College Championship Rerun: 8-25-17 Final No. 2

Today’s Jeopardy match originally aired on February 24, 2017. It was the last match of the 2-part final in the 2017 College Championship. The players were: Lilly Chin, Gary Tse and Viraj Mehta.

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There’s a list of clues over here, that includes the SPEED READING category. Here is the FJ clue from this match, followed by FJ clues from the last match of prior College Championship games:

2-24-2017: 17TH CENTURY GERMANS: Astronomer who began his epitaph, “I used to measure the heavens, now I shall measure the shadows of earth”

2-12-2016: THE U.S. SENATE: During his Senate service, which lasted from 1973 to January 2009, this man cast 12,810 votes.

2-21-THE BRITISH EMPIRE: 1713’s Treaty of Utrecht concluding the war of the Spanish succession granted this small 2.3-sq.mi. area to Great Britain.

5-17-2013 THE CIVIL WAR – The last of the southern states to secede from the Union, it borders six of them.

2-14-2012: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD – The 14 countries that border China run alphabetically from this to Vietnam.

The links go to Fikkle Fame recaps of each game.