Show #17 2022-02-22 (taped 2021-11-23) College Championship

2022 National College Championship final game 1.

Contestants

Raymond Goslow — a senior at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia

Jaskaran Singh — a senior at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas

Liz Feltner — a senior at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Liz $1,000 $2,200 $9,800 $5,800 $9,800
15 R, 1 W
Jaskaran $7,600 $8,000 $30,400 $32,400 $14,200
20 R (including 3 DDs), 6 W
Raymond $1,000 $3,400 $6,600 $13,200 $6,600
14 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

A PLACE WITH DIRECTION BROADWAY MUSICALS DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE ____ OR ____ & NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT A CAREER IN TECH
$200 [29]
It's about 450 miles away from Greenland, & the magnetic one is on the move, heading toward Russia
the North Pole
Liz
$200 [26]
Ben Platt reprised the role of the title teen with a broken arm when this Broadway musical became a 2021 film
Dear Evan Hansen
Raymond
$200 [28]
At a Manhattan eatery, this character enjoys bacon & eggs & toast (perhaps rye?)
Holden Caulfield
Jaskaran
$200 [27]
The Scottish & Irish custom of guising, dressing in costume & getting rewards, was a predecessor of this activity
trick or treat
Liz
$200 [21]
A nephrologist said it was not "a harmful condition" after a Brazilian man was found to have 3 of these organs instead of 2
kidneys
Raymond
$200 [30]
(Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) Setting ambitious goals will help you do great things; encouraged by co-founders Larry Page & Sergey Brin, even though I'd missed our goal of 50 million users of this browser 1 year, I surpassed our target of 111 million the next year
Google Chrome
Raymond
$400 [5]
The Greater & Lesser Antilles are major divisions of this group of islands
the West Indies
Raymond
$400 [24]
Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" won Tonys for their work on this musical about Elder Price & Elder Cunningham
The Book of Mormon
Jaskaran
$400 [23]
In a Thomas Harris book, the conductor of the philharmonic could not recall the fare at this doctor's dinner
Hannibal Lecter
$400 [22]
This expression meaning "do as I say" ends with a multi-lane road
my way or the highway
Raymond
$400 [20]
These doglike carnivores weren't "laughing" so much after losing a 1999 war with lions in Ethiopia
hyenas
Liz
$400 [25]
(Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) This type of degree produces leaders who have grit & adaptability & can analyze systems, like Bill Hewlett(electrical, Stanford) &me(metallurgical & materials, IIT Kharagpur)
engineering
Liz
$600 [4]
Michigan State University leads a Spartan lifestyle in this city on the Red Cedar River
East Lansing
Jaskaran
$600 [11]
Act I of this long-running musical starts with the song "Think Of Me" & ends with a chandelier crashing
The Phantom of the Opera
Raymond
$600 [9]
A true glutton, this "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" character gets sent up the (chocolate) river
Augustus Gloop
Raymond
$600 [19]
If you don't want to reveal your secrets in this party game, you may have to do something risky
truth or dare
Raymond
$600 [16]
This billionaire & girlfriend Grimes welcomed a child in 2020 & gave it the totally normal name X Æ A-Xii
(Elon) Musk
Jaskaran
$600 [14]
(Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) Don't overextend yourself, but don't be afraid to expand your responsibilities, as I did in 2018 when I became responsible for this Google division, the world's most popular operating system for mobile devices
Android
Jaskaran
$800 [2]
Aberdeen is one of only 5 cities in this Midwest state to have more than 20,000 people
South Dakota
Raymond
$800 [1]
This musical is based on Sholom Aleichem's stories about Tevye the dairyman
Fiddler on the Roof
Jaskaran
$1,000 [7]
A 14th century poem details "all the meat & mirth that men could devise", then Sir Gawain taking on this title party crasher
the Green Knight
Jaskaran
$800 [18]
Succeed or fail is at the heart of this "watery" alliterative idiom
sink or swim
Jaskaran Raymond
$800 [13]
A holdover from Colonial times, this Maryland state sport includes a tournament in which rings are "speared"
jousting
Jaskaran
$800 [15]
(Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) If you come to work at our campus, you'll be part of a history predating Google; this city, which has a strange name for part of a valley, was the home of Shockley Semiconductor, the area's first high-tech silicon-based manufacturer
Mountain View
Raymond
$1,000 [3]
The Devil's Hole off Edinburgh is an over 750-foot trench in this arm of the Atlantic
the North Sea
Jaskaran
$1,000 [6]
"Waitress" has music & lyrics by this woman who had a Top 40 hit with "Brave"
Sara Bareilles
Raymond
DD $3,400 [8]
Revenge is served cold--courtesy of an ex-prison inmate--in "The Dinner", chapter 63 of this Dumas classic
The Count of Monte Cristo
Jaskaran
$1,000 [10]
Robert Burns wrote, "Liberty's in every blow, let us" this, meaning succeed at all costs
do or die
Liz
$1,000 [12]
This 18th c. dictionary maker & subject of James Boswell's great biography liked to empty his pockets & roll down a hill
Samuel Johnson
Jaskaran
$1,000 [17]
(Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) Graduate school is a great route & my alma mater the Wharton School of Business also has alumni likeJ. Presper Eckert, who around 1950 designed this first U.S. commercial computer--OK, Eckert dropped out, but that's part of some people's process too
UNIVAC

