2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 1.
Chris Tempro — a 9th grade math teacher from Allentown, Pennsylvania
Dianne Lee — a 4th grade language arts teacher from Savannah, Georgia
Lauren Gilmore — a high school history teacher from Lake Wales, Florida
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lauren | $1,800 | $4,400 | $9,200 |
$11,000
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$9,200
17 R, 3 W |
| Dianne | $200 | $200 | $2,600 |
$100
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$4,600
6 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chris | $4,400 | $6,000 | $12,400 |
$18,401
Automatic semifinalist |
$17,400
22 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| IT'S ABOUT TIME | SHOES A TO Z | NAME THAT SPORT | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE | THE HOT SEAT | FURNITURE METAPHORS |
|
$200
[1]
P.M. is short for "post meridiem" & A.M. is short for "ante meridiem", meaning "after" & "before" this time
noon
Chris
|
$200
[6]
A:This sneaker brand has a Pharrell Williams Collection
Adidas
Lauren
|
$200
[11]
Apron, divot, bunker
golf
Chris
|
$200
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the periodic table on the monitor.)Alkaline metals, which include lithium & sodium, are so named because when they react with water, they form strong these that neutralize acids
bases
Lauren
|
$200
[21]
On March 5, 1861 Simon Cameron was appointed U.S. Secretary of this; he'd soon have quite a bit to do
Secretary of War
Lauren
|
$200
[17]
Literally or metaphorically, what you're on if you're being psychoanalyzed
a couch
Lauren
|
|
$400
[2]
We really, really like this term for the increase in value of a real estate property over time
appreciation
Chris
|
$400
[7]
P:The logo of this brand is seen here
Puma
Chris
|
$400
[12]
Colors, handicap, backstretch
horse racing
Dianne
|
$400
[27]
The heaviest noble gas in nature, it can be very dangerous if allowed to go unchecked in basements
radon
Chris
|
$400
[22]
Paul Volcker was named chairman of the Fed in 1979 with the mandate to control this, then at a whopping 13%
inflation
Chris
|
$400
[18]
When a baseball player is inactive, he's said to be "riding the pine", the pine being this
the bench
Lauren
|
|
$600
[3]
2-word beverage term for a short period of rest at work; What? It's over already?
a coffee break
Lauren
|
$600
[8]
Z:This dance-fitness workout offers its own line of shoes
Zumba
Chris
|
$600
[13]
Assist, dig, spike
volleyball
Dianne
|
$600
[28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows the periodic table on the monitor.) Elements on the periodic table are arranged byatomic number, which is the number of these in the nucleus
protons
Lauren
|
$600
[23]
Fortune's list of CEOs on the hot seat in 2016 included the bosses of this Mexican casual dining chain
Chipotle
Chris
|
$600
[16]
It's the common furniture-based expression meaning "you have to live with the consequences of what you do"
"You make your bed, you lie in it"
Chris
|
|
$800
[4]
Don't wait until tomorrow to tell me this word, Spanish for "tomorrow"
mañana
Lauren
|
$800
[9]
T:Take a hike with this brand whose logo is seen here
Timberland
Lauren
Dianne
Chris
|
$800
[14]
Low post, downtown, lane
basketball
Chris
|
$800
[29]
1 of 2 elements named for scientists & identified in debris from the first hydrogen bomb explosion
einsteinium (or fermium)
Chris
|
$800
[24]
This Russki's seat got hotter after the Cuban Missile Crisis, & he was out of power in 2 years
Khrushchev
Chris
|
$800
[20]
At the 2012 Republican convention, Clint Eastwood used this visual metaphor for the Obama presidency
an empty chair
Chris
|
|
$1,000
[5]
A movie showing an 18th c. pirate checking his email is an example of this, from Greek for "against time"
anachronism
Chris
|
$1,000
[10]
G:This Italian brand is famed for its horsebit loafers
Gucci
|
$1,000
[15]
Fletching, nock, bracer
archery
Lauren
|
DD
$3,000
[30]
Turkish ruins have revealed a "gate to hell" termed this, also the name of a periodic table element
plutonium
Chris
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1941 Abe Reles took a witness seat & testified against this "Inc."; Abe then fell from a window while in police custody
Murder, Inc.
