Quarter-Finals 11 & 12: Jeopardy NCC (2-16-22)
National College Championship Quarter-Final #11:
The Final Jeopardy question (Wednesday, 2/16/2022) in the category “Holidays & Observances” was:
The first national observance of Memorial Day was May 30, 1868 at this site, on land that had belonged to Robert E. Lee’s wife
Competing in Quarter-Final 11 of the National College Championship are: Fiona Hellerman, a Tulane University senior; Nam Vu, a Georgetown University senior and Claire Jackson, a Spelman College sophomore
Round 1 Categories: Marvel – Recent News – Do Me a Solid – Literature: “Good” or “Great” – The Harder They Fall – 3-Syllable Words
Fiona found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Literature: ‘Good’ or ‘Great’” under the $400 clue on the 5th pick of the round. Fiona was in second place with $600, half of Nam’s lead. Fiona bet $300 and she was RIGHT.
In this novel, Miss Havisham dies after the faded wedding dress she wears catches fire show
Nam finished in the lead with $8,400. Fiona was in second place with $2,700 and Claire was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: They Wrote Your Textbooks – Historic Names – African Geography – Potpourri – Celebs Recent Projects – “X” Marks the Category
Nam found the first Daily Double in “Historic Names” under the $1,600 clue with 12 clues left after it. Nam was in the lead with $12,000, $8,200 more than Claire in second place. Nam bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The subject of a 1993 movie, he’s the only member of the Nazi Party honored with burial on Israel’s Mount Zion show
Nam got the last Daily Double in “We Wrote Your Textbooks” under the $2,000 clue with 5 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $18,600, $14,800 more than Claire in second place. Nam bet $2,000 and thought it might be St. Ignatius of Loyola. That was WRONG.
Anthony Kenny of “A New History of Western Philosophy” also covered it in books on Descartes, Wittgenstein & this 13th century saint show
Nam finished in the lead with a runaway $17,000. Claire was second with $5,000 and Fiona was last with $1,500. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY?
Fiona wrote down the Lee Estate. That cost her $500. She finished with $1,000.
Claire went with “Stone Mountain.” She lost her $1,881 bet and was left with $3,119. (Claire said 1881 was the year Spelman College was founded.)
Nam had Gettysburg. He didn’t bet anything as he was already a semi-finalist.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
HISTORIC NAMES ($1200) This Roman orator who wrote “On the Republic” orated a bit too much about getting rid of one of his new bosses… oops
POTPOURRI ($1200) George Takei cheekily said of a trip this man made in 2021, “He’s boldly going where other people have gone before”
National College Championship Quarter-Final #12:
The Final Jeopardy question (Wednesday, 2/16/2022) in the category “Compound Words” was:
The OED says this 9-letter word is literary and poetic, and it appears 11 times in an 1845 American poem, including as the last word
Competing in Quarter-Final 12 of the National College Championship are: Sam Blum, a Vanderbilt University senior; Ani Dehadrai, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology senior and Megan Sullivan, a University of Virginia junior
Round 1 Categories: Around the Time You Were Born – Throwing Serious Shade – Haiku That Novel! – Toy Stories – They’re Multi-Talented – Get Your “M_B_A”
Aniket found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Throwing Serious Shade” under the $800 clue on the 11th pick of the round. Aniket was in third place with $800, $1,200 less than Megan in the lead. Aniket bet $1,000 thought it was cherry. That was WRONG.
Architectural Digest: “Say” this & “most people envision large shade trees with fragrant blossoms that evoke the American South” show
Aniket and Megan finished in a tie for the lead with $5,000. Sam was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: European History – U.S. Bodies of Water – Pick a Major – Tech Talk – The Future’s Not So Bright… – Words That Should Rhyme
Aniket found the first Daily Double in “European History” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $9,000, $6,000 more than Megan in second place. Aniket bet $4,000, and said Berlin. That was WRONG.
The largest ghetto uprising of World War II was mounted in this capital in 1943 show
Aniket got the last Daily Double in “The Future’s Not So Bright…” under the $2,000 clue with 11 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $10,600, $9,000 more than Sam in second place. Aniket bet $2,000, and said Iago. That was WRONG.
In “Y: The Last Man” having a Y chromosome is a death sentence, save for the guy with this name from Shakespeare show
Megan finished in the lead with $5,400. Aniket was second with $4,200 and Sam was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS NEVERMORE?
Sam wrote down “beautiful.” He lost $402 and finished with $1,598.
Aniket got it right but bet nothing so he finished with $4,200.
Megan also got it right. She bet $3,001 and won the last semi-final spot with $8,401.
2 triple stumpers from the first round:
HAIKU THAT NOVEL! ($600) Remote health resort / Masha’s Tranquillum House…rough / An octet plus one
GET YOUR “M_B_A” ($800) It’s the headgear you’ll wear at commencement
Nam Vu and Megan Sullivan will advance to the semi-finals.
More triple stumpers from these games are on Page 2. Click on the Number 2 below
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Disappointed episode as we got a triple stumper in first half as that FJ was a tough one while all 3 DDs were missed resulted a skunking in the second half.
Aniket, darn those Daily Doubles! It is hard for me to stop saying that, but on the plus side, Nam Vu did what Kim Vu, his brother, was unable to do. Win a game.