Show #7629 2017-11-09 (taped 2017-09-18) Tournament of Champions

2017 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Sam Deutsch — a business consultant from Calabasas, California

Lisa Schlitt — a microbiologist from Berwyn, Pennsylvania

Seth Wilson — a Ph.D. candidate and adjunct professor from Nacogdoches, Texas

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Seth	$2,600	$5,600	$9,900	$5,399 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$12,400 17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Lisa	$1,600	$9,200	$14,400	$15,400 Automatic semifinalist	$10,600 20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Sam	$4,200	$4,400	$12,400	$8,200 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$12,400 12 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER	WORDS WITH ENEMIES	TOP BABY NAMES IN BRITAIN	"N" TITLED TO LITERATURE	ITALIAN FOOD	MANGA
$200 [24] This strait narrows to 8 miles between Point Marroqui, Spain & Point Cires in Morocco the Strait of Gibraltar Lisa	$200 [29] This prefix is attached to "enemy" when referring to Satan or your biggest enemy arch- Seth	$200 [28] Huck? No; this last name of Huck, yes Finn Sam	$200 [1] With this book Jane Austen satirized the fashion for novels like those of Ann Radcliffe Northanger Abbey Lisa	$200 [10] Minestrina is "little soup", minestra is "soup" & this word means "big soup" minestrone Seth	$200 [30] The heroine's nautical school uniform puts the "sailor" in the title of this manga series Sailor Moon Seth
$400 [17] Even from space, it's possible to see the mass of blue-green algae poisoning this lake with the name of a Manitoba city Lake Winnipeg Lisa	$400 [13] This literary word for an opponent or rival is also used for a muscle that works in opposition to another an antagonist Lisa	$400 [21] Popular for boys, the names of these two Prince William and Prince Harry Lisa	$400 [2] The father of the title character of this Dickens novel dies & leaves the family penniless Nicholas Nickleby Sam	$400 [9] This Italian ham is mentioned in the classic 1622 Italian poem "The Rape of the Bucket" prosciutto	$400 [4] A hit in Japan for more than 65 years, this "boy" is really a robot Astro Boy Lisa
$600 [14] Castel Sant'Angelo, originally Hadrian's mausoleum, sits on this river the Tiber Sam	$600 [6] Batman has an enemy aptly named this, a 4-letter word for the worst thing "of your existence" Bane Sam	$600 [22] Derived from a Scottish river, this name, like Sacha Baron Cohen's wife, Ms. Fisher Isla Seth	$600 [18] This one-act drama by Sartre sounds like a barrel of laughs: an existential portrayal of hell No Exit Lisa	$600 [3] The full name of a thick meat sauce is ragu alla this, referring to a northern city bolognese Lisa	$600 [5] The manga "Mach Go Go Go" was the inspiration for this 1960s "car"toon series Speed Racer Seth
$800 [15] This bay's southern boundary extends from Dondra Head in Sri Lanka to the northern tip of Sumatra the Bay of Bengal Sam	$800 [11] You might dread your enemy & regard him as this, French for "black beast" bête noire Seth	$800 [23] This name of a famous woman born in 1820; tell the nurse it's honoring her profession Florence Lisa	$1,000 [26] Tennessee Williams set this play in a seedy Mexican hotel Night of the Iguana Seth	$800 [7] These tubular cream-filled pastries are Sicily's gift to dessert cannoli Sam	$800 [19] Seen here is a Titan, a human-eating giant in the title of this best-selling manga series Attack on Titan Lisa
$1,000 [16] This "colorful" river forms Namibia's southern border with South Africa the Orange River	$1,000 [12] Agatha Christie & Philip Roth both have books called this, a word from myth for a formidable opponent Nemesis Seth	$1,000 [27] Spelled with an "O" or a "U", the name of this prophet Muhammad Lisa	DD $3,400 [20] Wonderboy is the name of a bat, not a superhero, in this 1952 novel The Natural Lisa	$1,000 [8] Baked pizza dough, this aromatic Italian bread, comes from a word for "hearth" focaccia Sam	$1,000 [25] A wandering assassin has his son in tow in Kazuo Koike's this "and Cub" Lone Wolf Seth

