National College Championship game #9 - Tuesday, February 15, 2022

2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

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Jeric Brual, a senior at NYU in New York, New York

Raymond Goslow, a senior at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia

Lucy Greenman, a senior at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round

A SEMESTER ABROAD
SQUID GAME
GOING GREEK ALPHABET
COURSE SYLLABLES
HITS OF 2021
HALF PAST
(Mayim: Responses will be found just after "half" in the dictionary.)
    $200 29
Sail from Tasman Bay & the South Island of this nation & swing around to the Bay of Plenty
    $200 26
It's a fried squid appetizer, but ask for it by this Italian name
    $200 30
The closest red giant star to Earth is this Crucis, the third-brightest star in the Southern Cross
    $200 24
1 syllable:
In the languages department, this one also called Nederlands
    $200 16
This singer who has his own record label, Gingerbread Man, put some of his "Bad Habits" on the Hot 100
    $200 27
It's also known as a nimbus in religious artworks
    $400 25
You might climb this mountain, named for being the second peak measured in the Karakoram Range
    $400 21
According to creator Stephen Hillenburg, Squidward on this TV series isn't a squid at all but an octopus
    $400 5
This sweet 16th letter is also truly a transcendental number
    $400 22
4 syllables:
This course on the art & technique of building & design
    $400 14
At 18, she seems a little young to be singing of "Deja Vu"
    $400 28
It's the type of fashionwear seen here
    $600 20
This biological reservoir is 2.3 million square miles in area & stretches to the Andes; when there, feel free to save it
    $600 19
Sightings of giant squid off Norway may have given rise to this Scandinavian sea monster illustrated here; release it now!
    $600 4
These 3 letters symbolize a fraternity founded in 1998, one of the few that uses its third letter

ΑΙΟ
    $600 18
3 syllables:
This type of small, in-depth class, with a name from Latin
    $600 11
He spent $1 million a day to complete an album at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz stadium; at least he got hits out of it like "Hurricane"
    $600 23
Sing it or say it, it means "praise ye the Lord!"
    $800 10
Get your anagram travel on by visiting these 2 Japanese cities, one a capital for 1,000 years & the other, not quite as long
    DD: $1,600 7
In this classic Jules Verne novel, the Nautilus encounters "an immense school of squid"
    $800 3
It sounds like it should be the last letter, but it's 6th in the batting order
    $800 15
2 syllables:
This double-talk art history course on the style of Duchamp & Man Ray
    $800 1
She teamed with Cardi B to deal with "Rumors" about a wide range of subjects including groupies & smoothie cleanses
    $800 17
First used to stamp gold & silver, it now refers to anything of excellent quality
    $1000 9
Off you go to this capital of Azerbaijan to see the centuries-old Palace of the Shirvanshahs
    $1000 13
Found at depths of 1,000 feet, the firefly squid gets its name from its flashing lights produced by this 15-letter ability
    $1000 6
A 3-letter letter late in the alphabet, it's also a protein that can build abnormally in the brain & lead to Alzheimer's
    $1000 8
5 syllables:
This study of substances, reactions & physiological processes inside living things
    $1000 2
Luke Bryan sang, "Kiss by kiss, one after another, don't let go, baby, let this summer just keep on coming in" this title
    $1000 12
This group of electronegative elements forms salts

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

Lucy Raymond Jeric!
-$200 $4,200 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Lucy Raymond Jeric!
$1,200 $7,000 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHAPTERS IN THE NOVEL
ADD/DROP
(Mayim: And we need two words in each response.)
ISLAND FOLK
NATIONAL PARKS
THAT FILM IS FIRE
I DO DECLARE
    $400 1
"Jo Meets Apollyon",
"Meg Goes to Vanity Fair"
    $400 29
Add a letter to the smallest pig in a litter to get the sound it might make
    $400 30
A Pinoy is a person of this ethnic heritage
    $400 28
Idaho shares this national park with 2 other states
    $400 9
Mowgli accidentally starts a forest fire in this 2016 live-action/CGI film
    $400 27
The Declaration of the Rights of Man & of the Citizen served as the preamble to this country's 1791 constitution
    $800 2
"The Old Pyncheon Family",
"The Arched Window"
    $800 18
Add a letter to the end of a tiny speck & it becomes a roadside place to stay
    $800 24
She visited her ancestral home Puerto Rico soon after joining the Supreme Court
    $800 25
A 1,600 square mile national park in Montana & one three times bigger in Alaska both have this feature in their names
    $800 10
Fresh from hell, Scorpion uses some fire powers to take down Sub-Zero in this 2021 flick based on a video game
    $800 26
Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the U.N. committee that drafted the UDHR, the Universal Declaration of these
    $1200 3
"The Choices of Master Samwise"
    $1200 17
Drop a letter from a word meaning uninvolved or indifferent to get an adjective meaning relating to a nerve
    $1200 23
Tupaia was a Polynesian who guided Captain Cook as a star one of these, meaning he used the stars
    $1200 14
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park includes 2 of the world's most active volcanoes, Mauna Loa & this one with a 1-word name
    $1200 13
Michael Myers escapes a fire in this 2021 entry in a venerable franchise
    $1200 22
The 1917 Corfu Declaration called for the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes, which in 1929 became this
    $1600 4
From 1989:
"Waverly Jong: Rules of the Game",
"Jing-mei Woo: A Pair of Tickets"
    $1600 16
Drop a letter & go from being sorry that you missed a birthday to being thrilled that you didn't
    $1600 8
This late First Lady's 340-acre property on Martha's Vineyard went up for sale in 2019
    $1600 6
Located in Maine, it's alphabetically first of U.S. national parks & it's also the easternmost in the 50 states
    $1600 11
Sandra Bullock gets some pushback using a fire extinguisher to battle flames in this 2013 sci-fi thriller
    $1600 19
Hoping to get his family throne back, in 1660 this exiled king made some promises in the Declaration of Breda; it worked
    $2000 5
A Pulitzer winner from 2014:
"Boy with a Skull",
"The Anatomy Lesson" &
"Park Avenue"
    DD: $2,000 15
Drop a letter from the unlawful act of inciting a revolt against the government to get a special issue of a newspaper
    DD: $5,000 20
The people of this island live between Padar & Banta Islands & around some very big lizards
    $2000 7
About 70 miles west of Key West, this Florida national park was named for the many sea turtles found there
    $2000 12
This 2009 Tarantino film features a fire in a Nazi-filled movie theater
    $2000 21
The Declaration of Sentiments read at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention was primarily the work of this 3-named New York suffragist

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Lucy Raymond Jeric!
$8,000 $25,200 $7,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

PHYSICISTS
A 1927 principle by this Nobel Prize winner says that some knowledge is inaccessible

Final scores:

Lucy Raymond Jeric!
$16,000 $26,021 $8,001
2nd place: $10,000 Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Lucy Raymond Jeric!
$8,000 $23,400 $7,400
11 R,
1 W
29 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W
(including 1 DD)
9 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $38,800

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Game tape date: 2021-11-22
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