Quarter-Finals 3 & 4: Jeopardy NCC (2-9-22)
National College Championship Quarter-Final 3:
The Final Jeopardy question (Wednesday, 2/9/2022) in the category “USA” was:
In 2012 these two neighboring states celebrated the centennial of their admission to the union
Competing in Quarter-Final 3 of the National College Championship are: Toussaint Pegues, a California Institute of Technology senior; Emmey Harris, a University of Minnesota sophomore and Mehek Boparai, a Univ. of Pennsylvania senior
Round 1 Categories: Winter – World Geography – Apps & Websites – Who’s Up For Some Seafood? – College Sports Dynasties – Encyclopedia Words
Emmey found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Geography” under the $2,000 clue with 10 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $3,600, $1,600 more than Mehek in second place. Emmey bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
It’s from Chinese for “fragrant harbor” & in the 1840s it was ceded to the British show
Emmey finished in the lead with $7,400. Toussaint was second with $2,600 and Mehek was last at $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: On the Transcript… – Buildings – Scientific Isms – Literary Name Droppers – Your Parents’ Music – A Few Final Words
Mehek found the first Daily Double in “On The Transcript…” under the $2,000 clue with 9 clues left after it. She was in second place with $4,600, $8,400 less than Emmey’s lead. Mehek bet $3,000 and went with Kennedy. That was WRONG.
Of this Senator’s 1954 hearings investigating the U.S. Army: “Have you no decency? show
Emmey got the last Daily Double in “Buildings” under the $1,600 clue with one clue left after it. Emmey was in the lead with $19,000, $14,000 more than Toussaint in second place. Emmey bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
Each side of this U.S. building extends for 921 feet; its total perimeter is 4,605 feet show
Emmey finished in the lead with a runaway $21,000. Toussaint was second with $5,000 and Mehek was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT ARE NEW MEXICO & ARIZONA?
Only 5 states entered the Union in the 20th century and only two of them in 1912. See U.S. States by Date of Admission and Who Was President
Mehek had Kentucky and something that began with H– Hawaii?? She lost a mere dollar, finishing with $1,199.
Toussaint thought it was North and South Dakota. He lost $4,999 and had a mere dollar left.
Emmey chose Washington and Oregon. She didn’t bet anything because she had already won a semi-final spot.
A triple stumper from each round:
WINTER ($00) A sleeker aesthetic, EPA regulations, and maybe a reluctance to fat-shame has made this winter warmer-upper a thing of the past
YOUR PARENTS’ MUSIC ($2000) They heard Chuck D & this band revolutionize hip-hop with albums like 1988’s “It takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”
National College Championship Quarter-Final 4:
The Final Jeopardy question (Wednesday, 2/9/2022) in the category “20th Century Leaders” was:
He’s called “a flame of inspiration in freedom’s darkest hour” in the proclamation making him an honorary U.S. Citizen
Competing in Quarter-Final 4 of the National College Championship are: Yejun Kim, a Northwestern University senior; Mitch Macek, a Villanova University sophomore and Joey Kornman, a Brandeis University junior
Round 1 Categories: The Elements – Approximate Weights & Measures – Getting Your Look Together – Orchestra of the Whirled – TV Shows to Binge – Mean Tweets
Mitch found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Elements” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in second place with $800, $1,000 less than Joey’s lead. Mitch bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
This element makes up about 25% of the mass in your average star show
Joey finished in the lead with $5,600. Mitch was second with $4,600 and Yejun was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Prefixes – River City – Art Appreciation – Little, Medium or Big Dog on Campus – Billboard Year-End No. 1 Albums – Assigned Reading Math
Joey found the first Daily Double in “Prefixes” under the $1,600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $5,400, $1,800 more than Mitch in second place. Joey bet $3,000 and drew a blank so he was WRONG.
It’s a shortcut used to generate a whole sequence of keystrokes; it was a prefix for “instruction” but broke free show
Joey got the last Daily Double in “Art Appreciation” under the $1,600 clue with 6 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $7,800. The judges ruled to accept his previous response of pneumono, giving him an additional $4,000. With $11,800 now, he had $5,200 more than Mitch in second place. Joey bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
No surprise, there’s an unusual clock in “premature ossification of a railway station” by this Spaniard show
Joey finished in the lead with $16,400. Mitch was second with $8,600 and Yejun was last with $6,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS WINSTON CHURCHILL?
Yejun got it right. She bet nothing, standing pat with $6,000.
Mitch went with Nelson Mandela. He bet and lost it all.
Joey also got it right. He added $801 to his score and won a semi-final spot with $17,201.
2 triple stumpers from ASSIGNED READING MATH:
($1600) 2 hours for this work where Jonathan Swift satirically suggests cooking Irish babies; it’s “A Modest” 3,400 words, 1,700 an hour
($2000) “Still Mad”, feminist criticism by Gilbert & Gubar is 3/5 as many pages as their 1979 book this person “in the Attic”
Emmey Harris and Joey Kornman 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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Only one triple stumper in the first half of the college tourney and the rest not so bad, at least we know that the college students are not strong in geography but they will make up for it in the semi finals. Good game by everyone
Tough final in the first half as no one knows about geography and not as tough for final in the second half.
I thought it was disrespectful when that immature kid called Mayim “baby’.