2022 National College Championship semifinal game 3.
Emmey Harris — a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
Liz Feltner — a senior at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts
Kristin Donegan — a senior at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| Kristin | $-1,400 | $800 | $11,000 |
$22,000
2nd place: $20,000 |
$13,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Liz | $2,400 | $3,000 | $11,000 |
$22,000
Winner: finalist, if one of 3 top-scoring winners; $35,000 for 4th place |
$11,000
13 R, 2 W |
| Emmey | $1,800 | $3,600 | $10,800 |
$21,600
3rd place: $20,000 |
$10,800
14 R, 4 W |
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$200
[2]
Enrique Esparza was about 8 on March 6, 1836 & a witness who would "remember" the battle at this mission for decades; Enrique died in 1917
the Alamo
Liz
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$200
[15]
A regional alliance:NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Kristin
Emmey
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$200
[20]
Seen here, the Ulm Minster is home to the tallest of these church towers with a spire at the top
a steeple
Kristin
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$200
[6]
It's the smallest 2-digit prime number
11
Kristin
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$200
[13]
Invented in 1929, this clear beverage was originally called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda"
7 Up
Kristin
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$200
[26]
(Steve Levy delivers the clue.) Some said it wouldn't work in 1970 when this program brought the NFL to primetime, but in 2020 I became the seventh play-by-play announcer as it celebrated 50 years on the air
Monday Night Football
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$400
[3]
Akhenaten's son, he got the pharaoh gig at age 9 & benched Aten in favor of a return to the worship of Amun
King Tut (Tutankhamun)
Kristin
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$400
[16]
On the clock in Denver:MST
Mountain Standard Time
Liz
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$400
[21]
There's a Fairmont Hotel in the 1,972-foot-tall Abraj al-Bayt clock tower, next to the great mosque in this holy city
Mecca
Kristin
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$400
[7]
This number becomes palindromic when written with 3 letters in Roman numerals
19 (XIX)
Kristin
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$400
[12]
Introduced to Europe around the 17th century, it was sometimes referred to as "Arabian wine"
coffee
Emmey
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$400
[27]
(Pablo Torre delivers the clue.) I graduated from Harvard, a school that has produced some great sportswriters, like David Halberstam, & some great athletes, like this NBA guard who, like me, has spoken out against anti-Asian violence
(Jeremy) Lin
Liz
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$600
[1]
Saints be praised! On March 22, 1429 this feisty teen dictated a letter to English commanders, insisting they leave France
Joan of Arc
Emmey
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$600
[17]
Let the games begin:IOC
International Olympic Committee
Liz
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$600
[22]
"O" is for this type of tall stone shaft like Cleopatra's Needle or the Washington Monument
obelisk
Kristin
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$600
[8]
When writing a haiku, you must use this many syllables
17 (5, 7, 5)
Kristin
Liz
Emmey
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$600
[11]
A dark mustache on a BYU student may indicate she's been drinking this, the most popular beverage sold there after water
chocolate milk
Liz
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$600
[28]
(Mina Kimes delivers the clue.) I graduated from Yale, a school that has produced NFL stars like Gary Fencik&two menwho had this job running the major leagues, Fay Vincent & Bart Giamatti
Commissioners of Baseball
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$800
[4]
In 1998 the 9 teens who integrated Central High in this Southern capital in 1957 were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal
Little Rock
Emmey
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$800
[18]
The address of a web page:URL
uniform resource locator
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$800
[23]
In line with the theme of Seattle's World's Fair, its legs were painted Astronaut White & its core Orbital Olive
the Space Needle
Emmey
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$800
[9]
Georgia ratified this amendment into law December 6, 1865
the 13th Amendment
Emmey
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DD
$1,000
[14]
Earl Grey tea gets its distinctive taste from an oil derived from the bergamot variety of this fruit
an orange
Kristin
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$800
[29]
(Richard Jefferson delivers the clue.) As an NBA analyst, I like to see my fellow Wildcats from this school, like Deandre Ayton, Andre Iguodala&, before my time, future congressman Morris Udall; he had a glass eye, but a wicked one-handed shot
the University of Arizona
Liz
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$1,000
[5]
As a teen, this Frenchman whose name became a computer language wrote an essay on conic sections that impressed Descartes
Pascal
Emmey
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$1,000
[19]
A care provider:LPN
licensed practical nurse
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$1,000
[24]
Around 2500 B.C. Menkaure, a king of the fourth dynasty, began building a 215-foot-tall one of these
