2016 Teachers Tournament semifinal game 2.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Bill Knuth — a high school special education teacher from East Lansing, Michigan
Jill Gilbert — a middle school English teacher from Des Moines, Iowa
Chris Tempro — a 9th grade math teacher from Allentown, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $2,200 | $4,300 | $9,900 |
$19,800
2nd place: $10,000 |
$9,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Jill | $3,800 | $6,600 | $15,400 |
$19,801
Finalist |
$15,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Bill | $-400 | $0 | $2,400 |
$4,800
3rd place: $10,000 |
$2,400
10 R, 4 W |
| THE NEW TESTAMENT | 2016 STAMPS | "ON" THE MIDDLE | JOBS | GATES | GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY |
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$200
[1]
An angel tells Zacharias to name his son this; "the Baptist" got added later
John
Chris
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$200
[23]
The first Halloween-themed stamps issued by the USPS feature these grinning items
jack-o'-lanterns
Chris
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$200
[6]
Here comes this small North American rabbit of the genus Sylvilagus, hoppin' down the bunny trail
a cottontail
Jill
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$200
[8]
If you guys don't know that Jess Day on "New Girl" is one of these, you'll get a demerit
a teacher
Bill
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$200
[16]
On April 22, 1957, Memphis Doors Incorporated installed the gatesseenhereat this performer's home
Elvis
Chris
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$200
[21]
You can look it up--Susan Wojicicki, employee No. 16 at this search engine company, rented it her garage as its early HQ
Google
Chris
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$400
[2]
In Matthew 14 Jesus walks on the Sea of Galilee & this disciple briefly walks out to meet him
Peter
Jill
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$400
[27]
In February 2016, the Postal Service rang in this lunar holiday with the stamp seen here; the word "monkey" appears in Chinese
Chinese New Year
Chris
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$400
[7]
Body of water smaller than a lake but bigger than a puddle
a pond
Bill
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$400
[9]
On "Nashville" Connie Britton & Hayden Panettiere play competing these
singers
Jill
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$400
[17]
The Propylaea, a large roofed gateway, served as the entrance to the temple complex on this hill in Athens
the Acropolis
Chris
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$400
[22]
"i Woz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon" is the 2006 autobiography of this Apple co-founder
(Steve) Wozniak
Bill
|
|
$600
[3]
The Book of Acts records that Jesus ascended unto heaven from this mount named for the trees on its slopes
the Mount of Olives
Jill
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$600
[28]
Stand & deliver the name of this man honored on astamp& in film for teaching calculus to his inner-city students
Jaime Escalante
|
$600
[13]
A wall bracket for a light
a sconce
Chris
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$600
[10]
On "Curb Your Enthusiasm", Jeff Garlin isn't Larry's agent but rather his this
manager
Chris
Jill
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$800
[19]
To exit this compound onto Red Square, you'll have to go through the red-brick Saviour Gate
the Kremlin
Jill
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$600
[24]
Bobby Murphy was a co-founder of this conversation app once known as Picaboo
Snapchat
|
|
$800
[4]
After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to this woman who at first thought he was a gardener
Mary Magdalene
Jill
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$800
[29]
This natural wonder of the Pacific Northwest, a canyon through the Cascades, is depictedhereon a 2016 stamp
the Columbia River Gorge
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$800
[14]
Type of "reading" that alternates a line by a pastor & by the congregation
responsive
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$800
[11]
Richard Castle on "Castle" hobnobs with the police, but is actually one of these
an author (or writer)
Jill
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$1,000
[20]
In 1870 the Portuguese built a new barrier gate at the border of China & this small colonial possession
Macau
Jill
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$800
[25]
In 2014 co-founder John Zimmer shaved the pink mustaches off the grills of its rides when it began servicing New York City
Lyft
Chris
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|
$1,000
[5]
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for" these people
his friends
Chris
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— |
$1,000
[15]
To scold in a mild manner
admonish
Bill
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$1,000
[12]
On "Friends" Ross was this type of scientist
a paleontologist
Chris
|
DD
$1,500
[18]
In 1989 black steel gates were installed at the entrance to this street to protect Margaret Thatcher from attack
Downing Street
Chris
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$1,000
[26]
Marc Andreessen tweeted, "Marissa Mayer is a hero for taking on the challenge at" this.com!
