Show #6316 2012-02-20 (taped 2012-01-23) Teachers Tournament

2012-A Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

Kathryn Wendling — a high school social studies teacher from Farmington, Minnesota

Mary Ann Stanley — a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia

Brad Brown — a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Brad	$1,800	$2,000	$8,200	$0 3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$9,200 13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Mary Ann	$2,600	$5,800	$22,400	$22,300 Automatic semifinalist	$22,800 23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kathryn	$2,000	$3,600	$9,600	$19,200 2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated	$9,600 15 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

PLOT	THEME	EXPOSITION	"SETT"ING	CHARACTER	NOW GO WRITE THAT NOVEL ALREADY
$200 [7] Code name Valkyrie, the July plot was a 1944 attempt to assassinate this man Hitler Kathryn	$200 [21] "Lara's Theme" can be heard in this epic film directed by David Lean Doctor Zhivago Mary Ann	$200 [26] The right hand & torch of this landmark were at Philadelphia's centennial expo in 1876 the Statue of Liberty Kathryn	$200 [5] A VHS or beta tape container a cassette Mary Ann Kathryn	$200 [1] One of this N. California city's many characters was Joshua Norton, who proclaimed himself U.S. emperor in 1859 San Francisco Brad	$200 [12] This author took 8 years to write "Jurassic Park" (Michael) Crichton Kathryn
$400 [17] The gunpowder in the 1605 gunpowder plot was found under this building Parliament Mary Ann	$400 [22] "I See You", the theme song for this movie, is a formal Na'vi greeting Avatar Brad	$400 [27] The symbol of the universal exposition of 1889 was this new landmark, then the world's tallest structure the Eiffel Tower Kathryn	$400 [6] The only U.S. state that fits the bill Massachusetts Brad	$400 [2] Naturalist Charles Waterton lay for months with one foot dangling out of his hammock so this type of bat would bite him a vampire bat Brad	$400 [13] She took 10 years to write "Gone with the Wind" Margaret Mitchell Mary Ann
$600 [18] A certain agency whose initials are C.I.A. helped plot the overthrow of this country's PM Mossadegh in 1953 Iran	$600 [23] The theme for this 2008 movie is "Bella's Lullaby" Twilight Mary Ann	$600 [28] 8 1/2 feet long, the Maresof Diomedesby this Mount Rushmore sculptor won a gold medal at the 1904 Expo in St. Louis Borglum Brad	$600 [8] Yet to be populated, or ill at ease unsettled Kathryn	$600 [3] Selling these starting in 1934, Madman Muntz basically invented the crazy pitchman shtick cars	$600 [14] Mon dieu! Victor Hugo began writing this sprawling epic in 1845 & finished it 17 years later Les Miserables Mary Ann
$800 [19] Khrushchev said in 1956 that this leader had created the trumped-up "Doctors' Plot" Stalin Brad	$1,000 [25] Rod McKuen wrote & sang "Jean", the theme song of this 1969 Maggie Smith film The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie Mary Ann	$800 [29] On Oct. 16, 2010 over a million visitors attended the world expo in this Chinese city & no, they weren't kidnapped there Shanghai Mary Ann	$800 [9] At Belmont, the horse running in the front the pacesetter Mary Ann	$800 [4] Parking garage magnate Abraham Hirschfeld ran for several offices, always using this Lincolnesque nickname Honest Abe Kathryn	$800 [15] After years writing children's books, Gregory Maguire published this 1995 novel that revises a kids' classic Wicked Brad
$1,000 [20] Yui Shosetsu failed in 1651 to oust the Tokugawa shogunate with an army of these "masterless warriors" ronin Mary Ann	DD $1,800 [24] The theme for this Tom Hanks movie is sometimes referred to as "The Feather Theme" Forrest Gump Mary Ann	$1,000 [30] The 266-foot Sun Spherewas a symbol of the 1982 World's Fair in this Tennessee city Knoxville Mary Ann	$1,000 [10] A liqueur that tastes like licorice anisette Mary Ann	$1,000 [11] In giving his compositions these numbers, Erik Satie started with 62 instead of 1 opus	$1,000 [16] Herman Hesse took 11 years to pen this novel about an Indian boy during the time of Buddha Siddhartha Kathryn

