Quarter-Finals 1 & 2: Jeopardy NCC (2-8-22)
National College Championship Quarter-Final 1:
The Final Jeopardy question (Tuesday, 2/8/2022) in the category “American History” was:
One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842
Competing in Quarter-Final 1 of the National College Championship are: Isaac Applebaum, a Stanford University junior; Gus Guszkowski, a Dartmouth College senior and Catherine Zhang, a Cornell University senior.
Round 1 Categories: Bio 101 – Parts of the Franchise – Bible Books – Get a Job! – That’s Quite a Dorm Room – These Words are Younger than You Are
Isaac found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Bible Books” under the $600 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was tied for the lead with Gus at $4,400, Catherine was not yet on the board. Isaac bet $1,600 and he was RIGHT.
Galatians & Colossians are among the 21 books of the New Testament written in letter form & known as these show
Isaac finished in the lead with $8,800. Gus was second with $6,400 and Catherine was last at zero. All the clues were seen.
Round 2 Categories: Bio 201 – Poets and Poetry – Social Media Stars – Floral Geography – “Kn”owledge – Dean’s List
Isaac found the first Daily Double in “Bio 201” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $9,200, $2,800 more than Gus in second place. Isaac bet $1,800 and he was RIGHT.
The discovery of the receptor for this toxin was announced in Fall 2001, around the time it was part of a terrorism scare show
Gus got the last Daily Double in “Floral Geography” under the $2,000 clue with 13 clues left after it. In the lead with $16,000, Gus had $1,800 more than Isaac in second place. Gus bet $2,000 but and didn’t have a clue so that was WRONG.
The Fourth Raadsaal, a word meaning council chamber, is in this South African judicial capital show
Gus finished in the lead with $16,800. Isaac was second with $13,800 and Catherine was last with $5,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?
Catherine wanted to write down Transcontinental Railroad, but only got the “Tr” down. She lost her $400 bet and finished with $5,200.
Isaac got it right. He bet $2,601 and finished with $16,401.
Gus was also going for Transcontinental but didn’t get it all out. Gus lost a whopping $10,801 and finished with $5,999.
Isaac Applebaum won the game and will advance to the semi-finals. Gus and Catherine are going home with $10,000 each.
2 triple stumpers from Poets & Poetry:
($1600) The line “a thing of beauty is a joy for ever” comes from his poem “Endymion”
($2000) She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 & in 2020 this poet, whose last name means good fortune, won the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Final Jeopardy question (Tuesday, 2/8/2022) in the category “Biological Etymology” was:
Dionaea, the genus of this plant, is a reference to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, the daughter of Dione
Competing in Quarter-Final 2 of the National College Championship are: Ella Feiner, a Princeton University senior; Jasmine Manansala, a Rice University junior and Stephen Privat, a Louisiana State University junior.
Round 1 Categories: An “A” in Math – More than One Meaning – Pier 5 – Skip Class – The Movie’s Cast – Stuff You Should Know
Ella found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “‘A’ in Math” under the $1,000 clue on the first pick of the round so no one was on the board yet. Ella bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
A top predator might perch on this, the uppermost vertex of a pyramid or cone show
Stephen and Jasmine were tied in the lead with $4,600. Ella was next with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: My Hero of Academia – Shakespeare – Fun with Flags – DJs – American History – Crossword Clues from the Latin
Stephen found the first Daily Double in “Shakespeare” under the $1,200 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $5,800, $400 more than Jasmine in second place. Stephen bet $2,000 and thought it might be “Othello”. That was WRONG.
The first scene of this late play ends with the line “The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death” show
On the very next pick, Stephen got the last Daily Double in “Fun With Flags“ under the $1,200 clue. Stephen was in second place now with $3,800, $1,600 less than Jasmine in the lead. Stephen bet $1,600, and went with Quebec. That was WRONG.
That’s the St. Andrew’s Cross in reversed colors on the flag of this Canadian province show
Stephen finished in the lead with a runaway $14,300. Jasmine was second with $6,200 and Ella was last with $5,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE VENUS FLYTRAP?
Ella thought it was a rose. She bet the whole $5,600 and lost it all.
Jasmine crossed rose out and went with Venus flytrap. She bet $6,199 and finished with $12,399.
Stephen wrote down rose but he didn’t bet anything. He won the game with the $14.300 he already had. Stephen advances to the semi-finals. Ella and Jasmine go home with $10,000 each.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
DJs ($1600) DJ Snake teamed up with Lil Jon to make a massive hit of this rhetorical question
American History ($1200) Favoring free silver in a rousing 1896 speech, this orator & statesman said, “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold”
Isaac Applebaum and Stephen Privat 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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A good game for the first half. 11 triple stumpers is a lot. In the regular game of jeopardy, there were not that many triple stumpers. How many did you find in Lawrence’s second game, VJ?
Lou, you can go count that yourself, can’t you? I’m using up all my energy doing 3 recaps a day over here
I meant the number of TS. Without knowing, I would guess that 11 is a high number, although, at the same time, that is over 60 clues. It just seemed to me that the first round of the first game had a LOT of “dead air”. Thanks for the TOC update.
Well, that’s what I came up with Jason — 11 in each game. In my estimation, 11 is a high number. 7 is about average
Hey VJ, did you count the triple stumpers in the first game? I became more and more amazed at the stuff they didn’t know. I mean, my junior year in college (not at an Ivy), I had 41.5 credit hours over two semesters, and I felt on fire with knowledge. I still look back on that very fondly.
As for the second game, I reflexively thought “rose” for a split second, but, then, recalled rose is “Prunus”. I SHOULD have known it, as we used to have a Venus Flytrap, but I said “water lily”. Oh well!
The question is, will this winner be entered in the TOC?
Jason, I’m not sure what you mean but I don’t add up the stumpers because I might miss one or two. On this double recap, I posted 11 triple stumpers from each game: 2 from each game on the first page and 9 from each game on Page 2.
“The question is, will this winner be entered in the TOC?” – Jason
The answer is: “We are absolutely going to invite the eventual winner of the J!NCC to compete in the ToC,” Michael Davies on J!Buzz
My recollection was so faulty! Rose is, quite unsurprisingly, Rosa species. Prunus is cherries, plums, nectarines, apricots, almonds, and many others.