2016 Teachers Tournament final game 2.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Jason Sterlacci — a 6th grade English teacher from Somerset, New Jersey (subtotal of $22,601)
Jill Gilbert — a middle school English teacher from Des Moines, Iowa (subtotal of $10,000)
Kaberi Chakrabarty — an elementary bilingual teacher from Joliet, Illinois (subtotal of $4,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaberi | $1,200 | $3,200 | $8,800 | $8,800 |
$8,800
13 R, 1 W |
| Jill | $1,200 | $800 | $1,600 | $0 |
$5,600
12 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Jason | $4,800 | $9,200 | $20,800 | $20,800 |
$20,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| AN ORANGE FOR TEACHER | TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE | THE QUOTABLE BEN FRANKLIN | EERIE | SUPERIOR | OTHER GREAT LAKES |
|
$200
[1]
Seville oranges are big in making this preserve, a word from the Portuguese
marmalade
Jill
|
$200
[3]
"The Prince of Winterfell"(2012)
Game of Thrones
Jason
|
$200
[21]
His "Advice to a Young Tradesman": "Remember that" this "is Money"
Time
Kaberi
|
$200
[26]
Ghostly sightings at Hampton Court Palace include one of Catherine Howard, wife of this monarch who had her executed
Henry VIII
Kaberi
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$200
[11]
Money proved superior to this system of swapping goods, as it was hard walking around with a cow or a sack of pears
bartering
Jason
|
$200
[16]
Great Sacandaga Lake in this state helps regulate the flow of the Hudson
New York
Jason
|
|
$400
[2]
The outside of an orange is the peel; this 4-letter term also starting with "P" is the white substance between the peel & flesh
the pith
Jill
Jason
|
$400
[4]
"The Ricardos Change Apartments"(1953)
I Love Lucy
Jill
|
$400
[22]
"In this world nothing can be... certain, except" these 2 things
death & taxes
Jason
|
$400
[27]
A giant one of these 5-pointed stars showed up on a lakeside during a Google Earth map survey over Kazakhstan
a pentagram
Jason
|
$400
[12]
In 1797 Charles Newbold patented a cast-iron one--better than wood, but farmers worried it would poison the soil
a plow
Jill
|
$400
[17]
Great Lake is the name of one of the largest lakes in this Australian island state
Tasmania
Jason
|
|
$600
[8]
If I may be sanguine, Sicily is a major producer of this sweet-tart dessert orange
a blood orange
Jill
|
$600
[5]
"Welcome to the Hellmouth"(1997)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Kaberi
|
$600
[23]
"There never was a good war or" this
a bad peace
Jason
|
$600
[28]
Using sonar, even deeper parts of this largest freshwater lake in Britain have been found; make room for plesiosaurs!
Loch Ness
Jason
|
$600
[13]
During the 17th c. this scientific instrument was improved by making it reflecting, starting with Zucchi's circa 1616
a telescope
Kaberi
Jason
|
$600
[18]
In Utah it receives the Jordan & Weber Rivers
the Great Salt Lake
Kaberi
|
|
$800
[9]
Milk, water, sugar, vanilla, ice cubes & of course, frozen O.J. are in food.com's recipe for this other "O.J."
