College Championship Rerun: 8-24-17 Final No. 1

Today’s Jeopardy match originally aired on February 23, 2017. It was the first 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. Instead of finding similar categories today, let’s compare Final Jeopardy clues. Here is the FJ from this match, followed by FJ clues from the first final of prior College Championship games:

2-23-2017: SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: About himself he says, “Since the heavens have shap’d my body so, let hell make crook’d my mind to answer it”

2-11-2016: NAMES IN THE NEWS: When this man joined Twitter in September 2015, his first follow was the National Security Agency’s account

2-20-2014 AUTHORS: On his death in 1862 a Massachusetts paper said, “No man ever lived closer to nature, and reported her secrets more eloquently”

5-16-2013 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTS – These 2 men followed each other consecutively as vice president & later, in reverse order, as president

2-13-2012: ANNIVERSARIES – In 2011 Elizabeth II marked the 400th anniversary of this, assembled by 47 translators in Oxford, London & Cambridge

The links go to Fikkle Fame recaps of each game, if you want to see how the recap has evolved since 2012.