2012-B Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 5.
Kate Wilson — a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
Drew Joanides — a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
Whitney Collins — a third grade teacher from New York, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitney | $2,200 | $4,800 | $9,600 |
$11,601
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,600
16 R, 3 W |
| Drew | $-1,000 | $3,400 | $16,400 |
$23,201
Automatic semifinalist |
$16,200
17 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Kate | $3,600 | $4,400 | $11,600 |
$19,201
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$13,600
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| ROBOTS & CYBORGS | 9-LETTER WORDS | A YEAR TO REMEMBER | SMALLER THAN A BREADBOX | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE | F.H. |
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$200
[7]
The T-800 is an assassin in this 1984 film
The Terminator
Drew
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$200
[24]
This clue has 10 of these segments of speech
syllables
Drew
|
$200
[8]
Lincoln attends his last play
1865
Kate
|
$200
[6]
The male ruby-throated this has a wing-beat rate of about 70 per second
a hummingbird
Kate
|
$200
[13]
Joyce Carol Oates' "Blonde" is a reimagining of this starlet's life
Marilyn Monroe
Whitney
|
$200
[1]
Blaze-fighting feature affixed to the street
a fire hydrant
Whitney
|
|
$400
[9]
Seven of Nine, a female Borg, turns up on this TV spin-off
Star Trek: Voyager
Whitney
Drew
|
$400
[25]
In consumer-speak it's the opposite of retail
wholesale
Whitney
|
$400
[20]
Apollo 11 lands on the moon
1969
Drew
|
$400
[18]
Spanish percussion instruments seen & heard here, used to accompany dance
castanets
Whitney
|
$400
[14]
This novel that parallels mythology takes place in Dublin, all on June 16, 1904
Ulysses
Kate
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$400
[2]
A common type of screwdriver
a flat-head
Kate
|
|
$600
[10]
The Fembots battle this movie title Brit
Austin Powers
Whitney
|
$600
[26]
To stuff & cover a sofa
upholster
Drew
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$600
[21]
Osama bin Laden is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan
2011
Kate
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$600
[19]
It took 12 years, but a 3M chemist's low-tack (not too sticky) adhesive was eventually used to make this paper product
Post-Its
Drew
|
$600
[15]
Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" drew from the life & work of this author
Virginia Woolf
Kate
|
$600
[3]
Anointing & the laying on of hands are part of this method of curing illness using divine power
faith healing
Whitney
|
|
$800
[11]
The Cylons were on this 2005-2009 TV show
Battlestar Galactica
Kate
|
DD
$800
[27]
A standard of measurement, especially one 3 feet long
a yardstick
Drew
|
$800
[22]
Saigon falls to Communist forces
1975
Drew
Kate
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$800
[29]
Seen here is the symbol of the charity founded by this athlete
Lance Armstrong
Whitney
|
$800
[16]
His "The Long Goodbye" won an Edgar Award for best novel
Raymond Chandler
Drew
|
$800
[4]
Linda Hunt won an Oscar for playing a man in 1983 & this actress was nominated for playing a man in 2005
Felicity Huffman
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Gort visited Cold War-era Earth in this 1951 film
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Kate
|
$1,000
[28]
End-of-the-alphabet black vinifera grape used in making wine
Zinfandel
Whitney
|
$1,000
[23]
Paul Revere takes his famous ride
1775
Drew
Kate
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$1,000
[30]
The handle you grasp to open a door is a knob or lever; on a drawer, it's called this
a pull
Kate
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$1,000
[17]
It begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning... he found himself transformed... into a gigantic insect"
Metamorphosis
Kate
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$1,000
[5]
Oui, this brass instrument is pitched lower than a trumpet but higher than a tuba
a French horn
Whitney
|
