2012-B Teachers Tournament final game 1.
Michael Farabaugh — a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
Colby Burnett — a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
Kate Wilson — a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kate | $4,600 | $4,400 | $6,000 | $3,000 |
$6,000
14 R, 5 W |
| Colby | $3,000 | $6,600 | $11,800 | $10,600 |
$11,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Michael | $400 | $3,800 | $13,000 | $10,000 |
$10,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| SOLVE FOR x | IN 1867... | WHICH PART OF SPEECH? | YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THIS | TV CV | WITTY LINES |
|
$200
[11]
25x = the number of U.S. Senate members
4
Michael
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$200
[27]
This dual monarchy with a population of about 50 million was formed; it lasted until 1918
Austria-Hungary
Kate
|
$200
[1]
Fabio won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Fabio
a noun
Michael
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$200
[17]
The Snellen chart tests these body parts; the top line is 20/400
the eyes
Michael
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$200
[24]
"Friends" (Rachel), "Dirt" (Tina Harrod)
(Jennifer) Aniston
Michael
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$200
[2]
When asked how many husbands she's had, this Gabor sister said, "You mean apart from my own?"
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Colby
|
|
$400
[12]
99 - x = the number of keys on a standard piano
11
Colby
|
$400
[20]
In 1867, hepublished the play "Peer Gynt" and obviously spent some time on his facial hair
(Henrik) Ibsen
Colby
|
$400
[3]
A German's germs are not germane to a conversation about Jermaine Jackson: germane (with a "G")
an adjective
Kate
|
$400
[18]
The Stanford-Binet V tests this in students
intelligence
Colby
|
$400
[25]
"Monk" (Monk), "The X-Files" (Dr. Chester Ray Banton)
(Tony) Shalhoub
Colby
|
$400
[7]
In one of their shorts, a judge cries for order, to which Curly says, "I'll take a ham sandwich"
the Three Stooges
Michael
|
|
$600
[13]
105/x = blackjack!
5
Colby
|
$600
[19]
The fame of this scout was spread by a Harper's article that went "Wild" over his "exquisite manly proportions"
Wild Bill Hickok
Michael
|
$600
[4]
The golf tourney was a success despite the trampling incident: despite
a preposition
Kate
|
$600
[21]
In a Monty Python film, the test for identifying one of these is whether she weighs as much as a duck
a witch
Kate
|
$600
[29]
"Family Guy" (the voice of Meg), "That '70s Show" (Jackie)
(Mila) Kunis
Colby
|
$600
[8]
This fraternal funnyman quipped, "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"
Groucho Marx
Michael
|
|
$800
[14]
20 - x = days in a fortnight
6
Kate
|
$800
[16]
August von Hofmann discovered this fluid; 25 years later it could have been used to embalm him
formaldehyde
Michael
|
$800
[5]
Which of these Lederhosen brings out my eyes?: which
a pronoun
Kate
|
$800
[22]
Lichens provide the coloring for this, also a term for a crucial, revealing test
a litmus test
Michael
|
$800
[28]
"Arrested Development" (Michael Bluth), "Valerie's Family" (David Hogan)
(Jason) Bateman
Colby
|
$800
[9]
This comic deadpanned, "I stayed up one night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house & 4 people died"
(Steven) Wright
Colby
|
|
$1,000
[15]
30 + x = Douglas Adams' ultimate answer to...well, everything
12
Colby
Michael
|
DD
$1,000
[26]
She wed a doomed physician suffering from alcoholism, perhaps contributing to her violent hatred of booze
Carrie Nation
Colby
|
$1,000
[6]
Neither rain nor snow nor sleet shall keep me from my appointed rounds, but locusts? I'm out: nor
a conjunction
Kate
|
$1,000
[23]
Testing of blood serum helps diagnose this tick-borne ailment named for a range of peaks
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Kate
Michael
|
$1,000
[30]
"Homicide" (Detective Frank Pembleton), "Last Resort" (Captain Marcus Chaplin)
(Andre) Braugher
Michael
|
$1,000
[10]
