Show #8203 - Wednesday, April 15, 2020

2020 College Championship semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Xiaoke Ying, a sophomore at the University of Southern California from Arcadia, California

Marshall Comeaux, a sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin from Dallas, Texas

Nathaniel Miller, a sophomore at Yale University from Miami, Florida

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Jeopardy! Round

THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES

NON-AMERICAN HISTORY

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

SING OUT!

3-LETTER WORDS

$200

The Rocky Mountains stretch for more than 3,000 miles from New Mexico north to the Brooks Range in this state

$200

Sweet! Alfred University in New York offered a course on this pancake topper

$200

In 1953 Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay were on top of the world after reaching the summit of this mountain

$200

Volunteer at a local animal rescue and help guys like this breed that can weight as little as 1 pound find a forever home

$200

Sam Smith was "hopin' that my love will keep you up tonight, baby, how do you" do this "when you lie to me?"

$200

A cup for java, or to forcibly rob someone

$400

A wide variety of animals live in the Rocky Mountains, including this type of wild sheep

$400

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the ice cream short course at this school, home of the Nittany Lions

$400

Well, that takes the cake! In 1793 this queen was put in solitary confinement at the Conciergerie

$400

Let's talk about joining Cornell's Speech & this Society or Georgetown's Parliamentary this team

$400

She was on kids' TV shows like "Barney & Friends" & "Hannah Montana" a bit before her 2019 hit "Lose You To Love Me"

$400

That's right, friend, it's an enemy

$600

For much of its length, this ridge between western- & eastern-flowing river systems follows the crest of the Rocky Mountains

$600

You can take a course on artificial intelligence at this school along the Charles River; go Engineers!

$600

In 1644 the Manchus ended this dynasty known for vases

$600

You can start a cover band & perform songs of this artist like "Party Monster" & "Call Out My Name"

$600

This British singer-songwriter's 2017-19 "Divide Tour" took in a whopping $775 million

$600

One of these costs might be luxury or flat

$800

For a real Rocky Mountain high, visit this military academy near Colorado Springs

$800

History courses at Kent State include ones on espionage, the holocaust & this Italian city, the birthplace of the renaissance

$800

The 1970s Pres. of Equatorial this, Macías Nguema forced priests to recite, "There is no God other than Macías"

$800

A part-time job at this chain making Meatball Marinara & Veggie Delite sandwiches could put a few bucks in your pocket

$800

This one-named singer, seen here, dug up a hit with "Graveyard" in 2019

$800

To put on an article of clothing; it's also a male first name

DD: $800

A state capital in the Rockies bears the name of this Native American people once found in the region

$1000

One of the topics covered in a Major League Baseball course at Arizona State is this player who broke the color barrier in 1947

$1000

Joseph Stalin was an editor of this Bolshevik newspaper whose Russian name means "truth"

$1000

How about trying this sport nicknamed "chess on ice" that uses 8 granite stones per team

$1000

Last name of "Doctor Who" actor Peter & of his younger cousin Lewis, who got Peter to star in the video for "Someone You Loved"

$1000

Before it's trimmed, this evergreen tree, popular in landscape gardening, has striking red decor

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Nathaniel	Marshall	Xiaoke
$5,000	$1,800	$1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Nathaniel	Marshall	Xiaoke
$5,800	$3,400	$2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD OF VIDEO GAMES

POETRY

THE ELEMENTS WITH STYLE

"AD"JECTIVES

(Alex: Each correct response will begin with those two letters.)

A FULL RIDE

SCHOLARSHIP

$400

On July 4, 1855 Walt Whitman published this group of 12 poems at his own expense

$400

Sticky

$400

Laurence Tribe has taught at Harvard Law since 1968 & co-wrote the book "On Reading" this document, which he's done a few times

$800

Set not in Hyrule but rather on the Isle of Koholint, "Link's Awakening" is a 2019 Nintendo release in this game series

$800

He wrote, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"

$800

I'd like to put out an APB on Pb, this most stylish element on the periodic table

$800

Just good enough, but no more

$800

In 1941 the luxury vessel S.S. America, capacity 1,049, got these new initials as the troop ship West Point, capacity around 8,000

$800

In 1986 feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon convinced SCOTUS that sexual this, often at work, is sex discrimination

$1200

In 2019, Sony revived this odd-looking fellow who had to avoid Coily while jumping from level to level

$1200

This poet with a bias for lowercase letters did use capital E's for the initials of his first & middle names

$1200

Leading the pack, alphabetically at any rate, is this element, symbol Ac

$1200

Directed to a particular recipient, like a package

$1200

Remove the seats, panels, etc. & you can get 15-20 in a Mini Cooper for this alliterative circus automobile

$1200

John Dominic Crossan wrote the controversial book "The Historical" him: "The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant"

$1600

Referring to a false promise, "The cake is a lie" became a famous meme that sprang from this Valve game

$1600

Prophetically, she wrote in "Lady Lazarus", "Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well"

$1600

This word for a gas such as argon also applies to a probably well-dressed person such as a duke

$1600

Meaning hardheaded about something, it also means a really hard type of rock

$1600

On this route to the Pacific Northwest, wagons only held a few passengers but 2,000 pounds of supplies, including 400 pounds of bacon

$1600

This renowned scholar of race is a frequent guest of Bill Maher and acted in the "Matrix" film series

$2000

The long-awaited upcoming sequel to this PlayStation game revisits Ellie and Joel after a cross-country trek filled with zombies

DD: $5,000

In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", he wrote, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"

DD: $3,000

You'll have that certain glow with this element discovered in 1669 & named for the way it glows in the dark

$2000

Old-timey word meaning fuzzy minded

$2000

In 1975 the last C-130A Hercules to leave Vietnam before the fall of this city flew hundreds of desperate people to Thailand

$2000

In 1925 Leslie Hotson unearthed the 332-year-old record of the inquest into this "Dr. Faustus" playwright's death

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Nathaniel	Marshall	Xiaoke
$11,800	$12,200	$10,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL GEOGRAPHY

This Midwest city is the burial place of one 19th century president & was named for a relative of another

Final scores:

Nathaniel	Marshall	Xiaoke
$1,000	$799	$8,200
2nd place: $10,000	3rd place: $10,000	Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Nathaniel	Marshall	Xiaoke
$12,600	$12,200	$10,200
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)	18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)	12 R, 1 W

Show #8203 - Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Double Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Final Jeopardy! Round

Final scores:

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Combined Coryat: $35,000

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Game tape date: 2020-02-04