Show #3 2022-02-09 (taped 2021-11-22) College Championship

2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Mehek Boparai — a senior at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Emmey Harris — a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota

Toussaint Pegues — a senior at Caltech in Pasadena, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Toussaint $1,400 $2,600 $5,000 $1
3rd place: $10,000
$5,000
11 R, 2 W
Emmey $1,800 $7,400 $21,000 $21,000
Winner: semifinalist
$19,600
25 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Mehek $1,800 $2,200 $1,200 $1,199
2nd place: $10,000
$4,200
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WINTER WORLD GEOGRAPHY APPS & WEBSITES WHO'S UP FOR SOME SEAFOOD? COLLEGE SPORTS DYNASTIES ENCYCLOPEDIA WORDS
$200 [15]
Paul A. Sipleis the father of this measurement of how cold the air makes you feel based on work in Antarctica around 1940
windchill
Emmey
$200 [16]
Hydra & Zakynthos are 2 of the around 200 inhabited islands of this European nation
Greece
Mehek
$200 [6]
Pay or get paid with this app whose name comes partly from the Latin for "to sell"
Venmo
Toussaint
$200 [21]
Sushi can be pricey; at a 2019 auction a 612-pound bluefin this went for $3.1 million
tuna
Toussaint
$200 [26]
Minnesota & Wisconsin have each won 6 titles at the Women's Frozen Four, the NCAA championship of this
ice hockey
Mehek
$200 [1]
A type of this implement is used for filling in sparse eyebrows
pencil
Toussaint
$400 [13]
This winter state of dormancy is a mammal thing; the poorwill is one of a few birds that do it instead of migrating
hibernation
Mehek
$400 [19]
Term for the line of latitude approximately 23 1/2 degrees north of the equator
the Tropic of Cancer
Toussaint Emmey
$400 [7]
Jerry Seinfeld & Tim Berners-Lee have done AMAs for this website
reddit
Toussaint
$400 [22]
To make the dish these Rockefeller, Galatoire's in New Orleans goes through about 2,000 of the bivalves a day
oysters
Toussaint
$400 [30]
Led by 125-pound Spencer Lee, in 2021 the Iowa Hawkeyes captured their 24th NCAA title in this sport of reversals & falls
wrestling
Emmey
$400 [2]
From the Latin for "fall off", it's the process by which radioactive radium emits radiation
decay
Emmey
$600 [9]
A sleeker aesthetic, EPA regulations & maybe a reluctance to fat-shame have made this winter warmer-upper a thing of the past
a pot-bellied stove
Emmey
$600 [18]
With about 15 million people, it's Canada's most populous province
Ontario
Emmey
$600 [5]
Carnegie Mellon professor Luis von Ahn was part of the team behind this app for learning a foreign language or 2
Duolingo
Toussaint
$600 [23]
Pacific cod & Alaska pollock are on the menu at this chain whose symbol is seen here
Long John Silver's
Emmey
$600 [28]
With stars like this Olympian seen here, the North Carolina Tar Heels have won 21 of the NCAA's 39 women's soccer titles
Mia Hamm
$600 [3]
To hide something
conceal
Mehek
$800 [11]
In "The Winter's Tale", Perdita says, "For you there's" this "R" herb "and rue; these keep seeming and savor all the winter long"
rosemary
Emmey
$800 [17]
Built in the 14th century, Sankore Mosqueis found in this historic city of Mali
Timbuktu
Emmey
$800 [8]
You can upload your own music with this website whose logo is seen here
SoundCloud
Mehek
$800 [24]
These are also called jumbo shrimp but have longer legs & narrower abdomens than their shrimpian counterparts
prawns
Emmey
$800 [29]
From 2000 to 2016 UConn's Huskies won 10 NCAA women's basketball titles for this coach
Geno Auriemma
$800 [10]
Norway's Austfonna one is not doing great, contributing to rising sea levels
icecap
$1,000 [12]
The game of snow snake has long been played by the Haudenosaunee, also known as this league or confederacy
Iroquois
Emmey
DD $2,000 [20]
It's from Chinese for "fragrant harbor" & in the 1840s it was ceded to the British
Hong Kong
Emmey
$1,000 [14]
Amazon owns this livestreaming service that hosts gamers like SypherPK
Twitch
Emmey
$1,000 [25]
A simple but tasty dish is the rainbow species of this fish in lemon & butter
trout
Toussaint
$1,000 [27]
Coach Bob Reade led this Illinois school known as "Augie" to 4 straight Division III football titles in the 1980s
Augustana College
$1,000 [4]
A huppah is one at a Jewish wedding ceremony
canopy
Emmey