Noel Coward punned in a telegram: "Coughing myself into a" this, the Italian name for Florence
Firenze
Kate
|
| HERB & SPICE HISTORY | CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES | AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN | "PRO"s & "CON"s | GEOLOGY | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES |
|
$400
[20]
Today we pick this leaf of the laurel tree out of our food, but legend says oracles chewed it to promote visions
the bay leaf
Kate
|
$400
[4]
Producer/director Garry & comic actress/director Penny
Marshall
Colby
|
$400
[6]
Many Mediterranean cruises embark from this second-largest Spanish city & major port
Barcelona
Michael
|
$400
[3]
This working model of a new product is usually built to full scale
a prototype
Colby
|
$400
[2]
For the metal nickel, the mineral pentlandite is a major one of these sources
an ore
Michael
|
$400
[1]
In a nature poem Whittier rhymed, "The winding water's sounding rush, the long note of" this bird
a thrush
Colby
|
|
$800
[21]
19th century English pubs had containers of this spice from a root so that patrons could shake it into their ale
ginger
Colby
|
$800
[5]
Actors Dennis & Randy
Quaid
Kate
|
$800
[16]
The deepest part of the Mediterranean, over 16,000 feet, is just south of this country, in the Ionian Basin
Greece
Kate
Michael
|
$800
[7]
From the Latin for "to know", it's a person with expert knowledge or training
connoisseur
|
$800
[12]
This commonest coarse-grained plutonic rock is desirable for countertops
granite
Michael
|
$800
[24]
When this biblical king spares an ant hill, the Queen of Sheba realizes she knows "the secret of thy worth and wisdom"
Solomon
Colby
|
|
$1,200
[26]
To show remorse after murdering his wife, Nero may have burned a year's supply of this spice that comes in quills
cinnamon
Kate
|
$1,200
[11]
Tennis champs John & Patrick
McEnroe
Michael
|
$1,200
[17]
You'll need a passport to gamble in the 149-year-old "Casino de" this location; locals aren't allowed
Monte Carlo
Colby
|
$1,200
[8]
In Marxist theory, members of this class of workers have no capital or property & must sell their labor to survive
the proletariat
Kate
|
$1,600
[14]
In geology it's a type of erosion; in business it's reducing staff without layoffs
attrition
|
$1,200
[25]
In "Snow-Bound" Whittier was "content to let" this "roar in baffled rage at pane and door"
the (north) wind
Kate
|
|
$1,600
[27]
It was suggested in 1602 that this pod spice, then used in a drink with cacao beans, could be used alone as a flavoring
vanilla
Kate
|
$1,600
[22]
Julianne & Derek, of "Dancing with the Stars" fame
Hough
|
$1,600
[18]
Rising above the Mediterranean coast are these mountains that form the backbone of Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia
the Atlas Mountains
Michael
|
$1,600
[9]
Smuggled goods
contraband
Colby
|
$2,000
[15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) New York State uses 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas a year; there may be 500 trillion cubic feet within this underground shale formation named for a village near Syracuse
the Marcellus Shale
|
$1,600
[29]
Completes the line Whittier gave Barbara Frietchie: "Shoot, if you must this old grey head, but spare your country's..."
flag
Kate
|
|
$2,000
[28]
Jesus mentioned "mint and anise and" this spice used in chili powder & curry powder
cumin
Kate
Michael
|
$2,000
[23]
Celebrity offspring Kelly & Jack
Osbourne
Colby
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
Balzac described it as "a French island basking in the Italian sun"
Corsica
Michael
|
$2,000
[10]
A poetic image with an outlandish comparison
conceit
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
Naturally, plenty of coal was formed in this geologic period, 360 million to 300 million B.C.
the Carboniferous Period
Michael
|
$2,000
[30]
"Thou hast nerved the Afric's hand", wrote Whittier in a poem to this abolitionist who published The Liberator
Garrison
Kate
|
Amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million Kindle e-books
Stieg Larsson