Show #7627 2017-11-07 (taped 2017-09-18) Tournament of Champions

2017 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

Jason Sterlacci — a fourth grade teacher from Somerset, New Jersey

Lilly Chin — a robotics Ph.D. student at MIT from Decatur, Georgia

Tim Aten — an editor from Vermilion, Ohio

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Tim	$3,200	$5,600	$14,000	$11,500 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$14,000 21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Lilly	$600	$2,000	$12,800	$12,000 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$9,600 14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Jason	$3,200	$5,000	$18,800	$23,000 Automatic semifinalist	$17,400 17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

DR. JOHNSON'S ALPHABET	"B" A SPORT	U.S.A.	THAT'S OUR COLOR	TINDER	SWIPE WRITE
$200 [1] It "is called the canine letter, because it is uttered with some resemblance to the growl or snarl of a cur" R Lilly	$200 [12] Martin Luther is said to have argued that 9 was the ideal number of pins for this bowling Tim	$200 [30] The public library of this Pennsylvania town is located at 701 Cocoa Avenue Hershey Tim	$200 [17] UPS brown Jason	$200 [29] Tinder is small pieces of wood; firewood is much larger; in between is this 8-letter word kindling Tim	$200 [22] Tom Buchanan calls this title character "a common swindler" who'd have to steal a ring to put it on Daisy's finger the Great Gatsby Lilly
$400 [6] It "unhappily prevails in so many of our words that it produces in the ear of a foreigner a continued sibilation" S Tim	$400 [11] The pros play it on a 94-by-50-foot court basketball Tim Lilly	$400 [14] It's the 2-word name of Vermont's state tree, valued for its wood & sap sugar maple	$400 [21] Tiffany (robin's-egg) blue Tim	$400 [28] Compressed firelogs are usually this substance, still found on the floors of some saloons sawdust Lilly	$400 [23] After he proposes, Elizabeth Bennet tells him he is "the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry" Mr. Darcy Lilly
$600 [7] "Sounded only by a strong emission of the breath...and is therefore by many grammarians accounted no letter" H Tim	$600 [9] Red Faber, Red Ruffing & Red Schoendienst are in its Hall of Fame baseball Jason	$600 [4] Yes, you are allowed to climb this monolith, the first national monument in the United States Devils Tower Tim	$600 [16] Owens Corning, for insulation pink Tim	$600 [2] Firewood can be dried in one of these furnaces a kiln Lilly	$600 [25] She tells Humbert Humbert, "You revolting creature. I was a daisy-fresh girl, and look what you've done to me" Lolita Lilly
$800 [8] It "is confounded by the Germans and Welsh with B" P Tim Lilly Jason	$800 [3] 2-man men, 4-man men & 2-man women (!) are events in this winter Olympic sport bobsled Jason	$800 [10] Mount Rainier is the highest peak in Washington state & in this mountain range the Cascades Tim	$800 [18] Caterpillar yellow Lilly	$800 [19] Our campfire's not going to be that big, so only order 64 cubic feet, half of this measurement of wood a cord Jason	$800 [26] "As" this play by Shakespeare says, "Let's meet as little as we can" & "I do desire we may be better strangers" As You Like It Jason
$1,000 [13] "It is not improbable that by" this letter "is expressed the sound of the Roman V" W Jason	DD $1,000 [5] Britannica's entry on it notes early Scandinavians revered the Norse god Ull as both a ski god & a hunting god biathlon Tim	$1,000 [15] 90% of Las Vegas' water comes from this man-made lake that was created by Hoover Dam Lake Mead Lilly	$1,000 [20] AstraZeneca, for Nexium purple	$1,000 [24] An axe head can get stuck; instead, use this 4-letter heavy hammer to split firewood a maul Lilly	$1,000 [27] In this play, George tells Martha he imagines her buried in cement up to her neck, "No...your nose...that's much quieter" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Tim

