Quarter-Finals 3 & 4: Jeopardy NCC (2-9-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from Quarter-Finals 3 and 4 in the Jeopardy! National College Championship tournament

Quarter-Final 3:

COLLEGE SPORTS DYNASTIES ($600) With stars like this Olympian seen here, the North Carolina Tar Heels have won 21 of the NCAA’s 39 women’s soccer titles

($800) From 2000 to 2016 UConn’s Huskies won 10 NCAA women’s basketball titles for this coach

($1000) Coach Bob Reade led this Illinois school known as “Augie” to 4 straight Division III football titles in the 1980s

ENCYCLOPEDIA WORDS ($800) Norway’s Austfonna one is not doing great, contributing to rising sea levels

($1000) A huppah is one at a Jewish wedding ceremony

BUILDINGS ($2O00) Wingspread, a sprawling home for wax tycoon, Herbert F. Johnson, was Frank Lloyd Wright’s last house in this style

SCIENTIFIC ISMS ($1600) It’s the word for tremors & other movement issues associated with a certain disease, even if not caused by it

($2000) The alligators at Louisiana’s Audubon Zoo have this -ism from the Greek for “white,” a loss of melanin akin to albinism

LITERARY NAME DROPPERS ($1200) Partly narrated by his college roommate: “The Brief Wondrous Life of ____ ____”

($1600) Famous first line of “Atlas Shrugged”: “Who is ____ ____?”

A FEW FINAL WORDS ($1200) 9-letter word for an attorney’s closing argument to a jury to get their point across

($2000) Nothing to do with a military takeover, this 3-word French phrase is a final blow

Quarter-Final 4:

THE ELEMENTS ($1000) This English chemist & clergyman discovered oxygen in 1774

GETTING YOUR LOOK TOGETHER ($2000) In 2006 J. Crew launched this sister brand that specializes in denim

ORCHESTRA OF THE WHIRLED ($1600) It’s all about music love: MOLAR INCH HIP

HISTORIC MEAN TWEETS ($1000) In your face, Elisha Gray! Got my patent entered before yours #biginventionof1876

RIVER CITY ($1600) This city on the Yamuna River has “New” & “Old” sections with more than 20 million residents

ART APPRECIATION ($800) Marcel Duchamp came up with this word describing the abstract sculpture created by Alexander Calder at a 1932 exhibition

LITTLE, MEDIUM OR BIG DOG ON CAMPUS ($400) The AKC says the Old English this “is the archetypical shaggy dog, famous for his…peek-a-boo hairdo”

($1200) The silky coat of this hound seen here protected it from the rough climate of its Central Asian origin

($2000) The Hackney gait of the Min Pin, short for this breed, is a high-stepping one much like a trotting Hackney horse

Reversal: PREFIXES ($2000) This prefix forms the first 6 of the 45 letters in the disease name sometimes called the longest word in English – Joey’s response of “pneumono” was rejected in favor of “pneumo.” The judges decided that the clue was confusing and gave him $4,000 — the $2,000 they took away and another $2,000 for a correct answer.