a pyramid
Emmey
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$1,000
[10]
Developed by chemist Willard Libby, this method named for an isotope is used to date fossils
carbon-14 dating
Liz
Emmey
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$1,000
[25]
Rice is soaked in water to make this Mexican beverage & Vampire Weekend song title
horchata
Kristin
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$1,000
[30]
(Michael Eaves delivers the clue.) ESPN has brought you the UFC since 2019 & we cover it all, including this pre-fight confrontation that's now an essential part of MMA, but became popular around 1930 at boxing weigh-ins with fighters like Jack Sharkey
the stare-down
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$400
[14]
Batmania & Bearbrass were old names for this second-most populous city in Australia
Melbourne
Kristin
Liz
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$400
[30]
Joaquin Phoenix was troubled comedian Arthur Fleck
Joker
Kristin
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$400
[20]
Lucy steps into this part of the title in a 1950 tale & discovers a "second row of coats hanging up behind the first"
a wardrobe
Kristin
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$400
[7]
Covalent bonds share valence these
electrons
Kristin
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$400
[4]
In Judaism this day of atonement is the holiest of all days
Yom Kippur
Emmey
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$400
[29]
Thistype of electricity will lead to the shocking result seen here
static
Liz
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$800
[13]
In 1739 Willingtown in Delaware, named for Thomas Willing, made a small change & became this, named after an earl
Wilmington
Kristin
Emmey
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$800
[18]
Emma Stone, in a live-action prequel to "101 Dalmatians"
Cruella
Emmey
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$1,200
[22]
The title structure of this Virginia Woolf novel is across the bay from the Ramsays' house on the Isle of Skye
To the Lighthouse
Liz
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$800
[6]
These units of heat weigh in at just over 4 joules; the ones counted by dieters are actually "kilo-" sized
a calorie
Kristin
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$800
[5]
During this holy month of fasting, many Muslims will recite the entire Koran, a portion each day
Ramadan
Kristin
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$800
[28]
Penicillin was the first drug of this type to be widely used to treat disease
an antibiotic
Emmey
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$1,200
[11]
The former Northern Rhodesia & Southern Rhodesia are now these 2 countries
Zambia & Zimbabwe
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$1,200
[15]
Jordan Peele film in which a family is terrorized by its doppelgangers
Us
Kristin
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$1,600
[23]
Umberto Eco named this 1988 thriller for an object that demonstrates the Earth's rotation
Foucault's Pendulum
|
$1,200
[3]
As the name implies, redox is a reaction in which these 2 actions take place
reduction & oxidation
Emmey
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$1,200
[9]
In the King James version of the Lord's Prayer, they're the 4 words that follow "Our father which art in heaven"
hallowed be thy name
Liz
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$1,200
[27]
It's a preparation to improve your appearance or a type of surgery to do the same
cosmetic
Emmey
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$1,600
[8]
In 1972 Sri Lanka dropped this British colonial name
Ceylon
Emmey
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$1,600
[16]
The impoverished Kims put one over on the wealthy Parks
Parasite
Kristin
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$2,000
[24]
Sections in this Barbara Kingsolver book include "Genesis" & "Exodus"
The Poisonwood Bible
Emmey
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$2,000
[1]
Though it doesn't start with that letter, "S" represents this measure of the molecular disorder in a closed system
entropy
Kristin
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$1,600
[10]
This religion at the end of the alphabet was founded by a Persian prophet & pre-dates Islam
Zoroastrianism
Kristin
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$1,600
[26]
From a Greek word for "to select", it can describe one's taste in music if they like rap, classical & salsa
eclectic
Liz
|
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$2,000
[12]
In 1916 an Ontario city named for this foreign capital renamed itself for British field marshal Horatio Kitchener
Berlin
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$2,000
[17]
James McAvoy struggles with 23 personalities
Split
Liz
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
In a Steinbeck tale this title object is thrown back into the water after causing trouble
the pearl
Kristin
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DD
$2,800
[2]
Europium is one of these metals, though they're not as scarce as their name implies
rare earth metals
Kristin
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$2,000
[19]
The Hindu goddess Durga, also known by this shorter "D" name, fights for Dharma &ridesa lion
Devi
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$2,000
[25]
It was bad to be deemed this, one who went against the medieval Catholic Church, like Knights Templar leader Jacques de Molay
a heretic
Liz
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In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape
the Tower of London