Show #11 2022-02-16 (taped 2021-11-22) College Championship

2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 11.

Contestants

Claire Jackson — a sophomore at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia

Nam Vu — a senior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Fiona Hellerman — a senior at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Fiona ♥	$1,500	$2,700	$1,500	$1,000 3rd place: $10,000	$1,600 9 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Nam	$6,600	$8,400	$17,000	$17,000 Winner: semifinalist	$17,600 20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Claire	$600	$2,200	$5,000	$3,119 2nd place: $10,000	$5,000 11 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

MARVEL	RECENT NEWS	DO ME A SOLID	LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT"	THE HARDER THEY FALL	3-SYLLABLE WORDS
$200 [18] This Black Pantheractor wanted T'Challa's accent to be authentically African, so he spoke in a dialect based on South African Xhosa Chadwick Boseman Fiona ♥	$200 [26] Facebook announced its stock ticker name would change to MVRS & its corporate name would become this 4-letter one Meta Claire	$200 [30] This gas is liquefied & frozen to make dry ice carbon dioxide Fiona ♥ Claire	$200 [24] "Trimalchio in West Egg" was a working title for this novel The Great Gatsby Fiona ♥	$200 [29] On Feb. 11, 2001 Three Rivers Stadium, long home to this baseball team, got taken out of the game via implosion the Pittsburgh Pirates Nam	$200 [28] A business, or people who come over to visit company Fiona ♥ Claire
$400 [10] Thearc reactorin Tony Stark's chest had a core of this element, symbol Pd; exposure to it would later poison him palladium Nam	$400 [1] Eric Adams bested Curtis Sliwa in this city's 2021 mayoral race New York City	$400 [25] The solid inner core of the Earth is mostly made up of this metal along with nickel iron	DD $300 [5] In this novel, Miss Havisham dies after the faded wedding dress she wears catches fire Great Expectations Fiona ♥	$400 [20] This Greek guy of myth should have taken dad's advice & not flown too close to the sun with waxen wings, as when they melt... Icarus Nam	$400 [27] Time & width are examples of these measurements dimensions Nam
$600 [7] Groot's vocabulary in Guardians 2 is limited; this actor got a script with translations from Groot-speak so his delivery could vary Vin Diesel Claire	$600 [2] In 2021 this Canadian P.M. called a snap election; he held onto power but fell short of his goal of a majority government Trudeau Nam	$600 [3] While liquid at room temperature, this metal does freeze to a solid below minus 38 degrees mercury Nam	$600 [4] The world is ending this coming Saturday, just before dinner, in this book by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Good Omens Fiona ♥	$600 [13] This Broadway musical is about trying to make a flop, but the curtain didn't fall on it until the 2,502nd performance The Producers Nam	$600 [15] Title partner of "Pomp" in a walking song at graduation Circumstance Fiona ♥
$800 [9] Ant-Manis warned about getting small in this sub-atomic micro-verse; he gets stuck there after his retrieval crew blips the Quantum Realm Nam	$800 [17] Seen here, he became the first openly gay Cabinet secretary, after getting the Department of Transportation job Pete Buttigieg Claire	$800 [11] Originally, our pennies were made of solid copper; today, they're copper-coated this metal zinc	$800 [6] "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight" is a line from this Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Nam	$800 [14] In Exodus the depths of this body of water "have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone" the Red Sea Nam	$800 [21] This is happening when prices are high but the value of cash is lessened inflation Fiona ♥
$1,000 [8] Captain Marvelgets some powers due to the Tesseract; others she has via an infusion of this alien race's blood thanks to Yon-Rogg Kree Nam	$1,000 [19] The 2020 "Accords" named for this biblical patriarch were to normalize relations between Bahrain, the U.A.E. & Israel Abraham Claire	$1,000 [12] It's the 12-letter name for a solid figure with twelve faces, as seen here dodecahedron Nam	$1,000 [23] This novel sees Wang Lung go from peasant to landowner The Good Earth Nam	$1,000 [22] Sadly, on May 3, 2003, this beloved New Hampshire granite landmark seenherecollapsed& fell the Old Man of the Mountain	$1,000 [16] From Greek for "a general view", it's a brief summary of a book in a few paragraphs synopsis Nam

