2012-A Teachers Tournament final game 2.
Patrick Quinn — a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri (subtotal of $5,589)
Justin Hofstetter — a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri (subtotal of $4,799)
Brooks Humphreys — a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska (subtotal of $5,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks | $2,000 | $3,000 | $8,600 | $6,600 |
$7,400
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Justin | $2,000 | $600 | $11,400 | $1,400 |
$14,200
21 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Patrick | $3,000 | $4,200 | $8,400 | $16,711 |
$9,400
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM | CITY FOLK | THE SHORT FORM | DRUM & DRUMMER | TV SHOW CHARACTERS | BABY, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT |
|
$200
[21]
This branch of philosophy is found under 160: Mr. Spock would approve
logic
Justin
Patrick
|
$200
[6]
She was the oldest of the novel-writin' Bronte sisters
Charlotte
Justin
|
$200
[1]
When a Brit tells you to hold on "arf a mo", "mo" is short for this word
a moment
Justin
|
$200
[8]
AKA a side drum, this small double-headed drum has a reverberating effect; "catch" my drift, man?
a snare drum
Justin
Patrick
|
$200
[13]
Alan & Jake Harper, Berta
Two and a Half Men
Justin
|
$200
[23]
He referred to Edith, his wife of 55 years, as his Luthien, a beautiful princess from Middle-earth
Tolkien
Patrick
|
|
$400
[22]
The 800s are literature, with 810 being lit in English from this nation
the United States (or Canada)
Patrick
|
$400
[7]
He plays Will Turner in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies
Orlando Bloom
Patrick
|
$400
[2]
It's what "Pro" & "Am" are short for in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
professional and amateur
Brooks
|
$400
[9]
Purdue's marching band boasts the world's largestdrumof this type; it's more than 10 feet high when mounted
a bass drum
Brooks
|
$400
[14]
Leonard Hofstadter, Penny, Sheldon Cooper
The Big Bang Theory
Justin
|
$400
[24]
She wed her beloved Albert in 1840 & never remarried after his 1861 death, though she outlived him by nearly 40 years
Queen Victoria
Justin
|
|
$600
[28]
020 is for this "science" of which the numbers themselves are an important part
Library Science
Justin
|
$600
[16]
She served between William Barr & John Ashcroft
Janet Reno
Patrick
|
$600
[3]
Rather than meaning the chip company, "Intel" is probably short for this in news stories about Langley
intelligence
Brooks
|
$600
[10]
This pair of cymbals is mounted on a rod so the upper cymbal can be lifted & dropped on the lower by means of a pedal
a hi-hat
Patrick
|
$600
[15]
Captain McNeil, Detective Crocker, Detective Stavros
Kojak
Brooks
Justin
|
$600
[25]
He stayed married to Dolley from 1794 to his death in 1836
Madison
Patrick
|
|
$800
[29]
The 220s cover the entire Bible, with 227 covering just the New Testament letters known by this name
Epistles
Patrick
|
$800
[17]
Mr. Clift who starred in "A Place in the Sun"
Montgomery
Justin
|
$800
[4]
You've nailed it if you know this short form is most often paired with "mani"
pedi
Justin
|
$800
[11]
Ears to these 6-to-12-inch cymbals that share their name with a Darryl Hannah film; listen
splash
Patrick
|
$800
[19]
Robin Scherbatsky, Lily Aldrin, Ted Mosby
How I Met Your Mother
Justin
|
$800
[26]
Rachel Isum wed this baseball player in 1946 & after his 1972 death created his foundation
Jackie Robinson
Justin
Patrick
|
|
$1,000
[30]
The 370s cover books on education, including Lou Anne Johnson's "My Posse Don't Do" this
Homework
|
DD
$2,800
[18]
Last name of the first Democratic president elected after the Civil War
Cleveland
Justin
|
$1,000
[5]
If you throw "Cat" around, you may hear from this Peoria company that trademarked it
Caterpillar
Justin
|
$1,000
[12]
Bongos, conga drums & floor are types of this double-named drum
tom-toms
Patrick
|
$1,000
[20]
Nancy & Shane Botwin, Doug Wilson
Weeds
Justin
|
$1,000
[27]
She partnered with George in 1922 & they married in 1926; after her 1964 death, George never remarried
Gracie Allen
Brooks
|
