2012-B Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 2.
Terry Parker — a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
Francesca Leibowitz — a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
John Hines — a high school social studies teacher from Tacoma, Washington
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $3,000 | $7,200 | $15,200 |
$8,399
Automatic semifinalist |
$13,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Francesca | $-800 | $600 | $5,400 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$4,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Terry | $1,000 | $3,400 | $11,000 |
$6,799
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,000
14 R, 2 W |
| WHERE'S THAT? | FILL IN THE QUOTE | JEOPARDY!ENNUI | 50 YEARS OF JAMES BOND FILMS | BUSINESS IS GOOD | "RE"-CESS |
|
$200
[4]
Rockefeller Center:The borough
Manhattan
John
|
$200
[26]
Patrick Henry:"Give me ____ or give me death!"
liberty
John
|
$200
[16]
Ennui means this; Schopenhauer calls it the feeling of the emptiness of existence, & I feel it when I read Schopenhauer
boredom
Terry
|
$200
[1]
The franchise started in 1962 with James Bond facing off against this title villain
Dr. No
John
|
$200
[15]
In 2012 this 2-named energy company reported a quarterly profit of nearly $16 bil., the highest ever for a U.S. corp.
Exxon Mobil
John
|
$200
[11]
Light is focused by a concave mirror in this type of telescope
a reflecting telescope
Francesca
|
|
$400
[5]
Chicago:The county
Cook
John
|
$400
[27]
Benjamin Franklin:"There never was a ____ ____ or a bad peace"
good war
John
|
$400
[17]
20,000 times a day these paired organs expand & contract, in & out; how tedious
lungs
Terry
|
$400
[2]
Oddjob painted Jill Masterson's entire body, resulting in a memorable scene in this film
Goldfinger
John
|
$400
[22]
In January 2009 a share in this tech co. was $82.33; In August 2012, after a court victory over Samsung, it opened at $680
Apple
John
|
$400
[12]
This condensed compendium is one of the 10 most popular magazines in America
Reader's Digest
Francesca
|
|
$600
[6]
Petco Park Major League Baseball stadium:The city
San Diego
John
|
$600
[28]
Huey P. Long:"I looked around at the little fishes present, and said, 'I'm the ____'"
kingfish
John
Terry
|
$600
[18]
I tire of the rows & columns of this Microsoft spreadsheet program introduced in 1985
Excel
Francesca
|
$600
[3]
"Skyfall", the 23rd film in the franchise, marks this actor's third outing as Bond, James Bond
Daniel Craig
Terry
|
$600
[23]
In 1999 this "colorful" airline took delivery of its 1st airbus A320--in 2011 it boasted 100 daily flights at Logan Airport
JetBlue
Terry
|
$600
[13]
It's the "R" in RSV, a 1952 version of the Bible
revised
Terry
|
|
$800
[7]
Mount McKinley:The national park
Denali
John
Terry
|
$800
[29]
Richard Nixon:"It is time for the great ____ ____ of Americans to stand up and be counted"
silent majority
John
|
$800
[19]
Calling sit-ups & push-ups by this word from the Greek for "beautiful" doesn't make them interesting
calisthenics
Francesca
|
$1,000
[10]
George Lazenby played 007 just once, in this film where Bond fell in love & got married
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
John
Terry
|
$800
[24]
O-ho, this bank's wagon is a-comin' down the street & it's filled with money; it's No. 26 on the 2012 Fortune 500
Wells Fargo
Terry
|
$800
[14]
It's the "R" in RV when the "V" is a spacecraft
reentry
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Holiday Inn Bratislava:The country
Slovakia
John
Francesca
|
$1,000
[30]
Margaret Sanger:"No woman can call herself free until she can choose... whether she will or will not be a ____"
mother
John
|
$1,000
[20]
This government agency with a lightning bolt logo says sunshine all next week; will it never end?
