2018 Teachers Tournament quarterfinal game 2.
Rachel Niegelberg — an elementary school special education teacher from Trumansburg, New York
Bob Julian — a 7th and 8th grade social studies teacher from Phoenix, Oregon
Erika Eason — a K-12 technology teacher from Derwood, Maryland
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erika | $200 | $2,800 | $11,200 |
$5,600
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$11,200
12 R, 1 W |
| Bob | $4,400 | $5,600 | $8,200 |
$2,400
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated |
$7,600
17 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Rachel | $4,000 | $6,000 | $10,400 |
$14,400
Automatic semifinalist |
$12,400
20 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| MEMORABLE MOVIE SCENES | LET'S GET ORDINAL | NATIONAL PARKS | THE ROARING '20s | FLAPPERS | SPEAK EASY |
|
$200
[1]
1972:A horse head is found in a bed & Sonny gets whacked
The Godfather
Rachel
|
$200
[16]
In baseball, it's the hot corner
third base
Rachel
|
$200
[3]
This national park has 5 entrances, hundreds of waterfalls & more than 300 active geysers
Yellowstone
Bob
|
$200
[21]
In 1925 Clarence Birdseye applied for a patent on a process for doing this to food
freezing
Bob
|
$200
[26]
During courtship certain varieties of this bird can beat their wings 200 times per second
hummingbirds
Erika
|
$200
[2]
This brand of at-home hair color from Clairol has been around for over 50 years
Nice 'n Easy
Bob
|
|
$400
[12]
1981:A golden idol is retrieved, then surrendered & an ancient artifact is opened
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Bob
|
$400
[17]
.757 liters of Scotch
a fifth
Rachel
|
$400
[4]
Alphabetically, our national parks run from Acadia in Maine to this one in Utah
Zion
Rachel
|
$400
[22]
During the '20s, this gangster's operations were said to rank in as much as $100 million a year
Al Capone
Bob
|
$400
[27]
With males growing to over 5 feet, the world's tallest flying bird is thesarusspecies of this
a crane
Bob
|
$400
[5]
In Spanish, this proverb translates to "fácil viene, fácil se va"
easy come, easy go
Rachel
|
|
$600
[13]
2013:Satellite debris shatters a space shuttle & leaves astronauts in peril
Gravity
Erika
Rachel
|
$600
[18]
My intuition tells me you know this phrase for an extra level of perception
a sixth sense
Rachel
|
$600
[7]
Known for its cliff dwellings, the name of this Colorado park is Spanish for "green table"
Mesa Verde
Rachel
|
$600
[23]
In 1925 he was convicted & fined $100 for teaching evolution in a public school
(John) Scopes
Erika
|
$600
[28]
When it dives, this species of falcon goes faster than any other bird
a peregrine falcon
Rachel
|
$600
[6]
Dennis Hopper said this "was never a motorcycle movie to me...a lot of it was about politically what was going on"
Easy Rider
Bob
|
|
$800
[14]
2015:A captured Soviet operative & an American pilot walk carefully past each other in Berlin
Bridge of Spies
Erika
|
$800
[19]
Andre the Giant & the Astrodome have been touted as this, adding to an ancient list
the eighth wonder of the world
Bob
Rachel
|
$1,000
[11]
Located in Oregon, this deepest U.S. lake is in a national park of the same name
Crater
Rachel
|
$800
[24]
Inspired by the composer's daughter, this song was a big hit in the 1920s
"Ain't She Sweet"
|
$800
[29]
Found in the northern U.S. during winter, it's the bird seenheremaking a touchdown
the snowy owl
Erika
|
$800
[8]
A song from this folk opera begins, "Summertime and the livin' is easy"
Porgy and Bess
Rachel
|
|
$1,000
[15]
1925:In the Yukon, a starving Charlie Chaplin dines on one of his shoes, laces & all
The Gold Rush
|
$1,000
[20]
The press inherited this ordinal nickname from the stratified class system of old Europe
the fourth estate
Erika
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
Of these 2 California parks, Ken Burns said one offers the biggest trees; the other, the tallest
Sequoia and Redwood
Bob
|
$1,000
[25]
In Geneva on Nov. 15, 1920 its general assembly met for the first time
the League of Nations
Bob
|
$1,000
[30]
