Show #1 2022-02-08 (taped 2021-11-21) College Championship

2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 1.Mayim Bialik hosts.

Contestants

Catherine Zhang — a senior at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

Gus Guszkowski — a senior at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire

Isaac Applebaum — a junior at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Isaac	$6,800	$8,800	$13,800	$16,401 Winner: semifinalist	$12,200 18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Gus	$5,800	$6,400	$16,800	$5,999 2nd place: $10,000	$18,800 19 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Catherine	$0	$0	$5,600	$5,200 3rd place: $10,000	$5,600 10 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BIO 101	PARTS OF THE FRANCHISE	BIBLE BOOKS	GET A JOB!	THAT'S QUITE A DORM ROOM	THESE WORDS ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU ARE
$200 [27] Robert K. Massie drew a "Portrait of" this Russian empress who led 14,000 soldiers in overthrowing her husband Catherine the Great Isaac	$200 [30] A Broadway musical & the TV series "Timon & Pumbaa" The Lion King Isaac	$200 [28] This word for the 4 books that recount Jesus' life is from Old English for "good tidings" the Gospels Gus	$200 [29] It can be a desk employee at a hotel, or a legal aide to a judge a clerk Isaac Catherine	$200 [26] A full chef's kitchen seems a bit of a waste when you keep ordering this chain's specialty pizzas, like Extravaganzza Domino's Pizza	$200 [25] This type of camping for the pampered dates to 2005 glamping Catherine
$400 [20] He "peppered Wozniak with questions: could the computer ever be networked? Was it possible to add a disk for memory storage?" Steve Jobs Isaac	$400 [24] The video game "Vice City" Grand Theft Auto	$400 [12] The Jewish scriptures are traditionally divided into the Prophets, the Writings & this word meaning "law" the Torah	$400 [23] Referring to a type popular in earlier centuries, a peruker was a maker of these wigs	$400 [21] I know you're not getting along with your roommate, but did you have to re-create this 27-mile barrier built in Aug. 1961? the Berlin Wall Gus	$400 [19] The act of ending a relationship by abruptly cutting off all communication has had this name since 2012 ghosting Isaac
$600 [7] A David McCullough presidential bio says on the first page, "He was... of Braintree and he loved to talk" John Adams Gus	$600 [22] The spin-off "Hobbs & Shaw" The Fast and the Furious Catherine	$800 [1] Tradition says this king wrote the books of Ecclesiastes & Proverbs Solomon Isaac	$600 [18] At New York City's Guggenheim Museum, Naomi Beckwith holds this job, one who assembles & manages artistic collections a curator Catherine	$600 [15] An indoor, Olympic-sized swimming pool is a nice touch! You can try to beat her gold medal time in 2021's 1,500-meter freestyle (Katie) Ledecky Gus	$600 [17] 2012 gave us this alliterative term for the device that lets you take a turnaround photo from a better angle a selfie stick Isaac
$800 [5] "The Mayor of Castro Street" examines "The Life & Times of" this politician & activist who was assassinated in 1978 Harvey Milk Isaac	$800 [13] TV series subtitled "Lower Decks" & "Prodigy" Star Trek Gus	$1,000 [2] The book of Tobit is among the works sometimes called this, from Greek for "to hide away" apocryphal Gus	$800 [9] DBA is short for database this, a job in which you run the database & of course, have privileges on it administration Gus	$800 [14] Tell me you're not keeping dirty socks in yourcabinet from the reign of this longest-ruling French king Louis XIV Isaac	$800 [4] This gendered word for condescendingly expounding has only been around since 2008 mansplaining Isaac
$1,000 [6] Les Payne worked for 30 years on "The Dead are Arising", a 2020 bio of this man who joined & broke with the Nation of Islam Malcolm X Isaac	$1,000 [16] The video game "Operation Raccoon City" & the Netflix series "Infinite Darkness" Resident Evil	DD $1,600 [11] Galatians & Colossians are among the 21 books of the New Testament written in letter form & known as these epistles Isaac	$1,000 [8] It means following the rules & is the usual word for an "officer" who makes sure you follow the rules, like about COVID compliance Gus	$1,000 [10] Gaming sure will go faster with the Fugaku supercomputer & its quadrillions of floating point these, the OPS in petaflops operations per second Isaac	$1,000 [3] Folks have been making these catalogs of things to do before they die since 2006 bucket lists Gus

