Quarter-Finals 5 & 6: Jeopardy NCC (2-10-22)
National College Championship Quarter-Final 5
The Final Jeopardy question (Thursday, 2/10/2022) in the category “World Geography” was:
About 200 miles of the Tyrrhenian Sea separates the cities of Cagliari and Trapani in these “regioni autonome” of Italy
Competing in Quarter-Final 5 of the National College Championship are: Pauline Bisaccio, a Clemson University junior; Chance Persons, a Creighton University sophomore and Neha Seshadri, a Harvard University senior.
Round 1 Categories: You’ll Have Peaks & Valleys – Pass/Fail – Game Show Hosts – Medical Specialties – Before & After – Home Economics with Topher Grace
Neha found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Medical Specialties” under the $600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,800, twice as much as than Chance in second place. Neha made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Trouble with hay fever? Have bad reactions to bug bites? Or peanuts? This specialist can help show
Chance and Neha finished in a tie for the lead with $4,200. Pauline was last at negative $2,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: This Party is Lit – U.S. Stamps – Celebrities – Opera – Historic Pairs – After & Before
Chance found the first Daily Double in “This Party is Lit” under the $1,600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. Chance was in second place with $5,000, $800 less than Neha’s lead. Chance bet $2,000, and said Ulysses. That was WRONG.
At his wake, this title character is laid out with a barrel of Guinness at his head & a bottle of whiskey at his feet show
Pauline got the last Daily Double in “Historic Pairs” under the $800 clue with 13 clues left after it. Pauline was in third place with $1,800, $3,600 less than Neha’s lead. Pauline bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
From 2013 to 2018 former First Lady Livia Klausova was Czech ambassador to this former partner land show
Neha finished in the lead with $8,600. Chance was second with $7,400 and Pauline was last with $5,600. All clues were shown.
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WHAT ARE SICILY & SARDINIA?
Pauline got it right. Her $3,001 bet brought her up to $8,601.
Chance thought it was Sao Tome and Principe, an island country in Africa. He bet and lost his whole $7,400.
Neha got it right, too. She added $6,201, finishing with $14,801. Neha snagged a semi-final spot. Pauline and Chance get $10,000 each.
2 triple stumpers from GAME SHOW HOSTS:
($600) This current late night host has folks pick their “final answer” on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”
($800) After “Saturday Night Live”, she began hosting “Supermarket Sweep”
National College Championship Quarter-Final 6
The Final Jeopardy question (Thursday, 2/10/2022) in the category “Poetry” was:
It contains the line “whereat in either hand the hastening Angel caught our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate led them direct”
Competing in Quarter-Final 6 of the National College Championship are: Lauren Rodriguez, a Pomona College senior; Matt Downing, a University of Notre Dame senior and Elijah Odunade, a University of Georgia junior
Round 1 Categories: Time to Hit the Library – Female Authors – The 1990s – Grammy’s Album of the Year – “PU” – What’s that Smell?
Lauren found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Female Authors” under the $600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. Lauren was in the lead with $4,000, $2,600 more than Matt in second place. Lauren bet $1,500, and couldn’t come up with a response so she was WRONG.
Joining Thalia & Urania, the Ancient Greek poet Sappho was dubbed “The Tenth” one of these goddesses show
Lauren finished in the lead with $7,300. Elijah was second with $1,400 and Matt was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Here’s the Thing – World Capitals – Famous Paintings – Comedian’s Roles – Medieval Life – 4 Letters, 3 Vowels
Matt found the first Daily Double in “World Capitals” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in third place with $1,400, $5,900 less than Lauren’s lead. Matt made it a true Daily Double, and said Tokyo. That was WRONG.
Get your Gangnam style on in the upscale Gangnam district of this city show
Lauren got the last Daily Double in “Famous Paintings” under the $1,600 clue with 9 clues left after it. Lauren was in the lead with $16,500, $13,900 more than Elijah in second place. Lauren bet $1,000 and took a shot at it with Washington Square Park. That was WRONG.
“A restaurant on Greenwich Avenue (in New York City) where two streets meet” inspired this Edward Hopper painting show
Lauren finished in the lead with $20,300. Elijah was second with $3,800 and Matt was last with negative $1,200. He was out of the game at this point. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS “PARADISE LOST”?
The quote is from Book 12, the last book of “Paradise Lost”, John Milton’s loooooonnnng poem about Adam and Eve’s fall from grace.
Elijah got it right. He didn’t bet anything because he couldn’t win so he stayed at $3,800.
Lauren went with “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot. She didn’t bet anything because she already won the semi-final spot.
A triple stumper from each round:
FEMALE AUTHORS ($800) In this long-awaited 2019 sequel, Margaret Atwood brings more news from Gilead
THE 1990s ($1000) In 1994, “Three Tall Women” earned this playwright his third Pulitzer Prize
Neha Seshadri and Lauren Rodriguez 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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Matt was dismissed in the second half with the second half of daily double skunking. This was the only time we ever saw a dismissal in college tournament. But still we will see how well everyone does tomorrow hopefully some good scores.
While the DDs did well in the first half, all 3 DDs were missed in the second half resulted a skunking as the clues weren’t kind to Matt.