Semi-Finals 1 & 2: Jeopardy NCC (2-17-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from Semi-Finals 1 and 2 in the Jeopardy! National College Championship tournament

Semi-Final #1:

HETERONYMS ($600) To confine during wartime & a worker in training

EXIT STAGE LEFT ($1600) In “Little Shop of Horrors”, Seymour feeds this woman, his girlfriend, to the carnivorous plant named for her

WHITHER THE WEATHER? ($800) This discharge can be spider, forked or sheet

($1600) Big fluffy snowflakes result from relative humidity of over 100%, this condition of water in the atmosphere

Semi-Final #2:

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ($1000) These 2 adjectives describe the trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment

THE CROP REPORT ($600) The 1,100-mile Grand one was built to carry rice from Southern China to the North

($1000) In the King James Bible, this daughter-in-law of Naomi gleans “corn”, unknown in the ancient Middle East

CHECK OUT MY RIDE! ($600) As its name hints, around 1900 the Lohner-Porsche Mixte was the first of these cars that gained popularity 100 years later

PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES ($800) Often attributed to Thomas Edison is the saying that it is “one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration”

MOVIE SUM-UP ($400) We’re all living in a simulation! Only a bank teller can save us!; life is a video game

MILLENIALS ($400) He’s second in line to the British throne

GEN “Z” ($2000) This Pueblo people of the Southwest celebrate the Shalako Festival in winter

NONFICTION ($1600) This “Nation” is Elizabeth Wurtzel’s account of being “Young & Depressed in America”