2012-A Teachers Tournament semifinal game 3.
Patrick Quinn — a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
Catherine Whitten — a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas
Mary Ann Stanley — a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Ann | $1,600 | $1,600 | $13,800 |
$50
2nd place: $10,000 |
$12,400
15 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Catherine | $2,000 | $3,800 | $6,200 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$6,200
12 R, 3 W |
| Patrick | $2,600 | $3,400 | $11,800 |
$5,789
Finalist |
$12,800
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| TABLETS | HISTORIC LETTERS | FOOD & DRINK FOR THOUGHT | U.S. GEOGRAPHY | MOVIES IN REWIND? | WEBSTER'SLAST WORDS |
|
$200
[9]
It says right on the label of Pepcid AC, "Just one tablet prevents & relieves" this "due to acid indigestion"
heartburn
Catherine
|
$200
[1]
On the morning of her 1793 execution, she wrote, "I am calm, as one always is when one's conscience is clear"
Marie Antoinette
Patrick
|
$200
[4]
Ironically, in Denmark this baked good is known as Vienna bread
a Danish
Mary Ann
|
$200
[17]
Massachusetts' Barnstable County mostly consists of this hook-shaped cape
Cape Cod
Mary Ann
|
$200
[13]
1954:Title creature puts Tokyo back together, then goes to sleep in the depths of the ocean
Godzilla
Catherine
|
$200
[24]
S:Relating to a spicy style of Chinese cooking
Szechuan
Patrick
|
|
$400
[10]
To reduce the risk of acetaminophen overdose, in 2011 Johnson & Johnson cut the maximum daily dose of Extra Strength this
Tylenol
Patrick
|
$400
[2]
The New York Historical Society has his April 9th, 1865 letter that said, "I propose to receive the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia"
Grant
Patrick
|
$400
[5]
The oldest known recipe in existence is for this potent potable
beer
Patrick
|
$400
[18]
Saginaw Bay on the east coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula is an inlet of this Great Lake
Lake Huron
Mary Ann
Catherine
Patrick
|
$400
[14]
2009: Big guy gets signed by Baltimore Ravens, moves in with white family, things go downhill for him
The Blind Side
Patrick
|
$400
[25]
R:This type of whiskey
rye
Patrick
|
|
$600
[23]
Tablets of synthroid & levothroid are prescriptions used to treat disorders of this gland
the thyroid
Patrick
|
$800
[11]
Close to death in the Antarctic in 1912, he wrote to J.M. Barrie asking him to "help my widow and my boy"
(Robert Falcon) Scott
Mary Ann
|
$600
[6]
The "Canadian cooking method" for these says 10 minutes per inch of thickness, regardless of species
fish
Mary Ann
|
$600
[19]
This river rises in Northern Pennsylvania, runs into Southwest New York & then flows into Pittsburgh
the Allegheny River
Catherine
|
$600
[15]
2008:Brad Pitt ages normally in New Orleans
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Catherine
|
$600
[26]
I:British comedian Eddie knows it's another word for the letter "Z"
izzard
Mary Ann
Catherine
|
| — |
DD
$1,000
[3]
Among those he accused in an 1898 letter were Colonel Du Paty de Clam, General Mercier & General Billot
Emile Zola
Patrick
|
$800
[7]
More young children are allergic to this liquid than to any other food or drink
milk
Patrick
|
$800
[20]
El Paso, Texas was named because it was a major ford, or pass, across this river
the Rio Grande
Catherine
|
$800
[16]
1995:While in Sin City, Nicolas Cage seems to set a record for spitting vodka back into the bottle
Leaving Las Vegas
Patrick
|
$800
[27]
O:This 11-letter word for the atmospheric layer made up of O3
ozonosphere
Catherine
Patrick
|
| — |
$1,000
[12]
In 1885 he wrote to his father, "I am convinced that I could run a newspaper successfully"; he was right!
