2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 8.
Sarah Salisbury — a sophomore at USC in Los Angeles, California
Max Niles — a senior at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
Jaskaran Singh — a senior at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaskaran | $4,500 | $6,300 | $19,900 |
$19,900
Winner: semifinalist |
$21,400
27 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Max | $-1,000 | $-400 | $6,600 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$7,600
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah :) | $600 | $3,000 | $9,000 |
$18,000
2nd place: $10,000 |
$9,000
13 R, 3 W |
| U.S. CITIES | SPECIAL DAYS | TV, STREAMED | FANCIFIED PROVERBS | MARX | ANGLES |
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$200
[15]
Considered "The Birthplace of California", it's home to the Padres & a world-renowned zoo
San Diego
Sarah :)
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$200
[20]
August 15 is Assumption Day on the Catholic calendar, celebrating this figure being taken up into heaven
Mary
Jaskaran
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$200
[30]
A "Mandalorian" character is named Grogu & is also called the Child, but viewers dubbed him "Baby" this
Yoda
Jaskaran
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$200
[22]
A plethora of chefs ruins bouillon
too many cooks spoil the broth
Jaskaran
Sarah :)
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$200
[29]
In 1849 the last issue of a newspaper Karl edited wasn't black & white, but this all over; he defiantly used that color ink
red
Max
|
$200
[27]
Due to its narrow beam, the Anglepoiselampwas popular during these, which in WWII Britain were deliberate, not power-company goofs
blackouts
Jaskaran
|
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$400
[14]
Incorporated in 1911, this city 30 miles northwest of Hoover Dam has had a busy 111 years
Las Vegas
Sarah :)
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$400
[19]
On April 8 Japan celebrates the flower festival Hana Matsuri; sakura, these blossoms, are a popular offering
cherry blossoms
Max
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$400
[10]
The devil didn't go down to Georgia, he went up to L.A. to open a nightclub & solve murders on this Netflix show
Lucifer
Jaskaran
|
$400
[18]
In the absence of any fracture, refrain from repair
if it ain't broke, don't fix it
Jaskaran
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$400
[28]
Karl looked forward to a "dictatorship of" this group, originally a word & a class from ancient Rome
the proletariat
Sarah :)
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$400
[23]
American dentist Edward Angle is considered a father of this "correct teeth" specialty
orthodontics
Jaskaran
|
|
$600
[6]
It's about500 miles from this state capital to the larger city of the same name
Charleston
Jaskaran
|
$600
[12]
On July 24 Ecuador & Venezuela celebrate the birthday of this man born in 1783
Bolivar
Jaskaran
|
$600
[9]
Billy Butcher has some serious issues with superheroes on this Amazon show & confronts them quite directly
The Boys
Jaskaran
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$600
[17]
Inquisitiveness eliminated Snowbell
curiosity killed the cat
Jaskaran
|
$600
[3]
Marx' grave bears a line from "The Communist Manifesto": "Workers of all lands", do this
unite
Jaskaran
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$600
[24]
Minnesota's Northwest Angle borders the Canadian provinces of Ontario & this one
Manitoba
Sarah :)
|
|
$800
[4]
Founded on a peninsula in 1565, it would become Spain's military & religious headquarters in North America
St. Augustine
Jaskaran
|
$800
[11]
This fall festival in Hinduism involves lighting lamps to invite the presence of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth
Diwali
Jaskaran
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$800
[7]
An HBO Max series with "That Damn" this "Weekend Update" co-anchor examines issues like racial profiling & unemployment
Michael Che
Jaskaran
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$800
[16]
Pulchritude constitutes an observational aspect within the percipient
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Jaskaran
Sarah :)
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$800
[1]
Marx wrote that this "is money." This "is commodities" & had a lot more to say about it, the title of his longest work
Capital
Jaskaran
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$800
[25]
"The Angle" was a part of this Civil War battlefield & a target of Pickett's Charge
Gettysburg
Jaskaran
|
|
DD
$1,500
[5]
"Take a ride" in this oft-mispronounced Pennsylvania city named for the ancestral hometown of the Penn family
Reading
Jaskaran
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$1,000
[13]
October 2021 brought the first presidential proclamation of this day, celebrated along with Columbus Day
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Sarah :)
|
$1,000
[8]
On Apple TV+ a lot of work goes into the creation of "Raven's Banquet", the expansion pack for this title online fantasy game
Mythic Quest
Max
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$1,000
[21]
A spinning mineral rejects the retention of any Bryophyta
a rolling stone gathers no moss
Sarah :)
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$1,000
[2]
Marx considered religion "the opium of the people", which wouldn't have pleased his paternal grandfather, who had this job
a rabbi
Sarah :)
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$1,000
[26]
Using the difference in the angles of shadows at 2 distant places, Eratosthenes calculated this around 200 B.C. to be 250,000 stadia
the circumference of the Earth
Sarah :)
