2011 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 3.
Elisabeth Raab — a high school English teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Matt Polazzo — a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
Lori Kissell — a high school Latin teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lori | $1,000 | $3,000 | $19,800 |
$29,700
Automatic semifinalist |
$18,600
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Matt | $2,400 | $4,800 | $14,800 |
$19,801
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$14,800
18 R, 1 W |
| Elisabeth | $5,600 | $8,800 | $12,400 |
$16,400
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$12,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| AN APPLE FOR TEACHER | THE NEW YORK TIMESMOVIES | BILLIONS & BILLIONS | SHOW & TELL | JOB DESCRIPTION | "Y"s UP |
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$200
[6]
Most apple flowers require "cross-" this for fertilization
pollination
Elisabeth
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$200
[16]
Manohla Dargis reviewed this 2009 Pixar film under the headline "The House that Soared"
Up
Elisabeth
|
$200
[26]
In 1994 it began boasting of "billions and billions served"
McDonald's
Elisabeth
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$200
[1]
This artist headed to Tahiti in 1891 & soon painted the work seen here
(Paul) Gauguin
Elisabeth
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$200
[21]
This doctor ministers to the health of your Maltese
a veterinarian
Lori
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$200
[8]
It's 3-letter slang for mouth, as in "shut your..."
yap
Elisabeth
|
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$400
[7]
Apples are an excellent source of dietary this, which Brits spell with an "-re" at the end
fiber
Matt
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$400
[17]
A.O. Scott said this film about Aron Ralston "pins you down, shakes you up, and leaves you glad to be alive"
127 Hours
Lori
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$400
[27]
To the nearest billion, the world's population
7 billion
Matt
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$400
[2]
The valuable culinary substance seenhereis produced by this 8-letter fish
sturgeon
Lori
|
$400
[22]
A 6-letter waitress who brings burgers to your vehicle
a carhop
Lori
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$400
[10]
In 2005 co-founder Jawed Karim's "Me at the Zoo" was the first video to play on this website
YouTube
Elisabeth
|
|
$600
[9]
You can bob for apples because they're 25% this, which allows them to float
air
Matt
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$600
[18]
Reviews at nytimes. com include Renata Adler's look at this 1968 Kubrick film: the special F/X "are the best I have ever seen"
2001: A Space Odyssey
|
$600
[28]
A PBS "American Experience" film about his family describes him as "history's first billionaire"
(John D.) Rockefeller
Matt
|
$600
[3]
Prince Llewellyn's livery colors are used on theflagof this UK country
Wales
Lori
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$600
[23]
Wal-Mart welcomer
a greeter
Matt
|
$600
[11]
Yes, deer, it's an animal between 365 & 730 days old
a yearling
Matt
|
|
$800
[14]
Apples fall into 3 broad categories: dessert, cooking & the kind named for this juice of the apple
cider
Elisabeth
|
$800
[19]
In 1991 Vincent Canby said this character, "grandly played by Mr. Hopkins, is a most seductive psychopath"
Hannibal Lecter
Elisabeth
|
$800
[29]
A gamma ray burst that was briefly visible to the naked eye in 2008 took place at a distance of 7.5 billion these
light years
Matt
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$800
[4]
Thisdog's coat protects it from frigid temperatures
Afghan
Matt
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$800
[24]
The biblical Habakkuk was a "minor" one
a prophet
Lori
|
$800
[12]
If I'm kibbitzing or kvetching & saying things that are just plain schmaltzy, I'm using words from this language
Yiddish
Elisabeth
|
|
$1,000
[15]
This apple with a crustacean in its name is the only type native to North America
a crabapple
Elisabeth
|
$1,000
[20]
The 1st rule of this film is, you do not talk about it, but Janet Maslin said "Mr. Pitt struts through (it) with rekindled brio"
Fight Club
Lori
|
$1,000
[30]
A Kraft foods "healthy living" primer notes that billions of these "live naturally in everyone's digestive system"
bacteria
Elisabeth
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$1,000
[5]
The name of this wedge-shapedpiecein an arch signifies its place of importance
keystone
Elisabeth
|
$1,000
[25]
3-letter para-paramedic
an EMT
Elisabeth
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
It's right below Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Elisabeth
|
| THE EARLY 20th CENTURY | SCHOOL OF ROCK | SISTER CITIES | DO ASK | REED-ING | "RITE"-ING |
|
$400
[3]
The modern racing of these dogs began in 1907 when a stuffed rabbit skin was attached to a motorcycle
greyhounds
Matt
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$400
[13]
Michael Jackson in this alphabet song: "Reading & writing, arithmetic are the branches of the learning tree"
"ABC"
Lori
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$400
[30]
Nashville's sisters include Caen, France & this capital of Northern Ireland
Belfast
Elisabeth
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$400
[1]
This title character thought, "I must stop this Christmas from coming!...but how?"
