2012-B Teachers Tournament semifinal game 1.
John Hines — a high school social studies teacher from Tacoma, Washington
Whitney Collins — a third grade teacher from New York, New York
Michael Farabaugh — a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | $2,600 | $5,600 | $18,200 |
$9,599
Finalist |
$14,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Whitney | $1,200 | $5,200 | $10,400 |
$1
2nd place: $10,000 |
$12,400
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| John | $4,000 | $5,400 | $13,400 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 |
$13,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| AMERICAN MOVIE IDOL | 5 SHADES OF GR(E/A)Y | MY PHONE CAN DO THAT | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES | THE MAYA | "TW", EH? |
|
$200
[19]
In March 2012 he celebrated his 75th birthday & 20 years of marriage to Annette Bening
Warren Beatty
John
|
$200
[2]
L. Patrick Gray III became interim FBI director after the 1972 death of this man but was forced to resign a year later
J. Edgar Hoover
Whitney
|
$200
[18]
This feature on my phone has 8 megapixels; I don't know what that means, but it's a lot
a camera
Michael
|
$200
[8]
ORAL NOD, Florida
Orlando
John
|
$200
[13]
Balche, a ceremonial drink of the Maya, was a type of mead made with this sweetener & spiced with bark
honey
Michael
Whitney
|
$200
[1]
To make a minor adjustment, or to pull someone's nose with a twisting motion
tweak
John
|
|
$400
[20]
In 1989 he had a hat trick of great roles, with "Lean On Me", "Glory" & "Driving Miss Daisy"
Morgan Freeman
Whitney
|
$400
[3]
John Gray wrote the book "Truly" these 2 planets
Mars & Venus
Michael
|
$400
[27]
If I wasn't married, I could use the Popularity Dialer app to fake a pal calling & get out of a blind one of these
a date
Michael
|
$400
[9]
LONG LEASES, California
Los Angeles, California
John
|
$400
[14]
The Mayans were among the earliest to apply a symbolic icon for this number when counting; they used a shell
zero
John
|
$400
[4]
A youngster who's 9 to 12 years old
a tween
Whitney
|
|
$600
[21]
In 2012 he launched the London version of his Sundance Film Festival
(Robert) Redford
John
|
$600
[24]
In 1909 the University of Toronto won the first Grey Cup in this sport
Canadian football
John
|
$600
[28]
Covering my needs from A to "Z", I can use a virtual this brand of lighter; put that in your virtual pipe & smoke it
a Zippo
Whitney
|
$600
[10]
NO BRAG, Maine
Bangor
Michael
|
$600
[15]
Kinich Ahau, the Mayan sun god, was usually depicted with the features of this jungle cat
a jaguar
John
|
$600
[5]
www.hope140.org tells you how you can use this site to promote good causes
Twitter
|
|
$800
[22]
Twice named People's "Sexiest Man Alive", he got his big break when he appeared in "Thelma & Louise"
Brad Pitt
Michael
|
$800
[25]
In 1833 Parliament abolished slavery in the British Empire under this prime minister who suits us to a tea
Earl Grey
Michael
|
$800
[29]
I can "open up" my phone to have it be my jukebox using this app with a "single mission: to play only music you'll love"
Pandora
Michael
|
$800
[11]
A ZEN MOB, Montana
Bozeman
Whitney
|
$1,000
[17]
This main city of Mayan ceremonies is now part of a Guatemalan national park
Tikal
|
$800
[6]
Both a coarse wool cloth & a Scottish river sport this name
tweed
Michael
|
|
$1,000
[23]
He became an idol after starring in only 3 movies, his life & career cut short in 1955 at age 24
James Dean
Whitney
|
$1,000
[26]
In 1915 this prolific writer of Westerns penned "The Lone Star Ranger"
Zane Grey
Whitney
|
$1,000
[30]
My phone has VAD, short for this cool feature--hey, stop! I said, "cool feature", not "call my preacher!"
