2017 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.
Netanel Paley — a senior at Yeshiva University from Teaneck, New Jersey
Esteban Fernandez — a freshman at San Francisco State University from Coronado, California
Lilly Chin — a senior at MIT from Decatur, Georgia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lilly | $6,600 | $7,200 | $20,000 |
$24,399
Automatic semifinalist |
$19,600
27 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Esteban | $1,000 | $4,200 | $7,400 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,400
11 R, 1 W |
| Netanel | $1,000 | $4,200 | $15,600 |
$18,000
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$13,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| BASKETS OF ADORABLES | CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES | IN OLDEN TIMES | MULTIPLE MEANINGS | LANGUAGES | SEEING RED |
|
$200
[30]
This8-letter baby isn't ugly in the least
duckling
Lilly
|
$200
[28]
Dominant athletes Venus & Serena
Williams
Esteban
|
$200
[21]
Before 100 A.D.: manuscripts are stored in caves, to later be called these scrolls named for a body of water
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Netanel
|
$200
[23]
A set of words complete in itself, or a criminal's punishment
sentence
Lilly
|
$200
[4]
This language has 2 main written forms: modern standard & classical, the language of the Koran
Arabic
Lilly
|
$200
[29]
It's the precious variety of corundum seen here
ruby
Lilly
|
|
$400
[22]
Here's a not-so-giant panda at a giant panda base in this country
China
Netanel
|
$400
[27]
Liam, Chris & the lesser-known Luke
Hemsworth
Esteban
|
$400
[17]
Around 840: Norse invaders establish this city they call Dyfflin on the banks of the River Liffey
Dublin
Netanel
|
$400
[20]
To shape into a form, or a fungus that grows on food
mold
Netanel
|
$400
[7]
This language is spoken by about 11 million in Europe & about 200 million in South America
Portuguese
Lilly
Netanel
|
$400
[14]
This red shade precedes "letter" & "fever"
scarlet
Lilly
|
|
$600
[8]
A wildlife rescue center in France is a bon place for a basket of these
hedgehogs
Netanel
|
$600
[24]
L.A. girls Zooey & Emily
Deschanel
Esteban
|
$600
[1]
5th century B.C.: Athenians carry out an ambitious building program on this hill with a name meaning "upper city"
Acropolis
Lilly
|
$600
[12]
Sensible & not easily upset, or a house for thoroughbreds
stable
Netanel
|
$600
[9]
Almost extinct, the Coeur d'Alene language is spoken by a few Native Americans on a reservation in this U.S. state
Idaho
Lilly
Netanel
|
$600
[3]
It's what gives "The Red Badge of Courage" its redness
blood
Netanel
|
|
$800
[5]
Look closely at the feet & you should be able to name this species of the flower aficionado seen here
a three-toed sloth
Lilly
|
$800
[26]
Kelly, Jack & the seldom-seen Aimee
Osbourne
|
$1,000
[6]
Around 313: this Roman emperor starts championing Christianity
Constantine
Esteban
Netanel
|
$800
[13]
A machine for moving heavy objects, or a long-necked, long-legged avian
a crane
Lilly
|
$800
[2]
Standard Chinese is based primarily on this form of Chinese spoken by the educated in Beijing
Mandarin
Lilly
|
$800
[19]
An intense, bright red named for an emergency vehicle
fire truck red (or fire engine)
Netanel
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Despite the name, acat with this color pattern is not a member of the turtle family
tortoiseshell
Lilly
|
$1,000
[25]
Donnie & Mark, the pride of Dorchester
Wahlberg
Esteban
|
DD
$1,200
[11]
This year: Harold II becomes king of England for 9 months before getting conquered by another guy
1066
Lilly
|
$1,000
[18]
To hit with a fist or bat, or a terrestrial gastropod
slug
Esteban
|
$1,000
[10]
Before 2009 Greenland had 2 official languages: Greenlandic & this
Danish
Lilly
|
$1,000
[16]
A Brunswick bowling ball & a Stratocaster guitar have both come in this red, named for a sugar-coated fruit
