Show #6480 2012-11-16 (taped 2012-10-02) Teachers Tournament

2012-B Teachers Tournament semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Colby Burnett — a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois

Brenton Montie — a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan

Drew Joanides — a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Drew	$-200	$-1,200	$0	$0 3rd place: $10,000	$-400 4 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Brenton	$1,600	$2,800	$7,300	$2 2nd place: $10,000	$6,000 17 R (including 1 DD), 7 W
Colby	$3,200	$1,800	$13,800	$14,701 Finalist	$17,800 23 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ACT I	REALITY TV	IN THE "MM"IDDLE	PHYSICISTS	BOOZY TALK	IT'S A TOUGH JOB
$200 [4] Act I of this musical opens at a movie theater in Buenos Aires in 1952 Evita Colby	$200 [1] On "Celebrity Apprentice", stars leave the boardroom for good after hearing these 2 dreaded words "you're fired" Brenton	$200 [6] This dip consists of mashed chickpeas, tahini, oil, lemon juice & garlic hummus Colby	$200 [28] Using a vacuum pump, Robert Boyle devised his law regarding the volume of this state of matter gas Brenton	$200 [12] It precedes "rummy" & comes after "cotton" gin Colby	$200 [23] When a surgeon calls, "Scalpel!" the person who hands it to him is a scrub one of these professionals a nurse Brenton
$400 [5] In Act I of this play, Linda tells Willy, "you're sixty years old. They can't expect you to keep traveling every week" Death of a Salesman Brenton	$400 [2] Premiering in 2006, the first "Real Housewives" franchise was the wives of this California county Orange County Colby	$400 [17] On the Los Angeles Lakers, Pau Gasol's relationship to Kobe Bryant his teammate Colby	$400 [21] Werner Heisenberg devised this principle that states you can't know a particle's position & velocity at the same time his uncertainty principle Colby	$400 [13] It's a geographical area that forms a harbor; any one in a storm a port Colby	$400 [24] A Foxconn factory making iPads in this country has 240,000 workers & suicide prevention nets on the buildings China Brenton
$600 [7] Appropriately, the fairy tale musical "Into the Woods" begins with the narrator saying these 4 words "Once upon a time" Colby	$600 [3] Since its premiere in 2005, over 200 addicts have been confronted by family & friends & offered help on this A&E series Intervention Brenton Colby	$600 [18] In the House of Representatives, this group on aviation is under a larger group on transportation subcommittee Colby	$600 [22] (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an atomic explosion photo and an atomic diagram on the monitor.) Leading to the development of the atomic bomb, an atom of this element was famously split by Otto Hahn in 1938 uranium Brenton Colby	$600 [14] It's the title of a 1958 No. 1 hit by the Champs; it's also the entire lyric "Tequila" Colby	$600 [25] Climbing spurs are useful to these people who fix the transmission wires of phone & power companies linemen
$800 [8] In Act I of this comedy, "it is a warm summer night in Oscar Madison's apartment" The Odd Couple Drew	$800 [10] In summer 2012 he stepped out of the kitchen & into a new FOX series called "Hotel Hell" (Gordon) Ramsay Brenton	$1,000 [20] Jesus said, "Ye cannot serve God and" this, from an Aramaic word for wealth mammon Colby	—	$800 [15] This royal family ruled France from 1589 to 1792 the Bourbons Brenton	$800 [26] Often low on India's caste system, a chai wallah is one who makes this tea Brenton
$1,000 [9] From Act I of this 1913 play: "I ain't done nothing wrong by speaking to the gentleman. I've a right to sell flowers" Pygmalion Drew	$1,000 [11] (The Mythbusters deliver the clue.) One test required disabling the safety devices that keep these 2 measurements from getting too high; your water heater can indeed make that skylight you never wanted. Myth confirmed. temperature and pressure	DD $4,000 [19] Incendiary or provocative; arousing anger inflammatory Colby	—	$1,000 [16] De website for dis company says "a diamond is forever" De Beers Brenton Colby	$1,000 [27] Roughnecking is tough, especially working on a semisubmersible one of these like the Deepwater Nautilus a drilling platform Drew Colby

