Show #6715 2013-11-22 (taped 2013-10-23) Teachers Tournament

2013 Teachers Tournament final game 2.

Contestants

John Pearson — a 4th grade math teacher from Richardson, Texas (subtotal of $15,200)

Becky Giardina — a 7th grade social studies teacher from Martinez, Georgia (subtotal of $0)

Mary Beth Hammerstrom — a high school social studies teacher from Anchorage, Alaska (subtotal of $11,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mary Beth	$0	$1,600	$10,800	$21,600	$10,400 14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Becky	$1,400	$4,000	$8,000	$0	$8,000 11 R, 0 W
John	$1,200	$4,800	$18,200	$18,200	$21,200 28 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY CLASS	STAR BUCKS	TIME"LY" WORDS	THE KOREAN WAR	USER NAME	PASSWORD
$200 [3] This river ends its 2,300-mile course just above St. Louis the Missouri John	$200 [12] This goofy cartoon moose often said, "Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat" Bullwinkle Becky	$200 [17] Every 3,600 seconds hourly John	$200 [1] General Douglas MacArthur led the forces in support of South Korea until this president fired him in April 1951 Truman John	$200 [26] During a baseball game, the player who typically wears a chest-protecting pad the catcher John	$200 [2] One of the earliest accounts of the use of passwords is by Polybius, describing their use by this army around 150 B.C. the Roman army Mary Beth John
$400 [4] This Scandinavian city built on 14 islands is nicknamed the "Venice of the North" Stockholm Mary Beth	$400 [13] This young stag locks horns with a rival to fight successfully for Faline's affection Bambi John	$400 [18] Time for the worm-catching bird early Mary Beth	$400 [8] U.S. General "Rosie" O'Donnell commanded operations of B-29s, this type of plane a bomber Becky	$400 [27] Alan Gilbert & Valery Gergiev are 2 of these baton users conductors Becky	$400 [22] "Open sesame!" cried this man, & the hidden cave of the 40 thieves opened to him Ali Baba Mary Beth John
$600 [5] The smallest & shallowest of the world's 5 oceans is this one the Arctic John	$600 [14] Robert May was inspired by the Ugly Duckling & the way he'd been teased as a kid to create this Christmas misfit Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Becky	$600 [19] It's the "F" before "AQ" frequently John	$600 [9] The forces of this organization were Korean & American, supplemented by troops from 15 other countries the United Nations Mary Beth	$600 [28] In a 1949 comic book & a 1978 movie, he uses a chunk of kryptonite to mess with Superman Lex Luthor Becky	$600 [23] In "Horse Feathers", this man uses the password "swordfish" to get into a speakeasy Groucho Marx John
$800 [6] This 1,200-mile-long system of mountain ranges is home to the Barbary ground squirrel the Atlas Mountains Becky	$800 [15] In "The Pioneers", one of these "Tales", James Fenimore Cooper wrote that a buck "darted like a meteor" The Leatherstocking Tales Mary Beth	$800 [20] The Greek speirein, to scatter or sow, is related to this synonym for "irregularly" that also starts with "sp" sporadically John	DD $800 [10] "War's End Near" said a jubilant U.S. headline on the capture of this metropolis October 19, 1950 Pyongyang Mary Beth	$800 [29] In an operating room, this specialist uses a continuous flow Boyle's machine the anesthesiologist Mary Beth	$800 [24] When Bill Clinton went digital, he chose this name of his dog as his password Buddy John
$1,000 [7] The city of Chiang Mai in this country is home to Baan Chang Elephant Park Thailand Mary Beth	$1,000 [16] Jody's companion is a fawn named Flag in this novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling Becky	$1,000 [21] It can mean "soon" or "in a rude or curt manner" shortly	$1,000 [11] Protecting hydropower on this river was one reason China crossed it & entered the war in late 1950 Yalu River Mary Beth	$1,000 [30] Man was no longer the one tool-using animal when in 1960 a chimp named David was observed using twigs to fish for these to snack on termites John	$1,000 [25] The first computers to use passwords was probably this New England university's CTSS computer in the 1960s MIT John

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY OPENINGS	EARTH BLANKS	AP FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR	THE SHORT VERSION	ANATOMY	THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
$400 [2] Dickens:"Marley was dead: to begin with" A Christmas Carol John	$400 [12] April 22:Earth ____ Day Becky	$400 [22] 1987:Jackie Joyner-Kersee;1988:This sister-in-law Flo-Jo John	$400 [17] A military rank:LT lieutenant Mary Beth	$400 [7] The 2 lower chambers of the heart are the left & right these ventricles John	$400 [1] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.) Wanting to get away from the typical rectangular art gallery, this architect designed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as aspiralthat recalled a nautilus shell Frank Lloyd Wright Becky
$800 [3] Virgil:"I sing of arms and the man, he who, exiled by fate, first came from the coast of Troy to Italy" the Aeneid John	$800 [13] David Attenborough BBC series:"____ Earth" Planet Mary Beth	$800 [23] 2012:This African-American gymnast Gabby Douglas Mary Beth John	$800 [18] A measure of image quality on paper:DPI dots per inch John	$800 [8] The calcaneus is the bone that makes up this part of the foot the heel John	$1,200 [27] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.) In 1932, Marcel Duchamp coined the name "mobile" for this man's work, which constantly moves, changing its composition (Alexander) Calder Mary Beth
$1,200 [4] Huxley:"A squat grey building of only 34 stories. Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery" Brave New World John	$1,200 [14] Funky Philip Bailey group:Earth, ____ & ____ Wind & Fire John	$1,200 [24] 2003, 2004, 2005:This Swedish golfer Annika Sorenstam John	$1,200 [19] Part of many companies:HR Human Resources John	$1,200 [9] This bone of the forearm shares its name with a geometry term the radius John	$1,600 [28] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.) One of the first purely abstract painters, this Russian artist usedlines, colors, & shapesas a visible language, much like the language of music, to evoke emotions Kandinsky Mary Beth
$1,600 [5] King:"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" The Dark Tower John	$1,600 [15] Lanthanum is one:____-earth element rare Becky	$1,600 [25] 1932, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 & 1954:Her Babe Didrikson Mary Beth John	$1,600 [20] On the clock in Colorado:MDT Mountain Daylight Time Mary Beth Becky	$2,000 [11] Running from the back of the thigh to the foot, this nerve can be a real pain in the butt (& the leg) the sciatic Mary Beth	DD $2,000 [26] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.) Jean Arp turned toabstractionas a founding member of this movement that rejected traditional values & embraced chance, even in how its name was supposedly chosen randomly from the dictionary Dada Mary Beth
$2,000 [6] Gibson:"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" Neuromancer John	$2,000 [16] 1982 Hubbard tale:"____ Earth" Battlefield John	$2,000 [30] 1951, 1952, 1953:This tennis great nicknamed "Little Mo" Maureen Connolly	$2,000 [21] A Bible book:PHM Philemon John	DD $3,000 [10] Your tear glands are an example of this type of gland that secretes fluid through a duct & not directly into the bloodstream an exocrine gland John	$2,000 [29] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.) Believing in an underlying mathematical structure of the universe, this Dutch painter tried to replicate the harmony of the cosmos, using juststraight lines, right angles, primary colors & black & white (Piet) Mondrian Mary Beth

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRY NAMES

In England in 1933, Choudhry Rahmat Ali coined this name, a country that wouldn't be formed until 14 years later

Pakistan

Becky "What is Israel?" — wagered $8,000

Mary Beth "What is Pakistan?" — wagered $10,800

John "What is I Love You, Drew!" — wagered $0

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