2011 Teachers Tournament semifinal game 1.
Elisabeth Raab — a high school English teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dan Crosby — a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California
Larry DeMoss — a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larry | $4,000 | $8,600 | $16,400 |
$28,401
Finalist |
$15,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dan | $1,800 | $6,200 | $14,200 |
$28,399
2nd place: $10,000 |
$14,200
17 R, 1 W |
| Elisabeth | $1,000 | $400 | $5,200 |
$3,200
3rd place: $10,000 |
$5,200
10 R, 2 W |
| FLOWER POWER | WHERE'S OSCAR? | THE BOOKS OF DAVID McCULLOUGH | KINDS OF SHIPS | SOCIAL SCIENCE | AN "A" PLUS SOME LETTERS |
|
$200
[1]
Theseflowers are seenherein bloom at Itsukushima-jinja shrine
cherry blossoms
Dan
|
$200
[6]
Gwyneth Paltrow keeps her 1998 Oscar for this film in storage, saying, "I don't want that thing in my house"
Shakespeare in Love
Dan
|
$200
[12]
McCullough gave this 33rd U.S. president the biography treatment in 1992 & won a Pulitzer for his efforts
Truman
Larry
|
$200
[22]
It comes between "Carnival" & "Lines"
Cruise
Elisabeth
|
$200
[7]
This violent, large-scale public protest gives its name to the "gear" worn by policemen dealing with it
a riot
Larry
|
$200
[17]
A pinball palace, or a covered passageway, usually with shops on one side
an arcade
Elisabeth
|
|
$400
[2]
Thislily blooms & dies within 24 hours & has a name that reflects its brief life
a daylilly
Elisabeth
|
$400
[27]
Jodie Foster kept hers in this room because "they looked good with the faucets"--until they began to corrode
the bathroom
Dan
|
$400
[13]
History is riveting in "The Great Bridge", about the building of this American span opened in 1883
the Brooklyn Bridge
Larry
|
$400
[23]
From the French, it's a lightly armed, speedy ship, or a Chevy sports car model
a corvette
Larry
|
$400
[8]
Mick sang, "gimme" this, a place where homeless people can get something to eat & spend the night
shelter
Larry
|
$400
[18]
It's an IRS examination of a tax return
an audit
Dan
|
|
$600
[3]
Seen here are the flowers of this plant that yields a cooking oil low in saturated fat
canola
Dan
Elisabeth
|
$600
[28]
He gave his "Philadelphia Story" Oscar to his dad, who kept it in the window of the family hardware store
Jimmy Stewart
Larry
|
$600
[14]
McCullough's book about this title 18th century year was released in 2005
1776
Elisabeth
|
$600
[24]
In the U.S. Navy Relief & Solace were this type of medical vessel
hospital ships
|
$600
[9]
An area that goes upscale, driving out low-income folks & maybe some character, is undergoing this
gentrification
Elisabeth
|
$600
[19]
This word comes from the Greek for "star sailor"
astronaut
Larry
|
|
$800
[4]
The name of these herbaceousflowersis from the Latin for "wolflike"
lupines
Larry
|
$800
[29]
He reportedly keeps his 2000 Best Actor Oscar in a chicken coop on his Australian ranch
Russell Crowe
Dan
|
$800
[15]
"The Path Between the Seas" covers the sweeping saga of the building of this from 1870 to 1914
the Panama Canal
Dan
|
$1,000
[26]
A VLCC, meaning very large crude carrier, is this type of ship
a tanker
Larry
|
$800
[10]
In society it's denying one's identity to be accepted by another group; in sports it's done by Jay Cutler
passing
|
$800
[20]
Some criminals seek this type of sanctuary in a church
asylum
Dan
|
|
$1,000
[5]
It sounds like herds of sheep, but it's the flowering plant seen here& common on the American prairies
phlox
Larry
|
$1,000
[30]
His acting Oscar for "Ordinary People" is in his sister's fridge to surprise guests in search of beer
Timothy Hutton
Larry
Elisabeth
|
$1,000
[16]
A collection of short bios, "Brave Companions" includes an account of this "little woman who made the big war"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dan
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
From its prey, it's the term for a 19th century vessel loaded with spermaceti
a whaler
Larry
|
$1,000
[11]
2-word term for the world as a single small community linked by mass media
