Show #7631 2017-11-13 (taped 2017-09-19) Tournament of Champions

2017 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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

Austin Rogers — a bartender from New York, New York

Andrew Pau — an associate professor from Amherst, Ohio

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Andrew	$5,200	$6,000	$7,200	$10,399 2nd place: $10,000	$13,400 16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Austin	$3,800	$6,800	$9,200	$14,500 Finalist	$9,200 18 R, 1 W
Lilly	$1,800	$4,600	$6,800	$800 3rd place: $10,000	$9,800 13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

GET AN EDUCATION	STARTS WITH A DOUBLE VOWEL	OHIO	QUEEN-SIZED	MUSIC FOR CHAMPS	LIGHT UP A CIGAR
$200 [8] It's a public school offering special instruction that's designed to "attract" a diverse student body a magnet school	$200 [18] Repetitious bass sounds made by brass instruments oompah Austin	$200 [7] The nuts of this state tree resemble certain parts of a deer a buckeye Austin	$200 [17] Queen Maria II of this country was born in Brazil in 1819 Portugal Andrew	$200 [5] "We'll keep on fighting 'til the end" of this 1977 Queen smash "We Are The Champions" Austin	$200 [26] Pre-embargo 1950s Romeo y Julietas from this country sell for as much as $400 apiece Cuba Austin
$400 [9] From a word for "seed", it's a college that prepares students to be priests, ministers or rabbis a seminary Austin	$400 [19] Creepily out of the ordinary eerie Lilly	$400 [6] This NHL team's name celebrates Ohio's contribution to the winning side in the Civil War Blue Jackets Austin	$400 [16] The second Spanish queen of the name, shehad a troubled reign, ending in her overthrow in 1868 Isabella Austin	$600 [25] Did you sing this late diva's 1988 hit "One Moment In Time" as you qualified for the tournament? Whitney Houston Andrew	$400 [27] Brownish-red cigars are classed as "C", standing for this Spanish word, also a U.S. state colorado Lilly
$600 [10] Influenced by Friedrich Froebel, in 1873 Susan Blow founded America's first public one of these for little kids in St. Louis a kindergarten Austin	$600 [21] To exude moisture slowly ooze Austin	$600 [1] Elected to the Senate in 1974, this Ohio native was even more famous for something he did 12 years before John Glenn Andrew	$600 [13] As queen of Egypt in the 1300s B.C., she played a prominent role in the cult of the sun god Aton Nefertiti Andrew	$800 [29] In a 2013 hit that recalls a No. 1 from the '70s, Imagine Dragons was "On Top Of" it top of the world	$600 [3] A valet wrote of this Brit, "In two days his cigar consumption was the equivalent of my weekly salary" Churchill Andrew
$800 [11] In France, ecole is "school" & this is the word for a secondary school lycée Andrew	$800 [22] Ant & termite eater aardvark Austin	$800 [2] This Ohio city was named for a Revolutionary War veterans society that was named for a Roman general Cincinnati Lilly	$1,000 [15] Queen of the Iceni tribe, she led a British revolt vs. the Romans that saw her defeated in 60 A.D. Boudicea Austin	$1,000 [28] "Victory" is the final track on this Dave Mustaine band's 1994 platinum-selling album "Youthanasia" Megadeth	$800 [20] Cigars keep best when stored in one of these, from a word meaning "moist" a humidor Austin
$1,000 [12] In the painting"The School of Athens", these two great teachers are the center of attention Plato and Aristotle Lilly	$1,000 [23] An amber Chinese tea an oolong Lilly	$1,000 [4] To track the receipts of his Dayton bar, James Ritty invented this in 1879 the cash register Austin	DD $2,600 [14] The 18th century war of this "Succession" helped keep Maria Theresa as ruler but cost her Silesia the War of the Austrian Succession Andrew	—	$1,000 [24] A popular cigar size shares its name with this outermost solar region corona Lilly

