Responses for National College Championship game #12 - Wednesday, February 16, 2022

2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 12.

Contestants

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Megan Sullivan, a junior at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia

Aniket Dehadrai, a senior at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sam Blum, a senior at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN
THROWING SERIOUS SHADE
HAIKU THAT NOVEL!
TOY STORIES
THEY'RE MULTI-TALENTED
GET YOUR "M_B_A"
(Mayim: Each response starts with "M", followed at some point by "B" and "A".)
    $200 13
Y2K

Sam
    $200 29
oak

Megan
    $200 27
Pride and Prejudice

Megan
    $200 1
Nerf

Megan
    $200 30
Rihanna

Megan
    $200 18
(Megan: What is mea culpa?)
[Megan tried two pronunciations of culpa, first "KOOL-pah" and then "KULL-pah" at not being immediately ruled correct.]

my bad

AniketMegan
    $400 14
the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Megan
    $400 7
a eucalyptus

Aniket
    $400 3
[Sam omitted the leading article in his response.]

The Grapes of Wrath

Sam
    $400 4
(Mayim: More than meets the eye, that's correct.)

Transformers

Megan
    $400 28
Selena Gomez

Triple Stumper
    $400 15
a mamba

Aniket
    $600 8
Finding Nemo

Aniket
    $600 21
a spruce

Aniket
    $600 2
Nine Perfect Strangers

Triple Stumper
    $600 10
Bratz

Aniket
    $600 26
Shaquille O'Neal

Megan
    $600 5
memorabilia

Megan
    $800 9
(Saddam) Hussein

Sam
    $1,000 11
(Aniket: What... is... cherry?)

magnolia

Aniket
    $800 20
(Mayim: Very nice, yes.)

Ready Player One

Megan
    $800 19
ZhuZhu Pets

Megan
    $800 6
(Aniket: Who is Billie Eilish?)

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

AniketMegan
    $800 16
a mortarboard

Triple Stumper
    $1000 12
Genesis

Sam
    $1000 22
(Sam: What is Java?)

Borneo

SamAniket
    $1000 25
Slaughterhouse-Five

Aniket
    $1000 23
(Mayim: Yes, I call it the most troubling puzzle in history...)

the Rubik's Cube

Aniket
    $1000 24
Taika Waititi

Aniket
    $1000 17
marimba

Sam

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

Sam Aniket Megan
$2,400 $200 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Aniket Megan
$2,400 $5,000 $5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPEAN HISTORY
U.S. BODIES OF WATER
PICK A MAJOR
TECH TALK
THE FUTURE'S NOT SO BRIGHT...
WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME
    $400 27
New State

Megan
    $400 28
(Lake) Michigan

Sam
    $400 30
(Aniket: What is an octave?)

scale

Aniket
Triple Stumper
    $400 1
a deepfake

Sam
    $400 13
a wormhole

Aniket
    $400 26
roster & poster

Megan
    $800 20
Persia (the Persian Empire)

Megan
    $800 29
Lake Pontchartrain

Aniket
    $800 14
(Megan: What is Jupiter?)

Mars

Megan
Triple Stumper
    $800 2
ASCII

Megan
    $800 23
Zendaya

Megan
    $800 24
ration & station

Megan
    $1200 8
Switzerland

Aniket
    $1200 17
the Red River

Aniket
    $1200 3
(Megan: What is Scotland?)

Wales

AniketMegan
    $1200 12
(Megan: What is GitHub?)
(Sam: What is Tor?)

Steam

SamMegan
Triple Stumper
    $1200 18
The Expanse

Triple Stumper
    $1200 21
(Aniket: What are "PLY-nee" and [**]?)

Pliny & shiny

AniketMegan
    $4,000 9
(Aniket: What... is... Berlin?)

Warsaw

Aniket
    $1600 7
(Megan: What is Lake Champlain?)

Mobile Bay

Megan
Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
pectorals

Aniket
    $1600 11
haptic

Sam
    $1600 16
(Sam: What is Tenet?)

The Tomorrow War

Sam
Triple Stumper
    $1600 22
(Aniket: What... is a crater and uh...)
(Mayim: Sorry. Time.)

crater & water

Aniket
Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
the Hanseatic League

Aniket
    $2000 15
Kentucky

Aniket
    $2000 5
(Aniket: What is Pygmalion?)

Major Barbara

Aniket
Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
a non-fungible token

Aniket
    $2,000 19
(Aniket: [Breathes out] Who is... Iago?)

Yorick

Aniket
    $2000 25
(Aniket: What is... cord and...)
(Mayim: Sorry. Too much time.)

travel & navel

Aniket
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Aniket Megan
$2,000 $4,200 $5,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

COMPOUND WORDS
(Mayim: [To Aniket] From "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.)
...
(Mayim: And now, let's take a look at the matchups for the semifinals.)
(Isaac: Isaac Applebaum, Stanford University.)
(Stephen: Stephen Privat, Louisiana State University.)
(Emmey: Emmey Harris, University of Minnesota.)
(Joey: Joey Kornman, Brandeis University.)
(Neha: Neha Seshadri, Harvard University.)
(Lauren: Lauren Rodriguez, Pomona College.)
(Liz: Liz Feltner, Northeastern University.)
(Jaskaran: Jaskaran Singh, University of Texas at Austin.)
(Raymond: Raymond Goslow, Kennesaw State University.)
(Kristin: Kristin Donegan, Carnegie Mellon University.)
(Nam: Nam Vu, Georgetown University.)
(Megan: Megan Sullivan, University of Virginia.)
SamWhat is beautiful
$402
AniketWhat is Nevermore?
$0
MeganWhat is nevermore
$3,001
nevermore

Final scores:

Sam Aniket Megan
$1,598 $4,200 $8,401
3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Sam Aniket Megan
$2,000 $11,200 $5,400
8 R,
3 W		 19 R,
9 W
(including 3 DDs)		 18 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $18,600

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Game tape date: 2021-11-22
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