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| IN THEIR EXPERT OPINION | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS | TRIPLE RHYME TIME | TIME FOR LAW SCHOOL | OR TAKE THE "M" CATS | THE MANY MUSICS OF MARK RONSON |
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$400
[17]
Martin Luther reportedly said of this contemporary, "this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy"
Copernicus
Jaskaran
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$400
[11]
Olga, Masha & Irina are the title siblings in this Chekhov play
Three Sisters
Jaskaran
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$400
[19]
The tertiary parrot that you listened to
third bird heard (heard third bird accepted)
Sarah :)
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$400
[26]
Your first year will doubtless include a course or 2 on these legally enforceable agreements & their breaches
contracts
Max
|
$400
[24]
The puma of north & South America is also known as the cougar, the panther, & this 2-word name
a mountain lion
Jaskaran
|
$400
[30]
(Mark Ronson delivers the clue.) We thought it might be heard over the end credits of "A Star Is Born" when I co-wrote this song with Lady Gaga; I was blown away to see it become part of the story
"Shallow"
Sarah :)
|
|
$800
[13]
Thislord with his own temperature scale called X rays a hoax, but just a few years later was looking at his own handbones
Lord Kelvin
Jaskaran
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$800
[5]
Seen here is this playwright whose first theatrical success was the comedy of manners "Lady Windermere's Fan"
Oscar Wilde
Max
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$800
[18]
Extreme happiness at the home of the Slurpee
7-Eleven heaven
|
$800
[7]
Law school students might participate in this "court", a hypothetical appellate case whose topic is chosen from a real case
moot court
Max
|
$800
[9]
A recently created breed of small cat bears this name from "The Wizard of Oz"
a munchkin
Sarah :)
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$800
[15]
(Mark Ronson delivers the clue.) A collaboration that changed both our lives started when I asked this artist how she wanted the album "Back to Black" to sound & she played me the '60s girl group the Shangri-Las
Amy Winehouse
Jaskaran
|
|
$1,200
[12]
In 2004 Bill Gates said, "Two years from now" this "will be solved"--he had a solution involving proof of emailers' identities
spam
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
Luigi Pirandello is best remembered for this numerical play from 1921
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Max
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$1,200
[22]
To practice saying over & over again the magic hex that will affect a handbag
rehearse purse curse
Sarah :)
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$1,200
[6]
Be forewarned--many of your profs will teach via this "method" named for a guy who lost his biggest trial
the Socratic method
Max
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$1,200
[8]
It's the stately breed of long-haired domesticat seen here
a Maine coon
Sarah :)
|
$1,200
[29]
(Mark Ronson delivers the clue.) The longest I've worked on a song was more than six months on this one with Bruno Mars & Jeff Bhaskerthat came out on an album of mine; it worked out really well for all of us & Michelle Pfeiffer thinks it's cool too
"Uptown Funk"
Max
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Joseph Ives commanded the first military vessel on the Colorado River & said no whites would ever again bother to visit this
the Grand Canyon
Max
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$1,200
[4]
"Play" is in the title of this drama based in part on playwright Charles Fuller's time in the army & on "Billy Budd"
A Soldier's Play
|
$1,600
[21]
A lazy, careless attempt to break into your PC files
slack hack attack
|
$1,600
[2]
You'll need a class on these private wrongs like negligence & defamation
torts
Jaskaran
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$1,600
[10]
Tradition says this tailless cat originated on an island in the Irish Sea
a Manx cat
Jaskaran
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$1,600
[28]
(Mark Ronson delivers the clue.) In my college years I wasDJingat downtown New York clubs spinning new hip-hop like the debut album of this kung fu-loving group produced by the RZA
the Wu-Tang Clan
Jaskaran
|
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
Harvard prof Louis Agassiz said the "transmutation theory" of this 1859 book was "untrue", "unscientific" & "mischievous"
The Origin of Species
Jaskaran
|
$2,000
[3]
Seen here, she's the first woman to win 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, her first for "Ruined" &, in 2017, for "Sweat"
Lynn Nottage
Jaskaran
|
$2,000
[23]
A horse liberated from Stockholm
freed Swede steed
Sarah :)
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$2,000
[25]
To take your case all the way to the Supreme Court, the main method is to ask the justices to grant a writ of this Latin word
certiorari
Jaskaran
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$2,000
[20]
Seen here, this lovely little cat is often referred to as a miniature version of the big cat called the clouded leopard
the marbled cat
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$2,000
[27]
(Mark Ronson delivers the clue.) There are lots of ways to make music & on my podcast I contrasted my passion for collaboration with the method of Kevin Parker of this 1-man Aussie band whose breakthrough album was even called "Lonerism"
Tame Impala
Max
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This country, the largest in area entirely within Europe, borders the largest country in the world
Ukraine