| CANADA'S WALK OF FAME | BODY WORKS | BEFORE & AFTER | WORKS OF ART | "D" IS FOR... | POETIC LAST LINES |
|
$400
[7]
Since 1998, the Walk of Fame has honored 137 Canadians with stars along King & Simcoe streets in this Ontario city
Toronto
Brooks
Justin
|
$400
[22]
Most digits in the human body contain 3 phalanges, but these have only 2
thumbs
Patrick
|
$400
[16]
Early 18th century Russian czar for whom Linus waits on Halloween night
Peter the Great Pumpkin
Justin
|
$400
[20]
He was living in Brittany when he painted "The Yellow Christ", so it features Breton women, not Tahitian ones
Gauguin
Justin
|
$400
[2]
This game that calls the pieces remaining after the draw "the boneyard"
dominoes
Patrick
|
$400
[1]
T .S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" ends by telling us the world "ends not with a bang but" with this
a whimper
Patrick
|
|
$800
[8]
A certain quiz-show host & this British Columbia-born "Baywatch" babe both got stars in 2006
Pam Anderson
Justin
|
$800
[23]
You've gone meta: you've gotmetacarpals&these other bones, too
metatarsals
Brooks
|
$800
[17]
Pair of Disney chipmunks, one of whom is a popular NASCAR driver
Chip & Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Justin
|
$800
[21]
At the Louvre, an ancientcomb, a duck-shapedbox, & avirgin & childare some of the works carved from this material
ivory
Patrick
|
$800
[3]
This "explosive" combo, a shot of schnapps in a glass of beer
a depth charge
|
$1,200
[13]
He asked (with "Experience"), "What immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry?"
(William) Blake
Justin
|
|
$1,200
[9]
The walk includes this Letterman music man, a native of Thunder Bay, Ontario
Paul Shaffer
Justin
|
$1,200
[24]
Because it contains this fluid, the knee can be classified as this type of joint
synovial
|
$1,200
[18]
Retired longtime CNN talk show host who's the world's largest venomous snake
Larry King Cobra
Justin
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
Like a Rodin work, a carving by Brancusi of 2 lovers embracing is called this
The Kiss
Patrick
|
$1,200
[4]
This 5-letter term for a male duck
a drake
Justin
|
$1,600
[14]
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light" is one of his pieces of parting advice
Dylan Thomas
Justin
|
|
$1,600
[10]
This Quebec-based circus troupe got a star in 2002
Cirque du Soleil
Justin
|
$1,600
[25]
Feel the pulse of life, your life, in these arteries that supply blood to the head
the carotid arteries
Patrick
|
$1,600
[19]
The "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" battle site is the setting for a 1980s ensemble cop drama
Bunker Hill Street Blues
Brooks
|
$1,600
[29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out figures in a painting depicting ancient Greece.) In "The School of Athens", Raphael depicted many of the great thinkers of ancient Greece, including Pythagoras, Socrates, & these two philosophers, teacher & student
Plato & Aristotle
Brooks
|
$1,600
[5]
The Diavelmodel & also this maker that says the muscular bike is "hard to be seen, easy to be noticed"
Ducati
Patrick
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
"Poems are made by fools like me", Joyce Kilmer justly wrote, "but only God can" do this
make a tree
Brooks
|
|
$2,000
[11]
In 2000 the walk honored Joni Mitchell & this other Canadian music icon who had a "Heart Of Gold"
Neil Young
Brooks
|
$2,000
[26]
About 8 feet long, this part of the small intestine connects the duodenum to the ileum
the jejunum
|
$2,000
[27]
A 7-time women's singles Wimbledon champion takes to the skies as a German rigid airship
Steffi Graf Zeppelin
|
$2,000
[30]
In this artist's "Woman with a Velvet Ribbon", the ribbon is wrapped around her elongated neck
Modigliani
|
$2,000
[6]
This Latin title of Oscar Wilde's really long letter from prison to Lord Alfred Douglas
De Profundis
|
$2,000
[15]
Byron lamented, "the day returns too soon / yet we'll go no more a-roving by" this
the light of the moon
Brooks
|
On nominating this man in 1967, LBJ said "It is the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man & the right place"
Thurgood Marshall