Double Jeopardy! Round

ON THE TRANSCRIPT... BUILDINGS SCIENTIFIC ISMs LITERARY NAME DROPPERS YOUR PARENTS' MUSIC A FEW FINAL WORDS
$400 [20]
Of her address to a 2019 global climate summit: "If you choose to fail us, I say, we will never forgive you"
(Greta) Thunberg
Mehek
$400 [6]
Charlie Munger planned a building at Michigan & a future 4,500-bed one at UCSB, both much discussed for the rooms' lack of these
windows
Toussaint
$400 [25]
Some plant roots exhibit "negative" this -ism, turning away from the source of light
phototropism
Emmey Mehek
$400 [5]
A tragicomedy in 2 acts:"Waiting for ____"
Godot
Toussaint
$400 [8]
Dad wore flannel shirts & Doc Martens while listening to this music style of Nirvana & Pearl Jam
grunge
Mehek
$400 [11]
Condition of an animal species when it has no more living members, like the golden toad since 1989
extinct
Emmey
$800 [19]
Of Rep. Shirley Chisholm's speech in favor of this proposed amendment: "There were no founding mothers--a great pity"
the Equal Rights Amendment
Emmey Mehek
$800 [7]
It's the geographic "Q" in the 1,058-foot Q1, Australia's tallest building
Queensland
Emmey
$800 [26]
It means walking on 2 legs & it first set our ancestors apart from apes 6 million or so years ago
bipedalism
Emmey
$800 [4]
Melville's"____, the Scrivener"
Bartleby
Emmey
$800 [15]
Mom bought tickets over the phone (that used to be a thing) for this rocker's 1984-85 "Born in the U.S.A." tour
Springsteen
Mehek
$800 [12]
When "pen-" comes before this word it means next to last; without it, it's last
ultimate
Emmey
$1,200 [23]
Of her Nov. 29, 1872 trial hearing: "Did you have any doubt yourself of your right to vote?" Her reply: "Not a particle"
Susan B. Anthony
Emmey
$1,200 [28]
The Burke Museum on the campus of this state U. has a shed-style roof inspired by the Coast Salish people of the Olympic Peninsula
Washington
Emmey
$1,200 [27]
Here's Dr. Pumpkinstein with acreationthat exhibits this -ism
giantism (or gigantism)
Emmey
$1,200 [1]
Partly narrated by his college roommate:"The Brief Wondrous Life of ____ ____"
Oscar Wao
$1,200 [22]
In 1994 they watched this former Police-man win a Grammy for his vocal on "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You"
Sting (Gordon Sumner)
Emmey
$1,200 [13]
9-letter word for an attorney's closing argument to a jury to get their point across
summation
$1,600 [24]
Of the radio broadcast of this 1937 disaster: "There's smoke and there's flames... Oh, the humanity"
the burning of the Hindenburg
Toussaint
DD $2,000 [29]
Each side of this U.S. building extends for 921 feet; its total perimeter is 4,605 feet
the Pentagon
Emmey
$1,600 [18]
It's the word for tremors & other movement issues associated with a certain disease, even if not caused by it
parkinsonism
Toussaint
$1,600 [2]
Famous first line of "Atlas Shrugged":"Who is ____ ____?"
John Galt
$1,600 [16]
In 1998 they were among the millions who bought "The Miseducation of" this Fugees singer
Lauryn Hill
Mehek
$1,600 [10]
Often found before "of hostilities", this word has a double "S" within it
cessation
Toussaint
DD $3,000 [21]
Of this senator's 1954 hearings investigating the U.S. Army: "Have you no sense of decency?"
Joseph McCarthy
Mehek
$2,000 [30]
Wingspread, a sprawling home for wax tycoon Herbert F. Johnson, was Frank Lloyd Wright's last house in this style
Prairie Style
$2,000 [17]
Thealligatorsat Louisiana's Audubon Zoo have this -ism, from the Greek for "white", a loss of melanin akin to albinism
leucism
$2,000 [3]
From a Percy Shelley poem:"My name is ____, king of kings"
Ozymandias
Emmey
$2,000 [9]
They heard Chuck D & this band revolutionize hip-hop with albums like 1988's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
Public Enemy
$2,000 [14]
Nothing to do with a military takeover, this 3-word French phrase is a final blow
coup de grâce

Final Jeopardy!

USA

In 2012 these 2 neighboring states celebrated the centennial of their admission to the Union

Arizona & New Mexico

Mehek "What areKentucky+Hawaii???" — wagered $1
Toussaint "What are north and south dak" — wagered $4,999
Emmey "What are Washington and Oregon?" — wagered $0

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