National College Championship game #4 - Wednesday, February 9, 2022

2022 National College Championship quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

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Joey Kornman, a junior at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts

Mitch Macek, a sophomore at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania

Yejun Kim, a senior at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round

THE ELEMENTS
APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES
GETTING YOUR LOOK TOGETHER
ORCHESTRA OF THE WHIRLED
TV SHOWS TO BINGE
HISTORIC MEAN TWEETS
(Guillermo Rodriguez: I'm Guillermo Rodriguez from Jimmy Kimmel Live! I'll read some mean tweets about people in history who cannot be here themselves.)
    $200 1
Pu-239 is an isotope of this silvery metal
    $200 12
I didn't try to call you because my phone only had 1 of these, which are related to decibels
    $200 18
This store, UO for short, started in 1970 on Locust Street near the University of Pennsylvania
    $200 20
Schubert's was unfinished:
NYMPHS YO
    $200 9
This series, first with Ruby Rose & then with Javicia Leslie as the Caped Crusader & defender of Gotham City
    $200 27
(Guillermo reads a mean tweet.)
@militaryguy
Napoleon, nice work invading this giant country on June 24, 1812... You Moron! #winteriscoming
    $400 2
Sir Humphry Davy used electrolysis to isolate it, symbol K
    $400 14
A book you can read in one this, literally without getting up, is one under about 300 pages
    $400 17
This company that sells prescription glasses was named for 2 Jack Kerouac characters
    $400 21
He or she does it with a wave:
NO CUT CORD
    $400 22
This limited series starring Anya Taylor-Joy about a chess prodigy
    $400 26
(Guillermo reads a mean tweet.)
@oceanguy
Magellan, remind me why you're famous as the first person to do this when you barely made it halfway before getting killed?
    $600 7
Atomic No. 20, it's needed for kids' teeth to grow
    $600 15
It's a word for layers of thickness; paper towels & face masks can each be 2- or 3-
    $600 19
This "Off the Wall" brand of skate shoes began in 1966
    $600 25
Pitchy Italian tooter:
COCO LIP
    $600 30
The original of this series that featured Blake Lively & Leighton Meester as privileged teens in New York City
    $600 5
(Guillermo reads a mean tweet.)
@londonlady
Henry VIII, you selfish jackass, I'd rather lose my head like this second wife of yours than be married to you, too
    DD: $1,000 8
This element makes up about 25% of the mass in your average star
    $800 11
3-letter word for very small or very early, as in these "hours of the morning"
    $800 6
Get cosmetics at Sephora or this rival with a 4-letter name & about 1,300 U.S. locations
    $800 24
It's all about music love:
MOLAR INCH HIP
    $800 29
This series on which Walter White & Jesse Pinkman were involved in a whole different type of cooking show
    $800 3
(Guillermo reads a mean tweet.)
@artlover
Hey Claude Monet, critics call your style this "ism"; I call it looks like you need glasses
    $1000 10
This English chemist & clergyman discovered oxygen in 1774
    $1000 13
In many high schools 1 credit equals 120 hours in a classroom--a "unit" named for this 19th c. steel tycoon & philanthropist
    $1000 16
In 2006 J. Crew launched this sister brand that specializes in denim
    $1000 23
This section can really bang:
SUPERSONIC
    $1000 28
This comedy on which Joel McHale played a disbarred lawyer who goes back to college & buddies up with a bunch of misfits
    $1000 4
(Guillermo reads a mean tweet.)
@thisman
In your face, Elisha Gray! Got my patent entered before yours! #biginventionof1876

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

Yejun Mitch Joey
$400 $3,600 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yejun Mitch Joey
$2,800 $4,600 $5,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

PREFIXES
RIVER CITY
ART APPRECIATION
LITTLE, MEDIUM OR BIG DOG ON CAMPUS
BILLBOARD YEAR-END NO. 1 ALBUMS
ASSIGNED READING MATH
    $400 14
Get the jump with this prefix; after all, thiswarned is thisarmed
    $400 30
The Blue branch of this river begins near Bahir Dar in Ethiopia
    $400 28
Michelangelo got 400 ducats for the 1501 assignment of this huge marble masterpiece
    $400 9
The AKC says the Old English this "is the archetypical shaggy dog, famous for his... peek-a-boo hairdo"
    $400 1
"Let It Go" & name this soundtrack album, No. 1 for 2014
    $400 10
My Greek prof wants us to read 150 lines where Hector fights Ajax, 1% of this whole poem
    $800 15
Latin for "beyond", it can precede "conservative" or "liberal"
    $800 29
The Ponte Vecchio crosses the Arno in this beautiful Italian city
    $800 27
Marcel Duchamp came up with this word describing the abstract sculpture created by Alexander Calder at a 1932 exhibition
    $800 19
This black-masked breed is pugilistic in name but great with kids
    $800 2
No. 1 for 2016 was this Adele number featuring "Hello"
    $800 22
"Still Mad", feminist criticism by Gilbert & Gubar, is 3/5 as many pages as their 1979 book this person "in the Attic"
    $1200 5
A hypothesized parent language is called this-Indo-European
    $1200 18
We are "United" in our love for this soccer-mad city, an inland port on the Irwell River
    $1200 8
Some thought Thomas Eakins took realism too far in "The" this "Clinic", "this" not as in "ew", but as in the last name of the surgeon
    $1200 26
The silky coat of this hound, seen here, protected it from the rough climate of its Central Asian origin
    $1200 13
Having 2018's No. 1 just added to her superstar "reputation"
    $1200 23
A textbook titled this process covers "The Tree of Life" & "Mutation and Variation"; readers spend 62% more time on "All About Sex"
    DD: $3,000 3
It's a shortcut used to generate a whole sequence of keystrokes; it was a prefix for "instruction" but broke free
    $1600 7
This city on the Yamuna River has "New" & "Old" sections with more than 20 million residents
    DD: $3,000 24
No surprise, there's an unusual clock in "Premature Ossification of a Railway Station" by this Spaniard
    $1600 25
This type of horn is a low-pitched clarinet; this type of hound is a low-to-the-ground fellow with a sad face & long ears
    $1600 12
Fans sure weren't "Allergic" to his "Hollywood's Bleeding", tops for 2020
    $1600 16
2 hours for this work where Jonathan Swift satirically suggests cooking Irish babies; it's "a modest" 3,400 words, 1,700 an hour
    $2000 4
This prefix forms the first 6 of the 45 letters in the disease name sometimes called the longest word in English
    $2000 21
The Saigon River flows through this city that was once called Saigon
    $2000 17
The website for this artist says, "He is most famous for his so-called impossible drawings, such as Ascending and Descending"
    $2000 20
The hackney gait of the min Pin, short for this breed, is a high-stepping one, much like a trotting hackney horse
    $2000 6
This singer/pianist's "As I Am", featuring her hit "No One", was 2008's No. 1
    $2000 11
This George Eliot novel about Dorothea Brooke has 86 chapters, so they must average about 10 pages

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yejun Mitch Joey
$6,000 $8,600 $16,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY LEADERS
He's called "a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour" in the proclamation making him an honorary U.S. citizen

Final scores:

Yejun Mitch Joey
$6,000 $0 $17,201
2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Yejun Mitch Joey
$6,000 $8,400 $18,000
13 R,
3 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 24 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $32,400

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Game tape date: 2021-11-22
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