an Orange Julius
Jason
|
$800
[6]
"The Separation Oscillation"(2015)
The Big Bang Theory
Jason
|
$800
[24]
These "and visitors stink in three days"
fish
Jill
|
$800
[29]
In the Southwest there've been reports of livestock being killed by this cryptid creature, Spanish for "goat sucker"
la chupacabra
Jason
|
$800
[14]
This method of printing, whose elements areseen here, was long superior in China with its pictorial writing
block printing
|
$800
[19]
Great Bitter Lake is a marshy lake in Egypt that forms part of this manmade waterway
the Suez Canal
Jill
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Loose-skinned oranges like the Clementine are this kind of orange, also the name of a language
mandarin
Jason
|
$1,000
[7]
"Say My Name"(2012)
Breaking Bad
Jason
|
$1,000
[25]
From this game "we may learn... foresight... circumspection... caution... and... the habit of not being discouraged"
chess
Jason
|
$1,000
[30]
In Victorian times loved ones were often immortalized in death photos called these, Latin for "remember that you must die"
memento mori
Kaberi
|
$1,000
[15]
In a slogan at the start of the Iraq War in 2003, U.S. air superiority was to instill these paired feelings in Iraqis
shock & awe
Jason
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
The fourth-largest lake in North America, it was named for the large mammals that inhabited its shores
Great Bear Lake
Jill
|
| ART & ARTISTS | COMMUNICATION | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | STUDY HALL | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER | COUNTRY MUSIC |
|
$400
[1]
Born in 1577 & named for two saints, he's the Flemish master seenherein a self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Jill
Jason
|
$400
[21]
Harry Obst helped 7 presidents communicate with German leaders & wrote the book "White House" this job
Interpreter
|
$400
[6]
The title character in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" moves from the Deep South to this New York City district
Harlem
Jill
|
$400
[11]
Yale's Peabody Museum features "The Great Hall of" these mighty extinct creatures
Dinosaurs
Jill
|
$400
[16]
It means pertaining to the tongue
lingual
Kaberi
|
$400
[26]
The Beatles,1968:"Back In The ____"
USSR
Kaberi
|
|
$800
[2]
His home & gardens in Giverny have been open to the public since 1980
Monet
Kaberi
|
$800
[22]
Sherlock Holmes often hears of new developments in a case via this, aka "the Victorian Internet"
telegraph
|
$800
[7]
In 1998 author Gloria Naylor revisited this title "Place", this time giving "The Men" a chance to be heard from
Brewster Place
|
$800
[12]
Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone helped to establish this in Cleveland in 1983
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Jason
|
$800
[17]
A pointy part of a fishhook, or a pointedly unpleasant remark
a barb
Jill
|
$800
[27]
Chuck Berry,1959:"Back In The ____"
USA
Jill
|
|
$1,200
[3]
He hadn't yet invented Pointillism when he did the painting seen here, his first large-scale work
Seurat
Kaberi
|
$1,200
[23]
On film Ringo Starr played Atouk, this title type of "man", whose language included ool ("food") & haraka ("fire")
a caveman
Jason
|
$1,200
[8]
Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress" saw the 1st appearance of this "effortless" detective in 1940s Los Angeles
Easy Rawlins
|
$1,200
[13]
Royal Albert Hall had a record crowd of 9,000 in 1906 when folks listened to one of these newfangled inventions
a phonograph
Kaberi
|
$1,200
[18]
A cabbie with an empty taxi may go to the airport to make this
a pickup
|
$1,200
[28]
U2,2009:"Cedars Of ____"
Lebanon
Jill
|
|
$1,600
[4]
You can see his "Jane Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge" at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford
Toulouse-Lautrec
Kaberi
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
From March to May of 1932, the Lindbergh family received 13 of these criminal communications
ransom notes
Jason
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
Anthony is the middle name of this award-winning author who released her 11th novel, "God Help the Child", in 2015
Toni Morrison
Jill
|
$1,600
[14]
The Galerie des Glaces, or Hall of Mirrors, is quite a site at this onetime royal residence
Versailles
Jill
|
$1,600
[19]
It's the list of all the available players you can use in your team's lineup
the roster
Jason
|
$1,600
[29]
David Bowie,1983:"____ Girl"
China
Jason
|
|
$2,000
[5]
The paintingseenhereis one of eight scenes that make up this Brit's "A Rake's Progress"
(William) Hogarth
Kaberi
Jason
|
$2,000
[25]
You won't be able to make out the message if there's too low an S/N ratio, S/N standing for this
signal-to-noise
Kaberi
|
$2,000
[10]
Chester Himes explored racism in this book whose 6-word title is in the rhyme "Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo"
If He Hollers Let Him Go
Jason
|
$2,000
[15]
The attempted coup d'etat known by this name began at the Burgerbraukeller on Nov. 8, 1923
the Beer Hall Putsch
Jason
|
$2,000
[20]
Used to help eliminate distortion, it's the type of map projection seen here
conic
Jill
|
$2,000
[30]
The Dead Kennedys,1980:"Holiday In ____"
Cambodia
Jason
|
He was awarded a DFC in WWII for a combat mission as pilot of the B-24 bomber he named the "Dakota Queen"
George McGovern