Show #7299 2016-05-12 (taped 2016-04-10) Teachers Tournament

2016 Teachers Tournament final game 1.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Contestants

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

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPARDY! TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW WEIGHTS & MEASURES HEY, "MAC" COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS
$200 [6]
Geographically, this largest island is actually part of North America
Greenland
Jason
$200 [16]
"Now is the Jeopardy! of our discontent"
winter
Jason
$200 [21]
Ethiopia's multi-coloredflagis traditionally associated with the post-flood rainbow described in this Bible book
Genesis
Jason
$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
$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
$1,000 [30]
In Ancient Egypt this unit was divided into 7 palms or 28 fingers
a cubit
Kaberi
$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

Double Jeopardy! Round

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
$400 [1]
From the Greek for "devil", it adequately describes my plans for world domination
diabolical
Jill
$400 [16]
"Troublemaker" by Leah Remini is subtitled "Surviving Hollywood and" this religious movement
Scientology
Kaberi
$400 [6]
Cherilyn Sarkisian
Cher
Jason
$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
$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
$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
$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
$2,000 [30]
This book of the Bible says, "Put not your trust in princes", but in the Lord
Psalms

Final Jeopardy!

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY

After the secession of South Sudan from Sudan in 2011, this became the largest country in Africa by area

Algeria

Kaberi "What is the DRC?" — wagered $5,000
Jill "What is Nigeria?" — wagered $1,300
Jason "What is Algeria?" — wagered $2,801

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