a candy apple (red)
Netanel
|
| FACTS ON FEBRUARY | BODIES OF WATER | SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER | A "B"-PLUS STUDENT | BROADWAY MUSICALS | REMEMBER 2016? |
|
$400
[30]
A baby has a 1-in-1,461 chance of being this & having his 20th birthday also be his 5th
being born on February 29th
Lilly
|
$400
[2]
The Yucatan Channel connects the Gulf of Mexico & this sea
the Caribbean
Lilly
|
$400
[19]
Team rope-pulling contest that becomes a Tolstoy novel
tug-of- War and Peace
Lilly
|
$400
[28]
Seen here, they can sometimes be in black & white too
a blueprint
Esteban
|
$400
[29]
Other characters in this smash Broadway show include Lafayette & Peggy Schuyler
Hamilton
Lilly
|
$400
[1]
A Japanese company made the world's last one of these TV playback machines
a VCR
Netanel
|
|
$800
[16]
Name of the Punxsutawney groundhog traditionally at the heart of the action on February 2
Phil
Lilly
|
$800
[6]
The river locally called Song Sai Gon runs mainly through the south of this country
Vietnam
Lilly
|
$800
[20]
A novel about a dog named Buck that can vary its value from 2 through ace
Call of the Wild card
Lilly
|
$800
[26]
A hole for a fox, or what it does as it digs it
burrow
Esteban
|
$800
[27]
In 2016 Leona Lewis earned her whiskers playing Grizabella in the revival of this musical
Cats
Esteban
|
$800
[13]
On August 17th, shewas named Donald Trump's campaign manager
Kellyanne Conway
Netanel
|
|
$1,200
[5]
The last month of the Roman year, February became our second month when this calendar was proclaimed in 1582
the Gregorian calendar
Lilly
Esteban
|
$1,600
[11]
Thisriver rises in the Alps & flows through France to the Mediterranean, the most important river to do so
the Rhône
Netanel
|
$1,200
[21]
Tony Stark creation who becomes Don Quixote in a musical
Iron Man of La Mancha
Lilly
|
$1,200
[3]
Term for a chance onlooker, perhaps an innocent one
bystander
Lilly
|
$1,200
[8]
This superhero spun his magic on Broadway in a musical subtitled "Turn Off the Dark"
Spider-Man
Lilly
|
$1,200
[10]
Protests began as the Standing Rock Sioux moved to block this pipeline that bears the name of a Sioux people
the Dakota Pipeline
Lilly
|
|
$1,600
[25]
We'll lead you down this path named for a February birth flower & early spring bloomer
the primrose path
|
$2,000
[9]
In 1992 North Korea & South Korea proposed that this sea off their east coasts be called the East Sea
the Sea of Japan
|
$1,600
[4]
Instead of ending so the ballgame can start, the national anthem leads into a 1932 novel of the future
the home of the Brave New World
|
$1,600
[7]
These prevent a horse from being distracted by that cute filly off to the side
blinders
Lilly
|
$1,600
[18]
From Trey Parker & Matt Stone, it's described as "hilarious and irreverent"
The Book of Mormon
Lilly
|
$1,600
[14]
Aung San Suu Kyi's friend Htin Kyaw was inaugurated as this country's first freely elected president in decades
Myanmar
Netanel
|
|
$2,000
[24]
These hyphenated Germanic people of Britain called February "Solmonath", meaning "mud month"
Anglo-Saxons
Netanel
|
DD
$3,000
[12]
The "thumb" of Michigan's "mitten" juts north into this Great Lake
Lake Huron
Netanel
|
$2,000
[22]
9th century English king who lived in West Egg, New York in a 1920s novel
Alfred the Great Gatsby
Esteban
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
An ancient empire lends its name to this term meaning "intricate" or "complex"
Byzantine
Lilly
|
$2,000
[23]
Neil Patrick Harris won a 2014 Tony for his role in this musical about a transgender punk rocker from East Berlin
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Esteban
|
$2,000
[15]
This Silicon Valley entrepreneur revealed he had bankrolled the lawsuit that took down Gawker
Peter Thiel
Netanel
|
It begins with God saying, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel"
Numbers