Show #7003 2015-02-11 Teachers Tournament

2015 Teachers Tournament semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Cathy Farrell — a high school science teacher from Wyandotte, Michigan

Mary Bayer — a middle and high school drama teacher from Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Colin O'Grady — a high school English teacher from Alexandria, Virginia

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Colin	$200	$400	$6,400	$4,100 2nd place: $10,000	$8,400 10 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Mary	$3,000	$5,400	$8,600	$0 3rd place: $10,000	$8,600 12 R, 0 W
Cathy	$5,200	$13,400	$16,800	$15,800 Finalist	$18,200 27 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

GENERAL SCIENCE	FASHION	WOODEN PLOTS	TV TEACHERS	HERE'S YOUR REPORT CARD	2 Ds & AN F!
$200 [2] Muscles in this sensory organ include the genioglossus & the hyoglossus the tongue Cathy	$200 [11] This jeans maker's Game Day Dockers come in the colors of your favorite college sports teams Levi's Colin	$200 [26] The wooden title character of Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Fir Tree" becomes this at holiday time a Christmas tree Cathy	$200 [1] We don't see how the unintelligible Miss Othmar taught anything to this "Peanuts" title boy in animated specials Charlie Brown Cathy	$200 [16] On Nov. 29, 1963 ex-CIA head Allen Dulles was appointed to this commission that issued a major report the Warren Commission Cathy	$200 [21] Sight-obscuring execution offering a blindfold
$400 [3] (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the NASA Glenn Research Ctr in Cleveland, OH.) I'm at the Simulated Lunar Operations Facility; NASA re-invented the wheel: a wire wheel with springs molds around rocks & creates better traction with more of this, surface resistance to relative motion friction Cathy	$400 [12] It's the 5-letter name for a fur- or faux fur-trimmed hooded jacket originally worn by Eskimos a parka Mary	$600 [28] This 1987 play begins in a Louisiana beauty parlor on Shelby's wedding day Steel Magnolias Mary	$400 [7] Huffington Post said if you had a science class sub in the '90s, it likely meant watching a VHS of this bow-tied man Bill Nye the Science Guy Cathy	$400 [17] "Houston, we've had a problem" was reported during this 1970 Moon mission Apollo 13 Cathy	$400 [22] Rhyming car collision with minor damage a fender bender Cathy
$600 [4] Newts & this other main group of tailed amphibians make up the order Caudata salamanders Cathy	$600 [13] L.L. Bean says, "From shirts to sheets, we're your... headquarters" for items made of this warm material flannel Colin Cathy	$800 [29] "Dinosaurs Before Dark" is the first book in this series of kids' books by Mary Pope Osborne The Magic Tree House Mary	$600 [8] Trying to cram for this teacher's test, Bart Simpson is told the Pilgrims came over on the Spirit of St. Louis, escaping giant rats Mrs. Krabappel Colin	$600 [18] CBO for short, it churns out reports like "Scorekeeping for Enacted Legislation" the Congressional Budget Office Cathy	$600 [23] Soldiers considered of little value are said to be "cannon" this livestock food fodder Cathy
$800 [5] In 1891 Eugene Dubois found a skullcap of Homo erectus on this Indonesian island Java Cathy	$800 [14] For $60 you can buy a book about this French fashion house's scarves; for $600 you can get a really nice scarf Hermès Mary	$1,000 [30] Based on a 1908 novel, Virginia's official outdoor drama is "The Trail of the Lonesome" this tree Pine Colin	$800 [9] Mr. Turner was Cory Matthews' teacher at John Adams High on this '90s sitcom Boy Meets World Mary	$800 [19] Debuting in 1936, this product-evaluating magazine had 24 black & white pages with, of course, no ads Consumer Reports Colin	$800 [24] Musical job preceding a type of beetle or crab fiddler Cathy
$1,000 [6] This "action" draws liquid up a narrow tube placed vertically in the liquid capillary action Cathy	$1,000 [15] Theseriding breeches named for a city in India are more form-fittingtodaythan they used to be jodhpurs Cathy	DD $4,000 [27] This kids' book opens with Mole "spring-cleaning his little home" The Wind in the Willows Cathy	$1,000 [10] You could say hola to Senor Chang, a Spanish teacher on this NBC sitcom that has since moved its campus to Yahoo! Community Mary	$1,000 [20] Some reports say surveyor Henry Livingston wrote "A Visit from St. Nicholas", not this reputed author (Clement Clarke) Moore Cathy	$1,000 [25] An appliance for removing moisture from the air a dehumidifier Mary

