2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 5.
Neha Seshadri — a senior at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Chance Persons — a sophomore at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska
Pauline Bisaccio — a junior at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| Pauline | $-2,600 | $-2,600 | $5,600 |
$8,601
2nd place: $10,000 |
$5,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Chance | $1,600 | $4,200 | $7,400 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$9,400
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Neha | $5,000 | $4,200 | $8,600 |
$14,801
Winner: semifinalist |
$7,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
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$200
[25]
This tallest mountain in North America was formerly named for a U.S. president
Denali
Neha
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$200
[26]
Fianna Fáil, or "Soldiers of Destiny", has been one of this country's leading political parties since the 1930s
Ireland
Chance
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$200
[27]
This "Good Morning America"n & ex-NFLer hosts "The $100,000 Pyramid"
(Michael) Strahan
Chance
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$200
[5]
As seen on TV & social media, Sandra Lee, also known as Dr. Pimple Popper, is board-certified in this field
dermatology
Neha
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$200
[30]
Macedonian conqueror of Persia who is a large breed of canine like Scooby Doo
Alexander the Great Dane
Chance
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$200
[29]
(Topher Grace delivers the clue.) College cost has tripled in 20 years & averages about $36,000 a year; parents might win 2 games on "Jeopardy!", like our show's co-creatoractually did, or invest in this numeric option, legally known as a qualified tuition plan
a 529
Pauline
Neha
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$400
[24]
Appropriately, the Funeral Mountains border this valley of the American Southwest
Death Valley
Neha
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$400
[22]
You pass in this card game if you decline to make a bid when it's your turn in the auction
bridge
Pauline
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$400
[23]
Coach Sylvester on "Glee", she sends people home on "The Weakest Link"; goodbye!
Jane Lynch
Chance
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$400
[4]
This word precedes disease in a specialty & is also in the name of the institute Anthony Fauci directs
infectious
Neha
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$400
[28]
Doctor's office holding area feature that allows you to order food & drink to be delivered to you
waiting room service
Neha
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$400
[13]
(Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Sometimes life comes at you fast--ouch--glad everyone was okay--good thing you have car insurance; but now you must pay this, the part of the covered loss that's out of pocket; $500 tends to be the popular choice
the deductible
Chance
|
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$600
[10]
The central peak of this mountain massif is seen here
Kilimanjaro
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$600
[9]
Explosive word for a long pass in football
bomb
Chance
Neha
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$600
[19]
This current late night host has folks pick their "final answer" on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
Jimmy Kimmel
|
$800
[2]
Dr. Benjamin Rush, who wrote an 1812 textbook on mental diseases, is often called the "father of American" this medical field
psychiatry
Pauline
Neha
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$600
[21]
"Great Bear" constellation with teams like the L.A. Galaxy in it
Ursa Major League Soccer
Pauline
Chance
Neha
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$600
[6]
(Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Hey, it's never too early to start planning for retirement, guys; one type of IRA that lets qualified distributions be tax-free is named for this senator who represented Delaware with Joe Biden
(William) Roth
Neha
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$800
[11]
In Israel, not Hawaii, the Hula Valley is where 3 tributaries join to form this river
the Jordan
Pauline
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$800
[8]
The Great this Pass in the Pennine Alps is where a famed breed of rescue dog originated
St. Bernard
Neha
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$800
[16]
After "Saturday Night Live", she began hosting "Supermarket Sweep"
Leslie Jones
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$1,000
[1]
This 16-letter field deals with the digestive organs & tract including the stomach & esophagus
gastroenterology
Neha
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$800
[20]
That bold end-of-a-performance action is still very small compared to all the water it's in
a mic drop in the bucket
|
$800
[7]
(Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Crypto is a newer investment option; created as a joke in 2013, this coin, favored by shiba inus, is no joke now
Dogecoin
Chance
|
|
$1,000
[18]
Mt. Narodnaya is the tallest peak in this mountain range, a traditional boundary between Europe & Asia
the Urals
Chance
Neha
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$1,000
[17]
A Cold War-era novel & movie popularized this term for a device that's supposed to prevent unanticipated disaster
failsafe
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$1,000
[15]
This3-time NBA champion hosts "The Cube"
Dwyane Wade
