Show #7466 2017-02-13 (taped 2017-01-10) College Championship

2017 College Championship quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

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

Double Jeopardy! Round

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

Final Jeopardy!

BOOKS OF THE BIBLE

It begins with God saying, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel"

Numbers

Esteban "What is Exodus" — wagered $7,400
Netanel "What is Numbers?" — wagered $2,400
Lilly "What is Numbers" — wagered $4,399

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