Responses for National College Championship game #1 - Tuesday, February 8, 2022

2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 1.
Mayim Bialik hosts.

Contestants

Catherine Zhang, a senior at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

Gus Guszkowski, a senior at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire

Isaac Applebaum, a junior at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

BIO 101
PARTS OF THE FRANCHISE
BIBLE BOOKS
GET A JOB!
THAT'S QUITE A DORM ROOM
THESE WORDS ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU ARE
(Mayim: These are recent additions to the Oxford English Dictionary.)
    $200 27
Catherine the Great

Isaac
    $200 30
The Lion King

Isaac
    $200 28
the Gospels

Gus
    $200 29
(Catherine: What is a... bellhop?)

a clerk

IsaacCatherine
    $200 26
Domino's Pizza

Triple Stumper
    $200 25
glamping

Catherine
    $400 20
Steve Jobs

Isaac
    $400 24
Grand Theft Auto

Triple Stumper
    $400 12
the Torah

Triple Stumper
    $400 23
wigs

Triple Stumper
    $400 21
the Berlin Wall

Gus
    $400 19
ghosting

Isaac
    $600 7
John Adams

Gus
    $600 22
(Catherine: What is Calvin and Hobbes?)

The Fast and the Furious

Catherine
Triple Stumper
    $1,600 11
epistles

Isaac
    $600 18
(Mayim: Yes, and that puts you on the board.)

a curator

Catherine
    $600 15
(Katie) Ledecky

Gus
    $600 17
(Mayim: Correct, a very important item.)

a selfie stick

Isaac
    $800 5
Harvey Milk

Isaac
    $800 13
Star Trek

Gus
    $800 1
Solomon

Isaac
    $800 9
administration

Gus
    $800 14
Louis XIV

Isaac
    $800 4
mansplaining

Isaac
    $1000 6
Malcolm X

Isaac
    $1000 16
Resident Evil

Triple Stumper
    $1000 2
apocryphal

Gus
    $1000 8
compliance

Gus
    $1000 10
operations per second

Isaac
    $1000 3
bucket lists

Gus

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

Isaac Gus Catherine
$6,800 $5,800 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Isaac Gus Catherine
$8,800 $6,400 $0

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BIO 201
POETS & POETRY
SOCIAL MEDIA STARS
FLORAL GEOGRAPHY
"KN"OWLEDGE
(Mayim: Where each response starts with "K-N".)
DEAN'S LIST
    $400 10
ants

Isaac
    $400 30
(Lewis) Carroll

Catherine
    $400 1
[Isaac did not pronounce the "at" symbol.]

@therock

Isaac
    $400 29
(Isaac: What is Massachusetts?)

Maine

IsaacCatherine
    $400 16
knickknacks

Gus
    $400 25
Vermont

Catherine
    $800 9
the fallopian tube

Triple Stumper
    $800 18
Langston Hughes

Catherine
    $800 20
Addison Rae

Catherine
    $800 28
milk

Catherine
    $800 7
knave

Isaac
    $800 24
Jamaica

Gus
    $1,800 2
anthrax

Isaac
    $1200 11
(Mayim: Yes, the great [*].)

(Leonard) Cohen

Gus
    $1200 19
JoJo Siwa

Gus
    $1200 27
(Gus: What are tulips?)
[ERRATUM: The Parisian street name is rue des Jonquilles.]

daffodils

Gus
Triple Stumper
    $1200 6
the Know-Nothing Party

Gus
    $1200 23
Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Triple Stumper
    $1600 3
homeostasis

Gus
    $1600 15
John Keats

Triple Stumper
    $1600 13
Alessia Cara

Gus
    $1600 26
(Catherine: What is... forget-me-not?)

the fleur-de-lis

Catherine
Triple Stumper
    $1600 5
(Mayim: Correct, and that puts you in the lead.)

Knowles

Gus
    $1600 22
(Jack) Kerouac

Catherine
    $2000 8
(Mayim: That's right, it just rolls off the tongue if you've worked in a genetics lab.)

polymerase chain reaction

Isaac
    $2000 14
Louise Glück

Triple Stumper
    $2000 12
[Mayim corrected Catherine's pronunciation, which was like the composer's surname.]

King Bach

Catherine
    $2,000 17
(Gus: I have absolutely no clue.)

Bloemfontein

Gus
    $2000 4
knell

Gus
    $2000 21
free solo

Gus

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Isaac Gus Catherine
$13,800 $16,800 $5,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN HISTORY
(Catherine: I was going for "Transcontinental Railroad".)
...
(Mayim: Torrey helped 400 enslaved people escape as a conductor on [*], and The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper.)
CatherineWhat is the Tra
$400
IsaacWhat is The Underground Railroad
$2,601
GusWhat is the Transcon
$10,801
the Underground Railroad

Final scores:

Isaac Gus Catherine
$16,401 $5,999 $5,200
Winner: semifinalist 2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Isaac Gus Catherine
$12,200 $18,800 $5,600
18 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 19 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $36,600

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Game tape date: 2021-11-21
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