Finals 1 & 2: Jeopardy NCC (2-22-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the final games of the Jeopardy! National College Championship tournament

Final #1:

SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ($800) A holdover from colonial times, this Maryland state sport includes a tournament in which rings are “speared”

A CAREER IN TECH ($800) 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

($1000) Graduate school is a great route & my alma mater the Wharton School of Business also has alumni like J. 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

THE 18TH CENTURY (2000) It’s a Spanish word for a young woman; Goya painted this titled one in 1777

MYTHIC CONSTELLATIONS ($2000) 5 stars form a “W” in this constellation named for a mythic queen of Ethiopia

WE’VE GOT THE BLUES ($1200) Blue pigments popular in ceramics include this one seen here (image), sometimes said to be the shade of Bradley Cooper’s eyes

($1200) More than 20 years after his death at about age 27, the 1961 album “King of the Delta Blues Singers” made him newly famous

PITHY WORDS & PHRASES ($800) This rhyming phrase that means going too quickly can lead to mistakes & loss

Final #2:

A DAY OF POP CULTURE ($600) My niece wanted to watch (again) her favorite movie about this superfast animated critter who got a dental makeover

STATE CAPITOL IDEA ($800) The Northern Pacific Railroad gifted a mural, seen here (image) in Montana’s capitol– Amédée Joullin’s “Driving” this object

IT’S JUST ABOUT TIME ($1600) Coal was not a dying industry in this part of the carboniferous period that succeeded the Mississippian 323 mil. years ago