This endangered vulture with a state in its name has a wingspan of up to 10 feet
the California condor
Rachel
|
$1,000
[9]
In a great American novel this character says, "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft"
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Bob
|
| GENIUS: PICASSO | THIRD LETTER "X" | MUSICAL KINGS | SHORT STORIES | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | BRAND LOYALTY |
|
$400
[1]
Living in Barcelona in 1899, Picassobefriended fellow artists & dodged police looking for these radicals against all government
anarchists
Erika
|
$400
[4]
It's defined as any poison produced by living organisms
a toxin
Bob
|
$400
[9]
Before he was the king of rock & roll, this performer was the king of western bop
Elvis
Bob
|
$400
[24]
This Washington Irving character had a real booze problem--after getting blasted, he slept for 20 years
Rip Van Winkle
Bob
Rachel
|
$400
[13]
Herwin for 2001 was the first Best Actress Oscar for an African-American
Halle Berry
Bob
|
$400
[19]
In the air, Trueblue
JetBlue
Rachel
|
|
$800
[2]
Young Picasso was influenced bybullfighting& the pageantry of this southern region that includes Malaga
Andalusia
Erika
Bob
|
$800
[5]
What the soldier seenhereis hiding in
a foxhole
Rachel
|
$800
[10]
B.B. King was the king of the blues & Robert Johnson was the king of these "geographic" blues
the Delta blues
Erika
|
$800
[25]
His "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" first appeared in Esquire magazine in 1936
Ernest Hemingway
Bob
|
$800
[14]
In 1983 Guy Bluford became the first African American to go here
space
Bob
|
$800
[20]
3Stripes, for your feet
Adidas
Rachel
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Many of Picasso's motivations are dramatized, like how the horrors of the Spanish Civil War inspired this masterpiece
Guernica
Rachel
|
$1,200
[6]
Charlie Parker said, "Don't play" this, "let it play you"
a saxophone
Erika
|
$1,200
[16]
Clifton Chenier was the king of this end-of-the-alphabet musical style from Louisiana
zydeco
Erika
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
A stone hit the unfortunate winner of this 1948 Shirley Jackson tale in the side of the head
"The Lottery"
Bob
|
$1,200
[15]
In 1908 he knocked out Tommy Burns to become the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight title
Jack Johnson
|
$1,200
[21]
Blazin' Rewards: these wings
Buffalo Wild Wings
Rachel
|
|
$1,600
[11]
As a young man, Picasso lived in Catalonia with a friend, painting & avoiding service inthis1898 conflict
the Spanish-American War
Rachel
|
$1,600
[7]
She's the queen of crabbiness seen here& on Hallmark greeting cards
Maxine
Rachel
|
$1,600
[17]
Things were always wunnerful, wunnerful for this king of champagne music
Lawrence Welk
Bob
|
$1,200
[26]
"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" & "The Laughing Man" are 2 of the "Nine Stories" put out by this author
J.D. Salinger
|
$1,600
[27]
A year after his admission sparked a deadly riot, James Meredith became the first black graduate of this university
University of Mississippi
Bob
|
$1,600
[22]
Beauty Insider, with 2,300 stores worldwide
Sephora
Rachel
|
|
$2,000
[12]
The suicide of a close friend in 1901 stimulated the emotional expressiveness of this period of Picasso's work
the Blue Period
Erika
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
It's the proper term for someone who writes or compiles a dictionary
a lexicographer
Rachel
|
$2,000
[18]
This Rat Packer was the "King of Cool", the title of his greatest hits CD featuring "Ain't That A Kick In The Head"
Dean Martin
Erika
|
$2,000
[30]
Feline title of Kristen Roupenian's 2017 New Yorker story that sparked a debate over dating
"Cat Person"
|
$2,000
[28]
The first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, in 1968shewas named poet laureate of Illinois
Gwendolyn Brooks
|
$2,000
[23]
HMR Points, like for buying the book "Sarah and the Secret Sheikh"
Harlequin
|
Built in the 1990s, it's the only permanent structure permitted in London with a thatched roof since the Great Fire of 1666
the Globe Theatre