2017 College Championship semifinal game 2.
Clarissa Santori — a senior at Northeastern University from Ellicott City, Maryland
Mohan Malhotra — a freshman at NYU from Wilmington, Delaware
Viraj Mehta — a junior at Stanford University from Austin, Texas
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viraj | $1,400 | $5,000 | $13,400 |
$7,400
Finalist |
$14,400
21 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mohan | $-1,000 | $-1,000 | $15,600 |
$2,399
2nd place: $10,000 |
$14,200
11 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Clarissa | $4,400 | $8,800 | $14,400 |
$100
3rd place: $10,000 |
$14,400
22 R, 0 W |
| THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME | FRENCH HISTORY | A LIQUID CATEGORY | PROVERBIAL VERBS | STATES BY COUNTIES | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS |
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$200
[5]
The university named for this religious leader has campuses in Provo, Utah & in Hawaii
Brigham Young
Clarissa
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$200
[27]
On D-Day during WWII, Allied forces landed on the beaches of this French region
Normandy
Viraj
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$200
[6]
This liquid that circulates in the vascular systems of trees contains dissolved sugars & mineral salts
sap
Mohan
Clarissa
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$200
[11]
"If it ain't broke, don't ____ it"
fix
Clarissa
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$200
[23]
St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve
Missouri
Viraj
|
$200
[17]
Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling star in this charming musical whose title is "a quaint old name for Los Angeles"
La La Land
Clarissa
|
|
$400
[1]
It's the school in Lexington, Virginia named for the two men seen here
Washington and Lee
Viraj
|
$400
[22]
France's national anthem got its name because troops from this city loved it
Marseille
Clarissa
|
$400
[7]
To make a fluid thinner or weaker by adding another liquid is to do this
dilute
Viraj
|
$400
[12]
"____ not, want not"
waste
Viraj
Mohan
Clarissa
|
$400
[20]
Palm Beach, Pasco
Florida
Viraj
|
$400
[18]
"Innocence is the central idea...of 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'", about a soldier deployed in this country in 2004
Iraq
Viraj
|
|
$800
[4]
A Union officer & head of the Freedman's Bureau gave his name to this historically black university in Washington, D.C.
Howard
Clarissa
|
$600
[24]
Robespierre ruled as a virtual dictator during this troubled period from 1793 to 1794
the Reign of Terror
Viraj
|
$600
[9]
Dew is the result of this process, the changing of a gas to a liquid
condensation
Mohan
|
$600
[13]
"He who ____ last, ____ longest"
laughs
|
$600
[16]
Boulder, Baca
Colorado
Clarissa
|
$600
[29]
This sci-fi film "has ideas & hope, as well as eerie extraterrestrials who face off with" linguist Amy Adams
Arrival
Clarissa
|
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
An arts patron & son of French immigrants gave his name to this school that's located at Lincoln Center in New York
Juilliard
Viraj
|
$800
[25]
After an 1870-71 war with this leading German kingdom, France lost parts of Alsace & Lorraine
Prussia
Viraj
|
$800
[8]
Consomme is a French term for this clear soup of chicken or beef flavoring
broth
Clarissa
|
$800
[14]
"____ what you preach"
practice
Clarissa
|
$800
[19]
Apache, Yuma
Arizona
Clarissa
|
$800
[28]
"There is a blazing light at the center of the interplanetary romance 'Passengers', and its name is" her
Jennifer Lawrence
Clarissa
|
|
$1,000
[3]
A director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, on his death in 1873, he left $7 million to found a university & hospital
Johns Hopkins
Viraj
|
$1,000
[26]
In November 2016 a show by Sting reopened this Paris concert hall 1 year after a terrorist attack
Le Bataclan
Viraj
|
$1,000
[10]
Another word for smoked fish is also the abbreviation for this rocket fuel
lox (or liquid oxygen)
Mohan
Clarissa
|
$1,000
[15]
"Curses, like chickens, come home to ____"
roost
Viraj
|
$1,000
[21]
Missoula, Mineral
Montana
|
$1,000
[30]
The Times said the visuals in this Marvel film starring Benedict Cumberbatch "evoke the work of M.C. Escher"
Doctor Strange
Clarissa
|
