2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 12.
Megan Sullivan — a junior at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia
Aniket Dehadrai — a senior at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sam Blum — a senior at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam | $2,400 | $2,400 | $2,000 |
$1,598
3rd place: $10,000 |
$2,000
8 R, 3 W |
| Aniket | $200 | $5,000 | $4,200 |
$4,200
2nd place: $10,000 |
$11,200
19 R, 9 W (including 3 DDs) |
| Megan | $2,400 | $5,000 | $5,400 |
$8,401
Winner: semifinalist |
$5,400
18 R, 5 W |
| AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN | THROWING SERIOUS SHADE | HAIKU THAT NOVEL! | TOY STORIES | THEY'RE MULTI-TALENTED | GET YOUR "M_B_A" |
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$200
[13]
Also called the Millennium Bug, this alphanumeric issue thankfully proved to be a non-problem on Jan. 1, 2000
Y2K
Sam
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$200
[29]
"Great"these"from little acorns grow", & grow they do; here's Ohio's six-century-old Logan one
oak
Megan
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$200
[27]
19th century /Once titled "First Impressions" /Is Darcy the one?
Pride and Prejudice
Megan
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$200
[1]
This brand's Vortex Vigilon could launch its soft discs up to 50 feet
Nerf
Megan
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$200
[30]
This singer has the role of Marion Crane on "Bates Motel" under her large entertainment & fashion umbrella-ella-ella
Rihanna
Megan
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$200
[18]
2-word expression meaning "I am at fault"
my bad
Aniket
Megan
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$400
[14]
It took 11 years & about $25 million, but in 2001 this landmark was reopened with its tilt reduced by about 16 inches
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Megan
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$400
[7]
The 330-foot Centurion, this type of tree, survived Tasmanian bushfires in 2019, to the relief of koalas everywhere
a eucalyptus
Aniket
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$400
[3]
Dust Bowl to Cali /No kicks on Route 66 /The Joad to ruin
The Grapes of Wrath
Sam
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$400
[4]
These toys that became a TV & movie franchise sprang from Japanese toy lines called Diaclone & Micro Change
Transformers
Megan
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$400
[28]
She sang "Lose You To Love Me" before dealing with "Only Murders in the Building" on Hulu
Selena Gomez
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$400
[15]
The black species of this snake is actually dark brown to gray
a mamba
Aniket
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$600
[8]
Released in 2003, this Pixar film about a dad trying to locate his son earned nearly $1 billion worldwide
Finding Nemo
Aniket
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$600
[21]
South of Alaska, there's a Sitka one of these trees in Oregon that's 144 feet tall with a 93-foot crown spread
a spruce
Aniket
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$600
[2]
Remote health resort /Masha's Tranquillum House... rough /An octet plus one
Nine Perfect Strangers
|
$600
[10]
Yasmin, Cloe, Sasha & Jade were the original lineup of these "anti-Barbies"
Bratz
Aniket
|
$600
[26]
Onscreen, this big guy was "Kazaam"; on the music scene, he knew "You Can't Stop the Reign"; on the court, he won 4 NBA titles
Shaquille O'Neal
Megan
|
$600
[5]
eBay has a category called "Vintage sports" this, souvenirs of famous events
memorabilia
Megan
|
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$800
[9]
On Dec. 13, 2003 U.S. forces near Tikrit found this president of Iraq underground; a gun was present, but he did not fire a shot
(Saddam) Hussein
Sam
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DD
$1,000
[11]
Architectural Digest: "Say" this & "most people envision large shade trees with fragrant blossoms that evoke the American South"
magnolia
Aniket
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$800
[20]
Oasis, by Cline /Praise... "Wonka meets 'The Matrix'" /--USA Today
Ready Player One
Megan
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$800
[19]
Known as Go Go Hamsters in the U.K., they were a smash hit for Christmas 2009
ZhuZhu Pets
Megan
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$800
[6]
She created & starred in "Fleabag" as well as co-writing "No Time to Die", & what a crossover that would be!