(William Randolph) Hearst
Catherine
|
$1,000
[8]
This pungent spice native to India's Malabar Coast is said to be the world's top-selling spice
pepper
Patrick
|
$1,000
[21]
This waterfall in Yosemite National Park is the highest continuous fall in North America at 1,612 feet
Ribbon Falls
|
$1,000
[22]
1959: Cross-dressing musicians take off dresses, abandon love & go to Chicago to watch some mob resurrections
Some Like It Hot
Catherine
|
— |
| TECHNOLOGY MATTERS | ROMAN NUMERALS | HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS | AUDIO BOOKS | BROADWAY | WHAT 2 Q SO LONG? |
|
$400
[1]
This Amazon line has a new multimedia tablet aptly dubbed "Fire"
Kindle
Patrick
|
$400
[25]
According to a 1954 song, it's the number of coins tossed in the Trevi Fountain
3
Patrick
|
$400
[11]
If you wake up in the CCU, you've probably suffered one of the 1-1.5 million of these in the U.S. yearly
heart attack
Patrick
|
$400
[6]
Her exuberance for roasted chicken is captured in the audio book of "My Life In France"
Julia Child
Catherine
Patrick
|
$400
[16]
This '60s show lacked nudity at the public theatre; it "Let the sunshine in" when it moved to Broadway
Hair
Mary Ann
|
$400
[21]
This southwestern U.S. city was founded in 1706 by Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdes
Albuquerque
Mary Ann
|
|
$800
[2]
On Jan. 18, 2012 some popular websites went dark in protest of SOPA, a bill to "Stop Online" this type of theft
piracy
Patrick
|
$800
[26]
It's the number of hills about which the ancient city was built
7
Catherine
|
$800
[12]
New York/Presbyterian hospital claims the USA's largest of these centers; it works closely with FDNY
burn unit (or burn center)
Patrick
|
$800
[7]
Ian McKellen storms on as Prospero in an audio book of this play
The Tempest
Mary Ann
|
$800
[17]
Patti Lu Pone got ticked off, then paid off when she was replaced in this composer's "Sunset Boulevard"
Andrew Lloyd Webber
|
$800
[22]
George H.W. Bush denied there was any of this in Iran-Contra; it's latin meaning "something for something"
quid pro quo
Catherine
|
|
$1,200
[3]
You'll never be lonely with an iPhone 4S--just talk to her, named after the research hub SRI
Siri
Mary Ann
|
$1,200
[27]
It's the number of steps in Rome's Spanish Steps (Big hint: There are CXXXVIII of them)
138
Patrick
|
$1,200
[13]
No pain, no gain as your post-surgical knee gets rehabilitation in this type of therapy
physical therapy
Mary Ann
|
$1,200
[8]
Perhaps very quietly, Rhonda Byrne shares over the course of 4 CDs this, which she found out in 2004
The Secret
Patrick
|
$1,200
[18]
This American opera was revived on Broadway in 2012 in a shortened version, with no goat cart
Porgy and Bess
Catherine
|
$1,200
[23]
In "Moby Dick", this harpooner worships a wooden idol called Yojo
Queequeg
Mary Ann
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Sony's micro vault line of these lets you carry photos, data or state secrets in a 1.6-inch package
flash drives
|
$1,600
[28]
Rome's dialing code is zero sei, or zero this
6
Catherine
|
$2,000
[15]
The hospital for special surgery has a department of this -ology "and imaging"
radiology
Mary Ann
|
$1,600
[9]
An audio book of Dr. Seuss classics features Ted Danson reading this pro-environment fable
The Lorax
Mary Ann
|
$1,600
[19]
In 1942 the cast of this great tunesmith's revue "This Is The Army" formed the army's only integrated unit
Irving Berlin
Mary Ann
|
$1,600
[24]
Adjective meaning resembling a comic character in commedia dell'arte
harlequinesque
Patrick
|
|
$2,000
[5]
uvvu.com is the website for this "colorful" system that can unite your discs & downloads into 1 digital library
ultraviolet
Patrick
|
— |
DD
$3,000
[14]
At the other end of life from the NICU is the GICU, short for this
Geriatric Intensive Care Unit
Mary Ann
|
$2,000
[10]
Author Michael Lewis reads this sports book of his about "The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game"
Moneyball
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
1927's "The Royal Family" was a comic portrayal of this American theatrical family of the day
the Barrymores
Mary Ann
|
— |
Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes"
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.