2017 College Championship semifinal game 1.
Alex Bourzutschky — a junior at Caltech from Potomac, Maryland
Lilly Chin — a senior at MIT from Decatur, Georgia
Julia Marsan — a senior at Georgetown University from Brookfield, Wisconsin
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julia | $2,800 | $6,200 | $18,200 |
$10,000
2nd place: $10,000 |
$16,800
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Lilly | $2,600 | $5,600 | $14,800 |
$22,801
Finalist |
$14,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Alex | $800 | $3,400 | $12,600 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$12,600
14 R, 3 W |
| ALL IN A DAY'S WORK | ART & ARTISTS | SILENT "K" | MATH 4U | NAMED FOR A PLACE | LET'S RAP, KIDS! |
|
$200
[30]
First thing, this daily trip to the ol' salt mine, averaging about 30 minutes each way in the L.A. area
a commute
Alex
|
$200
[27]
In 2015, after 10 years of study, a French scientist said he found a hidden portrait beneath this Leonardo portrait
the Mona Lisa
Lilly
|
$200
[3]
It's what high octane gas is meant to prevent
knocking
Alex
|
$200
[4]
It's the distance from a circle's center to its perimeter
a radius
Lilly
|
$200
[29]
Homer's "Iliad" takes its name from Ilium, Latin for this city
Troy
Alex
|
$200
[1]
"Started from the bottom, now we're here, started from the bottom, now the whole team here"
Drake
Lilly
|
|
$400
[28]
Midmorning, a break for this beverage said to have been discovered by a 9th century goat herder
coffee
Julia
|
$400
[19]
Look, no hands! It's this famed marblesculptureby Alexandros
Venus de Milo
Lilly
|
$400
[24]
A small hill, grassy or not
a knoll
Julia
|
$400
[8]
The three sides of this kind of triangle are all of different lengths
scalene
Lilly
|
$600
[5]
We're talking Turkey &this long-haired breed of rabbit
Angora
|
$400
[25]
"They mad they ain't famous, they mad they still nameless... but we still hood famous, yeah, we still hood famous"
Kanye West
Julia
|
|
$600
[23]
Uh oh! A visit from HR, this department
human resources
Alex
|
$600
[13]
This 1930 painting by Grant Wood portrays a fictitious farmer & his daughter
American Gothic
Julia
|
$600
[16]
Bell sound to announce a passing
a knell
Lilly
|
$600
[22]
It's the "useful" term for a relation that pairs members of one set with unique members of another set
a function
Alex
|
$800
[9]
The word palace comes from the name of this hill where many Roman emperors resided
the Palatine
Julia
|
$600
[11]
"Buy a chopper & have a doctor on speed dial, I guess, M.A.A.D. city"
Kendrick Lamar
Julia
|
|
$800
[20]
Let's get out of here before the boss asks us to work this, exemptions from which are listed in the FLSA
overtime
Lilly
|
$800
[6]
The Henry Moore sundial seen here, "Man Enters the Cosmos", greets visitors to this city's Adler Planetarium
Chicago
Julia
|
$800
[17]
Type of pine paneling seen here
knotty (knotted accepted)
Julia
|
$800
[2]
AKA Napier's constant, this lowercase vowel is used to represent the base of a natural logarithm
e
Alex
|
$1,000
[10]
For contributions from Oak Ridge Lab & Vanderbilt Univ., element No. 117, a superheavy halogen, has been named this
tennessine
|
$800
[12]
"6', 7', 8' bunch... young money militia & I am the commissioner, you don't want start Weezy, 'cause the F is for finisher"
Lil Wayne
Lilly
Alex
|
|
$1,000
[21]
An 8-hour day & I made 40 buttons, so divide output by input to get this measure, 5 per hour
productivity
|
$1,000
[7]
Paris' Musee de l'Orangerie is home to a set of "Water Lilies" canvases by this Frenchman
Monet
Alex
|
$1,000
[18]
Anatomical adjective for an immediate & not carefully considered reaction
knee-jerk
Alex
|
$1,000
[15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a conic section on the monitor.) The intersection of two equal & opposite cones with a plane generatesthis2-part curve, from Greek for "extravagance" or "excess"
hyperbola
Lilly
|
DD
$1,400
[26]