Double Jeopardy! Round

THEY WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOKS	HISTORIC NAMES	AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY	POTPOURRI	CELEBS' RECENT PROJECTS	"X" MARKS THE CATEGORY
$400 [30] Neil Campbell of the Campbell-Reece text on this life science was an expert on mimosas--not the drink but a pea family plant biology Nam	$400 [9] In his "Generall Historie of Virginia", John Smith claimed that she saved him from having his "braines" "beate out" Pocahontas Nam	$400 [27] The West African coast goes Liberia-Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana-Togo-Benin-this country bigger than the other 5 put together Nigeria	$400 [16] Limited edition Oreos with designs of these fictional beings are selling for big bucks; the exceedingly rare Mew is highly coveted Pokémon Nam	$400 [7] Paris Hilton: This kind of TV show in which she asks, "What do chives look like?" a cooking show Fiona ♥ Claire	$400 [29] To send data from one computer program to another exchange (or export) Claire
$800 [8] "The Living" this document is part of "Magruder's American Government", written for decades after Magruder by William McClenaghan Constitution Claire	$800 [14] Born into slavery, the abolitionist & activistseenhereadopted this name as she began traveling to preach the Gospel Sojourner Truth Claire	$800 [26] Juba is the capital of this newest nation of Africa that seceded from its northern neighbor in 2011 South Sudan Fiona ♥	$800 [17] This company's "Imagine Cup" allows students around the world to compete in technology-based competitions Microsoft Fiona ♥	$800 [6] Singer Camila Cabello playing this fairy tale heroine in a movie musical Cinderella Fiona ♥	$800 [28] "Controlled chaos" is an example of one of these paradoxical figures of speech an oxymoron Claire
$1,200 [23] Thomas Cormen, who wrote "Introduction to" these, taught his last computer science class at Dartmouth in 2019 after 27 years Algorithms	$1,200 [15] This Roman orator who wrote "On the Republic" orated a bit too much about getting rid of one of his new bosses... oops Cicero Claire	$1,200 [3] The Corniche is a long, glamorous seafront street in this city where Cleopatra lived & loved Alexandria Nam	$1,200 [11] George Takei cheekily said of a trip this man made in 2021, "He's boldly going where other people have gone before" William Shatner	$1,200 [5] Thismodel's book of essays, "My Body" Emily Ratajkowski Claire	$1,200 [12] Seen here is one of the many ancient statues at this city on the Nile Luxor Claire
$1,600 [24] Allan G. Bluman wrote "Probability Demystified" as well as many editions of "Elementary" these Statistics	$2,000 [20] In the 1750s this Swedish naturalist introduced the idea of binomial nomenclature for plants & animals Linnaeus Nam	$1,600 [21] Partly in Namibia, partly in South Africa, Namaqualand is divided by this "colorful" river the Orange River Nam	$1,600 [10] Aroostook Valley Country Club has a golf course in this Canadian province, but a stray shot may fly into Maine New Brunswick Fiona ♥ Claire	$1,600 [4] This Olympian's athletic shoe brand, Saysh Allyson Felix Claire	$1,600 [19] Axiom is a synonym for this, a pithy saying a maxim
DD $2,000 [25] Anthony Kenny of "A New History of Western Philosophy" also covered it in books on Descartes, Wittgenstein & this 13th century saint Thomas Aquinas Nam	DD $3,000 [18] The subject of a 1993 movie, he's the only member of the Nazi Party honored with burial on Israel's Mt. Zion (Oskar) Schindler Nam	$2,000 [22] Dominated by 12,198-foot Pico del Teide, Tenerife is the largest of these islands off Africa's northwest coast the Canary Islands	$2,000 [2] 2 words that don't go well together, imperfectly embalmed, applied to this lord protector of England in 1658 (Oliver) Cromwell Nam	$2,000 [1] Thisactor's podcast "That Thing I Do" Darren Criss Nam	$2,000 [13] Term for theoutermost part of a flowerbefore it opens the calyx

Final Jeopardy!

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

The first national observance of Memorial Day was held May 30, 1868 at this site, on land that had belonged to Robert E. Lee's wife

Arlington National Cemetery

Fiona ♥ "What the Lee Estate" — wagered $500

Claire "What is stone mountain?" — wagered $1,881

Nam "What is Gettysburg" — wagered $0

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