Chance
|
DD
$1,800
[3]
Trouble with hay fever?Have bad reactions to bug bites? Or peanuts?This specialist can help
an allergist
Neha
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$1,000
[14]
A regimen of liquefied carrots & grapefruit that's a freeway space where many drive 75
the juice fast lane
Pauline
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$1,000
[12]
(Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Hey, you got a new job! Congrats! Now you're looking for an apartment & here's some free advice: 30% is the traditional max for yourRTI ratio, "RTI" short for this
rent-to-income
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$400
[29]
At a "mad" party in "Alice in Wonderland", this beverage is all that's served
tea
Pauline
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$400
[30]
A pair of stamps feature a boutonniere & this bouquet of flowers often worn pinned to a dress
a corsage
Chance
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$400
[23]
If you've been "Keeping Up with"her, you know she's one of the highest-paid models in the world
Kendall Jenner
Pauline
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$400
[11]
The part of the devil is sung by a bass in Gounod's opera about this soul-seller
Faust
Pauline
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$400
[22]
Levi Preston gained fame for fighting in both these Massachusetts battles on April 19, 1775, but actually fought in neither
Lexington & Concord
Neha
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$400
[28]
It's Latin for "after" but comes before "-mortem"
post
Pauline
|
|
$800
[13]
This Dickens character excitedly watches his younger, better self make merry at Mr. Fezziwig's ball
(Ebenezer) Scrooge
Chance
|
$800
[21]
Seen here, a 2021 stamp celebrates this holiday by showing elements of a typical ofrenda
Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead)
Chance
|
$800
[5]
In 2020 he went in a different direction, wearing a Gucci dress as the first solo male to grace the cover of Vogue magazine
Harry Styles
Pauline
Chance
|
$800
[10]
Alberichis very fond of that ring he has crafted in an opera by this composer
Richard Wagner
Chance
|
DD
$1,000
[17]
From 2013 to 2018 former First Lady Livia Klausova was Czech ambassador to this former partner land
Slovakia
Pauline
|
$800
[27]
It's the adverb in the acronym FKA
formerly
|
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$1,200
[12]
In the medieval Icelandic "Prose Edda", slain warriors party every night in this hall
Valhalla
Neha
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$1,200
[20]
A series of stamps depicts backyard games, including tetherball & this one where you toss beanbags at a wooden target
cornhole
Neha
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$1,200
[4]
This big screen "Wonder Woman" served 2 years in the Israeli Defense Forces
(Gal) Gadot
Pauline
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$1,200
[9]
Katharina's aria "My Strength Fails" is a highlight of Hermann Goetz' opera based on this Shakespeare comedy
The Taming of the Shrew
|
$1,200
[16]
In 1386, Jean de Carrouges met Jacques le Gris in an affair of honor seen in theimage here& in this 2021 film
The Last Duel
|
$1,200
[26]
The order of who is next on the throne is the line of this 10-letter word
succession
Pauline
|
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
At his wake, this title character is laid out with a barrel of Guinness at his head & a bottle of whiskey at his feet
Tim Finnegan
Chance
|
$1,600
[19]
The picket fence in the background alludes to a play title by this man honored on the stampseen here
(August) Wilson
Pauline
Chance
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$1,600
[3]
For his 2017 album "Damn", he became the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize for music
(Kendrick) Lamar
Neha
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$1,600
[8]
Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist for this 1787 Mozart opera about a seducer, was friends with Casanova, who had the same hobby IRL
Don Giovanni
Chance
Neha
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$1,600
[15]
Bread & these are listed by the satiric poet Juvenal as the only remaining concerns of Rome's jaded population
circuses
Pauline
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$1,600
[25]
This pluralized word means past grievances; we say "let" them "be" them
bygones
Neha
|
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$2,000
[2]
A villa in France is the site of an extended house party in "Conversations with Friends" by this much-lauded young writer
Sally Rooney
|
$2,000
[18]
A stamp honors the 33,000 second-generation Japanese Americans, known by this Japanese word, who served in World War II
Nisei
Pauline
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$2,000
[1]
These days, he's "The Good Doctor" Sean Murphy, but as a teen he played Charlie in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Freddie Highmore
Pauline
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$2,000
[7]
In Richard Strauss' opera about this woman, her dancing leads to the death of John the Baptist
Salome
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$2,000
[14]
ASTP was short for these two spacecraft "Test Project"; the U.S.-Sovietdockingrecreated at the Air and Space Museum took place in 1975
Apollo & Soyuz
|
$2,000
[24]
French suivre, "to follow", is related to this 5-letter word that means the same
ensue
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About 200 miles of the Tyrrhenian Sea separates the cities of Cagliari & Trapani in these 2 "regioni autonome" of Italy
Sardinia & Sicily