National College Championship game #5 - Thursday, February 10, 2022

2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Neha Seshadri, a senior at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Chance Persons, a sophomore at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska

Pauline Bisaccio, a junior at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina

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Jeopardy! Round

YOU'LL HAVE PEAKS & VALLEYS
PASS/FAIL
GAME SHOW HOSTS
MEDICAL SPECIALTIES
BEFORE & AFTER
HOME ECONOMICS WITH TOPHER GRACE
(Topher Grace: I'm Topher Grace of ABC's Home Economics. On our show, my wealthy brother Connor, middle-class Tom, and my struggling sister Sarah could all benefit from the clues that I'll be giving.)
    $200 25
This tallest mountain in North America was formerly named for a U.S. president
    $200 26
Fianna Fáil, or "Soldiers of Destiny", has been one of this country's leading political parties since the 1930s
    $200 27
This "Good Morning America"n & ex-NFLer hosts "The $100,000 Pyramid"
    $200 5
As seen on TV & social media, Sandra Lee, also known as Dr. Pimple Popper, is board-certified in this field
    $200 30
Macedonian conqueror of Persia who is a large breed of canine like Scooby Doo
    $200 29
(Topher Grace delivers the clue.) College cost has tripled in 20 years & averages about $36,000 a year; parents might win 2 games on "Jeopardy!", like our show's co-creator actually did, or invest in this numeric option, legally known as a qualified tuition plan
    $400 24
Appropriately, the Funeral Mountains border this valley of the American Southwest
    $400 22
You pass in this card game if you decline to make a bid when it's your turn in the auction
    $400 23
Coach Sylvester on "Glee", she sends people home on "The Weakest Link"; goodbye!
    $400 4
This word precedes disease in a specialty & is also in the name of the institute Anthony Fauci directs
    $400 28
Doctor's office holding area feature that allows you to order food & drink to be delivered to you
    $400 13
(Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Sometimes life comes at you fast--ouch--glad everyone was okay--good thing you have car insurance; but now you must pay this, the part of the covered loss that's out of pocket; $500 tends to be the popular choice
    $600 10
The central peak of this mountain massif is seen here
    $600 9
Explosive word for a long pass in football
    $600 19
This current late night host has folks pick their "final answer" on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
    DD: $1,800 3
Trouble with hay fever?
Have bad reactions to bug bites? Or peanuts?
This specialist can help
    $600 21
"Great Bear" constellation with teams like the L.A. Galaxy in it
    $600 6
(Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Hey, it's never too early to start planning for retirement, guys; one type of IRA that lets qualified distributions be tax-free is named for this senator who represented Delaware with Joe Biden
    $800 11
In Israel, not Hawaii, the Hula Valley is where 3 tributaries join to form this river
    $800 8
The Great this Pass in the Pennine Alps is where a famed breed of rescue dog originated
    $800 16
After "Saturday Night Live", she began hosting "Supermarket Sweep"
    $800 2
Dr. Benjamin Rush, who wrote an 1812 textbook on mental diseases, is often called the "father of American" this medical field
    $800 20
That bold end-of-a-performance action is still very small compared to all the water it's in
    $800 7
(Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Crypto is a newer investment option; created as a joke in 2013, this coin, favored by shiba inus, is no joke now
    $1000 18
Mt. Narodnaya is the tallest peak in this mountain range, a traditional boundary between Europe & Asia
    $1000 17
A Cold War-era novel & movie popularized this term for a device that's supposed to prevent unanticipated disaster
    $1000 15
This 3-time NBA champion hosts "The Cube"
    $1000 1
This 16-letter field deals with the digestive organs & tract including the stomach & esophagus
    $1000 14
A regimen of liquefied carrots & grapefruit that's a freeway space where many drive 75
    $1000 12
(Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Hey, you got a new job! Congrats! Now you're looking for an apartment & here's some free advice: 30% is the traditional max for your RTI ratio, "RTI" short for this

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

Pauline Chance Neha
-$2,600 $1,600 $5,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Pauline Chance Neha
-$2,600 $4,200 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

THIS PARTY IS LIT
U.S. STAMPS
CELEBRITIES
OPERA
HISTORIC PAIRS
AFTER & BEFORE
    $400 29
At a "mad" party in "Alice in Wonderland", this beverage is all that's served
    $400 30
A pair of stamps feature a boutonniere & this bouquet of flowers often worn pinned to a dress
    $400 23
If you've been "Keeping Up with" her, you know she's one of the highest-paid models in the world
    $400 11
The part of the devil is sung by a bass in Gounod's opera about this soul-seller
    $400 22
Levi Preston gained fame for fighting in both these Massachusetts battles on April 19, 1775, but actually fought in neither
    $400 28
It's Latin for "after" but comes before "-mortem"
    $800 13
This Dickens character excitedly watches his younger, better self make merry at Mr. Fezziwig's ball
    $800 21
Seen here, a 2021 stamp celebrates this holiday by showing elements of a typical ofrenda
    $800 5
In 2020 he went in a different direction, wearing a Gucci dress as the first solo male to grace the cover of Vogue magazine
    $800 10
Alberich is very fond of that ring he has crafted in an opera by this composer
    DD: $1,000 17
From 2013 to 2018 former First Lady Livia Klausova was Czech ambassador to this former partner land
    $800 27
It's the adverb in the acronym FKA
    $1200 12
In the medieval Icelandic "Prose Edda", slain warriors party every night in this hall
    $1200 20
A series of stamps depicts backyard games, including tetherball & this one where you toss beanbags at a wooden target
    $1200 4
This big screen "Wonder Woman" served 2 years in the Israeli Defense Forces
    $1200 9
Katharina's aria "My Strength Fails" is a highlight of Hermann Goetz' opera based on this Shakespeare comedy
    $1200 16
In 1386, Jean de Carrouges met Jacques le Gris in an affair of honor seen in the image here & in this 2021 film
    $1200 26
The order of who is next on the throne is the line of this 10-letter word
    DD: $2,000 6
At his wake, this title character is laid out with a barrel of Guinness at his head & a bottle of whiskey at his feet
    $1600 19
The picket fence in the background alludes to a play title by this man honored on the stamp seen here
    $1600 3
For his 2017 album "Damn", he became the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize for music
    $1600 8
Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist for this 1787 Mozart opera about a seducer, was friends with Casanova, who had the same hobby IRL
    $1600 15
Bread & these are listed by the satiric poet Juvenal as the only remaining concerns of Rome's jaded population
    $1600 25
This pluralized word means past grievances; we say "let" them "be" them
    $2000 2
A villa in France is the site of an extended house party in "Conversations with Friends" by this much-lauded young writer
    $2000 18
A stamp honors the 33,000 second-generation Japanese Americans, known by this Japanese word, who served in World War II
    $2000 1
These days, he's "The Good Doctor" Sean Murphy, but as a teen he played Charlie in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
    $2000 7
In Richard Strauss' opera about this woman, her dancing leads to the death of John the Baptist
    $2000 14
ASTP was short for these two spacecraft "Test Project"; the U.S.-Soviet docking recreated at the Air and Space Museum took place in 1975
    $2000 24
French suivre, "to follow", is related to this 5-letter word that means the same

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Pauline Chance Neha
$5,600 $7,400 $8,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY
About 200 miles of the Tyrrhenian Sea separates the cities of Cagliari & Trapani in these 2 "regioni autonome" of Italy

Final scores:

Pauline Chance Neha
$8,601 $0 $14,801
2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Pauline Chance Neha
$5,400 $9,400 $7,400
12 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W		 15 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $22,200

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Game tape date: 2021-11-21
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