2015 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 5.
Jay Singleton — a high school government and social studies teacher from Waynesboro, Virginia
Kate La Rivière-Gagner — a fifth and sixth grade teacher from Starksboro, Vermont
Adam Elkana-Hale — a middle school math teacher from St. Louis, Missouri
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
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| Adam | $3,600 | $6,400 | $17,000 |
$18,001
Automatic semifinalist |
$15,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Kate | $1,000 | $2,800 | $9,000 |
$18,000
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$12,000
16 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Jay | $0 | $1,800 | $8,600 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$8,600
13 R, 2 W |
| EUROPE IN LATIN | HOME FURNISHINGS | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS | FROM BOOK TO FILM | AMERICANA | TIME FOR "T" |
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[1]
A river:Rhenus
the Rhine
Kate
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[26]
It's the French name for the cabinet seen here, or for an all-you-can-eat meal
a buffet
Jay
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[21]
In 1890 she was 4 years dead / & her 1st book of poems was read / It was a big hit & such / For a lady who did not get out much
(Emily) Dickinson
Kate
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[11]
"The Sheep-Pig" somehow doesn't seem quite as friendly as this title of the cinema version
Babe
Kate
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[6]
ThisTV show is celebrating its 25th season of bringing us the real-life fun & follies of our nation
America's Funniest Home Videos
Adam
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[16]
These small pincers are used to remove splinters or hair
tweezers
Jay
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[2]
An island:Melita
Malta
Adam
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[27]
In your man cave sit back & relax in one of these chairs that makes you feel kneaded & pummels you in a good way
massage
Jay
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[22]
His "Ode to Psyche" / Had some mad beats / But his love life, oh crikey! / Life was rough for...
(John) Keats
Adam
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[12]
This film with Warren Beatty as a gangster was adapted from "We Only Kill Each Other"
Bugsy
Adam
Jay
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[7]
This weapon named for a frontiersman has also been called the "Arkansas toothpick"
a Bowie knife
Adam
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[17]
It's a newspaper concentrating on lurid news or whose pages are about half the standard size
a tabloid
Jay
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[3]
Part of the United Kingdom:Cambria
Wales
Adam
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[28]
Add some light & color to your room with alampin the style of this glassmaker & designer
Tiffany
Adam
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$600
[23]
I wrote "Kubla Khan" / To give you the word / & did more stuff / Than just about that darned bird!
(Samuel) Coleridge
Jay
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[13]
Charlie Bucket lost top billing when Roald Dahl's popular confectionery tale became this 1970s film
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Kate
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[8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Times Square in New York City.)This man, who became mayor in 1994, is credited with cleaning up Times Square
(Rudy) Giuliani
Jay
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$600
[18]
It's a set of kettledrums that's used in an orchestra
a timpani
Kate
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$800
[4]
A country:Helvetia
Switzerland
Adam
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$800
[29]
Wooden furniture that is simple & without decoration is named for this religious group founded in 1747
the Shakers
Adam
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[24]
Nursing in the Civil War / Was unlike what I did before / I wrote of "my captain" Lincoln / O the tears back I was blinkin'
(Walt) Whitman
Kate
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[14]
Joe Leland became John McClane & "Nothing Lasts Forever" became this action romp
Die Hard
Adam
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[9]
Carroll Shelby had a dream that told him to use the name of this snake on the front of his roadster
a cobra
Adam
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$800
[19]
This plant belongs to the genus Nicotiana
tobacco
Kate
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$1,000
[5]
A country:Lusitania
Portugal
Jay
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[30]
This upholstered dining room chair that sounds perfect for a clergyman guest is named for a school of design
a Parson chair
Kate
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DD
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[25]
My big number is 600 / Somehow I rhymed it with "blunder'd" / As a rhyme, not very cool / But they teach my stuff in school!