| HALO | UNCHARTED | NO MAN'S SKY | "FALL"/"OUT" | THE ELDER SCROLLS | VIDEO GAMES |
|
$400
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows two haloed figures on the monitor.) Around 700 A.D. saints had round halos, and living people, like John VII of this holy position, got square ones
popes
Clarissa
|
$400
[27]
This 13th c. Italian's memoirs of China include one of the first European references to the Pacific Ocean
Marco Polo
Viraj
|
$400
[23]
The name of this zodiac constellation comes from a Latin word for "maiden"
Virgo
Viraj
Mohan
|
$400
[1]
What happens to people who are ignored in a system, or to your coin that rolls through the grate
it falls through the cracks
Viraj
|
$400
[29]
The so-called "texts" of these Egyptian structures tell of the soul's journey to the "field of reeds"
the pyramids
Clarissa
|
$400
[30]
"Clueless gamer" Conan O'Brien hit the streets of Los Santos & died (repeatedly!) at a club in this game's "V" edition
Grand Theft Auto
Clarissa
|
|
$800
[25]
"Halo" is a song on her 2008 album "I Am... Sasha Fierce"
Beyoncé
Mohan
|
$800
[28]
Leif Erikson is credited as the first European to reach N. Amer., perhaps in this "dogged" region on Canada's mainland
Labrador
Clarissa
|
$800
[24]
This planet is the brightest object in the sky after the sun & the moon
Venus
Viraj
|
$800
[22]
Piscine metaphor for someone in an unfamiliar situation
a fish out of water
Clarissa
|
$800
[21]
After his hammer is stolen in "The Poetic Edda", he dresses up like a woman, goes to a wedding & eats an ox & 8 salmon
Thor
Clarissa
|
$800
[20]
An 11th-generation countess, sheuses archaeologicaltechniquesthat have been confused with treasure hunting
Lara Croft
Viraj
|
|
$1,200
[16]
Known for "Watchmen", this graphic novelist came into prominence with "The Ballad of Halo Jones" in 1984
Alan Moore
|
$1,200
[5]
This man for whom America is named may have discovered the mouth of the Amazon River
(Amerigo) Vespucci
Viraj
|
$1,200
[11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a constellation on the monitor.) Look for the Big Dipper, then for the three pairs of stars that form the paws when tracing the entire figure of this constellation
Ursa Major
Viraj
|
$1,200
[7]
The dude who gets the blame, rightly or wrongly
the fall guy
Viraj
|
$1,200
[9]
In "The Ramayana", Rama & Sita get a little assistance from Hanuman, a general of these creatures
monkeys
Mohan
|
$1,200
[3]
Available on PS4, "Neverwinter" is a fantasy RPG that takes place within the lore of this tabletop game
Dungeons & Dragons
Viraj
|
|
$1,600
[4]
The narrow-angle type of this eye pressure disease may result in seeing halos around lights
glaucoma
|
$2,000
[15]
In the 500s B.C. Scylax sailed the length of this longest river of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea & beyond
the Indus River
Mohan
|
$1,600
[12]
This largest moon of Uranus was named for the queen of the fairies in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Titania
Mohan
|
$1,600
[2]
Parachuting from a failing aircraft, or rescuing a struggling company
bailing out
Viraj
|
$1,600
[8]
In a 14th c. tale Gawain causes the Green Knight to lose this, but he picks it up & rides off anyway
his head
Mohan
|
$1,600
[19]
You'll receive mercy from Mercy in this game, & maybe, just maybe, you'll get the Play of the Game
Overwatch
|
|
$2,000
[17]
In the eclipse here, we see the halo that's the Sun's outer atmosphere, known by this 6-letter term
corona
Viraj
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
To avoid a rocky crater, Neil Armstrong manually flew the Apollo 11 lunar module to this "sea"
the Sea of Tranquility
Mohan
|
$2,000
[13]
By the mid-'90s Carolyn Shoemaker had discovered more of these than anyone else alive, including Shoemaker-Levy 9
comets
Viraj
Mohan
|
$2,000
[6]
If you're just like one of your parents, sometimes we say "the apple doesn't" do this
fall far from the tree
Clarissa
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
The feasting hall is happy for a while after this title Geat rips the arm off a monster; then the monster's mom shows up
Beowulf
Mohan
|
$2,000
[18]
"Hyrule Legends" & "Link's Crossbow Training" are Wii options in this "legendary" game series
The Legend of Zelda
Mohan
|
In August 2015 3 retired Marines helped raise the U.S. flag in this city where they'd hauled it down 54 years earlier
Havana, Cuba