the National Weather Service
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
The title of the 16th Bond film, it's also what's denoted by the "00" prefix
Licence to Kill
John
|
$1,000
[25]
Don Fisher "couldn't find a pair of jeans that fit"; the result was this store, clothing us since 1969
Gap
John
|
$1,000
[21]
From the Latin for "beat back", it means to resound in a succession of echoes
reverberate
Terry
|
| FIZZ ED | DOUBLE-TALK NAMES | CLEOPATRA | TOUGH 2-LETTER WORDS | RUSSIAN NOVELISTS | WEIRDPODGE |
|
$400
[12]
Carbonation is the phenomenon in which this gas is suspended in liquid, creating small bubbles or fizz
carbon dioxide
John
|
$400
[1]
"The Starter Wife" is by Ms. Levangie Grazer, who has this first name
Gigi
|
$400
[3]
Shakespeare is among those who say Cleopatra killed herself with one of these, a symbol of divine royalty
an asp
John
|
$400
[7]
In this language Pe is the first letter of Pesach, meaning Passover
Hebrew
Francesca
|
$400
[21]
In 1965 Mikhail Sholokhov won this prestigious award & traveled to Stockholm to receive it
the Nobel Prize
Terry
|
$400
[22]
Gary Larson says that when this comic first hit papers, "weird" was the word people most often used to describe it
The Far Side
John
|
|
$800
[17]
Beer has natural carbonation as a byproduct of this process involving yeast & sugar that produces the alcohol
fermentation
Francesca
|
$800
[2]
In kids' books, the gang at Tarrytown Airport includes this jet plane
Jay Jay
|
$800
[4]
The Ptolemies, Cleo's dynasty, put these lion/human statues in front of temples to show a pharaoh's brains & brawn
a sphinx
Francesca
|
$800
[8]
Os is a technical name for one of these in the body
a bone
Francesca
|
$800
[23]
This author began writing "Crime and Punishment" in the form of a confession but later abandoned that idea
Dostoyevsky
John
|
$800
[27]
From 1879 to 1931 this was the most any item cost at Woolworth's
ten cents
Terry
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Soda on top of ice cream makes an ice cream soda; put the ice cream on top & it's called this, like a root beer one
a float
Terry
|
$1,200
[14]
Nickname of the Olympian seen here
Lolo (Jones)
John
|
$1,600
[6]
Cleopatra's royal residence was in this Egyptian port city; many artifacts have been recovered from its waters
Alexandria
Terry
|
$1,200
[9]
French for "from"
de
Francesca
|
$1,200
[24]
This count's first published work was "Childhood", a fictionalized account of his early years
Tolstoy
John
|
$1,200
[28]
Swiss writers of this language generally ignore the weird "B" that sometimes replaces a double "S"
German
Francesca
|
|
$1,600
[19]
New studies show chemical carbonation in magma may fizz up these hardest gems from within the earth
diamonds
John
|
$1,600
[15]
Completes the title of a spin-off from "Toddlers & Tiaras", "Here Comes Honey..."
Boo Boo
Terry
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
When she took the throne of Egypt, Cleopatra claimed to be the living embodiment of this Egyptian goddess
Isis
Francesca
|
$1,600
[10]
Spanish for "I"
yo
Francesca
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
From 1945 to 1953 he was imprisoned in labor camps for writing a letter critical of Stalin
Solzhenitsyn
John
|
$1,600
[29]
Bill Paxton offers up a "greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray" in this film
Weird Science
|
|
$2,000
[20]
The first artificially carbonated beverage was invented by this English discoverer of oxygen
Joseph Priestley
|
$2,000
[16]
It's the Hawaiian name of the goose seen here
a nene
|
$2,000
[13]
A head from the exhibit Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt is thought to depict this son of Cleopatra
Caesarion or Ptolemy XV
Francesca
|
$2,000
[11]
Ut is a version of the musical note also known by the word do & by this letter
C
Terry
|
$2,000
[26]
Hostile reaction to his novel "Fathers and Sons" prompted him to leave Russia in 1863
(Ivan) Turgenev
John
|
$2,000
[30]
The Azores & St. Helena are actually among the highest peaks of this mountain "ridge"
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
John
Francesca
|
The seal of this historic New England city has the phrase "What a glorious morning for America" & the date "April 19"
Lexington