2012-A Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 2.
Brooks Humphreys — a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
Steven Evenhouse — a junior high school social studies teacher from Orland Hills, Illinois
Jessica Dell'Era — a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica | $600 | $2,800 | $7,200 |
$5,223
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,200
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Steven | $1,200 | $7,200 | $7,300 |
$3,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$8,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brooks | $2,800 | $4,600 | $14,200 |
$13,700
Automatic semifinalist |
$14,200
19 R, 1 W |
| FILLING UP AT THE GAS STATION | THE PLANETS | A ROCKIN' NUMBER | U.S. COINS | KEEP YOUR "EDGE" | CENTRAL AMERICAN WILDLIFE |
|
$200
[9]
Grab me this brand of meat stick with a rhyming name; it's "made from stuff guys need"
Slim Jim
Jessica
|
$200
[1]
It's 11 times wider than Earth at the equator, but shorter than that through the poles
Jupiter
Brooks
|
$200
[8]
Sammy Hagar:"I Can't Drive ____"
55
Brooks
|
$200
[6]
Produced in 1892, the first commemorative U.S. coin featured this non-American
Christopher Columbus
Brooks
|
$200
[14]
A row of closely planted shrubs
a hedge
Brooks
|
$200
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Gulf of Panama in Panama.) Allowing them to stay in the sky for long stretches, frigate birds, in proportion to weight, have the longest of these tip-to-tip dimensions of any bird in the world
wingspan
Jessica
|
|
$400
[16]
I don't care if I get orange powder on my fingers--I really want a bag of these Frito-Lay snacks, puffs or crunchy
Cheetos
Steven
|
$400
[2]
In 1610 he observed Saturn with a telescope, the first person to do so
Galileo
Brooks
|
$400
[10]
Three Dog Night (1969) & U2 (1992):"____"
One
|
$400
[7]
Calling it "close to sacrilege", Teddy Roosevelt ordered this motto removed from the Saint Gaudens 10-dollar gold piece
"In God we trust"
|
$400
[15]
An often sandy golf club
a wedge
Jessica
|
$400
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Golfo Dulce in Costa Rica.) Macaws use their powerful beaks as a third foot when climbing trees & as a tool when opening nuts; inside their tongue is a little one of these structures that they use to dislodge nutmeat
bone in their tongue (lever accepted)
Jessica
|
|
$600
[17]
Like its motto says, "Hungry? Grab" this chocolate bar with peanuts
Snickers
Steven
|
$600
[3]
Most planets rotate in a direction called prograde; Venus' clockwise rotation has this opposite name
retrograde
Brooks
|
$600
[11]
The Byrds:"____ Miles High"
8
Steven
Brooks
|
$600
[23]
A 1937 Indian head nickel that featured this animal on the reverse with only 3 legs is a collector's item
a buffalo
Steven
|
$600
[20]
To drag the bottom of a river
to dredge
Jessica
|
$600
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Manuel Antonio National Park in Costa Rica.) The name of the sloth's suborder, Folivara, gives a clue to its leisurely lifestyle; Folivora means "eater of" these, which don't provide a lot in the way of food energy
leaves
Steven
|
|
$800
[18]
I got you a mini bite size go-pak of this, "Milk's Favorite Cookie"; can I have one?
