2013 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 2.
Kati Sorenson — a reading teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
Mary Beth Hammerstrom — a high school social studies teacher from Anchorage, Alaska
Patrick Dillon — an elementary music teacher from Huntington, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick | $2,600 | $8,000 | $19,200 |
$26,702
Automatic semifinalist |
$18,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Mary Beth | $2,000 | $2,600 | $15,200 |
$20,000
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$15,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kati | $1,600 | $2,800 | $4,400 |
$399
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$4,400
8 R, 1 W |
| GOING EMILY POST‑AL | NOVELS BY CHARACTER | NUMBER, PLEASE | THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! | 8-LETTER WORDS | THE RACE IS TO THE STRONG |
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$200
[6]
The newest edition of "Emily Post's Etiquette" has the helpful table-setting reminder "FOrKS", the K & S being these
knives & spoons
Patrick
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$200
[1]
Countess Trifaldi, Dona Rodriguez, Dulcinea
Don Quixote
Patrick
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$200
[11]
In musical slang this number refers to a piano
88
Mary Beth
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$200
[13]
Before she was Russian empress, she wanted serfs freed; after, not so much, enslaving previously free Ukrainians, too
Catherine the Great
Mary Beth
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$200
[18]
To leave one's country of origin in order to live in another
emigrate
Mary Beth
|
$200
[23]
Endurance is key at the Iron Man World Championshipin Kona, a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike race & a marathon of this many miles
26.2
Mary Beth
|
|
$400
[7]
When a man & a woman are sharing one of these, the one who holds it is the one who's taller
an umbrella
Mary Beth
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$400
[2]
Miles Archer, Miss Wonderly, Sam Spade
The Maltese Falcon
Patrick
|
$400
[12]
Number of permanent members of the U.N. Security Council
five
Patrick
|
$400
[14]
The full name of this 1963 event in U.S. history included the concluding part, "for Jobs and Freedom"
the March on Washington
Mary Beth
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$400
[19]
On a college campus, Delta Sigma Theta or Alpha Kappa Alpha, for example
sorority
Kati
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$400
[24]
You'll need water bad in the Badwater Ultramarathon from this low spot to over 8,000' up Mount Whitney
Death Valley
Mary Beth
|
|
$600
[8]
A letter to a male president should begin "Dear Mr. President"; to a female president, this way
Dear Madam President
Patrick
|
$600
[3]
Noah Joad, Jim Casy, Rose of Sharon
The Grapes of Wrath
Kati
|
$600
[21]
A superfecta at Saratoga involves correctly guessing this number of horses in order of finish
four
Mary Beth
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$600
[15]
In the 20s B.C., after Octavian took this imperial name, he established the Praetorian Guard to guard his body
Caesar Augustus
Mary Beth
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$600
[20]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a video of a pool table.) The ability to give a cue ball this particular type of English reverses its forward momentum to set it up for the next shot
backspin
Patrick
|
$600
[25]
The 4 deserts ultramarathon races are held in the Gobi, Sahara, Antarctica & this other desert that begins & ends in "A"
the Atacama Desert
Patrick
|
|
$800
[9]
In an e-mail, doing this is "the equivalent of shouting"
using caps locks
Patrick
|
$800
[4]
Sir Kay, Hank Morgan, Merlin the Magician
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mary Beth
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$800
[22]
Number of hertz in a gigahertz
a billion
Mary Beth
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$800
[16]
In 1779 all the states except Maryland, which had some land issues, had ratified this precursor to the Constitution
the Articles of the Confederation
Kati
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$800
[28]
From the Greek for "beloved of all", it's a small paper booklet handed out at meetings & rallies
a pamphlet
Mary Beth
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$800
[26]
The 2013 Race Across America started cyclists in Oceanside, Calif. & had them pedal to this state capital on Chesapeake Bay
Annapolis
Patrick
Mary Beth
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|
$1,000
[10]
Never wear black, advised Emily Post to those coming out into society as these
debutantes
Kati
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$1,000
[5]
Billy Bibbit, Candy, The Big Nurse
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mary Beth
|
DD
$1,400
[27]
Total cups in a gallon
16
Patrick
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$1,000
[17]
Britannica, on the Battle of this, as the Yorkists faded: "Richard, preferring death, was unhorsed and killed in the bog"
the Battle of Bosworth Field
Patrick
|
$1,000
[29]
A babushka is this kind of headwear that sounds like it's followed by "Bless you!"