Chris
|
$1,000
[19]
Someone who thinks he can do better than the pros is this piece of furniture "detective" or "quarterback"
armchair
Lauren
|
| DETENTION IN LITERATURE | PRODUCE THE PRODUCE | AFRICANA | SONG LYRICS | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS | JUST "D.M." ME |
|
$400
[1]
Cold Mountain Penitentiary houses many killers in this Stephen King book, & most have a date with "Old Sparky"
The Green Mile
Lauren
|
$400
[6]
Crookneck &butternut
squash
Lauren
|
$400
[25]
Its many large bodies of water give this region of Africa the same name as part of the USA's Upper Midwest
the Great Lakes region
Chris
|
$400
[20]
"I used to rule the world", sings Chris Martin on this No. 1 hit by Coldplay
"Viva La Vida"
Lauren
|
$400
[14]
No wonder, with the headwear seen here, that the first British prime minister, Robert Walpole, led this party
the Whigs
Dianne
|
$400
[11]
This component of the universe is detected by its gravitational pull rather than by its luminosity
dark matter
|
|
$800
[2]
Due to a tattoo, Devil's Island prisoner Henri Charriere was called this, also the title of a book he wrote
Papillon
Lauren
Chris
|
$800
[7]
Pippin &pink lady
an apple
Dianne
|
$800
[26]
Botswana's Orapa Mine in this desert produces about 11 million carats of diamonds annually
the Kalahari
Chris
|
$800
[21]
In this song Beyonce chastised, "If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it"
"Single Ladies"
Lauren
|
$800
[15]
In 2015 he apologized for "mistakes in planning" but found it hard to apologize "for removing Saddam"
Tony Blair
Chris
|
$800
[12]
The cedilla & the tilde are examples of these
diacritical marks
|
|
$1,200
[3]
While researching "Seabiscuit", Laura Hillenbrand kept finding stories about P.O.W. Louis Zamperini, so she wrote this book
Unbroken
Dianne
|
$1,200
[8]
Crenshaw &casaba
melons
Chris
|
$1,600
[28]
In 2015 Abdel al-Sisi became the first Egyptian president to attend this religious group's Christmas mass
Coptic Christianity
Lauren
|
$1,200
[24]
Requests from Sam Smith: "I don't want you to leave, will you hold my hand? Oh, won't you" do this title action
"Stay With Me"
|
$1,200
[16]
One of his infamous decisions was signing the Munich Agreement
Neville Chamberlain
|
$1,200
[13]
Projection is this type of unconscious process that protects the mind from unacceptable or painful ideas
defense mechanism
|
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
Detention here is pretty tough--prisoners are guarded by "Dementors" who feed on your positive emotions
Azkaban
Dianne
|
$1,600
[9]
Catawba &red flame
grapes
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
This Tanzanian plain is home to the great annual migration of the wildebeest
the Serengeti
Chris
|
$1,600
[23]
This hit by Billy Ray Cyrus begins, "You can tell the world you never was my girl"
"Achy Breaky Heart"
Chris
|
$1,600
[19]
This guy, the Younger, was prime minister during the French Revolutionary era
William Pitt
|
$1,600
[17]
It's the Saint-Saens piece heard here
"Danse macabre"
Chris
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Alexander Solzhenitsyn called the Soviet prison camps this "Archipelago"
Gulag
Chris
|
$2,000
[10]
Kadota &Smyrna
a fig
Dianne
|
$2,000
[29]
If you visit this capital to see the Mahdi's tomb, know there's no Mahdi; Gen. Kitchener tossed his bones into the Nile
Khartoum
Lauren
|
$2,000
[22]
"This one for them hood girls, them good girls" in this megahit from Mars (& Ronson)
"Uptown Funk"
Lauren
|
$2,000
[30]
Hewas prime minister while JFK was president; thetwobecame friends & were sometimes known as "Mac and Jack"
Harold MacMillan
|
$2,000
[18]
The name of this hard covering of the brain is Latin for "hard mother"
dura mater
Lauren
|
From the Greek for "all views", this word was 1st used to describe a large 1787 painting of Edinburgh by artist Robert Barker
panorama