Double Jeopardy! Round

RELIGION	BAYS & GULFS	MOVIE TERMS	AMERICAN HISTORY	17th CENTURY WORDS	ART APPRECIATION
$400 [4] At lds.org, a website for this religion, you'll find its scriptures & teachings Mormonism Colby	$400 [15] Tampa Bay is an arm of this much larger body of water the Gulf of Mexico Brenton	$400 [10] It's the letter-perfect name for films like "Teenagers From Outer Space", often the second half of a double feature a B-movie Drew	$400 [1] The Jones Act of 1917 granted U.S. citizenship to residents of this Caribbean island Puerto Rico Brenton	$400 [25] The first printed reference to this North American marsupial was in promotional literature for the Jamestown Colony an opossum Brenton	$1,600 [27] Last name of Swedish-born pop artist Claes, famous for his oversized sculptures of lipstick & the like Oldenburg Colby
$800 [5] More than 80% of Muslims follow this branch of Islam Sunni Drew Brenton	$800 [16] This Canadian gulf is connected to the Atlantic by the Straits of Cabot & Belle Isle the Gulf of St. Lawrence Drew Brenton	$800 [11] Cross-cutting juxtaposes 2 different scenes, like a baptism with Corleone enemies being killed in this 1972 film The Godfather Colby	$800 [2] Financial vultures beware! In 2012 "Jeopardy!" champ Richard Cordray became 1st head of the CFPB, helping these "C"s consumers Brenton	$800 [22] In Newton's day this word was first used to mean the band of colors produced when light passes through a prism a spectrum Brenton	$2,000 [26] The Sleeping Gypsyseenhereis an 1897 painting by this French Primitive artist Henri Rousseau Colby
$1,200 [8] The Pater Noster is the Latin name for this Our Father Brenton Colby	$1,200 [17] This Australian state's Brisbane River flows into Moreton Bay, a shallow inlet of the Pacific Ocean Queensland Colby	$1,200 [12] Thistype of transition between a series of film shots is often used to suggest the passage of time a dissolve Drew Brenton	$1,200 [3] A recent drought recalls the 1930s, when part of the Great Plains turned into this, seen in Ken Burns' new film of that name the Dust Bowl Colby	$1,600 [23] Around 1680 this element, symbol P, got its name meaning "morning star" or "light bearer" phosphorus Colby	—
$1,600 [9] Whether you spell it with a "T" or a "D", this religion is based on the teachings of Lao-Tzu Taoism Brenton	$1,600 [19] Kattegat Bay is bordered by Sweden & this Danish peninsula Jutland Brenton	$1,600 [13] Also a kind of baseball pitch, this comedy subgenre of the 1930s & '40s was epitomized by "Bringing Up Baby" screwball Brenton	DD $2,000 [6] In 1638 he organized the first Baptist church in America in Providence, Rhode Island Roger Williams Drew	$2,000 [24] In the 1640s English physician Sir Thomas Browne coined this word to mean "before Noah's flood" antediluvian Colby	—
$2,000 [18] This ancient religion of Iran teaches the belief in one god, Ahura Mazda, & in a struggle between good & evil Zoroastrianism Colby	$2,000 [20] Vladivostok lies on Peter the Great Bay, an inlet of this "national" sea the Sea of Japan	$2,000 [14] D/N stands for this 3-word type of shot in which sunlight masquerades as moonlight day-for-night	$2,000 [7] In February 1933 gunman Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate FDR but instead killed this city's mayor Anton Cermak Chicago Colby	DD $2,500 [21] Meaning one who flees home or seeks asylum, it was first applied to Huguenots who fled France refugees Brenton	—

Final Jeopardy!

CLASSICAL MUSIC

This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair"

"Clair de Lune"

Brenton "What is the moonlight sonata" — wagered $7,298

Colby "What Clair de Lune" — wagered $901

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