Yahoo
Jill
|
| LAW FIRMS | TO THE LIGHTHOUSE! | TEACHER VOCABULARY | DOCUMENTARIES | LITERARY POTPOURRI | IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR |
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$400
[24]
Sidley Austin of K Street can help you with this activity of making Congressmen see an issue your way
lobbying
Bill
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$400
[12]
One of the 7 Ancient Wonders, the Pharos of this Egyptian city stood on an island in its harbor
Alexandria
Chris
Jill
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$400
[6]
Also starting with "T", it can mean a private teacher or be a verb meaning to act as one
a tutor
Bill
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$400
[11]
In "Heir to an Execution", Ivy Meeropol explores the truth about her grandparents, this couple, executed in 1953
the Rosenbergs
Bill
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$400
[1]
This writer of "Uncle Vanya" was the grandson of an ex-serf who had purchased his freedom
Chekhov
Jill
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$400
[16]
It was the election yearthephotowas taken
1960
Chris
|
|
$800
[25]
Try Falangetti & Weimortz for your criminal case--they've both been on the other side as deputy these
district attorneys
Chris
Bill
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$800
[13]
The Windward Point Light in Cuba stands on the grounds of this U.S. naval station
Guantánamo
Chris
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$800
[7]
In the U.S. military D.I. is short for "drill" this; now give me 50, you worthless lumps!
instructor
Chris
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$800
[20]
Spike Lee's "4 Little Girls" tells of the 1963 bombing of a Baptist church in this city, claiming 4 lives
Birmingham
Chris
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$800
[2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lake Geneva in Switzerland.) Lake Geneva has long been a place of literary pilgrimage; this writer called it "blue as the heavens" when she lived here with her poet husband, who almost drowned one night on the lake & did drown in Italy a few years later
Mary Shelley
Chris
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$800
[15]
In 1976 this man beat Gerald Ford to win the White House
Jimmy Carter
Jill
|
|
$1,200
[26]
A law firm as well as an individual may file a friend of the court brief, known by this Latin term
an amicus
Jill
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$1,200
[14]
This kingdom's 436-foot Jeddah Light overlooks the Red Sea
Saudi Arabia
Bill
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$1,200
[8]
Mussolini was a demagogue; an educator is this, with the same final 6 letters
pedagogue
Jill
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$1,200
[21]
Documentaries about people with this 6-letter disorder include "Loving Lampposts" & "Normal People Scare Me"
autism
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$1,200
[3]
Gore Vidal feuded with Norman Mailer but admitted that this first Mailer book was the big one among World War II novels
The Naked and the Dead
Bill
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$1,200
[17]
In 1984 Democratic nominee Walter Mondale chose this running mate, a historic selection
Geraldine Ferraro
Bill
|
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$1,600
[27]
Tops for patent litigation per U.S. News & World Report, Fish & Richardson specializes in IP, short for this
intellectual property
Jill
Bill
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— |
$1,600
[9]
Those spectacles & the tweed jacket make you look this adjective, meaning pertaining to a university teacher
professorial
Jill
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$1,600
[22]
"The Times of Harvey Milk" is narrated by this Harvey of stage & screen
Harvey Fierstein
Chris
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$1,600
[4]
Here's a portrait of this author as a young woman; perhaps it was painted in middle March
George Eliot
Chris
Jill
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$1,600
[18]
In 1968 the Democrats held a riotous convention in this city
Chicago
Chris
|
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Vince Foster was once a partner at Rose Law Firm, which claims the title of oldest in this state
Arkansas
Jill
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— |
$2,000
[10]
The same Latin word gives us a synonym for a building & this word for teaching that provides moral uplift
edify
Chris
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$2,000
[23]
This 1975 documentary about recluses Big & Little Edie Beale inspired an HBO movie & a Broadway musical
Grey Gardens
Chris
Jill
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$2,000
[5]
Piscator teaches his friend Venator to bait a hook & catch fish in this 17th century classic
The Compleat Angler
Bill
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$2,000
[19]
It's the year "Smiling Bill" Taft won the White House
1908
Bill
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Seen here in 1942 are the real-life models for this painting
American Gothic