2012-B Teachers Tournament semifinal game 2.
Kate Wilson — a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
Marcia Edmundson — a high school French teacher from Chesterfield, Virginia
Marion Penning — a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marion | $1,400 | $5,600 | $9,600 |
$18,600
2nd place: $10,000 |
$10,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Marcia | $1,200 | $2,000 | $8,400 |
$16,800
3rd place: $10,000 |
$8,400
11 R, 4 W |
| Kate | $2,600 | $4,200 | $17,800 |
$19,201
Finalist |
$17,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| EDUCATION ABBREVIATION | QUICK HISTORY | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES | CROSSWORD CLUES "A" | THE JUNIOR VARSITY | 2 PEOPLE, SAME POSITION |
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$200
[7]
DEAR stands for "Drop Everything And" do this; you can even use your Kindle
read
Marion
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$200
[6]
The sceneheretook place during this year
1945
Kate
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$200
[24]
The length a rock can be hurled, in common practice this phrase is used to mean nearby or a short distance
a stone's throw
Marion
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$200
[1]
Opposite of nay(3)
aye
Marcia
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$200
[19]
He became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kate
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$200
[12]
Basketball's Steve Nash, football's Larry Little
guard
Marion
Marcia
Kate
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$400
[8]
It's the "P" in FERPA, which makes schools get student or parent permission to release records
privacy
Kate
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$400
[15]
In 1756 this city's "Black Hole" made news
Calcutta
Kate
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$400
[25]
When you're choked up emotionally, this irregular-shaped mass in the throat is the culprit
a lump
Marion
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$400
[2]
The story of me, by me(13)
autobiography
Kate
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$400
[20]
The son of a veteran outfielder, he hit 630 Major League home runs
Ken Griffey Jr.
Marion
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$400
[13]
Hockey's Bobby Hull, basketball's Dennis Rodman
forward
Marion
Marcia
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|
$600
[9]
36 is a perfect score on the college entrance test known by these 3 letters, kind of the opposite of "SAT"
ACT
Marcia
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$600
[16]
This reformer isdepictedherein 16th century Wittenberg
Martin Luther
Marion
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$600
[26]
According to ads, there's 1 of these of raisins in half a package of Kellogg's Raisin Bran
(one) scoop
Kate
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$600
[3]
Bicentennial or jubilee(11)
anniversary
Marion
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$600
[21]
Future WWII general George S. Patton Jr. became an early expert in these weapons during WWI
tanks
Marion
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$600
[14]
Hockey's Patrick Roy, soccer's Hope Solo
goalie
Kate
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$800
[10]
Students having trouble with articulation may go to an SLP, a speech language this
pathologist
Kate
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$1,000
[18]
Party formed to oppose "King Andrew" Jackson
the Whig Party
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$800
[27]
It's the "elastic" word for a period of imprisonment
stretch
|
$800
[4]
Colorado ski resort(5)
Aspen
Marion
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$800
[22]
Charles Black Jr. helped write the brief for this 10-year-old girl challenging segregation in Topeka
(Linda) Brown
Kate
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$800
[29]
Baseball's Mariano Rivera, TV's Kyra Sedgwick (by the show's title)
closer
Marcia
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$1,000
[11]
ESEA, short for this act, dates from the '60s & morphed into No Child Left Behind
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
In German it was called "Heiliges Romisches Reich"
the Holy Roman Empire
Marion
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$1,000
[28]
Several items packaged together, such as software that comes with the purchase of a computer
a bundle
Marcia
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$1,000
[5]
This place is for the birds(6)
aviary
Marcia
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$1,000
[23]
Thisconservative columnist put his ideas on the "Firing Line"
William F. Buckley Jr.
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$1,000
[30]
Baseball's Ozzie Guillen, Dunder Mifflin boss Andy Bernard on "The Office"
manager
Marcia
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| KNOW YOUR BOUNDARIES | LEADING INTO THE SONG TITLE | ESSAYS | GET "REAL"! | SYSTEMS OF THE BODY | SAMURAI: THE WARRIOR TRANSFORMED |
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$400
[1]
At the north end of South America, this country borders Colombia, Guyana & Brazil
Venezuela
Marion
Kate
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$400
[13]
Springsteen: "'Cause tramps like us, baby we were..."
