Show #6711 2013-11-18 (taped 2013-10-23) Teachers Tournament

2013 Teachers Tournament semifinal game 1.

Contestants

Katie Moriarty — a 5th grade teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio

Timothy Shuker-Haines — a high school history teacher from Williamstown, Massachusetts

John Pearson — a 4th grade math teacher from Richardson, Texas

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
John	$3,400	$4,800	$8,700	$500 Finalist	$10,600 20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Timothy	$200	$400	$8,400	$0 2nd place: $10,000	$8,000 13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Katie	$2,200	$4,400	$4,800	$0 3rd place: $10,000	$4,800 11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

PLACES	PEOPLE	THINGS	"OH"	ONE MORE ITEM	NUCLEAR PHYSICS
$200 [22] The Gobi Desert covers about 500,000 square miles of northeast China & the southern part of this nation Mongolia John Timothy	$200 [7] People noted, "They were partying like it was 1999 at... Carnegie Hall for a concert celebrating the music of" him Prince Timothy	$200 [12] That little square or triangular flag on a sailboat's mast indicates the direction of this the wind John	$200 [1] This title comes from the Egyptian for "great house" pharaoh John	$200 [17] Winning standard poker hands: 4 of a kind, straight flush, this highest one a royal flush John	$200 [6] You get a "C" for knowing the decay of isotopes of this element helps determine the age of very old plants carbon Katie
$400 [23] Santo Domingo, a world capital, is on this island Hispaniola	$400 [8] People named this movie star & goop.com provider the "World's Most Beautiful Woman" Gwyneth Paltrow Timothy	$400 [27] It's the circle just off the baseball diamond where the next batter warms up the on-deck circle Timothy Katie	$600 [3] Scripts for "The Simpsons" specified "annoyed grunt", but the voice actor spoke this interjection D'oh! Timothy	$400 [18] Next in song: "Twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping..." ten lords a-leaping John	$400 [13] Ionization energy is the amount of energy required to remove one of these from an atom an electron John
$600 [24] In biblical times, caravans stopped at Capernaum, Israel to stock up on fish from this nearby lake the Sea of Galilee Timothy	$600 [9] Unimpressed with Season 5's start of this Edie Falco medical drama, people said, "Stick out your tongue and say blah" Nurse Jackie Katie	$600 [28] It joins 2 railroad cars & sounds like it's trying to set people up on dates a coupler John	$800 [4] It's a scale of hardness used in mineralogy Mohs John	$600 [19] On the list of Canadian prime ministers, hecomes after Jean Chretien & Paul Martin Stephen Harper	$600 [14] The Van de Graaff generator is a type of this, just like the Large Hadron Collider a particle accelerator Katie
$800 [25] Most of this peninsula is an autonomous republic of Ukraine the Crimean Peninsula John	$800 [10] Her "shocking confession": Frank Sinatra, not Woody Allen, may have fathered her son Ronan Mia Farrow Katie	$800 [29] Pedal-equipped conveyance that's the specialty of circusdom's King Charles Troupe a unicycle John	DD $1,000 [2] This Czech region gave us a name for artistic people who live by unconventional standards Bohemia John	$800 [20] In a Bloody Mary: vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, this Lea & Perrins product Worcestershire sauce Katie	$800 [15] The strong force binds these subatomic particles into protons & neutrons quarks John
$1,000 [26] It's the capital city that's home to Simon Bolivar's tomb Caracas John	$1,000 [11] In 2013 people reported "the new YouTube sensation" was "doing" this dance; "R.I.P. Gangnam Style!" the Harlem Shake Timothy	$1,000 [30] The large valve used to control wellbore fluids on oil rigs is this "preventer"; the Astros could have used one a blowout preventer Katie	$1,000 [5] Some women treat hot flashes with a member of the buttercup family called black this black cohosh	$1,000 [21] Also known as pygmy chimp, itfollows gorilla, orangutan & chimp to complete the great apes a bonobo Timothy	$1,000 [16] An E.M.P. or electromagnetic this was first noticed in the U.S. when electronics quit working after nuclear tests a pulse John