Any place that attracts a lot of visitors can be called this, even if it's not in Saudi Arabia
a mecca
Julia
|
$1,000
[14]
"Panda, panda... panda panda panda panda panda"
Desiigner
Lilly
|
| PRESIDENT'S DAY | WOMEN WRITERS | TAKE A PEAK | FLOWERS | BRITISH ENGLISH | PUTTING THE "R" IN ENTERTAINMENT |
|
$400
[24]
November 6, 1984:Reelected
Reagan
Julia
|
$400
[29]
For 10 years she wrote for Entertainment Weekly; since she published "Gone Girl", EW covers her
Gillian Flynn
Julia
|
$400
[1]
8 little peaks including Izudake & Kengamme surround the crater of this Japanese mountain
Fuji
Lilly
|
$400
[27]
April's birth month flower is this "sweet" climbing one, a member of the legume family
a pea
Julia
|
$400
[28]
Slow down! What we call a yellow traffic light, the Brits call this color, like fossilized resin
amber
Alex
|
$400
[30]
This hit by Adele begins, "There's a fire starting in my heart, reaching a fever pitch, it's bringing me out the dark"
"Rolling in the Deep"
Julia
|
|
$800
[11]
December 18, 1915:Remarried
Wilson
Julia
|
$800
[25]
Her book "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding & Other Stories" featured Miss Jane Marple & Hercule Poirot
(Agatha) Christie
Lilly
|
$800
[23]
Walt Disney was fascinated by this Alp, the location of the Disney film "Third Man on the Mountain"
the Matterhorn
Alex
|
$800
[26]
Every May the city of Holland, Michigan has a weeklong festival devoted to these flowers
tulips
Lilly
|
$800
[20]
Fish entrails used to lure sharks in the U.S., or an old friend in Britain
chum
Lilly
|
$800
[22]
Daisy Ridley played this scavenger on the planet Jakku
Rey
Lilly
|
|
$1,200
[7]
October 13, 1959:Flies to Kansas for the groundbreaking of his library
Eisenhower
Julia
|
$1,200
[8]
In 1950 she published her first kids' book, "Henry Huggins"; in 2016 she celebrated her 100th birthday
(Beverly) Cleary
Lilly
|
$1,200
[4]
In 2016 dozens of earthquakes were recorded beneath the surface of Mount Saint Helens in this state
Washington
Lilly
Alex
|
$1,200
[2]
Most roses at florist shops are the type that get their name from smelling like this beverage
tea roses
|
$1,200
[18]
Varnish is this, for fingers & toes
(nail) polish
Julia
|
$1,200
[14]
Justin Roiland co-created, writes for & voices the title duo of this Adult Swim cartoon
Rick and Morty
Lilly
|
|
$1,600
[5]
February 18, 1909:Convenes North American Conservation Conference
Theodore Roosevelt
Lilly
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
In "Letter from Peking", she wrote of an American woman separated from her Chinese-American husband
Pearl S. Buck
Julia
|
$1,600
[9]
This Hawaiian peak on the southeast flank of Mauna Loa is one of the world's most active volcanoes
Kilauea
Alex
|
$1,600
[21]
The genus Tagetes is made up of this flower with "gold" in its name
marigold
Julia
Lilly
|
$1,600
[3]
We end a sentence with a period; the Brits do it with this 2-word term
a full stop
Alex
|
$1,600
[16]
Gucci Mane is featured on this duo's No. 1 hit "Black Beatles"
Rae Sremmurd
Julia
|
|
$2,000
[6]
July 8, 1850:Predicts he will be dead in 2 days; July 9, 1850:It turns out he was overoptimistic
(Zachary) Taylor
Alex
|
$2,000
[13]
According to tradition, Plato referred to this female poet from Lesbos as "the tenth Muse"
Sappho
Julia
|
$2,000
[10]
Margherita Peak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa's 3rd-highest point, exceeded only by these 2 Mount "K"s
Kilimanjaro & Kenya
Alex
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
The Greek goddess of the rainbow gave her name to this flower that comes in a rainbow of colors
iris
Lilly
|
$2,000
[19]
A baby's pacifier in the U.S. is called this in the U.K., a word also meaning a quilted bedspread
a comforter
|
$2,000
[17]
She wrote the screenplay for "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"
(J.K.) Rowling
Alex
|
The first recorded use of this word in print was when Nathan Hope posted an image of his busted lip online in 2002
selfie