Double Jeopardy! Round

THOSE DARN FRANCISCANS	'90s TV	EARTH SCIENCE	ADD A LETTER	WORLD PLACE NAMES	THEY WROTE IT
$400 [29] In their efforts to convert local tribes, the Franciscans built 21 of these in California missions Austin Lilly	$400 [30] An estimated 50 million people watched his final "Tonight Show" appearance on May 22, 1992 Johnny Carson Austin	$400 [23] The comet-shaped magnetosphere that surrounds the Earth is shaped by the stream of plasma known as this solar wind	$400 [28] A type of transport flies in a letter to become this huge heavenly body planet Lilly	$400 [27] Places on the map named for her include a land in Antarctica & a state in Australia Victoria Lilly	$400 [26] As a 1904 play, "Peter Pan" Barrie Austin
$800 [15] 13th c. Italians in Mongol lands included Marco Polo & John of Monte Corvino, first archbishop of this capital Beijing Andrew	$800 [12] One meme about this actor who was "Walker, Texas Ranger":"Death once had a near-" him "experience" Chuck Norris Andrew	$800 [22] This property of seawater is usually 3.5% but in parts of the Baltic Sea, it can be under 1%, due to melting ice salinity Lilly	$800 [24] Russian cash adds a letter to become this, demolition remains rubble Andrew	$800 [13] These twoislands get their names from their sizes relative to each other Majorca and Minorca Andrew Lilly	$800 [25] The 1927 novel "Steppenwolf" (Hermann) Hesse Lilly
$1,200 [7] Hey, Bobby--from the habits they once wore, a Franciscan order of Britain & Ireland is known as this color friars grey Andrew Lilly	$1,200 [9] This sitcom aired the office politics & interpersonal relationships at Station WNYX NewsRadio Austin	$1,600 [20] Lamina is the thinnest layer of strata in this type of rock such as shale sedimentary Lilly	$1,200 [16] A metric measure of liquid pours in a letter to do this, to linger aimlessly loiter Andrew	$1,200 [4] Under the name Batavia, this world capital was once the capital of the Dutch East Indies Jakarta Andrew	$1,200 [1] The diary entry "That big, dark, hunky boy...came over and was looking hard in my eyes and it was Ted Hughes" Sylvia Plath Andrew
$1,600 [8] St. Anthony of Padua eventually got back his book of Psalms, making him the patron saint of these lost things Austin Lilly	$1,600 [10] The romance of Dr. Joel Fleischman & local pilot Maggie O'Connell was sometimes hot but often chilly on this show Northern Exposure Austin	$2,000 [21] The inner of these 2 radiation belts is centered less than 6,000 miles above the Earth; the outer may extend to 36,000 miles the Van Allen belts	$1,600 [17] Insert a letter into a 4-letter synonym for "prevalent" to get this firearm rifle (from rife)	$1,600 [5] Perhaps from an explorer named Fernandes, this Canadian Atlantic region means "farm worker" in Spanish Labrador	$1,600 [2] "Downton Abbey", every episode Julian Fellowes Andrew
$2,000 [14] Like Dominicans, Franciscans are this type of order known for poverty the mendicant order	$2,000 [11] Originally from Northern Ireland, this actress played Monica on "Touched by an Angel" Roma Downey	DD $3,000 [19] Millennia ago Eratosthenes calculated this at 252,000 stadia, thought to equal about 25,000 miles the circumference of the Earth Lilly	$2,000 [18] Add a letter to a device that warms a room & you get this, noted for its small pinkish-purple flowers heather Lilly	DD $8,000 [6] This African capital is said to take its name from the mammal seen here Kampala Andrew	$2,000 [3] The German poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo", which ends, "You must change your life" (Rainer Maria) Rilke Andrew

Final Jeopardy!

VICE PRESIDENTS

A biography of this 19th century VP traces his family to a German town made famous in a folk tale about children

Hannibal Hamlin

Lilly "Who is Martin Van Buren" — wagered $6,000

Andrew "Who is Hannibal Hamlin?" — wagered $3,199

Austin "Who was Hamlin?" — wagered $5,300

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