Purdue professor Adriana Harmeyer earned super champion status in "Jeopardy!" Tournament of Champions game-show history and will play in the finals.

Heading into Final Jeopardy, Adriana had 22,000 against Ryan’s 12,000, which meant this game wasn’t a runaway, but certainly close heading into the final round. The category was “Countries of the World,” with the clue reading, “About 80 miles from Vladivostok, its 11-mile land border with Russia is the shortest of that country’s 14 neighbors.”

On Tuesday night’s episode, Harmeyer ended up with $25,000 and advanced to the finals of the Tournament of Champions. She aced Final Jeopardy, correctly answering “North Korea

Harmeyer's Tuesday night win secures her spot to compete in the finals rounds in the "Jeopardy!" Tournament of Champions for a chance to win $250,000.

Purdue professor and archivist Adriana Harmeyer, a Jeopardy! super-champion, returns to the show for the two-week long Tournament of Champions.

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A Purdue University professor was back to her winning ways Tuesday night on "Jeopardy!" Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist for university history at Purdue, returned to the "Jeopardy!" stage for the Tournament of Champions.