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLE GUYS	INDEPENDENCE DAYS	SHADOWS	McPEOPLE	INVERTEBRATES	13-LETTER WORDS
$400 [16] "Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven" Samson Kathryn	$400 [26] Iceland, June 17, 1944, from this country Denmark Brad Mary Ann	$400 [6] One type of this occurs when the earth's shadow darkens the moon an eclipse Mary Ann	$400 [1] This onetime presidential hopeful was born in the Panama Canal zone in 1936 (John) McCain Brad Kathryn	$400 [11] This arachnid with a poisonous tail stinger is fluorescent when exposed to ultraviolet light a scorpion Brad	$400 [21] A follower of L. Ron Hubbard scientologist Kathryn
$800 [17] 2 guys: one was "a tiller of the ground" & his brother was "a keeper of sheep" Cain & Abel Mary Ann	$800 [27] Kazakhstan, December 16, 1991, from this country the Soviet Union Kathryn	$800 [7] Mrs. Darling rolled up his shadow & put it away carefully in a drawer; later, Wendy sewed it back on Peter Pan Brad	$800 [2] Called the "Citizen Chronicler", he won his first Pulitzer in 1993 for his biography of "Truman" (David) McCullough Kathryn	$800 [12] We await with baited breath your identifying this ground dweller that has a nocturnal name a nightcrawler Mary Ann	$800 [22] Thistype of stamp should be easy to remember a commemorative Brad
$1,200 [18] "In those days came" this man, "preaching in the wilderness of Judaea" John the Baptist	DD $1,000 [30] Belgium, October 4, 1830, from this country the Netherlands Brad	$1,200 [8] This Pennsylvania weather prognosticator has failed to see his shadow only 14 times in the last 100 years Punxsutawney Phil Mary Ann	$1,200 [3] This bad boy of British fashion died in February 2010 (Alexander) McQueen Kathryn	$1,200 [13] From Japan, the giant spider species of this crustacean can measure 12 feet between claws a crab Brad	$1,200 [24] "Lower" term for a freshman or sophomore underclassman Brad
$2,000 [20] "Jesus saith unto him... because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed" (Doubting) Thomas Kathryn	$1,200 [28] Jamaica, August 6, 1962, from this country the Great Britain Mary Ann	$1,600 [9] "You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance...you've just crossed over into" this TV series The Twilight Zone Mary Ann	$1,600 [4] For 4 short months, November 1861 to March 1862, he was general in chief of the Union Army McClellan Mary Ann	$1,600 [14] Some of these gastropods, basically shell-less land snails, feed on earthworms slugs Mary Ann	$1,600 [23] An army officer who supplies food, clothing & equipment the quartermaster
DD $3,000 [19] "And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that" he "opened the window...which he had made" Noah Mary Ann	$1,600 [29] Albania, November 28, 1912, from this empire the Ottoman Empire Brad	$2,000 [10] The piece on a sundial that casts a shadow is called a style or this word from the Greek a gnomon	$2,000 [5] Tennessee Williams called this author of "The Member of the Wedding" the "greatest prose writer that the south produced" (Carson) McCullers Mary Ann	$2,000 [15] The largest kind of this bell-shaped marine animal is the lion's mane, whose tentacles can extend more than 130 feet a jellyfish Brad	$2,000 [25] Magical noun for the changing of lesser metals into gold by alchemists transmutation Mary Ann

Final Jeopardy!

FRENCH PAINTERS

This French painter wrote, "I am good for nothing except painting and gardening"

Monet

Brad "Who is Cezanne?" — wagered $8,200

Kathryn "Who is Monet?" — wagered $9,600

Mary Ann "Who is Gaugain" — wagered $100

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