the global village
Larry
|
$1,000
[21]
8-letter term for a short, humorous account of an incident
an anecdote
Dan
|
| SUMMER READING? | THE SPORT OF KINGS | SPELLING BEES | EXPLORERS | A PLACE I'VE NEVER BEEN | THE LADIES' ROOM |
|
$400
[19]
Barbara Tuchman's history of the events that led to World War I is called these "of August"
The Guns
Dan
|
$400
[26]
In this type of wager, you win by selecting the first 3 horses in the exact order of finish in one race
the trifecta
Larry
|
$400
[1]
This honeybee can lay a thousand or more eggs a day
Q-U-E-E-N
Dan
|
$400
[2]
In 1923 his Endeavour journal was acquired by the National Library of Australia
Capt. Cook
Larry
Dan
|
$400
[11]
The Air Massif, rising from this desert in Niger
the Sahara
Larry
|
$400
[14]
"Court" a sporty look with a diamond bracelet named for this game
tennis
Elisabeth
|
|
$800
[20]
"Summer sisters" was the third novel for adults by this woman who wrote the children's classic "Superfudge"
Judy Blume
Elisabeth
|
$800
[27]
A female horse, age 4 or under; Rags to Riches became the first in 102 years to win the Belmont Stakes in 2007
a filly
Larry
|
$800
[4]
It's the common name for the big, fuzzy members of the bombini tribe
B-U-M-B-L-E-B-E-E
Dan
Elisabeth
|
$800
[3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1728, sailing from the Kamchatka Peninsula up along the Siberian coast & through the passage here, he proved that Asia & North America were separate continents
(Vitus) Bering
Larry
|
$800
[12]
Skyros Island in this sea
the Aegean
Larry
|
$800
[15]
How about a spritz of this bestselling perfume, which debuted, appropriately, on May 5, 1921
Chanel No. 5
Larry
|
|
$1,200
[21]
Spoiler alert! A character is murdered & eaten by cannibals in this drama by Tennessee Williams
Suddenly, Last Summer
Larry
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1934 this track opened in its current location in Arcadia, near Los Angeles
Santa Anita
|
$1,200
[5]
Honeybees of this industrious caste are all female, but they never reach sexual maturity
W-O-R-K-E-R-S
Larry
|
$1,200
[8]
In 1858 John Speke & this explorer, not the actor, made the European discovery of Lake Tanganyika
Richard Burton
Larry
|
$1,600
[24]
Wapusk National Park, in this province one east of Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Larry
|
$1,200
[16]
Both Katy Perry & Justin Bieber have collaborated on collections for this 3-letter brand of nail polish
O.P.I.
Elisabeth
|
|
$1,600
[22]
This memoir by Ron Kovic begins, "The blood is still rolling off my flak jacket from the hole in my shoulder"
Born on the Fourth of July
Elisabeth
|
$1,600
[29]
Known as "America's turf authority since 1894", it began in Chicago as a 4-page newspaper
Daily Racing Form
|
$1,600
[6]
This stingless honeybee drudge caste is only around in summer
D-R-O-N-E
Larry
|
$1,600
[9]
Though he didn't live to complete it, this Portuguese explorer's 1520s expedition proved that the earth is round
Magellan
Dan
|
$2,000
[25]
This temple complex 4 miles north of Siem Reap, Cambodia
Angkor Wat
Dan
|
$1,600
[17]
Paint the walls of the ladies' room in this, Pantone's color of the year for 2011; it also precedes "rose" in a Fats Waller title
honeysuckle
|
|
$2,000
[23]
Joe Christmas, who doesn't know if he's black or white, is at the center of this Faulkner novel
Light in August
|
$2,000
[30]
In this thoroughbred's "smokin"' career, he won a then-record $9,999,815
Cigar
Dan
|
DD
$2,800
[7]
11-letter "continental," adjective that describes the honeybee hybrid
A-F-R-I-C-A-N-I-Z-E-D
Larry
|
$2,000
[10]
Louis Jolliet became official hydrographer of this "new" North American territory
New France
Dan
|
DD
$2,600
[13]
The Parana Valley in this country with the same first 4 letters
Paraguay
Larry
|
$2,000
[18]
This designer seenhererecently introduced his women's line, saying, he's just trying to make pretty clothes
Tom Ford
|
When the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, its cargo included more than 7 million pieces of this, in some 3,400 sacks