The Grinch
Lori
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$400
[8]
The reed warbler is this type of creature
a bird
Elisabeth
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$400
[18]
Hackneyed or boring from overuse
trite
Lori
|
|
$800
[4]
On May 19, 1910 a headline read, this "brushes earth with its tail"
Halley's Comet
Lori
|
$800
[14]
Nabokov is namechecked in this Police song about a nervous teacher
"Don't Stand So Close To Me"
Matt
Elisabeth
|
$800
[29]
Most of New York's sisters are world capitals--but not this largest South African city
Johannesburg
Elisabeth
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$800
[2]
The muses taught this creature the riddle that it asked passers-by: Oedipus answered correctly
the Sphinx
Matt
|
$800
[9]
Sir Carol Reed directed this 1968 movie musical based on a Dickens tale
Oliver!
Lori
Matt
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$800
[19]
One of these may have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs
a meteorite
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[10]
The 1913 Owen-Glass Act established this central banking system forcing all national banks to join
the Federal Reserve
Matt
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$1,200
[15]
The title tutor in this Swedish group's "When I Kissed The Teacher" was just trying to help with geometry
ABBA
Elisabeth
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$1,200
[27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia.) In less than 13 1/2 hours, Qantas flies direct from Sydney, the home of the Harbour Bridge, to this U.S. sister city that also has a famous bridge
San Francisco
Matt
|
$1,200
[5]
This 1858 poem asks, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Lori
|
DD
$1,500
[23]
In 1920 American communist & author John Reed died of typhus in this foreign capital
Moscow
Lori
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$1,200
[20]
From the Greek for "decision", this plural means standards used for comparison
criteria
Lori
|
|
$1,600
[11]
On Nov. 16, 1907 this 46th state was admitted to the Union
Oklahoma
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$1,600
[16]
The Ramones, about this title institute of learning: "Well, I don't care about history"
"Rock 'n' Roll High School"
Elisabeth
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$1,600
[26]
Albuquerque, New Mexico is sister to this capital of Jalisco, old Mexico
Guadalajara
|
$2,000
[7]
Byron asked, "think you, if Laura had been" his "wife, he would have written sonnets all his life?"
Petrarch
Lori
|
$1,600
[24]
During the Spanish-American War, he led a committee to investigate the spread of disease in U.S. Army camps
Walter Reed
Lori
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$1,600
[21]
Iron disulfide
pyrite
Lori
|
|
$2,000
[12]
In 1915 this birth control advocate was arrested for obscenity for her pamphlet "Family Limitation"
(Margaret) Sanger
Matt
|
$2,000
[17]
Sam Cooke didn't "know much trigonometry", nor "what" this non-electronic calculating device "is for"
a slide rule
Lori
Matt
|
$2,000
[28]
Charlotte, North Carolina's sisters include Baoding, China & this French town known for its porcelain
Limoges
Matt
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DD
$2,500
[6]
The answer to this poetic question: "To the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach"
How do I love thee?
Lori
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$2,000
[25]
In this post in the late 19th c., Thomas Reed introduced the "Reed Rules" ensuring majority party control of Congress' agenda
Speaker of the House
Matt
|
$2,000
[22]
A typical neuron is made up of an axon, a nucleus & one or more of these
a dendrite
Lori
|
Just 10 sentences, this speech is wrong on one point: it is long remembered
the Gettysburg Address