2016 Teachers Tournament final game 1.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Jason Sterlacci — a 6th grade English teacher from Somerset, New Jersey
Jill Gilbert — a middle school English teacher from Des Moines, Iowa
Kaberi Chakrabarty — an elementary bilingual teacher from Joliet, Illinois
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaberi | $2,600 | $4,000 | $9,600 | $4,600 |
$9,600
12 R, 2 W |
| Jill | $1,800 | $6,700 | $11,300 | $10,000 |
$12,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jason | $2,400 | $6,400 | $19,800 | $22,601 |
$18,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS | SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPARDY! | TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW | WEIGHTS & MEASURES | HEY, "MAC" | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS |
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$200
[6]
Geographically, this largest island is actually part of North America
Greenland
Jason
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$200
[16]
"Now is the Jeopardy! of our discontent"
winter
Jason
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$200
[21]
Ethiopia's multi-coloredflagis traditionally associated with the post-flood rainbow described in this Bible book
Genesis
Jason
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$200
[26]
On many French highways, the speed limit is 130 of these per hour, 110 if it's raining
kilometers
Jill
|
$200
[9]
A type of pasta, it can also mean a fop or dandy
macaroni
Kaberi
|
$200
[1]
In 2011 Natalie Portman danced off with Best Actress for her role in this movie
Black Swan
Jason
|
|
$400
[7]
In the 1720s Daniel Defoe published a 3-volume "Tour" of this home island
Great Britain
Jason
|
$400
[17]
"Something is rotten in the state of Jeopardy!"
Denmark
Jason
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$400
[22]
The first kitten born via this method was named C.C. by Texas A&M researchers; some say it's for "copy cat"
cloning
Kaberi
Jill
|
$600
[28]
Australians sometimes refer to a measure of water volume as a sydharb, the amount of water in this
Sydney Harbour
Jason
|
$400
[10]
This coarse lace work is made by weaving & knotting cords into a pattern
macrame
Jill
|
$400
[2]
Shirley Temple presented Walt Disney with a special 8-piece Academy Award honoring this 1937 release
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Kaberi
|
|
$600
[8]
The cities of Padang & Bukittinggi are found on this Indonesian island
Sumatra
Kaberi
Jill
|
$600
[18]
"The quality of Jeopardy! is not strain'd"
mercy
Jill
|
$600
[23]
Seen here, the Reynolds Building in North Carolina was an inspiration for this other building that went up two years later
the Empire State Building
|
$800
[29]
In 1960 a Gillette defined the power of one of these beams by how many razor blades it could burn through
a laser
Jill
|
$600
[11]
Right now, head west on Constitution Ave. & soon you'll be on its shore
the Potomac River
Jason
|
$600
[3]
I'm just Wilde about Harry Stradling, who won a cinematography Oscar for this novel adaptation
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kaberi
|
|
$800
[12]
It's home to about 80% of Japan's people
Honshu
Jason
|
$800
[19]
"It is the green-eyed Jeopardy! which doth mock the meat it feeds on"
monster
Jason
|
$800
[24]
This planet that orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 1.5 astronomical units has a day about 40 minutes longer than ours
Mars
Jason
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$1,000
[30]
In Ancient Egypt this unit was divided into 7 palms or 28 fingers
a cubit
Kaberi
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$800
[14]
As of 2010 U.S. airlines can't keep you sitting here for more than 3 hours
the tarmac
Jill
|
$800
[4]
Jessica Lange soared as Carly Marshall & landed a Best Actress Oscar for her role in this 1994 film
Blue Sky
|
|
$1,000
[13]
Part of Canada, this fifth-largest island is mostly inhabited by Inuit
Baffin
Jason
|
$1,000
[20]
"It is the east & Jeopardy! is the sun"
Juliet
Jill
|
$1,000
[25]
This 11th president was Latin salutatorian in his university class of 1818
Polk
Jason
|
DD
$2,700
[27]