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Aniket
Megan
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$800
[16]
It's the headgear you'll wear at commencement
a mortarboard
|
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$1,000
[12]
To collect solar wind particles, in 2001 NASA sent up this spacecraft that shares its name with a Bible book & a dad rock band
Genesis
Sam
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$1,000
[22]
Climbed with a tape measure in 2019, a 330' yellow meranti on this Malaysian/Indonesian island was dubbed tallest tropical tree
Borneo
Sam
Aniket
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$1,000
[25]
A Pilgrim's progress /Vonnegut: unstuck in time /Catchphrase... So it goes
Slaughterhouse-Five
Aniket
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$1,000
[23]
The National Toy Hall of fame calls this, created in 1974, the "most popular puzzle in history"
the Rubik's Cube
Aniket
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$1,000
[24]
Thisactor/writer/director/whatever else he wants to put on his resume has certainly come out of "the Shadows"
Taika Waititi
Aniket
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$1,000
[17]
It's an African name for a xylophone
marimba
Sam
|
| EUROPEAN HISTORY | U.S. BODIES OF WATER | PICK A MAJOR | TECH TALK | THE FUTURE'S NOT SO BRIGHT... | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME |
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$400
[27]
In the 20th century Portugal's Antonio Salazar created the "Estado Novo", or this
New State
Megan
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$400
[28]
This Great Lake takes a little bite out of Indiana's northwest corner
(Lake) Michigan
Sam
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$400
[30]
The intervals in a major one of these go tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone
scale
Aniket
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$400
[1]
These deceptive videos can be created by using A.I. to put one celebrity's head on another's body; the word dates to 2017
a deepfake
Sam
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$400
[13]
"Another Life" has Katee Sackhoff saving her crew by sending them through one of these intergalactic passageways
a wormhole
Aniket
|
$400
[26]
A list of team members &something you might hang on your dorm wall
roster & poster
Megan
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|
$800
[20]
At the Battle of Salamis, the Greeks defeated the fleet of this empire
Persia (the Persian Empire)
Megan
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$800
[29]
A 24-mile-long causeway across this lake connects New Orleans to the northern shore
Lake Pontchartrain
Aniket
|
$800
[14]
Also known as the Hourglass Sea & the Atlantic Canale, Syrtis Major is a big dark spot on the surface of this planet
Mars
Megan
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$800
[2]
Here's a picture made using this acronymic code
ASCII
Megan
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$800
[23]
In the 2021 film "Dune", this single-named actress plays the single-named Chani, a Fremen fighter on bleak Arrakis
Zendaya
Megan
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$800
[24]
A military food allowance for one day &a bus depot
ration & station
Megan
|
|
$1,200
[8]
In 1979 Canton Jura in this country split from Canton Bern
Switzerland
Aniket
|
$1,200
[17]
Thisdistinct-looking river forms much of the Texas-Oklahoma boundary
the Red River
Aniket
|
$1,200
[3]
The resort town of Llantwit Major lies in the Vale of Glamorgan in this country
Wales
Aniket
Megan
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$1,200
[12]
In 2003 Valve Software created this platform, "the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games"
Steam
Sam
Megan
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$1,200
[18]
On this Amazon show set in the 24th c., a terrorist faction among the asteroid belt drops a big rock on Earth with devastating effect
The Expanse
|
$1,200
[21]
Glossy &a Roman statesman, the elder
Pliny & shiny
Aniket
Megan
|
|
$2,000
[10]
In the 15th century Erik of Pomerania waged war with this mercantile league while trying to solidify his Baltic empire
the Hanseatic League
Aniket
|
$1,600
[7]
Admiral David Farragut saw his greatest victory in the August 1864 Battle of this body of water
Mobile Bay
Megan
|
$1,600
[4]
These 2 "majors" are the big muscles of the upper chest
pectorals
Aniket
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$1,600
[11]
Sony's PlayStation 5 controller ditches rumble motors to create this 6-letter "feedback" so your hands can better feel the action
haptic
Sam
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$1,600
[16]
Mankind is on the wrong side of an ass-whoopin' in 2051 & Chris Pratt has to go back to the future to help in this 2021 flick
The Tomorrow War
Sam
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$1,600
[22]
A lunar feature &a liquid
crater & water
Aniket
|
|
DD
$4,000
[9]
The largest ghetto uprising of World War II was mounted in this capital in 1943
Warsaw
Aniket
|
$2,000
[15]
The Cumberland River rises in this state, flows through a portion of Tennessee & then back into this state
Kentucky
Aniket
|
$2,000
[5]
The title character of this George Bernard Shaw play is an officer in the Salvation Army
Major Barbara
Aniket
|
$2,000
[6]
Abbreviated NFT, it's a sort of title to a digital artwork that anyone can look at, not just its owner
a non-fungible token
Aniket
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
In "Y: The Last Man" having a Y chromosome is a death sentence, save for the guy with this name from Shakespeare
Yorick
Aniket
|
$2,000
[25]
To journey to another land &an umbilicus
travel & navel
Aniket
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The OED says this 9-letter word is literary & poetic, & it appears 11 times in an 1845 American poem, including as the last word
nevermore