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Kate
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[15]
William Peter Blatty's novel "Legion" provided the basis for the third film in this diabolical movie series
The Exorcist
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[10]
Here's a piece of Americana, "Summer Party", by this folk painter
Grandma Moses
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$1,000
[20]
It's the 11-letter word for an excessively fast heartbeat
tachycardia
Adam
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| THE MIDDLE AGES | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME! | 8-LETTER WORDS | OFFICIAL STATE SYMBOLS | REPTILES | NON-BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN |
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[1]
Medieval poems refer to this item as a metaphor for fidelity; despite later lore, no locking ones from the period exist
a chastity belt
Jay
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[11]
Several Kansas schools are named for Dwight Eisenhower, including a middle school in this state capital
Topeka
Kate
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[6]
It indicates an omission, as in "The Case of Lady M*"
an asterisk
Adam
Jay
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[16]
In 2007 Texas adopted this as its official state footware
cowboy boots
Adam
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[26]
In 1992 these 10-foot lizards were hatched for the 1st time outside of Indonesia at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
Komodo dragons
Kate
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[21]
eonline's list of "Hottest Ginger Men" noted this royal was "basically a walking fairy tale"
Prince Harry
Kate
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[2]
In 1187 thirsty crusaders were prevented from reaching the fresh waters of the Sea of Galilee by this Saracen leader
Saladin
Jay
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[12]
This D.C. university bears the last name of the man who founded one of the first U.S. schools for deaf students
Gallaudet
Adam
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[7]
It indicates an omission, as in "Life... and the pursuit of happiness"
an ellipsis
Adam
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[17]
Naturally, it's New York's state fruit
the apple
Kate
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[27]
In 2006 one of these in Steve Irwin's zoo died at around age 176; it was said to have once belonged to Charles Darwin
a tortoise
Kate
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$800
[22]
"The Judge" was Robert Duvall; the actor defending the judge on a murder charge was him
Robert Downey, Jr.
Jay
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[3]
Thisfear some weaponwas introduced to Europe in the 10th or 11th century
a crossbow
Adam
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$1,200
[13]
In 1826, shortly after this French hero's last visit to the U.S., a college in Pennsylvania was named in his honor
Lafayette
Jay
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[8]
An unnaturally high-pitched singing voice
a falsetto
Adam
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[18]
It's Ohio's state tree, as any OSU football player could tell you
a buckeye
Adam
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$1,200
[28]
Among the smallest reptiles is the dwarf this, a type of lizard that can walk on your ceiling
a gecko
Adam
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$1,200
[23]
She's a success as a singer & actress, & we're gonna miss her by her brown hair, gonna miss her everywhere
(Anna) Kendrick
Adam
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[5]
A British ruling dynasty is said to have taken this name from a sprig of broom worn in the cap of the Count of Anjou
Plantagenet
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[14]
A high school for health professions near the Texas Medical Center campus is named for this heart surgeon
Michael DeBakey
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$1,600
[9]
One who makes empty boasts
a braggart
Adam
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DD
$1,400
[20]
Indiana's official state river, it's also in the title of the state song
the Wabash
Kate
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$1,600
[29]
The only species of this toothy beast besides the American is the Chinese, which lives along the Yangtze
an alligator
Adam
Kate
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$1,600
[24]
Tracee, daughter of this Supreme singer, plays Rainbow on the sitcom "Black-ish"
Diana Ross
Kate
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DD
$3,000
[4]
In the craft guilds of the Middle Ages, these craftsmen came between masters & apprentices
journeymen
Adam
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[15]
The Florida schoolshefounded in 1904 later merged with the Cookman Institute & today, the school has university status
(Mary McLeod) Bethune
Jay
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[10]
Be of good "humor" & say this word that means pertaining to glass
vitreous
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[19]
This Alaskan dog beat out the Siberian husky to be Alaska's top dog
the Malamute
Kate
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$2,000
[30]
"Red on yellow, kill a fellow; red on black, venom lack" helps to identify these U.S. snakes
coral snakes
Jay
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$2,000
[25]
A distributor of "A Walk Among the Tombstones" put out a "kill map" of the film mayhem of this actor
Liam Neeson
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After England, more Shakespeare plays are set in this present-day country than in any other
Italy