Oreo
Steven
|
$800
[4]
The symbol of this planet is seen here
Neptune
Steven
|
$800
[12]
? & The Mysterians:"____ Tears"
96
Brooks
|
$1,000
[25]
The Winged Liberty dime is popularly called this because of its resemblance to a certain Roman god
the Mercury dime
Steven
|
$800
[21]
A solemn vow
a pledge
Steven
|
$800
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Manuel Antonio National Park in Costa Rica.) Like bears, their evolutionary cousin, coatis have nonretractable claws, but nonetheless walk using plantigrade locomotion, meaning, on this part of the feet
soles
Brooks
|
|
$1,000
[19]
Here you go--the crackers from Nabisco USA called this "in a Biskit"--hope you like them
Chicken
Jessica
|
$1,000
[5]
Uranus has a blue-green color because this gas in its atmosphere absorbs the red wavelengths of sunlight
methane
|
$1,000
[13]
Tommy Tutone:"____/Jenny"
867-5309
Steven
|
DD
$1,200
[24]
A 1946 memorial half-dollar was the first U.S. coin to feature an African American, this educator
Booker T. Washington
Steven
|
$1,000
[22]
Hyphenated term that describes a bird with complete plumage, or anything matured
full-fledged
|
$1,000
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Barro Colorado Reserve in Panama.) The loudest New World animal, the howler monkey, gets its volume from a special hollow bone that acts as one of these, like the body of a guitar
an amplifier
Brooks
|
| THAT'S MY SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY | HOMOPHONES | GETTING AN EDUCATION | LAKES | '50s FICTION | "GIRL" MOVIES |
|
$400
[2]
Timothy Geithner
Barack Obama
Brooks
|
$400
[1]
Discover, or charged a penalty
find/fined
Brooks
|
$400
[12]
Geometry--it's the number of degrees in angle "A"
30 0
Brooks
|
$400
[13]
The Tipitapa river connects Lake Managua with this larger lake
Lake Nicaragua
Jessica
|
$400
[18]
In 1955 Kay Thompson checked in with her first story of this little girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel
Eloise
Jessica
|
$400
[7]
Rooney Mara sports the title ink in this film based on a Swedish book
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Jessica
|
|
$800
[3]
Alexander Hamilton
George Washington
Brooks
|
$800
[24]
A sense of style, or a device that provides a warning light
flair/flare
|
$800
[19]
Geography: Bass Strait separates this Aussie island state from the mainland
Tasmania
Brooks
|
$800
[14]
It's mostly in Egypt; the Sudanese call their portion Lake Nubia
Lake Nasser
|
$800
[20]
Finny & Gene go out on a limb at New Hampshire's Devon School in this John Knowles tale
A Separate Peace
Jessica
|
$800
[8]
In this film Emile Hirsch falls in love with new neighbor Elisha Cuthbert, a former porn star
The Girl Next Door
Brooks
|
|
$1,200
[4]
Henry Paulson
George W. Bush
Brooks
|
$1,200
[25]
An oracle, or to cook quickly
seer/sear
Jessica
|
$1,200
[21]
Economics: This "wealth of nations" man called laissez-faire capitalism the system of perfect liberty
Adam Smith
Brooks
|
$1,200
[15]
Although long landlocked, Bolivia maintains a navy with about 170 boats, many patrolling on this lake
Lake Titicaca
Steven
|
$1,600
[29]
In this 1954 James Michener novel, a Japanese girl ends up saying "Goodbye" to her American soldier boy
Sayonara
Jessica
|
$1,200
[9]
Natalie Portman & Scarlett Johansson play sisters vying for Henry VIII's affection in this 2008 film
The Other Boleyn Girl
Steven
|
|
$1,600
[5]
Donald Regan
Ronald Reagan
Brooks
|
$1,600
[26]
The leader of a mafia crime family, or sunrise
don/dawn
Jessica
|
$1,600
[22]
History: In July 1918 the bodies of this world leader & his family were thrown in a mine shaft
Nicholas II
Steven
|
DD
$1,500
[16]
International travel between Tanzania, Uganda & Kenya on this lake is no longer permitted
Victoria
Steven
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
His 1950 novel "Across the River and into the Trees" reflected a growing bitterness toward life
Ernest Hemingway
Jessica
|
$1,600
[10]
In this 2002 film, Jennifer Aniston is a discount store clerk having an affair with Jake Gyllenhaal
The Good Girl
Steven
|
|
$2,000
[6]
Roger B. Taney
Andrew Jackson
Steven
|
$2,000
[27]
The state of the atmosphere, or a conjunction that introduces an alternative
weather/whether
|
$2,000
[23]
Cell biology: The main function of these organelles is to produce energy in the form of ATP
mitochondria
Jessica
|
$2,000
[17]
North America's deepest lake at 2,015 feet is this "great" Canadian one
Great Slave Lake
Steven
|
$2,000
[30]
Author Nevil Shute said goodbye to the human race in this doom & gloom 1957 novel
On the Beach
Brooks
|
$2,000
[11]
A life-sized doll named Bianca is one of the title characters of this Oscar-nominated 2007 film
Lars and the Real Girl
Jessica
|
The name of this assassin is Latin for heavy, dull, insensitive, oafish
Brutus