In computerese, a nybble is defined as a half of one of these
a byte
Jill
|
$1,000
[15]
This group of shrubs often has red fruit & includes smooth & poison varieties
sumac
Kaberi
|
$1,000
[5]
"How Green Was My Valley" brought this man one of his 4 Best Director Oscars
John Ford
Kaberi
|
| AN ENVIRONMENTAL CATEGORY | 10-LETTER WORDS | NONFICTION | BEEN HER | HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | PUT IT THERE! |
|
$400
[11]
The Fish & Wildlife Service uses this adjective for species likely to become endangered if something isn't done
threatened
Jason
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$400
[1]
From the Greek for "devil", it adequately describes my plans for world domination
diabolical
Jill
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$400
[16]
"Troublemaker" by Leah Remini is subtitled "Surviving Hollywood and" this religious movement
Scientology
Kaberi
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$400
[6]
Cherilyn Sarkisian
Cher
Jason
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$400
[21]
In 1934, Walter Chrysler & his VPcelebratedthe one millionth Plymouth to roll off the line in this city
Detroit
Jill
|
$400
[26]
Alaway, from Bausch & Lomb, is for this body part
the eye
Jill
|
|
$800
[12]
The phenomenon of acid rain is largely caused by emissions of this industrial pollutant, SO2
sulfur dioxide
Jason
|
$800
[2]
Thousands each year undertake this type of sacred expedition to Lourdes
a pilgrimage
Jill
|
$800
[17]
"Trapped Under the Sea" investigates a disaster that struck during a cleanup of the harbor of this city known as "The Hub"
Boston
|
$800
[7]
Norma Jeane Mortenson
Marilyn Monroe
Jill
|
$800
[22]
In 2012, the Queenshook hands with Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, formerly a commander in this
the IRA
Jason
|
$800
[27]
At the car wash, drive onto the conveyor belt & put the car in this gear
neutral
Jill
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Add a letter to "recycling" & you get this practice of shopping with an awareness of waste reduction
precycling
|
$1,200
[3]
This synonym for "everywhere" has 10 letters, 3 of them "U"
ubiquitous
Jill
|
$1,200
[18]
This book by Rachel Carson was first published in 1962 as 3 serialized articles in The New Yorker
Silent Spring
Jill
|
$1,200
[8]
Robyn Fenty
Rihanna
|
$1,200
[23]
The 2015shakeby Xi Jinping & Ma Ying-jeoumarked the first top-level contact between these two countries in 66 years
China & Taiwan
Jason
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$1,200
[28]
Expecting a crash? Put your money in this, a term for gold or silver by quantity in bars or ingots
bullion
|
|
$2,000
[15]
An organism's role in its ecological community is known as this, from the Latin for "nest"
niche
Kaberi
|
$1,600
[4]
Smuggled or bootlegged goods
contraband
Jason
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$2,000
[20]
He challenged Booker T. Washington's leadership in his 1903 collection of essays "The Souls of Black Folk"
W.E.B. Du Bois
Kaberi
Jason
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$1,600
[9]
Greta Gustafsson
Greta Garbo
Jill
|
$1,600
[24]
They're the two menseenherein 1990
De Klerk & Mandela
Kaberi
|
$1,600
[29]
If the reactor is getting too hot, put these "rods" into the core to absorb neutrons & shut it down
control rods
Kaberi
|
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
An important feature of tundra, it's a layer of constantly frozen soil underground
permafrost
Jason
|
$2,000
[5]
From the Latin for "head", it means "to surrender"
capitulate
Jason
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
E.B. White called it William Strunk's "parvum opus" (little work)
The Elements of Style
Jill
|
$2,000
[10]
Dana Owens
Queen Latifah
Kaberi
|
$2,000
[25]
The infamousshakebetween Hitler &this one-time French hero symbolized the Vichy regime's collaboration with the Nazis
Pétain
Jason
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$2,000
[30]
This book of the Bible says, "Put not your trust in princes", but in the Lord
Psalms
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After the secession of South Sudan from Sudan in 2011, this became the largest country in Africa by area
Algeria