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY	SEAS THE DAY	FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	ON A LAST NAME BASIS	SCULPTURE	SONGS OF WINE & ROSES
$400 [21] African-American History Month is celebrated in this month February Cathy	$400 [16] The sea of Marmara lies wholly within this country, between the Dardanelles & the Bosporus Straits Turkey Colin	$400 [11] Often used as a toast, it's Spanish for "health" salud	$400 [6] A biopic starring Ed Harris as an American drip painter used this last name as its title Pollock Mary	$400 [23] In 1920 Alexander Rodchenko created one of the first of these hanging kinetic sculptures a mobile Cathy	$400 [1] Bobby Vinton naturally followed this statement with "violets are blue" "Roses are red" Mary
$800 [22] Freed slave Richard Allen was the founder & first bishop of the church known by these 3 initials for short AME	$800 [17] The King Haakon VII Sea isn't near Norway but off this continent's Queen Maud Land Antarctica Mary	$800 [12] This Latin phrase literally means "something for something" quid pro quo Cathy	$800 [7] This last name is in the title of an E! series that was first foisted on an unsuspecting public back in 2007 Kardashian Mary	$800 [24] In 2014 a statue of this "Rehab" singer was unveiled at Stables Market in London Amy Winehouse Mary	$800 [2] In "Kiss From A Rose", he sang, "You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain" Seal Cathy
$1,200 [28] Thiscomposer learned the basics of music as a boy in 19th century Texarkana (Scott) Joplin Cathy	$1,200 [18] Instead of traveling around Denmark, ships often use the Kiel Canal to travel between the Baltic & this sea the North Sea Colin	$1,200 [13] French for "one who lives well", it's one who probably enjoys good food & drink bon vivant Cathy	$1,200 [8] An 1856 presidential campaign ribbon paired this last name of Republican John C. "& Freedom" Frémont Cathy	$1,200 [25] The work seenhereis an example of this type of sculpture, in which an image is slightly raised above the surface bas-relief Cathy	$1,200 [3] Just for trying to rhyme "thorn" with "dawn" & "song" in "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", you should know this band Poison Colin
$1,600 [29] Around 1790 Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land that became this city Washington, D.C. Colin	DD $2,000 [19] Both Aussies & Kiwis refer to this sea between their countries as "The Ditch" the Tasman Sea Colin	$2,000 [15] This 2-word Greek phrase means the common people, but it has been improperly used to mean the upper crust of society hoi polloi	$1,600 [9] Last name of Signore Ferruccio, who built a super sports car to compete with Ferrari Lamborghini Colin	$1,600 [26] This Brit's works are on display throughout the U.S., including his "Double Standing Figure" at Vassar College Henry Moore	$1,600 [4] UB40 topped the charts with this boozy hit in 1988 "Red Red Wine" Cathy
$2,000 [30] Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. senator, represented this state, but too late to be Jeff Davis' colleague Mississippi Colin Cathy	$2,000 [20] The southern boundary of this sea is the Strait of Otranto between Italy & Albania the Adriatic Colin	DD $5,000 [14] It's the Italian word for "You're welcome", not "You're with child" prego Cathy	$2,000 [10] The Stooge seenhereused this 4-letter last name Fine	$2,000 [27] This Romanian-born sculptor created 27 works featuring birds, including 16 versions of "Bird in Space" Constantin Brâncuși	$2,000 [5] "Someday you will find me / Caught beneath the landslide / In a champagne super-nova in the sky", warned this band Oasis Colin

Final Jeopardy!

REFERENCE BOOK MAKERS

In 1863 he used the epigraph "I have gathered... other men's flowers, & nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own"

John Bartlett

Colin "Who is Thoreau" — wagered $2,300

Mary "Who is Audubon?" — wagered $8,600

Cathy "Who was Webster?" — wagered $1,000

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