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 18th CENTURY MYTHIC CONSTELLATIONS TRUE & UNTRUE CRIME WE'VE GOT THE BLUES LYRICS TO REMEMBER PITHY WORDS & PHRASES
$400 [7]
In 1781 Felipe de Neve had trouble recruiting settlers to found this city despite promising them TV gigs & a Bel Air house-sit
Los Angeles
Liz
$400 [29]
This constellation depicts the creature that fatally stung Orion
Scorpio
Liz
$400 [30]
Jean Valjean did 19 years for this crime
stealing bread
Raymond
$400 [22]
In 1798 this military branch introduced an early version of its iconic dress blue uniform
the Marines
Liz Jaskaran
$400 [26]
This septet:"So I'ma light it up like dynamite, whoa, dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, ayy"
BTS
Liz
$400 [25]
Whether good or bad, the acronym TFW stands for this, an emotional time for sure
that feeling when
Jaskaran
$1,200 [5]
In 1767 the invading Burmese army sacked the city of Ayutthaya, the capital of this neighboring land
Thailand
Jaskaran
$800 [28]
Leo is a lion--& not just any lion, but the Nemean one slain by this hero
Herakles (or Hercules)
Liz
$800 [27]
The true crime podcast "Firebug" is about John Orr, convicted of multiple federal counts of this
arson
Raymond
$800 [21]
Crayola crayons in the blue family include azure, baby & this shade that's also a gemstone associated with the U.S. Southwest
turquoise
Liz Jaskaran
$800 [9]
This group in 2009:"I gotta feeling (woo-hoo) that tonight's gonna be a good night... that tonight's gonna be a good, good night"
The Black Eyed Peas
Liz
$800 [24]
This rhyming phrase that means going too quickly can lead to mistakes & loss
haste makes waste
$1,600 [3]
Wedding news included the nuptials of Mauatua to this mutinous master's mate of HMS Bounty
Fletcher Christian
Jaskaran
$1,200 [15]
As a constellation & as a sign of the zodiac, Virgo is associated with this daughter of Demeter
Persephone
Jaskaran
$1,200 [14]
Title status of David Balfour in a Robert Louis Stevenson novel
kidnapped
$1,200 [18]
Blue pigments popular in ceramics include this one seen here, also sometimes said to be the shade of Bradley Cooper's eyes
cobalt
Liz
$1,200 [8]
DJ Khaled & this man:"Cops pullin' up like I'm givin' drugs out, nah, nah, I'm a popstar, not a doctor"
Drake
Jaskaran
$1,200 [10]
If fashion is your "bag", use this 5-letter designer name when you want to say something is "great" or "going well"
Gucci
Liz
$2,000 [4]
It's a Spanish word for a young woman; Goya painted this titleonein 1777
maja
$2,000 [17]
5 stars form a "W" in this constellation named for a mythic queen of Ethiopia
Cassiopeia
Jaskaran
$1,600 [13]
In 1966 the judge whom Richard Mayberry called a fool gave him 22 years for this
contempt of court
Jaskaran
$1,600 [19]
More than 20 years after his death at about age 27, the 1961 album "King of the Delta Blues Singers" made him newly famous
Robert Johnson
Jaskaran Raymond
$1,600 [1]
This singer:"Don't show up, don't come out, don't start caring about me now, walk away, you know how"
Dua Lipa
Liz
$1,600 [11]
In the King James Version, Matthew 6:24 says, "Ye cannot serve God and" this, a term for money
mammon
Raymond
DD $6,000 [6]
In 1768 a tutor found this future queen intelligent but frivolous & hard to teach
Marie Antoinette
Jaskaran
DD $10,000 [16]
Carina--the keel, Puppis--the stern, & Vela--the sails--once sailed the sky as part of a larger constellation named for this ship
the Argo
Jaskaran
$2,000 [12]
In the story "The Man Without a Country", this was the man's crime
treason
Jaskaran
$2,000 [20]
The uniting of chariot racing fan factions known as the Blues & Greens in this city almost brought down an emperor in 532
Constantinople
Jaskaran
$2,000 [2]
This old school punk band:"Twenty, twenty, twenty-four hours to go, I wanna be sedated"
The Ramones
Raymond
$2,000 [23]
If something is meh, you might say this French phrase, literally "like this, like that"
comme ci, comme ça
Liz

Final Jeopardy!

THE PERIODIC TABLE

By 1890, discoveries of 3 "nationalist elements" filled table gaps: scandium in Sweden, germanium in Germany, this in France

gallium

Raymond "What is Gallium?" — wagered $6,600
Liz "What is francium?" — wagered $4,000
Jaskaran "What isFGallium?" — wagered $2,000

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