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY	THREE OF A KIND	MOVIE & TV DEATHS	KICKING AXIS	BRANCHES OF SCIENCE	OVERLAPS
$400 [25] The image of this character from a 19th-century work has become a symbol for opera from the Romantic era Brünnhilde Lilly	$400 [9] A rap, a drum, a "dead horse" things with beats, or things you can beat Jason	$400 [8] "Oh my God, they killed" this "South Park" character! (over... & over... & over...) Kenny Tim	$400 [27] In 1941's Operation Compass, the British pushed the Italians out of this country into Libya & took 130,000 prisoners Egypt	$400 [28] (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents an image on the monitor.) It looks like spirals, but they're actuallyconcentric circles; it's all part of pseudoptics, the study of these unusual sights optical illusions Tim	$400 [12] Hamburger condiment for re-covering chairs & couches ketchupholstery Tim
$1,200 [22] The followingovertureby this composer was first heard in 1790 Mozart	$800 [10] Shakespearean, Petrarchan, Spenserian sonnets Tim	$800 [6] On this show, Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano lost an arm to a helicopter, then one crashed, smooshing him E.R. Jason	$800 [23] In the 1943 Battle of Kursk, the biggest-ever engagement between these, Soviet T-34s tamed German Tigers tanks Lilly	$800 [24] There's a Roman god in this term for the study of places like Mount Saint Helens vulcanology Tim	$800 [13] A single-celled life form's long, thin loaf of bread amoebaguette Tim
$1,600 [29] Giovanni Rubini was a master of this effect similar to tremolo; it was cultivated to excess by his imitators vibrato Tim	$1,200 [2] Umaga, Triple H, John Cena WWE wrestlers Jason	$1,200 [4] Rihanna & Aziz Ansari are 2 of the celebs to fall to a fiery death in this 2013 film This Is the End Jason	$1,200 [17] Gen. Jodl signed capitulation papers in Reims on May 7, 1945; May 8 has become known as this day V-E Day Jason	$1,200 [19] AKA chiropody, it's the study & treatment of disorders of the foot podiatry Tim	$1,200 [14] Japan's former capital is saluted by raising glasses of alcohol in unison Kyotoast Jason
$2,000 [30] Operas with subjects drawn from common life like "Pagliacci" were part of this "real life" 19th century movement verismo	$1,600 [3] Brice's Crossroads, Hampton Roads, Spotsylvania Court House Civil War battle sites Jason	$1,600 [5] Keanu's partner in "Speed", he gets blown up real good after being tricked by Dennis Hopper Jeff Daniels Jason	$2,000 [26] In May 1941 3 British ships sank this German battleship along with most of its 2,300-man crew the Bismarck	$1,600 [1] Lucrezia Borgia may have been an expert in this, the study of poisonous substances toxicology Lilly	$1,600 [15] Strong Italian coffee used to detect submerged objects using sound waves espressonar Jason
DD $4,000 [21] Don Jose is the jilted military man who kills the title character in this opera Carmen Lilly	$2,000 [11] Arbalest, glaive, shuriken weapons Tim	$2,000 [7] Steve Buscemi's character in "The Big Lebowski", he dies of a heart attack after a fight with some nihilists Donny	DD $3,000 [18] In this June 1942 battle, Japan lost all 4 of its heavy aircraft carriers & with them, pretty much, the Pacific war Midway Jason	$2,000 [20] Also used to mean "overtones", this study ending in -ics is the acoustics of musical instruments harmonics Lilly	$2,000 [16] Frozen polar region of a planet filled out with your personal info when you're seeking a new job icecapplication Lilly

Final Jeopardy!

LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES

South of the Tropic of Capricorn, this kingdom is the world's southernmost landlocked country

Lesotho

Lilly "What is Bhutan" — wagered $800

Tim "What is Myanmar?" — wagered $2,500

Jason "What is Lesotho?" — wagered $4,200

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