a kerchief
Patrick
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$1,000
[30]
The brutal Barkley Marathons came to be after news of this assassin covering only 8 mi. after fleeing a Tenn. prison in 1977
James Earl Ray
|
| YOUR MYTHIC ABCs | TEACHING THE TEACHERS | QUOTABLE QUOTES | VOLCANOES | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS | CROSSWORD CLUES "F" |
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$400
[2]
A:Human sacrifices were made to this Greek god of war
Ares
Patrick
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$400
[21]
In the late 1800s this Lower Manhattan university founded the USA's first graduate program in education
NYU
Patrick
|
$400
[1]
The first words he spoke on the telephone were "Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you"
(Alexander Graham) Bell
Patrick
|
$400
[11]
The Emerald Lakes on this country's North Island get their color from minerals from eruptions of Mount Tongariro
New Zealand
Mary Beth
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$400
[16]
In "The Raven" a serial killer is inspired by the works of this author played by John Cusack
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Mary Beth
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$400
[26]
Police pat-down(5)
frisk
Kati
|
|
$800
[3]
C:The son of Venus & Mercury, he falls for Psyche after accidentally wounding himself
Cupid
Kati
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$800
[22]
In 2013 several states scrambled to train teachers in this new alliterative set of K-12 standards
the Common Core State Standards
Mary Beth
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$800
[7]
Following the 1992 L.A. riots, he asked, "Can we all get along?"
Rodney King
Mary Beth
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$800
[12]
Some scientists believe that this civilization on Crete ended with the eruption of the volcano Thera around 1500 B.C.
the Minoan civilization
Patrick
|
$800
[17]
Opposite Toby Jones as Truman Capote, Sandra Bullock played this author, famed for her sole novel
Harper Lee
Patrick
|
$800
[27]
Easily ignited(9)
flammable
Kati
|
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
C:This Greek sea monster is the personification of whirlpools
Charybdis
Mary Beth
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$1,200
[23]
The U.S. News No. 1-ranked education grad school is the Peabody School at this Nashville university
Vanderbilt
Kati
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$1,200
[8]
In 2005 he urged Stanford's graduating class, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life"
Steve Jobs
Mary Beth
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$1,200
[13]
This volcano on Hawaii's Big Island means "spewing" in the local language & it's been spewing continuously since 1983
Kilauea
Patrick
Mary Beth
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$1,200
[18]
In "Misery" this actress gives novelist James Caan the agony of da feet
Kathy Bates
Mary Beth
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$1,200
[28]
Surgical mug makeover(8)
facelift
Mary Beth
|
|
$1,200
[4]
B:This Norse god is killed when a sprig of mistletoe is thrown at him
Balder
Mary Beth
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$1,600
[24]
An Illinois town bears this not-out-of-the-ordinary old name for a school for teachers
Normal
Mary Beth
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
At the Brandenburg Gate in 1987, President Reagan gave "Mr. Gorbachev" this 4-word challenge
"Tear down this wall"
Mary Beth
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$1,600
[14]
Mount Agung on this Indonesian island is sacred to the Hindu, & every temple has a shrine dedicated to its spirit
Bali
|
$1,600
[19]
Everyone nose this actress wasn't afraid to play Virginia Woolf in "The Hours"
Nicole Kidman
Patrick
|
$1,600
[29]
Happening once every 2 weeks(11)
fortnightly
Mary Beth
Kati
|
|
$2,000
[6]
B:The son of the god of fertility, he was the sun god of the Canaanites & Phoenicians
Baal
Patrick
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$2,000
[25]
In 1904 this thinker said teaching was shamefully the last vocation "to recognize the need of... professional preparation"
John Dewey
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$2,000
[10]
In April 1970 this mission commander informed "Houston, we've had a problem"
(Jim) Lovell
Patrick
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$2,000
[15]
Thisvolcano near Mexico City started venting again in 2013
Popocatépetl
|
$2,000
[20]
Chris O'Donnell was "In Love and War" as a young version of this U.S. novelist who falls for a nurse in WWI
Hemingway
Patrick
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$2,000
[30]
One who hawks(8)
falconer
Patrick
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In 1802, 3 years after it was discovered, it was moved to London under the terms of the surrender of Alexandria
the Rosetta Stone