| NATIVE AMERICANS | NAME THAT BIBLE BOOK | LAWRENCE OF ARABIA | TEACHER'S PET | ALWAYS WITH THE HAND RAISED | A 4 "O" AVERAGE |
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$400
[24]
On Nov. 20, 1969 the "Red Power" movement occupied this island in San Francisco Bay, holding it until June 11, 1971
Alcatraz
Whitney
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$400
[7]
It's the first book of the New Testament
Matthew
Kate
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$400
[19]
A cinematic spectacle, "Lawrence of Arabia" was shown on film 70 of these units wide
millimeters
Whitney
|
$400
[6]
...is a Labradoodle, a cross between these 2 dogs
a Labrador & a poodle
Kate
|
$400
[14]
She has one hand raised; the other holds a 24-foot-long tablet reading "July IV MDCCLXXVI"
the Statue of Liberty
Kate
|
$400
[1]
A brand of chocolate drink, or a rhyming word used to get someone's attention
Yoo-Hoo
Whitney
|
|
$800
[26]
After defending the Apache homeland against the U.S. Army, this warriorsurrendered in 1886
Geronimo
Drew
|
$800
[8]
Of Isaiah, Jeremiah or Joel, the "minor prophet"
Joel
Kate
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$800
[20]
One of cinema's greatentrancesis the long shot that introduces Sherif Ali, played by this similarly named man
Omar Sharif
Kate
|
$800
[12]
...is the Mongolian one of these rodents
a gerbil
Whitney
Drew
|
$800
[15]
An Old West version of "hands up" was "reach for" this; Woody says it in "Toy Story"
the sky
Kate
|
$800
[2]
"Motion" is only part of this word for the power of moving; "Come on, baby, do" it
locomotion
Whitney
|
|
DD
$1,400
[27]
On Feb. 11, 1805 Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was born to this Shoshone woman at Fort Mandan, North Dakota
Sacagawea
Drew
|
$1,200
[9]
It has a 3-letter title in the King James version
Job
|
$1,200
[21]
Director David Lean makes a cameo as a motorcyclist on the far bank of this man-made Egyptian waterway
the Suez Canal
Whitney
Kate
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$1,200
[13]
...is a Flemish giant one of these furry mammals that weighs almost 20 pounds
a rabbit
|
$1,200
[16]
After stepping onto this platform to testify, you'll be asked to raise your right hand
the witness stand
Drew
Kate
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$1,200
[3]
12-letter disease causing the bones of older women to become abnormally fragile
osteoporosis
Whitney
|
|
$1,600
[28]
A Nebraska town is named for this Sioux chief & native son who had a twin brother named Roaring Cloud
Red Cloud
Drew
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
It says, "Salute Andronicus" & "Salute Asyncritus"
(Paul's Epistle to the) Romans
Kate
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$1,600
[22]
Lawrence is sent to help Prince Faisal, played by this future "Star Wars" actor
(Alec) Guinness
Drew
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$1,600
[25]
...is one of these colorful fishes, also called "Siamese fighting fish"
a Betta fish
Drew
|
$1,600
[17]
This fitness nut from Wisconsin has given new fame to the alternating shoulder press & the rest of the P90X workout
Paul Ryan
Whitney
|
$1,600
[4]
Tediously unvarying & literally one-note, this is getting...
monotonous
Kate
|
|
$2,000
[29]
In 1720 the Tuscarora tribe left North Carolina for N.Y. & soon became the 6th member of this confederacy
the Iroquois Confederacy
Whitney
|
$2,000
[11]
It's the first named for a woman
Ruth
Kate
|
$2,000
[23]
Lawrence & Arab irregulars take this now Jordanian city via the land as the guns there "face the sea"
Aqaba
Kate
|
$2,000
[30]
...is a pair of these large blue-eyed cats, Ann & Andy, who go limp & floppy when you pick them up
ragdolls
|
$2,000
[18]
Adjective for one with personal magnetism, or for Christian churches where inspired worshipers raise their hands
charismatic
Drew
|
$2,000
[5]
A word whose sound is imitative of the sound it refers to, like hoot
onomatopoeia
Drew
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He was born in 1728 in Yorkshire, England & died in a skirmish February 14, 1779 in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii
Captain James Cook