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIO 201	POETS & POETRY	SOCIAL MEDIA STARS	FLORAL GEOGRAPHY	"KN"OWLEDGE	DEAN'S LIST
$400 [10] In the 1950s Edward O. Wilson studied colonies of these insects & found that they communicate primarily via pheromones ants Isaac	$400 [30] "Jabberwocky" appears in this author's "Through the Looking-Glass" (Lewis) Carroll Catherine	$400 [1] Not surprisingly, it's Dwayne Johnson's Instagram handle @therock Isaac	$400 [29] Lily Bay State Park is on Moosehead Lake, the largest in this largest New England state Maine Isaac Catherine	$400 [16] In other words, a bunch of tchotchkes knickknacks Gus	$400 [25] When Bernie Sanders was the House representative for this state in 1991, Howard Dean was the governor Vermont Catherine
$800 [9] 4 to 5 inches long, this tube is also called the oviduct the fallopian tube	$800 [18] A leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance, he wrote, "I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother" Langston Hughes Catherine	$800 [20] One of TikTok's top influencers, in 2021 she made her acting debut in the teen romcom "He's All That" Addison Rae Catherine	$800 [28] Carnation, Washington is named for a onetime major employer in the area, which made the condensed type of this milk Catherine	$800 [7] It's another name for the jack in a deck of cards knave Isaac	$800 [24] Reggae saxophonist Dean Fraser is a celebrated artist of this Caribbean country Jamaica Gus
$1,600 [3] "There's no place like" this 11-letter word, the steady internal environment that organisms strive towards homeostasis Gus	$1,200 [11] 1956's "Let Us Compare Mythologies" was the first book of poems by this man more famous for songs like "Hallelujah" (Leonard) Cohen Gus	$1,200 [19] In 2021thisteen became the first celebrity on "Dancing with the Stars" to have a same-sex partner JoJo Siwa Gus	$1,200 [27] In Paris you can wander "lonely as a cloud" down rue de Jonquilles, named for a type of these flowers daffodils Gus	$1,200 [6] The secret is out--also known as the American Party, it fell apart after 1856 the Know-Nothing Party Gus	$1,200 [23] Seen here, he never bunted while playing Negan on "The Walking Dead" Jeffrey Dean Morgan
DD $1,800 [2] The discovery of the receptor for this toxin was announced in fall 2001, around the time it was part of a terrorism scare anthrax Isaac	$1,600 [15] The line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" comes from his poem "Endymion" John Keats	$1,600 [13] This singer of "Scars To Your Beautiful" was discovered via her YouTube channel after she began posting videos at 13 Alessia Cara Gus	$1,600 [26] 2 hyphens are in the name of this flower that's the name of a scenic trail on Canada's Cape Breton Isle the fleur-de-lis Catherine	$1,600 [5] Last name of author John, who wrote "A Separate Peace" Knowles Gus	$1,600 [22] Dean Moriarty comes out of reform school, not college, in a novel by this Beat Generation author (Jack) Kerouac Catherine
$2,000 [8] PCR, short for this, allows endless copying of tiny bits of DNA, helping identify diseases & catch killers polymerase chain reaction Isaac	$2,000 [14] She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 & in 2020 this poet, whose last name means good fortune, won the Nobel Prize for Literature Louise Glück	$2,000 [12] Once the most popular personality on Vine, "all hail" this funnyman, actor, producer & content creator seen here King Bach Catherine	DD $2,000 [17] The Fourth Raadsaal, a word meaning council chamber, is in this South African judicial capital Bloemfontein Gus	$2,000 [4] Ring a bell slowly & solemnly to announce a death knell Gus	$2,000 [21] Dean Potter climbed part of El Capitan in Yosemite this way that uses no ropes & gave a documentary its title free solo Gus

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842

the Underground Railroad

Catherine "What is the Tra" — wagered $400

Isaac "What is The Underground Railroad" — wagered $2,601

Gus "What is the Transcon" — wagered $10,801

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