"Born To Run"
Marcia
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$400
[21]
After some of his writings were suppressed, John Milton argued for freedom of this in "Areopagitica"
the press
Kate
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$400
[6]
They sell houses
realtors
Marion
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$400
[7]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of the human body on the monitor.) It's the term for this system that transports blood to & from all parts of the body
the circulatory system
Kate
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$400
[26]
(Alex presents the clue from the National Geographic Museum.) This magnificent 16th-century armor was a gift in 1905 from the Japanese Emperor Meiji to this American president, thanking him for mediating the treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War
Teddy Roosevelt
Kate
|
|
$800
[2]
These two countries have the longest international border formed by the Rhine river
France and Germany
Marion
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$800
[14]
The Beach Boys: "I wish they all could be..."
"California Girls"
Marcia
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$800
[22]
Naturally, this French philosopher wrote "Essays in Existentialism" & "Existentialism and Humanism"
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
Marion
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$800
[8]
A viral video said this "hits you hard, bro"
reality
Marion
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$800
[12]
Your teenage students might be curious about this system that includes the ductus deferens & Fallopian tubes
reproductive system
Marcia
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$800
[27]
(Alex presents the clue from the National Geographic Museum.) Some scabbards were decorated with blossoms of this fruit tree; they fall at their moment of greatest beauty & so to the samurai represent an ideal death
cherry blossoms
Kate
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$1,200
[3]
Smuggling tunnels run under Egypt's border with this Hamas-controlled strip
Gaza
Kate
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$1,200
[15]
Gotye: "Guess I didn't need that though, now you're just..."
"Somebody That I Used To Know"
Marion
Marcia
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$1,600
[24]
She's the Zora in Alice Walker's "Looking For Zora"
Zora Neale Hurston
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$1,200
[9]
The Northern Hemisphere's aurora
borealis
Kate
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$1,200
[18]
The lymphatic system is on the front lines of this system that fights abnormal substances
the immune system
Kate
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$1,200
[28]
(Alex presents the clue from the National Geographic Museum.) The armor here was featured at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; the lacquer-coverediron plates here are held together by woven strands of this lightweight but very strong fabric developed in China
silk
Kate
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$1,600
[4]
If you cross any of Lesotho's borders, you can only end up in this other country
South Africa
Marcia
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$1,600
[16]
The Bangles: "My I don't have to run day, it's just another..."
"Manic Monday"
Kate
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DD
$2,000
[23]
His essay "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" was "read at a meeting of the historical and antiquarian club of Hartford"
Mark Twain
Marion
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$1,600
[10]
To redistribute
reallocate (or realign)
Marion
Kate
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$1,600
[19]
Composed of 8 glands, this system maintains internal balance by releasing hormones
the endocrine system
Marion
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DD
$2,000
[29]
(Alex presents the clue from the National Geographic Museum.) Tsubas are sword guards; they protected the hand in battle; as you can see, they were decorated with different symbols, including this one, the flower long associated with Japan's imperial house
the chrysanthemum
Kate
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$2,000
[5]
This wee country has a 40-mile border with Spain
Andorra
Marion
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$2,000
[17]
Journey: "One night will remind you, how we touched & went our..."
"Separate Ways"
Marion
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$2,000
[25]
All 85 essays in this 1787-88 series appeared over the signature "Publius"
the Federalist Papers
Kate
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$2,000
[11]
Herr Bismarck's doctrine of practical diplomacy
Realpolitik
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$2,000
[20]
In this 8-letter system, some of 270 important parts we have at birth get fused, leaving only 206 in adults
skeletal system
Marcia
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$2,000
[30]
(Alex presents the clue from the National Geographic Museum.) A daishō, literally "big little", was the matchedpair of swordsthat symbolized a samurai's rank; it was composed of the wakizashi & the longer sword, called this
the katana
Marcia
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In 1880 he wrote, "We draw two circles, and make them include or exclude or intersect one another"
(John) Venn