Double Jeopardy! Round

SATISFYING ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS	THE SILVER SCREEN	WHERE & WHEN?	MECHANICS	A SHOWER OF SCHOPENHAUER	MAKING WORDS
$400 [21] This type of auto insurance covers only damage you do through your fault to someone else or his property liability Seth	$400 [23] For this 2014 Biblical epic, the director promised Russell Crowe no shots of him in the bow beside a giraffe Noah Lisa	$400 [30] The King James Bible is first published:Country, century England in the 17th century Lisa	$400 [9] Sounding like what a sports team headed for victory has, it's the product of an object's mass & its velocity momentum Lisa	$400 [28] Schopenhauer is best known for this glass-half-empty philosophy, believing we always want more than we can have pessimism Seth	$400 [29] The Latin word for "and" plus the chemical symbol for sodium equals this volcano Etna Seth
$800 [7] The director of the Consumer Finance Bureau is on the board of this org. covering up to $250,000 of your bank dollars the FDIC Lisa	$800 [22] Penny Singleton colored her hair to play this Chic Young comic strip heroine in 28 movies Blondie	$800 [8] Julius Caesar is assassinated:City plus day & month March 15th in Rome Lisa	$1,200 [24] From the Latin for "twist", it's the measure of how much a force acting on an object causes it to rotate torque Lisa	$800 [27] Schopenhauer wrote an essay on mankind's "free" this quality, also mentioned in the title of his most famous book free will Sam	$800 [11] An Italian word meaning "from" plus Mr. Gore equals this old phone mechanism dial Seth
$1,200 [4] The 2 major types of life insurance are cash value & this, which offers temporary protection but no savings component term insurance	$1,200 [1] Neill Blomkamp directed this 2009 sci-fi film in which aliens live in South Africa District 9 Seth	$1,200 [12] Pearl Harbor is bombed:Island, day of the week Oahu, Sunday Seth	$1,600 [25] Physics textbooks say all motion is relative to this kind of frame a reference frame	$1,200 [5] Since 1911 the Schopenhauer Society in this German city "am Main" has been dedicated to the man & his works Frankfurt Sam	$1,200 [17] A mantra word plus a pronoun equals this, to not include on a list omit Lisa
$1,600 [6] Investing in your niece's indie film? In case she doesn't finish, you should be insured by a completion type of this a completion bond	$1,600 [2] Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" is one of hundreds of films with scores by this composer (Ennio) Morricone Seth	$2,000 [14] Alexander the Great dies:Continent, millennium Asia, the first millennium B.C.	DD $2,000 [10] Eureka! This upward force exerted by a fluid counteracts the weight of an object immersed in it buoyancy Lisa	$1,600 [15] In college, Schopenhauer transferred from medicine to the humanities, studying this"Critique" man (Immanuel) Kant Seth	$1,600 [18] 3.14 plus a "Golden State" postal abbreviation equals this 12-point type pica Seth
$2,000 [20] An insurance mathematician (OK, enough sexy talk) uses the laws of probability to assess risk in this job an actuary Sam	$2,000 [3] Monty Clift loves Liz Taylor, but Shelley Winters' bun in the oven overshadows matters in this 1951 tragedy A Place in the Sun	DD $2,500 [13] The Constitution gets its first state ratification:State, year Delaware, 1787 Seth	$2,000 [26] Represented by an arrow, it's a quantity that has both magnitude & direction a vector Sam	$2,000 [16] After studying Hinduism, Schopenhauer declared these Vedic scriptures a major influence on his thinking the Upanishads Lisa	$2,000 [19] Ms. Derek plus an interjection meaning "See!" equals this cord neckwear bolo Sam

Final Jeopardy!

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

A street-corner occupation that saved many in the Depression was aided by a 1930 tops-in-the-U.S. crop in this state

Washington

Seth "What was Iowa?" — wagered $4,501

Sam "What is Florida" — wagered $4,200

Lisa "What is Washington?" — wagered $1,000

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