the monitor.) In 1654, the city of Delft was devastated by a gunpowder explosion depicted here; Rembrandt's student Carel Fabritius didn't survive, but this now-famous painting of his did, & went on to inspire a best-selling novel of the same name The Goldfinch	$1,200 [7] In a computer, a CPU is a central this unit processing Emma
$1,600 [12] An intense circuit-style workout, metcon is short for these 2 words, & we're gonna hit it hard today! metabolic conditioning	$1,600 [13] This Jazz Age man's "This Side of Paradise" is set at Princeton (Scott) Fitzgerald Marshall	$1,200 [2] Suriname, Curacao Dutch Marshall Emma	$1,600 [17] At NYU, Prince 101 (about the purple one) had a lecture by this drummer for The Roots Questlove Emma	$1,600 [11] Michelangelo was 33 in 1508 when he began painting this Vatican chapel the Sistine Chapel Sirad	$1,600 [6] Used in the kitchen, EVOO stands for this extra virgin olive oil
$2,000 [20] Plank is an example of this type of exercise in which the muscles are static; now drop, but don't give me 20! isometrics	$2,000 [4] The characters in Wendy Wasserstein's "Uncommon Women and Others" are alumnae of this numerical group of northeastern schools the Seven Sisters Sirad	$2,000 [3] Bolivia, Peru:Aymara & these 2 Spanish & Quechua	$2,000 [16] This director & writer of "Do the Right Thing" taught African-American cinema at Harvard (Spike) Lee Marshall	$2,000 [10] One of the tours at the Belgian museum dedicated to this surrealist is titled "Hats Off" Rene Magritte Emma	DD $2,000 [5] The last name of this British mathematician is the "T" in CAPTCHA, a computer security test (Alan) Turing Marshall

Final Jeopardy!

WONDERS OF THE MODERN WORLD

Nicknamed "The Big Ditch", in 2014 this modern wonder celebrated its 100th anniversary

the Panama Canal

Sirad "What is No mans land" — wagered $2,500

Marshall "What is The Panama Canal??" — wagered $8,799

Emma "What is the Hoover Dam" — wagered $5,401

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