voice-activated dialing
Whitney
|
$1,000
[12]
NEWT FORAY, Indiana
Fort Wayne, Indiana
John
|
DD
$1,200
[16]
Mayan ruins have revealed workplaces for crafting with this shiny rock formed by the rapid cooling of lava
obsidian
John
|
$1,000
[7]
This sharp vibrating sound is associated with the guitar work of Duane Eddy
twang
Michael
|
| FUN WITH SCIENCE | TEACH ME A SONG | F. SCOTT FITZGERALD | THE MAP OF EUROPE | VERB-AL NAMES | BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$400
[9]
In "Back to the Future", George misspoke & told Lorraine she was his this, mass per unit volume
my density
Michael
|
$400
[1]
Playboy Playmate of the Year Lillian Muller played a teacher in this group's video for "Hot For Teacher"
Van Halen
Michael
|
$400
[17]
Scott's epitaph, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past", is from this novel
The Great Gatsby
|
$400
[11]
In the 12th century, Afonso I reigned over this republic
Portugal
Michael
|
$400
[15]
To enter charges, as on an invoice
bill
Whitney
|
$400
[2]
The silver & black football team is cast in the first Indiana Jones movie
the Oakland Raiders of the Lost Ark
Michael
|
|
$800
[10]
A museum exhibit was called "Diving into" this, the collective DNA of a species
the Gene Pool
Michael
John
|
$800
[7]
The Hillside Singers had a hit with "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)", adapted from a jingle for this
Coke
Whitney
|
$800
[18]
Fitzgerald met her at a country club in July 1918 but noted in his ledger that he didn't fall in love with her until September 7
Zelda
Whitney
|
$800
[25]
On an Italian map you'll find almost 16,000-foot Monte Bianco in these mountains
the Alps
Michael
Whitney
|
$800
[16]
To attempt to throw a rider, as a horse does
buck
Michael
|
$800
[3]
A heavy-browed archaic human unearthed in 1856 does Don Quixote on Broadway
Neanderthal Man of La Mancha
Michael
|
|
$1,200
[12]
If challenged to "guess my phylum", you're best off with this one of lobsters & ticks; 85% of animal species are in it
arthropods
Michael
|
$1,200
[8]
"So that's right dude, meet me at the bleachers, no principals, no student teachers", says her No. 1 hit "Hollaback Girl"
Gwen Stefani
Michael
|
$1,200
[21]
F. Scott thought of this college "as being lazy and good-looking and aristocratic--you know, like a spring day"
Princeton
Whitney
|
$1,200
[26]
Thisnation, though largely in Asia, has a small Europeansectionthat's about the size of Massachusetts
Turkey
Michael
|
$1,200
[24]
To jump lightly over, as a rope on a playground
skip
Michael
|
$1,200
[4]
A newspaper cartoon disrobes to play a card game
comic strip poker
Whitney
|
|
$2,000
[14]
Looking for a new comet with your telescope? This Frenchman's 1781 nebula catalog will help you with the fuzzy bits
Charles Messier
|
$1,600
[19]
This quartet hit the top 20 in 1970 with "Teach Your Children"
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
John
|
$1,600
[22]
"A novel about flappers written for philosophers" was Fitzgerald's slogan for this "heavenly" book
This Side of Paradise
|
$1,600
[27]
Estonia is the northernmost of the 3 countries known as this sea's states
the Baltic states
John
|
$1,600
[29]
Sketched a picture
drew
Michael
|
$1,600
[5]
Ethical sayings of Jesus found in Matthew 5-7, read atop Zeus' home
the Sermon on the Mount Olympus
Michael
|
|
DD
$5,000
[13]
If you've got a 1982 penny, it could be either mainly copper or mainly this material next to copper on the periodic table
zinc
Michael
|
$2,000
[20]
A Pink Floyd song says, "Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone! All in all it's just another" one of these
brick in the wall
John
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
Scott got this title from "Ode to a Nightingale", where it precedes "and haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne"
Tender is the Night
Whitney
|
$2,000
[28]
About the same distance from two other capitals of former Soviet Socialist Republics, you'll find this capital city
Kiev
John
|
$2,000
[30]
To issue forth, as a body of troops from a besieged place
sally
|
$2,000
[6]
Type of union at the hip between bones with a round end fitting into a cup that advises the president on military matters
a ball-and-socket Joint Chiefs of Staff
Michael
Whitney
|
The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man
James Garfield