Quarter-Finals 11 & 12: Jeopardy NCC (2-16-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from Quarter-Finals 11 and 12 in the Jeopardy! National College Championship tournament

Quarter-Final 11:

RECENT NEWS ($400) Eric Adams bested Curtis Sliwa in this city’s 2021 mayoral race

DO ME A SOLID ($200) This gas is liquefied & frozen to make dry ice

($400) The solid inner core of the earth is mostly made up of this metal along with nickel

($800) Originally, our pennies were made of solid copper; today, they’re copper-coated this metal

THE HARDER THE FALL ($200) On Feb 11, 2001 Three Rivers Stadium, long home to this baseball team, got taken out of the game via implosion

($1000) Sadly, on May 3, 2003. this beloved New Hampshire granite landmark seen here collapsed and fell

3 SYLLABLE WORDS ($x00) Time & width are examples of these measurements

THEY WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOKS ($800) “The Living” this document is part of “Magruder’s American Government”, written for decades after Magruder by William McClenaghan

($1200) Thomas Cormen, who wrote “Introduction to” these, taught his last computer science class at Dartmouth in 2019 after 27 years

($1600) Allan G. Bluman wrote “Probability Demystified” as well as many editions of “Elementary” these

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY ($400) The West African coast goes Liberia-Cote D’Ivoire-Ghana-Togo-Benin-this country bigger than the other 5 put together

($2000) Dominated by 12,198-foot Pic de Teide, Tenerife is the largest of these islands off Africa’s northwest coast

($1200) The Corniche is a long glamorous seafront street in this city where Cleopatra lived & loved

POTPOURRI ($400) This company’s “Imagine Cup” allows students around the world to compete in technology-based competitions

($1600) Aroostook Valley Country Club has a golf course in this Canadian province, but a stray shot may fly into Maine

X MARKS THE CATEGORY ($1600) Axiom is a synonym for this, a pithy saying

($2000) Term for the outermost part of a flower before it opens

Quarter-Final 12:

THEY’RE MULTI-TALENTED ($400) She sang “Lose You to Love Me” before dealing with “Only Murder in the Building” on Hulu

U.S. BODIES OF WATER ($1600) Admiral David Farragut saw his greatest victory in the August 1864 Battle of this body of water

PICK A MAJOR ($400) The intervals in a major one of these go tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone

($800) Also known as the Hourglass Sea & the Atlantic Canale, Syrtis Major is a big dark spot on the surface of this planet

($2000) The title character of this George Bernard Shaw play is an officer in the Salvation Army

TECH TALK ($1200) In 2003 Valve Software created this platform, “The ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games”

THE FUTURE’S NOT SO BRIGHT… ($1200) On this Amazon show set in the 24th c., a terrorist faction among the asteroid belt drops a big rock on earth with devastating effect

($1600) Mankind is on the wrong side of an ass-whoopin’ in 2051 & Chris Pratt has to go back to the future to help in this 2021 flick

WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME ($1600) A lunar feature & a liquid

($2000) To journey to another land & an umbilicus