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHORT STORIES	THE PRODUCERS	MORE THAN ONE MEANING	OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS	EVERYBODY MUST GET BIRTHSTONES	AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK
$400 [3] Inspired by the "Decameron", "Les cent nouvelles nouvelles" was a 15th century collection of this many tales 100 John Timothy	$400 [16] "My Fair Lady","Gold Diggers of 1933"--Jack of these brothers Warner Timothy	$400 [1] Really gnarly, or a group of 12 dozen gross Katie	$400 [26] In "The Nutcracker ", this fairy rules the kingdom of the sweets the Sugar Plum Fairy John	$400 [21] July:Like Dorothy's slippers ruby Katie	$400 [11] An analyst said, "We've never seen this before", as Kennedy dealt with the situation in this country in October of 1962 Cuba Timothy
$800 [7] Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" of this village leaves his wife, Faith, to a attend a witches' Sabbath Salem John	$800 [17] "Easy Rider" (Peter) Fonda John Timothy	$800 [2] A long spear, a freshwater fish, or a diving position a pike John	$800 [27] Wotan's favorite daughter in "Die Walkure", her battle cry is "Ho-yo-to-ho" Brünnhilde John	$800 [22] May:Like Dorothy's destination city emerald John	$800 [12] CaptainJFKswam three miles while towing an injured crewman to shore after the August 2, 1943, sinking of this boat the PT-109 John
$1,600 [9] "Dance of the Happy Shades" is the title story of the first book by this Canadian woman who won a 2013 Nobel Prize Alice Munro Timothy	$1,200 [18] "Prince of Persia","Top Gun" Jerry Bruckheimer	$1,200 [4] A burst of applause, maybe because of meaning 2, a drink for everyone a round	$1,200 [28] The heroine of a Beethoven opera disguises herself as this title boy in order to rescue her imprisoned husband Fidelio Timothy	$1,200 [23] April:A 726-carat one was found in 1934 diamond Katie	$1,200 [13] On September 12, 1953, in front of 750 guests at mass & 450 more at the reception, JFK & Jackie wed in this Rhode Island resort city Newport Timothy
$2,000 [10] In 1876 Edward Everett Hale wrote a novelette, "Philip Nolan's Friends", to complement this 1863 short story "The Man Without a Country"	$1,600 [19] "Knocked Up","Superbad" (Judd) Apatow John	DD $2,000 [5] Polite & friendly, or any of various liqueurs cordial Timothy	$1,600 [29] In return for its freedom, it gives prince Ivan a brilliant red feather; he only need wave it & it will come to his aid the Firebird Timothy	$1,600 [24] September:Precious New York Times columnist William sapphire John	$1,600 [14] Hereis JFK on May 12, 1963, having sent 3,000 federal troops to this Alabama city to keep the peace Birmingham John Katie
DD $2,500 [8] "Bow Wow" & "A Bit of a Shock", 2 of John O'Hara's stories about Joey Evans, were the basis for this 1940 musical Pal Joey John	$2,000 [20] "Grand Theft Auto","Teenage Caveman", dozens more Roger Corman	$2,000 [6] Strictly accurate, or to demand, as a payment exact	—	$2,000 [25] January:Itscolor is one of the school colors of Florida State University garnet Katie	$2,000 [15] During his 1946 run for Congress, theskinnyJFKalready suffered from this disease of adrenal insufficiency Addison's Disease Katie

Final Jeopardy!

BUILDINGS

Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for this building on October 13, 1932 & got to work in it for about 6 years

the U.S. Supreme Court Building

Katie "What is the Flatiron Bldg?" — wagered $4,800

Timothy "What is the Empire State Building" — wagered $8,400

John "What is the Empire State Building?" — wagered $8,200

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